Medicine and Fiction: Feeding My Addiction
Hello to all the loyal followers of SoapBoxInMyMind, and thank you to Angela Kay for inviting me to write a guest post on her wonderful blog site.
I have been asked a lot lately, owing to the release of my novel Altamont Augie, what writing fiction and being a doctor could possibly have in common? Patients and colleagues seem shocked that the rational, left-brain doctor they have come to know and depend on to deliver technologically complex medical care to patients with kidney failure could produce such a right-brain thing as a novel. Where did this come from? they ask. What does writing a novel have to do with giving medical care?