Just a little trifle in celebration of National Doctor’s Day. Having already done a post on comedy doctors a couple of years ago, I thought of this new one over the course of writing about certain poets and authors over the past several months. Just click on the link to read more about them and how their medical training affected their writing (or didn’t). Most of the ones I have not yet written about are in the pipeline for a future post. (Note, of course I am not including writers of medical non-fiction. That would be like copying the telephone book. Wait — do they still have telephone books?)
Francois Rabelais (ca. 1483-1553)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Senior) (1809-1894)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Robin Cook (b. 1940)
Not that he, or Crichton for that matter, are in the same class as those others I’ve named, but I did need an even dozen, and I read Coma a few months ago!
Hug a doctor today! They’re about to lose a lot of their funding, many are about to lose their jobs, and most of them will soon be losing the large proportion of their patients who won’t be covered and won’t be able to afford their services! Make America Germ-Ridden Again!