6/26/2023 0 Comments Chosen by D.T. Neal![]() ![]() What’s more, I realized that many of the problems with my draft reflected the conditioning that occurs during medical training. I reread my words and concluded that she was right. “I can’t really figure out what you’re trying to say here.” I stayed silent, absorbing her criticism. “They’re overwritten, with run-on sentences, filled with fancy words,” she explained. I’d felt pretty good about what I had produced. ![]() She read them, and then looked at me squarely. For two decades, I had seen my patients and their loved ones face some of life’s most uncertain moments, and I now felt driven to bear witness to their stories.Īfter writing and revising three chapters of what I envisioned as my first book, I showed a draft to my wife, an endocrinologist. But, as the years pass, the things you’ve pushed to the back of your mind start to pile up, demanding to be addressed. A doctor’s workload tends to crowd out everything but the most immediate concerns. Before that, I was busy building a career as a hematologist-oncologist: caring for patients with blood diseases, cancer, and, later, AIDS establishing a research laboratory publishing papers training junior physicians. It wasn’t until my mid-forties that I began to write about the world of medicine. ![]()
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