Doctors who are writers. (Or is it the other way around?) Anton Chekhov, Milan Kundera and Ethan Canin. Pam Houston can keep her cowboys: these are my weakness.
I tell you, I always dreamed of opening the door to my Mystery Date to a guy with a stethoscope around his neck and a quill in his hand.
This is a man who can heal you physically and spiritually. A man who can take your pulse and raise it at the same time. A man who understands the intricacies of Celiac disease—and knows his way around a thesaurus.
You can keep your lawyer/writers, like Scott Turow, or your veterinarian/writers, like James Herriot. Give me the literary physician.
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William Carlos Williams too!
They can treat whatever ails you.
Also, Ludmila Ulitskaya was a geneticist, and Robert Musil was trained as an engineer/mathematician (same side of the brain, far as I'm concerned). I know more but can't think of them
Have you read Walker Percy yet? He's the first doctor/writer I always think of.
What a thought! I have a thing for psychoanalysts, but am perfectly willing to extend this to include doctors too. In the UK they can tend to be a bit dismissive of you, however, and I want one who pays some attention.
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