Great Medical Fiction: Dramatic, Exciting, Real.

After many years of practice as a consultant and as a primary care physician, I’ve come to the conclusion that the physician as an icon has advantages and disadvantages.

If your physician is God, then not to worry. You’re in good hands. If your doc is a mere mortal, then pay attention.

My novels, while dealing with interesting and often dramatic plotlines, focus on how medical personnel and patients get along with each other. Their encounters can be moving, depressing, humorous, and life-affirming. Humor may be the final arbiter for the success of that relationship and the outcome of the disease itself. Humor is a major component of my work and my life.

Over the last decade, I have written nineteen novels, fifteen of which are in the Brier Hospital series. A fictional hospital, Brier is the place where fiction may surpass reality. As Albert Camus said: Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Acute care medicine is dramatic by its nature. It provides excellent material for thrillers and plot lines around important cultural and ethical issues. While the subject matter of my novels involves matters of life and death, my style reflects the realities of medical practice and the interactions of those in the game.

If you enjoy medical thrillers that deliver the goods without insulting your intelligence, click here to see my library of works. I also invite you to read what I have to say on my blog.

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