History buff and Stanford obstetrician Ronald Gibbs wrote a novel in which George Washington is shot in the chest early in the Revolutionary War.
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Writing a Chinese-American ‘Ocean’s 11’ between medical school classes
In the Spotlight: A daughter of Chinese immigrants, Stanford medical student Grace Li writes fiction about the Asian-American experience.
The slow medicine of literature: Scope@10,000
Jacqueline Genovese reflects on a dinner and discussion series that lets Stanford physicians experience the "slow medicine of literature."
Smoke and mirrors: Writing that commemorates Frankenstein
Physician writers at Stanford read original pieces on a theme illuminated by Frankenstein: How does one consider the creation and alteration of life?
Charlotte Jacobs on finding “snippets during every day” to balance careers in medicine and literature
Stanford oncologist Charlotte Jacobs, MD, loved reading biographies as a child. But it wasn't until years later, while on sabbatical at Stanford, that she decided …
“Write what you know”: Anesthesiologist-author Rick Novak discusses his debut novel
The Doctor and Mr. Dylan is a murder mystery, a medical puzzler and a tale about love and parenting. And, it stars Bob Dylan, who …
Physician-author Abraham Verghese encourages journalists to tell the powerful stories of medicine
Stanford's Abraham Verghese, MD, greeted hundreds of journalists at the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 conference last evening with a talk centered on the power of …
The value of exploring jellyfish eyes: Scientist-penned book supports “curiosity-driven” research
As an academic, I often encounter variations of the question "And so... what are you going to do with that?" In other words, why should …