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He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist, best known for his epoch-making book, De ...
Robin Cook - American author of bestselling novels, wrote Coma; Michael Crichton (1942–2008) - American author of Jurassic Park; A. J. Cronin (1896–1981) - Scottish novelist and essayist, author of The Citadel; Anthony Daniels (born 1949) - as 'Theodore Dalrymple' and under his own name, a British author, critic and social and cultural ...
Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is an American physician and author. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at Stanford University Medical School.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) [1] is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [2] and Guardian First Book Award, [3] among others.
Pages in category "American medical writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gawande was born on November 5, 1965, [4] in Brooklyn, New York, to Marathi Indian immigrants to the United States, both doctors. [5] His family soon moved to Athens, Ohio, where he and his sister grew up, and he graduated from Athens High School in 1983.
Adam Richard Kay (born 12 June 1980) is a British TV writer, author, comedian and former doctor. He is the author of the memoir This Is Going to Hurt (2017), about his time as a trainee doctor. [1] His television writing credits include This is Going to Hurt (based on his memoir of the same name), Crims, Mrs. Brown's Boys and Mitchell and Webb ...