Biographical Information on Physician Writers
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Kobo Abe
1924-1993
The son of a physician, Abe grew up in Manchuria, and graduated from medical school in Tokyo in 1948, but never practiced medicine. Writing in a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, he was noted for his surrealistic, Kafkaesque style; and was popular not only in Japan, but in the West. His novel, The Woman in the Dunes, was made into a critically and commercially successful film, shown at the Cannes festival in 1963.

Background
Contemporary Authors
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Reading Abe Kobo

Fiction
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
The The Face of Another (1966)
The Ruined Map (1969)
Inter Ice Age 4 (1970)
The Box Man (1974)
The Secret Rendezvous (1979)
Beyond the Curve (1991)
Kangaroo Notebook (1996)

Drama
Three Plays (1993)

 

 

Keith Ablow
1961-
After receiving his medical degree at Johns Hopkins, Ablow did a psychiatric residency at New England Medical Center and was certified in psychiatry in1993. He has written essays for a variety of newspapers.

Background
The Psychiatrist as Novelist:A Discussion with Keith Ablow. Psychiatric Times.1997;14

Fiction
Denial (1997)
Projection (1999)

NonFiction
The Strange Case of Dr. Kappler (1994)

Dannie Abse
1923-
Born and educated in Cardiff, Wales, Abse qualified in London as physician, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., in 1950.  After serving in the Royal Air Force, he began a hybrid career of medicine (part time radiologist in a London chest clinic), and writing.  In addition to his many literary works, he edited the anthology Mavericks (1957) and The Hutchinson Book of Post-War Poets (1989), was Writer-in-Residence at Princeton Univesity (1973-74) and  president of the Poetry Society (1978), toured in the United States and Canada, lectured (2nd J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture in London (1981)), gave readings, made recordings (Poets of Wales, Argo (1972)), was a contributing editor of Literature and Medicine; and along the way received numerous awards, including the Foyle Award (1960) and a Borestone Mountain Poetry Award (1962).

Background
Cohen J, ed.  The Poetry of Dannie Abse - Critical Essays and Reminiscences. London: Robson Books, Ltd.; 1983.
Curtis T.  Dannie Abse. University of Wales Press; 1985.

Fiction
Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (1954)
Some Corner of an English Field (1956)
O. Jones, O. Jones (1970)
There Was a Young Man from Cardiff (1991)

Poetry
White Coat, Purple Coat - Collected Poems 1948-1988 (1990)
Remembrance of Crimes Past (1990)
On the Evening Road (1994)

Drama
Three Questor Plays (1967)
The View from Row G (1990)

NonFiction
Medicine on Trial (1967)
A Poet in the Family (1974)
A Strong Dose of Myself (1983)

 

Mark Akenside
1721-1770
Akenside studied for the ministry at the University of Edinburgh, and received a medical degree from Leyden in 1744.  After a practice in Bloomsbury Square, London, he became physician to the queen.  His poetry included philosophical essays in verse, as well as odes; and he was satirized by another physician writer, Tobias Smollett, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Mark Akenside, A Biographical and Critical Study. Philadelphia; 1944.

Poetry
Dix R, ed.  The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside(1996)

Vassily Aksyonov
1932-
After receiving his medical degree from the First Leningrad Medical Institue in 1956, Aksyonov worked as a physician for only four years, at the Leningrad Hospital.  His first novel The Colleagues was about young doctors; but his subsequent writing was so critical of the Soviet culture of the time; and the authorities were so angered by his editorship of the uncensored journal Metropol and the publication in Italy in 1980 of his dissillusionist novel The Burn; that he emigrated to the United States that year. He has been a Fellow of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russion Studies in Washington, D.C., and taught at Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Colleagues (1961)
It's Time, My Love, It's Time (1969)
The Steel Bird and Other Stories (1979)
The Island of Crimea (1983)
The Burn (1984)
In Search of Melancholy Baby (1987)
Quest for an Island (1987)
Say Cheese! (1989)
Generations of Winter (1994)
The New Sweet Style (1999)

Reese Alsop
1913-
A 1944 graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Alsop practiced internal medicine for many years in Huntington, New York; and was an assistant professor of medicine at New York University. He has written for lay as well as popular periodicals.

Poetry
Back Talk (1980)

 

N.M. Amosoff
1913-
Amosoff studied hydroelectrical engineering before becoming a physician and one of the leading cardiologists in the Soviet Union. He pioneered the extracorporeal heart-lung machine and served as chief of the clinic for cardiovascular surgery at Kiev's Institute of Thoracic Surgery.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Notes from the Future (1970)

NonFiction
The Open Heart (1967)
PPF-226: A Surgeon's War (1975)

 

Roderick Anscombe
1947-
Born and educated in England (MB ChB Oxford, 1974), Anscombe did a psychiatric residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and was certified in psychiatry in 1982.  He has worked at a maximum security psychiatric facility and at a state hospital, and is an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. His medical writing deals with schizophrenia and the unconscious.

Fiction
The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracular (1994)
Shank (1996)

 

Anonio Lobo Antunes
1942-
Antunes graduated in medicine from (as far as I can tell, and when I'm not sure) the Lisbon School of Medicine, and went into psychiatry, which he still practices intermittently.  From 1971 through 1973 he served in Angola as an army doctor. He has won the Portuguese Writers'  Association Grand Prize for Fiction, and is regarded as one of Portugal's most important writers.

Background
Colby V. World Authors 1985-1990. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company; 1995.

Fiction
South of Nowhere (1983)
Fado Alexandrino (1990)
The Return of the Caravels (1991)
An Explanation of the Birds (1991)
Act of the Damned (1993)
Treatise on the Passions of the Heart (1994)

 

 

John Arbuthnot
1667-1735
Arbuthnot received his medical degree from St. Andrews in 1696, and was one of Queen Anne's physicians. He was an associate of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay in the Scriblerus Club.  Though recognized for his wit and satiric ingenuity, he wrote relatively little, and there is no satisfactory modern edition of his complete works.
 

Background
Steensma RC. Dr. John Arbuthnot. Boston: Twayne Publishers; 1979
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Aitken GA. Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Reprint Services Corporation; 1992.

NonFiction
The History of John Bull (1712)
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741)
 

 

Raphael Armattoe
1913-1953
Though Ghanaean, Armattoe earned his medical degree in England (details not known to me).  He worked as an anthropologist and was active politically, living for a while in Ireland.

Background
Herdeck DE. African Authors: A Companion to Black African Writing. Washington, D.C.: Black Orpheus Press; 1973

Poetry
Between the Forest and the Sea (1950)
Deep Down in the Black Man's Mind (1954)

John Armstrong
1709-1779
After receiving his medical degree from Edinburgh in 1732, Armstrong practiced in London, in Buckinghamshire at the Hospital for Lame and Sick Soldiers, and as army physician during the Seven Years' War. In addition to essays on various subjects, he wrote didactic poetry on the subject of medicine and health.

Background
Kunitz SJ, Haycraft H.  British Authors before 1800.  New York: H.W. Wilson Company; 1952

Poetry
Gilfillan G. The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Gree, with Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations. Edinburgh: Nichol; 1858.

NonFiction
An Essay for Abridging the Study of Physic (1735)
Sketches and Essays on Various Subjects (as Lancelot Temple, 1770)

 

Charles Atkins
1961-
Certified in psychiatry in 1995, Atkins is acting director of the Department of Behavioral Health at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut; and is on the clinical faculty at Yale University School of Medicine.  

Fiction
The Portrait (1998)
Risk Factor (1999)

Avicenna
980-1037
Although not strictly a "creative" writer like the other writers on this list, Avicenna is such a major early contributor to medical and philosophical literature, that I felt he bore mentioning. Working as a physician, traveling much of his life and occasionally imprisoned, he nonetheless managed to write comprehensive works on natural science, logic, philosophy (including a commentary on Aristotle's Poetics),  psychology, theology and mysticism which were influential for centuries.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Afnan SM. Avicenna, His Life and Works. London: G. Allen & Unwin; 1958.

NonFiction
Canon of Medicine (Kazi Publications, 1999)

 

L. Fred Ayvazian
1919-
After receiving his medical degree from New York University in 1943, Ayvazian began a career that included medical research as well as clinical medicine (professor of medicine at New Jersey Medical School).  He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of numerous other medical societies, as well as a charter member of the Mystery Writers of America. His literary awards include a Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Much Ado about Murder (1955)
The Manx Cat (1957)
Andrew (1959)
 

 

Mariano Azuela
1873-1952
Azuela received his medical degree in 1898 from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Guadalajara, and practiced intermittently until his death, often in clinics for the poor.  He also served as a physician with "Pancho" Villa's army during the Mexican Revolution. Like other socially concerned physician writers - Marat, Rizal, Baroja, Che Guevara, Nasrin come to mind, among others - he addressed in his writing many of the social injustices of the times. In 1949 he received the National Prize for Literature.
 

Background
Contemporary Authors
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.

Fiction
Two Novels of Mexico:  The Flies.  The Bosses (1956)
Two Novels of the Mexican Revolution:  The Trials of a Respectable Family and The Underdogs (1963)
Three Novels by Mariano Azuela (The Trials of a Respectable Family, The Underdogs, The Firefly) (1979)

James Balfour
1925-
The son of James Hepburn, a physician, Balfour's whole real name is unknown to me. He received his medical degree from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1950; and ran a general medical practice in Surrey, England.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Glory Boy (1961)
The Golden Lads (1963)
The Medicine Men (1966)
Those Darling Days (1968)
Court Short (1969)
 

 

Doris Bell Ball
1897-1987
Ball qualified in medicine from University College Hospital, London, with M.R.C.S, L.R.C.P., 1922; MB.Bs (London), 1924. In general practice in the London area with her husband until his death in 1936, she moved to Guildford and continued her practice until devoting herself full time to writing in 1954. She was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association, and its chairman in 1958-59.  Only some of her more than forty novels (mainly detective) are listed below.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Murder in Hospital (1937)
Death on the Burrough Council (1937)
Fall over Cliff (1938)
Port of London Murders (1938)
Death at Half-Term (1939)
From Natural Causes (1939)
The Bottom of the Well (1940)
Martin Croft (1941)
Death at the Medical Board (1944)
The Summer School Mystery (1950)
Death on the Reserve (1966)

NonFiction
Crime in Our Time (1961)
 

 

Iain Bamforth
1959-
Since receiving his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, Bamforth has worked as medical/scientific translator; as well as practiced general medicine in Paris, Bavaria, New South Wales, and Strasbourg:.  His interest in language is wide-ranging: "Next time you have a quiet moment read someone's medical history: it's nothing more than a target language rendition of what for a patient may well have been a barely recountable source language script of threateningly inchoate bodily sensations." (BMJ. 1998;316)

Poetry
The Modern Copernicus (?)
Sons and Pioneers (1992)
Open Workings (1996)

 

Luis Desoto Barahona
1548-1595
Barahona practiced medicine in Andalusia, and was acquainted with Cervantes.  His poem The Tears of Angelica, is a continuation of an episode of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and was praised by Cervantes in Don Quixote.  Nowhere have I been able to find an English translation of it.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.

Poetry
Las lagrimas de Angelica (The Tears of Angelica) (1586)
 

 

Christiaan Barnard
1922-
In addition to significant non-cardiac research early in his career, Barnard introduced open-hear surgery to South Africa, and in 1967 performed the first successful (though short-lived) heart transplant. "...only Barnard dared to trespass both the mystical barrier and the barrier of immunological incompatiblility." (Holub M. The Dimension of the Present Moment and Other Essays. London: Faber and Faber Limited; 1990)  He retired from surgical practice in 1983.

Background
Cooper D.,ed.  Chris Barnard, by Those Who Know Him. Viaeberg, South Africa: Viaeberg Publishers; 1992 Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.

Fiction
The Unwanted (with Siegfried Stander) (1975)
In the Night Season (1978)

 

Alan Gabriel Barnsley
1916-1986
Barnsley graduated M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. from St. George's Hospital, London, in 1943. His medical practice included general practice in Kent, and part-time practice at Her Majesty's Prison, Maidstone, from 1952 through 1964.  In 1966 he was author-in-residence at Washington State University, where he eventually became professor of English literature, and retired in1981 as professor emeritus.  In 1964 he was awarded the W.H. Smith Award for The Birthday King, and in 1967 Gonzaga University conferred upon him a Doctorate of Literature. His pseudonym, Gabriel Fielding, derives from his ancestor Henry Fielding.  

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Brotherly Love (1954)
In the Time of Greenbloom (1956)
Eight Days (1958)
Through Streets Broad and Narrow (1960)
The Birthday King (1962)
Gentlemen in Their Season (1966)
New Queens for Old - A Novella and Nine Stories (1972)
Pretty Doll Houses (1979)
The Women of Guinea Lane (1986)

Poetry
The Frog Prince and Other Poems (1972)
28 Poems (1955)

Pio Baroja
1872-1956
After receiving his medical degree at Valencia, Baroja practiced medicine in a small town in the Basque country, but only for about two years before he turned to writing full time. A member of the Generation of '98, he helped revitalize the Spanish novel, writing some one hundred books in his lifetime; and influencing, it is said, Hemingway's style. Only a few of his works are listed below.

Background
Encyclopedia Birtannica, 15th ed.

Fiction
The Basque Country Trilogy (1900-1909)
The Struggle for Life Trilogy (1904)
Memories of a Man of Action (20 volumes, 1913-1931)
The Restlessness of Shanti Andia and Other Writings (1959)

 

David Vincent Bates
1922-
Bates received his M.B. in 1945 and M.D. in 1954 from Cambridge; and has had an outstanding career in medicine and surgery: professor of medicine and physiology, and dean of the faculty of medicine at  the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; senior physician at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and member of numerous other medical and scientific societies.  A prolific medical writer, he has published only a small amount of verse, and that hard to come by.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Poetry
NonShop One
 

 

Martin Bax
1933-
After receiving his BM, BCh at Guy's Hospital Medical School, 1959; M.R.C.P., 1982; F.R.C.P., 1988; Bax worked in the Department of Child Health at Guy's Hospital. He is currently senior lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London. In addition to medical writing and editing, he has been secretary of the Medical Association for Prevention of War, and founded the literary and artistic magazine Ambit.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Hospital Ship (1976)

 

 

Neree Beauchemin
1850-1931
Beauchemin was a French-Canadian poet classified as a Quebec regionalist. He studied medicine at Laval University, receiving his degree in 1874; and practiced the rest of his life in the small town of Yamachiche, Quebec .Along with other writers in the 60's, he attempted to produce a national literature. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate English translations of his work.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. New WH, ed.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 92. Detroit: Gale Research Inc.; 1990

Poetry
Les Floraisons Matutinales (The Morning Efflorescence) (1897)
Patrie Intime (Intimate Birthplace) (1928)
 

 

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
1803-1849
Beddoes was a writer long before he was a doctor, completing The Bride's Tragedy while still at Oxford.  In 1831 he received (though there is some debate about that) his medical degree in Wurzburg, Germany.  He apparently practiced for awhile in Zurich, and did consider medical teaching.  Political turmoil caused him to travel much, and he committed suicide in 1849.  Death's Jest Book was published posthumously.

Background
Donner HW  Thomas Lovell Beddoes: The Making of a Poet. Oxford: Basil Blackwell; 1935.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Poetry
The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Donner, ed.) (1935)

K.D. Beernink
1938-1969
Tragically, a year after he received his medical degree from Stanford (1965), Beernink developed chronic myelocytic leukemia.  He worked as a research fellow at Stanford, and founded a local chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. It was during the enforced leisure of his illness that he wrote his poetry:  "This was a time when my patients reappeared to me and I lived again in my mind all the many emotions we experienced together."

Poetry
Ward Rounds (1970)

 

Claude Benjamin
1911-
Benjamin received his M.D. degree from St. Louis University in 1930, and practiced ear, nose, and throat surgery.  His creative writing consisted of plays, though I have not located copies of any yet.

Background
Contemporary Authors Drama - Bilibid (1964)
The Soft Touch  (?)
 

Gottfried Benn
1886-1956
Like William Carlos Williams a practicing physician into his 60's, the Expressionist Benn is cited in Encylopedia Britannica as "perhaps the most influential writer in post-Hitlerian Germany." His medical career involved treatment of venereal and skin diseases, work on cruise ships, medical supervision of a jail, and service in the German army.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed. Dierick AP.
Gottfried Benn and His Critics; Major Interpretations 1912-1992. Camden House; 1992.

Poetry and Prose
Primal Vision (1961)

 

Edward Berdoe
1836-1916
Receiving his L.R.C.P. in Edinburgh and M.R.C.S. in England, Berdoe served as physician in both the Crimean and American Civil Wars.  In addition, he was an authority on Robert Browning, writing several books on the poet, including The Browning Cyclopaedia (1891).

Background
Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934.  Detroit: Gale Research Company.

Fiction
St. Bernard's.  The Romance of a Medical Student (1887)

 

Robert Montgomery Bird
1806-1854
Bird's medical career after graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1827 was limited - one year of practice, and then professor at Pennsylvania Medical College from 1841 to 1843.  Initially a popular playwright, Bird turned to the novel in later years; and was literary editor of the North American.

Background
Encyclopedia Birtannica, 15th. ed. Foust CE.
The Life and Dramatic Works of Robert Montgomery Bird. New York: Knickerbocker Press; 1919.

Drama
The Gladiator (1831)
Oralloossa (1832)
The Broker of Bogota (1834)

Fiction
Calavar; or The Knight of the Conquest (1834)
The Infidel; or The Fall of Mexico (1835)
The Hawks of Hawk Hollow (1835)
Nick of the Woods, or The Jibbenainosay, A Tale of Kentucky(1837)

 

David Biro
?-
Biro received a Ph.D. in literature from Oxford University, and an M.D. degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1991. After further training in internal medicine and dermatology, he opened a dermatology practice in Brooklyn, New York.  Although the memoir listed below does not, perhaps, strictly fit the "creative" criterion for this list; its story-like feel and its relevance to the experience of doctor as patient made it seem important to include.

NonFiction
One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (2000)

 

Richard Blackmore
1654-1729
Studying medicine throughout Europe, Blackmore finally received his medical degree from the University of Padua.  In 1687 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.  He practiced in the City of London; wrote on gout, rheumatism and small pox; was physician in ordinary to King William III and Queen Anne; and was knighted in 1697. Known for his long-winded style (Alexander Pope: "All hail him victor in both gifts of song,/Who sings so loudly, and who sings so long."), he was satirized not only by members of the Martinus Scriblerus Club (which included John Arbuthnot) but by fellow physician Samuel Garth in The Dispensary. On the other hand, Locke and Dr. Johnson admired some of his work, and Joseph Addison called Creation "one of the most useful noble productions of our English verse."  Little of his work is available in modern editions.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed. Rosenberg A.
Sir Richard Blackmore: A Poet and Physician of the Augustan Age. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press; 1953.
Solomon HM. Sir Richard Blackmore. Boston: Twayne Publishers; 1980

Poetry
Prince Arthur (1695)
King Arthur (1697)
Satyr against Wit (1700)
Eliza (1705)
Creation: A Philosophical Poem (1712)
Alfred (1723)

William A. Block
?
According to dust jackets, Block is/was a general practitioner in New Jersey. Further information eludes me.

Fiction
G.P. (1971)
The Remarkable Cure of Solomon Sunshine (1974)

 

Maurits Ignatius Boas
1892-1986
Born in Amsterdam, and receiving his medical degree there in 1916, Boas became the youngest doctor in the Dutch Army.  He subsequently practiced psychiatry in France and received a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in 1925.  Prior to World War II he emigrated to the United States where he no longer practiced medicine.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Tales of Evil (1947)
Escape to Nowhere (1954)
Jacob and the Angel (1961)
My Son is a Good Boy (1965)
The Dog That Was Not, The double Guarantee; Two Surrealistic Tales (1969)
Decisions and the Furies: Two Narratives of Napoleonic Times (1975)
Preludes (1978)
Etudes (1981)

 

Walter Russel Brain
1895-1966
After studying  at Oxford with such luminaries as Haldane, Sherrington and Huxley, Brain qualified B.M., B.Ch in 1922, D.M. in 1925, and was elected FRCP in 1931. Influenced by Henry Head, he took up neurology, and made many important contributions to the field, in addition to writing Diseases of the Nervous System and editing the journal Brain. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of London; chairman of government committees on birth control, narcotics addiction, divorce and mental illness; recipient of many honorary degrees and fellow of many prestigious societies; and in 1965 was called to Winston Churchill's bedside during his last illness. Knighted in 1952, he received life peerage in 1962.

Background
Dictionary of National Biography 1961-1970

Poetry
Poems and Verses (1961)

NonFiction
Tea with Walter de la Mare (1957)
Some Reflections on Genius, and Other Essays (1960)

Robert Bridges
1844-1930
The only physician to become poet laureate of England, Bridges received his M.B. degree in 1974 and practiced as casualty physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, assistant physician at Children's Hospital and physician at Great Northern Hospital, before quitting medicine in 1882. The rest of his life he devoted to poetry, not only writing it, but becoming an expert in prosody and French verse forms, and publicizing the work of his friend from Corpus Christi College, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He requested that no biography be written of him.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Kunitz S, Haycraft H. Twentieth Century Authors. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.;1942.
Thompson E.  Robert Bridges, 1844-1930. Oxford; 1944.

Poetry
The Testament of Beauty (1929)
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the 8 Dramas. AMS Press; 1978

NonFiction
John Keats: A Critical Essay (1895)
Collected Essays, Papers, etc. (1972)

Drama
Prometheus the Firegiver (1884)
The Feast of Bacchus (1889)
and others.

 

James Bridie
1888-1951
Bridie graduated M.B., Ch.B. from Glasgow University in 1913 and joined the staff of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He subsequently served as army physician in France, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, and Turkey; followed by practice back in Scotland. Throughout, he managed to write plays, and at the age of forty he gave up medicine altogether in order to write for the theater. Only a few of his plays are listed below.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Tobin T. James Bridie. Boston: Twayne Publishers; 1980

Drama
The Sunlight Sonata (1928)
The Anatomist (1931)
Jonah and the Whale (1932)
Dr. Angelus (1947)
The Queen's Comedy (1950)

 

Robert Briffault
1876-1940
Remarkably, at the age of eighteen Briffault recived the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and of Surgery in London. He practiced in New Zealand, published medical articles in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, and was twice awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery during his First World War service.  After the war, he returned to England, retired from medical practice, and pursued interests in anthropology and sociology.

Background
Kunitz S, Haycraft H. Twentieth Century Authors. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.;1942.

Fiction
Europa: The Days of Ignorance (1935)
Europa in Limbao (1937)
The Ambassadress (1939)
Fandango (1940)

NonFiction
The Making of Humanity (1919)
The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions (1927)
 

 

John Brown
1810-1882
Brown received his M.D. degree from Edinburgh in 1833, and had a general practice there. In 1847 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1874 was awarded the title of LL.D by the University of Edinburgh. Though never producing any long literary work, he was known and appreciated for his his short pieces (horae subsecivae = spare hours) on a wide variety of local and universal subjects. Indeed, Osler observed, "to the medical student the writings of Dr. John Brown have this special value -- they impress him with the necessity of a wider culture than that which is merely professional. (They) made a lasting impression...and stimulated my love for general literature." (Osler 4396. Waller 19461)

Background
Peddie A. Recollections of Dr. John Brown.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons;1893.  NonFiction Horae Subsecivae (1858, 1861, 1882)
 

 

Sir Thomas Browne
1605-1682
Schooled in Europe as well as England, Browne received M.D. degrees from Leiden in 1633 and Oxford in 1637.  He practiced throughout his life in Norwich, and wrote on a broad range of subjects.  From 1664 through 1682 he was an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1671 was knighted by Charles II. Along with Shakespeare and the Bible, Religio Medici was one of the ten books Osler recommended to medical students to "help in the inner education."

Background
Johnson's Life of Browne Finch J. Sir Thomas Browne - A Doctor's Life of Science and Faith. New York: Henry Shuman; 1950.
Keynes G.  
A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne. Cambridge; 1924

NonFiction Keynes G. The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, vol.1-6.  London: Faber & Gwyer Limited; 1928-31.

 

Robert Buckman
1948-
Educated in England (Cambridge M.B., B.Chirl 1972), Buckman has lived in Canada since, practicing oncology.  He has written extensively in the cancer field and on the doctor-patient relationship, mainly for the public and often using humor as a vehicle; taught (assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto); served as a television host; produced video series; and collaborated with John Cleese.

Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
Out of Practice (1978)
Jogging from Memory, or, Letters to Sigmund Freud (1980)
Medicine Balls (1984)

 

Mikhail Bulgakov
1891-1940
Bulgakov graduated from the medical school of Kiev University in 1916. As an alternative to military service, he worked in remote regional hospitals for two years, then opened a venereology practice in Kiev.  About 1920 he gave up medicine for writing, though by 1930 he was prohibited from publishing because of his alleged criticisms of Soviet life. Only posthumously have most of his works reached the reading public.

Background
Milne L.  Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1990
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.

Fiction
The Master and Margarita (1967)
The Heart of a Dog (1968)
The White Guard (1971)
A Country Doctor's Notebook (1995)
Black Snow (1999) Drama - Flight and Bliss (1969)
The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov (1972)

NonFiction
The Life of Monsieur de Moliere (1986)

 

Paul Buttenweiser
1938-
Buttenwieser received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1964, did a psychiatric residency, and attended the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute from 1970 until 1975.  His practice has been devoted to adult and child psychiatry, together with teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Free Association (1981)
Their Pride and Joy (1987)

 

Ronald Byron
?
The only information I have on this writer comes from a dust jacket, indicating he is a South African medical practitioner who gave up medicine to write.

Fiction
Hamilton Avenue (1958)

 

Thomas Campion
1567-1620
Initially, Campion studied law, but from1606 until his death records indicate he practiced medicine.  His literary work included poetry, songs, and treatises on poetry; and he evidently felt all his pursuits equally important:

Nunc omnes quoque  musicum, et poetam
Agnoscunt, medicumque Campianum.
(Now they all recognize Campion the the musician, the poet and the doctor. Epigram 167, Book I)
 

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Lowbury E, Salter T, Young A. Thomas Campion - Poet, Composer, Physician. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc.; 1970.
Thomas Campion

Poetry
Vivian P, ed. Campion's Works. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1909.

NonFiction
Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602)

 

Rafael Campo
1964-
A graduate of Harvard Medical School (1992 - Ethan Canin's class, if I'm not mistaken), and a board-certified internist, Campo is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard, and has an interest in AIDS.  He has also been well-received as a writer: winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition, finalist in the American Library Association's 1995 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award and in the PEN Center USA West 1995 Literary Awards.

Background
Academy of American Poets

Poetry
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World (1994)
What the Body Said (1996)
Diva (1999)

NonFiction
Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, & Desire (1997)

 

Ethan Canin
1960-
Canin received a B.A. in engineering from Stanford, and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa, before entering Harvard Medical School, class of 1992 (Rafael Campo's class, if I'm not mistaken). In 1995, however, during his medical residency at University of California, San Francisco, he decided to give up medicine for writing - "If I didn't quit medicine then, I just knew that I would never write again." (Interview by Nicholas A. Basbanes, LitKit) 

Fiction
Emporer of the Air (1988)
Blue River (1991)
The Palace Thief (1994)
For Kings and Planets (1998)

 

Hans Carossa
1878-1956
Carossa practiced medicine in Passau, Nurnberg, and Munich, Germany, while writing poetry and autobiographical novels. As far as I can tell, few of his works have been translated into English, and those are hard to locate.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.

Fiction
A Roumanian Diary (1929)
Boyhood and Youth (1930)
A Childhood (1930)
The Year of Sweet Illusions (1951)

 

William A. Caruthers
1802-1846
Caruthers graduated from the Medical School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1923, and practiced in Lexington, Virginia; New York; and Savannah, Georgia.

Background
Davis C. Chronicler of the Cavaliers - A Life of the Virginia Novelist Dr. William A. Caruthers. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, Inc.;1953.

Fiction
The Kentuckian in New York, or the Adventures of Three Southerns (1834)
The Cavaliers of Virginia (1835)
The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (1841,1845)

 

Falkland Cary
1897-1989
In 1921, Cary was awarded the degrees of B.A.O., B.Ch., and M.B. by the University of Dublin. He became a "prosperous doctor" (London Times obituary), practicing in Yorkshire and London, but gave up medicine in 1946 in order to write comedy for the theater, and screenplays.

Background
Contemporary Authors Drama - Bed of Rose's (1949)
Sailor Beware! (1955)
Watch It, Sailor! (1960)

 

Melvin Augustus Casberg
1909-
Born in India, Casberg came to the United States in 1926, received his M.D. degree from St. Louis University in 1936, and specialized in surgery.  He has been a professor of surgery and dean of the School of Medicine at St. Louis University; assistant secretary of defense, and member of many committees, societies, and boards.  His creative writing - suspense novels - began in his retirement.

Background
Contemporary Authors Fiction Death Stalks the Punjab (1981)
Five Rivers to Death (1981)
Dowry of Death (1982)

 

William Chamberlayne
1619-1689
Chamberlayne practiced medicine in Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, and may have seen some military service in behalf of Charles I as well.  Other than his writing, little else is known about him.

Background
Monro T.  The Physician as Man of Letters, Science and Action.  Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Limited;1951.
Stephen NL, Lee S. The Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press; 1917.

Poetry
Pharonnida, an Heroick Poem (1659)

Drama
Love's Victory, a Tragi-comedy (1658)

 

Walter Channing
1786-1862
Channing received M.D. degrees from University of Pennsylvania in 1809 and Harvard in 1812.  A major figure in the history of American medicine, he was the first professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence at Harvard Medical School, dean of the school from 1819 until 1847, a founder of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, a coeditor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, the first to use ether in obstetrics, and author of many medical papers.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Johnson J, Malone D. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1930.

Poetry
New and Old (1851)

Ron Charach
1951-
Following graduation from the University of Manitoba Medical School in 1977, Charach trained in psychiatry in Toronto and New York, and practices in Toronto.  He is on the teaching staff at the University of Toronto. In addition to his own writing, he has been poetry editor of The Medical Post, and has edited a book of poetry (The Naked Physician: Poems about the Lives of Patients and Doctors).

Poetry
The Big Life Painting (1987)
Someone Else's Memoirs (1994)
Past Wildflowers (1997)
 

 

Anton Chekhov
1860-1904
A graduate of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University, 1884, Chekhov practiced off and on throughout his short life. In 1890 he undertook a sociological study of the Sakhalin Island penal colony, during the1891-92 famine he worked on disaster relief, and throughout the 90's provided treatment to local peasants. By 1897, it was apparent he was suffering from tuberculosis, which reduced both his literary and medical work.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Hingley R. A New Life of Anton Chekhov. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; 1976.
Coope J. Doctor Chekhov - A Study in Literature and Medicine. Isle of Wight: Cross Publishing; 1997.

Fiction and Drama
Hingley R, ed. The Oxford Chekhov (vol. 1-9). London: Oxford University Press; 1968-1975

Thomas Holley Chivers
1807-1858
Though he graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, with an M.D. degree in 1830, Chivers seldom practiced medicine. A painter and inventor as well as a poet of considerable originality, he (like his fellow physician poet Thomas Dunn English) is remembered more today for his accusations that Edgar Allen Poe stole ideas from him (and vice versa)

Background
McDonough ML. Poet-Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1945.
Johnson J, Malone D.
Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1930.

Poetry
The Path of Sorrow (1979 - photoreprint of five volumes)

NonFiction
Life of Poe (1952)

 

Deepak Chopra
1947-
Born in New Delhi, India, Chopra earned M.B. and B.S. degrees from the All India Institute of Medical Science in 1968, immigrated to the United States in 1970, and did internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowships at the University of Virginia Hospital.  His career has been diverse and full, including an endocrinology practice; extensive and best-selling writing in the fields of spirituality, alternative medicine, and the "mind-body connection;" public television and talk show appearances; commercial enterprises such as Maharishi Ayur-Veda Products International, Inc. and the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California.  He is the founder of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. 

Background Chopra Homepage

Fiction
The Return of Merlin (1995)

 

Benjamin Church
1734-1778
After studying medicine at Harvard, Church studied at London hospitals from 1757 through 1759.  He worked as a ship's doctor and  was appointed by the Continental Congress to be chief physician of the Hospital of the Army, in which position he established the first licensing board for army surgions. However, caught smuggling encoded messages to General Gage in Boston, he was court-martialed, jailed, and exiled to the West Indies. His ship disappeared en route.

Background
McDonough ML. Poet-Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1945.

Poetry
The Choice: a poem, after the manner of Pomfret (1757)
The times; a poem (1765)
Elegy on the death of Jonathan Mayhew (1766)

William T. Close
1924-
A 1951 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Close did a surgical residency.  In 1960 he went to Zaire where he practiced medicine and surgery for the next sixteen years, oversaw the rebuilding of the fifteen hundred bed Kinshasha General Hospital, served as chief physician of the Congolese army and personal physician to the president of Zaire. He was deeply involved in response to the Ebola virus outbreak of 1976. Most recently he has practiced family medicine in Big Piney, Wyoming.

Background
Dust jacket - Ebola, A documentary Novel of its First Explosion (1995)

Fiction
Ebola, A documentary Novel of its First Explosion (1995)

NonFiction
A Doctor's Story: From City Surgeon to Country Doc (1996)

 

Daniel T. Cloud
1925-
Cloud graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1948, and pursued a practice of surgery.  From 1981 through 1982 he was president of the American Medical Association.  Now retired, he has written one novel.

Fiction
The Aesculapian (1999)

Joachim Coelho
1839-1871
Though his medical credentials elude me, Dinis was a deputy professor at the medical school at Porto, Portugal, until he resigned due to poor health (tuberculosis).  During the rest of his short life he wrote plays, poetry, and fiction; none of which, as far as I can tell, has been translated into English.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.

Fiction
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (The Pupils of the Dean) (1867)
Uma Familia Inglesa (An English Family) (1868)

 

Don Coldsmith
1926-
After serving as a medic during World War II, and pursuing a number of other careers briefly, Coldsmith went to the University of Kansas, where he earned his M.D. degree in 1958.  He practiced family medicine until 1988, all the while writing books based on life on the Great Plains.  A recipient of many literary awards, Coldsmith is a past president of Western Writers of America. Only a portion of his prodigious output is listed below.

Fiction
Buffalo Medicine (1981)
Elk-dog Heritage (1982)
Flower in the Mountains (1988)
Return of the Spanish (1991)
South Wind (1998)

 

Abraham Coles
1813-1891
Coles received his M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1835, and practiced medicine in Newark, New Jersey.  Lewisburg University conferred on him a Doctor of Philosophy degree, and Princeton a Doctor of Laws degree. Inspired to some degree by Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health, his Microcosm was read before the Medical Society of New Jersey at its Centennial Anniversary.

Background
McDonough ML. Poet-Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1945.

Poetry
The Microcosm (1866)

 

...to my conscious knowledge I had no great interest in either medicine or pediatrics until I met Dr. Williams and had an opportunity to see him with his patients in the last years of his practice, and to learn from him how much medicine can give both moral and intellectual shape to a particular life. (1989 interview by Contemporary Authors)

He received his medical degree from Columbia University and did a psychiatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital.  Following a fellowship in child psychiatry, he joined the staff of Harvard University Medical School, becoming a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities in 1978 and the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics.  A prolific writer of some 1300 articles and 60 books, he has written extensively not only in his own field (children's issues), but also in the fields of ethics, spirituality and literary criticism. In addition, he teaches literature to medical, law, and architecture students at Harvard; was a founding member of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; and has received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Children of Crisis.

Background
Contemporary Authors
Baird-Middleton B.  Robert Coles: An Intimate Biographical Interview. Harvard University Press; 1988

Poetry
A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People (1978)
Rumors of Separate Worlds (1989)

Fiction
Dead End School (1968)
The Grass Pipe (1969)

NonFiction
William Carlos Williams: The Knack of Survival in America (1975)
Walker Percy: An American Search (1978)
William Carlos Williams - The Doctor Stories (1984)
That Red Wheelbarrow - Selected Literary Essays by Robert Coles (1988)
The Call of Stories (1989)

 

Alex Comfort
1920-2000
Comfort was already an established writer of the "New Apocalypse" school, when he received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees from Cambridge (1944) and went on to earn a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of London (1949).  His medical career has involved original work in the field of gerontology (president of the British Society for Research on Ageing, 1967), as well as contributions to sex education (The Joy of Sex).  An outspoken pacifist, he opposed Britain's war effort during World War II, and was jailed with Bertrand Russell for organizing an antinuclear sitdown in Trafalgar Square in 1962.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Salmon AE.  Alex Comfort.  Boston: Hall; 1978

Poetry
France and Other Poems (1941)
A Wreath for the Living (1942)
Elegies (1944)
The Song of Lazarus (1945)
The Signal to Engage (1946)
And All but He Departed (1951)
Haste to the Wedding (1962)
Poems for Jane (1978)
Mikrokosmos (1994) Fiction No Such Liberty (1941)
The Almond Tree: A Legend (1942)
The Power House (1944)
Letters from an Outpost (1947)
On This Side Nothing (1949)
A Giant's Strength (1952)
Come out to Play (1961)
Tetrarch (1980)
Imperial Patient - The Memoirs of Nero's Doctor (1987)
The Philosophers (1989) Drama - Into Egypt: A Miracle Play (1942)
Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama (1943)

NonFiction
The Novel and Our Time (1948)

 

Robin Cook
1940-
After earning his M.D. degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966, Cook became an ophthalmologist.  However, when his writing career, including movie adaptations, became successful, he began a protracted leave from the practice of medicine.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction  (Selected)
The Year of the Intern (1972)
Coma (1977)
Sphinx (1979)
Brain (1981)
Godplayer (1983)
Mindbend (1985)
Mutation (1990)
Fatal Cure (1994)
Chromosome 6 (1997)
Toxin (1999)
Vector (1999)

 

Rosaleen Cooper
1894-1989
The sister of Robert Graves, the poet, Cooper worked as a nurse during the First World War, studied medicine at Oxford ,and graduated B.M., B.Ch. in 1927.  She practiced in North London and then in the South Devon area into her seventies.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Poetry
"2 books" - yet to be identified

Fiction
The Woodcutter and the Fairies (1906)

NonFiction
Games from an Edwardian Childhood (1982)

Louis Copman
1934-
A 1959 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Copman is a radiologist who has worked in civilian as well as Navy settings.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Cuckold (1975)

 

Jack Coulehan
1943-
A 1969 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Coulehan is an internist by training.  He was a member of the faculty of his alma mater for years, and currently is professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and director of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society. His interests in epidemiology, ethics, and doctor-patient communication have led to many articles in these areas, as well as a textbook on medical interviewing.  In addition to his own creative writing, he has co-edited a collection of poetry by physicians (Blood and Bone - Poems by Physicians), and is contributing editor of several literary magazines.

Poetry
The Knitted Glove (1991)
First Photographs of Heaven (1994)

Abraham Cowley
1618-1667
It is debatable whether Cowley should be considered a physician, as he was created M.D. at Oxford in 1657, and probably never practiced.  A precocious poet,  popular in his day, he is now largely ignored.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.

Poetry
Poetry and Prose, with Thomas Sprat's Life, and Observations by Dryden, Addison, Johnson and Others.  Reprint Services Corporation; 1988.

George Crabbe
1754-1832
Crabbe practiced for only a short while, in Aldeburgh, England, after a period of apprenticeship to a surgeon.  He soon gave up practice and moved to London to write and pursue a number of other vocations including curate and stevedore, but, according to Edmund Blunden (introduction to The Life of George Crabbe by his Son),

medicine was the original object and labour of his youth; without it we should not have had the poetry which stand to his name.  These tales and local reports, the domesday-book of some small parts of the England of his day, owe much to his necessary tours, calls and considerations; sitting down to disturb elegant culture with an anatomy of the passions and a selection of the queer complexities of life, Crabbe is unmistakably the general practitioner of country places.

Anticipating the Romantics (and William Carlos Williams?) he wrote, "I paint the Cot,/As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not" (The Village); and he based The Parish Register on an actual register of births, deaths and marriages. 

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
The Life of George Crabbe by His Son.  London: The Cresset Press; 1947.

Poetry
Dalrymple-Champneys N. The Complete Poetical Works / George Crabbe, 3 vol.  New York: Oxford University Press; 1988.

 

Stephen Melville Creel
1938-
Creel received his M.D. degree from the University of Colorado in 1964 and became a psychiatrist.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Poppy Children (1975)

 

J. Michael Crichton
1942-
After a stint as visiting lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University in England, Crichton attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1969.  He gave up his medical career in 1970, however, after a year as post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.  In addition to his highly successful writing, begun in medical school, he has written and directed numerous films, originated the television series ER, and received many awards for his achievements in his various fields of interest. Only a few of his books are listed below.

Background
Contemporary Authors
"The Official Website of Michael Crichton"

Fiction  
(as John Lange)
Odds On (1966)
Binary (1972)

(as Jeffery Hudson)
A Case of Need (1968)

(as Michael Douglas)
Dealing (1971)

(as Michael Crichton)
The Andromeda Strain (1969)
Terminal Man (1972)
The Great Train Robbery (1975)
Sphere (1987)
Jurassic Park (1990)
Airframe (1996)
Timeline (1999)

NonFiction
Five Patients (1970)
Travels (autobiography) (1988)

 

A. J. Cronin
1896-1981
Scottish by birth, Cronin graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1919, and received an M.D. degree from that institution in 1925.  He served as surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I, then as a ship's surgeon, before beginning a practice in South Wales where he also studied occupational diseases of coal miners. In 1926 he began a London practice, but had to give up medicine in 1930 due to ill health. From then on writing was his career, his books being popular and many being made into films.  Only some of his many works are listed below.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Salwak D. A.J. Cronin, a reference guide. Boston: G.K. Hall; 1982
Salwak D. A.J. Cronin. Boston: Twayne Publishers; 1985

Fiction
Hatter's Castle (1931)
The Stars Look Down (1935)
The Citadel (1937)
The Keys of the Kingdom ((1942)
A Song of Sixpence (1964)
A Pocketful of Rye (1969)
Gracie Lindsay (1978)

NonFiction
Adventures in Two Worlds (autobiography) (1935)

 

Robert T. Crowley
1913-
In 1937 Crowley received his M.D. degree from Syracuse University, followed by M.S.and  M.Sc.Med. degrees from Wayne State and New York Medical College. After serving with the Marines during World War II, he pursued a practice of general and thoracic surgery, becoming a professor and department head at several institutions during his career.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Coffer of Saturno (1961)
Some with Steel (1965)
Not Soldiers All (1967)
Contract Surgeon (1969)

Poetry
Haste to the Red Bride's Wedding (1971)
Lessons from Fright School (1976)

 

Geza Csath
1887-1919
Details of his training elude me, but Csath did practice neurology in Hungary, and wrote articles on mental illness. His stories, few of which are translated into English, are fantastic and pessimistic; and, tragically, opium addiction and madness consumed his last years.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Magician's Garden and Other Stories (1980)

 

Robert Stanley Cunningham
1907-
Cunningham received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1937, specialized in internal medicine, and spent most of his career with the Veterans Administration.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Poetry
Rationale (1974)
Love Poems (1975)

NonFiction
Halos and Pitchforks: Philosophical Ramblings of a Wandering Physician (1984)

 

Margaret Cuthbert
1954-
A 1979 graduate of the University of California San Francisco Medical School, Cuthbert specialized in obstetrics and gynecology.  She was in private practice in Berkeley, California, and vice chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Alta Bates Medical Center, but devotes her time entirely to writing now.

Fiction
The Silent Cradle (1998)