Elissa Ely & Tess Gerritsen: When Doctors are Writers

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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2012 · Education

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Elissa Ely, psychiatrist and columnist, and Tess Gerritsen, internist  and novelist, talk about how writing affects their medical practice, and vice versa. at Cambridge Forum. They discuss the attention and analysis that the practice of medicine requires, and how the demands of being a doctor differ from the demands of being a writer. Moderated by child psychiatrist Alexander Helper. 

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