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I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

Medicine has always been my calling.

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

I started writing to save my life.