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Last Updated: Dec-27-2001
Summary:
The author provides a historical review of physicians who became famous practicing a profession other than medicine. Most of the article focuses on physician-writers, beginning with Francois Rabelais, and including both well-known and obscure figures. There are extensive comments on Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
Gottfried Benn, Friedrich Wolf,
Mikhail Bulgakov, Oliver Goldsmith,
Anton P. Chekhov,
Arthur Schnitzler,
W. (William) Somerset Maugham,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
William Carlos Williams, among others. The most complete discussion (5 pages) is devoted to
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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