She is a real doctor but doesn't play one on TV. She gets to wear a lab coat at work and she likes to fix emergencies, not cause them. An Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, LM is also past program director of Manitoba's CFPC Emergency Medicine program. Dr. Bryski is a published author of contemporary adult and children's fiction including the award-winning 'Book of Birds' and 'The Harmonica Tree.' Her newest novel, 'Blood Chill,' is due out in 2018. She also provides consultation advice about the portrayal of Medicine in literature and film. LM has many proclivities including a love of pancakes and all things breakfast. She enjoys reading and writing, and is very proud of her pronunciation of difficult words. Her humour is horrible, her punctuation abysmal, but she always finds a way to end her sentences with a period.