Title: Literatim
Description: "In 1959, shortly before his death and while reflecting over his roller-coaster career as a Hollywood film director, Preston Sturges (who I write about more fully later in this book) remarked, "the only amazing thing about my career...is that I ever had one at all." (1) The same might be said about my career as a physician and historian of medicine. As a young boy, some of my best companions were the characters I met on the pages of novels, stories, theatrical scripts, and screenplays. Fascinated by human stories, contradictions, both moral and physical, and worlds so vastly different from my middle-class, suburban Detroit upbringing, I was inspired to I try my hand at writing some of my own tales. In my teens, I was an active participant in my high school's theatre program (thankfully, in an era when taxpayers still supported the arts as a critical part of the public school curriculum) and wrote a series of incredibly bad plays. Soon enough, I was confronted by the decidedly difficult time I had in coming up with believable plots, a serious handicap for any budding fabulist."--
Subjects: Medicine in literature, Medicine and art, Medicine, history, Medicine, Medicine in art, Medicine in the Arts, Motion Pictures, Famous Persons, History of Medicine, Ber©ơhmte Pers©œnlichkeit, Film, Historische Pers©œnlichkeit, Medizin, M©♭decine, Dans la litte rature, Dans l'art