Physician Writers

[Anonymous No.18316862]

I'm going to medical school next year and I want to know who /lit/'s favorite writers are who were also physicians

[Anonymous No.18316895]

>>18316862
No one cares, brainlet. You’re going to be surrounded by the most braindead, boring, and insipid people imaginable — mostly women who can’t think nor offer insight besides “let’s get wine drunk and watch the office.”

[Anonymous No.18316897]

celine and also this>>18316895

[Anonymous No.18316919]

Kobo Abe, though he abandoned his medicinal calling in favor of NEETdom

[Anonymous No.18316944]

>>18316862
william carlos williams

[Anonymous No.18316945]

Arthur Schnitzler

[Anonymous No.18317000]

>>18316895
OP here, I agree but I'm not sure what else to do at this point. The people you describe have infested every other field as well

[Anonymous No.18317389]

>>18317000
Religio medici
Osler
Keats trained as a physician

[Anonymous No.18317671]

Chekhov

[Anonymous No.18317714]

Sir Thomas Browne

[Anonymous No.18317740]

Sacks

[Anonymous No.18317781]

>>18317000
fuck you are right
>>18316895
>do physics!
>surrounded by braindead, boring, insipid people
>do art!
>surrounded by braindead, boring, insipid people
When even art becomes consumed by the industrial capitalist machine you know that society is hopeless

[Anonymous No.18317789]

>>18316862
Tchekhov is top tier

[Anonymous No.18318180]

Blaise Cendrars

[Anonymous No.18318210]

>>18316862
I’m a male(male) currently in university to get my BSN. We’re both medical professionals OP :^)

But seriously, what do you genuinely think of nurses OP? Do you think we’re barely literate retards and beneath you?

[Anonymous No.18318218]

Bulgakov

[Anonymous No.18318221]

>>18318210
I'm not OP, but yes that is what people think of you.

[Anonymous No.18318222]

>>18317781
It’s the fault of mass production. There hasn’t been an earth shattering piece of real art since Wagner’s ring cycle. Good art hasn’t existed since 1890-ish with the onset of mass production. Skill, forms, talent, soul - all of it reduced to nothing but matter with the prospect of infinite copies for mass consumption by the democratic public. Art will only improve when we start enforcing strict barriers between the public and artists.

[Anonymous No.18318223]

>>18317714
extremely based

[Anonymous No.18318264]

>>18316862
Gottfried Benn

[Anonymous No.18318277]

>>18316895
At least he'll be rich.
Being a writer is an almost sure way to starve to death.

[Anonymous No.18318295]

>>18316862
Primo Levi

[Anonymous No.18318303]

>>18317781
NYC art world here, most artists i know are exceptionally interesting and unique individuals

[Anonymous No.18318312]

IIRC, Ernesto Sabato

[Anonymous No.18318329]

>>18318303
Arthur Conan Doyle. And Michael Crichton.

[Anonymous No.18318358]

>>18317000
It depends in being a physician is gonna be your whole personality.
Plenty of great writers where more than just writers, plenty where teachers, mathematicians, soldiers, etc.

[Anonymous No.18318468]

>>18316895
>mostly women who can’t think nor offer insight besides “let’s get wine drunk and watch the office.”
every collegefag is that

[Anonymous No.18318481]

No mention of Robert Burton yet? For shame.

[Anonymous No.18318521]

Chekhov

[Anonymous No.18318552]

OP here
>>18318210
I like nurses most of time. Sometimes they can be a bit "simple" but they tend to be more down to earth and you can have some decent conversations and good times with them. Doctors can often be very self-important and treat people like shit to remind everyone of how "important " they are
>>18318358
I enjoy medicine but I have a lot of interests outside of medicine as well. I always liked the Chekhov quote, "medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

[Anonymous No.18318881]

>>18316862
Michael Crichton

[Anonymous No.18318898]

>>18318210
Wife is an attending. She says the best nurses have learned that it isnt their job to think, just to do as their told and document.

>>18318552
Untrue except for surgeons, most docs are pretty chill and fill their time with shit like biking or sewing so that they dont have to think about work.

[Anonymous No.18318911]

>>18316862
Avicenna and Maimonides

[Anonymous No.18318995]

>>18316862
Thomas Szasz, only good one

[Anonymous No.18319054]

>>18316895
I dropped out of medical school with only 2 years to go bc of this, now in biomed engineering

[Anonymous No.18319083]

I suppose William James counts, because he had a medical doctorate though he never practiced.

[Anonymous No.18319147]

>>18319054
Is it any better?

[Anonymous No.18319220]

>>18318898
I spend most of my time with surgeons so maybe that explain my experience

[Anonymous No.18319625]

Oliver St John Gogarty

[Anonymous No.18321465]

CHEKHOV

[Anonymous No.18321632]

>>18319147
too early to say, just started this semester

It's mostly about your personality being compatible with the job I think, I don"t hate medicine completely (but there's a lot of corruption regarding drugs for chronic coniditons, statins are a scam eg) and sometimes think that I should have finished it, mostly I don't though

[Anonymous No.18321644]

>>18321632
I have a pretty high IQ and I'm lazy, so for me engineering requires less work, medicine is conceptually easier but it's more work bc IQ can't give me shortcuts as much, you just have to know a lot of shit (which is true also in engineering but considerably less so imo)

[Anonymous No.18321753]

Andre Breton
Me

[Anonymous No.18322611]

>>18318222
Interesting take. What are the criteria for earth shattering?

[Anonymous No.18322637]

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, although it's medical nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.18323288]

>>18316895
I’m in law school and pleasantly surprised by how often people have not fit this description. They’re still there, but not as many as I expected

[Anonymous No.18323311]

>>18316895
sour grapes

[Anonymous No.18323404]

>>18321632
>>18319054
Isn't it super dumb?
You would have been rich. Now you'll be poor.
Biomedical engineers are worthless. Doctors are important

[Anonymous No.18323939]

>>18323404
bullshit. you won't see serious cash until you spend 10 years at very least studying specialization and subspecialization. After that experience. All the time spending serious cash.

[Anonymous No.18324579]

>>18316862
Atul Gawande

[Anonymous No.18325800]

>>18316862
Marsilio Ficino by far