10 famous authors who were also doctors

Khaled Hosseini, the author of bestsellers like “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, “The Kite Runner” and “And the Mountains Echoed” is an Afghan-born American physician turned novelist. His writing has a heart rending appeal that often leaves the reader shattered with its unexpected change of events. His writings carry the fragrance of Afghan history and culture while dealing with most intense of human dispositions.
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The author of exemplary works like The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer and The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-American physician and oncologist. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer even went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. He pens the existent information with depth, emotion and wider outlook that creates an impressive impact on the reader’s mind.
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Atul Gawande is an Indian-American surgeon, public health researcher who has written extensively on medicine and public health. He has to his credit books like Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. Complications was the finalist for National Book Award and was published in more than 100 countries. Along with the medical knowledge, his books also discuss the impact that medical procedures have on the lives of people.
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Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. The book is an amazing work which was completed by his wife due to his demise because of cancer.
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The master mind behind the iconic characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a world renowned writer of Detective fiction. It is interesting to note that he was originally a physician working as an apprentice with Dr. Joseph Bell who was the prime motivation for Sherlock Holmes’ character.
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C. J. Lyons is an American physician and writer of medical suspense novels. She started with writing science fiction and went on to become award-winning, critically-acclaimed, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with books like Nerves of Steel, Snake Skin and Farewell to Dreams. Her writings are crucial in the way they capture the real worlds through keen observant and day- dreaming eyes.
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Robin Cook, the established American novelist with more than 40 books on the New York Times Bestseller List was a physician before he took to writing. His ability of creating a gripping thriller and infusing it with medical knowledge is commendable. He has dealt issues like organ donation, stem cells, genetic engineering and organ transplantation. His books include Death Benefit, Coma, Sphinx, Brain, and Shock.
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The American cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher, Eric J. Topol who has authored “The Creative Destruction of Medicine” has shown extraordinary futuristic approach by hinting that the potential tool digital revolution can be in transforming medication afresh. His pen has also given life to books like, “The Patients will see now”, “Atlas of Interventional Cardiology” and many more adding substance to cardiology literature.
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Abraham Verghese is an Indian American physician-author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He has authored three best-selling books, two memoirs and a novel. Verghese's writing have found their way in The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Atlantic, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. All of his accomplishments were topped by his heart-touching book “Cutting the Stone” which was a resounding success.
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Sandeep Jauhar, MD, is a successful cardiologist and the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He writes regularly for the New York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine and has authored books like Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician. He regularly writes informative and opinionate articles on aging, medicine and ethics. His writings are phenomenal in their transparent approach to issues.
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