A pathological writer
The Hindu
I have always wanted to write a novel, dreaming to become a whodunit queen like Agatha Christie. Seeing this alarming preoccupation, my grandfather gifted me a copy of Erich Segal’s Doctors. I suspect
I have always wanted to write a novel, dreaming to become a whodunit queen like Agatha Christie.
Seeing this alarming preoccupation, my grandfather gifted me a copy of Erich Segal’s Doctors. I suspect that was a ploy to hook me into the glamorous world of medicine at an impressionable age. He probably felt I would be inspired to become the next Laura Castellano. But I identified more with Maury Eastman, the wacko guy who joined college only to write the great medical novel.
I felt it prudent to take up forensic medicine or psychiatry as a specialty to get a ringside view of crime. But my mother disapproved of the idea. “Do you want criminals to climb my wall and psychopaths bang at the door,” she asked. So, in the end, I chose please-all pathology.