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Medicine and the Muse
Author(s) -
Louis H. Roddis
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb139367.x
Subject(s) - miller , citation , personality , george (robot) , psychology , psychoanalysis , art , art history , law , political science , ecology , biology
There are doctors who devote themselves to their profession, and there are others who escape into alternative careers — George Miller, the film director, and Rob Sitch, the comedian/TV personality/film director, are two famous examples. Then there are those who manage to squeeze two careers into a crowded life. In these personal accounts by novelist/GP Peter Goldsworthy and GP/playwright Ron Elisha, we see these creative writers pursuing a love–hate relationship with the life‐and‐death demands of medicine.