Author of Bullets and Brains talks about finding time in the busy life of a physician.[/caption]
Every aspiring author looks for inspiration. Some lock themselves away; others travel the world. Dr. Andrew Wilner took a different approach to writing. He decided to get into his characters’ heads…literally.
“It seemed to me,” Wilner recalls, “if you want to understand what makes people do what they do, you need to know a little bit about their physiology, their psychology, their life span, and how they’re put together.”
What better way to do that than to become a doctor — a neurologist, in fact. “I think I always knew that I wanted to be a physician,” he says. “I don’t exactly know why, but when I thought about it, I think one of the reasons was that I actually wanted to understand what makes people tick, almost from a writer’s point of view.”
My Locum Tenens Experience - Pursuing Passions Outside of Medicine
June 27th, 2014 3 Min read[caption id="attachment_4114" align="alignright" width="300"] Author of Bullets and Brains talks about finding time in the busy life of a physician.[/caption]
Every aspiring author looks for inspiration. Some lock themselves away; others travel the world. Dr. Andrew Wilner took a different approach to writing. He decided to get into his characters’ heads…literally.
“It seemed to me,” Wilner recalls, “if you want to understand what makes people do what they do, you need to know a little bit about their physiology, their psychology, their life span, and how they’re put together.”
What better way to do that than to become a doctor — a neurologist, in fact. “I think I always knew that I wanted to be a physician,” he says. “I don’t exactly know why, but when I thought about it, I think one of the reasons was that I actually wanted to understand what makes people tick, almost from a writer’s point of view.”
Author of Bullets and Brains talks about finding time in the busy life of a physician.[/caption]
Every aspiring author looks for inspiration. Some lock themselves away; others travel the world. Dr. Andrew Wilner took a different approach to writing. He decided to get into his characters’ heads…literally.
“It seemed to me,” Wilner recalls, “if you want to understand what makes people do what they do, you need to know a little bit about their physiology, their psychology, their life span, and how they’re put together.”
What better way to do that than to become a doctor — a neurologist, in fact. “I think I always knew that I wanted to be a physician,” he says. “I don’t exactly know why, but when I thought about it, I think one of the reasons was that I actually wanted to understand what makes people tick, almost from a writer’s point of view.”
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