A Doctor and His Patients
Almost always, I begin a short story by developing my characters. It is more purposeful for me to imagine and cultivate them than to try de novo to conceive of the plot. I let these people grow, slowly get to intimately know them.
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Spencer Nadler, M.D., has practiced surgical pathology for more than twenty-five years in Southern California. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Massachusetts Review, Cross Currents, The Missouri Review, The American Scholar, and Reader’s Digest. The Language of Cells is his first book.
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