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and think about something that you'd like to do that you haven't done yet. Because I can't

stop time. No one can. But I can slow time and I can correct time.

I'm Rufus Griskem and this is the next big idea. Today, an exploration of medicine and the

new human.

Throughout history, there have been a surprising number of doctors who were also great writers.

For some of these physicians, writing was apparently a diversion. William Carlos Williams,

for instance, used to scribble his tourist poems on prescription pads between patient visits.

For others, time in the hospital seems to have stimulated their imaginations.

When Arthur Conan Doyle was in medical school, he had a professor who could walk into a waiting

room and diagnose people just by looking at them. These uncanny powers of observation inspired

Conan Doyle's most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. And then there are the doctors for whom writing

seems to be a form of thinking, a way to process the lives they lead when they're wearing white

coats. In this camp, I'd include someone like Oliver Sachs, who wrote about his patients not only

as a way to make sense of their pathologies, but also to expand his reader's understanding of

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