Physician writer

The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, or published their first non-medical piece, arranged in alphabetical order.

Dr. Mirko Skoficz was a key figure at the first FISEM congress in San Remo, Italy, along with his wife, Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida.

UMEM is an umbrella organization that subsumes physician-writer groups in: In the Anglophone world, the lead has been taken by New York University (NYU) with their encyclopedic Literature, Arts & Medicine Database[51] and blog.

[54] The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes Literature and Medicine, "a journal devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding.

"[55] Dartmouth Medical School publishes Lifelines, an art and literature journal dedicated to featuring the works of physicians[56] and their experiences in medicine.