The loneliness of a long-distance academic
I love being an academic pediatrician. I didn’t start out to do that; I thought I would be writing novels and working part-time in an inner-city clinic. I wrote with Robert Penn Warren in college and my first (and only) novel was published when I was a senior in medical school. But things don’t always turn out the way you expect them to. In my case, I didn’t expect to be …
