My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative ... -Tess Gerritsen

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

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Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a med...

I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to appr...

I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my boo...

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into sci...

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that ...

I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to ...

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk....

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happ...

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He becam...

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I don't believe that a transgender fighter should have to disclose her personal medical history to other female fighters before they fight....

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My parents are always like, 'Camille stop with the medical stuff!'...

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I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me....

I began my career as a medical doctor in Ama Keng, a poor village in Lim Chu Kang. The people I cared for were ordinary Singaporeans. They were simple...