1953-
A 1980 medical graduate of Stanford University, Hellerstein trained in psychiatry and has been on the staffs of Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Medical Centers in New York City. In 1980 he won a Pushcart Prize for one of his essays, and from 1984 through 1986 he was a fellow at MacDowell Colony. In addition to the books listed below, Hellerstein has written for a number of national magazines.
1944-
Born and raised in South Africa, Helman graduated medicine at the Univesity of CapeTown Medical School in 1967. In 1969, he moved to London, England, where he did further study in social anthropology. He now serves as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences of the Royal Free & University College Medical School, London. In addition to his family practice and writing, in March of 2001 he convened a course on Cross-cultural Primary Care.
1924-
Born in Nigeria, Henshaw received his M.D. degree from the National University of Ireland in 1949. In Nigeria he has worked as a medical consultant, controller of medical services, and on the National Councils on Health, among other duties. His plays are frequently produced in his homeland, especially in schools.
1940-
Hibberd studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia, graduating in 1964. He practiced in Melbourne until 1973, while writing and directing a number of plays, and has continued to write, not only plays, but translations and criticism.
1945-
It was unclear to me whether to include Hilfiker in this listing of "creative"
writers, but because he is increasingly recognized as a physician who writes,
and who has perfected a type of personal essay, I thought I should. After
earning his M.D. degree at the University of Minnesota in 1974, he specialized
in Family Practice, and has devoted much of his medical time to work with
AIDS patients and the disadvantaged in Washington, D.C. Among his other honors,
he was asked to give the 1997 commencement address at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio.
1933-
Hirschorn graduated from Harvard University Medical School in 1958. After
surgical and urologic residencies, he opened a private urologic practice
in Massachusetts.
1809-1894
Hoffmann studied in Heidelberg, Halle, and Paris; and received his medical degree in 1833. Initially he worked as a general practitioner, then became director of the state mental hospital in Frankfurt am Main. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter), an offensive boy he used to illustrate principles of good manners. Over the years, many have translated these stories, including Mark Twain.
1809-1894
First studying law, Holmes turned to medicine, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1836. He practiced for ten years, and in 1847 became professor of anatomy and physiology and dean at Harvard. Medically he is noted for his revolutionary 1843 paper on childbed fever, his emphasis on observation and medical statistics, his role in founding the American Medical Association, and his criticism of many of the ineffective treatments of his day. His literary production was also considerable, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (ten thousand copies sold within three days of publication), and many poems ("The chambered nautilus," "The wonderful one hoss shay"), some still read today. Indeed, according to Sir William Osler, Holmes was "the most successful combination which the world has ever seen of the physician and the man of letters." (An Alabama Student. London: Oxford University Press;1908)
1923-1998
Holub studied science and medicine at Charles University in Prague, and graduated with an M.D. degree in 1953. In addition to publishing over one hundred forty scientific papers in his field of immunology, he has written many books of essays, "essaylets," and poetry. From 1968 through 1990 his work was banned by the Soviets in his native Czechoslovakia; but he is now recognized as one of his country's most imaginative writers, and, according to poet Ted Hughes in 1990, "one of the half dozen most important poets writing anywhere.".
1924-1997
Hornberger received his medical degree from Cornell Medical School, specialized in surgery, and served as an army doctor with the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea. After the war, he worked briefly in a veterans' hospital before opening a surgical practice in Waterville, Maine, which he maintained until retirement in 1988. His war experiences were the basis for his very popular novel, M*A*S*H, which was made into a Cannes Film Festival prize-winning movie in 1970, and a long-running television series.
1964-
Huyler received his MD degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospitals in Albuquerque. In addition to his ER career, and the writing listed below (which I have arbitrarily categorized as fiction), he has had poetry published in such prestigious magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, and Poetry.