1862-1931
Interested in literature all his life - at age nine he wrote a five act tragedy - Schnitzler studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1885. He joined his father working at the Allgemeine Wiener Poliklinik, where he was most interested in psychiatric problems, but after about 1895 devoted himself virtually entirely to his writing, of which only a few collections are listed below. That Schnitzler's psychologically intriguing work is of interest to film makers is attested to not only by Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, based on Rhapsody; but by at least sixteen other films inspired by his novels and plays since 1921.
1963-
Schwarz took a year off from the University of Virginia School of Medicine to write Near Canaan, and graduated in 1992. Her further training has been in internal medicine.
1937-
Scliar graduated from the University of Rio Grande Do Sul with an M.D. degree in 1962. What his involvement with medicine has been since then, I do not know, but he has written many highly imaginative and well-received novels, and received numerous prizes, including the Guimaraes Rosa prize. Fortunately, many of his books have been translated into English.
1959-
Born in England, Seddon received his M.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1985. After a family practice residency, he began practice in Montana. He has written a number of nonfiction pieces, from a Christian perspective, in addition to the novel below.
1878-1919
Segalen graduated M.D. from the Naval Medical School in Bordeaux, and worked initially as a ship's doctor, traveling through the Pacific islands, including Tahiti. At various times he was a physician at the Naval Hospital in Brest, and professor at the Imperial Medial College in Tien Tsin, China. He wrote about, and in some cases knew, many of the artists, composers, and writers of his day, including Gauguin, Remy de Gourmont, Huysmans, Rimbaud, and Debussy. His other writing included fiction, poetry, and books on art, anthropology, and archaelogy. Little, unfortunately, has yet to be translated into English.
1928-
A 1953 graduate of Albany Medical College, Selzer did further surgical training at Yale before beginning a surgical practice there. He rose to the position of Professor of Surgery, and in addition has taught writing at Yale, been a Fellow at Yaddo and a resident-scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center in Italy, and received many awards, including a Guggenheim Award. In 1984 he retired from medicine, and is today recognized as one of the major contributors to the "medical humanities" field, writing, lecturing, and serving as contributing editor of Literature and Medicine. Below, I have rather arbitrarily categorized most of his work as fiction, realizing that many individual pieces might more properly be called essays.
1911-
Sheley's medical training and career are unknown to me at this point, except that his name is followed by both D.O. and M.D. on the title page of the novel listed.
1944-
Shem earned a Ph.D. in neurophysiology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and graduated from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. degree in 1973. After further training in psychiatry, he began a psychiatric practice in the Boston area, where he is on the faculty at Harvard. His classic House of God has spoken to many medical students and house officers, and sold over a million copies; and he has been invited to speak at many medical school commencment exercises. A playwright as well, Shem has seen two of his plays included in the Best Short Plays series (1979 and 1982).
1861-1952
Sherrington was graduated in medicine at Cambridge in 1885. Concentrating his medical work on pathology and physiology, he studied with Virchow and Koch, and became, in 1895, professor of physiology at the University of Liverpool, and subsequently at Oxford. For his fundamental discoveries in the field of neurophysiology he was knighted in 1922, and recevied (with Edgar Adrian) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932.