This week I’m thrilled to welcome Dr. Debra Blaine to the podcast. She has worked for many years in urgent care. However, I asked her to join me on the podcast to discuss her new role as a published author.
Debra's educational background is interesting. She was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, New York. She received her BA in Philosophy and Hebrew at the University of Texas at Austin, before going on for graduate studies in Comparative Religion at Temple University. She attended Baylor College of Medicine to earn her MD in 1987, and has practiced medicine on Long Island for thirty years.
She recently released her medical thriller called Code Blue – The Other End of the Stethoscope. And although she is not a fulltime author, I thought it would be instructive and fun to hear how her writing journey began, and culminated in the publication of a novel.
I was also very interested in supporting the release of the book after reading it, for three reasons. First, it’s a genre that I like and enjoyed reading. Second, because the book’s heroine is a physician facing a worldwide medical conspiracy. And finally, because Debra peppers the story with real examples of the frustrations of medical practice experienced by us physicians in our increasingly dysfunctional health system.
You can learn more about her book, download a transcript and listen to the interview by going to vitalpe.net/episode116. Or you can listen on Apple Podcasts and other podcast apps.
