Dr. Andrew Wilner is a neurologist and epileptologist who spent years as a full-time medical writer. Now he is Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where he provides direct patient care and teaches neurology residents on the inpatient and outpatient services.
In Part 1, we heard about Andrew’s journey from internal medicine in the U.S., to neurology training in Canada, from clinical medicine to full time medical writer and back. We’ll also hear about his very early locum tenens-like position working in an emergency room.
In Part 2, Andrew describes his return to clinical medicine.
Prior to taking his current position at the U. of Tennessee, he phased back into practice doing locum tenens work. It was those experiences that led to writing and publishing his latest book The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens.
Locums work can be part of a balanced approach to a physician’s career, mixing clinical and nonclinical. Locums is similar to another recent clinical innovation, telemedicine, which can also offer the flexibility needed to supplement nonclinical endeavors.
In addition to discussing locums work, Andrew describes how he went about writing and publishing his book. And he outlines his approach to writing in general.
You can purchase a copy of Andrew’s book The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens by going to andrewwilner.com or vitalpe.net/wilnerbook.
You can find links to the resources mentioned in today’s interview, and a transcript of the entire interview, by going to the show notes at vitalpe.net/episode076.
