Word: crichton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crichton said he had never liked medical school very much, and began seeing a psychiatrist in the middle of his second year...
...always earned money as a writer; it was like waiting tables," Crichton added, "I could write a fifty thousand word thriller in a week, ten thousand words...
When he could not pay his tuition by writing thrillers during summer, Christmas, and Easter vacations, Crichton realized he would have to write one during the school year...
...thing about medical school is that they tell you 'Even if you don't like this stage, you'll like the next one. Or you'll like being a doctor,"' Crichton said...
Since graduating from the Medical School in 1969, Crichton has not practiced medicine, although he spent a year on the research staff at the Salk Institute. He has devoted most of his time to writing novels and. more recently, to directing films...