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More than four decades later, affection has finally blossomed into something you can take to the bank. Lockheed Martin announced this week that it will supply six Super Hercules C130-Js to India in a deal worth $1 billion - a breakthrough that the U.S. hopes will open a floodgate of orders for its military hardware. During the Cold War, India relied on the Soviet Union for most of its arms, and Russia is still India's biggest supplier. Now U.S. companies want to cash in on closer political and strategic ties between America and India and grab a much bigger...
...problem, but DA found out by reading Peter’s blog. And the real thorn in his side is that Peter contracted HPV along the way, so now DA is a shoo-in for ear, nose and throat cancer. To get back at him, DA made PB&Js for Peter’s lunch, but he used the crunchy peanut butter. One would think that after thirteen years, DA would know that Peter is extremely allergic to peanuts. Ever since the two of us were accepted into Harvard—Peter by a stroke of dumb luck...
...JS: Michael Crichton's early stuff especially, like Case of Need, which he wrote while he was in medical school, and then The Andromeda Strain, of course, were big influences. I think anybody who is writing in the genre owes a lot to Robin Cook and especially to Coma. Actually, before I started writing Isolation Ward, I was reading a lot of Chandler and Hammett and tried to bring sort of a noir sense to Isolation Ward. I kind of wanted to craft a noir architecture on to a medical thriller, so they were big influences. In terms of voice...
...JS: It's really confusing at times. It does require shifting gears a lot, which has been more or less difficult at times. But that said, they do dovetail very nicely. The intellectual work and the contact with people in medicine is a nice balance to the solitude of writing. Writing gives you a chance to exercise different parts of your brain and also to process what goes on in medicine. Medicine is like a conflagration of personalities and conflicts, both on personal and social scales. So writing is a really nice way, for me at least, to work...
...JS: I would say I'm a medical student who writes...