In a recent visit to India I read in the newspapers an article dealing with doctors who "have changed prescriptions for books". This is the case of Dr HS Rissam, a cardiologist who has published "The Scalpel: Game Beneath", which deals with the murky world of the medical mafia and the malpractices in his profession". This "medithriller", as he calls it, moves from Delhi to New York, London, Chicago, Sydney, Barcelona and Istambul, and is a bestselling book that has gone into its fourth reprint. But there are more doctors-turned-writers, such as Ambarish Satwik, a Delhi based cardio-vascular surgeon at Ganga Ram Hospital who has written "Perineum: neither parts of the empire", a fiction novel which is a rogue and deviant sexual history of the British Raj, surgeon Dr Vikram Batra, who wrote his first book "Perfect Anger" mixing poetry and prose or Dr Kaveri Nambisan whose "The Story That Must Not Be Told" was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012. From medical thrillers to murder mysteries or to historical fiction they are writing it all...but most of these doctors say their first love is medicine. Congratulations!En un reciente viaje a India leí en la prensa un artículo relacionado con médicos que se han animado a escribir novelas o poesía pero sin abandonar su amor por la medicina. Es una buena idea porque a la hora de escribir una novela de suspense médico o de asesinatos misteriosos, ¿quién mejor que ellos para describir al cuerpo humano?
