Ask the Author: Elizabeth Sandel
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Elizabeth Sandel
I read an interview by the neurologist Stanley Prusiner after he won the Nobel Prize in 2004. He said, "I think that the scientists have to constantly try to translate what they do into language that most people can understand..." As a physician, I always tried to do that with each patient under my care. Now I am trying to do it more broadly. My first book that aims to do this is "Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion".
Elizabeth Sandel
My advice is to choose a genre that you are drawn to as a reader and then try writing in that genre yourself. As a physician, I have taken the challenge to be a translator of technical language for the general public. I hope to engage the reader through accessible language and stories.
Elizabeth Sandel
I like being inside my own brain without external distractions. I don't feel that I am alone because writing is always accompanied by reading what others have written or researched. That sparks my own thinking and expression of ideas.
Elizabeth Sandel
I do not usually have a complete "block" as long as I choose a topic that I am intrigued by or want to explore or research. Digging for just about anything written on the topic is detective work and that's fun. I write non-fiction, but tell stories, too. In medicine, these are called "cases".
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