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Lin Wilder has a doctorate in Public Health from the UT Houston with a background in cardiopulmonary physiology, medical ethics, and hospital administration. During her thirty-plus years in academic health care administration, Lin authored numerous texts in these fields.

She began writing fiction only after leaving her Hospital Director position at UMASS Medical Center. Since then, Lin’s been the recipient of an extensive array of awards for her two series of novels. Her medical mystery series include: The Fragrance Shed By A Violet, Do You Solemnly Swear? A Price for Genius and Malthus Revisited. Plausible Liars, the fifth in the Dr. Lindsey McCall mystery series, is scheduled for release in the late spring of 2022.

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Her Name Was Karen: Illness as Metaphor

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Karen worked as a staff nurse in the CCU at the hospital where I had been hired as the director for medical nursing. With astounding clarity, I can see her face and the variety of scarves she wore to cover her baldness. It took me some time to learn, more accurately notice, that Karen was dying of cancer. To be fair, it wasn’t just my self absorption but als

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“It doesn’t feel like it, Kate, but you’ve handled tougher stuff than this”
― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

“Precisely. Whenever I get cabin fever in my Mustang home office, I’ll think of this place, look out my picture window at the pasture, and say ‘thank you.”
― Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ ”
― Thomas A. Edison

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