How I Became a Successful Author while Practicing Medicine

May 26, 2023

In this episode of the Brave Enough Show, Dr. Sasha talks with acclaimed fiction author Dr. Lydia Kang about her journey to pivot in medicine and start writing professionally. The doctors discuss: 

• Following your inner voice  

• Staying focused when experiencing naysayers 

• Finding the courage to do what you know only you can do 

About the guest: 

Lydia Kang is an author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and a practicing physician, best known for her adult historical novel Opium and Absinthe: A Novel and her medical nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, co-written with Nate Pedersen. She is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Nebraska Medicine and lives in Omaha, Nebraska. 

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