Medscape January 26, 2022
Patients who walk into orthopedic surgeon Richard Brown’s office in Del Mar, California, might be curious about the unexpected poster hanging on the waiting room wall: a jaguar emerges from the darkness, half cast in shadow, with “Scalpel’s Plunge” in blood-red letters scrawled across the top. The poster celebrates Brown’s second novel, Scalpels Plunge: End of the Party, which was released in November 2021.
“It’s a great conversation starter with patients,” Brown tells Medscape Medical News. “It can make people who have some doctor-phobia a little bit more comfortable with me. They can see me as something different.”
Scalpels Plunge is the sequel to Brown’s debut novel, Scalpel’s Cut, which he self-published in 2018. Both novels, described as medical thrillers,...
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