{"id":7893,"date":"2017-09-22T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:34:29","slug":"inspiration-and-expertise-conversations-with-ucsf-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/inspiration-and-expertise-conversations-with-ucsf-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and Expertise – Conversations with UCSF Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8232\"<\/a>What makes a world-class physician or scientist decide to write a book for the wide world of readers? Where do they find the inspiration and the time? What do they hope to accomplish? How do the satisfactions of writing compare to practicing medicine or writing scholarly articles?<\/p>\n

Six recently published UCSF authors tackle these questions and more in these fascinating interviews:
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\nLife After the Diagnosis: Expert Advice on Living Well with Serious Illness for Patients and Caregivers<\/a><\/strong>
\nPatients and caregivers living well with serious illness<\/p>\n

Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives and Where to Draw the Line <\/a><\/strong>
\nThe potential overuse of medical care and when to say “enough\u201d<\/p>\n

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe impact of technology and the digital revolution on health and health care<\/p>\n

Sensing Light<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe impact of AIDS in San Francisco through the eyes of three fictional doctors<\/p>\n

Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe consequences of hazardous manufacturing and poisonous materials on public health<\/p>\n

Heightened Expectations: The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe role of the pharmaceutical industry in creating a new disease, short stature, to sell new a medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What makes a world-class physician or scientist decide to write a book for the wide world of readers? Where do they find the inspiration and the time? What do they hope to accomplish? How do the satisfactions of writing compare to practicing medicine or writing scholarly articles? Six recently published UCSF authors tackle these questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,372,98,51,2],"tags":[375,376,377,378,379,380,381,5,382,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}