Medical Team Working On Patient In Emergency Room How Authors Can Put Their Characters in the Hospital (The Right Way) When writing about hospitalization, the top question I…

This time of year, people love to be out hiking in cooler weather or participating in winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing and ice fishing. Normally, nothing bad happens. But…

If you want to give your character a miserable lifelong disease, give them an autoimmune disease. There are at least a hundred known autoimmune diseases. Some like Sjögren’s won’t shorten their lifespan.…

Writing about a spider bite for a character? First I want to go on record: I hate spiders. While painting an item on our screened porch, something dropped from above and landed…

In all honesty, at times the writing about coma (disorders of consciousness) in television and movies can be laughable. A character on a soap opera awakens dramatically after years in a deep…

Thankfully, I’ve never had a gunshot wound. I've treated nail gun injuries and gun shot wounds in the E.R. None are pretty! One brief article can’t give you the full story of…