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#40: How will reading fiction improve me?
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#40: How will reading fiction improve me?

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Apr 16, 2023
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Sometime along med school I decided that reading fiction was a waste of my time, an indulgence, hours of my precious time that don't teach me anything about science or how the world works.

Today, I no longer practice medicine, 75% of the books I read every year are novels and I have dedicated a large part of my life to writing one myself!

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