It is. a formidable list: Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Locke, Oliver Goldsmith, Keats, Somerset Maugham, Rabelais, Schiller, Maimonides, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robin Cook, Roget (Thesaurus), Michael Crichton, Virgil, Michael Palmer, William Carlos Williams ... all writers, all physicians. And Goethe, Charles Darwin, John Donne, Coleridge, Ibsen, Joyce, Gertrude Stein . . . all began to study medicine but abandoned it.
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