"So why do these doctors write so well, and so much better (to
my mind, at least) than other non-writers? Perhaps there are elements
of doctoring that lie in harmony with writing: peeling back the layers
to get to the core of an issue; confronting the obvious but being
willing to look beyond it; learning where to “cut in,” of course; and,
more than anything, recognizing that this object before you – in one
case a human body, in the other a manuscript – is on a certain level a
miraculous object with the power to astound, and on another level is a
complex, dynamic system which can (and must be) reduced to a schematic,
laid out on paper or x-ray film."
- Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics blog
