The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s student newspaper, profiled Cornell alum, surgeon and author Dr. Lawrence Dorr ’63. Dorr was in Iowa to promote his first novel, “Die Once, Live Twice.”
Dorr, who got his MD from Iowa, read at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
From the article:
“In Iowa, you were just expected to work hard,” said Dorr, a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1967. “There were people smarter than me, but if you didn’t work hard, you got bypassed.”
That hard work led to the publishing of his first novel — a story that details the history of medicine using real doctors woven together with fictional characters. Completing the book is something he said is one of his greatest accomplishments.
“The history of medicine is so rich,” he said. “It’s kind of how the Wild West was won — except it wasn’t cowboys and Indians. It was doctors and patients.”
You can read the entire piece here.