Format: Hardcover, 400 pages ISBN: 978-0385520744 Pub Date: August 7, 2007 Price: $25.00 (list) Buy now from an online store Expand below for the complete Q&A.

Luke Epplin (Editor): You’re a prize-winning author and a practicing physician. Did you want to be a doctor or a writer growing up? How did you manage to do both careers?

Kevin Patterson: I came to do both fairly accidentally. My twin brother was the one who was destined to be a physician. I was a disengaged metal-headed high school student in the power mechanics career stream, when I came home from school one day and realized that giggling, high, under a car every day was probably not a realizable life ambition. (more…)