His 2015 book Last Night in the OR was a New York Times Bestseller. Some of his highly personal essays have won recognition. But since putting down the scalpel for the pen, his writing’s really taken off.įor decades he composed fiction but in recent years he’s turned to nonfiction. Even during his surgical career he continued writing whenever he had down time.
It continued during his formal education – all the way through undergraduate and medical studies. His wonderment with words goes back to childhood. He’s a veteran small-engine pilot and hang gliding enthusiast and an avid bicycle trekker. Bud Shaw gained fame as a liver transplant surgeon, first in Pittsburgh, then at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), he was a writer. Voyager Bud Shaw gives up scalpel for penĪppeared in the May 2017 issue of the New Horizonsīefore Dr. Order your free subscription by calling 40. Beginning April 28, look for the new issue at area newsstands or, if you’re a subscriber, in your mailbox. My profile of Shaw will appear in the May 2017 issue of the New Horizons, a free montly newspaper from the Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging. When Shaw finally did find his, he revealed himself to be a strong, spare writer in the style of his literary heroes. It can take the better part of a lifetime to find one’s voice, especially that voice residing deep within the inner recesses and nooks and crannies of our subconscious. Though it took him until about a decade ago to finally write about his own personal experiences, he’s been writing since he was a child. The subject of this New Horizons cover story, Bud Shaw, is a medical doctor and writer who’s gained a measure of fame for training his inner eye and ear on his former life as a transplant surgeon through essays, several of them collected in his well-received book, Last Night in the OR. And then there’s the very different kinds of writing people do and the unique voices they express. There’s no single path to becoming a writer and every writer’s life around the work and separate from it looks a little different, sometimes a lot different. I mean, beyond the natural affinity I feel for anyone who takes up the pen and sticks with it, there are myriad things about the writing life that are universal and singular to each writer I profile.
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