Physician writer

The term poet or writer doctor doctor called a ( fiction ) writers with medical training.

Examples of well-known writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov doctors, William Somerset Maugham, António Lobo Antunes, Stanisław Lem or João Guimarães Rosa. Well-known are German -speaking poets and doctors were, among others, Paul Fleming, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, Oskar Panizza, Gottfried Benn, Alfred Döblin and Uwe Tellkamp.

In 1965, the " World Union of Écrivains Médecins " ( UMEM ) was established as a world organization of writers doctors. Since 1970, the German poet doctors are organized " Federation of German writer - doctors ".