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Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background.

Which he got in part because his family insisted he would never make it as a writer and encouraged him to go to medical school, which he completed but he never became a licensed physician.

The Wikipedia article quoted above doesn't say that. I read or heard it elsewhere. The man in question is Michael Crichton.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton



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