by Ann Beach | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
What a glittering event! The ten Townsend Prize finalists, other authors and the want-to-be authors of the Atlanta Writers Club gathered at the beautiful Wimbish House for drinks, dinner, speeches and awards. The Townsend Award is a big deal. Named in memory of Jim...
by Ann Beach | Apr 5, 2023 | Medicine, Uncategorized
I love studying the history of medicine, especially the pre-anesthesia, pre-antibiotic era. Fleming, Osler, Rush, Avicenna, Blackwell, Curie, Pasteur are all familiar friends to me now. So, it’s no surprise to me that nuggets of medical history find me when we are on...
by Ann Beach | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
I met Dr. Ruth O’Neal in 1975 when I was applying to medical schools. A gruff, older, white-haired lady, she was one of several doctors who interviewed me at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, now called Wake Forest. I remember it so clearly. I wanted medical school more...
by Ann Beach | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
My husband (yes, he writes, too) and I just spent the weekend at a writers’ conference at the Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton, GA. (https://www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/2023-writers-retreat/#top) There were 50-60 of us there, all kinds of writers, in all...
by Ann Beach | Aug 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m so excited to have my blog article “On Call with a Four-Year-Old” published on the respected site DoctorsonSocialMedia.com (also known as SoMeDocs). Dana Corriel from SoMeDocs was nice enough to say positive things about my writing. Of course,...
