There’s no need for fiction in medicine, for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle[1] (physician, creator of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) Born May 22, 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Scottish writer behind Sherlock Holmes, was also a doctor who received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, which was renowned as one of the premier medical institutions in Europe and, indeed, the world. Students of creative writing are told repeatedly to “write…

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