The Pen, The Stethoscope, and The Scalpel: Women Physician Writers and Their Profound Impact on Medicine and Society

Publisher
Springer
Location
Cham, Switzerland
Publication year
2026
Comment

This includes a chapter on Tess Gerritsen titled "Tess Gerritsen, MD" (pages 119–126), although it does not give very much detail about her romantic suspense novels.

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in 1986, she sold “Call After Midnight,” a romantic thriller, to Harlequin Intrigue. The book was published in 1987, launching her professional writing career. (120)

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For the next 9 years, Dr. Gerritsen published romantic suspense novels through Harlequin Intrigue and Harper Paperbacks. Titles like “Never Say Die (1992),” “Keeper of the Bride” (1996), and others gained her a solid following in the romance community. She won Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice awards for best Harlequin Intrigue novel. [...] But Dr. Gerritsen was growing restless with the romance genre. (121)

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