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When Lydia Kang, M.D., steps into an exam room to see a patient, they may wave a book in front of her and ask her to sign it.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kang’s usual response is something like, “Well, we need to check on your diabetes first.”<\/p>\n

As her third and fourth books near their 2017 release dates, Dr. Kang, an assistant professor of internal medicine at UNMC, has become increasingly comfortable with being a medical professional and an author.<\/p>\n

“My patients have been extremely welcoming about it,” she said. “In the work environment, I tend not to bring up the writing, but my patients will bring it up with me.”<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Dr. Kang will read selections from her first young adult novel, “Control,” and possibly its sequel, “Catalyst,” at 3:30 p.m. at the McGoogan Library of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Her newest young-adult novel, “The November Girl” is coming out in the fall of 2017, and her first adult book will be co-written non-fiction work called “Quackery.” <\/p>\n

“It’s kind of a history of medicine book with a touch of humor in it,” she said. “The subtitle is ‘A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.'”<\/p>\n

When Dr. Kang first got involved in UNMC’s Seven Doctors Project — an initiative to help medical professionals explore creative writing — she wanted to write poetry, and perhaps such medical memoir essays.<\/p>\n

“I hadn’t really written very much fiction at all when I joined,” she said.
\nThat changed after her first year with the program, and she actually wrote two novels — an urban fantasy and a historical novel — before “Control,” a young-adult science-fiction adventure, was published. Its sequel, “Catalyst,” followed.<\/p>\n

For her new works, though, Dr. Kang has moved away from science-fiction.<\/p>\n

“The November Girl” is a contemporary\/magic realism story set on an island in Lake Superior.<\/p>\n

“I think it will be a little bit of a surprise for readers, because the voice is very different, the subject matter is very different,” she said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kang is collaborating with journalist Nate Peterson on the “Quackery” book — he reached out to her for her medical expertise.<\/p>\n

“Everything that I get really passionate about, a lot of it ends up coming back to some personal experiences that I’ve had or my love of science and medicine,” Dr. Kang said. “So in a weird way they all do sort of knit together — but not necessarily in a way that is obvious to other people.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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