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My protagonist is a cop who’s been shot in the lung five years previously. He is in good shape and is not a smoker. What, if any, long term consequences would he have from a lung wound? I don’t want it to be serious enough that...

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I'm writing a scene where my heroine has taken an anti-anxiety medication. She's having a bad reaction to it...sort of a floaty, LSD type of thing (not that I would know of course....one glass of wine is my limit). She feels light and thinks...

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I have a character who is a female journalist injured in Iraq, probably by a roadside bomb. My question is about shrapnel left in the body...

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Dear Fiction Dr.,

I have a character who goes to the hospital thinking he's having a heart attack...

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Dear Fiction Dr.,

Are there any medications that make people open to suggestion...

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