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John Bukowski

John Bukowski

Award-winning thriller author Dr. John Bukowski — former veterinarian and public health researcher (PhD, Rutgers) whose books include Project Suicide and Checkout Time; prostate cancer survivor.

Sep 21, 2026

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And so after six or seven years in corporate America in the early 2000s, I decided to go off and be a medical writer.
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know leave the corporate world and basically uh do contract medical writing doing journal articles website content things like that and the more and more i got away from the cookbook of a journal article you know introduction methods or results discussion and into things that were more descriptive for general audiences, the more I liked it.
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I did radio scripts for a veterinary school that did little online radio animal minutes, you know.
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And I loved all that stuff.
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And so finally, when I got to the point where I could, well, I was doing medical writing, like I said, and I hit a roadblock of the Great Recession, 2008, 2009.
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Nobody was hiring.

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and so what kind of again relating to your experience technology has gone so far to where you were able to do the robotics procedure a lot less invasively how has how has technology kind of advanced like your world i guess not the the vet world but the writing sit space as far as maybe not just medical writing or not just fictional writing but just writing in general how is technology impacting what you've been doing over these years but then also like in the future where do you see that going

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