Dimitri Markov

Dimitri Markov, the author's name for Donald Harvey Marks, is a physician and writer of intense medical fiction on the theme of Dangerous Doctors. Markov (Marks) gets his too-near-to-real-life material by observing others in the greater healthcare field for their actions, beliefs, hopes, fears and fantasies. Markov employs his lifetime of medical experience to explore the ill-defined boundary between medical fact and medical fiction. His Dangerous Doctors series of medical fiction includes: Vera Mortina, Her Charm Was Contagious, BloodBird, and The Surrogate. These works tell the (fictional) stories of good doctors, nurses and various health care providers, and doctors who are quite dangerous because of their faults : anger, jealousy, insecurity, greed, and mental illness. Dangerous to patients, dangerous to themselves, and certainly dangerous to those doctors and nurses they work with every day. Themes include the greedy in vitro fertilization business, paranoia and insecurity of aging doctors, commercialization of medical care, and the transplantation of consciousness. If you enjoy true-to-life medical fiction by Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Cassella, Kathy Reichs, and Arnaldur Indridason, and the writing style of Scott Turow, then you should be reading Dimitri Markov's Dangerous Doctors series. In that sense, it would probably be dangerous for you to relate to your own health care providers the same way again.