Perks Season 6 Ep. 120 | Kimmery Martin | A Doctor In The House | 1-26-22

Normally, we don’t repeat the same guests multiple times on the show (because there are so many great guests to feature), but we decided to ask Kimmery Martin back on the show for this episode. Kimmery is a trained ER physician who is now a full time author and her niche is medical fiction about female doctors. She is the author of 3 books: The Queen of Hearts, The Antidote For Everything, and her newest, Doctors and Friends. When she spoke with us last time in Season 2, she hinted at the manuscript she was working on about a female doctor during a global pandemic and the horrible decision she has to make about her children. That manuscript became Doctors and Friends.

We asked Kimmery on because we’re still knee-deep in COVID, and we had to know what it was like to write a novel about a pandemic just as an actual pandemic was moving around the globe. Plus, Kimmery contracted COVID which added another interesting layer to her work as a writer.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin
2- The Antidote For Everything by Kimmery Martin
3- Doctors & Friends by Kimmery Martin
4- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
5- Melville in Love by Michael Shelden
6- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7- Tybee by Herman Melville
8- Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
9- My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee
10- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrass-Tyson
11- The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson
12- The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Shows mentioned--
1- Reservation Dogs (2021 on Hulu)
2- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
3- Station Eleven (2021, HBO)