Patrick Taylor (author)
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Patrick Taylor is a medical doctor and novelist.
Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Ulster and Belfast before immigrating to Canada in the 1990s. He has received three lifetime achievement awards including the Lifetime Award of Excellence of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society [1].
He has written or contributed to 170 academic papers and six textbooks and also served as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Journal, as well as writing a monthly medical humour column and serving as book reviewer for Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour [2].
Taylor has also published four books of creative writing, all set in Norther Ireland: a short-story collection entitled Only Wounded: Ulster Stories, and three novels: Pray for Us Sinners and its sequel Now and in the Hour of Our Death, and The Apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty (short listed for the BC Book awards fiction prize 2005). A fifth book, written with TF Baskett, titled The Complete Anthology of En Passant 1989-1999, is a collection of Taylor's humour columns.
