Well, thank God. There's one I didn't notice anything wrong because I'm a paramedic and not an astronomer. I have no education other than paramedic and most people think paramedics are the third choice of people to help in an emergency, calling for a "doctor, nurse or paramedic," not knowing that unless the nurse works in Critical Care all the time, it's not exactly the 'best' choice for a Trauma 1 emergency. If you work in health care you'll know what I mean and that I'm not belittling the profession. I'm just saying that even some doctors - who AREN'T Emergency Physicians - don't understand exactly what we do. They think we drive the ambulance, then lift and manually transfer the patient to emergency staff.
Also, no nurse is allowed to intubate patients. Ask any of them if they can place an intubation tube into a patient. The answer is they can't because the anesthesiologist is on the scene and does it. Or Respiratory therapists do it. Not nurses. So if a person stopped breathing in the field instead of the hospital, no nurse would be allowed to intubate the patient.
My point from that tangential rant is that this medical information that people read in books and is wrong also becomes belief in their minds, and I find that thought more terrifying than all the Stephen King novels combined.
Because making an error when helping someone in an emergency has the real possibility of killing them, and I've seen it happen. They had no idea that what they did was the reason the patient died and we never told them so, but it still happened. That's why I think correct medical information is so important.
I guess that means I'll never be a good writer.
I couldn't lie about information when my editor insisted I lie about. I've never written anything again, but I loved writing before I had that disturbing experience.
In fact, although he doesn't know it Stephen King is the one who inspired me to feel like I could pursue a writing career. I wrote a letter to him in 1994 and one of his people wrote back. They gave me information on how to contact the right people.
They couldn't have known I was going to meet this guy.
I wish I still felt a passion to write something though, regardless of this one editor. Unfortunately, the fire is still barely glowing embers. My spark for wanting to write dimmed so much after the experience that I barely feel any excitement toward writing.