Maryland Emergency Room

A huge sense of relief washed over Brad Chesivoir when a Maryland emergency room doctor told him the good news: He had not suffered a heart attack or a stroke, as he had feared. Instead he was being discharged with a diagnosis of headache, although doctors weren't sure of its cause.

Nadia Hashimi,a pediatrician from Potomac, Maryland, became a novelist almost as an afterthought.

A huge sense of relief washed over Brad Chesivoir when a Maryland emergency room doctor told him the good news: He had not suffered a heart attack or a stroke, as he had feared. Instead he was being discharged with a diagnosis of headache, although doctors weren't sure of its cause.

Nadia Hashimi,a pediatrician from Potomac, Maryland, became a novelist almost as an afterthought.