Steven Orebaugh
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Steven Orebaugh

Literature & Fiction
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I am an anesthesiologist, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, a retired Captain from the Navy Medical Corps, and, most recently, an aspiring author. Most of my publications are related to my medical career: I have some 75 works in the medical literature, including peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters and review articles. In addition, I am the author of two medical textbooks, and have served as an editor or section editor for several more. In 2006, the Johns Hopkins University Press published my non-fiction book entitled “Understanding Anesthesia.” This patient education manual, which explains the subtleties of operative anesthesia and pain management, empowers patients to ask appropriate questions about their perioperative care. Six years ago, my first fiction work, “A Night in the Life,” which describes the plight of a disenchanted emergency physician in a decaying urban hospital, was published by the Pocol Press. My most recent publication, ‘The Stairs On Billy Buck Hill,’ is a 100,000 word literary novel that relates one physician’s travails as he progresses from the carefully controlled, recreational use of opioid pills, to the brazen theft of fentanyl from his patients in the operating room, a treacherous descent that leads to the destruction of his career, his social standing, and very nearly himself:
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