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rendition switcher   Question: How do you balance bioethics,
psychiatry, and writing?  Jacob Appel: Sure.  I try to wake up
every morning and get several hours of writing done before I go
to the hospital, which can range between 5:00 in the morning and
7:00 in the morning.  So, I could, in theory, be writing as
early as 3:00.  Do a few hours of writing; see my patients
during the day.  Intermittently during the day I do some phone
interviews.  If I'm on call at the hospital I can write a
bioethics column and then I come home and do probably a couple
of hours of bioethics work in the evening.  Question: What does
your work as a psychiatrist and bioethicist entail?  Jacob
Appel: Sure.  Well, until recently, I was teaching bioethics at
Brown University and NYU.  So, there I would have my full class
of either undergraduate or g