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Jessica Shadoian |
Having
forsaken the Academy, Jessica Shadoian is currently working as an orthopaedic medical editor in Seattle,
Washington. Multiple and wildly broken bones are her specialty. She spends her
time scrubbed-in witnessing surgeries, then detailing the research and
methodology behind the procedures. “I love it,” she says. “The gore of the
grammar is almost as appalling as the gore down in the operating room, but I
can now, in theory, perform a multitude of surgical procedures, from internal
fixations to amputations. Maybe not in practice, though.” She loves being on
the cutting edge of medical research—editing and publishing the findings that
shape the future of medical technology. She recently secured grant funding and
began a streaming web-video project sponsored by the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). “It is an obliquely-angled way to make use of my
PhD specialization in film, but has worked out amazingly’, she says. ‘Sometimes
I have to stop, wipe off the blood and marvel at how cool my job is.”
In her free time, Jessica continues training horses, teaching
aerobics and trying to adapt to the laid-back West Coast attitude.
When we asked her about that, she said, “It's a far cry from
Lafayette.” “They call crawfish 'crayfish', and the closest most anyone here
has come to Louisiana is the Ya Ya Sisterhood. I'm nostalgic for my
Thursday night reading series, for blowpops at Follett's, for night-time runs
around Girard Park squabbling over the decisions Edna Pontellier made.”
An Excerpt from
Jessica Shaoian’s Fiction
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