Transplanting a Seattleite

My mother met Nourse once at a local writers' conference, and said he seemed surprised that she regretted leaving medicine (it would have been right around the time that she started facing the fact that she likely wasn't going back). He apparently liked being a writer better. I remember reading a couple of his children's sf books and not being terribly enthralled. I suspect they were Heinlein-juveniles-and-water.

I recall being interested/appalled by his fictionalized memoir about Virginia Mason, Intern, by Doctor X. Apparently the pseudonyms were quite obvious if you knew the people, e.g., Dr. Pilloe became Dr. Case, or perhaps vice versa, I forget. I don't remember anything specifically anti-vax, but it was a long time ago. (My mother never worked there but I expect she knew some of the people who did. Two of my sisters worked in the ER as secretaries in the 1970s, when a lot of the same people were still there.)