In retirement from clinical medicine (cardiac electrophysiology), Dr. Swiryn continues teaching, and occasionally performs in coffeehouses and bars as a singer-songwriter. He is working on a memoir of his time in medicine called “Rhythms and Blues.” “The Unicycle,” a short story awarded Special Mention by the editors of Pushcart XL, 2016 is his only publication (in The Bellevue Literary Review) of fiction.
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