
Dr. Erica N. Harris, MD, MSc
Author
Erica is a physician, healthcare leader, and author whose work bridges clinical medicine, institutional systems, and narrative storytelling. Trained in anesthesiology , she has authored multiple medical chapters and scholarly articles published in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, with a focus on patient safety and clinical decision-making. She has a commitment to equity in health disparities, particularly affecting maternal health in women of color.
In addition to her clinical and academic work, Erica has pursued formal training in the creative industries through coursework at UCLA Extension in the Management and Business of Entertainment, including study in television writing and development. Her interdisciplinary background informs a body of literary and screen work that explores medicine, power, memory, and institutional accountability.
Erica is the creator of multiple narrative projects spanning novels, film, and television. Her storytelling draws on real clinical environments to examine the quiet moral decisions that shape both individual lives and the systems designed to protect them.
Originally from Chicago, she now resides in Los Angeles, where she continues to develop new literary and screen projects alongside her ongoing engagement within the healthcare sector.

THE OATH
Debut Novel
Upmarket Medical Thriller
The Oath is an upmarket psychological suspense novel set within the quiet moral machinery of a modern hospital. After a near fatal complication during a routine surgery involving his young son exposes a devastating fracture inside his family, a well-respected anesthesiologist makes a private decision to protect what remains. That silence draws him deeper into an institutional ecosystem where discretion, reputation, and clinical authority quietly shape truth. As small, defensible deviations in patient care begin to attract attention, the boundary between professional judgment and deliberate harm erodes, forcing a reckoning with what the system is designed to protect and what it is willing to conceal.


