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by geebee 4569 days ago
UCSF magazine recently published a series of interesting articles on this...

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/11/110281/harnessing-power-pre...

I know you asked specifically for examples from people who used CS in a medical career (rather than general advice), so I do apologize for not really answering your question and giving general advice. But you might want to look into data science. Coursera had a good data science course that will probably be repeated - it didn't have anything specifically about medicine, but you would get introduced to Python in a data science context. My guess is that you'd be able to use your domain knowledge in Medicine to take this in an interesting direction.