Dr. Regina Phillips balances a busy medical career with another delicate endeavor that demands precision, adherence to protocols and undivided attention: She serves afternoon tea in the British tradition. And though she never meant it for public perusal, she recently wrote a book to guide others in the practice that has provided her much delight and many hours of relaxation. 

“I just wondered if I could actually write a book. It has been a bucket list item of mine. So, I was taking a writing class, to challenge my left brain with a right brain activity,” said Phillips, a physician for 32 years, who since 2016, has served the Lake Martin community as medical director at Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Russell Medical. “The class assignment was to write a 5,000 word book. Most people in the class were writing travel logs, but I didn’t want to write about travel.”