Publishing Your Medical Research Paper: What They Don't Teach You in Medical School

Daniel W Byrne

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, £16.95, pp 288

ISBN 0683 300 74

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Nothing makes my toes curl more than books that promise “200 expert tips” on a subject which your professors foolishly and inexplicably omitted from the curriculum when you were at university. Such books are almost invariably published in north America, written in a slack, simplistic, anti-academic style, and slip unconsciously into jargon when anything complex has to be explained. They tend to be replete with numbered or bulleted lists, clip …