A-Z of Medical Writing
BMJ 2001; 322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.010236b (Published 01 February 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;322:010236b- Sally-Ann S Price, fourth year medical student1
- 1University of Leeds
Not a list of great medical literature or a book on how to write it. This book will help you to write more effectively: for most medics, it is getting the message across that counts.
“Doctors. They are highly trained in medical matters; they are not usually highly trained in writing matters.” Over a period of years, we have each been trained to write ineffectively. In school, teachers impose rules of grammar-though it is now accept. able to boldly split an infinitive. As undergraduates we write stilted experimental …
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