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Student Reviews

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
  1. Sally-Ann S Price, fourth year medical student1
  1. 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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