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About Medical Writing and Writers

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What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know

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Chapter 1 tells the stories of medicine’s great writers such as Hippocrates, Galen, Thomas Sydenham, and Sir William Osler, and classic medical written works such as Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine and Osler’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. It discusses how medical writing has changed over the years, the characteristics of successful medical writers and what constitutes good medical writing. Here the reader will learn the joys of medical writing, as well as some of the frustrations writers may face.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Robert B. Taylor MD (Professor, Professor Emeritus)

  2. Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Portland, OR, USA

    Robert B. Taylor MD (Professor, Professor Emeritus)

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Taylor, R.B. (2015). About Medical Writing and Writers. In: What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20264-8_1

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