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What Writers Say About Writing

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This chapter tells some of the insights that writers have given us into their work. Here are the comments of Anton Chekov, Arthur E. Hertzler, Alexander Fleming, and William Carlos Williams—all both physicians and writers. What was Wilder Penfield’s opinion of the influence of medical textbooks? How does Richard Selzer explain why surgeons write? And what do some professional medical writers have to say about medical writing?

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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). What Writers Say About Writing. In: What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20264-8_9

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