Medical Writing: Write your Way to Six-Figures and Beyond

Medical writing is a broad term for a vast 3-billion-dollar industry. The industry is large enough to accommodate all types of medical writers and health care communicators who can contribute in various ways. For example, some medical writers assist with medical education, such as continuing medical education (CME), slide-decks, textbooks, needs assessments, and patient education. Other medical writers may work in medical journalism, research documents, medical marketing, regulatory document preparation, or scientific publication and presentations. This article discusses ways for pharmacists to enter this field and is an extension of the ASCP provided webinar, which can be accessed here.

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Chekhov's Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Stories

Slavic Review ◽

10.1017/slr.2021.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 79 (4) ◽

pp. 709-730

Author(s):

Matthew Mangold

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Environmental Psychology ◽

Medical Writing ◽

Early Writing ◽

Mental Life ◽

Case Histories ◽

Artistic Vision ◽

Literary Writing ◽

Core Issues

In light of the historical circumstances surrounding Anton Chekhov's early writing career and his own statements about the importance of medicine to it, there is surprisingly little scholarship on how medicine shaped his prose. What ideas was he introduced to in medical school and how did he apply them? Which of these drew his attention as he strove to articulate a new artistic vision? How did Chekhov draw on his experience with medicine to experiment with new themes and forms in his literary writing? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the aspects of medicine that had the most discernable influence on Chekhov as he developed his literary writing: hygiene, clinical medicine, and psychiatry. It argues that Chekhov engaged with core issues of medicine not only as a medical student who wrote case histories of his patients, but also as a groundbreaking writer. As he transcodes insights from the clinic into his prose, he creates a new conception of details that disclose relationships between settings and characters and an environmental psychology emerges across his medical writing and fiction. His stories envision relationships between physical and mental life with such originality that he becomes a new literary force not long after completing his medical education.

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Hippocrates and Early Greek Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734146.013.67 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 214-232

Author(s):

Elizabeth Craik

Keyword(s):

Vascular System ◽

Human Life ◽

Medical Writing ◽

Detailed Account ◽

Case Histories ◽

Hippocratic Corpus ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Universe ◽

Medical Writers

The chapter surveys early Greek medicine, primarily the works attributed to Hippocrates, but also evidence for other medical writing, such as that in the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus, and in the fragments of the pre-Socratics. It is noted that the fragments of Alcmaeon indicate experience in dissection of animals, that Diogenes of Apollonia gives a detailed account of the vascular system, and that Plato has an extensive biomedical section in Timaeus. In general, early medical writers show concern with the relation of microcosm to macrocosm and of human life to the universe; also, with opposing principles (hot and cold, wet and dry, thick and thin, rare and dense) such that health is commonly seen in terms of bodily balance and avoidance of excess. The seventy or so works of the Hippocratic corpus cover a wide range of subjects, notably prognostic signs, surgery, gynecology, case histories and aphoristics lore.

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