Medical Writing A Prescription for Clarity [Paperback]

Significantly expanded and updated, this is an invaluable handbook for anyone seeking to improve their written communication of medical content.Whether you are writing a simple clinical report or thesis, supervising others, or just want to develop your skills in effective written communication, this book is the ideal guide and reference. This new and expanded edition of this invaluable handbook retains the clear, simple and precise style popular with readers.Whether you are writing a simple clinical report or thesis, supervising others, or just want to develop your skills in effective written communication, this book is the ideal guide and reference. This new and expanded edition of this invaluable handbook retains the clear, simple and precise style popular with readers.Effective communication is the ultimate, but often daunting, purpose of any medical research or review. This book provides the practical information necessary to turn first drafts into concise, unambiguous text, without loss of individuality. Written by a consultant anaesthetist and two experienced medical editors, all sympathetic to the problems and needs of medical writers, the book deals with the basic craft of writing, from choosing the best word or phrase to essential grammar. This expanded fourth edition includes many more words better replaced, and deals explicitly with the problems of writers whose first language is not English. Whether you are writing a simple clinical report or a thesis, supervising others, running a course on medical or scientific writing, or just want to develop your skills in written communication, this book is the ideal guide and reference. Clear, simple and precise, and illustrated with apt cartoons, this is an invaluable handbook.Foreword Tim Albert; Preface; Part I. Problem: The Illness: 1. Introduction; 2. The malaise of medical manuscripts; 3. The difficulties of English as an additional language (EAL); Part II. Solution: Symptomatic Relief: 4. Technology, changlsã