Medical Writing: A Prescription for Clarity (Paperback)

~ Neville W. Goodman (Author), Martin B. Edwards (Author), Andy Black (Illustrator)
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'Read this book, and make sure your students do ...' British Journal of Psychiatry '... enough people bought the first edition to make the publishers think that a second one was profitable, and that means that Goodman and Edwards must be helping a lot of people.' The Author 'It is not the first, but in my opinion the best book in this field.' Zoltan Szabo, MD PhD Consultant Anesthetist, University Hospital in Linkoping, Sweden

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'Read this book, and make sure your students do ...' British Journal of Psychiatry

'... enough people bought the first edition to make the publishers think that a second one was profitable, and that means that Goodman and Edwards must be helping a lot of people.' The Author

'It is not the first, but in my opinion the best book in this field.' Zoltán Szabó, MD PhD Consultant Anesthetist, University Hospital in Linköping, Sweden

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Product Details

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 3 edition (November 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521858577
• ISBN-13: 978-0521858571
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #848,611 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful, and you don't have to actually be a medical writer, March 2, 2007

By	Michael LaRocca "http://www.chinarice.org" (Chiang Mai, Thailand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Medical Writing: A Prescription for Clarity (Paperback)

It gets off to a good start, albeit a somewhat wordy one, about the value of clear thinking and clear writing. This is followed by lists of misspelled words, misused words, unnecessary words, imprecise words... Get the idea? Since I don't suffer from any of these symptoms, an overlong list of treatments had the unintended effect of curing my insomnia.

I apologize to the authors, whose effort is to be commended, but I don't recommend reading this cover-to-cover any more than I would recommend reading an encyclopedia or dictionary that way. Dip in as needed to save yourself hours of Googling, perhaps. I will, however, use what they had to say about Watson and Crick, who wrote about their Nobel-winning research on the nature of DNA with stunning simplicity and clarity.