Medical Writers Good Practitioners

Moral intuition, good deaths and ordinary medical practitioners.

Debate continues over the acts/omissions doctrine, and over the concepts of duty and charity. Such issues inform the debate over the moral permissibility of euthanasia. Recent papers have emphasised moral sensitivity, medical intuitions, and sub-standard palliative care as some of the factors which should persuade us to regard euthanasia as morally unacceptable. I argue that these lines of argu...

Good Writers Need to be Good Listeners, Too

"Acromion" in ancient Greek medical writers.

"Acromion" is one of many anatomical terms derived from ancient Greek: it is a transliteration of the Greek word dxp ptov (akromion). For the modern anatomist "acromion" has a precise meaning: "The lateral extension of the spine of the scapula, forming the highest point of the shoulder."' For the ancient Greek writers after Hippocrates, however, the meaning of ezicpd'ltov was a matter of doubt ...

CAP Lung Cancer Medical Writers’ Circle

If you have browsed the American Cancer Society or National Cancer Institute’s web sites, or read some of the other articles written by the CAP Medical Writers, you will note the high incidence rate for lung cancer. Roughly 219,440 people were expected to be diagnosed in 2009 alone [1, 2]. This number exceeds that of breast (192,370), prostate (192,280) and colon & rectum cancers (146,970). An ...

European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed publications.

BACKGROUND Many papers in biomedical journals are drafted not by the named authors, but by professional medical writers working under the direction of those authors, usually funded by pharmaceutical companies. Although this practice can improve both the quality and speed of publications, it has attracted controversy as a result of concerns about the inappropriate influence of pharmaceutical com...