What I do best:

• Writing news stories from medical journals, meetings, and enterprise reporting.
  
• Calling doctors, nurses, scientists, CEOs, marketing VPs, or lawyers, and getting them to tell me, in simple English, what they think, what they do, and what it means to my readers.
  
• Interviewing. I am an excellent interviewer, particularly when I have to get an answer on an important, complicated scientific controversy. I learned how to do it from the Apology of Socrates.
  

I wrote the best story ever written on text search engines.

Here's my AMWA directory listing with a structured list of my specialties and publications.

I publish a free email newsletter for about 600 medical writers, of meeting announcements, meeting reports, and job tips. I've used the Internet to develop a network that includes some of the best medical writers in the world. I'm happy to pass on your job offers to them.

I also help beginners write medical stories. I seem to be a good teacher. One of my proteges had a book on the New York Times best-seller list for months.

Yes, I make mistakes.

Medical writing includes:

2003

Typical story: Cushing's disease one of hardest to diagnose

2000-
2001

1996-
present

One of my specialties is molecular biology. Here is an introductory explanation and here are some stories.

1998-
1999

I reported on studies like the AHCPR report comparing newer and older antidepressive drugs, and evaluated their scientific validity. I learned about outcomes research and evidence-based medicine. I did a better job than the New York Times. Here's why. I learned a lot about reading medical literature critically from the editor of The Lancet at a Columbia Journalism School conference.

1994-
1995

Typical story: "Early surgery or medication for glaucoma?"

1987-
1992

I wrote about surgical techniques, new technology, safety, companies, business and administration.

Typical stories: "Laser Drape Fires: How Much of a Risk?" "LMSN Guide to buying a CO2 laser: Price and service, not technology, are keys"

1986-
1993

Specialty: Computers in small primary practices. Also: AIDS, cardiology, cancer, biotech, STDs, malpractice and right to die.

Typical stories: "Computer tracks aging receivables," "Combination curbs condylomas."

1983-
1986

My stories followed the product development cycle--patents, financing, R&D, manufacturing and marketing.

Typical story: "Dupont buys IL-1 [interleukin-1] Technology"

Other medical magazines include:

Business, legal and computer writing includes:

1990-
1994

I wrote the best story ever written on text search programs: Text retrieval: How to use and abuse search programs. If you know of a better story, let me know. Also in that series: Data bases made easy--or hard, and Streamlining Discovery with Computers

1990-
1992

1988-
1990