Writing as a doctor?

[ajo8064]

What different kinds of writing do doctors?
To whom do they write?
How much time per day/per week do they spend writing?
What are the differences between practicing privately and practicing in a hospital? Similarities?

Any help would be great!!!!!!

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[QuikClot]

Try the allopathic forum. This one is mostly premeds.

Chekov, the greatest short story writer in history, was a physician, as were many others remembered today mostly for their writing.

All doctors, and many other healthcare professionals, have to chart. This is virtually its own genre -- fiction, of course.

Doctors write books about being doctors, about health and medicine, such as the recent Complications, a book about medical errors, risk, and the process of learning, by a then-surgical resident.

Doctors who research write research papers and grant requests.

Doctors who teach compose lecture notes.

Doctors also write orders, which you would think would be a trival kind of composition, but isn't: brief, clear and specific physician orders are a notable accomplishment.

 

[Gavanshir]

LukeWhite who is a medstudent and a member on SDN is a writer. Maybe you can look him up.