Medicine
I've mentioned previously that Common Sense Family Doctor started as the result of a science writing workshop taught by David Taylor at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland in the summer of 2009.
Earlier in the same year, I took a workshop in prose writing, taught by novelist Nancy Lemann. During this workshop, I wrote a piece titled "Failure to Progress" that chronicled the true story of my son's birth and the somewhat fictionalized impact of that experience on my career as a family physician and writer. I learned today that a revised version of "Failure to Progress" has won 3rd place in the Prose category of the 2010 Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) Creative Writing Awards. Pretty exciting stuff, since the last time I won an award for non-scientific writing was in high school!
After this piece is officially published at the FMEC Northeast Region Meeting at the end of October, I plan to post it on this blog.
- "all In" As Common Sense Family Doctor Turns Five
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- One Month Until The Fmec Northeast Region Meeting
For those of you who are family physicians or teach family physicians-in-training, I want to make sure you're aware of the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) and their upcoming Northeast Region meeting ("Family Medicine Innovations: Blueprints...
- From One Blog To Three
As Common Sense Family Doctor approaches its first anniversary, I am pleased to announce that I will soon be writing and moderating two new blogs that you are more than welcome to visit. Common Sense MD, hosted by the U.K.'s Family Health Guide, offers...
- Guest Blog: Writing Poems On Antidepressants
Nikki Moustaki is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry and is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has taught at New York University, Indiana University, and the New School. The following poem was first...
- Physicians And Storytelling, Part I
In 2003, while in my second year of family medicine residency, I wrote a personal statement for a leadership award that described the intertwining of my writing and doctoring ambitions into the occupation of a "physician-storyteller." I didn't win...
Medicine
Writing awards
I've mentioned previously that Common Sense Family Doctor started as the result of a science writing workshop taught by David Taylor at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland in the summer of 2009.
Earlier in the same year, I took a workshop in prose writing, taught by novelist Nancy Lemann. During this workshop, I wrote a piece titled "Failure to Progress" that chronicled the true story of my son's birth and the somewhat fictionalized impact of that experience on my career as a family physician and writer. I learned today that a revised version of "Failure to Progress" has won 3rd place in the Prose category of the 2010 Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) Creative Writing Awards. Pretty exciting stuff, since the last time I won an award for non-scientific writing was in high school!
After this piece is officially published at the FMEC Northeast Region Meeting at the end of October, I plan to post it on this blog.
- "all In" As Common Sense Family Doctor Turns Five
Last summer around this time, I announced that I had started writing a book titled Conservative Medicine and elaborated on my ambitious book proposal in a series of blog posts. It's now a year later, but, sad to say, I haven't made much progress....
- One Month Until The Fmec Northeast Region Meeting
For those of you who are family physicians or teach family physicians-in-training, I want to make sure you're aware of the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) and their upcoming Northeast Region meeting ("Family Medicine Innovations: Blueprints...
- From One Blog To Three
As Common Sense Family Doctor approaches its first anniversary, I am pleased to announce that I will soon be writing and moderating two new blogs that you are more than welcome to visit. Common Sense MD, hosted by the U.K.'s Family Health Guide, offers...
- Guest Blog: Writing Poems On Antidepressants
Nikki Moustaki is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry and is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has taught at New York University, Indiana University, and the New School. The following poem was first...
- Physicians And Storytelling, Part I
In 2003, while in my second year of family medicine residency, I wrote a personal statement for a leadership award that described the intertwining of my writing and doctoring ambitions into the occupation of a "physician-storyteller." I didn't win...