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Writing High-Quality Medical Publications: A User's Manual

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About Writing High-Quality Medical Publications: A User's

Product Description The imperative to "publish and not perish" has never been more compelling. Yet millions of manuscripts are prepared each year without a clear path to publication by a peer-reviewed medical journal. Enter "The Gutkin Manual." Drawing from the author's distinguished, nearly 30-year career, this comprehensive and supportive guide helps to get your paper accepted―and by the journal of first choice. Elucidating pivotal principles of quality, and biostatistics, and informed by the belief that your writing can be engaging, elegant, and memorable―no matter how technical and complex the subject matter, this volume can be your trustworthy companion as you seek to enhance both the structure and substance of your manuscripts. Review "[A] treasure that offers guidance to help scientific communicators at virtually any skill level elevate their games... This text should be a core component of graduate- and medical-school curricula. I recommend [it]  without hesitation as an essential guide and reference text for any clinician or scientist and his or her institution, collaborators, and students." –Sara B.Glickstein, PhD, Preventive Medicine 2020;134:106037 "This is an excellent resource for those in the field of medical editing/medical writing who seek to publish high quality papers and textbooks. The author's background reflects his extensive knowledge and expertise in this field. {...} This book provides a medical writer's perspective and it contains numerous pearls for novice and veteran writers alike. I hope that every library shelf offers this treasure for aspiring writers to find." Klara K Papp, PhD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The "Gutkin Manual"-- setting the standard for medical writing Everything about Writing High-Quality Medical Publications raises the bar on what a user’s guide should be. It's not only a compendium of the nitty-gritty, but a navigation aide to the medical writer's highest mission. The author, Stephen W. Gutkin, reaches for the North Star of professionalism here. . .and wants his readers to find their way there as well. Here’s a writer taking you beyond the perfunctory and the merely informational--though you get an array of helpful organizational tools and checklists to optimize manuscript quality and useful reference material. But, in ways rarely found, this eponymous “Gutkin Manual” gives both the novice and veteran medical writer crucial insights on a writer's first principle: to write convincingly with utmost credibility. It’s an “art and science,” as Gutkin puts it, and he tours us through an interesting professional landscape―from how to handle the basics of submitting a paper to a peer-reviewed journal to organizing a study and testing an hypothesis to keeping the integrity of the process in an especially-fraught and ruthlessly competitive commercial enterprise with many points-of-view to juggle. Gutkin might suggest I leave out this phrase at the end of this sentence, which borders on the banal, but one thing is true: A writer’s manual inevitably calls upon a reviewer to say a thing or two about the writing. Gutkin―witty, deft, wielding an eclectic vocabulary―holds his readers’ attention with linguistic legerdemain. He’s masterly on so many topics―from complex biostatistical tests to ethical transparency. He's careful to include choice insights into the gravitas of clarity. Just appreciate this deceptively simple question he asks of his readers in his section on conclusions: What is the single statement that will convey the most lasting meaning? We can also watch over Gutkin's shoulder as he re-writes prolix selections from published works, showing you the importance of keeping that editing scalpel close at hand. And, finally, the book is peppered with quotable nuggets he’s collected over the years that, frankly, make enjoyment one of this book's key attributes―beyond its status as (likely) the best existing overview to medical writing. You just don’t