Why Doctors Should Write

If there are any doctors writing about stroke I haven't seen them. Why isn't your doctor writing about stroke?
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Doctors should shape the public’s understanding of medical care, not non-physician experts. If doctors do not write, others will.
Non-physician experts have interesting ideas about how MDs should work. Physician silence leaves these ideas unchallenged, untested by those the ideas impact.
Doctors should write books, articles, op eds, short stories, letters to the editor, memoirs, history, and more. Academic writing helps, but not enough. Academia freezes around a paradigm and forces writers into an igloo of peer review, editorial independence, and journalistic themes. (Academia research is inaccessible to laypersons)
Victors write history. Doctors used to rule supreme in medicine. That changed and, in a number of ways, patients are better for it.

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