Think Like a Medical Writer is here

TLAMW #1 is about one of the most fundamental skills in medical writing: reading a primary study properly. Not just pulling the key finding, not just checking who funded it — but knowing what each section of a paper actually gives you, which order to read it in, and how to hold what it shows against what gets reported.

This issue walks through a real paper, section by section, exactly as I would if I'd been commissioned to write about it. By the end, you'll have a framework you can apply every time you pick up a study — whether you're writing about it or just trying to figure out what it actually means.

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TLAMW publishes monthly on the first of the month. Each issue covers one topic in the craft, decision-making, or ethics of health and medical writing — from both the reader's and the writer's perspective.

It's designed for anyone who works with health information: journalists, healthcare professionals, comms professionals, content creators, and curious readers who want to do better than the headline.

Coming issues will cover things like: how medical writers deal with uncertainty, how medical writers might review AI-generated text, and more.

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If you're a paid subscriber, your first issue is waiting for you.

If you're a free subscriber, this is what a paid subscription gets you — this series, every month, plus my 5-Minute Health BS Detector, my Healthcare Professional Framework for Responsible Content Creation, early access to book chapters, and the full five-part Make Sense Health: For Writers series.

£7/month or £70/year. If you've been thinking about it, now's a good time.

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