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April 3, 2006
Gawande, again
Atul Gawande has a Perspective artice in the 23 March edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. This entry's a bit late, but I actually wrote it in my notebook first. And the blog is looking a bit sparce here. Gawande's article is about the Morales deathrow case in California. The ruling came on 14 February that Michael Morales could be executed only with the supervision of an anesthesiologist. 37 days later Gawande has 6000 words. That eight pages of ten point font. And you know he cut some out. If you write, you know somebody, even the author, did some editing. The article follows a clear progression, and is well-ordered, though the only demarcations are five horizontal rules: introduction with background—first vignette—second—third and fourth—fifth—conclusion or call to action (I'm not sure which). 6000 words.
About the same time Tulane's History of Medicine Society announced its annual essay contest. I'm going to interview Dr Weisberg on Wednesday. The essay is due on 1 May.
Posted by Niels Olson at April 3, 2006 11:07 PM
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