Notes

So You Want to Write an Essay

Here are some guidelines for you.

For starters read this: George Orwell on Effective Writing.

Commentaries provoke and enlighten. But also provide an opportunity to come across as very serious, to be mischievous, to alert and inform readers and to provide some diversion from the day to day earnestness of healthcare policy and practice. But make a point. Selected essay writers we feature do this well. Don’t polarize. Analyze. Here at Longwoods we might ask: is it timely, well argued, fresh, clear and news worthy?

(This is the kind of language used by “op ed” editors of the Globe and Mail. I’ve borrowed bits and pieces.)

 

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Spotlight

Printing a human kidney

Anthony Atala at Ted Talks

Events

Breakfast with the Chiefs - Thursday, May 30, 2013, AB

De-mystifying the Mystique of Intermountain Healthcare

Marc Probst

 

Breakfast with the Chiefs - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - Toronto, ON

State of the Transformation

Helen Angus and Matthew Anderson

 

 


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