I've mentioned previously that Common Sense Family Doctor started as the result of a science writing workshop taught by David Taylor at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland in the summer of 2009.
Earlier in the same year, I took a workshop in prose writing, taught by novelist Nancy Lemann. During this workshop, I wrote a piece titled "Failure to Progress" that chronicled the true story of my son's birth and the somewhat fictionalized impact of that experience on my career as a family physician and writer. I learned today that a revised version of "Failure to Progress" has won 3rd place in the Prose category of the 2010 Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) Creative Writing Awards. Pretty exciting stuff, since the last time I won an award for non-scientific writing was in high school!
After this piece is officially published at the FMEC Northeast Region Meeting at the end of October, I plan to post it on this blog.
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- kennylin
- I am a board-certified Family Physician and Public Health consultant practicing in Lancaster, PA. I am also Deputy Editor of the journal American Family Physician and teach residents and medical students at Lancaster General Health / Penn Medicine Family Medicine Residency program. I am paid to provide independent editorial and medical consulting services to the American Academy of Family Physicians, WebMD, and others. However, the content of this blog reflects my personal views only, and does not represent the views of any medical institution, publisher, or the AAFP.
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