About Nancy Yanes-Hoffman, THE WRITING DOCTOR

Medical writer, editor, co-author, collaborator, reviewer, health care strategist in doctor-patient communication to produce better patient adherence for better outcomes, and specialist in preventive health care and diet advice, Nancy Yanes-Hoffman calls herself, "Nancy the Health Care Nag."  As The Writing Doctor, she doctors the writing of physicians, other medical professionals, and pharmaceutical companies to produce readable, memorable, publishable medical writing. 

Do you need academic medical writing for peer-reviewed journals, medical textbooks, or medical web sites for health care professionals?  Do you want good, clear patient education materials?  Are you looking to co-author articles for popular magazines and books wanting explanations of screening, diagnosis, or treatment of disease?  Nancy Yanes-Hoffman is the medical writer who can collaborate with you in writing, co-authoring , rewriting, revising, editing, developing web content, establishing e-zine health education sites, and lectures for conferences.  The Queen of Deadline Meeters, she will cross the finish line ahead of all those miserable deadlines you hate so much.. 

This is the Satisfaction Site. Working with me, you will communicate better with medical colleagues, referrers, and patients.  Your care will satisfy your patients even more than it does now.  Your professional life as a physician will gratify you much more for your patients will adhere to your recommendations.  Your referrers will send you more work.  Your family will delight in the extra time you can spend with them. As your co-author, I will be doing the research you need and the medical writing that you, your institution, and your patients want from you..   . 

As THE WRITING DOCTOR, I help physicians say what they mean to achieve the best medical outcomes possible. Carefully tailored, simple and practical strategies will assist doctors and other health care professionals explain the ins and outs of medical problems better to patients and medical colleagues.  Patients who understand their disease, its procedures, and its treatment, will be much less likely to pocket-veto their prescriptions.  Patients who can partner with their physicians in their medical care are far more likely to adhere to medical recommendations.  If your reports to referrers are clear, your medical colleagues will respect you more.  Careful reports to referrers make sure that patients don't get lost between the cracks.. 

My professional career has been dedicated to partnering with physicians, other health-care professionals, pharmaceutical houses, and managed care organizations in achieving better medical writing, communication, and relationships with medical colleagues and patients.   

Everyone involved in the medical enterprise needs Yanes-Hoffman's help in communicating and partnering with each other. 

• Many medical professionals would “rather have a root canal than write an article for a peer-reviewed journal”--even though their credentials and promotions are dependent on writing such articles. 

• Many physicians don’t have the time to explain all the fine points of a disease and its treatment to patients.  Without this knowledge, patients have trouble coping with disease.  Lacking information and explanations, patients often do not adhere to medical advice and pocket-veto their prescriptions.

• Many subspecialists do not convey the nuances of their findings to referring physicians.   But without detailed information from the subspecialist, many referring physicians feel as though the ball has been tossed back in their court and the game has been called because of rain. 

• Even though someday all of us will have to consult a physician for medical problems that beleaguer us, many patients don’t know how to go to the doctor and gain the most help from the time allotted for their medical visit.

NYH, THE WRITING DOCTOR, can help medical professionals and patients meet on common ground and partner together for the best available medical outcomes.

As an international lecturer, Nancy Yanes-Hoffman speaks at medical meetings from Oxford to Hong Kong, from Amsterdam to Seoul.  Her lectures emphasize better communication among medical colleagues so that subspecialties and referring physicians can understand each other and work better together.  She stresses partnering in decision-making between physicians and patients, listening to each other's agendas, so that patients can cope better with chronic and acute conditions, adhere to medical advice, and most of all, work to achieve the best outcomes possible.

Nancy Yanes-Hoffman’s books include: Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience,
Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis, and Genetics for the Non-Geneticist Physician.

Yanes-Hoffman has written more than 80 articles on medical and health-care subjects for such peer-reviewed journals as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the New England Journal of Medicine, Radiology, the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), and the American Journal of Managed Care.  As a literary critic, reviewer, journalist, essayist, and humanist, she has also published widely in non-medical publications, both scholarly and popular.

As a college professor, Yanes-Hoffman's specialties are medical and technical writing, twentieth-century American literature, and the thorny nature of relationships in literature and life, whether they are relationships between men and women, the old and the young, parents and children, physicians and patients, referring physicians and subspecialists.

Nancy Yanes-Hoffman has appeared on many American television and radio programs including stints with Larry King, Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning, America, NPR, and CNN, as well as many major programs in Canada, South Africa, and Europe.  See Curriculum Vitae for more details.

                                   copyright 2006 Nancy Yanes-Hoffman