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12 Getting Your Writing Published

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Today, more than a century and a half after Holmes penned the words quoted above, we no longer use lead type. Publishing today is somehow all online and computerized, with even the fate of printed pages containing actual ink becoming a question for the future. And thus, while we may not develop classical “lead-poisoning” today, some of us will “suffer the indulgence” to write described by Holmes, and long to see our words published, whether on paper or on the Web.

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Taylor, R.B. (2012). 12 Getting Your Writing Published. In: Medical Writing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8234-6_12

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