Lauren W.

I earned a B.S. in Microbiology, then an M.D. When I left the clinical practice of family medicine in 2019, I became a medical writer and editor. Since 2022, I'm also a board-certified patient advocate (BCPA), learn more about advocacy from the special report from CHCAO I got to help create! (link in portfolio section or try your favorite search engine.) Special Skills (my superpowers) - meticulous research (of peer-reviewed literature on PubMed, your own medical records, or anything else.) - translating medical jargon to patient (lay) audiences - improving nonfiction book-length manuscripts (in terms of structure, organization, tone, etc.) - enjoying reading stacks of medical records with the goal of explaining the "clinical" story to the patient/family and troubleshooting communication issues - catching mistakes in AMA style (commas, yes, but also acronyms, clarity, and more) - fact-checking. I have a nose for undersourced medical facts and won't let them stand - thinking about how the US medical education system could educate and serve doctors (and everyone else in healthcare) better