Why Should Clinicians Publish?

Often, in personal conversations, we hear several reasons including time, resources, and usefulness of published reports and of research itself for the lack of interest by clinicians to publish scientific manuscripts. The number of patients treated is considered a more useful indicator of clinical c...

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Main Author: Rijo Mathew Choorakuttil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1692875
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description Often, in personal conversations, we hear several reasons including time, resources, and usefulness of published reports and of research itself for the lack of interest by clinicians to publish scientific manuscripts. The number of patients treated is considered a more useful indicator of clinical care acumen than the number of scientific manuscripts published. I argue that publishing a scientific manuscript that results from a research study is an integral part of clinical medicine and that lack of publishing renders clinical care incomplete.
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spelling doaj.art-adf6d9409dfb42a59ac7f64abbbeecb22022-12-21T18:57:49ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology2581-91782018-12-01010107507710.1055/s-0039-1692875Why Should Clinicians Publish?Rijo Mathew Choorakuttil0Research Action Group of AMMA Education Research Foundation, AMMA Center for Preventive and Diagnostic Medicine, Kochi, Kerala, IndiaOften, in personal conversations, we hear several reasons including time, resources, and usefulness of published reports and of research itself for the lack of interest by clinicians to publish scientific manuscripts. The number of patients treated is considered a more useful indicator of clinical care acumen than the number of scientific manuscripts published. I argue that publishing a scientific manuscript that results from a research study is an integral part of clinical medicine and that lack of publishing renders clinical care incomplete.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1692875keywordsresearchmanuscriptpublishing
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