Healthy Writing:  Before Taking a Word Trip

Healthy Writing: Before Taking a Word Trip

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH How to think about organizing the story is typically one of the most intimidating challenges we hear from writers. A good metaphor is to think about taking a car trip. We don’t just get in and drive aimlessly. Usually, we have a purpose around why...
Physician Relations: Liaisons as Strategic Message Channels

Physician Relations: Liaisons as Strategic Message Channels

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH A strong hospital physician liaison field outreach program achieves results precisely because it develops meaningful connectivity with an important audience of high influential voices. But, rarely is this channel of connectivity considered when a...
Healthy Writing: Framing the Story

Healthy Writing: Framing the Story

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH A key to success in writing, and reader or listener understanding, is always thinking in terms of creating a storytelling framework. Every story that we tell should have a beginning, middle, and end. Otherwise, we present snippets of information...
Healthy Writing: Beware of Verbing Nouns

Healthy Writing: Beware of Verbing Nouns

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH The television commercial dazzled us with the attributes of the SUV and proclaimed it as the “most awarded” vehicle in its class. The prominent headline on the front of the direct mail piece for the cruise line said it was the “most awarded.” As...
Healthy Writing: Embracing Punctuation as a Storytelling Tool

Healthy Writing: Embracing Punctuation as a Storytelling Tool

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH One day the newspaper editor received copy from a young journalist that was filled with long and rambling run-on sentences. Exasperated, the editor typed a page filled with dots, printed it, walked over and handed it to the budding writer. “These...