Jan Greene - Freelance writer and journalist
About me:
I’m a freelance writer with a newspaper reporting background. I’ve been a reporter and writer for more than 20 years. These days I do a lot of magazine writing, but I also write brochures for nonprofits. I’ve written a couple of books, on such diverse topics as pesticide regulation and interventional radiology. Mostly I write about healthcare, consumer health and medical science. In particular, I’m interested in ways to help consumers understand our crazy, mixed-up healthcare system.
Some of my recent projects have:
–Told readers of the Los Angeles Times that when looking for a new doctor, consumers should take into consideration how the practice is run - whether it’s computerized, offers flexible hours for appointments and uses scientific evidence to guide care.
–Explored the generation gap that’s creating on-the-job tension between older and younger nurses for a hospital trade magazine.
–Described new scientific research comparing how well two different drugs take on antibiotic-resistant staph infections, for a hospital pharmacists’ newsletter.
–Told the story of the father of interventional radiology, a colorful figure who, in the 1960s, inserted a catheter all the way to his own heart to prove to the shocked physician audience that it could really be done, for a book chronicling the history of the Dotter Interventional Institute.
–Displayed my neurotic maternal tendencies to the world in my monthly column for a local newspaper. Titled A Mom’s Life,the column regularly revealed details of my eight-year-old daughter’s life that she will someday find highly embarrassing.
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