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 few books; two were histories of pioneering medical groups and another was about pesticide regulation. 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.
–Won second place in the national awards competition of the Association of Health Care Journalists (trade publication category) for a story in Trustee magazine about the financial troubles of small hospitals.
–Wrote in detail about the evolving health care reform legislation wending its way through Congress for an organization advocating for expanded, affordable health coverage.
–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 nine-year-old daughter’s life that she will someday find highly embarrassing.
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