To avoid more English professors, I interviewed a Doctor

Since I did not want to overburden the English department, and Professor Tolar Burton told us we could interview someone in our field, I went with my pre-med option and interviewed a local doctor. His take on writing was interesting because he said his most important writing was all done before he graduated. Some doctors write for journals where writing quality must be high, but his publications were mostly community education, so he feels he has to make alterations to his writings. The doctor said at first it was interesting because he had to write at a lower level than he was accustomed to in medical school. In his daily activities, he says he does not write very often. He mostly writes very short prescriptions and occasional letters to insurance companies. After we had been talking for a while, he remembered his dictation. Because he does not type it himself, he overlooks that aspect often. Although he only records the words in an understandable way, it is integral that it is clear because he may forget something important about the patient between visits, and if he ever was taken to court he would need the records to be properly written. The biggest surprise was that he feels that writing was not very important to his career, at least not on the everyday level.