How to Write a Book Chapter: Skip the History, the Histrionics, and the Howevers

Book publications are part of the professional life of an academic physician. Invitations to submit chapters come from colleagues and from prestigious publishing companies, and contributing to a major medical book is a means to transmit contemporary information to the medical community. For effective communication, physicians must write clearly. For a book chapter to be useful to the reader, it must present the topic in a manner that is both concise and compelling.