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Every physician should know how to prepare a paper for presentation at a medical meeting or publication in a medical journal. Perhaps the most convincing reason for this is an altruistic one. Since writing is the only means the medical profession has of universally disseminating knowledge concerning new therapeutic concepts, medical discoveries, or clinical experience, it is the moral obligation of every physician who has made an original scientific observation, or has formulated from his own experience a new medical theory, to publish it for the information of his colleagues, and the ultimate benefit of mankind. Another good motive for writing medical articles is a purely selfish one. In addition to the sheer joy derived from effective self-expression, the physician who prepares an article on a certain subject broadens his own knowledge of that subject, for, before he can present his material in a comprehensive manner, he must have a