Feature|Videos|October 12, 2026

Publishing Starts in the Clinic

How clinicians can turn everyday observations into publishable research: spotting the gap, choosing the right paper type, and drafting a first manuscript.

Many clinicians assume that publishing requires a large, sophisticated trial. It does not. Most research begins with the kind of observation that happens in an ordinary clinic week: an unusual symptom or cluster of symptoms, an unexpected response to a therapy, a new program for managing symptoms, or a treatment studied in another disease and applied to the people you see every day.

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