title: [Medical writing and scientific style].
abstract: I contrast here the qualities of scientific style with the actual vices of medical writing. Besides, the grammatical tense and the concept of author in scientific literature are also briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: División de Genética, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Jalisco.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rivera
mesh_terms: D008800:Mexico; D011643:Publishing; D014956:Writing