Contributor Guidelines

THCB welcomes contributions from readers.  I often publish pieces and am happy to allow contributors to either use their own name, or use a pseudonym.  If you want to use a pseudonym I need to know who you are, but I will of course keep that information in confidence.  I always make clear when it's my writing or that of a contributor both by giving a by-line in the title and by using indentation and different fonts.  Regular readers will see this automatically, I hope.

There are only a few groundrules for contributors.  The topic has to be on some aspect of health care that should be of interest to THCB readers, but as most contributors are readers that's usually assumed. If you are contributing please save your piece in .txt or .rtf format.  Using Word causes a lot of translation problems with its special characters, and just sending it in an email also often needs a lot of work on reformatting at this end.  I try to edit for accuracy and will make the odd content suggestion, or even slight change to fit the flow of an overall article, but please remember to spell check your pieces first.

Finally, although I print much of what I'm sent, THCB of course retains editorial control.  I won't publish anything without asking (or telling) you, but I assume that anything I'm emailed is fair game.  Just use common sense and of course if you expressly do NOT want something published please tell me. And I'm not going into legalities about copyright, who owns what, and all that guff -- but I'll reserve the right to say more about that if in some happy future day this site ever starts adding to my bank account rather than subtracting from it!