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Medical Writer Turned Patient: Tips on Empathy in Content

Aha Media Group writer Teri Cettina switched roles, from health copywriter to patient, when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Teri reached the end of her battle with cancer in July 2022. We are honored to carry her legacy of empathy forward.  When the healthcare writer becomes the reader I had just finished…

Writing About Addiction with Care: 5 Tips

If you’re still writing about “drug addicts,” “alcoholics” and “substance abuse problems,” it’s time for a refresh. Healthcare writers need to write about substance use disorders with the same support, empathy and sensitivity we use for those with cancer or heart disease: We’ve learned a lot about the disease in the last 60 years, but…

Advice for writing about mental health

Mental Health Content: 5 Tips to Engage Your Audience

Your audience goes beyond the 1 in 5 Americans who experience mental illness each year — it includes their caregivers, family and friends as well. As those people search for support and answers, you want to be there with the help they need. As you prioritize your content, consider these 5 tips for creating and…

Less is More: How to Write Concisely

Let’s say you want to become a more succinct writer. You search for something like “how to write more concisely” and open the first 2 search results (below ads, of course).

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8 Tips for Writing Video Scripts That Captivate

A career switch can be daunting. But that’s what I found myself doing in 2015, after the birth of my first child. I had been working at my local ABC-affiliate since graduating from college – writing and producing television news stories about my community and healthcare. But now I was switching to writing web content….

9 Ways to Boost Your Healthcare Email Open Rate

I get hundreds of emails every day – so marketing emails have to be really catchy to get my attention. (Unicorn emojis or free product offers are just not going to cut it). The reality is, most often I’m batch-deleting them and moving on to emails that matter to me. When we send marketing emails,…

Tips for writing bios that don't bore.

5 Tips to Writing Amazing Physician Bios

It’s one of our most challenging jobs: How do we capture the essence of a treating physician while conveying expertise, experience and most of all trust? At Aha Media Group, we’ve been writing physician bios for 10 years. We polled our writers to better understand their approach to these projects. The overwhelming theme? The importance of humanizing your doctors. We’ll show you how we make this happen.

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5 Great Health Insurance Company Blogs

Health insurance companies are helping their clients live healthier lives by using a mix of free screenings, wearable technology and education to help clients live better lives. Providers are using insurance blogs to inform consumers with juicy information that keeps them educated, aware and engaged. Here are some insurance blogs that do a good job…

Do You Want to Steal Our Online Writing Process?

We’re all looking for the magic pill that will turn our content into conversion fuel for our products and services. There’s no magic unicorn or secret formula that will make your content conversion perfect every time. But, you knew that already. There are best practices that you should follow every single time you write content….

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Healthcare Email Subject Lines: Best Practices and Examples

We know what it’s like: You pour your heart and soul into writing the perfect email, but run out of time toward the end and slap on a “good enough” subject line as an afterthought.