The profession as a whole

A reader chooses here by how the profession itself is taken as the subject: who it is and how outsiders see it or fail to see it, studied through research on its own work, or seen beyond one country, internationally and country by country. It leaves one writer's own career to building a career, the associations writers belong to and how they are run to the professional community, and the footprint of a writer's own practice to sustainability in a writer's own practice.

• Who the profession is and how it is seen — whether its writers are scientists, how far it is a female profession, its history as a profession, and why outsiders rarely meet it and how writers are put in front of them
• Researching the profession itself — studying medical writing itself: why the profession must, measuring what the work produces and is worth, an evidence base for editorial advice, and designing a study or running a survey
• The medical writing profession beyond one country — the international market, its standards, common qualification and voice, and the profession country by country, from China, India, Italy, Japan and Portugal to the UK leaving the EU and where it is barely known