Writing by Candace Cooley, a Bibliography

Candace Cooley writes educational pieces for lay readers on Medium, Blogger and WordPress, and this bibliography gathers every published piece in one list, in date order. Health writing for the public is judged by the evidence behind it. Testing Treatments interactive, which collects lessons on judging health claims, lists among its key concepts that anecdotes are unreliable evidence and that newer is not necessarily better, and points readers to a MedlinePlus tutorial on evaluating health information found on the internet.¹ Reading of this kind feeds the decisions made at a visit, which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality describes as shared decision making: a collaborative process in which patients and clinicians decide together, drawing on evidence, the care team’s experience and the patient’s own values, goals and circumstances.²

Each item below gives the title, channel and date of a piece and links to the original. Where a piece has a reference entry on this site, the entry retells what the piece argues, attributed to the author, without reprinting it or adding claims it does not make. New pieces join the list as they are published, and the list is also available as an RSS feed.