A Book for Doctors Who Have No Time to Write
You already explain the same things to patients every day. Dictate turns those explanations into a book in your voice, from phone interviews, without taking you out of clinic.
Dictate is a book-writing service for physicians and other clinicians. You talk with an AI interviewer by phone for up to 15 hours; we write a full nonfiction book from your own words, in your voice. You review every chapter, patient stories stay de-identified, and you own 100% of the book and its royalties. Our goal is a finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks, at your pace.
Your credibility problem is not your credentials
Patients can look up your board certification in a minute. What they cannot look up is how you think: why you recommend one approach over another, what you tell your own family, what most people get wrong about the condition you treat. That is what builds trust before the first visit, and right now it lives only in the exam room.
A book puts it in writing. It is the long answer you never have time to give in a 15-minute appointment, and it does the explaining for you in the waiting room, at the bedside table and in the referral letter.
What a book does for a medical practice
Physicians use a book in a few concrete ways. None of them depends on selling copies.
- Patient education: hand it to new patients so they arrive informed and ask better questions.
- Referrals: other physicians and allied professionals refer to the doctor who wrote the book on the problem.
- Media and speaking: producers, podcast hosts and conference organizers look for the author of the book.
- A cash-pay or concierge practice: a book explains your philosophy to the people most likely to pay for it.
- Teaching: residents, staff and colleagues get your method in one place.
Patient confidentiality and the rules you work under
Your book should never contain protected health information, and it doesn’t need to. In the interviews you tell case stories the way you would at grand rounds: no names, no dates, no details that could identify a patient. Composite cases work well, and the book can say so.
You review every chapter before anything is final, so you decide what stays. If a story needs a patient’s written permission, you get it before the chapter is approved. Dictate does not ask for or store medical records.
Check your state medical board’s rules on advertising and testimonials, and keep outcome language honest. A book can explain what a treatment is for and what the evidence says; it should not promise results. We write that way by default, and a general-information disclaimer belongs at the front of the book. If you ask, your interviews and drafts are also excluded from any AI training.
Why physicians choose an interview-based book
Most doctors who want a book never start, because writing one the usual way takes evenings and weekends for a year or more. Hiring a traditional ghostwriter means months of meetings and a writer learning medicine on your time.
Dictate starts from what you already do well: explaining. You talk, by phone, between cases or after hours. The writing is built from your transcripts, so the medicine is yours and the voice is yours.
How the interview process works
Your part is talking and reviewing. Everything else is done for you, remotely.
A strategy call
We talk about who the book is for, what it needs to do for you, and what you already have: talks, notes, articles, recordings. We confirm the scope of your book on the call.
Research before you talk
Before your first interview, Dictate researches you and your field, so the questions start where your expertise starts instead of at the basics.
Phone interviews with Silas
You talk with Silas, our AI interviewer, by phone at times you choose, usually once or twice a week. Up to 15 hours of conversation in total. No writing and no homework.
Chapters from your own words
Chapters are written from your interview transcripts as you go, in your voice. Nothing is invented: every story and claim comes from you or your uploaded material.
You review and approve
You read every chapter in your author portal, leave notes and approve it. A sentence only you can confirm, like a date or a number, is flagged for you to check.
Ready to publish
You get print-ready and ebook files, a custom cover, Amazon copy and an Author’s Toolkit, set up to publish in your own accounts.
A realistic timeline
Our goal is your finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks. Your interview and review pace sets the timeline, so a busy month moves it and a free week speeds it up.
- Week 1Strategy call, research on you and your field, and your first interview.
- Weeks 2 to 5One or two interviews a week. Chapters arrive in your portal as you go.
- Weeks 5 to 8You review, ask for changes and approve each chapter. Then the files are prepared.
- After approvalYou publish in your own accounts, on your own launch date.
Books for Doctors: Questions
Can I buy copies in bulk for my clinic or waiting room?
Yes. You publish in your own account, so you order author copies at the printer’s cost, in whatever quantity you need, with no markup from us. Many practices keep copies at the front desk and give one to every new patient.
Can I make a family edition as well as the public book?
Yes. You own the print-ready files, so you can print a private family edition through a print-on-demand printer without listing it for sale, alongside or instead of a public edition.
Can my book reach bookstores and hospital libraries through IngramSpark?
Yes. Your files are prepared for Amazon KDP and for IngramSpark. IngramSpark lists your book in the Ingram catalog that bookstores and libraries order from. Both accounts are in your name, so royalties come straight to you.
Who owns the rights to my book?
You do. You own 100% of the copyright and keep 100% of the royalties. Dictate claims no ownership of your book and takes no royalties, and your publishing accounts are in your name.
What does the speaking help include?
Every book comes with an Author’s Toolkit: bios, Amazon copy and quote graphics. Optional marketing packages add a speaker one-sheet with talk topics, and the largest adds a keynote outline and speaking pitches. We help you get ready to be booked; nobody can honestly promise the bookings.
I’m a doctor, not a writer. Will this work for me?
You don’t need to be. You talk on the phone with Silas, our AI interviewer, and the chapters are written from your own words, in your voice. Your job is to talk and to review. Your clinical knowledge is the hard part, and you already have it.
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