Venturing into the world of choosing a freelance medical writer can be daunting. There are writers with specific subject-matter expertise, writers who specialize in certain types of writing, and writers […]
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Maintain Health and Productivity (Because Typing is not Exercise)
The hardest thing for me about the transition from laboratory scientist to medical writer was that there were still so many wonderful questions about 2′-5′ oligoadenylate synthetase I wanted to […]
How to Handle a Live Wire in Your Advisory Board
Usually, advisory boards are dynamic exchanges between physicians who are at the top of their field. That’s part of the reason that I love to write executive summaries. Capturing the […]
A Freelancer’s Guide to Surviving Internal Politics
The other night, I was sitting at the table with my four-year-old daughter, who informed me that dinner was ‘disgusting.’ Nice, right? To combat this show of ingratitude, I then […]
Shaking Off the Medical Writing Blues
When I first started out as a medical writer, I was a research scientist dabbling in communications. I thought medical writing was all about organizing facts in a way that […]
Keeping it CONFIDENTIAL!!!
Most of the time when I am contacted to cover a pharmaceutical advisory board, I sign a nondisclosure agreement before I even discuss the nature of the project with the […]
How to Stay Inspired During Advisory Board #9 (Hint: the Answer is not “Coffee”)
When I am writing large reports that compare and contrast information gathered from a series of meetings (i.e, different regions or specialists), I sometimes sit through the same advisory board […]