A glimpse into the realms of a Freelance Medical Translator

Keep your office clutter-free

My boss used to say “A tidy office is a happy office!” This was well before Marie Kondo glamorised decluttering, and in those days he got on my nerves with …

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Clinical

The future of stroke treatment

Until recently stroke was a non-treatable disease – the management consisted of rehabilitation and prevention. Reversibility of this dreadful event was wishful thinking. But much has been happening over the …

Medical Translation

Never miss a translation deadline

9 Tips on how to meet Translation Deadlines in a breeze Regardless if you’re a freelance or employed translator, every workplace has its fair share of commitment and deadlines. Being …

Medical Translation

Patient-centred writing

Medicine is evolving at an ever-increasing rate and getting more complex. It is no surprise that the transfer of medical knowledge to target audiences (i.e. patients) will consequently become more …

Medical Translation

Improve your vocabulary

Disposing of a vast active vocabulary is a great advantage for a translator, along with proficient knowledge in punctuation, grammar, and style. Even though your projects are frequently linked to …

Health topics

The Morning Coffee

To get a focused start of the day, I start with a mug of coffee – or two. It gets me going. I am sure there are many translators like …

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Medical Translation

Machine translation is here to stay

Over the last few years, innovations through Artificial Intelligence have improved the quality of machine translations by a great deal. It is today a sector that is growing at an …

Clinical

Immunotherapy – a revolution in blood cancer therapy

If you are keeping up to date with the latest events in the world of medicine, you cannot have missed the promising new immunological blood cancer therapy. Below, I have …

Personal Snippets

How to speed up your Reading Skills

Whether you flick through a newspaper, glance through a blog post or peruse a brochure, you do some reading every day. But embracing dense passages of literature can be time-consuming, …

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Medical Translation

Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Are you following a Lifelong Learning Strategy? Learning never stops. If you are reading these lines, you are probably keen to embrace the philosophy of Continuous Education. Or perhaps you …