Language Archives • Oliver Thalmann - German Medical Translator

Medical Translation / Writing

What are the future topics of Medical Content?

What has the next Decade in store for the Medical Writer and Translator? I have a strong feeling that over the next ten years “Personalised” or “Precision” Medicine will become …

Writing

The Medical Writer

Are you are a writer new to the speciality of Medicine? Do you find yourself in unknown territories with some medical content? Do not despair. Trough experience you will soon …

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 …

Male hand levitating an animated brain made out of lit-up circuits

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 …

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, …

Screenshot of SDL Trados Studio 2019, sample of a CAT Tool

Medical Translation

The CAT Tool – Medical Translator’s best friend

CAT tools – the best invention since the dictionary Computer Assisted Translation software, widely referred to as CAT Tool, is a computer program that is used to facilitate the translation …

Medical Translation

Terminology can affect patients Words that stigmatise affect patients, relatives and healthcare workers in their perception of a disease. It can influence the behaviour of an entire society towards an …

Oat Muesli with strawberries and banana in a blue bowl

Personal Snippets

Muesli: not only etymologically interesting

Muesli – a Swiss German word Back in Switzerland, it was fairly common to eat oats either in the form of a Bircher Muesli (Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and …

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What are the future topics of Medical Content?

The Medical Writer

Patient-centred writing

Improve your vocabulary

Machine translation is here to stay

How to speed up your Reading Skills

The CAT Tool – Medical Translator’s best friend

Language without the stigma

Muesli: not only etymologically interesting