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Subject:RE: Why so few medical techwriters From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:58:04 -0400
Hi Bruce,
As a medical device writer, I'm interested to know the ratio of
pharmaceutical writing to medical device writing. Do you have any numbers
for that "most"?
Thanks,
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Evans
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:24 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Why so few medical techwriters
>
> Most medical tech writing is done for pharmaceutical
> companies documenting
> research and applying for drug approval. There's also a
> certain amount, also
> subsidized by pharmaceutical companies, in re-writing medical research
> articles for journals. Everyone denies this is done but it
> pays the rent for many a medical writer.
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