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Medical transcribers, medical record administrators, and medical case history writers, librarians, indexers, editors, interpreters, and proofreaders are medical language specialists. Language specialists can become writers, editors, or indexers. They can become book packagers and information brokers. What it takes is learning the ability to turn technical and scientific terms into plain language for a general consumer and audience. Write for general magazines and trade journals. Focus on trends or magazine journalism.

For further information, suggested reading is my paperback book titled: How to Find Six-Figure Medical Ghostwriting Jobs: A Step-by-Step Guide, ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse,inc. (http://www.iuniverse.com). 1-800-Authors). There's a chapter on how to make the transition from medical transcriber to medical editor or writer, ghostwriter, medical public relations writer, and several other categories that make use of your language skills and medical terminology expertise.

Learn to research articles and interview experts. Here's how to transform your medical terminology knowledge, listening ability, and keyboarding skills into interviewing, researching, and explaining clearly for people with non-technical backgrounds what new findings are out there that concern the reader's well-being.

If in the future, medical transcribers will be replaced by computers that take technical dictation and transcribe correctly all accents, your highly developed listening and medical language specialist skills could be transformed into administrative or editorial record maintenance work. You could go in several directions: medical record administration and coding, research, editing, sales of transcribing software and equipment, or medical journalism.

For those who always wanted to write or edit medical publications, scripts, medical record histories, case histories, or books, here's a guide to becoming a medical writer or editor. For those interested in video, you could write and produce medical videos by interviewing experts on camera or by working behind the scenes to produce medical or self-help videos (on DVDs).

Medical, healthcare, and science or technical writers and editors (who have some skills similar to transcribers) earned a median annual salary of $37,400, had a 23 percent (long term-11-year) job growth rate, an excellent short-term outlook, excellent job security rating, an average prestige rating, and a low-stress and strain rating, according

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