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to Money magazine's March 1994 job rankings article.

Currently, the growth rate is still in effect. Technical writers ranked number 18 out of 100 occupations ranked as "The Best Jobs in America." (Their sources included the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) Money also stated that the best places to work in this kind of job are Silicon Valley, Boston, or Washington, DC.

How giant a leap is it for a medical transcriber (earning an average of $15,000 to $30,000 after ten to twenty years on the job) to transfer good language skills and advance to a career in biomedical communications-to any one of the following medical publications professional job titles where salaries of more than $30,000 can be reached without having to be on the same job for decades?

Jobs in medical journalism include researching trends, medical marketing, videography, and the following print or electronic editorial positions:

Medical journalist, science writer, medical copyeditor, technical writer/editor, publications proofreader, scientific publication coordinator, pharmaceutical copywriter, documentation analyst, hospital grant proposal writer and fundraising publicist/press release writer, trade journal reporter/stringer, health communications publicist, medical desktop publisher, desktop video producer, vocational teacher, corporate trainer, medical communications public speaker, newsletter and publications designer, medical sales direct mail marketing writer, medical textbook editor, back-of-book and periodical indexer, medical journal article abstractor, member of the medical, computer, or scientific press, on-line (computerized) medical editing service entrepreneur, medical radio scriptwriter, health video training scriptwriter, infomercial writer/producer, niche publisher, abstractor, or freelance medical communications coordinator/writer/editor combination.

Any one of these professional jobs requires the same language skills every medical transcriber has, plus a flair for creative expression in print or electronic media. Therefore, if you are tired of typing all day, tired of having your keystrokes and bathroom breaks electronically monitored, and tired of carpal tunnel syndrome surgery, or if you are far enough over fifty to place less emphasis on high speed typing and more on creativity and intuition enhancement-perhaps you'd like to become a medical writer, editor, or publications coordinator.

Some medical transcribers have liberal arts degrees or college coursework in English, communications,

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