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A young woman decided to quit her job as a project editor at a medical publishing company so that she could stay at home with her newborn baby. She still wanted to work, but only on a part-time basis, so she decided to pursue some freelance opportunities. Her work experience and master's in biology helped her to obtain work as a freelance technical writer for medical communications companies. She reviewed statistical and clinical data from drug trials and helped to write reports on the findings. She also obtained work as a freelance editor, copyediting medical and nursing manuscripts for various publishing companies. Because of the writing experience she gained as a freelancer, she now works full-time as a medical writer for a pharmaceutical company.

A production editor with a liberal arts degree worked in medical publishing. He decided to move to New England with his family. Because of limited job opportunities near his new home, he became a freelance copyeditor. Many of the medical/nursing publishers needed freelancers for their journal and book publications, so he constantly had copyediting work to keep him busy. After a few years he and his family moved again. Because he was able to keep his publishing contacts through freelancing, he quickly found full-time work as a managing editor in medical society that publishes its own journal. As part of his duties, he oversees a production staff and coordinates the production process for the monthly publications.

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