Medical translation is a difficult job and medical translators are required to pay careful attention to details. Making mistakes can be easier than you may ever imagined and that is what make the difference between good and bad medical translators. So here is a list...
A medical translation is a part of a whole medical process where many factors and areas take their slice. From science to tests with patients or elaboration of drugs...
If you have a strong relationship with medicine, both being a student or a professional in said sector, you should watch the following films. They all made a reflexion about certain areas related to health from different points of view, which is essential for any...
In Okomeds we recently wrote about some shocking figures related to medical translation and interpreting. One of the examples made a reference to UK, the country all over the world that dedicates a bigger amount of public money to translators and interpreters - around £100...
In Okomeds, we recently wrote about some curiosities related to medical translation and interpreting but now we are focusing on the figures. Different data related to finances and economy reveal the importance of this growing market. Medical translation and interpreting offer a wide universe of...
Google Translate is not the solution as a translation machine can never be as useful and precise as a human translator. Why? Because Google Translate confuses false friends, badly understands double senses, misleads words...
Medical tourism means traveling abroad with a clear aim: obtaining a medical treatment in such country. People trust medical tourism because of different reasons, the most common ones are the followings: a more competitive pricing, a wider medical offer, and a more developed and quality...
For improving the services offered by any healthcare centre, the figure of a medical interpreter seems essential. A medical interpreter can provide extra assistance both to doctors - or any other medical specialist - and patients - including his/her family or friends. Why? The reason...
People visit healthcare websites more and more frequently, which is really good as information is more accessible, but not all the information is true. So, it is also essential to know what information can be trusted and what not. When surfing on the Internet, you...
Have you ever imagined how would be a world with no medical translations? It would certainly be very different to the current one we are living in. Healthcare and medicine would have not improved so much because of a lack of communication. Medical translation eases...