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...
If you are organising a conference, you should firstly focus on the target people. Who is attending the conference? That is the main idea you must consider for offering a linguistic service to everyone - both speakers and attendants. International lecturers may speak the main language...
If you run a company, you will surely want to always bring the best quality. It includes all that is related to your area, but also any other additional service than can be offered to your clients. One of the most common additional services is...
Medical translation, apart from being a very specialised field in communication, is plenty of curiosities. So many anecdotes - which are also very varied - can be found in the history of medical translation. Here is a list of some of the curiosities related to...
A medical translation is really important for a healthcare company, as it is the role played by a medical transcription. Does your company need to accurately transcribe audio files? In such case, a medical transcription can be the key for reaching different and global markets....