2018 Medical Publishing
So here it is, a brand new year full of exciting new projects and challenges. At Cremer Consulting SARL, we are already back in full swing after a refreshing break filled with family, friends, and fun! As we settle into our busy working days, our minds start whirring away about what possibilities this year holds…
New Year’s wishes
All we want for the New Year is your continued satisfaction with our efforts to create the most professional medical publications for you, in flawless style!
Top-quality publications. Our in-house staff comprises medical professionals and linguistic experts. For over 11 years now, we have been editing and translating medical works, not to mention our skilled medical writers producing original, high-quality publications tailored to our clients’ specific needs.
Do you have an ongoing publication that no one on your staff can find time for? Our medical writers manage editorial content for a wide variety of medical fields, either writing up the entire publication or finalizing parts to render it more coherent and professional.
Client satisfaction. At Cremer Consulting SARL, our main resolution for Year 2018 is to further enhance our clients’ satisfaction. To achieve this, we aim to serve more and more medical professionals like yourself by handling their medical editing, translating or writing needs. If there is any way that our teams of physicians and linguistic experts can assist with your 2018 projects, please contact us.
Long-term partnerships. In addition to our close collaborations with many university professors, Cremer Consulting SARL is a proud partner of numerous pharmaceutical companies, communication agencies, editors, and research scientists. We work hard to maintain and nurture these partnerships in order to improve the accessibility and quality of medical publications for everyone.
Tips to avoid burnout
According to a recent survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, nearly 50% of all physicians show symptoms of burnout. You too may be suffering from exhaustion without even realising it. Here are a few tips and some info that you may find helpful.
Burnout in the workplace. Burnout is usually caused by a build-up of anxiety and stress over a long time period. Though other contributing factors will likely be involved, this stress and anxiety primarily result from a combination of high work demands, stressful environments, increasing work pressure, and feelings of having no control over work.
Learn to say no! Take a step back and don’t be afraid to turn down unbearable commitments that are too draining. Your other commitments will likely benefit from this strategy. Unfortunately, though, there are some tasks that you just have to get done. For these, break each down into small steps that you can complete one at a time.
Eat a healthy diet! Small changes to your eating habits may increase your energy levels and regulate your moods. Generally speaking, if you eat less sugar and refined carbohydrates, you’ll avoid a sudden plummet in mood and energy. Another obvious tip is for smokers to quit, and drinkers to cut right back on alcohol consumption. Finally, think about upping your consumption of omega-3 fatty acids, found plentiful in fatty fish, seaweed, and walnuts.
Make exercise a priority! While any form of exercise can act as a stress reliever, we advise you to tailor your activities specifically to your preferences in order to obtain the best possible outcome. So, if you enjoy socializing while exercising, join a running club so you can chat while you jog! Alternatively, those who like to have a bit of “me” time would benefit from taking a bike ride or going out for a long walk.
Punctuation
With the rising use of SMS, many of us have forgotten the proper usage of English punctuation. And if you want the paper you submit to one of the major medical journals to be impeccably written, proper usage of punctuation is a must!
1) Exclamation points. The exclamation point is used to mark something to be cried out, and when it’s part of spoken text it is placed inside the quotation marks.
The captain shouted, “Cast off!”
2) Question mark. The question mark is used to signify a question or express doubt. Indirect questions should not be followed by a question mark.
She asked whether he was ill.
3) The colon. The colon is used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, etc., of what precedes.
The rule may be stated thus:
4) Semicolon. A semicolon is used to mark a more important break in sentence flow than that marked by a comma.
It is so in war; it is so in economic life; it cannot be otherwise in religion.
5) Comma. The comma indicates the smallest possible interruption in the continuity of a thought or sentence structure.
Shakespeare and other, lesser, poets.
Long-standing collaboration
For several years now, we have been working with Professor Gerard Zalcman, Head of the Thoracic Oncology Department at Bichat Hospital, Paris. Over the years, Prof. Zalcman has entrusted us with the editing and translation of several papers focused on lung cancer therapy.
Routine molecular profiling
Prof. Gerard Zalcman is particularly interested in the molecular biology of cell signal transduction in relation to lung carcinogenesis. By developing this technology, researchers seek to identify genetic products as well as mutations, which should allow us to better predict tumour responses to targeted therapies like tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In August 2017, a fascinating case report was edited by one of our teams before being published in Clin Lung Cancer, now accessible at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28844392).
Future perspectives
Assuming this technology produces the desired results in the near future, it could be the key to developing individualized lung cancer treatment approaches that target tumors while leaving healthy tissues and organs intact. Needless to say, there is real potential to this research for lung cancer patients worldwide.