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Words in Minutes is your verbal ally in a deadline-driven world.
Freelance Writer, Editor, and Transcriptionist in Kitchener, Ontario
Specializing in Medical and Psychological Assessment Reports
About the Owner
Andrew Jacob, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., is a freelance writer and editor with 15 years' professional experience working with words, especially medical ones. Andrew refuses to compromise on quality despite the daily time pressures he and his clients face. Highly attentive to detail and perceptive of how individuals communicate, Andrew helps his clients get their message across in the form of polished writing that preserves their voices and saves them time. Andrew started out as a writerly "jack of all trades," but medical writing has become his professional calling.
Services
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Medical and Psychological Reports
This is a stock photo of a group of smiling doctors, but my clients are just as happy as the people in the picture. When referral sources need expert medical and psychological opinions, they often need those opinions today, or they needed them yesterday (sometimes, they needed them in the remote past). Offering an optimized blend of speed and quality, and with a background in medical editing and quality assurance, I am uniquely ready to meet your medical and psychological report preparation needs.
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Editing and Quality Assurance
Just need an editor or proofreader? I do that, too, but I have a solid decade of experience in medical editing and quality assurance, so I prefer to read about haemopneumothoraces, spondyloarthropathies, and other maladies that have long names. In my work as a medical editor, insurance adjusters and lawyers have appreciated my attention to detail and my ability to comprehend and resolve complex issues, and doctors have appreciated my succinct requests for clarification and my conservative approach to editing.
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Transcription
High attention to detail, quick typing, and a strong customer service orientation have made me a go-to for transcription work. I have an affinity for medical terminology, as you might guess from my other service descriptions, but I have transcribed for a wide range of clients including graduate students, healthcare institutions, healthcare professionals, professors, and a book author. With Words in Minutes, you get competitive rates, and you know exactly which lover of words and language is transcribing your audio.
Featured Testimonial
“Andrew has done a great deal of transcription of research interviews. The quality of his work is unsurpassable. We depend on a transcriptionist to be not only accurate and efficient but also detailed and thorough. Andrew picks up and notes subtle pauses, small changes in speech and tone – details that no other transcriptionist we have worked with has ever been able to capture. He has a very strong understanding of medical and clinical terms and demonstrates this through his extremely accurate work. His transcription has added tremendous value to our research…His efficiency and accountability are unequaled. By far, he is the most efficient and accurate transcriptionist we have used. We will work with him again for all our research interview transcription and would recommend him very highly for all of your transcription needs.”
—Dr. Nancy Walton, Associate Professor, Ryerson University Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing