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About Words in Minutes
Words in Minutes is a Kitchener, Ontario-based small business providing primarily medical writing and editing services including preparation and editing of medical and psychological reports, transcription, and proofreading. Clients have included health care institutions, physicians, mental health professionals, professors, and graduate students.
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.
Andrew’s primary professional activity for the past 15 years has been preparing and editing medicolegal reports on behalf of all kinds of health professionals. Other experience working with words includes proofreading doctoral dissertations, producing video script copy as part of a large marketing project for one of Canada’s largest real estate investment trusts, and transcribing interviews for various clients who have included graduate students, healthcare institutions, healthcare professionals, professors, and a book author.