Re: the Scope of TW

[Doug Montalbano <doug_montalbano -at- CC -dot- CHIRON -dot- COM>]

     Scott Metsger (smetsger -at- voicenet -dot- com) asks:
                Anybody do medical or scientific writing?

     We do.  At my particular company site there are 6 of us who do the
     following:
     - Write and edit technical reports (to support process validation)
     - Edit and write procedures for manufacturing of bioengineered
       products (vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics)
     - Edit and write batch production records for ditto

     We work with the doc users, all of whom are educated, but some for
     whom English is a second language.

     Training is a component of Good Manufacturing Practices, so we work
     with the training department, as well as the auditing department
     (which discovers errors in the way a batch record may have been filled
     out by the operator).

     We work as well with various levels of product managers and QA
     personnel, who operate as document approvers.

     We maintain all the document tracking and coordination activities.
     The non-writing or -editing components of this job often overwhelm the
     TW component (so what else is new?).  And if 6 sounds like a large
     staff, we're constantly overwhelmed with work.

     We use computers every day.  Don't write ABOUT them at all.

     Doug Montalbano     doug_montalbano -at- cc -dot- chiron -dot- com
     speaking from (and about) -- but not on behalf of -- Chiron Corp.

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