What Do Medical Writers Actually Do? The Story of a Pen, a Mask and a Vaccine

This post is for people serious about pursuing the amazing profession of Medical Writing. Here I describe various projects (with examples) that Medical Writers typically do — explained in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded back in 2020.

Generated by Microsoft Copilot (prompt: pen, face mask, and syringe)

In my first post ‘The Mighty Medical Writer–What do Medical Writers do?’, I gave a very abstract description of this profession and it was really aimed at people who have never heard of this job before. If you tell someone you’re a Medical Writer and they raise an eyebrow back at you, that blog is for them.

The Mighty Medical Writer — What Do Medical Writers do?

However, this post is for people thinking about pursuing this amazing profession and want to find out what we ‘actually’ do in our day-to-day jobs.

I want to describe Medical Writing in a ‘real-world’ context and in a scenario where everyone is familiar with, so it’s real and…