Red flags and starting a business as a medical writer - Shadi Zarei's journey into medical writing

Virginia Chachati interviews Shadi Zarei, a freelance medical writer and founder of Joy Medical. Shadi shares her journey from being a medical doctor to becoming a medical writer and starting her own business. She discusses the challenges of finding clients and provides tips for networking and building a support system.
Shadi emphasizes the importance of being kind to oneself and learning from experiences. She also highlights red flags to watch out for when working with clients. Shadi's future plans include specializing in patient education materials.
Follow Shadi on LinkedIn: / shadizarei
Joy Medical: www.joymedical.ca/
Takeaways
- Freelance medical writing offers the opportunity to use medical knowledge, research skills, and creativity to create materials for patients and health consumers.
- Finding clients can be challenging, but diversifying your approach, networking with other medical writers, and creating engaging content can help attract clients.
- As a business owner, it is important to make decisions, experiment, and learn from experiences without being too critical of oneself.
- Red flags to watch out for when working with clients include those who don't know what they want, have budget constraints, or don't act professionally.
- Future plans for Shadi include specializing in patient education materials and medical information to help patients make informed decisions about their health.
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[@deepti579]

Thanks virginia for bringing such insightful sessions.

[@writeclinic]

Thank you so much glad you find them insightful 😊♥️✨️

[@aasiakhanum3757]

Wow, brilliant and inspiring. Just curious how do you see the future of (medical) writing business in the era of generative AI like ChatGPT ?

[@writeclinic]

Thank you so much - great question - I think medical writers will learn to work with AI, and also train AI, but the problem is AI can't be "original" or creative- so there will always be a need for human medical writers and some clients already are saying they do not want any AI content at all