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ProZ.com Member Piotr Turski
Poland
Medical Doctor, 15 years in translation
VAT ID: PL 7291778267

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Specialization / Background
  • Preferred translation area: clinical medicine and pharmaceuticals
  • preventive medicine, health education, alternative medicine, psychology
  • Reviewing, editing and proofreading experience


  • Polish medical doctor
  • Freelance translator since 1994

  • Recent translating experience:
  • Amendments of Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) for a Swiss pharmaceutical company
  • Medical web site content for a British client
  • Back translation of drug labels for an American agency
  • EMEA scientific conclusions & grounds for amendment of SPC (antipsychotic), EPAR summary for the public (antidiabetic drug) for a British agency
  • Hospitalization reports (into English) for American and Dutch agencies
  • Brochures for clinical study participants (cancer treatment) for American and British agencies
  • Informed consent form (vaccine) for an American agency
  • Prompts of a clinical trial randomizing service for an American agency
  • Various translations for Polish agencies: fact sheet and clinical article abstract (selective immunosuppressant agent), psychiatric scales and manuals of their administration, article on cytomegalovirus in transplant recipients, drug characteristics (laxative), report on COX-2 inhibitors, patient information about diabetes, product questionnaire for dentists
  • Popular texts for a health education magazine: cardiovascular problems, cancer, women’s health, health psychology, nutrition, medical breakthroughs

  • Other translations
  • Articles for medical professional and popular journals
  • Website pages, presentations, Internet news service, informed consent forms, information leaflets, patient guides, films, psychotherapy texts
  • Clinical articles (erectile dysfunction; drug therapy in psychiatry and bowel diseases); drug characteristics (hyperthyroidism), various reports, drug marketing concepts, brochures and fact sheets for doctors (neuroplasticity, Alzheimer’s disease), clinical trial protocols (cancer therapy, seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, study recruitment), patient information (growth hormone, pharyngitis, cancer therapy), news and press releases (drug counterfeit, product packaging and distribution), highlights from a symposium on urology, patient information (bowel & prostate cancer, herpes), presentation on occupational skin diseases, news on intravascular ultrasound (for various translation agencies)
  • Health education: osteoarthritis, heart disease, hypertension, acne, bowel diseases, diabetes, X syndrome, inflammation, rare diseases diagnosis, cosmetic surgery, dietary supplementation, etc.

  • BOOKS
  • Medicine:
  • The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, chapters "Rehabilitation" and "Falls and gait disorders"
    Rajendra Sharma; The Element Family Encyclopedia of Health, introduction and chapter "Adult"
    Paul Martin; The Sickening Mind
    Edward Shorter; History of Psychiatry
  • Psychology/Philosophy/Sociology:
  • Danah Zohar, Ian Marshall; SQ - Spiritual Intelligence
    Richard Brodie; Virus of the Mind
  • Geography/Biology/Culture/History:
  • The Wonders of the World
    Michael Gelb; How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
    Carlos Castaneda; The Power of Silence
  • Psychology/Self-improvement:
  • John-Roger, Peter McWilliams; Do It!
    Bobbe Sommer, Mark Falstein; Psychocybernetics 2000

    Reviewing, editing and proofreading projects
  • Cultural consulting of a urology patient questionnaire
  • Summary of Product Characteristics (directly for a pharmaceutical company)
  • Clinical article on microalbuminuria
  • Depression questionnaire
  • EMEA European Public Assessment Reports (immunosuppressant; antiviral drug)
  • Patient information on valve replacement
  • Market research questionnaire for physicians
  • Pet food information
  • Patient information leaflet and labeling (anti-diabetic drug)
  • Instructions for use (hip prosthesis components)
  • Summary of product characteristics
  • Protocol of a clinical study screening call
  • Information for use (various surgical materials), SPC, patient information leaflet
  • Instructions, manuals (medical devices), SPCs

    Degrees:
  • MD (1988), Medical University of Lodz, Poland
  • Medical specialization: Rehabilitation (1995)

  • Employment:
  • Freelance translator, 1994-present
  • Private practice in physical medicine & rehabilitation, 1997-2000
  • Physician, a state rehabilitation clinic, 1988-1996

  • Equipment:
  • PC, printer, scanner, mobile phone
  • ADSL modem (permanent connection to the Internet)

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    Rates:
      Min/target per word Min/target per hour
    -2 0.06/0.12 EUR 20.00/40.00 EUR


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    Experience

    Years experience: 12