Pharma Editing Living

The power and pain behind the red pen.

April 26, 2013 at 11:49am
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When You Notice Your Soul Starting To Disappear And You Try To Fight It

(AKA when you’re still early in the game)

March 19, 2013 at 6:37pm
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When An Account Person Asks Me Way Too Nicely If I Can Stay Late

March 3, 2013 at 6:18pm
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When I Try To Explain The “Transpose” Proofreading Symbol But It Only Comes Out In Dance Form

ran

January 19, 2013 at 2:27pm
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RedPenitentiary Is Getting An Upgrade—Viewer Support Needed

Good afternoon, fellow editors and editettes (my future Motown group, btw). 

As with most creative blogs, this one has been in need of an update. In this case, I invite you all to present us with your most ridiculous typos…EVER.

Please submit them in picture form if possible (concise stories are also welcome). Otherwise, submit them to epigramess@gmail.com. Put “Egregious Error” in the header—whether or not it’s egragous—and submit!

I’ve included one of my favorites, to get you started:

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Post med-legal, the editor of record was not too pleased with this catch, to say the least…Although, I think most people—Chelsea aside—wouldn’t be too pleased with this either.

November 28, 2012 at 10:10am
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When A Launching Drug Gets Pulled From The Market

October 12, 2012 at 1:48pm
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What “End-Of-Day” Means In Pharma

September 25, 2012 at 11:39pm
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Reblogged from hoardersthegame

New antibiotic invents itself in your fridge. Move ahead.

hoardersthegame:

One step forward in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, tho.

September 11, 2012 at 8:54pm
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The Day I Mastered The En-Dash

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What I Imagine When I Read The Phrase “Opportunistic Infection”

September 10, 2012 at 5:20pm
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When People Ask Me Why There Are So Many Lunatics In Pharma And I Tell Them This Is What It Looks Like Every Day On The Calendar