With Jesse Steele

If you're a surgeon and planning to write something, Betsy White should be your best friend.  Thankfully for the rest of us who lack a degree from medical school and have fingers better suited for a keyboard than precision surgery, Betsy also works in a wide variety of non-medical genres.  Betsy worked with McGraw Hill, East Carolina University School of Medicine and Recovery Communications (among others), but we're proud to have her as part of the Editorial Department staff.

JS: You've done a lot of work with medical texts. How did that happen? Do you have a background in medicine, or is it something you just came across?

BW: My husband is a physician, and when we got married he began an internship at Stanford University Hospital, and I went along. I took a temp job typing, then applied for an opening as a secretary in the Radiation Therapy department. I may have gotten the job on my Southern accent and youthful looks, although I had a good liberal-arts degree. When we moved to Virginia McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology hired me as a copyeditor, and from there I became a freelance editor for various clients including some university presses.