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Welcome to Octal
A publishing production, management and design company producing multimedia for all professional industries. Since 1991, our creative team has provided high-quality document editing, design, composition and illustration for the medical, technology and commercial publishing industries. For state-of-the-art technical knowledge, you can count on our experts for 3D graphic design, audio & video production and web development. Add to this our skillful project management capabilities as well as our proficiency at providing solutions for electronic media distribution, and you’ll see why we are a powerful resource to choose for your next demanding project.
Publishing
Editor-in-Chief, Psychosomatics
Ned H. Cassem, Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Psychosomatic
Medicine/Consultation, Harvard Medical School
Chief Emeritus, Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service
Director, Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine
Facing Series
by Leading Experts at Massachusetts General Hospital
This new series is written by leading health care providers, researchers and advocates in their field and combines top-tier medical information and compassionate counsel on the diagnosis and management of medical conditions, with a caring and sensible approach to the physical and emotional aspects of living with medical conditions and their complications. This series provides easily readable and trustworthy information; it is divided into chapters that ask and answer pertinent questions about medical and psychiatric/psychological care. A glossary of terms provides important background information to readers about medical processes, medications, nutrition, exercise and risk-reduction. Online resources and references are also offered.
Each of the chapters is accompanied by selected references, illustrations and photographs. The Treatment Map provides a place to log all relevant information in an organized format, facilitating communication with providers and visualization of the next steps for diagnosis and management.
Recent Publications
Learning Series
by Leading Experts at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Working with experts all across the mental health landscape, many of which are senior physician-leaders in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry. Harnessing their powerful perspective and craft into printed books, these texts provide valuable knowledge to enhance your practice in mental health.
Recent Publications
Rising Star Winner
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laser Center, Brown University Medical Center
Series book design and production by Octal.
Partial Client List
What Our Clients Say
“5 Stars! I worked with Octal productions on my second book at the suggestion of a colleague. WOW what a difference. The prior publisher was a major medical publisher and my book was outsourced to a foreign country. In the end it was not clear to the reader how to access the surgical videos on which we had worked so hard. My emails went unanswered, and I had very little control over the final product. OCTAL PRODUCTIONS guided me easily down the path, turning my content into a gorgeous and meaningful book, choosing beautiful images for me but also providing access to the library for my opinion, responding immediately to my edits and queries, and making intelligent suggestions at every step of the way. I interacted with the same intelligent, responsive, human being every time I emailed, and we were able to speak on the phone and share screens on zoom when appropriate. I had the expertise of Octal’s craft but felt fully in control where I wanted to be involved. There was no wasted time or effort. Upon publication, I am confident my book says exactly what I intend to say, and that it is fully up to date given the fact that our last edits flowed directly to publication. Lastly, any delay in the process was due 100% to limitations in my schedule. Would recommend Octal highly – the perfect combination of a professional service with the human touch.”
Elise J.B. De, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
that the usually daunting task of publishing a book becomes a swift and enjoyable experience.
I have published 5 books with them already, and before we knew it,
we were done and celebrating the achievement together."
provide prompt, clear and concise edits, which is valued as we are typically trying to
turn around a final product during crunch time with last minute changes.
The Octal team is always a pleasure to work with."
a fair number of publishing groups and Octal is at the top of my list."
and I enjoyed working with you."
Thank you to the Octal team for their great help and teamwork!"