How To Avoid Hearing Impairment With Headphones In Transcription?
While our discussion until now has been common to any common computer user/transcriber, the following discussion is going to be unique to medical transcriptionists and call center executives who have to wear headphones in their daily chores, noise induced hearing loss due To regular, sustained usage of headphones. Too much of sound banged into our…Read more
How To Avoid Back Pain And Shoulder Pain In A Computer Based Job?
As said early, transcribers perform around 50,000 to 200,000 keystrokes each day and paying attention to your body needs may be a distant dream on a tight scheduled day; well, prevention is always better than cure. While there are many factors that lead to these ailments such as obesity, osteopenia, family history etc., on which…Read more
How To Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Repetitive Stress Injury?
Repetitive strain injury or repetitive stress injury (RSI) is a potentially debilitating condition resulting from overusing the hands to perform a repetitive task, such as typing or clicking a mouse. Medical transcriptionists perform around 50,000 to 200,000 keystrokes each day apart from clicking mouse (leave aside pedaling). So you could guess the severity of repetitive…Read more
How To Prevent Eye Strain And Irritation In A Computer Based Job?
It is twenty plus years from early 80s since we are with computers and we all know that computer isn’t going to kill us but we have learned a lot over the past 20 years about potential health risks and more importantly, we have learned ways to avoid being at risk when we are using…Read more
Americanism (British Vs American English)
Americans are very keen to show that they are very much different from their British counterparts and interestingly they even hate to talk about their British origin. They hate the way in which words are spelled in British English. Americans have their own set of spellings with the alphabet “Z” replacing the alphabet “S” in…Read more
Tips For Physicians. Dictation Device Handling Guide For Doctors
Every transcriber starts his/her day with a prayer that all the work for that particular day should end up perfectly and that no issues should arise. However, his fate is not purely dependent on his/her work alone. A major chunk of that responsibility rests with the dictating physician. A lot of tough scenes may arise…Read more
