What Alternative Career Options Medical Transcriptionists Have?
These are questions to my fellow MTs. Our paychecks are getting thinned day by day making it unable to sustain ourselves in this career! Have you ever thought of losing your job one fine day? Have you thought of finding a viable alternative job on that day and a possible career transition? If yes, what alternative career options medical transcriptionists have? Come, join the discussion. …Read more
What Could Medical Transcriptionists Do To Get Paychecks In Time?
You might have read what all excuses an employer can make in delaying a medical transcriptionist’s paycheck. You have put extreme effort to churn out 100% accurate reports. It is your hard earned money. It is your sweat. You have to be paid before the sweat vaporizes. Will a doctor work without being paid for…Read more
How To Delay Paychecks For MTs? Hints And Excuses For MTSO Owners
As you might know, I work as an independent medical transcription contractor for a small MTSO. As per the terms mutually agreed upon, my employer is to wire transfer my paycheck to my bank account every fortnight, 3-4 days after the last working day of the fortnight is over. Just for the first few months of…Read more
Top Ten Disadvantages Of Working From Home As A Transcriptionist
The overwhelming reaction from work-at-home moms who registered their antagonist views when it was opined that a work-at-home lifestyle makes you lazy and the unilateral opinion spread across the web favoring a work-at-home lifestyle further warrants to list out the disadvantages of working from home to substantiate my stance. As a home transcriptionist, you have…Read more
Latest Medical Vocabulary For Transcriptionists – List Thirteen
It’s time to update our medical spelling checker. Hence we are having this edition of latest medical vocabulary along with an updating process of our custom spell checker. All the vocabularies until this list and all the suggestions by our community and other users of the spell checker have been included in the latest medical…Read more
How Home Transcription Can Make You Lazy, Good For Nothing Else?
I remember one good commercial ad slogan in the 1980s for a TV brand: “Neighbor’s envy, owner’s pride.” Yep, it holds good for home transcription too as long as you are paid decently. I too got caught in that “envy” when I moved my work to my home office. Now after eight years of adapting…Read more
