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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

We discussed utilizing RSS to get the updates of our favorite sites, and the power of socializing and networking and finding a job through Twitter.  This week let’s see another advanced networking tool, FriendFeed.  Though I joined FriendFeed some six months back or so, I really didn’t care about it (and didn’t activate my account) [...]

I get queries either in person or in email asking opinions about some specific institution offering medical transcription course, or requests to suggest a reputed, reliable, good medical transcription coaching institute, or if I would recommend joining the course at a particular well known educational institution, government or private.  Always I used to remain mum [...]

What is perfectionism? In simple words, perfectionism is that quality that drives a person to try his best and to make the effort to excel and surpass. Wikipedia describes perfectionism this way: Perfectionism, in psychology, is a belief that perfection can and should be attained. In its pathological form, perfectionism is a belief that work [...]

Social media site Twitter is a double edged tool.  The pro being that it’s an amazing tool for you to stay informed even before CNN, Reuters or Associated Press; twitterers were the first informed with Twitter breaking the news of Hudson plane crash.  The second pro being it can be used to network with people [...]

We are at the doorsteps of a very bad economic slowdown with fears of its associated implications narrowing down to our wallet. Recession, economic downturn, slowdown, depression, slump, stock market crash, crisis, collapse, job loss, downsize, pink slips, bankruptcy, bad debt – all these have become the talk of the crowd – a negative atmosphere [...]