MT Herald
The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

English is pronounced differently in different parts of the world with phonetics something similar to the native language (mother tongue) of the speaker; a particular accent essentially reflects a person’s linguistic background. Medical transcriptionists, especially those transcribing for multi-bedded hospitals, come across all sorts of accents that sometimes we go crazy in identifying a word [...]

“Customer’s Fortnight” This welcome message at the footsteps of my bank made me pause a minute to think “Who is this privileged customer to deserve a whole fortnight of transaction at bank?” Oh! I should have read it as “Customers’ Fortnight“. So the rest of the days of the year are dedicated to the bank [...]

I used to say internet is a plethora of information, a plethora of opportunities that it has made the deserving entrepreneurs super rich overnight etcetera, etcetera. While the advantages are many with the world wide web and search engines, we, medical transcriptionists, have a disadvantage too while searching the net for certain keywords; a sort [...]

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 [...]

Easy and speedy access to medical terms is one of the key secrets to improve your productivity in medical transcription, for which you need to have the reference materials right on your desktop, better as a soft copy. If you’re unable to have those softwares in your system for some reason, at least a hard [...]