Recent Medical Transcription Terms List Eight
The complexity of medical transcription reports varies depending on the type of reports. While radiology reports are repetitive and stereotype reports, operative reports are more complex with the use of different types of instruments, sutures, dressings and different viscera through which the surgical blade passes. Similarly clinic notes, discharge summaries, progress notes, and history and…Read more
How Twitter Can Help You Find A Medical Transcription Job?
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…Read more
Tips & Techniques To Minimize Distractions In Home Transcription
The 2008 salary survey results reveal that the number of HIM professionals working from home doubled, from 12 percent to 24 percent, and despite economic woes most HIM professionals saw an uptick in salaries with full-time medical transcriptionists reported bringing in $33,500 an year, making medical transcription still an attractive career choice despite outsourcing woes. …Read more
With The Advantage Of Science And Internet, Bust Your Myths
Right from my childhood days, my mythology treasury has remained fatter than the Greek mythology collection. Voracious reading and extensive hunting for information have eliminated many myths out of that but still I’m left with many answerless questions in my mythology book even now. The questions that I was searching for answers include “whether God…Read more
Listen And Familiarize Different Accents Of NonEnglish Dictators
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…Read more
Wrong Usages of Apostrophe in Medical Transcription
“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…Read more
