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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

I am interviewed at medicaltranscriptionist.org.  Thanks to Jennifer Walsh, editor, medicaltranscriptionist.org, for interviewing me and publishing it on the site, it’s a first interview of such sort so far in my career as a medical transcriptionist. The questions included:  How I got into the medical transcription industry, my advice for someone aspiring to step into [...]

Packers and movers have made life easier while shifting homes.  I can’t think of the mess nowadays shifting homes from one place to another without packers and movers.  How about shifting your Microsoft Word AutoCorrect entries from one computer to another?  Were you ever in need of shifting AutoCorrect entries from one computer to the [...]

Three days break at a stretch, oh! what a relief! The past weekend along with the US Independence Day, a break for three days with my doctors taking a day off on Friday also, was a relieving one amidst the busy medical transcription life.  I remember my good old school days looking at the calendar [...]

Have you ever calculated how many keystrokes you make a day as a medical transcriptionist?  Most probably you would have if you’re on a productivity based payroll.  Okay let’s try working it out as simple mathematics if anyone has not yet.  Suppose you type 1000 lines a day.  A standard line is 65 characters including [...]

It’s June and the summer solstice of the year went off yesterday which reminds me the inception of MT Herald back in 2007, it’s the second anniversary of MT Herald, we’re stepping into the third year.  It’s a longtime desire of mine to build a medical transcription community through a medical transcription forum, a meeting [...]