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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

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 [...]

Voice file player, the unavoidable integral part of medical transcription!  How many choices do you have in that?  Well, this week, I tried to do some research on the available freewares on the internet.  In the early days of my transcription career when I started with CBay Systems, I was working with Medipro, a voice [...]

I stumbled upon a movie, SiCKO, a year back or so, written, directed and produced by noted filmmaker, Michael Moore, bookmarked it to watch it when free, and had time to view it this past weekend.  It moved me, hurt me a lot, and more than a couple of times filled my eyes.  Hence I [...]