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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

One of my friends who is totally new to the concept of blogging raised me the question, “Why do you blog?”  A pretty good question!  Why do I blog? Well, I dived into blogging one fine day in May 2007 fully inspired by the revelation of Steve Pavlina making $1000 a day from his blog [...]

I’m always happy to have people smarter than me do a guest post here on MT Herald.  There is far too much going on in the healthcare industry which I doubt I may be able to cover everything that’s going on. Hence I welcome with a bowed head anyone willing to share the information he/she [...]

Ramon posed me an interesting question “Who is in my feed reader?” or to be precise “Which blogs on medical transcription do I regularly read?”  Instead of answering the comment on that post itself, I thought it would be appropriate for me to share the list here so that everybody benefits from it.  Before I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]