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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 [...]

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 [...]

As I used to say, acquiring the latest information is the key to success in any career or business; medical transcriptionists, it applies to our field too. We are working in a world of vast knowledge base that updates or changes regularly and we too have to update our glossary of the current medical terminology [...]

Acquiring the latest information is the key to success not only in medical transcription but in any career. Instruments, drugs, procedures, etc., are introduced daily and sometimes old ones are replaced by new. Hence it is a need to update your knowledgebase constantly to be the forerunner. Find below a few terms aimed to equip [...]