Foreword: A desktop connected with a foot pedal and a headphone is all that what is needed for medical transcription and a notebook (laptop) for a medical transcriptionist is not a necessity at all, but a luxury. But how is the idea of laptop for medical transcription if an MT (home based or independent contractor) … Read more
I recently came across an article “An MT Sounds Off About Outsourcing MT Jobs” published in Article Slash and later one more such article “The Horrors of Outsourcing Medical Transcription” in MT Mastery Center, both by Mary Ruff-King, an onshore MT who is into this profession for more than 15 years, where she is lambasting … Read more
So you have chosen medical transcription as your career accidentally or willfully. You are concentrating on churning out more and more lines day by day. You want to improve your productivity. Inch by inch, it’s a cinch. Here are some tips and tricks that I tried and employed as I started from around 200 lines … Read more
While buying a laptop or desktop, we care a lot to buy a good one. But how much do we care about it later on? The truth is you never think of routine computer maintenance at all until your system crashes! To avoid those irritating multiple crashes, hang-ups, snags etc., allot an hour or so … Read more
Constipation, though a silent but major problem for many is one of the least topics that any would like to talk about. You might know it’s painful and frustrating to have this problem. Though it commonly affects the elder ones, women, and children at some time or other, almost everyone gets constipation during his/her life. … Read more
The act of doing medical transcription itself is a deed needing total involvement of almost all your senses and on the top of it if you stumble upon bad dictators and blanks, urgh, you may curse your stars for choosing this career or your bad luck that day. Blanks, the crossword puzzles in medical transcription … Read more