Social media site Twitter is a double edged tool. The pro being that it’s an amazing tool for you to stay informed even before CNN, Reuters or Associated Press; twitterers were the first informed with Twitter breaking the news of Hudson plane crash. The second pro being it can be used to network with people similar to … Read more
I used to say the Internet is a plethora of information. A plethora of opportunities that it has made the deserving entrepreneurs super rich overnight etcetera, etcetera. While the advantages are many with the world wide web and search engines, we, medical transcriptionists, have a disadvantage. While searching the net for certain keywords, we face … Read more
We are at the doorsteps of a very bad economic slowdown with fears of its associated implications narrowing down to our wallet. Recession, economic downturn, slowdown, depression, slump, stock market crash, crisis, collapse, job loss, downsize, pink slips, bankruptcy, bad debt – all these have become the talk of the crowd. A negative atmosphere hangs … Read more
Preface Unless you live under a rock somewhere on Mars, you will be familiar with the term recession. It hits hard, both salaried persons as well as businessmen. However, there are people who don’t worry at all about the recession. Those without any debt! If they lost their income, they won’t lose their homes. They … 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
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