MT Bio – Part 2

After my first at-home job with the medical transcription service that had NO experience in this specific business (se MT Bio – Part 1), I began to look elsewhere for employment when we first signed on to the Internet from home with our first dial-up service in 1996. I became aware that — lo [...]

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MT Bio–Part 1

I’ve been a medical transcriptionist since 1980…working from home since 1996. While I’m grateful for the fact that I have a way of earning a (modest) living from my home, over the years, I’ve begun to question the “career” I fell into. I’m a college graduate — but in “liberal arts” — OK so you [...]

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Yes, you still need books….

Many believe that the “old-fashioned” word books or other reference books for medical transcription have become dinosaurs in the age of the Internet, but I disagree. Yes — you can google phrases and the like that stump you, but I STILL find myself pulling one of my many specialty word books off the shelf [...]

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CMT

This is something only medical transcriptionists would be even vaguely interested in, so here’s your fair warning. CMT is Certified Medical Transcriptionist — a certification visited on those who successfully pass the knowledge and performance examination adminstered by the American Association for Medical Transcription. You must have 2 years’ experience in acute care before [...]

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Medical Transcription / Kafka

You may ask: How is “medical transcription” Kafkaesque? The way I like to look at it (to help keep me from going insane), is that….in the same way a literary genius like Kafka held a mundane job, I am a medical transcriptionist. Although, in my case, you’d have to leave out the “literary” and “genius” [...]

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