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The Challenges and Rewards of
Medical Transcription By Mary Ruff-King Although the field of medical transcription
is very attractive to most people because it does allow the opportunity
to work from home and make a decent to good income, most people who want
to get into this field do not know what challenges they will face once they
decide to pursue a career as a medical transcriptionist (MT).Medical transcription
work is not easy because doctors are rushed. Dictation and paperwork are
low priority tasks for them. Treating patients is their number one priority.
Even though doctors realize that paperwork and dictation are necessary tasks
they must complete,
how they do it leaves a lot to be desired. It can be difficult to understand
what a doctor has said, let alone what he/she has written.Consequently,
medical transcriptionists........must be vigilant and alert when transcribing.
An injury to the left leg can suddenly be dictated or written as the right
leg and then once again changed back to the left. MTs act in the capacity
of a quality control person and must catch such errors....are bonified medical
language specialists. There are many medical words that sound similar: Oral
and aural; abduction and adduction; and effusion and a fusion are good examples
of such similar sounding medical terms.
A good MT knows what words to use, or more accurately, what word or words
the doctor meant to say when he/she was dictating....must also be very competent
in English usage and grammar. Dictating on the fly, as doctors do, is not
easy; and it is the transcriptionist's responsibility to make sure the meaning
is conveyed in a concise and grammatically correct format. It takes time,
usually years, to fully develop this technical skill.Click
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