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MT Connections Go to Source I have finally figured out why my home office is a mess! I am suffering from TiVo Guilt! Like millions of Americans, I have told my TiVo to record season passes for my favorite shows … and TiVo even came back to me and recommended even more shows based on [...]

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Like dear, tragic Hamlet, we occasionally wretched and tragic MTs often see nothing but words, words, words in books. We have stacks of books that contain nothing but alphabetized words. There are no sentences, [...]

I didn’t find much to laugh about when I read the Advance Insiders blog, Speech Wreck, by Jeanne Johnston. Basically, it’s a regurgitation of the misperceptions, inaccuracies and just plain bull-headed resistance to change exhibited in many of the medical transcription online communities. I expect better from bloggers at a site like Advance. Let me [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source Alas, the most coverage I caught of yesterday’s health care summit was a poor attempt to read the closed captioning on CNN while pedaling away at the gym. So I was eager to get into work this morning and read up on what went down. Well, there weren’t any [...]

ADVANCE Perspective: HIM Go to Source How do you, as HIM professionals, shop for doctors? Being in the health care field, HIM professionals have a unique view of how they should be treated as patients and the care they can expect to receive. Jacque Taylor, AHDI-F, one of our Top 10 in HIM, told her [...]

Passage Go to Source I hate the term, and I find it intensely annoying that not only MTs are using this as a pet name for that silly, old speech recognition now making our lives miserable, but even employers are sending out “humorous” emails with today’s funny from the engine that will not learn. Except [...]

Without exception, the #1 question I get via e-mail from MT Registry goes something like this: I graduated and I can’t get a job. All the job openings require experience. How do I get experience when nobody will hire you unless you have experience? It’s like traveling back in time to when I was looking [...]

MT Herald Go to Source Ramon posed me an interesting question “Who is in my feed reader?” or to be precise “Which blogs on medical transcription do I regularly read?”  Instead of answering the comment on that post itself, I thought it would be appropriate for me to share the list here so that everybody [...]

MT Herald Go to Source What is perfectionism? In simple words, perfectionism is that quality that drives a person to try his best and to make the effort to excel and surpass. Wikipedia describes perfectionism this way: Perfectionism, in psychology, is a belief that perfection can and should be attained. In its pathological form, perfectionism [...]

MT Herald Go to Source 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, [...]