Archive for March, 2009

One Ending Leads to Another Beginning

Confessions of an HIM Student Go to Source With class finished up one would think it would be smooth sailing all around. Unfortunately that’s now how life works. I am leaving tomorrow for NY for my internship and I have yet to pack one item as of now. Albeit my fault, it still is an [...]

Power hour gone sour

Medical Transcription: What’s in it for you? Go to Source I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.~Jerome K. Jerome That’s how I felt yesterday when I attempted a power hour. I got psyched up for it, ready to beat my best time, but it was all downhill [...]

Can You Afford to Trade Your House Payment for a Political Statement?

Passage Go to Source I love the internet, but it does bring out the worst in some people. . . Whilst it is wildly liberating to people with limited ability to make connections in real life, the polar opposite is that it enables some real narcissists to run amok, as well….(read more)

Words = Free Rice

MT Connections Go to Source In our line of work in health care documentation, words are our life. We spend hours on end transcribing spoken words or computer-generated words into a legal document for inclusion in a patient’s health care record. In the process we research unfamiliar…(read more)

WAH Hazards

I casually commented on my Facebook page the other day about one of my irrational work-at-home fears; i.e., that I will choke to death and there won’t be anyone here to notice. Don’t ask me where this fear comes from; I suspect it started with an episode of Six Feet Under that featured a woman [...]