Article Manager posted on January 27, 2010 07:37
If you're not quite sure what a medical transcriptionist does, take a minute learn a little bit about the profession. It's a profession that commands great respect among other medical professionals. Physicians and hospital executives rely on medical transcriptionists for a number of reasons, including payment. Insurance companies won't pay invoices until they receive a dictation report and the medical transcriptionist is the person who provides it.
A medical transcriptionist in a word is a typist. But they are no ordinary typist. They must be able to listen to a voice recording and interpret what is being said, then type that in a grammatically correct way using the proper medical terms. That's not as easy as it sounds.
Sometimes the medical transcriptionist isn't listening to a recording, but is instead reading something that someone else wrote. You have to be able to understand the handwritten notes of doctors and hospital workers. Then transcribe that into understandable prose, grammatically correct, and using proper medical terminology.
A medical transcriptionist may work for a doctor, a hospital, an insurance company, or a collection of doctors. They could be self employed or work full-time in an office. But they must be smart. Not just anyone can be a medical transcriptionist.