What does an medical transcriptionist do? ?

Question

I've been thinking about taking theses threw the mail courses to become a medical transcriptionist. I've read that you can work from home by just typing out medical forms and faxing them back to the hospital. Is this true? or do you have to have to work in a doctors office. Anyone who works in the medical field or doctors office please reply. I need all the advice i can get..thanks

Answer 1

What does "a" medical transcriptionist do.  

Answer 2

Doctors dictate diagnoses (and letters, etc.) into recorders, medical transcriptionists listen to the recordings and type it.

Modern systems use on-line recorders, doctors can record at their offices and you can listen and type at home, then send the typed transcriptions back for the doctor to review.

You will need to know the detail medical terminology of the particular area that you are transcribing for.  Dermitologists vs. neurologists vs. clinical pathologists vs. orthopedists all use very different terminology, and you will need to recognize it on the recording, and type it correctly into the transcription.

Once you are good at it, you will certainly be able to get a job, and yes, many do work from home.

Generally paid by the word / record, possibly adjusted based on error rate, rather than being paid based on time worked.  Faster and better results in more pay per hour.

Answer 3

You will find lots of useful information about medical transcription job from this site:

http://www.leenk.org/link/medical-transc...

Answer 4

My mom has been doing it for years. The doctors at most hospitals usually make notes through a tape recorder, and a medical transitions has to listen to these tapes and type up the report. My mom had her own business at home doing this, but then they shipped all of her work overseas. It's a very demanding job, so it seems. Understanding the doctors is a hardship all on its own!

Answer 5

I know it's a very damaging job...Once happened to me that the record report that a doctor did about my x-rays were messed up while its translation in India. He almost performed surgery on me because of those records. I really don't see why doctors cannot write their own reports. It is just plain stupid.