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Medical, General, Legal Transcription – Which One?

I asked this question to Yahoo Answers, and this is the only answer I get. In medical transcription, you are transcribing reports for healthcare professionals particularly doctors, depending on conditions. The hard part will be, for instance, if you do clinic account it will be easy because more than five doctors can be the assigned to you. Style Guide is also simple in doing medical transcription and adapting with doctors is also relaxed. In a hospital setting, you should have lot of experience to do those voice files. General transcription is an extremely tough work when you compare with medical transcription. Why? Because in medical transcription, if a patient comes with a specific disease, the file will be discussed regarding that disease only. In general transcription, the dictators or doctors speakers can use a number of relations. There is also fast dictation and in some voice files more than one speakers will be there in one voice file. There is a large chance of misperception....

Career Growth as Voice Transcriptionist – Being a Shift Manager

Is there really a career growth working in voice transcription? I had a chance interviewing a shift manager for a US based transcription company. At that time, he was working on weekends in transcription provider of recovery database network. He was basically editing voice transcription. Back in May 2006, he was invited to take a vacation by a friend who was then a shift manager for a data company in US. He was encouraged to try voice transcription. A day after, he applied as a trainee. After two weeks, he was employed as a part time home based transcriptionist. In June 2007, he was then promoted to shift manager. Given a chance, he would like to work as home based voice transcriptionist because he wanted to maximize the use of his Internet service. It is also more convenient working home based than commuting to and from to work. He prefers to do general voice transcription. He has been doing business transcription for four years at that time. He states that to become an effective tran...