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Medical Transcription

Medical transcription is one of the fastest-growing profession in the country today.

Medical transcription offers excellent opportunity to housewives, ex-servicemen, graduate fresh or experienced, especially the newly passed ones. It is also a high income career for the graduates. You can even sit at your home and earn money from home feasibly through medical transcription career, and one can organize his/her own work timings and avoid travel to the works for and thus earn more than the usual office goers.

Nature of job, doctors will dictates the patients’ information, which we will receive in wave format through voice mail or dictaphone which consists of medical datas, which we have to type.

Transcription process is conversion of voice to electronic text form. As this process deals medical data documentation, so this is called medical transcription. The person who deals with medical data process is called Medical Transcriptionist.

Any person can do home based medical transcription program, those who are interested to learn, who able to grasp accents’ of dictators’ voice, who able to understand English, who able to form sentences grammatically and finally, who wants to earn money shortly from home or office.

There are many institutions that providing free home based medical transcription training through internet with their own “terms and condition” and time limits, duration. To avail home based medical transcription training you should computer laptop or desktop with UPS, phone and internet connection for communications. They would design the program accordingly where one can learn medical transcription from home.

Home based Medical transcription Training program duration may be 2 to 4 months.

After successful completion of home medical transcription training from institute based on your quality and quantity, you will be offered a home based job medical transcription immediately, and you are supposed to sign an agreement and can start medical transcription job from home and can start earning from home. Companies will provide you files through internet which has to be transcribed.

Based on your quality and quantity, remuneration will be fixed with incentives per month and remuneration will be gradually increased as your experience increases. One can start earn initially low, but gradually can increase with incentives as experience increases.

Quality - the document should be without error and should not commit error beyond the limit. Files should be submitted with minimum 90% accuracy to company by the medical transcriptionist and to the client, 99.5% accuracy after QC/QA. Quantity - a transcriptionist should be able to transcribe minimum of 350 lines per day, initially after successful training.

Main advantage of taking home based medical transcription work, one can organize their own work timings. They can reduce your traveling time 2 to 4 hours, so that can spend more time in working to earn more.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Complete excision of right medial eyebrow lesion


PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:  Papular changing lesion, right medial brow.

POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:  Papular enlarging lesion right medial brow.

OPERATION PERFORMED:  Complete excision of right medial eyebrow lesion with complex repair, total length 1 cm, lesion measured approximately 6 mm in diameter.

OPERATIVE INDICATIONS:  The patient is a 54-year-old hospital employee at West Boca Medical Center who was concerned about a several-month history of enlarging lesion to her right medial brow.  She presented to her dermatologist, who recommended plastic surgical excision.  It is for this reason that she presents today.  It is a papular lesion, raised, palpable, and fairly discreet.  It is unclear whether it is mobile.

The findings discussed with the patient preoperatively.  I informed her that essentially this lesion can be excised, however, we are turning off this lesion for a scar, only time will tell how significant that scar will be.  In this manner, realistic expectations were provided.  I discussed potential complications included, but not limited to bleeding, infection, dehiscence to wound, all of which may require further procedures.  Depending on pathology reports, she may require further excisions.  As stated, I again reminded her of the scar today in the preoperative holding area.  Despite this, however, she wishes that I proceed.

PROCEDURE IN DETAIL:  The patient was taken to main operating room, placed supine on the operating table.  The entire area prepped and draped in _____ standard fashion.  A 1% lidocaine with epinephrine used for local anesthesia.  After satisfactory local anesthesia, chief complete excision carried out, using a 15C scalpel blade.  Operative findings revealed what appears to be an epidermal inclusion cyst.  It was completely excised including a cyst wall.  Specimen was sent to the Pathology including the overlying skin as it was densely adherent.  Irrigation carried out, hemostasis assured using low-power needle-tip cautery.  Reapproximation of deep and dermal layer performed using interrupted 7-0 Vicryl suture.  Skin closed using interrupted 7-0 Prolene suture.  Mastisol and Steri-Strips applied.  The patient tolerated the procedure well without complications.  She was transferred back to recovery room in good condition.  Estimated blood loss minimal.  All sponge, instruments, and needle counts correct.

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