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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.

Thursday 2 August 2012

Upper endoscopy


PROCEDURE:  Upper endoscopy.

INDICATION:  Epigastric pain.

Indications, risks, benefits, alternatives and limitations explained to the patient.  Risk of anesthesia, perforation, bleeding, infection, cardiopulmonary risk, morbidity, and mortality was discussed possibly missing a lesion, polyp, growth, mass, and cancer was discussed.  Risk of cold biopsy, hot biopsy, and polypectomy was discussed.  Oropharyngeal injury, sore throat, bronchitis, aspiration pneumonia, and sinusitis were discussed.  All these discussions were done in the office.  She understood all of the above.  All her questions were answered.  She agreed to the procedure.  She came to the endoscopy unit.  She had no further questions or concerns.  Physical exam was grossly negative.  She then gave an informed consent.

She was taken to the endoscopy room.  Anesthesia provided sedation.  The scope was advanced to esophagus, stomach and duodenum.  Third portion, second portion, and bulb were normal.  Pylorus was normal.  Antrum and body was examined.  There was presence of gastritis.  Biopsy was taken.  On retroflexion, _____ fundus and cardia were normal.  The stomach insufflated very well.  No abnormal folds were seen.  Esophageal gastric junction was normal.  Esophageal mucosa was normal.  Procedure completed.  The patient tolerated the procedure well.

IMPRESSION: Gastritis and epigastric pain.  Workup so far was negative.  Etiology was unclear.

PLAN:  Continue Protonix and I have recommended, she do DISIDA scan with ejection fraction and we will follow up in the office in 2 weeks.  We will make further recommendations depending on the clinical course and findings of the above results and the biopsy.
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