Posted by boB on April 16, 2000, at 21:48:36
In reply to To Brenda, the medical transcriptionist, posted by Craig on April 16, 2000, at 2:29:25
> BTW - I'm a medical transcriptionist and work at home. All MT's have access to very private records and take the confidentiality issue very seriously.
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> I am very interested to know how you are able to work at home transcribing medical reports since that is the kind of job I want to do. I have a degree in medical record technology and am familiar with transcription, but my job was as a health record analyst. Unfortunately, my accreditation has lapsed and I haven't worked in that field since 1988. Besides experience, what are the requirements for transcriptionists these days? Do you work part of the time at the hospital or are you able to work all your hours at home? How realistic are my chances of finding this kind of job so that I can work at home? I would appreciate any advice you might offer.I just want to interject a warning here. There is a bit of a scam going around where these publishing houses run ads in help wanted sections recruiting work-at-home medical transcriptionists. People who reply are sold a book, supposedly explaining how to get started in the high-paid field of medical transcription. What the firms fail to explain before they take anywhere from $40 to $150 for their book is that the person has to sell their own services to physicians or other clients. According to attorney's general press releases, these companies seldom have clients available that are looking for medical transcriptionists.
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