Inside Medical Transcription

Green, that is, environmentally responsible, not green, that is, without experience, that is.

That reminds me, I once heard a teacher Student Health doctor require that the patient was green behind the ears. What is this, I wondered, an ugly green fungus behind the growing Ears of the poor students? It turned out that he had meant to say that the patient was wet behind the ears, not green behind the ears, which means that the patient was a novice pre-med student.

Back to green … I have decided to go green in my home office. I’m doing this already, just by working at home and not drive my car every day, printing on both sides of the paper, unplugging my computer at night, and recycling, but I thought I could KICK IT UP a notch , So I decided to replace my land-death, life sucking regular light bulbs with new energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

According to the article linked here, Energy Star, “If every American home replaced just a light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, it would save enough energy to light more than 3 million households for a year, more than 600 millions of dollars in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars. ”

That’s a little hard to swallow, but I think everything that I read on the web, especially if the government does not condone, so this weekend I’m going to buy three of these fantastic world-saving CFLs for my office at home two … to my desk lamps and a hanging light thingy.

These three bulbs will save me 30% of my house emissions, according to a carbon footprint calculator I have consulted.

According to the calculator linked EarthLab then my home total output of carbon now is 1.8 tonnes with a score of CCA 182. The average American household output is 20 tons with an average score of CCA 325.

See what working at home can do for the world?

Despite the fact that often work at home, isolated from the outside world, medical transcriptionists are still known to be a sociable lot.

MTs who work at home may have limited contact with the outside world. His work-a world today consists of a computer, the Internet, e-mails, instant messages, voice and the distant hum of doctors in their ears. There are no gentlemen in the vicinity of cubicles, no supervisors, no meetings, no lunch dates. For some, this is heaven. For some, this is isolation.

Transcriptionists who are when working alone at home soon discover that there are social outlets available to them on the web. MTS and find other people who work at home, around the world, firing messages back and forth through the work at home sites. Their messages are about their jobs, their children and husbands, their hopes and dreams. They talk about celebrities going into rehabilitation once more, recipes for quick dinners, taxes and their various aches and pains, and time away from his home office windows. They send their messages on breaks, late at night, early in the morning, throughout the workday. On weekends, noticeboards become quiet, and to spend time in the real world with their families and friends.

Over the years, various medical transcription message boards have come and gone, but the same MTs find each other on the new boards. Some MTs and have never met, however, have been friends for more than a decade, talking to each other every day, discussing world events, politics and religion. It is a way of life for transcriptionists, and seems to work.

Let’s say you’re a MT offers jobs that is perfect for you, perhaps one that pays in real gold, and dictators have Purring voices and call you darling, but, unfortunately, the hospital is located in a remote in the South Pacific island, where doctors and patients have to be flown in by helicopter. Although the idea that the work makes your heart go pitter-patter, ask to be paid to their own long distance charges to download the dictation, and you realize that the phone bill would be prohibitive and, unfortunately, you must decline the bid. What do you say? Oh yes, the phone bill would be exorbitant.

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I’m speechless, and that’s quite difficult to achieve.