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    Medical transcriptionists transcribe dictations from doctors regarding patient examinations, diagnoses, treatments, and test results. They must understand doctors' fast, technical speech and convert their shorthand into formal medical reports, including formatting, spelling, and clarifying unintended remarks. Transcriptionists use judgment to determine the essential medical information to include from doctors' dictations, which may include jokes, conversations, or noises, in order to produce accurate reports reflecting what the doctor intended.

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    Medical transcriptionists transcribe dictations from doctors regarding patient examinations, diagnoses, treatments, and test results. They must understand doctors' fast, technical speech and convert their shorthand into formal medical reports, including formatting, spelling, and clarifying unintended remarks. Transcriptionists use judgment to determine the essential medical information to include from doctors' dictations, which may include jokes, conversations, or noises, in order to produce accurate reports reflecting what the doctor intended.

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    Medical transcriptionists transcribe dictations from doctors regarding patient examinations, diagnoses, treatments, and test results. They must understand doctors' fast, technical speech and convert their shorthand into formal medical reports, including formatting, spelling, and clarifying unintended remarks. Transcriptionists use judgment to determine the essential medical information to include from doctors' dictations, which may include jokes, conversations, or noises, in order to produce accurate reports reflecting what the doctor intended.

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    What Does A

    Medical
    Transcriptionist
    Do?
     Doctors see patients in
    hospitals, clinics and physicians’
    offices and dictate important
    information about the patient’s
    history, physical examination,
    diseases, procedures, laboratory
    tests and diagnoses. They talk
    in technical terms and often so
    quickly that you must know
    approximately what they are
    supposed to say or you won’t be
    able to understand it when you
    hear it!
     New students often think that the "dictation"
    doctors do is like some executive dictating a
    letter to a secretary, in which he/she specifies
    every line break, every paragraph, every
    punctuation mark, and most of the spelling.
    This is absolutely NOT how doctors dictate.
    They expect the medical transcriptionist to do
    the formatting, the spelling, and to convert that
    dictated material from the doctor’s shorthand
    medical slang to formal medical language.
     Doctors often say things in
    their dictation that they
    never intend to be
    transcribed. They say, "Oh,
    no, start over," "Go back and
    change that," and make all
    sorts of chitchat. They tell
    the transcriptionist jokes,
    relate cute stories, and they
    sing! They have
    conversations with people
    around them and often do
    this WHILE doing the actual
    dictation.
     Example of something a
    medical transcriptionist might
    hear:
    "The patient is a 32-year-old
    put him in room 2 white
    male who presented with a
    yeah, start an IV chief
    complaint of rats I can't find
    it what was this guy's
    problem when he got here?
    Never mind belly pain
    (rattle of x-ray film) ...okay,
    she can go; this is clear."
     They also often begin and end by saying hello,
    goodbye, thank you, and have a nice holiday.
    They don't intend for this to be transcribed. The
    job of the medical transcriptionist is to figure out
    what is supposed to be part of the report and
    what is not. We are not robots who simply repeat
    everything we hear. We use judgement in
    deciding what to include and what not to include.
    Even if you are asked to do "verbatim"
    transcription, they NEVER expect you to type
    every noise the dictator makes. We don't
    transcribe noises; we transcribe and interpret
    meaning. We do that without changing the style
    of the physician’s dictation and without ever
    changing the medical meaning. The end result is
    that the report says exactly what the doctor
    wants it to say.
    That’swhat
    medical
    transcriptio
    nists do.

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