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Originally Posted by raeanna74
Medical Transcriptionist - I looked into this. There are several companies that sub-contract to people to do this sort of work from home. Some hospitals or clinics have people there who do it but you would not have to do much with other people. When I looked into it the only requirement for most companies was a single medical terminology course. Inexpensive and it was very useful when later I dealt with my own Dr appointments because I better understood what they were saying.
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My mother is a medical transcriptionist, and seems to enjoy it. She works from home, has never even met her boss (or for that matter, anyone else who works for the company), and all correspondence takes place online.
From what I understand, it works like this....
.....doctors call a certain phone number to dictate their reports, those reports are entered into a "bank" of reports that the company is tasked with transcribing. The transcribers dial a number that gives them access to the "bank" of dictations and basically work at their own pace to (given the time constraints on the physician's orders). Once a particular is typed up, the transcriptionist emails it to the "home office" who checks for errors, typos, etc. and then sends back to the doc.
You'll never be rich, but it's a good solid job if you're organized and have excellent typing abilities (in addition to decyphering wtf foreign doctors are even trying to say in their dictations.)