Medical Transcription Jobs India

medictrans · Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 51

Hello people,

I just thought I would relate something amusing that I felt like sharing with others. This is for people with lofty perceptions about the role of being a medical transcriptionist. It takes skill, training, experience, good grasp of English language, hard work etc. etc. We all know this crap. So those of us (myself included) who have their head above the clouds need to be brought to earth very quickly, which is what happened to me yesterday.
I was contacted by my school friend after 30 or so years and after exchanging pleasantries, we caught up on what was what and who ran away with whom and why he ran away with whatever and so on. He is a civil engineer and when I told him with a swelled chest that I was an editor/medical transcriptionist in the line for 5 golden years, he was puzzled and wanted to know what I actually did. So I explained the whole thingamajig to him and at the end asked if he got the idea. So this swine lost friend of mine casually says, "Oh, you are a typist!" Why are you confusing me by going on and on about doctors and audio files and reports and TAT or whatever? You are a goddamn typist, so what? What is the big deal?

Obviously without saying anything more, I whined I had a headache and wished him to get lost for another 30 years for pricking my balloon. Damn him!

But I think he hit the nail on the head. However much you argue, you cannot get away from the fact that all we do the whole day is sit and pound away on the keyboard, electronic, electric, manual or whatever. For that matter, so-called software engineers or other bums sitting at computers for long hours are all typists. The only difference I see is that they get paychecks monthly which will probably take me six months or more to equal on a monthly basis. So what? THEY ARE HIGHLY PAID TYPISTS and we are lowly paid typists.

Well folks, I leave it to you to realize what the common man thinks of medical transcriptionists. So to all of you people who have a big head or think they have oodles of experience, you are a typist, was a typist, and will always be a typist. No wonder the employers all take us for a ride.

Evil or Very Mad