I am an avid bookaholic and seeing grammatical mistakes drives me nuts
(unless of course they are a quotation and meant to convey character). I
can't help it--no matter how much I enjoy a book when there are blatant
errors it just bugs me. Don't they have editors? Or is it as hard to find
good editors as it is good transcriptionists?

I used to typeset book manuscripts for Doubleday, and when we caught
errors we were supposed to enter a code so it would be checked and
hopefully corrected. I was told I made too many code entries.

I sometimes only got to typeset part of a book, and one particularly
interesting one I bought a copy of to read the whole story, and there, in
the section I had typeset was a glaring grammatical error I had clearly
coded, so what good did it do? No, it was not something that was
essential to part of the story, just a glaring grammatical error (I forget
the details as it was years ago, and that job went out to the Islands!)

Barb C.

Hi everyone,

I am in the midst of an argument with someone who thinks they know all
there is to know about transcription. I was helping someone else out on
another group about training for a transcriptionist and this other woman
pipes in. I am copying what she had to say in two posts about it. I am
going to get back to her about this, but I was wondering if I could
collect your infinite wisdom on things to set her straight. By the way,
just in case no one remembers me, I mostly lurk on this group and have
been a transcriptionist for 17 years.

Have you tried to listen to a tape and type it on your own?

I did medical transcription for a few years and I never took any
courses for it. I still do transcription of my own tapes for my
articles that I write. If you know how to type and have a medical
dictionary and a dictaphone, it shouldn't be a problem. All you do is
put the tape in the dictaphone, push the pedals, type what you hear
and use a dictionary for questionable words. I never had a problem
when doing this and I worked for both doctors and employment
agencies.



I worked as a medical transcriptionist for five years with no training
(3 years for a group of doctors and two years for two employment
agencies, doing transcription for at least 20 different medical
groups/hospitals). And then I did it at home for a while. My BIL now
owns his own medical transcription business. He never had any
training.

Anyone who has intelligence, knows how to type, has a basic knowledge
of medical termininology, owns a medical dictionary and can use a tape
recorder can teach medical transcription to themselves like I did and
like my BIL did.


Thanks so much.

--
Sue (mom to three girls)

Thank you everyone for responding. The women is upset at me now because I
guess I made her look bad. But, honestly, I cannot stand people who think
anyone can do this job and it is easy. I know for a fact this woman could
not type one day for the interventional radiology or operative notes I
type. It's scary to think that she has just typed what she hears. There
could have been some horrible errors made. Hopefully, someone was editing
her reports. Again, thanks so much.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

"Sue" <sburke9368@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:k6KdnY50OuyHL47VnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@wideopenwest.com...
Hi everyone,

I am in the midst of an argument with someone who thinks they know all
there is to know about transcription. I was helping someone else out on
another group about training for a transcriptionist and this other woman
pipes in. I am copying what she had to say in two posts about it. I am
going to get back to her about this, but I was wondering if I could
collect your infinite wisdom on things to set her straight. By the way,
just in case no one remembers me, I mostly lurk on this group and have
been a transcriptionist for 17 years.

Have you tried to listen to a tape and type it on your own?

I did medical transcription for a few years and I never took any
courses for it. I still do transcription of my own tapes for my
articles that I write. If you know how to type and have a medical
dictionary and a dictaphone, it shouldn't be a problem. All you do is
put the tape in the dictaphone, push the pedals, type what you hear
and use a dictionary for questionable words. I never had a problem
when doing this and I worked for both doctors and employment
agencies.



I worked as a medical transcriptionist for five years with no training
(3 years for a group of doctors and two years for two employment
agencies, doing transcription for at least 20 different medical
groups/hospitals). And then I did it at home for a while. My BIL now
owns his own medical transcription business. He never had any
training.

Anyone who has intelligence, knows how to type, has a basic knowledge
of medical termininology, owns a medical dictionary and can use a tape
recorder can teach medical transcription to themselves like I did and
like my BIL did.


Thanks so much.

--
Sue (mom to three girls)

Don't tempt me. I have the book this is apparently a parody of, and even a
couple of things in that are a little too liberal for me. This one sounds
funny, but someone just gave me a box of old books, and I have sworn off
buying books until I read them, or at least the ones that interest me, and
there are several. Buying books is one of my vices, and library is too far
away, especially with gas prices!

Barb C.
"Sue" <sburke9368@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:lfidnRkEcckbWYjVnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@wideopenwest.com...
Thank you everyone for responding. The women is upset at me now because I
guess I made her look bad. But, honestly, I cannot stand people who think
anyone can do this job and it is easy. I know for a fact this woman could
not type one day for the interventional radiology or operative notes I
type. It's scary to think that she has just typed what she hears. There
could have been some horrible errors made. Hopefully, someone was editing
her reports. Again, thanks so much.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

"Sue" <sburke9368@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:k6KdnY50OuyHL47VnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@wideopenwest.com...
Hi everyone,

I am in the midst of an argument with someone who thinks they know all
there is to know about transcription. I was helping someone else out on
another group about training for a transcriptionist and this other woman
pipes in. I am copying what she had to say in two posts about it. I am
going to get back to her about this, but I was wondering if I could
collect your infinite wisdom on things to set her straight. By the way,
just in case no one remembers me, I mostly lurk on this group and have
been a transcriptionist for 17 years.

Have you tried to listen to a tape and type it on your own?

I did medical transcription for a few years and I never took any
courses for it. I still do transcription of my own tapes for my
articles that I write. If you know how to type and have a medical
dictionary and a dictaphone, it shouldn't be a problem. All you do is
put the tape in the dictaphone, push the pedals, type what you hear
and use a dictionary for questionable words. I never had a problem
when doing this and I worked for both doctors and employment
agencies.



I worked as a medical transcriptionist for five years with no training
(3 years for a group of doctors and two years for two employment
agencies, doing transcription for at least 20 different medical
groups/hospitals). And then I did it at home for a while. My BIL now
owns his own medical transcription business. He never had any
training.

Anyone who has intelligence, knows how to type, has a basic knowledge
of medical termininology, owns a medical dictionary and can use a tape
recorder can teach medical transcription to themselves like I did and
like my BIL did.


Thanks so much.

--
Sue (mom to three girls)

So much depends on the specialty as well as the dictator. I have one
psychiatrist who spells every single word that is not in the psychiatric
vernacular (thanks, doc, but I know how to spell Nexium). OTOH one can
hear something (peroneal comes to mind, or was that peritoneal) where
you may know one of those words and have no idea which goes where or in
what context. Your spellcheck might not flag it but you may be using it
as in the right spelling but in the wrong context. Combine that with
lazy dictators who don't pay attention to right versus left and the
inexperienced is very likely to produce real crap.

And just saying a person has a good grasp of the English language
doesn't mean they do. Witnessing errant apostrophes on the TV scroll or
in newspaper headlines makes me question proofreaders at all levels.

Typing what you hear might work for
the occasional silver-throated dictator who rarely misspeaks, always
spells correctly, and knows how to put a coherent, gramatically correct
sentence together on the fly. It doesn't work so well for the doctor who
says (always) "No palpations, rubs, or thrills" or who makes word salad
out of a sentence and you have to un-toss it on the fly or who dictates
an incorrect or impossible drug dosage, etc. I'd love to edit someone
like this against the voice.


--
RaeMorrill
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