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Easiest area of transcription - shred

Posted: Jul 06, 2012

Just curious, if someone is just getting into medical transcription, what would be considered the easiest type of work to do, if there is such a thing? I was started out doing ER work and wonder if that's the simplest or just what they needed most at the time?

easiest - me

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The easiest is what you are best trained in.

I started in pathology - and worked my way up.

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back then the pathology departments would pretty much take anyone who could type and had somewhat of an aptitude. Most of the reports were just a few sentences long and very repetitious.

Easiest area - Leaving MT

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I have done acute care, psych, multispecialty clinic, ER, and radiology, and I think psych was the easiest. I made the best money doing ER, though.

Well, what's easiest for me... - (see message)

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....might not be easiest for someone else. I think we all have our own favorites. For instance, I haven't done Pathology, but I think it looks REALLY HARD from reading the path reports I saw at my hospital! It's a lot of details and a lot of numbers, and it looks like it would be easy to make a mistake on. My hat's off to those of you who do it all the time!

For me, I think straight H&Ps are a snap...the very easiest. Hospital ER notes are very easy, too, and sometimes really interesting, just for the stories alone! ER notes for a Minor Emergency Center--very easy but not so interesting. :-)

Absolutely (see message) - Leaving MT

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Yes, I agree. I do a lot of primary care clinic notes at my current MT gig, and those are really easy. I think OP notes are hard, but we don't get them very often, and when we do get one, it could be dictated by some resident whose voice we have never heard before. I have never seen or done much pathology, though.

To me, at this stage, I care more about the ease of the platform than about the ease of the specialty. I think one can learn new specialties, but if the platform stinks, not much can be done about that.

None of it is "easy." - anon

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I think being an MT requires mad skills, so none of it is easy per se.

However, there are some specialties that are harder like Oncology and Cardiology.

radiology... - the easiest by far

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and the most lucrative... almost all templates

It's a Subjective Question - Way Old MT

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I guess if one had to pick something that was "easy," it would be clinic-type, and ER is kind of like clinic. However, NONE of it is wasy if you don't know the content.

I think all would agree that if one can do acute care, they can do clinic, but certainly not the other way around.

Good point - anon

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Clinic is the "easy" side of the MT coin. I know many clinic MTs who are unable to do acute care work.

I went from a clinic setting to working in-house for 3-4 years at a large hospital. I honestly believe working in-house is vital to becoming a highly skilled acute care MT. The support of having others sitting next to you to listen and help out was invaluable to me, but I digress.

Clinic work is by far the easiest.

not necessarily - ollie

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I was trained in acute care. The first time I did a dermatology clinic, orthopaedics, plastic surgery - thrown for a loop for a small amount of time. IMO, it's ALL just a matter of learning the vocabulary list, just like you did back in middle school. Clinics often go into much more depth than you find in acute care, so you can't necessarily just dismiss someone trained in clinics.

easiest work - oldone

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Clinic notes are super easy, but boring. Radiology is easier to me than most but I was exclusively in Rad for 12 years in house. Particularly prefer OP notes...get medical equipment book from Stedmans. You will not have to type many meds in radiology but you will also need a Rad Stedman's book. Remember most Rad is stat or at least a very quick turn around. Good luck to you and you can do it!

EASY dictation vs difficult - Alice

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In my experience, whether or not a dictation is easy or difficult has more to do with the speaker than anything else, but if all variables are equal, with clear speakers, I do love ER and psychiatry notes, especially when less than 5 minutes long. I've had some clinic notes that are extremely complicated, especially some I had from a very long-winded doc who specialized in cardiopulmonary. Interestingly, I thought clinic notes would be easier, but some were more difficult than any I had in acute care, including OP notes.

Right. Worked for 100+ clinic: ortho, pulm, uro, ent, card, gyn, onc, derm, gi, - neuro, nephro, ophth, surg. Not easy.

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radiology was the easiest for me..nm - MT55

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Radiology is easy for me. - buddymt

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I have been doing radiology for 14 years. There are a lot with templates, but there is a lot of straight typing. It just depends on the account specifics. But, the terminology is repetitive, so it is fairly easy. I love it.

Any report I can do without the company bugging me - IAMT

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and leaving me alone to do my work without interruptions;-)

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