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Bad grammar and "verbatim" medical transcription - guess

Posted: Dec 13th, 2017 - 3:34 pm In Reply to: "I seen" ???? NM - MTSadly

is the other thing that is taking down this business. When I was in college 20-some years ago I was taught by my program director that as a transcriptionist it was my job to make the dictator look good on paper. Fix his horrid grammar and complete lack of sentence structure and apparent inability to use punctuation appropriately. Now we have to just make sure that the author understands it. Forget the potential attorney, judge, or other providers who have to make sense of it. I AM the grammar police though I will respect the boundaries of this board. I have to assume at least some of us do not have English as our first language. I'm not perfect but I would actually want to be corrected if I sounded like an idiot because of my grammar. We got these jobs because we had an affinity not only for the medical language but language period. Never stop learning.

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Two cents a line? Someone is actually working for this wage - and seems happy about it. Sad. sm (Views: 1786, 2017-11-30, 3:54 pm)
- But hey -- they get to work from home! - Me (Views: 1352, 2017-11-30, 4:56 pm)
- To make just 12 dollars an hour, you'd have to - get 600 lines an hour, which (Views: 1163, 2017-11-30, 7:41 pm)
  - Whoever is doing this is nuts. You cant even pay your own - taxes on that. nm (Views: 1185, 2017-11-30, 7:58 pm)
- Where did you see that? - StillAnMT (Views: 1086, 2017-11-30, 9:28 pm)
  - OTM - nm (Views: 1176, 2017-11-30, 9:30 pm)
- Was it in India? - sm (Views: 1057, 2017-11-30, 9:33 pm)
  - no, not India - On The Mark n/m (Views: 935, 2017-11-30, 9:59 pm)
    - On the Mark down - MT (Views: 1354, 2017-12-01, 6:02 am)
      - new grad on full QA training rate - how dare anyone give someone a break (Views: 1120, 2017-12-01, 8:40 am)
      - But "it's so expensive..." - Quoting (Views: 1087, 2017-12-01, 9:04 am)
      - Interesting - always (Views: 1113, 2017-12-01, 9:13 am)
      - Leave - See message pls (Views: 1119, 2017-12-01, 11:39 am)
      - "I seen" ???? NM - MTSadly (Views: 1051, 2017-12-01, 12:19 pm)
        Against the rules of this board to correct or make fun of grammar - MT (Views: 1080, 2017-12-01, 12:40 pm)
        Well, we ARE in the word business. - Sue (Views: 1297, 2017-12-01, 1:17 pm)
        Go preach somewhere else! - nm (Views: 998, 2017-12-02, 8:47 pm)
        Maybe so - but (Views: 1072, 2017-12-01, 3:20 pm)
        I Agree - I seen is off the wall (Views: 933, 2017-12-02, 8:03 am)
        not so funny grammar story - sm (Views: 922, 2017-12-02, 1:44 pm)
        You don't have to come on here and tolerate the posts. - nm (Views: 994, 2017-12-02, 8:48 pm)
        I do it on purpose so you can haf fun picking it apart.. - nuttin better to doo? (Views: 893, 2017-12-02, 7:26 am)
        I think that is unlikely. - xx (Views: 1209, 2017-12-02, 9:19 am)
        Who are you the grammar "BULLY"? - see message (Views: 1012, 2017-12-02, 8:44 pm)
        Bad grammar and "verbatim" medical transcription - guess
      - deplorable pay - scaredsilly (Views: 984, 2017-12-02, 11:43 pm)