Medical Transcription a demanding job

This is the common setting when a medical trancriptionist is working. Looks very simple right? Sitting all day facing the computer and transcribing. But its not so simple if you ask me.

I came to hear about medical transcription from a friend online. I searched over the internet and I found that the requirements are very simple for a person who is in any medical related field. So I enrolled myself in a school and this month I would be getting my certificate. I am attracted to this because of a chance to work at home. But lately I realized that this profession is very demanding.
Why? Because it requires knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, medical terminology, laboratory results, and almost everything a doctor should know. Not only that you need to be very good with written English, and a high accuracy rate matched with a fast typing speed. I say it is demanding looking at the requirements. A common knowledge for doctors and a English proficiency of a English college teacher. And for what amount of pay? A few cents per line you transcribed or a few bucks per thousands of words? It looks very underpaid if you ask me. It is difficult to be an MT, especially if you just finished the course and found a job. Your lucky if you find a considerate dictator that speaks clearly and spells out uncommon terms or medicines.

I managed to find a friend who is doing MT homebased. She was able to let her client assess me and hire me on a trial basis. I was very happy. But then the rate is very low. I accepted it though considering I am a new and I am not yet very fast in typing. I just said to myself, there is no such thing as easy money and continued doing this. The doctor used to send me work once a week. But it has been over a week now and I have not heard anything from him although he replies to my email. I'm not sure where this will lead to. It would help if people were open to say things like "your fired" or "I can't send you work anymre" etc. Although I don't think that this is the reason in my case. Geez, I hate suspense. This is making me a little frustrated.

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WARNING: Fake Yahoomail Update!!!

I just woke up! As the usual day for me I go straight in to my computer check my emails. My ecurrency accounts and I found 1 very interesting email. I got a notification about yahoo wanting me to update my account information. I immediately checked who is the sender and it is not from a yahoo service email. Its from Yahoo! Mail Security Centre [verify.account0001@live.com]. Its very odd that this email is in my spam folder and is using a live.com email. I immediately wanted to blog it! LOL! Previously I have recieved scam emails from some foundation claiming that I have won something. Then This month I have recieved a few emails that my eccurrency account has been block and I need to reply to an email with all my log in passes and now they want our email details? What could be so important with our mails? More importantly if any of you get this type of email don't reply to it. Another phising activity.

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Listening to music when stressed..

Oh great another boring day for me! We had our Quiz today at school and after that I have nothing to do. I went back home, clicked in some ptc, made a post in some paid forum and checked some of my hyip investents. After that I have nothing more to do. I remember hearing a song of HIM the other day when I was really tired and stressed. It my first time hearing it and I really LIKED it A LOT!!


Funeral of Hearts (Lyrics)
- HIM
Love's the funeral of hearts
an ode for cruelty
when angels cry blood
on flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

She was the sun
Shining upon
The tomb of your hopes and dreams so frail
He was the moon
Painting you
With it's glow so vulnerable and pale

Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

She was the wind, carrying in
All the troubles and fears you've for years tried to forget
He was the fire, restless and wild
And you were like a moth to that flame

The heretic seal beyond divine
A prayer to a god who's deaf and blind
The last rites for souls on fire
Three little words and a question - why?

Love's the funeral of hearts
And an ode for cruelty
When angels cry blood
On flowers of evil in bloom

The funeral of hearts
And a plea for mercy
When love is a gun
Separating me from you

I don't know when this was composed and what year it was released (I don't concern myself of this things though) after listening to it I feel much better. A little bit relaxed. I believe anyone would agree that listening to music is a good way of relaxing hen feeling tired and stressed.

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February 2, Yearly Fiesta

Every year we celebrate our annual fiesta in honor of our patron saint Nuestra Señora De la Candilaria (Our Lady of Candles). We never fail to celebrate it. It has been observed way back during the time of my great great grandparents. The image that you see on the left is the picture of our cathedral. A stone image of our patron saint is found there. It has been seen as a very holy artifact. My grandparents used to tell stories that during their time it was very small found by some fishermen on a corner of a river bank. Size was about less than 2 feet. But years and decades have passed it grew in size and now its over 5 feet tall. It made people think that it is very special and holy. People from neighboring towns and cities come here in devotion to her for blessings and a good life ahead. Which is a good thing for us and most residents here in Jaro. Relatives may it be close or distant comes over and celebrate it with us. A lot of my unknown relatives come by every year. It makes my grandparents happy. They would talk for long hours remembering their struggles in the past. I must say it is a good way of strengthening family bonds again. People nowadays are busy with life, work, and studies and only during this occasions we stop and think about our families.

Eight days before February 2 (which is tomorrow) we start our devotion by adding a Novena after our daily rosary. It will continue for 9 days and February being the ninth. A novena is a scared prayer in devotion to any saint. My grandparents take it seriously. But I being schooled in a Protestant school for all of my life fail to give much appreciation to it.

Foods and drinks: A fiesta is not well celebrated without tasty food and a lot of beverages. My aunts and uncles has sent the budget last month and my mom is doing the cooking. She is slicing meat at the moment to be cooked early dawn. About the beverages. I didn't invite my classmates over as I a m not good being a host and plus I can't ride along in drinking session. I have low tolerance for alcohol. But my brother is quite the opposite of me. He has bought a few cases of hard drinks for most of his classmates come every year to "drink and be merry". My family has been strict with us with vices but it is only during this occasion that they become ignorant and allow us to drink and smoke a lot (but of course the next day it is not allowed).

Guests do this "house-to-house eating behavior" during fiestas. You surely need to bring along some digestive medicines. You might end up having a stomach ache for over eating different kinds of food. Not all guests are into stay and drink. Other go to the plaza fair to try their luck with some street gambling. Elders to to cockfights and bet big money! At the en of the day. We have a lot of dishes to clean and some or no more food left (usually grandma gives it to her relatives as a take home give away).

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Things I've been doing

For the past few months I have been very busy offline and online.

Offline:
First, I am a nursing student. I went back to school this 2nd semester because of a hard subject I failed last year. I aligned my goal not to fail this year and guess what? My pre-liminary exam went well. I was happy and thinking that I would be passing this semester with flying colors. My optimistic behavior got reversed after I knew the result of my mid-term exam. Sigh, it did not went well. the results is very low that it neutralized my score in pre-lim and at this rate I will fail again. I really feel stupid. My class in only on Thurday and Friday morning, giving me a lot of time to study and yet I failed? I spent the past few days reflecting on myself what am I doing wrong? What do I need to improve? Now on Monday, the college faculty has arranged a remedial class (because many failed) for all the student who failed to attend. Anyone who won't attend that will not be allowed to get a removal examination. This gives me pressure. I can't oput myself to study. If I get to study, it does not stick to my head. I've been trying to pressure myslef to do so. My first cousin is sponsoring my tuition and my mom is hoping for me to pass this year. Sometimes I'm tempted to bang my head to the wall (to punish myself).

Secondly, I'm a medical trasncription student. I got to know of it a few months back. Since I have some sapre time I took up schooling. The first three months went well. I being in another medical related course, had no problem passing medical terminology. We're doing practical transcription now. I found one of my former classmates is doing it home-based. She managed to have her client assess me and I think I got the job. But sadly, no reports are sent to me to do yet. Guess I need to find other clients and improve myself. This adds to my worries.

Lastly, I am living with my mom and younger brother. Along with 4 old people. Two of them are completely dependent and alsmot bed-ridden. I sometimes skip class when things get messy. My mom is turning out sickly lateley. I, being the eldest child am helping her out. I sometimes skip class or sleep very late watching over them (the old folks).

Online:
I am a forum moderator online. It became my outlet of stress and worries I have in life. It's fun helping newbies around. Aside from that I have joined a lot of online money making programs. PTCs, PTPs, Autosurfs andHYIPs. I earn a few buck in some and loss I others. I wish there was an effective way to earn something from the internet. Life is getting hard and difficult each day.


I still am hoing that things will work out well with me in school and find a worthwhile job online so I can help with the expenses in the house. As of the moment, writing this down made me feel a little better. I'm going back to studying now and I hope I pass that removal examination next week.

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Online forum moderator

I haven't updated my blog quite much lately. I had a wonderful New Year and I am hoping for good things to come in this year. I'm going to finish medical transcription around the last week of February and I must say it's not too hard for me to learn it. We're going to have our midterm exams in nursing school on the 19th and I have not failed my prelim exam. I wish it would be the same in midterm. I need to keep pace with my studies as I have been busy online. Regarding the post title, last December I was hired to become a forum moderator in my favorite paid-to-post forum. It got me pre-occupied. I spend less time on other activities and focus in there. I find it quite fun. Our tasks include keeping the boards clean of spam, see to it that members follow the rules and any violations are given an infraction. I do check all the posts of our members whenever they request to be paid and I give my approval. Give new members new support and at the same time earn.

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My Holiday

I never felt so busy with my previous holiday experiences. Last December 20 me, my younger brother and my mom went to Calinog. My dad's home town. One of my uncle called and invited us to go over for a little thanks giving celebration. It was fun seeing the rest of my uncles and aunt's on my father's side of the family. Last December 25 we went to Zarraga, my grand mother's hometown. It was also a splendid experience. Seeing the old folks. I never had this much fun before. Seeing a lot of unknown relatives makes my heart fill with joy. Our next destination is Bingawan on the 28th. I am looking forward to go there if I feel well. I am a bit ill and I think I caught a flu. But I will try to go tomorrow.

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Christmas this year

For the past years Philippines has always started to express the celebration of the Christmas season early by decorating two or one month before December. It is an anticipated season where families gather and have a great time together. But for the years after until present date. People have been slowing down. And who could blame them? With all the price increase each year, people are being more practical and saves money as much as possible. It saddens me to see this. I used to see a lot of houses overly decorated with Christmas decors and lights, so warm, so happy and that around the months of August and November. Now it the 17th, and you can really tell that Philippines is very much affected by the Global economy. I don't see what I used to which reflects the anticipation of the Christmas season.

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