e-Perspectives on the Medical Transcription Profession
e-Perspectives on the Medical Transcription Profession is published periodically (usually a few times per year) by Health Professions Institute. Each issue contains information of interest to all medical transcription professionals: transcriptionists, teachers, students, supervisors, and business owners. You can register at our site to receive notice when a new issue is published.
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Issue 59: - Download entire magazine here. A Plea for Silent Editing - Sally Pitman |
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Issue 58: - Download entire magazine here. Do You Speak Medlish? - by Linda C. Campbell Looking at Language: All-American Dialects - by Richard Lederer, Ph.D. Formatting and Character Restrictions in Healthcare Documentation - by Laura Bryan Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - by John H. Dirckx, M.D. Looking at Language: Slang As It Is Slung - by Richard Lederer, Ph.D. Update: What's New in Medicine |
Issue 57: - Download entire magazine here.
Why We Matter - by Sally C. Pitman
Searching the "Wild, Wild, Web" - by Ellen Drake and Georgia Green
Turmoil Within: Perspectives on Irritable Bowel Syndrome - by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Jest for Fun: The World According to Student Bloopers - by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Update: What's New in Medicine
Looking at Language: Under a Spell - by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Totally Hip - by Judith Zielinski Marshall
Issue 56: - Download entire magazine here.
Where Your Treasure Is - by Sally C. Pitman
Interpreting Medical Language - by Ellen Drake
Guy Talk: Perspectives on Selected Topics in Andriatrics - by John H. Drickx, M.D.
World's Toughest Grammar Test - by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Update: What's New In Medicine
Check Mates - by Judith Zielinski Marshall
Issue 55: - Download entire magazine here.
A Moving Target, by Sally C. Pitman
Nothing Could be Finer: Nanotechnology in Medicine, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
The Best Things in Life Are Free: How to Use Medical Journal Abstracts, by Georgia Green
Factoring: Alternative Financing for Medical Transcription Services, by Philip Cohen
A Quick Primer on Hyphens, by Ellen Drake
Update: What's New in Medicine
Issue 54: - Download entire magazine here.
Spring Fever, by Sally C. Pitman
How to Be an A+ Tradeshow Attendee, by Phil Cohen
Pharmaceutical Nomenclature: The Lawless Language, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Update: What's New in Medicine
Looking at Language: A Tense Time with Verbs, Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Issue 53: - Download entire magazine here.
Winter Scenes, by Sally C. Pitman
Learning Punctuation Through Pattern Recognition: Complex Sentences and Subordinate Clauses, by Ellen Drake
Looking at Language: Don't Dangle Your Participles in Public, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Short for Trouble: Perspectives of Error-Prone Abbreviations, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Looking at Language: On Your Marks!, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Update: What's New in Medicine
Issue 52: - Download entire magazine here.
A Rose by Any Other Name - by Sally C. Pitman
Don't Just Toss 'Em a Fish - by Diane Heath
Radiology Quick Quiz - by Linda Campbell
Conan the Grammarian, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Consider the Alternatives: Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Update: What's New in Medicine
Issue 51: - Download entire magazine here.
Summer at the Beach, by Sally C. Pitman
Today's Transcription Cornucopia: Finding One's Place Within the Maze, by Sidney Moormeister, Ph.D.
Managing Cash Flow: Surviving the Slow Payers, by Phil Cohen
The Four-Semester Myth, by Linda Campbell
Presidential Precedents, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Fighting Gravity: Perspectives on Facial Rejuvination, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Update: What's New in Medicine
Issue 50: - Download entire magazine here.
Life Lessons, by Sally C. Pitman
Celebrating the Life of a Friend and Colleague (Re: Adrienne Yazijian), by Sally C. Pitman
The Heating Pad is Behind the Pickled Eggs! by Renee Priest
Foiling B.T. Barnum - Some Thoughts on Choosing an Educational Path in Medical Transcription, by Sidney Moormeister, Ph.D.
Teaching Tips: Teaching Disease Processes, by Ellen Drake
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Student Scope: A Brief Review of Comma Usage, by Ellen Drake
Bioethics in the Labratory: Perspectives on Embryonic Stem Cell Research, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.
Update: What's New in Stem Cell Research
Issue 49: - Download entire magazine here.
Hope is On the Way, by Sally C. Pitman
Would You Sell Your Soul? (and How NOT to Make a Workplace Faustian Bargain), by Sidney Moormeister, Ph.D.
The Hip Bone's Connected to the Thigh Bone, by Renee Priest
Dear Drake and Drake Q&A: Rx and OTC, by Randy Drake
Doing a Number on English, by Richard Lederer, Ph.D.
Speech Recognition is Here at Last, by Joe Weber
Update: What's New in Medicine
Urines are Cooking: Perspectives on Medical Slang and Jargon, by John H. Dirckx, M.D.