The medical reports can be any of the following: patient history and physical examinations, progress reports, consultations, discharge summaries, clinic notes, emergency room reports, operative reports, radiology reports, referral letters, pathology reports etc. It can be any of the above or any other documentation connected with any of the more than 60 medical specialties and subspecialties. That should give you a fair idea on why the medical transcriptionist truly needs to be a medical language specialist, for he/she should be thorough with the language of medicine. |
