Transcription Companies

I decided to put together a list of transcription companies, hoping that someone might be able to give their opinion on them and it might help someone who is looking for a new contract at the same time. Many of these companies don't require experience if you can pass their tests. One of them, I had a contract with recently (see MIA post) and would be happy to answer questions you might have that aren't test related of course :)

In 2009, I actually tested for ANP and was offered a contract but turned it down to work at Spheris. There have been a few topics/posts on various forums about people having problems getting paid from ANP. So not really sure about that one at all after reading about that!

Also, I'm pretty sure that Medquist bought Spheris a few years ago. Has it gotten better, worse, or stayed about the same since the buyout? Please feel free to give other recommendations too!


Medical Transcription Companies

• Absolute Transcription
• Amphion
• ANP
• Athreon
• M*Modal
• Med-scribe
• Medquist
• Nuance Transcription
• Precyse
• Quicktate/iDictate
• Sten-Tel
• Ubiqus

General /Legal Transcription Companies

• Allegis
• Eword Solutions
• Landmark Associates
• Quicktate/iDictate
• Sten-Tel 
• Tigerfish
• Ubiqus
• Verbal Ink

Thinking About It

Tuesday night I could not fall asleep for anything. The soles of my feet felt like they were on fire. So when hubby's alarm went off at 6:30 a.m., I decided I would just get up and get the day's most pressing order of business done--paying his seat belt ticket at the local courthouse. Before they opened, I took my son for breakfast at McDonald's which was really nice because it's been quite a while since just the two of us went out to eat :)

When we got home I still could not sleep! Finally, around 11:00 a.m. I passed out and slept for 3 hours. When I woke up I started applying at different places--as in not work-at-home places. I haven't worked outside the home since 2002.

In 2007, I had a bad case of pneumonia. Couldn't breathe, eat, hardly could walk, barely could talk, freezing with 3 blankets and a sub-zero sleeping bag, coughing up blood, etc. Even though I was hardly able to think or speak, I panicked and came down with severe anxiety and panic attacks. Since hubby was an over-the-road truck driver I was here alone with my son who had just turned 4. I had this immense fear that I would die in my sleep and he would find me. This also led to my insomnia :(

After that, I had pneumonia 6 more times. So germs and "contamination" are always in the front of my mind. Paranoid? Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that once you have pneumonia that many times and half of them to the point of coughing up blood, and it takes literally months to feel back to 100%, it really makes you scared.

To summarize:

• Anxiety/panic attacks
• Fear of germs/contamination
• Always catch every single cold/flu that makes the rounds
• Do not like being "seen" (this has been the case since I was a teenager though)
• Continued rib pain from all the violent coughing

So maybe I am "crazy", but I had a doctor and NP tell me that it was understandable. However, neither one of them could help me with any of my issues.

Maybe if I DO get one of the jobs (which are not in healthcare) then it might help me some. Like the act of being out in the "world" will draw me out of my anxiety/panic/fear mode. Or, maybe, it could just make me sick again and I would end up being fired for missing X amount of days soon after starting.

I don't think I would ever quit MT though since I do LOVE medical things so much, and really don't think I could ever work in any other medical field due to the reasons above.

Finally Some Work

I talked about how there were practically no files to be had. Well Tuesday I typed over 30! Don't ask me how many minutes total, but it was probably at least 80. A wonderful mix of speed talkers, precise talkers, and ESL.

Moral of the story? If I mention--in any way--a lack of files I will be swamped shortly after. Not really complaining-complaining because I need the money, but you know . . .


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MIA

Yikes! I have not posted here in a long time. I actually did write a post back in January and it's still saved as a draft because I forgot to publish it. Blah . . .

So what's been going on? Back in my (unpublished) January post I talked about the lack of work flow during the holidays, and it seems to still be the case at the company I type for! I do proof on rare occasions mostly medical files here and there, but it's just not going so good there. I have been applying other places.

I actually got hired at Allegis back in May--a company I wanted to work with so badly--but that same week learned my father had stage IV esophageal cancer. It hit me hard and I couldn't type what I had from company A, function, and then try to learn all of Allegis' guidelines, etc. So two days of work for them and had to resign. My father passed away about two weeks later which, naturally, has not been fun at all. I am now officially an orphan . . . and I don't think anyone is really ever ready to take that title. If any of you reading this know me, then you know the drama and issues with all of that :(

Oh, there is the writing! I actually have been writing under pen names--one for children's books and one for poetry and my novel that is in progress. I may link the two blogs for them here, not sure yet.

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