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I have a name of an excellent at-home MT course.  That is The VLC.  It is an excellent school with all of the latest technology to help you learn all of the things it takes to be an excellent MT.  I know, I graduated from there and got my first job within 2 weeks of graduating, and have been working full time since then.  Do yourself a favor and check it out.

I'm simply trying to save her money and anxiety by suggesting that perhaps in her life situation, MT is not a career she should be pursuing.  I'm not negative in the least, I just think that anyone who thinks this is a easy money-making career is deluding themselves.

This is not tupperware ... this is a professional, mentally challenging career with severe implications to both patients and health providers if the job is not done with the utmost accuracy and attention to detail.

This is not a career that someone should get into just because they want to stay home with their children.  I've seen too many errors because of distracted transcriptionists who were ill equipped for their jobs and trust me, if you were given the wrong medication and/or wrong dosage because the Transcriptionist transcribed mg instead of mcg or couldn't distinguish between Seldane and Feldene due to distractions, you'd probably be screaming bloody murder.

When people stop thinking of MT as a "stay at home, play with my kids and do it on the side" kind of career, them maybe the rest of us professionals who dedicate our time becoming the best MTs we can in spite of lousy pay, foreign outsourcing and the rest of the world thinking we're a bunch of slackers who make easy money for nothing, can finally gain the respect we should have had all along.

Hi,

Could someone please tell me if it matters whether I have Windows XP Home Edition or Professional to do transcription?  If it does not matter, I have been thinking of getting the Professional edition.  A job doing data entry part-time requires that I have the Professional edition.  If I change to the Professional edition, does it matter as long as I have Word to do medical transcription?  Sorry, if this is a dumb question.  I figure that I can't have both installed on my computer at the same time.