students unite

Posted By: Lou Anne King on 2008-03-24
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Anyone else out there taking the At-home professions medical transcriptionist course? As you can see many transciptionists have a network of other transcriptionists to ask questions. If anyone is interested in having a sounding board and being a sounding board I would be glad to buddy up. I am in the 5th course 42 lesson and I am finding some of the verbage difficult to understand due to the foreign accents and various other crap on the dictation and I speak spanish and understand it as well, So I am used to listening for this type of thing. Maybe I am just crazy but if your are looking for help I have a 98% in the course. IM me or email me - if we are all set up on IM we can have pretty much immediate answers if we know them- otherwise it is back to the message boards.

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students unite - Lou Anne King
- Why did you choose that course? - Me
  - why did i choose this course - Lou Anne King
    - Whereas I am not a fan of sm - Working MT
  - Is it really beneficial (sm) - MT
    - It's sad that people don't find out more about these courses before they slap down money - deb
      - Maybe so... - MT
        why this course - Lou Anne King
        AHP - AmericanMT
        Please excuse the typos - AmericanMT
        YW! nm - MT

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