How to Become a Medical Transcriptionist: A Career for the Twenty-First Century

George Morton

I have a problem with any book that stresses accuracy repeatedly while sporting even a handful of spelling and grammatical errors, much less one where you can't go ten pages without encountering another awkward phrase, punctuation gaffe, or outright typo. While this sort of thing is becoming increasingly more common in the professional publishing world-- much, one would think, to the chagrin of professional publishers-- it has always been the province of the self- and vanity-published. How to Become a Medical Transcriptionist, published by a teacher and conductor of seminars, sits solidly in the latter category, and it shows.

There is some good information here, and this book is more detailed, and filled with more useful information, than most others I've read on the subject. Yet it's hard to take much of it seriously when the author is exhorting you to be detail-oriented. If you can get past that, you will find a great deal of useful information here; if you can, though, is this the right profession for you?