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What can you tell me about the Scribe platform for transcription?

Posted By: old_MT on 2007-08-03
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I have been offered a position using this platform, but I have had no experience with it.  I use ShortHand as an expander, will it be compatible?  When they load the program on your computer, does it disable the WORD program in any way (I worked for a short time for a company whose platform did do that (unbeknownst to me), which created a world of problems.  Is the program hard to get line counts on?  Any information would be wonderful.  You may reply via email if you rather not post here. 




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I got into a mess with a small company (got out real quickly too).  I was required to print out daily email copies of the doctors' office patient schedules (which were barely legible) and type in all information.  I spent more time hunting for the correct patient through pages and pages of these schedules.  Then I had about 25 pages worth of doctor's names that I would have to go through to find the attending, referring, etc.  A total waste of time as I didn’t get paid for that. 


 


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