On a typical day a Medical Transcriptionist will:
* receive dictation from physicians or other health care professionals, increasingly over the Internet;
* listen to recordings on a headset;
* key text into a personal computer or word processor;
* produce discharge summaries, history and physical examination reports, operative reports, consultation reports, autopsy reports, diagnostic imaging studies, progress notes, and referral letters.;
* edit materials for grammar and clarity, if necessary;
* look for inconsistencies and errors in reports and check with the physician or healthcare professional in order to correct them;
* sometimes use voice recognition software which translates dictation into written text and creates reports which they must then edit for mistakes in translation and grammar; and
* return transcribed documents to the physicians or other healthcare professionals who dictated them for review and signature, or correction.
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