Should You Pursue a Medical Transcription Career?by Tom Sample.The Information Technology boom has added a new flavor to every aspect of life. Be it restaurants, educational institutes, the insurance or transportation industries or medical facilities and hospitals. With the growing number of IT trained personnel and the spreading of the IT revolution into routine life, the medical field has come to accept the role of technology in its processing.By the same token, Medical Transcription, too is a fast growing aspect of the medical career field. The role of a medical transcriptionist is to listen to,

the voice recordings of qualified doctors and nurses and then transcribe them to a digital format that includes medical reports, graphs or charts.With the evolution of the Internet, the world has shrunk considerably. Now it's possible for a distance of 1000 miles to exist between a patient and the doctor who is treating him. There are more and more job openings in the field of medical transcription every day.People are encouraged to join the transcription field though promotions, advertisements, an abundance of books,