When a Doctor or a medical specialist visits a patient, the doctor creates a medical record of the visit by dictating the important information about the condition and decease concerning the patient visit. The doctor records the information in audio format and sends the files to the medical transcription service providers.

A medical transcriptionist or (MT) is a person who transcribes the medical information i.e. changing audio format record reports to written format. He or she does it by hearing the audio records and typing them in to electronic medical records within a computerized system.

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