MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION - HISTORY & OVERVIEW
Let's break the word transcribe down. Trans- is related to the word transfer, which is "to convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another": Scribe is both a pronoun and a verb. A scribe (pronoun) is one who records things in written form; to scribe (verb) is to write or inscribe. Being a scribe in ancient Greece was a highly esteemed profession with a well-educated and highly specialized person providing the service. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, kept his physician notes as a written record of medical symptoms and treatments. The notes also served as a basic guide for the next generation of doctors, with each adding to the cumulative pool of information.
In the early 1900s, medical stenographers began taking dictation by shorthand; thereafter, dictation machines evolved.
Since that day, the reco...
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