Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

There are many kinds of alternative treatment methods to treat cancer all over the world.  The conventional alternative cancer treatment methods are of using therapies like chemotherapy, chemoembolization method, radiation therapy, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.  Even some methods of alternative cancer treatment techniques are costly.  They are useful in lessening the pain and discomfort of the patient.  In many cases, these alternative treatment methods give devastating and overwhelming side effects after it, but they are in no way important in reducing the symptoms of cancer. Chemotherapy is a conventional method of treating cancer using drugs.  These chemotherapeutic drugs will obliterate and demolish cancer cells by obstructing and slowing down the development and duplication of the cancer cells.  Some chemotherapeutic drugs are Accutane, Mesnex, and PROCRIT. Chemoembolization is another alternative trea...

What is cancer? We all should know about this fatal disease condition.  Most people die after some months or years once cancer affects them.  It affects all sort of social level people. So we must know about cancer. Cancer is a deadly disease, and what will it do for a patient who is affected with it? And how can we define cancer and how it develops? We should understand these questions first to know well about cancer.  Cancer is not a single disease condition like cough or fever, but cancer is of different types somewhat approximately 100 in number.  Will it affect any particular organ or system in our body? No.  It will affect more or less all body organs and systems.  Even the delicate organs like eyes and heart can even be affected by cancer when it spreads to those organs. In total cancer is a fatal disease condition of affecting overall body cells when it affects a patient. As there are 100 more types of cancerous conditions that affect our body,...

In this lesson, we will learn about important musculoskeletal system combining forms. All combining forms are very important to understand the medical terminology well.  As a medical transcription learner, you must know the meaning of all the system combining forms to do the live files once you promoted into production.  Every learner should have one good medical dictionary to know the meaning of each terminology crosschecked.  Each medical word is a combination of one or more combining forms bridging vowel in general the letter 'O' and a suffix or the word end.  In this way, every trainee should try to split each medical word and understand it. 1.   Calc/o means calcium.   Hypocalemia means a disease condition of less calcium in the bones.   Hypercalcemia means an abnormal condition of more calcium in the bones. 2.   Calci/o means calcium.   Decalcification is an abnormal condition of loss of calcium in the bones. 3.   Kyp...

In this post we are going to learn about more important musculoskeletal system vocabularies.  You should try to use a medical dictionary to know more about each of these words using diagrams.  This will make your learning process better to create an inner picture of each of these terms inside you permanently.  This will give you more proficiency of medical terms and this will help you to transcribe easily when a dictator dictates these terms in his live file when you start transcription file for training or for job.  This is my own experience.  Please try it out.   1.  Fossa:  Shallow hole or cavity like opening in a bone. 2.  Haversian canals:  Minute or tiny openings packed with blood vessels found in compact bone. 3.  Malleolus:  Ring-shaped processes on both faces of the ankle joint. 4.  Mastoid process:  Spherical and round-shaped protrusion or bulge on the temporal bone at the back of the ...

We are learning lucrative American medical transcription course freely here in this blog.  We have crossed three systems yet and we are also going to learn all the other six systems of medical terminologies, anatomy, and physiology, and disease conditions, symptoms and signs one by one later from today onwards.  This post explains about musculoskeletal system vocabularies in one or two line format explanation, no way, this subject should be taught in this way only.  You may use any medical dictionary available online for free or any other good one to know more about these explanations in it. 1.  Fontanelle:  This is a soft spot present between the cranial or skull bones of an infant.  This soft spot is due to incomplete formation of bones in the cranium. 2.  Fissure:  This is an opening between bones.  This opening is a narrow opening. 3.  Facial bones:  These are the bones of the face.  The names of the facial bones ...

Now we will see about important musculoskeletal system vocabularies: 1.  Acromion – This is the outward extension of the shoulder bone.  Acromion creates the shoulder tip. 2.  Calcium – The important and major mineral element of the bones. 3.  Cranial bones – The another name for cranial bones are skull bones.  Temporal bone, sphenoid bone, parietal bone, occipital bone, frontal bone, and ethmoid bone are the names of the skull bones. 4.  Articular cartilage – These are the ends of long bones made up of a thin layer of cartilage. 5.  Cancellous bone – This is a porous and trabecular tissue of bones. Cancellous bone is spongy in structure. 6.  Cartilage tissue – This is a flexible and chewy connective tissue.  Cartilage tissue is found on joint surfaces.  This is also found in the embryonic skeleton. 7.  Condyle – This is a knuckle like process.  This structure is present at the end of a bone near t...

Bones of the Leg and Foot: 1.  Femur or thigh bone.  Femur is the longest bone in the human body.  This bone has a round-shaped head like structure at its proximal.  This head called femoral head mounts into a socket like depression in the hip bone called acetabulum. The acetabulum was termed for the reason that of its likeness to a rounded cup. 2.  Kneecap or patella.  This bone is a flat in size and small in structure.  Patella is positioned in face of the articulation sandwiched between the femur or thigh bone and one of the lower leg bones called the tibia.  Patella is enclosed or bounded by shielding tendons and seized in position by muscle attachments. 3.  Tibia or shin bone.  Tibia means a music instrument called flute, as this bone resembles that.  Tibia are the largest bones in the legs.  Each tibial bone is present under the skin.  Tibial bones are in front of the leg.  Each tibia joins with th...