She began as a medical transcriber, working on doctors' reports and hospital records.

The equipment used is called a medical transcriber, e.g., a cassette player with foot controls operated by the MT for report playback and transcription.

After he wrote his novels he made a living as a medical transcriber in local hospitals.

Her mother is a medical transcriber at Transcription Resource Limited in Allen Park.

"I don't think he thought he could be touched," said Kathryn Davis, a medical transcriber at the research center.

Hospitals and clinics have stables of medical transcribers, she has heard.

Her mother, who lived in New York, was a medical transcriber at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

"We're an investment club and we ought to invest," said Virginia Sheldon, 63, who is a medical transcriber and a member of the club.

Another single mother facing homelessness earns just over $21,000 a year as a medical transcriber.

His mother, now retired, was a medical transcriber in Atlanta.