Skibble...er...Skabble...er...Skamble...Oh, the Heck With It

A few months ago (I don't know, maybe it's been over a year. My sense of time is increasingly deteriorating), they changed my job description from "medical transcriptionist" to "medical language specialist" due to the new editing software/voice recognition we now use. (I still do plenty of transcribing, so I'm not sure why we need the job title change.) I have yet to fully embrace this job title. For one thing, I already get blank looks when I tell people I'm a medical transcriptionist by profession. I have yet to decipher what is going through people's minds as they smile at me blandly, nodding their heads, eyes glazed over. I have concluded that it can only be one of 3 things: (a) "You're a whatist?" (b) "Oh, like those late night TV commercials where you can work at home," (c) "Oh, you're a typist." Furthermore, the whole title of medical language specialist is a bit presumptive, in my opinion. I am hardly a language specialist, much less a medical language specialist. Many is the time that I have mangled a word so unrecognizably that the Spellchecker won't even help me out. (Scarily often it is not a medical term.) It's like I have just sooooo misspelled a word that Spellchecker is questioning my IQ, and even more humiliating is just how helpless I feel at that point. I frantically start spelling and respelling, trying every imaginable variation on a word, desperately trying to get just one hit on Spellchecker, a simple hint, suggestion, blip, to prove to it I am not the complete imbecile it so evidently thinks I am, but with each failed attempt, Spellchecker stubbornly sits there staring at me, completely empty. At any moment, I'm expecting the little Microsoft Word office assistant Einstein character to pop up and say, "It looks like you're an idiot. Would you like help? *blink* *blink* I'm sorry. The help you need is beyond my capability…AND I'M EINSTEIN!!!!" It is then I turn to the true medical language specialist—Google. It's accustomed to morons.