Summer Safety Tips

With the onset of summer vacation, it is a good time to post some safety tips that might help keep you and your children safe as the summer fun begins this year!

• Practice common sense.
• Make clear safety rules for the whole family.
• Learn to swim and/or teach your children how to swim.
• Swim in familiar areas to reduce the risk of potential dangers.
• Set up a secure area for your pool.
• Be aware of where children are. Many lives are lost every year due to accidental drowning.
• Keep rescue equipment and emergency numbers near your pool.
• Wear life jackets.
• Follow all of the rules posted in the area where you and your family are swimming.

These are only a few safety tips. While there are no 100% guarantees that nothing will ever happen, following safety guidelines might prevent serious injury or death for you or for someone you love.

The American Red Cross has an extensive amount of information to educate parents and children about safety. Visit:

http://www.redcross.org/services/hss/tips/healthtips/safetywater.html to learn more!

Medline Plus also offers information and links for more safety tips and related health information. If you follow the link below, you will find:

• Overviews.
• Latest news.
• Information on specific related conditions.
• Information on related issues.
• Tutorials.
• Journal articles.
• Directories.
• A list of other related organizations.
• Statistics.
• Articles regarding health information for children and teenagers.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/watersafetyrecreational.html

Have a safe and happy summer!

Climbing the Mountain and Establishing Your Base

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

-- Author unknown.


It takes hard work and determination to reach a goal. However, to maintain that goal requires intelligence and inner strength. That willingness and desire to strive for and maintain excellence is what truly defines one’s character. A person must be willing to settle for nothing less than his/her personal best consistently to truly become distinguished from the crowd.

I believe that it is this same character that defines what a medical transcriptionist is. A medical transcriptionist ensures that every transcribed document is as good as it possibly can be; thorough and polished. Every detail counts, and a medical transcriptionist will leave no stone unturned to ensure the integrity of such work. That is why I have chosen medical transcription as my career. It is a profession in which excellence is consistently strived for and achieved.