Not if they want to stay employed for any length of time. It is an MTs job, even on the most verbatim of accounts, to be able to understand the terminology, correctly spell the terminology, fix glaring grammatical errors (verb tenses, etc.), correctly punctuate, spot any inconsistencies (to include anything from male/female, left/right to incorrect or impossible medication dosages).
If you are not asked to transcribe verbatim, it then becomes your job to perform all the tasks listed above in addition to rephrasing difficult sentences, moving text around to fit under the correct headings, deleting redundancies, expanding acronyms (you must know what those acronyms stand for), and any other thing that is requested of you on that particular account.
An MT may also be required to find the correct spelling of doctors' names, ensure a carbon copy of the report goes to whomever the dictator requests, spell the names of cities (which you may have never heard of) as well as local schools, stores, etc. All of this may require an extensive amount of research.
As well as all this, an MT is required to know how to format this legal medical document correctly, as per the doctor's, clinic's, or hospital's instructions. You will have to use proper headings, subheadings, numbering, etc.
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