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I think its going to be a raw deal for those of us who have been here awhile.  Only because it will be based on higher pay for harder work.  In all honesty, I do not see them paying more than 10 cpl, and if they hand pick the worst of the worst, all day every day for those of us who can eek by and do them, we will be screwed.  Honestly would rather have lower pay (no lower than 8 cpl) for easier work to keep my line count up.  I've already been told many times that they give me the harder work because I can do it, but all day every day I would lose money.

They should base pay on experience, period the end!  Keep the pool completely open to whatever work comes up, do not special assign harder work to those of us who can do it, because it slows us down incredibly!  I agree, newbies need a chance to get their foot in the  door with some easier dictation, but how are they going to learn if thats all theyre getting, and how about those of us who  have been around the block, how are we going to earn a living for paying our dues in this business.  Thats why i'm scared.  Buh bye experienced MTs or what?  What do you guys think?

I am considering accepting a position with a company that uses EMDAT, but I have a few questions.

1.  Is this product "user friendly?" Is it difficult to learn?
2.  There seem to be a lot of problems with the foot pedal? Is this correct?
3.  How expensive is this product?
4.  Does EMDAT calculate lines, and compared to things like Sylcount, would you say the line count is excellent, good, fair, or poor?

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone tell me what transcription platform they are transcribing on and if you like it.  I am trying to find a good platform for my company and would like advice from the people who do the work.

Thanks

My my my, am i out of touch of my surroundings or my pay just got a bit smaller than last year... cause i could have sworn that i more in my grocery cart last year. am i crazy to get into a contract for only 6 cents per line? Cause everybody is having their trans done by indians at 4 cents per line? I would just to take this moment to reflect on my grocery cart and see the reality setting in. I may even to get back to making burgers as a second income to make my grocery cart at least a bit heavier to push. Just my two cents.... i hope those outsourcing firms dont go that low.

I need to get an owner's manual for an older analog call-in system by Lanier.  I believe it is called the voicewriter 650 model #P145.  It is the one that has four microcassettes in a carousel on top that spins.  I got it from a friend, but of course she can't find the manual and I don't know the functions and she can't remember all of them  I have tried calling Lanier and they have given my like five different numbers and no one can seem to help and it is frustrating.  So I thought someone on here might be familiar with the system or know how to get a manual or if there is one online.  Thank you in advance for any help!

I just wanted to drop in and say hello to everyone.  I don't know if anyone here even remembers me.  I left the MT industry about a year ago, coming home to work on cottage industry things.  However, I was recently offered a good job doing MT again, so I'm back!  Just wanted to say hello to everyone.  I had let my office get into a huge mess,   but I've had a lot of fun undertaking an office redo.    If anyone cares to see pictures, I've put some on my blog.  Link below.

Lynn

Does anyone get the AAMT Journal.  Is it worth the money?

There has been a lot of discussion on this board lately about how rude and impolite some of the posters are. What we are seeing here is also what is going on in our society. It is not something that is happening only in the MT world. This is something that has been taking place in our society for years, slowly and gradually taking hold of a large number of people who find it more convenient to let their frustrations out on others than fix their own lives. Have you ever tried approaching a cashier with a smile on your face and another with a grouchy look on your face? Then you know that the one you approached with a smile on your face was friendly and polite whereas the other one wasn't. Whenever you approach others with a smile on your face you will receive that smile back, even on a message board. I ask myself if those who lash out at others on a message board do so to their family members. If so, what kind of life are you living? Or are you the one on the receiving end and come here to pass that on to the posters on the boards? What kind of life are you living? Don't you all think that living in peace and harmony will contribute to your overall well-being?

What do those who are rude and impolite to others gain? Do you really feel better afterward? Do you want others to treat you the same way? It is like a contagious disease, and it seems to be more common to lash out than to be nice as if it hurts to be nice. You should be grateful that we live in a country in which we still can practice freedom of speech, at least to a certain extent.

Hiding behind anonymity while being rude and impolite is a cowardly thing to do. Take responsibility for your actions. Better yet, think next time before you lash out at someone seeking advice and remember when you started your first job. Did you seek and receive advice? Did someone give you a tip or spend time with you to help you understand the ins and outs of a job? Or have you never received help from anyone in your whole life? We all have received some type of support, help, and/or advice that helped us get back on track or be successful. Why not pass that positive experience tenfold or thousandfold back to others?

It is really very simple - treat others like you want others to treat you! Do this in all areas of your life not just in the MT world, and you will not only be a happier person but you will also make others happy. Give it a try - I promise it will not even hurt!!

Okay folks... I like everybody else have seen my pay go down lately and have been complaining about having to work more to get the work done; I also see people talking about how many hours a day they have to work to get their lines for the day and how it equals minimum wage, etc.

Well, I went to the store and bought a cheap timer.  I set it every hour for 55 minutes and I would take a 5 minute break at the end of that 55 minutes.  I did not move my butt from the chair during that first 55 minutes - just typed.  No phone calls, no surfing the web, no answering people's yells, no TV, no laundry, no dishes, NOTHING, NADA, just typing.  Here are my results -

165 minutes (2 hours and 45 minutes) and I got 1129 lines.  That averages out to be 410 lines an hour.  For my pay, that is $41 an hour.

My challenge is to each of you who say you are not getting your work done to try this yourself and post your results and let's see what happens...

social work departments, foster homes, children's protective services....and NOT a typical hospital or dr office or national company?

If so, how do you find those jobs. 

I have a degree in Family Studies, with a minor in Substance Abuse Education...and I am finishing up school and would love to combine my BS degree with my new career choice as an MT...

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Does anyone know if QC-2 or QC-3 headphones will work for transcribing on a C-phone?

TIA

I have a note (discharge summary) that is 27 minutes long, dictated by RN, that goes into such detail that it might as well be the H&P, every consult, every operative report, and every lab report rolled into 1 document.  She is even dictating  problems the patient had on previous hospitalizations that have nothing to do with this admission.  To make matters worse, she is jumping back and forth between prior problems (that aren't related) and current problems for the hospitalization, as well as listing every single lab test/values from all prior admissions and comparing them to this admission, as well as dictating the whole report for every x-ray the person ever had in this one report.  The guy came in for nausea, vomiting, and dehydration and she's dictating x-ray reports for fractured ankle and rotator cuff MRI from 2 years ago...THE WHOLE MRI REPORT.   Good gravy, missy.  It's good to be thorough, but then too much information just confuses the reader.  arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

All better now.  Thanks for letting me vent. 

Hey, All ~

I was wondering if there was anyone out there was was willing to share their contract verbiage for YOUR contract that your MTSO signed. There was a wonderful lady who emailed me with some great ideas, but understandably she was not willing to share her contract verbiage because she had paid a lawyer to draft it.  I totally understand that!  I was just wondering if there was anyone who had drafted their own who would share with me (identifying info could be removed, of course)

I would have money to pay a lawyer if my rackin' frackin' MTSO would pay me, but I'm still without the paycheck I was due on Monday!  Anyone who has done this themselves and who would be willing to share, PLEEEEEEASE email me with it and I will be beside myself with thankfulness.

 <--- See!  This is me being beside myself with thankfulness!

Hello! I'm feeling a little lost. I thought it would be easy to figure this out, but I think I'm missing a step.

I'll be IC'ing for someone.  They've given me my FTP host, login name, and password, but I can't figure out where to go to put in that information!

If I can't find help here, I will write my new boss and ask, but I want to try to figure it out on my own (well, with YOUR help! :)

Thank you for trying to help.

Chickadee

Hey ya'll, just found that I need Microsoft Word either 2002 or 2003 in order to start my new job doing VR.  I cannot seem to find this anywhere, nobody is selling it anymore.  I found one copy on ebay so far - does anyone else know of another website or how I could obtain this?  I was really looking forward to this job, I am in desperate need.  I am not the fastest MT in the world but I think one of the most accurate - was hoping VR might be a good fit for me.

Thanks so much for any help.  Love, Cindy

Maybe something is escaping me and I don't want to be rude to anybody. I'm trying to understand.

You are an employee who signed an 8-4:30 contract, right? Are the people you are mad about employees, or did your MTSO hire additional IC folks? If she/they did, then that's who you should take issue with.

If these are other scheduled employees who are doing this, you have a choice. You can either do what they do, tattle on them (I probably would), or work elsewhere.

If they are extra IC help, what can you do? Can you make them feel bad about team spirit? I don't think so. Do you think McDonald's feels team spirit with Burger King? An IC is a business owner, in competition with others.

Are the other people employees?

Link to article on yahoo news stating that electronic health records fail to improve care, study says.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/records_dc;_ylt=AsT2t1nasUEaoOxgIsyoMUOs0NUE

It is just a small town paper, asking some general questions about outsourcing/offshoring, pay, types of businesses, etc.  I told him I could not tell him what I actually do for a living or name my company.  Can he find that out? 

I also sent the letter to the Washington Post, Fox News, NY Times, Associates Press, 60 Minutes, and USA Today.  I inserted in the letter about uncertain figures that by my calculation, the number of jobs offshored would be more or less the equivalent to the total population in 3 states in the U.S. 

What will I do if they find out who I am and who I worked for?  Can I be sued?

Here's the deal- Right now, on an ASR account - the AST work is the easier MDs. The rest of the work is the difficult dictators who take forever to get though on any system and our production for these is always down when we type these reports.  So, anturally it appears as if our production on the ASR work is up and our production for MT work is lower when comparing the two.  Evil geniuses at work!   Remember these are the same guys being sued for illegal billing issues!