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I have worked almost 40 years as an acute hospital Tx/QA. I am highly respected and have always respected my employers, (hospital or service) until now. ProScript has turned from a friendly employee supported service into a company (in my opinion) of bottom-feeders. After working for them almost 5 years we discovered an error in my pay (I was an employee). I contacted them and the VPO called and said I would be paid within two weeks. Then one lie after another - six weeks later I had to file with the State of California to get my wages. My hours were cut (IMHO as a payback) to 29 a week forcing me to quit. I don't know about you - but, anyone who lies to me especially about my money is not trustworthy.   I could go on and on about the quality of work product and others but bottom line is they cannot be trusted!  I still believe a person's word is their bond.

I have been working for Focus Infomatics since January....just trying to build up my experience.  Hard to make money at this at 8 cpl and often no work load whatsoever.  Anyone know anything about them? 

Has anyone worked for this company?  If so, what is their platform like, what do they pay per line, all the usual info?  Thank you in advance.

Now they want us to give out trade secrets to our international labor partners, aka Asian MTs?  That's like training your successor before you know you are being fired.  The indignities of this profession are piling up....

 I am a newbie, and I came here hoping to gain insight from MTs with years of experience, a little support, and make a few friends along the way.   

People here are too busy being rude, nasty, and trying to

out do one another, and it is sad!

As a newbie, I KNOW I have much to learn, but that does not mean I don't have a clue or a brain in my head. Passing the CS final with a score of 97 on the first try, well, I think I have a pretty good start at it.

While I have much to learn,  I strive every day to improve on my skills,and value advice from those with much more experience. That is not what you get here.

Certain people on here, the same people over and over again, respond to every post on every page , and it is always in a negative manner, and most often down right nasty...why?

At one time each of you were newbies, looking for that first chance, looking for advice , encouragement from others who are more experienced, but it seems you all have forgotten this fact.

It is possible to respond to someone and get your point across without being nasty, rude, insulting .

There is a lot of competition in this business, the bad economy and so many new MTs coming along only makes matters worse.

I enjoy the work, just want to improve, and try to make a decent living. And like I said, I hoped to make a few friends along the way, but that just is not possible. At least not here.

 It isn't about not having thick skin. I have raised 2 kids with health problems on my own, ran my own business for years, my skin is very thick. But,no one enjoys a place where they know every comment they make, question they ask will be met with an insult.

One person on here replied to me many times by email when I asked to hear from anyone who worked for or had worked for a company that had offered me a job, and I of course replied back thanking her for being so nice, for encouragement only to find out she was taking my personal emails to her and passing them along to other people, such as the recruiter at the company that I was thinking of accepting the job offer with...why? Only reason I could think of was to try to cause me trouble before I even got my foot in the door.

I had simply asked the lady how long it took to get set up to begin working, and if the platform they use had a line counter or if I needed my own. She sent my email to the recruiter saying she didn't know how to answer me????

Two simple, basic questions and she didn't know how to answer me? If you have been a MT for several years, worked for a company for several years, and cannot tell someone how long it took you to get set up, and if the platform you use  has a line counter, well, I am sorry but I have to wonder how you have a job.

The recruiter jumped on me saying I was to address all questions to only her, that writing this woman would not speed things  up for me??? I did not ask anyone to help speed things up for me. It was all very strange.

This is just one example of my bad experience here, then every time I come here it is this same nasty junk back and forth from the same people over and over again.

Some of you have nerve to tell others they need to grow up. 

I recently started working for Sten-Tel and need some info on them! Anyone working there now, please let me know!

that seems to get worse and worse as the days go by?  Remember when we were told that switching from tapes to digital would make all the difference in the world with regard to clarity and our production?   Remember when we were paid more and had plenty of work?  Remember when there was no working on Sundays or holidays? 

Why is EVERYTHING MT going to the dumpster?

Why do these MTSOs accept reports dictated on cell phones?  Can't they write in their contracts that cell phone dictation is not clear and it can also be intercepted by others and therefore unacceptable?  Why don't the QA personnel who read our flagged comments about awful audio pass this information on to the client so that it can be fixed?  It's getting worse and worse.

Back in the days when I had my own accounts, one of my dictators asked me to please tell him as soon as his equipment malfunctioned (in those days, it was batteries running low or a tape that needed to be tossed and replaced).  He said there was no need for the MT to suffer with poor audio reports when there is a simple fix.  So, what's the difference here when the idiots dictate on cell phones?  Or there is a hospital phone with a short in it?  Why can't these things be fixed?   

My plea:  If you are a QA person or MTSO getting repeated complaints about specific dictators' dictations being garbled or unclear, won't you please notify, and keep notifying the client until they are brought up to par.  How about sticking up for the MTs for a change rather than protecting the client all the time!?  In the end you are protecting everyone, including the poor patients whose reports are being dictated and transcribed. 

I'm tired of MTs taking all the blame for this industry's downfall.  If MTSOs and clients demand 2-hour turn-around time, how about improving the technology to make your unending demands more attainable?  It's 2006.  There is no excuse for the garbage I have to listen to day after day.  No excuse at all. 

I just got the yuckiest keyboard and pedal from Diskriter. The keyboard keys had gross stuff stuck on them and I had to get dirt/lint out from underneath the keys. The foot pedal was very dirty also. I had to disinfect everything.  The computer monitor was new and so was the headset (which I am happy about). The speakers are ok, but the box looked like it had been at a flea market, all faded and crushed. Out of all my years working at home (8+), I have never received such dirty equipment from an MT company. The computer itself had a broken monitor attachment, so my monitor cord would not screw in all the way. Am I the only one that received dirty equipment? I think someone should have cleaned the keyboard and pedal before they shipped it. I can use my other keyboard, but still, that was gross.

Does anyone know as an MTSO if we have to retain the medical records for a former client that no longer does business with us?

Thanks

Any information available regarding Steven Stern, MedScribe?  There are more than 1 MedScribe's in the USA.  This is the 1 that is in Teaneck New Jersey.  If anyone has worked for this man or company, did you get paid on time or not at all?  I can't afford to try it and then not get paid.  Thanks. 

I have heard that if you work for Spheris that you have to buy their computer and that it is very costly. Can someone tell me if this is true.

Can you work part time for them?  How are they to work for?   Do they have enough work to go around?  Is their pay pretty decent?  

TIA!

I have a great MT day job.  I was looking to get a few extra hours a week on another just to fill in my time and to begin IC so someday I can go full time IC and set my own hours. I have a lot of years under my belt.  I just tested with 3 IC firms for part time anytime you want work.  One of them responded and said my test was perfect and they sent me the document compared with their style only corrections.  They said they'd get back to me.  The other 2 companies never did and I know I did well on their tests.

Come to find out, I was speaking to an MTSO owner this week who said really did not plan to hire me because MTs with my experience are hard to control, and it is easier to work with people right out of school, yet she liked my experience and was tempted to work with me.  Really, how is that supposed to make me feel? I have paid my dues, worked for years, done every shift, worked in every situation, including on site hospitals and now that I have a lot of experience people are not calling me? I get lots of calls for full time work, but I already have a job I love.  And they are not afraid of me being demanding.  Because I am not.  We are not all alike.  Just because one person may be a prima donna does not want to follow company regulations, that does not mean that I wouldn't.  If I found out that I were being controlled yes I would leave, but wouldn't anyone?  Then, I realized they also wanted to pay me less per line, a beginning rate.  I did not act insulted. I just did not take the job.

So, to get called back on a p/t position if you have experience, you 1) should not scare them so dumb down your resume. 2) Act very flexible like you will do anything and then proceed to do so 3) do all the above at a lower rate.

Okay, so I got the message. I quit testing for p/t and IC.  I will just work harder and longer hours for the company f/t which does trust me, is not afraid of me, and treats me well.  I am just writing this to say, isn't this some kind of prejudice? What we are supposed to quit in midcareer? Is anyone else out there getting these answers? I learned my lesson. I am not looking anymore, wasting my time doing well on tests, or dumbing down my resume to be paid less. I will probably just sell junk on e bay.

If anyone has any info before I interview tomorrow, please let me know.  My biggest concer is the platform.  I can type 1200 lpd with no problems, but every platform I've tried in the past seems to produce nothing but dinking around all day instead of $$$.  Hopefully this one will be different.  The test doctors sounded great.

Thanks much,

Debbie

I worked over the weekend (not scheduled, just didn't want a Monday backlog), and guess what?  The worst account has hours! of dictation by the worst! dictators doing DS they should have done months ago...all dictated after I signed off for the weekend.  It is all being routed to me to knock 'em out!  I feel like screaming!  If Dr. I-don't-know-English-carries-on-a-conversation-with-the-nurses-while-dictating-old-reports expects me to understand EVERY word...well, I just CAN'T!  So I'm sending some to QA who seems to have woken up with a bug in the aadvark this morning and is correcting me on the stupidiness, nitpicky things....Nail me for a medical mistake but please, telling me I don't use enough commas just got on my last nerve!

AAARRRGGHHH!!

Thank you.  Please return to your normal programming. 

Just wondering if anyone has rec'd their W2 forms from Webmedx yet?  I no longer work there, but was employed for about a month last year, so I have no idea when to expect the W2.

Thanks in advance!

I am fairly new to Keystrokes.  I am on a Meditech account that specifies no cutting and pasting.  I have always typed in word and pasted into Meditech, much faster and easier.  How would they know if I cut and paste?  Does anyone at KS do this on a Meditech account.  I don't want to get in trouble, but using just Meditech, I don't think I will ever get over 200 lph.

Thanks.