Anybody else been through this?

I work for a reasonably well-respected company with a reasonably good reputation for quality work.

The platform we use allows us to view previous reports and what an eye opener THAT experience was.  I take a lot of pride in editing to produce an accurate document that looks exactly like a transcribed document.  I even forsake getting a higher line count in order to produce a higher-quality document.   

The tremendous amount of glaring errors I see in the prior reports just astounds me.  I was actually humiliated for my own employer at the quality of some of these documents I've seen while trying to double-check a medication or a prior procedure or whatever reason it was that took me to the prior reports.

I'm sure these are edited reports and not transcribed.  Nothing against editing as I personally greatly enjoy editing; it's just that it's painfully obvoius these documents have been put on maximum speed and just zipped right on through with as little correction done as possible.

I'm sure my line counts look low compared to those of some of my co-workers on this account who are obviously just skimming and uploading these documents as quickly as possible trying to make themselves a few extra bucks. 

I don't even know what responses I'm looking for from my fellow MTs here. I guess I just felt the need to express my shock and horror of what is being put through as a finished document into a patient's medical record.

I think I'd rather have a little lower line count and not have another MT appalled looking at my documents.  Some of these are a downright embarrassment to the MT profession. 

• Anybody else been through this? - Staying Anonymous
  • Almighty computer matters - not MT or quality - starting VR this week
  • Your post could have been written by me - Backwards typist
  • good argument for doing away with - deenibeeni
    • I AGREE COMPLETELY! I'd rather be paid a consistent, respectable hourly rate - for MT'ing. I think the time has come. nm
      • Hourly pay is nice... - MT
        • hourly turning out to be not so great. - Mary
    • My thoughts... - MT
      • I would always hope that a responsible intelligent MT... - ndmt
        • Some good points... - MT
          • Who is to say that the MTs turning out these reports... - ndmt
            • Whose fault is poor quality? - Alice
            • Well, we'll have to disagree... - MT
              • I agree with you 100% - Amen
                • No guilty conscience...no martyr syndrome, either. - ndmt
                  • If MTs were doing their job... - MT
                    • So what about the poster above being instructed by the MTSO, - ndmt
    • clarification - "this" - deenibeeni
  • had a similar experience - Stillmting
  • I'm with you Cranky/Fingers - Also anon
  • I have far too much pride in my work - CrankyBeach
    • Talk about old school... Started out in - linda
  • What I did... - Fingers
  • I may be the turtle of the bunch, - I'm with you on this one!
  • In the past I always opted for a slightly lower - sm
    • Hit the nail on the head! - mtme
    • if that is the case, then we cannot complain when - sm
      • I think it is the fact that the client is already paying less... - ndmt
        • Which is why I don't care if a few mistakes slip by. - The client sure doesn't - too busy pinching pen
    • Point well taken... :-) - NMMT
  • I see a lot of this also... - NMMT
    • I think the fact that there was a wink - It was a joke.
  • Yes I have - Also anon

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