Can anyone recommend a good reference book

• Can anyone recommend a good reference book - New to rad
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  • flutterby - Radiology reference books
    • Thanks very much flutterby! - New to rad
      • my pleasure.....best of luck (nm) - flutterby
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to even my worst enemy.   I was in QA, had some of the worst MTs because they could not get and keep good MTs and a warm body was better than nobody.  Management changed frequently.  The CEO was so slimy that I felt like I needed a shower after talking with him.  I can't remember her position, but she was one step above QA manager would send out e-mails with new terms/medications and they would be incorrect.  I've been in this business for 22 years.  I do about 85% ESL.  I can do some of the worst ESLs (don't like to, but I can), but the accounts I had were beyond horrendous.  Between the horrible dictators and the sound quality there wasn't enough money to make me stay.   They still call me about every 6 months and ask me to come back.  Only if my kids were going hungry would I do that and I think I would try prostitution first.  I believe in producing a quality product, but I also have bills to pay and I have a life outside of work.  I was not willing to work 12+ hours a day and be stressed out every day over the crappy work.   There is so much better out there.  Unfortunately there aren't a lot of jobs available currently with the mergers, VR, and offshore work. SS is always hiring and there is a reason for that.  I can assure you it isn't because they are getting a lot of new accounts. 

If you spend time going through the archives you'll see posts where MTs didn't listen to the negative posts and accepted positions, only to come back within a month or so and say that all the negative stuff was absolutely true and they would apologize for not listening to us.  

After that idiot that came on saying how they fired us because we weren't good enough, etc. I put SS lower on the list than they already were, which was hard to do when they were already at the bottom.  That person was not there when I was, did not know who I was, did not know what position I held and anything they said was because they evidently weren't taking their meds and there was no shred of truth to it.  This person attacked anyone who said anything negative about SS, not just me.  I understand that person is no longer there though. 

business practices -- I was not referring to one company specifically.  From reading the board, there are messages regarding existing insurance coverage suddenly being unavailable.  Others have posted regarding to unpaid training time, which I believe under employee status is unlawful.  If the shoe fits.  One cannot sign away one's legal rights, no matter what kind of wording they put in a contract.  I would say dropping existing insurance coverage and then stringing people along regardig that amounts to fraud.

I accepted a position about 2 weeks ago at a company that apparently hire people before checking their references.  My references that I listed are calling me stating that they are just receiving reference calls today.  Is this the standard practice of getting hired.  I was hired two weeks ago.  How come they did not check my reference then!   I just think this is backwards, but I have good references anyway.

This makes me worried about this company because so many MTs on this board have negative things to say about this company.  I hope this is not the beginning of bad things to come with this company.

I admit the Internet is faster and easier, but if you put in the wrong spelling when looking up a word on the Internet, a lot of times you can find it spelled that way.  I've had it happen.  I agree with this poster.  There's too much room for error when you just Google a word and don't know the meaning or how to spell it.  I do use it frequently for drugs, especially new ones.  I just make sure to find the drug company's website or the official website for the policy.  I've seen surgical equipment come up spelled totally wrong, like it sounds, nothing close to the correct spelling.

Another thing, I worked in an office last summer doing editing with a couple newbie MTs.  One girl thought she was the computer/Internet whiz.  She was working on clinic note tapes.  One day the Internet went down. OMG!! You would have thought the end of the world had arrived.  She was lost, frustrated, and on the verge of tears.  Now there was a complete set of Stedman Word Books, as well as Dorlands and 2008 drug books in the office, but she didn't even know what books to look in.  So another good argument for reference books.  Get the knowledge, don't just depend on the Internet.

nm