Geez, it is not a business of humanity. It is transcribing.
Posted By: (see inside) on 2006-12-10
In Reply to: professionals? - MTbucket
I hope you don't take this the wrong way but you sound burned out. You probably should try to find a different type of work.
I've worked in other lines of work and they go through the same changes this one is.
What's with your without US you would be nothing line? LOL Honey, you are about to blow a gasket.
It is NOT only about the MTs. It takes everyone: MTs, management, QA, financiers, investors, IT, everyone.
I think you the 1st syndrome the OP mentioned and it won't work, the old the MT is everything syndrome.
If you're not doing good in transcription work, it's YOU who isn't doing well. The rest of us seem to be doing fine.
In any event, please try to calm yourself. It is seriously worrisome to see someone so upset.
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geez or not geez, it's you who has to polish up her grammar...sm
Prove that conjunctions cannot be used to start a sentence, I just proved the contrary in my 2 lower post. Read it, so you can better you grammar.
Do you feel better now? !! Business is business, most of it should be confidential. Why post on a
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Trying to build his business? He's been in business over 15 years!!!!!! sm
I also had a hard time, nearly impossible actually, getting paid. The owner does this on the side; he is very involved with other things.
Geez...
wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning???
geez!
Lighten up. I never claimed each and every one of the gaffs in my post would happen in a single report! (explanation point) Just trying to show the range of possibilities and provide a little fun at the same time.
And to those who say we must adapt, some species will just take themselves out of the gene pool, rather than lose their wings and become ground dwellers. The advent of computers (like losing flippers and growing legs) was a boon to this profession, one to which I was happy to adapt because it was beneficial to me. Not really sure what I would be getting out of adaptation to VR, other than being allowed to do something kinda like my old job, that I don't enjoy nearly as much as my old job, for a lot less money than my old job. Just doesn't seem like a good plan, but then that's just me.
geez...
do you also begrudge the lady using the insurance for her breast cancer or the guy with the MI??? Health insurance has always paid for pregnancy-related charges. And women have taken maternity leave. why is this a big deal for everyone now? would you like her to schedule her delivery for friday so she can recuperate over the weekend and be back at her desk on Monday?
Oh geez!!!
You just put into writing my worst fear, the one I was afraid to mention, that they perhaps are offshoring. It's just so unlike my experience with them to be met with dead silence and a lack of explanation from management about work being slow. One poster even tried addressing D directly to no avail.
The silence is deafening.
I hope we're WAY off base on this but with no other explanations coming from the higher ups, it does leave a lot of room for speculation.
Hoping for the best for all of us at MDI-MD right now...
To Geez
I know you did not mean to offend and I was not. :) The one thing we can all say is that MDI MTs are a cohesive group of respectful MTs, especially of each other. We are all on this ship together although in different ways. I am lucky so far in that I transcribe private office accounts. Therefore, the work is my own and only if a doctor is on vacation or sick, is my work load super low. I make 9 cpl and have not asked for any more in 3 years and never will. I cover for other MTs on vacation who also have private accounts. I do not do hospital work and now I think I may be more grateful than ever that I do not. However, I only average 800-900 lines per day and sometimes less. I dropped my commitment to 800 when 2 private accounts left. The one major complaint I have with MDI is when physicians take their business to another service or utilize another technology MDI never tells you. You sit and look at an empty template for days wondering if they are sick, on vacation or dead! No one says anything until you just figure (or finally hear it from your TL) that this doctor/practice left MDI.
Geez!
Okay fine, the experienced receptionist would get 50 cents more an hour....happy now? Ohhh, ahhhh!!! Good grief!
Geez!
So if you are one of the lucky MTs who got your wages cut, you can look forward to no milk and sewing your own clothes and adding patches and sparkles when they rip. Just shoot me already! Oh, you guys are killing me with the drama!
Geez, just let it go....nm
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Geez!!
I am soo sick and tired of the sniping on this board!! Its either the great debate re: VR versus I only wanna work days -- To NEWBIES -- I have been in this profession over 30 years -- therefore, the days, the hours off that I want take precedence over your wants, needs or groans -- I have also worked in the corporate world and if you are low man on totem pole -- TOUGH!! I also had the guts/nerve to tell my employer that due to where I lived I had to have a raise to deal with COLA -- guess what??? I have it - and BTW -- no I am doing straight transcription and NO we are not hiring so dont ask
Well geez!
That oughta make 'em all feel a whole lot better!
I had over 40 years in the business and guess what? I used to be just as arrogant as you but after buy-outs, mergers and all the rest, it got ME. Time was when I wanted a raise, I asked for it...and got it. I never worked a weekend until I VOLUNTEERED to work weekends after my kids were grown so others might have time to spend with their families. No way would I get back in the MT business!! I'd flip burgers first. And... no way would I do VR at 3-4 cpl. Your time will come, trust me.
65+ and still transcribing
I'm 65, was hired by CyMed/SPi at 63 but had another offer at that time. Companies have never asked my age (and aren't supposed to). Of course, they can often figure it out from a resume or when you have to send in a copy of your DL or other ID. I sympathize and empathize with your chronic pain. I've had to slow down to 6 hours a day due to shoulder/neck problems and had had 3 surgeries (did not have to give my medical history when applying either). I still enjoy the work. I consider our jobs a genuine specialty, truly medical language specialists! I have lots of ESL experience and that is usually a plus for me. I'm on my own, divorced 20 years, so no hubby help, etc. I took early retirement at 62 but it barely covers my rent now that Medicare and MC supplement premiums are being deducted. Thanks for posting your concerns. Don't give up on finding a company--you are a valuable person in this field!
I was also transcribing (sm)
ER reports for them on an IC basis (weekends, nights, etc.)  . The account I was on was easy. If I remember correctly, I was up to around 275 lph within the first couple days. I left because I had a second job which was full time and it just became overwhelming for me.
J and J transcribing
Hi, Does anyone here know anything about J and J Transcribing? I applied to them a long time ago and they have finally gotten back to me. It was so long ago that I cannot remember any of the original information that I knew about the company. Thanks, Gale
On transcribing what you know to be
correct versus what the client/MTSO wants, you have to go by that. They pay your bills. When and if the client is cited by Joint Commission for inappropriate abbreviations then it will be changed, but until then type things as instructed. If you have to do what QA wants, then there isn't much you can do about that, but why can't QA pull up the information they are looking for instead of you??? For the lack of work, contact your supervisor again and ask if it is a permanent thing or just temporary that the work is low for now (don't mention the other MTs if you are not supposed to know about it) and, if so, ask again about a second or third account.
Transcribing...nm
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J&J Transcribing, Inc.
Does anyone know anything about this company? I haven't applied for a new MT position in a while and something seems off about this company and I can't find any info. on here about them. I did find online that they are a legitimate company. I actually never tested for this company and didn't realize that until after the fact, because I had tested for several different companies. So, the owner of the company called me and told me that they wanted to hire me and explained a bit about the job and she emphasized that QA had to remain 98% or higher, which is pretty standard, so I saw no issue with that. So, then they sent me the foot pedal/headset FIRST and then I received the information via e-mail about the company. It is confusing because the information says I will be typing for Webmedx untill my QA is 98%, including the use of their platform and once I get to that point I will be allowed to work for J&J. It says that if QA does not feel I get to that point then I will not be allowed to work for J&J.
Another thing concerning is their pay schedule, you work from the 1st through the 31st and you get paid the 25th of the following month. It states that if during the initial QA process if you don't pass and are allowed to work for J&J then you do not get paid for any of the reports that you typed during that first month, but if you are released to work for J&J then you will get paid for those.
Also, with the QA once you do get released to work for J&J, it says they do not do quarterly reviews and such, but pretty much daily monitoring of your work and if any time you fall below 98% you are no longer allowed to work with them. It is concerning because with my experience with QA they tend to help you, but this job seems like it is just a prolonged testing process. I am not overly concerned about the 98% QA, but I hate to waste my time memorizing a book of information they sent me with account-specific guidelines and doing reports for free in hope that I can be with the company.
Anybody heard of anything like this before? Thanks so much.
I'm not judging...GEEZ
It just gets frustrating to read these down and out posts about MQ going under, we're all in trouble, its doom and gloom. There have been a lot of changes, I have had my bitter moments too, but I have nothing to fall back on. If you people do not have PROOF of what is GOING to happen, do not post false threats!! This is our livelihood, and its trickling away bit by bit. All I see is a bunch of people complaining nonstop, if you're that unhappy, why don't you do something about it? Either that or go along with the changes. This industry is going downhill, we are expendable, I feel that our days are numbered too, but i'm going to do whatever work is thrown at me until that day. I'm a remote worker, just a number who has no voice. My supervisors are secretive and down-talk me as well, but it does no good to come on here and threaten us and scare us all into believing we are this close to ending up flat broke and on the streets. You people posting such things, copy and paste evidence that the changes are going to be for the worse in regards to MQ pay plan, accounts switching, MQ being bought out, getting rid of seasoned MTs. PROVE IT!!! Or else you're causing a stir for no definitive reason for all of us who are under a lot of stress and uncertainty as it is!
Thank you. Geez! I had no idea. sm
What Business Journal are you referring to? Would love to see the info you are talking about. Thanks again!
Geez, can you get any snottier?
What a poop.
Geez, do you believe everything you read?
You don't have a first-hand experience with OSi and yet you advise someone to run, run, run? You know, maybe we who are having a great experience with OSi don't spend all of our time here posting, and what's the point anyway? We're usually overrun with the few who post over and over again about staying away. I actually am extremely happy with OSi, and in fact my last two weeks of October I had my largest line count ever. My point is, I think you can't believe everything you read on these boards, and it's really not right and kind of strange to step up and advise someone to run when you really have no first-hand knowledge of working with this company.
Geez, just saw that TransHealth wants Sat AND
That seems pretty rigorous. Are Sat and Sun schedules requested a lot out there? I'm thinking more and more that I need to leave this career.
I don't think she was talking to you. Geez.
She was addressing me, trying to figure out if I was being serious or sarcastic with MY post.
Geez that is a bit extreme
Well she is probably like me. I make mistakes like anyone else and if I am typing on here I might make one and not double check myself as much. You can tell if they are intelligible by the rest of their post. She just made a typo or two. We are not perfect in this world. We come here for support on this board not criticism. That is just my opinion on this issue.
Not sure who anyone of the Geez's is talking to.
Again, I don't believe anything necessarily (please count my R's for me), but its this exact sort of inflammatory defensive posting against any negative posts that is a real turn off for most of us who juse peruse this board (please count my R's for me). Soon L at KS will be here, if she isn't already, defending a river (please count my R's) and citing, or is it siting, or is it sighting, all the perceived injustices levied, or is it lobbed, against her company. Good Grief (please count my R's)...
I mean where, GEEZ, long day! NM
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GEEZ people...
This company, whoever they are, will probably never ever post here again after all the harrassment they have received. So what if they don't want to give their name. A lot of places don't. I have two companies that I work for now that didn't list their names either when I applied and they have turned out to be the best jobs I ever had. It's a need-to-know basis. If you were hired by them or tested for them, then you know their name. If not, what do you care?
And to Editors Needed...please disregard the nastiness of some people. You don't own them any kind of response.
You don't need to be so defensive...geez!
I wouldn't know about the other docs because the account I was on was ALL ESL, very, very difficult to understand ESL's, and one physician that was just impossible to understand, and every time I logged on, it was always him on there. I realize there are ESL's everywhere because I do them on a daily basis, but he was the WORST one I have EVER had and the others on that account were terrible as well. Let's face it...you can't make any money if you can't understand what they are saying. I told them I could not understand them and nothing was ever done about it and I wasn't going to stick around long enough to be their gofer! Like I said, I was disappointed about it, but we all have to pay the bills and I couldn't do that with them! Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a REALLY bad account there and they should be well informed on what they are accepting beforehand.
Oh geez, that's not true about not doing well
If I were the OP, I would drop an e-mail just stating you are following up on your testing results. Good luck!
nevermind - geez
I am so exhausted I was not thinking about how to go back and look at the older posts, duh!! I am getting ready to read right now and then I am really going to bed :D
My apologies...Geez
I hope it didn't appear as if I were biting your head off because I'd never do that to a fellow MT when we're in the same boat. I'm just exasperated and frustrated (and going broke now, lol!).
In all honesty, I was very offended by this morning's email when I know several of us have been emailing inquiring about where the work has gone, is there work available on another account, etc., only to have our cries for help fall on deaf ears.
I can't help but wonder if these new accounts are going to be VR accounts, which is why they're hiring a whole new crew since the last account they went to VR was met with such resistance by so many MTs.
Either that or perhaps the above poster is correct and they'd like to drive out the longer-term, higher-salaried MTs...But I don't want to believe that.
Anyway, my apologies if my response to your other post seemed abrupt. I just don't want anyone at MDI thinking if their work disappears that it's as simple as requesting a backup account, when the past month or so have made it painfully clear to those of us who have tried to get more work that it's not the case.
Good luck to ALL of us, not only at MDI but every other MT who is having their work disappear.
Editing vs. transcribing.
Why would anyone choose editing? Is it better pay than transcribing. Just wondering if that's something I should aim for or stick with training for coding.
TIA
Its not all Transcribing. So be careful
This is just a reminder that there will be people out there to actually fool other people for working for them and not paying them. its like a new age of salvery.
I really do enjoy transcribing, actually
as much as the day I first started almost 17 years ago. I'm willing to go the extra mile and learn as much as I can. I just need someone to give me the chance. Thanks for the encouragement.
are you transcribing or editing? nm
either way, you're in for a rude awakening.
I'm currently doing a mix of editing and transcribing
There are good points and the not so good points to the editing.
I've been with the company too long to just give up and jump ship without giving it a fair shake tho.
I like editing but I wish the compensation was better.
When I was straight transcribing I was doing a little over 2000 lines per day, approximately 135-170 minutes per day and making darn good money.
Now, with editing thrown into the mix, I do anywhere from 1900 to 3000 lines per day, and approximately 190-230 minutes.
Just my own personal opinion but I think the ones who truly made an improvement in their earnings were those who were maybe doing a little over the minimum required 1100 lines per day to begin with. The higher producers... not so lucky.
I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel yet.
Made much more transcribing, but it was too SM
hard on me physically, so I had to opt for the hourly QA route.
Lee Perfect Transcribing Co.
Would like any current information on this company..enough work, good/bad people to work for, and platform used (Emdat). Do they pay for spaces, etc., any info whatsoever, good or bad is appreciated. I did check past messages but would like something current. Thanks.
At-home Transcribing
I have been working from home since July 2002. I absolutely love it. I have worked for Spheris, MedQuist, and now I am at Webmedx. The company I am currently with is the best. Spheris is also good, but they do not have bonus incentives. All 3 of these companies have PT positions available. You pay a $250 deposit for the equipment (which is better than using your own cuz if anything goes wrong they pay for it and not you!) which is split into $50 from each paycheck. If you ever leave the company you get that back. Also they have full medical, dental, 401K, and vision, and PTO time. I work FT and absolutely love it! My take home pay is around $1000 every 2 weeks. That is TAKE HOME!!!!!! So, if you have any more questions please feel free to ask me. Good luck in your job search!
I been getting 13 cpl for editing VR and 18 cpl transcribing. nm
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I am looking for a position transcribing ....sm
exclusively operative reports, trauma, and coronary interventions. Does this company have those kinds of accounts?
And not only for transcribing, but answering their
It's not all it is cracked up to be and certainly not for everyone. There are more hours involved in administrative tasks with more clients, too. Make sure you are fully aware what you are getting into before jumping. Not saying that to discourage, just a friendly warning. It has its rewards, too, but trust me, you will work your tail off. Doctors work 24/7 and often expect the same of their business associates.
If you provide digital equipment, you'd better know it inside and out or have a good tech person on your payroll because the office will call you for help everytime there is a hiccup. Set forth your hours, rules, and extra charges for stat reports, faxes, copies of reports lost in their office, etc., ahead of time. Once you get a few clients, you may want to line up another MT or find someone you can subcontract to in the event of illness, vacation, etc., maybe trade favors with another MT with own clients.
Metro Transcribing?
Anybody work for or worked for this company? Any info is appreciated.
TIA!
Have you been transcribing for 40 years?
Is that what you mean by 40-year vet? Wow that's a lot of years.
J&J TRANSCRIBING QUESTIONS
I'm responding to the inquires about J&J Transcribing, Inc. My name is Linda Jensen, CEO of J&J Transcribing and if anyone has any questions or concerns about any postings concerning our company, please feel free to contact me or visit our website at the numbers and addresses listed below.
We are a legitimate transcription company that has been in business for 18 years. We contract with nationwide companies who supply work to our MT's. Any reputable transcription company requires a 98% accuracy level, as this is what is expected from a medical transcriptionist, as well as what an account expects from our company. If an MT's work isn't up to that level, then they obviously can't continue to do the work.
As noted above, please feel free to contact me if anyone has any questions and I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Linda Jensen, CEO.
J&J Transcribing, Inc.
Office - 530-222-3445
Fax - 530-222-3445
Cell - 530-604-2144
Website - http://www.jandjtranscribing.com
IM - ltslts10@charter.net
Transcribing in Ireland
Hi Adele: I am wondering if an American company had an internet-based platform why you could't transcribe for them from anywhere in the world, if you had high-speed connection?
Gee, could it be they are getting new accounts and growing? Geez
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Geez. Pay the woman if she worked for you. nm
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Geez, nothing like that for me. I have employee+children
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