Great idea. I'll work on this in

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  • Put them in auto-correct - copy and paste. Quick and easy! nm - CrazyCat
    • How do you put this in AutoCorrect? Wouldn't shorthand work the same way? - computer illiterate
      • Faster, easier, and more reliable than Autocorrect. - yes
  • Can you do a C&P of these into a separate folder so they will always be handy for you? nm - Just a thought
    • They are in a folder as are they for a ton of dictators. - Thanks anyway.
      • Just to clarify the folder thing. - Just a thought
        • My solution........sm - Tons of docs too
          • Great idea. I'll work on this in - my down time.
        • Many of the doctors do this. - further clarification
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EXCELLENT CONCEPT!  You would think most of these companies could figure that out on their own.

Years ago. . .the clerk or supervisor of med rec would edit the incoming dictation numbers (correct the demographics) if needed.  Anything coming to us in house, or going out to a service was correct.  Why is that not being done any more? 

Write to your newspapers, call your local TV and radio stations, tell your relatives and friends.  Most people do not know that their medical records and other sensitive info is being sent to the middle east, and most are appalled when finally they are told.  

considered doing that, since I was a nursing major (years and years back, got sick last semester before graduation) but now trying to get at least my LPN license with the education I do have.  In the meantime, I was thinking strongly about doing home health or getting CNA in the interim.  I live in a large city so if there are jobs available, that shouldn't be a problem.  My aunt is almost 70 years old and came to the US several years ago, no home health experience, was hired by a smaller agency.  Even thought pay isn't that great, and she does get an occasionally difficult patient - she says most patients and her agency supes ARE nice and APRECIATIVE. I think I could manage an occasionally difficult patient far better than dealing with the home MT biz lately -- and I would do that ANY TIME rather than got to VR at half pay, which is likely in store for us all.

You're right about the appreciation part - I worked for years and years as a temp MT for hospitals via temp agencies - I got respect, appreciation, not to speak of much better compensated than by the home MTSOs, where we seem to get NONE of those. 

nm

It is all IC work, although you still are expected to give a schedule if you are doing stat coverage.  Only major drawback is the big wait for your first check -- almost a month from the time of your first invoice.

Good luck!  

Say you, and others like you, come on (or remain on) at the beginning of my shift.  The work volumes drop dramatically as YOU make up your hours - TAT issues or not.  By the time you've made up your time, there's maybe an hour's worth of work left.  That runs out rapidly as my shift was already FULLY staffed, and I get stuck sitting there the whole 12 hour window - and if I'm lucky enough work will trickle in during those extra 4 hours that ALL of us scheduled to work my shift that are fighting for it can get their time in and call it a night.

Night after night I run out of work an hour or 2 before my 8 hours are in.  Sometimes I only have 20 minutes left to type - but I am forced to sit there 4 extra hours in order to get that stupid 20 minutes - knowing I'll be short EVERY night, so if I don't make my 8 tonight, the chances of me making it up another day are very slim, because everyone is flexing all over the place.  Sure it gives us perfect TAT - it also gives us 4 hours of our lives a day, wasted and unpaid!

No I do NOT want to make it up on my days off.  I am already spending 12+ hours a day chained to my workstation.  My days off are sacred for my sanity.  Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it certainly bothers me, and I quit the last job I had where flexing 24/7 was expected.

I know you need to make your hours.  We all do.  The MTs are just doing what they have to do.  The only real solution is to STOP OVERHIRING.  Otherwise flexing eventually gets forced on every employee on every shift, whether they mind it or not!