HA! Reminds me of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. remember that ? nm
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Make your own nest. Find a couple of good
accounts, multiple companies if you have to. Work on them every day just to stay on top of it. I used to bend over backwards to try to help where needed, but all I ever got was kicked in the head, so now I just do my routine. When they start appreciating people, (and not just an occasional 'oh how wonderful you are' when they are backlogged and know you can do a lot of work), by some type of recognition like a raise or promotion, then you can go back to being the nice guy.
Ahhh..I got the pb now...flew over my head for a sec
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They flew out the MTSOs' and the hospitals' windows
BTW - Ever hear of that old,
'He who casts the first stone' saying?
This so reminds me of
the years I worked for a group of doctors that really gave nice and very much appreciated bonuses. Those were the days. The docs then moved the practice to a larger office, had a big grand opening for the the healthcare community, catered and pianist and the works. That year we were told our Christmas bonus was to work in such a lovely new office. Couldn't take that to the bank, fellas;-)
Reminds me of I know you are but what am I
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She reminds me of the old saying
of not confusing people with facts when their minds are already made up. I do not care about whether she has rugrats or not; they are not my responsibility. However, I do want someone who cares enough to proofread what is basically an on-line resume or query for job. If she doesn't care about that, she will probably be too busy with the rugrats to care about proofing any work she does for me. But I guess that a poor excuse is better than none at all.
reminds of one of the first
doctors I had to transcribe.. in every report she would say Typist, typist! Go back and..... put this in. Take that out.
Reminds me...funny
Can't remember why but I declined a job offer from YOG. Think it had something to do with LD charges maybe. The very next week they were sold to MQ. I surely was glad I had declined the offer as I would have gone to a lot of trouble just to end up right back where I started from. LOL
Reminds me of another MTSO. If I were you, I would
ask the board administrator to remove all your postings
this reminds me of Keystrokes
a while back. This same bantering back and forth. The OP of the MDI-MD posts just asked if others were out of work. The Medquist board has posts like that all of the time, so what makes MDI-MD an exception to this rule where MT's come to ask if others are out of work.
Why come here and say you're out of work just for spite? It makes no sense to me. When this original poster brought up the fact she had no work, no one responded. Why didn't Carlotta respond to her initially with this blurb? Why? Because she didn't know it was here until some MDI MT blabbed. If people would just sit back and take things with a grain of salt, we'd be better off.
By the way, there are lots of questions posted here regarding companies and their workload and the way they treat MTs, so I don't see the big deal or why Carlotta even felt the need to post here the way she did unless she has a guilty feeling about this whole original post from below.
I think that MDI-MD was put up here as one of the better companies and people begging to get in just like Keystrokes was, and now people are finding out that not all companies have that everything. Good luck to all of you, but I'd like to see this thread locked. I think this has gone on long enough.
We will reach our own conclusions as we always do. Peace! 
It reminds me of when I worked there
I remember it was the middle of June and the excuse for no work was *Oh, well, it must be the holiday coming up*! I can laugh about it now, but it made me steam at the time.
P.S. For those of you who still believe that old chestnut it's the holiday, try to remember that maybe a day or two before and a day or two after the holiday is the norm. Any other time, it's called not enough work to go around.
Funny you should bring this up as it reminds
The work was done in Word but I received progress notes where I had to line it up. The office would give me the last progress note, and then I had to add to that so it was just an ongoing chart note for each visit with the new date. In other words, this doc drove me to drink. So, I charged him $5.00 per page. He called me into his office to talk about this, and he said to me: I know I can afford to pay more than $3.00 for a pack of cigarettes, but I won't. He wanted to know why I was charging him so much because I guess he thought his wealth was the reason. Right then and there, I said I can certainly be replaced if you prefer not to pay what my services are worth. AND I NEVER LOOKED BACK. Just thought I'd share...  Come to find out, he still does not have a steady transcriptionist. They are still LOOOOKING. One girl lasted one day, one girl took one tape and never came back.... Need I say more? If that is truly the case that the transcriptionists in another country cannot afford the fee, then Americans should be given the same option since our wages are not what they used to be. Maybe it should be based on income especially since it is such an incentive....  YEAH RIGHT!!!
Reminds me of "love the Drake."
Yes it is ridiculous. It kind of reminds me
of the type who would defend Nadya Suleman's selfish irresponsible behavior.
Yes, MTs can and do get written up/terminated for this. It's up to good MTs like us to report it :)
That so reminds me of that movie Outsourcing
Those cheesy gifts that represented America being sold from India, lol!
The monkey thing reminds me of
but not all that funny when we have to pay bills.
http://www.medical-transcription-and-you.com/medical-transcriptionist-salary.html
& send separate checks for OT after MT reminds them
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Reminds me of QT. Same deal, bunch of people SM
from YOG (sorry, but true), went to work there and everyone joined the bandwagon. Then kaput.
I truly wish better for all MTs at TT. Seems like they have a good team to start with.
I'm sure I will get flak for posting this. I wish you all luck. I hope it is the dream come true everyone wants. I wish all MTs well and peace in the world.
Are well all running out of work? Seems late in Jan for that? Overhiring? Reminds me of the Q...
:(
Wow, really. I can't even remember the
I will be calling KS today then. Thank you for your honesty and getting back to me.
I remember that, too. Everyone was trying to get on with them.
I had two MT friends who worked there, then things started going south. They kept trying to get me to apply there.
i remember...
a posting from someone saying they are good to work with and are hiring. sorry dont remember much else. good luck
I don't remember,
Sorry.
That is exactly how I remember it.
They did pay me a good line rate, but with no headers/footers, and I had a hard time making 1000 lines a day. I think I was on the worst account they had, BMH, about 90% ESL (worst I ever had too). My QA would call and scream at me for doing cardio, not for a mistake, but because I was not assigned to it. The clerks used to beg me to type it. She was supposedly the worst one there.
I can't remember her last name.
Been about 10 years since I worked for her.
I remember something about that but
don't remember which companies. Can someone please tell me if Amphion, Cymed or Medware is one of these companies? I'm about to apply to all 3 of them.
just remember...
The US MT will always be in demand. Unfortunately, in some cases only in an editing capacity. Do you think that work being transcribed in India is able to be edited and returned in an acceptable manner to the US doctor dictating it? Absolutely not. The foreign physicians in our country depend on us to produce properly formatted reports, so how can a MT from India possibly come close to accomplishing this if it were not for the editing US MT. You really can't blame the US physician who contracts with a national co. and does not know his work is going to India. Why can't HIPAA reinforce a regulation stating that no US transcription should ever leave this country in any capacity? Certain countries have restrictions on importing and exporting products. Why does are country not step up to the plat? MTs have to form some kind of alliance to stop this...petitioning the government, etc. Striking is not the answer because until some enforcement is in place, our jobs will continue to go overseas and back here for editing.
I think I remember you.
I remember the post (if it was yours) on the company board and remember it didn't stay on the board very long. If I remember correctly, even though they removed your negative (truthful) post, the majority of the posts that remained were negative, complaining about things like the terrible platform and some being afraid they would have to apply for food stamps soon.
And if you're the person I'm thinking of, I believe you and I even emailed each other a couple times because I, too, had many concerns when you brought yours to the board.
You weren't wrong, and neither was I. The only mistake I made was I stayed there a little longer than you did. I should have left when you left.
I can't blame the newbies either because they simply don't know any better. It's part of the process with this company. They make sure things are great at the beginning, and then the downward process slowly begins.
Every single thing you have said is true. If people don't want to believe it, then they can waste a few years of their life at Transcend, too. I'm just grateful that I now work for a credible, honest company and couldn't be happier. Hopefully, this will remain the case, and I can stay with this company for many years. But after my experience at Transcend, my radar is definitely always on, and at the first hint of preferential treatment to someone else or lies being told to me, etc., I won't hesitate to leave this company as I hesitated to leave Transcend.
How to remember
An easy way to distringuish is to think of the first 3 letters of adduction. You are adding it to your body, therefore it is towards the body. The same would be true for adductors, so just think of addition to your body in any form and you should be good to go. Hope this helps.
As far as I remember...sm
you had to do up a schedule for every week of the days you would be working. You picked the days and number of minutes you would commit to. So, if you were working part-time and committed to 50 minutes a day, you could work those whenever you wanted to, (50 minutes x 5 days) as long as you made your commitment. I don't think you ever had to work any weekends.
As for being an IC, I have never had this kind of insurance. As far as I am concerned, if the doc signs it, he is saying he read it over and agrees. I don't think any IC MTs have ever been sued, but I don't know for sure. Maybe post this question on the main board. The companies save big bucks using ICs so there must be something in place for protection. I think most MTs are ICs.
When you are an IC, you set yourself up as your own business, sole proprietor. It is as simple as registering your name. I have an accountant do my income tax every year and it costs about $200. Hope this helps.
i cant remember the name.. c msg
but the email came from someone in Recruiting (female's name). The same person who informed me about passing the test and contacting me on the next recruitment was the same one who sent me the attachments ot download. Our situation is very different, but just by their pay scale, you can do better. I can deal with not being paid for headings (I guess), but I cannot deal with not being paid for spaces.
I think I remember something about them on...
MtChat.com. but I cant seem to access it this week. I cant really remember the deal but apparently they did something to their employees that made a ton of them quit so that is probably why they are hiring. You might want to keep checking back at that website and see if it comes up and then it will let you do a search on them.
anyone remember
 Does anyone remember ddi, inc. Those were the days when transcription was a great job.
I remember that
I thought that those MTs had come from a company in the Sacramento area that had lost the majority of their work supposedly to VR. I also thought that a lot of those MTs were let go with only maybe a handful offered to stay on board.
I have not gotten my e-mail for the conference either. Maybe they are going to send it later on towards the end of the day Pacific time.
I do agree that our accounts do require that they be done here in the US. There have also been a lot of companies I suspect thought that have lied through their teeth about having work done here in the US and send it abroad.
What about MDI-MD? I remember once there was.. sm
a discussion about their line counts not being counted correctly either. Does anyone have any information on that?
maybe I did see that but I can't remember!
Thanks.
I remember them saying ...
... that it was an account by account fix and to be patient if it does not happen for you right away. Patience seems to be the word. Heck, it's been cockeyed since about the beginning of the year -- what's another week or 4...
Just remember you get what you pay for....
you left out the fact that while your on QA all those months, pay is 2 cents!!! I got suckered in by them a long time ago and hope all of you that are thinking about it, run while you can.
RE: Just remember you get what you pay for
Pay is not 2 cpl while you are in QA. You get charged for QA when you are out of QA but repeatedly abuse QA by sending things that are not necessary. I mean, if you're out of QA, is it really necessary to send half of your reports because somebody didn't want to look something up? Our dictators aren't bad, with the exception of maybe 2 or 3. It doesn't take anyone long to get out of QA unless they just aren't trying. A lot of things have improved at RC, one of them being that there is somebody there to help new hires and interns and feedback is given. I know this for a fact, because I am the one to do that. I hope you have a great day.
Can anyone remember the name...
Can anyone remember the name of the company that was advertising a while back for Transcriptionist that had changed their name. The manager came on and wrote out a big explanation for why they were still answering the phones with the old name even though they were supposedly not the same company...
It seems like the new name was All American MT or something like that - and the old company was an Indian-owned company.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
They have another one too, but I can't remember the name of it.
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From what I remember
Now it has been about 2 years ago, and I don't work for them anymore, but from what I remember training was all day for an entire week, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There were breaks in between. I couldn't have done the training with my then 4-year-old. Thank goodness my husband was working 3rd shift and could take care of him while I trained. I hope this helps. I don't know how their training is now.
If i remember..
Chartscript platform..Actual IC. No schedule. Can't remember the pay.
What I remember
1. Use EXtext. I found it pretty easy and user friendly.
2. Cheapest health insurance close to $400 for 1 person. HMO and PPO available. Too expensive for my blood!
3. Deductable on above $2500.
4. ESLs - about 75%, frequently ran out of work, asking for more accounts = must be trained and then no one available to train you for weeks.
5. QA - cold, no follow-up explanations, nowhere near enough in the beginning. Come down on you weeks later after never having told you about issue in the first place.
6. Emails very untimely.
7. Must go to them (New Jersey) on your own dime for flight, hotel, taxi, meals. Train for 3 days (could have been done over the internet), stay working for them for 6 months (if you can stand it that long - I couldn't!) in order to be reimbursed only $500 of your expenses.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
just remember
They have the option of telling you they don't need your services.
You have to remember that there are
many MTs looking for new jobs at the moment and this is a very slow time of year for most MTSOs and facilities.
You also have to remember that you
may not be concerned about 98% QA, however, they can ding you for whatever they want -- not what the facility wants, some weird quirk the facility has, etc, so you don't make 98%.
Hey....I remember.....
.....the old, blue screen!!! Just goes to show our ages, I guess. LOL! In any case, I have worked with Meditech in the past (without text expander) and made pretty good money with it. As has already been said, once you get the hang of it, it seems to move along quite smoothly. And, for radiology, it is nice to see the actual type of report, i.e. CT head, beside the order number. On many other programs, you have order # only (which significantly slows things down if the physician does not dictate the order #). And, from what I can remember (have not worked on it for 4 years), I hardly ever had to fix things, as, IMO, the physicians seem to understand this program better and are more likely to enter the proper demographics. With all of that being said, I personally will be working again with Meditech soon (IC part-time - in addition to my FT acute care EXText job), and am looking forward to checking out the updated version with text Expander compatibility! If Meditech was really all that bad....why would an MT with 15+ years experience care to go back to it? You might as well give it a try - add some more experience to your resume. Best of luck to you!
I seem to remember
700 being the number for part-timers and 1200 for full-timers
Do you remember
what the reports were like in comparison to what you type now?
There are so many factors involved in this line of work, it drives me batty!
Ah. Now I remember that. I got on
here and defended them because it wasn't true at all. It made me furious that someone was bashing them like that. They are the most honest company I've ever worked for and they treat all their employees like humans, not like machines.
If you never worked for them, you shouldn't spread rumors. The only ones I know who leave bad comments about them are probably trouble makers to begin with, probably paranoid and never happy in whatever any job.
I am very happy at TT, and have been since day 1 and they are really the best.
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