Heard from her last week. You still go to NJ to train and pick up their puter. Still pay by the
Posted By: page, but don't know rate. nm on 2006-07-24
In Reply to: Anyone have any info on Silent Type??.. I think they are in (sm) - marymary
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Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
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Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
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You have to go to NJ to train and pick up their computer & she pays a low per-page rate. nm
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I was supposed to train last week -
I was supposed to train on Thursday and got an email saying that the trainer was going to have to reschedule. I called on Monday and she told me that she had been put on hold for scheduling because they were losing a major part of a big account and that there was no work for new people. The email on Thursday had just made it seem as if she had something going on and could not work us in that day. All this was after they had been calling me and emailing me for weeks about coming to work for them.
It didn't take me a week to train. I sped through the classes like
wildfire. As a computer instructor, I thought the classes were very thorough for those MTs with not so great technical skills, not grueling, thorough.
I am slow this week too...I am sure it will pick back up...
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Anyone else having a slow week? Thought it would pick up after Memorial. nm
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Anyone heard back in the last week from Precyse,
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Tested last week, have not heard back either.
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if you had to pick one; medscribe or CyMed .. who and why would you pick em? considering both
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Still haven't heard back from JLG recruiter ...it's been a week!
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Tested for DTS of America last week - have heard nothing yet. nmsg
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I sent it in the first day, heard back in a few days, took the test and started last week. sm
I know that they are very busy and it sounds like they are getting even busier. It took about a week after I took the test to hear, but I was told there were over 100 people taking tests and they were picking the best scores.
What puter are you using if you still need to buy one to work? Ck the
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They used to provide the puter, don't know about now. nm
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Does Transolutions provide puter?
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They used to start off at very low pay and provided the puter. Don't
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Did you check with Dell for a new ' puter?
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Might have to use THEIR puter, 1200 lpd. Posts from last year say pay is very low. nm
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You used to have to go to NJ for training and putting the program on your puter. Don't know about
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Only other 1 on my list is SoftScript and I don't think they provide a puter. nm
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Do they still supply the puter with Lotus Notes on it? nm
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TRS might provide puter and use satellite, but pay offered has
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The software may or may not be compatible once they're both on your puter. Give it a go! nm
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Old posts say use their puter, 1200 lpd, low pay, and slow to start. Don't know about now. nm
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You have to use their puter, do 1200 lpd at a low rate, and they're slow and nasty getting people
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Your puter should ask you Sun. morning about making the time change. Just follow the 'custom'
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they are willing to train
The training is not so much.... if you can type medical ....... and typing is the MAIN thing with lawyers.... you are IN. If you will show up for work... you are IN. The legalese is based on latin and so knowing the medical terminology, it's a breeze of a transition. They don't have all that much legalese. It is mostly English and stuffy forms of English. They dictate usually on a dictaphone. CHECK IT OUT. I know lawyers are weird, but how do you get weirder than what has happened to this MT business???? This is horrendous. Lawyers aren't going to cut your pay! I had my pay cut in MT two, no THREE different times, for no good reason excpet the owner wants to keep more money. That is not the way to treat a hard worker.
Full time with Transtech is both. 40 hours per week and 5500 lines per week.
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But ... you travel to train to CA ... what's not to like about that/ :-) sm
You can take it as a business expense. Of course, I have no family to consider and love to travel, so obviously I am not like a lot of people (in many ways! ha).
Don't you have to go to NJ to train? And pay was only 1.75 per page. nm
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I only know that you have to train in their office
in NJ for a few days. I live in NJ, but the other end of the state, and it just is not feasible for me to travel 3 or 4 hours each way for a few days. Too bad, though, as they missed out on an awesome MT! 
Any companies that will train...
on radiology until one is up to speed. I have 6 years experience with ER, clinic, discharge summaries, acute care, pathology and podiatry. I was looking to gain radiology experience. Thanks!
Let them train all their new hires on
My problem is that I cannot see why should I be moved to another account when my account is going to the new MT's they keep training? Problem lies in overhiring and not enough accounts!
Sounds like you may have to train twice
No, they are still using ExText - don't see why you would have to train twice.
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Sorry not interview, train M-F. nm
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TRAIN WRECK!
Let's just move on! Remember emails are often misunderstood as we cannot see or hear those speaking. Who cares anymore about the ridiculousness of this thread! BYE BYE
Been there, done that...The Train Wreck
A couple of weeks ago I posted that the hospital I worked for is outsourcing and dumping their inhouse transcription dept. I appreciate all the nice things people here said because so many of you have been there, done that.
I also guess that a lot of you have thought about starting up your own business. The other people I worked with at the hospital and I were always talking about it in a joking way because, to be honest, the people who ran the business at the hospital know nothing about transcription and they think we are just typing drones.
I stopped back in the office where I used to work and I am pleased to report that it was total chaos. The administration is trying to dump all the dictation onto an outside company based in India. They kept on a couple of Transcriptionist to clean up stuff. The person now in charge of the whole transcription process used to work in the billing office and she is now going to be proofing and overseeing the outside transcription service. They are pleased with themselves and very smug about all the money they will be saving the doctors.
The doctors are all spoilt. Most of their dictation for years has been An 88 year old female. Severe DJD. Bilateral knees. Referred by the bozo down the street. Yada yada yada. An we knew what they meant and would zip out a three page professional sounding report and referral letter. We corrected their mistakes, made sure they were talking about the right patient (often they weren't) and that they didn't commit any legal boo-boo like saying the patient was a drug addict. (One doctor I used to work for said this. I told the supervisor that he should not say things like that or he would get sued. She said the doctor knew what he was doing. Since she was not a transcriptionist she believed that. The doctor and the practice got sued and doctor went to work in a little clinic far, far away.)
I have to admit that I am enjoying the vision of the coming trainwreck. This is the second hospital I have worked for that jumped on the outsourcing train. The first one fired the service in six months and tried to rehire us transcriptionists, who by then had gone on to greener pastures. And this current hospital has handled the decision to outsource in such an unethical and nasty manner that I would not work for them again under any circumstances.
So, in short, has anybody thought seriously about starting up their own company? Of course other transcriptionists have done that and of course it is not as easy as it seems. What is the first step? I have the skills and I know many transcriptionists and a lot of doctors who are going to be really ticked off when the billing person they put in charge of their dictation goes belly up. And I have some really neat names in mind:
Typed In the USA.
Been There Done That.
Fingers For Hire.
Utalk We Type.
Transcribers Anonymous.
WordsRUs.(how do you make a backwards R?)
Anybody want to join me?
Why don't you ask your manager to train you - sm
at least as a backup- on one of the accts they are hiring for? The reason they have ads out is that they have new accounts coming on all the time; current MTs cannot fill all the spots (think midnight shift, weekends, etc) and that's why they still look for other MTs.
I never could figure out why, when the train - sm
whacks someone (who 99% of the time committed suicide), the whole rail system has to come to a halt for an investigation, and hundreds of people on the train are late for work.
Investigate what?
Cause of death = 'Hit by train'! How hard is that to figure out?
So, why don't they just cross train?? NM
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Nope .. email on 1/18 promised "within the next week." Here we are, 1 week later and no info.
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The minimum is 5500 per week, NOT 6600 per week. I think you made a typo. :)
NM
Agreed. What you train on is not necessarily what
you'll end up with. You'll never know what account you'll be on from day to day or hour to hour. I agree with the 1 to 2 days for support, but that is too long IMHO if you have several similar reports back to back and have to leave blanks in all of them.
Fellow IP train rider here. For why pay was off,
I worked there and had personal friendships with a couple of the acct managers and team leads. We were not getting paid for spaces. That is what I was told by middle management.
They didn't even have enough work to train me
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My STM wont train me on another account!
I have somehow angered my STM and she refuses to train me on a backup account, then threatens to fire me because I don't have enough hours! I keep sending in those stupid requests for help to the Solution Center telling them that I have no work, but she still emails me the next day wondering why I didn't have a full 8 hours! I keep hoping she will be promoted to some other job so that I may get a fair chance to train on another account, but so far it's a no-go. Also, if I get even one more stupid email from her bragging about her new car (I wish I was making enough to afford one!), her dog, her husband, her vacation, her cooking I may scream!!! Just send the account updates and shut up for goodness sake!!! Arrrrrghhhh!!!! I am currently looking for another job where hopefully I can make enough to survive, Webmedx obviously isn't that place.
Anyone told they must come in person to train....
when being hired as a home transcriber? Silent Type wants me to come to New Jersey for a 2-day training period (I'm in Ohio). I've being transcribing at home for 14 years. I'm stunned at this and have declined but just curious if any of you have been told this.
If you find a company to cross-train in
can you please post the name of the company. I have been wanting to get into radiology. I probably know more than I think I do. However, radiology and medical records transcription were done in separate parts of the hospital, so never got to practice what I learned.
thanks
Pay is lousy and you have to go in-office to train for way too long!
This was a while back so not sure if they have become more with it by now. Good luck!
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