How do you cite sources but not fill in blanks?!

• Doesn't that hospital MT job for Smartmed look really good? - Long-time MT
  • smartmed blank policy - been there, done that
    • What do you mean? - Barry Watts
    • That's ridiculiculiculous... - catsxoxo
    • How do you cite sources but not fill in blanks?! - Doesn't make sense. Please explain.
    • Whoa! That's one of the strangest policies I've seen - Long-time MT
  • There originally was a long thread with this post. As - often happens here, though, it has been deleted.nm
  • couldn't find anything in archives, but - aa

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you must be a bitter person to hate your job so much

there's no way VR will be able to do all the accents

once they go to India, they will be back for American quality

our jobs will never go away...

there. I already put them in there so no one has to run their long posts saying the same thing that is always said...

reasons why I left FT MT 2 years ago and I couldn't be happier!  It's a GREAT relief to have vacation time, sick pay, go to the doc's without worry, health/dental/vision ins., 401K plan and even the smallest reason of all (but a big deal to me) to be able to TALK to your coworker for a few minutes and not worry that you aren't getting paid for it!  SICK of the BS in the MT world.  Glad I got out.

Of course, I can't stay totally away, as I'm some sick glutton for punishment I suppose.  I need extra income on the weekends and don't really want to leave the house then, so you guessed it - MT (barely) fills the niche.

I just left a service where I was paid 8 cpl and 3 for VR - not worth my while.  Starting a new service with higher pay, but being that I've been around the block a few times & have lost my optimism in the Dickensonian (or is that Dickensian?) MT world, I'm a bit skeptical.  We will see...

They would rather you leave a blank than to guess.  As with any company, there are ESLs.  There are good ones and bad ones. 

QA can be strict.  We transcribe verbatim unless of course it is a gross medical error and then a blank is left and the report is sent to QA.  If you type the wrong wrong word and it affects the meaning, it is a higher deduction but there is also a deduction for errors made not affecting the meaning. 

I have worked for Axolotl for a long time and I have never worked for a better employer.  If you have any questions you can e-mail me or post on here and I will try to answer you. 

How does Axolotl define a line?  Do they pay for spaces, headers, footers, & expansions?  Are you docked for blanks or sending things to QA?  If so, how much.

QA's job should be solely filling in blanks.  It should be to perform routine and random quality checks, it should be researching and educating MTs on new terminology, new procedures, new drugs, it should be maintaining and updating account specs, and it should be assisting newly hired MTs in their transition from training to productive employee.

Far too many MTs see QA as a safety net and big gigantic kitchen sink where they can toss in their crap and out comes something shiny and clean, an excuse to never research a new word or look up the correct spelling of a doctor's name because QA will do the work for you and you'll still get paid for your lines.

And QA used to let MTs get away with it back in the day when they were paid hourly, but the majority of QA people are paid on production now too and so when MTs don't try hard at their jobs, that means QA picks of the slack and loses money.  QA gets reports that look like swiss cheese and we have to practically transcribe the entire report to fill in the holes because of lazy MTs with the looking out of numero uno mentality.

I guess you've never worked on the inside of an MTSO business, but you wouldn't believe how physicians and hospitals are chipping away at our pay by demanding lower rates from the MTSOs.  Some MTSOs that people on this site complain about offering offshored services to client did it to KEEP from losing their clients.  When it starts with the doctors and hospitals, what choice do the MTSOs have but to pass that on to the MTs?  It really is a vicious circle. 

Some MTSOs team up with schools and offer interships where an MT in training works for free for a period of time to gain experience.  Now trust me, THOSE savings are not passed on to the experienced MTs...that goes directly into the MTSO's pockets and those MTSO push their long-term, higher paid MTs out the door to save a few pennies with no trouble sleeping at night.

So what about a union?  You're right.  More jobs will be offshored.  More experienced MTs will lose their jobs.  Doesn't anyone remember what happened when the air traffic controllers went on strike and the president of our United States canned every single one of them and airports had to hire an entirely new staff of controllers?  Did you see airlines stop flying passengers?  Nope.  Managers worked triple shifts until restaffing occurred, oh, without extra pay since they were salarired.

I don't pretend to know the answers as to how an MTSO should run its business but honest communication, good benefits and wages that have been lost in just a few short years (less than 10) would be nice.  It should stick to its gun and promote keeping jobs in the states for the patients' sakes.  And for the Indian physicians who have organized and created their own MTSO's to keep their families in India employed should be boycotted.  MTs should educate anyone they know who uses a doctor to ask the physician where his/her transcription is done or if s/he even knows and use only physicians with American-based transcription.

Boycotts worked in South Carlolinia and other states to take down the Rebel flag. Why can't we have a similar affect?  Mostly because we are not organized (I did NOT say unionized) and we do not generate the media coverage necessary to affect change.

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even filling in the patient's name is made easy, I just type it and enter and it goes where it needs to do and then I type.  The work is batched so I just keep typing until I have 10 -12 pages and then send, again all automated and then start another batch. 

I worked for YOG for a short time years ago and they had so many demographics it took at least 5 minutes to fill them in, had to constantly look up stuff on the lists to find correct info and never got the same doctors twice to be able to learn doctor's information so you didn't have to keep looking it up.

My server has never been down, except during hurricanes last year, so no down time.  A couple of times the hospital's server has been down and I've been able to get my lines, though had to take a break during my regular shift and work a little longer in the evening.  Never went a day with NO work.  System never locks up.

have to type them in?  I had an account that filled in and it was not too bad.  The account I have now must be searched out from the patient name to the type of document.  Really sucks because it is so terrilby time consuming.  Get a ESL saying the name and you can be looking at several minutes just to locate it.

I have great benefits, no demographics to fill in (unless error and maybe a MR# and name), and make in the double digits for my line count rate.  Any MT with a lot of years acute care experience that settles for less than 0.09 or 0.095 is crazy. These jobs are out there. 

I worked for Amphion a couple of years ago and I only stayed about 2 months due to the demographic issues.

Good Luck to all!!