I agree. You still have to know punctuation, proper English, tenses, sentence structure, etc. Show
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I agree. She cannot understand English
.. no matter how many times you say the same thing. You have to have a phone convo with her because she can't understand emails.
My SE pay structure currently
I work for the Baltimore office of MQ. I am an SE with MQ since 1998. When moving to DQS, I received info on the "DEP Pay Structure"
The required minimum through the Baltimore office as of today is 4,000 lines per pay period. Never heard the 6,000 number, maybe that is different office (which seems crazy, but nothing surprises me!).
There is a shift differential for MTs who consistently maintain production in excess of the MQ required minimum (4,000 lines per pay period) and who transcribe the majority (i.e., 50% or more) of their total production during the weekday hours. I won't go into these details, but all of this info I am paraphrasing directly from an email from my supervisor regarding the DEP Pay Structure - again, for the Baltimore office.
There are also small differentials for holidays and weekends, but there is a minimum required for that also.
Then, for this office at least, there are incentive tiers. to qualify at all, MT must transcribe at least 14,000 lines in a pay period.
The tier offers an extra 0.0005, 0.010, and 0.015 for each level of the tier, with (for example) the 0.015 being for 23,001 lines or more per pay period.
Don't know if this info has already appeared, so sorry if it is repeat. It may conflict with other offices, dunno, but this is how I am paid as an SE at this point.
New pay structure (sm)
It only involves the editing/reviewing staff on the Merit side. Yes, it is bad! $8 an hour with incentive of less than 2 cents per line. Like I said earlier, the US employees are getting the same pay as the India staff. Our hourly rate was nearly cut in half.
No structure/system at MDI-MD...sm
I feel like they have too many MTs typing amuck anywhere and everywhere whenever they want 24/7 causing everyone to have to work 24 hours a day to get their lines in. I have been chained to this computer for over 5 months now.
New MedWare pay structure for editors
MedWare changed the pay structure for editors about a month ago. We knew the new structure with the per hourly rate (single digit) plus incentive (under 2 cents per line) was insulting low. Then a message went out this morning from the Director of Transcription with the Editor payroll summation attached, and we find out that they changed our pay to exactly what they are paying the offshore editors.
I am sure this is great pay for the offshore editors, but really leaves a bad taste in my mouth knowing that I am paid the same wage when I have to review their work 100%. Of course, they are probably making more with the incentive then I am because I have to take the time to clean up their shabby work and make the chart ready for the client.
It's like saying that you don't need the proper tools to be a carpenter. You can't use on
screwdriver with a different type of screw.
It does not sound like you are out of a job. How about going to them instead of complaining to a group of people who cannot help you get started? Call Becky at ext 301. She helps everyone with everything.
when I started working the proper sm
word for us was Transcriptionist and the transcriber was the transcribing machine sitting on my desk. don't be so picky. Nobody cares.
Those are proper names of things and need to be looked up and
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Moderator please move this to the proper board.
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"The Suits" is the proper term for these people.
There are Suits in every industry. They are the MBAs and they consider business a giant chess board. So much fun to move all the little pieces around and see what happens. Don't be afraid to sacrifice your pawns.
Of course TransTech pays for spaces and they have a easy to get bonus structure.
I make as much as I did at the hospital, because of the bonus structure, retroactive to line 1. They pay for spaces and expanders, and they have ops normals too. Just wanted to put an FYI so people think TT does not pay for spaces, of course they do. You can make a lot per line with the structure and also differential and bonuses almost every weekend at TT.
Forget AHDI, just follow the instructions for how to write proper authorities use your own words-sm
I'm afraid folks are not acting. Maybe it won't do any good, but certainly if we don't raise our voices, the chances are not good for us.
punctuation
First of all, we in QA do not have time to QA emails and do not try to be perfect in posts or in emails (give me a break once in a while) ...but I learned my punctuation skills in high school and in college English 101 and also from feedback prior to becoming QA. Dates should always be set off with comma. Nonessential clauses should be set off with comma. You don't understand this because you either never learned to diagram a sentence or you forgot it or you just don't care. There are sites on the Internet where you can learn this if you care. Why do MTs resent punctuation correction..do they think they do not get paid for commas?
It mostly was punctuation..
That I get counted off for, no major mistakes and yes my line count did drastically increase.
wow, what happened to all my punctuation
I put in the post above???
Your punctuation when to AlphaHeaven with all sm
the spaces that aren't counted anymore! :)
lol It's a punctuation issue!
MTs ... plural ...more than one
MT's ... possessive ... something belonging to one MT
MTs' ... plural possessive ... something belonging to more than one MT
You're too funny with your holier than thou crap! LOL
There is no way punctuation is giving SM
you that low of a QA percentage. No way. There have to be other issues (typos, incorrect terminology). Even on short reports a couple of commas do not give you a QA score in the 80s.
I MEANT NOT DINGED FOR PUNCTUATION!!!
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Punctuation errors, not spelling
Didn't see spelling mistakes, but plenty of grammar/punctuation errors.
Who cares about punctuation and grammar?
With the doctors using EMR and VR without editing, these things are a thing of the past. Medical records are a mess and nobody cares.
Punctuation and grammar still counts
As much as some may hate taking time to use the correct punctuation and grammar, it is still a part of the medical transcription industry. The ability to decide between correct and incorrect grammar and punctuation separates us from the machines.
Well, gosh, it has a punctuation component!!!
Because that's the big problem with all the VR work...a misplaced comma (or comment, coma, or karma in VR speak). I think they still have a way to go until they get a system that has enough real intelligence to figure out and translate when a dictator is repeating himself, correcting himself, stumbling over himself, or yawning while he speaks, or has the ability to go back three paragraphs later and fix what Dr. Mumbles said at the beginning of the report. Of course, all the MTSOs and hospitals looking to cut costs will p*ss away beaucoup bucks on this before they realize it's not the godsend they though, but not before they've driven down wages and driven up the unemployment rate. I'm all for technology, but let's work on getting something that will make our jobs easier, not these feeble, futile attempts to replace the Transcriptionist entirely.
Whoa...What???!!?? English please?
English. We cant help MQ got themselves into the situation they are in. They did it all alone.
You sould like an ESL to me. Your English
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and English should be capitalized
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''better English''
Your ignorance is as laughable as your arrogance! ''Better English'' is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what the experienced American MT ''knows''--for starters, probably as much anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology as the so-called ''physicians'' from your wonderful part of the world. You ''have an open mind'' when YOUR jobs are given away to unqualified people by greedy corporations whose only motivation is their own profit.
if only a punctuation mark in an email address is wrong,
the email cannot be delivered to the inbox It has to be 'exactly' the same email address, exactly to the smallest detail.
Fishy, fishy....
There are a lot who also do not know basic English skills. Example: (sm)
the difference between their, there, and they're. Affect, effect. Basic skills of sentence structure. Just knowing some medical words does not make you a good MT.
I had one that would start out in English (with the thickest sm
accent you have ever heard, then switch over to spanish in the middle of a sentence. Did I mention I don't speak spanish?
King's english is hogwash. What Dr. do you know that
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I'm guessing English is your second language? I would say this is a
disservice to the MT as well as the companies you are going to service. Nothing worse than someone trying to sail the ship who hasn't ever been near the water.
No, but I am an educated English speaker 24/7.
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ESLs on VR as opposed to English
at the hospital where I work makes absolutely no difference at all, in fact if not for VR and all the ESLs we have now, would probaby be pulling my hair out trying to figure out what they are trying to say. ESLs on Escription is as good as with the perfect speaking English so again, the system you have, how MTs train and the speaker makes no difference in how VR gets it. You need a good platform and then you can make a good salary on it.
I say you need to do away with everything in your sentence after
the word UP. These companies know it is hard work and you don't save any time if you are an MT and they are selling it to the MTs like their job is just to fix the transcription. IF ONLY that were true. In many cases you have to take out the entire transcription and retype it. The companies know this unless they did not test it first. The poor MTs or editors do not know thisSad
LOL at your last sentence. nm
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that was said in just about every sentence, to those
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Your first sentence says it all.sm
Most likely, both The bottom line with this UNDER 40 HOURS paranoia seems to be that, with the combination of no-money VR and straight dictation that is virtually impossible to understand, the MTSOs know that to reach their required daily/weekly line counts that we have to work over 40 hours a week to do so - no way around it.
Therein lies their dilemma: They know we have to work twice the hours to make our lines, but they can't acknowledge it without getting into deep doodoo. They're handing us a double-edged sword.
This issue IS... Do you want your QA that determines your errors, including punctuation, Indians.???
I have no problem maintaining quality and agree that 98% and above is acceptable and definitely quality what we all strive for, I just am offended that someone I cannot even understand and they cannot understand me, being the ones doing the quality checks on my work. That is my issue with it. You have not been there long enough. I was there a few months before they started bothering me. The problem was that I would tell them No, I cannot do the stat right now as I am logging off and they would still keep asking me. What part of NO in the English language is that hard to understand. Good luck with that.
I really don't know what part of the English language they do not get.. I think the word NO
comes to mind. I would not even be working that day when I'd get an IM, can you do a STAT? and I'd tell them no that I was heading out the door, so, your going to do it? and again, NO.. I said I'm heading out the door. This would go on until I finally had to click the IM off. I felt badgered and I am not sure how much was just them not understanding or just being pushy. There is a fine line and I got tired of it so I quit.
I have an A.A. degree in English from a 'real' college that
Sounds like AHDI ('All Hindi-speaking Dufuses International') is just trying to find another way to lure MTs into wasting their money on their ridiculous 'credential'.
And if they did elevate the credential to the equivalent of a degree, then they'd have to also acknowledge that MTs be PAID as 'professionals', as well.
I laugh every time I read something that group generates - it gets more ridiculous every year, doesn't it?
LOL well I screwed up that sentence but you know what I mean nm
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With regard to your last sentence (sm)
I bet I can guess who is the scammer and who you are working for now. You are right on both counts - 
Finish sentence below
So, if you did 100% ESLs yourself the past 5 days let me know and I will gladly retract the statement. If you did not then why did you not help, and get over having to do the easier work? Just tell me that you helped out with the tough ones and I will retract and assume that there are more ESLs here than I was told.
Also, I will GET OVER IT when I am actually assigned the WORK TYPE I was hired for. What was that you said... GET OVER HAVING TO DO WHAT YOU WERE NOT HIRED FOR? Oh yeah, I forgot Bait and switch is the norm these days. IMHO.
please correct your sentence above
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Spaces after sentence
I don't work there but am considering applying, so I called and asked them about this. Jason said a QA person told him to check the settings in Word & make sure that the problem is not there.
I think that sentence applies here -
you know, the one they use when they don't want to come right out and say you're terminal:
DON'T BUY ANY GREEN BANANAS!
"QA manager needs to go back to school for English 101"
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AAMT did not change "good English" and terminology, sm
The changes originated with the American Medical Association, the Chicago Manual of Style, as well as other references from which the AAMT BOS is compiled.
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