I have been to Alaska and loved to visit but
Posted By: Brrrrr on 2009-08-07
In Reply to: I would do it too if single. - sm
would not even consider living there. Saw cars with what looked like battery cables coming out from under the hood and asked why- you have to heat the motors up in some parts in order to have the oil flow through the engine or would be unable to drive. Tires freeze up on the roads. If a big moose gets hit on the roads, they hack it up and give the meat to folks on welfare, lots of that there and alcoholism. Heck, I was there in August and weather here was in the 90s. The day before I left had to get another outer garment, it was in the 30s, August! You have to be made of real sturdy material to live there. Lots hunt and kill their own food/clothing. I am used to running to Publix or Walmart if I need anything. The place is beautiful and would visit again, but only visit.
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Anyone here used to work for C.S. Medical out of Alaska with Cathy Wedge? I would
like to get back in touch with her and see if she is still working. She ran a great company when I worked there, but I think she sold or dissolved it years ago. I am wondering if she ever started up a new one. Any info appreciated. Thanks!
Could we visit further--I'd like to know more.
I have been hired but am still waiting for someone to contact me about training. Could you give me a heads up on some things that might be handy to know? Tomorrow is supposed to be my first day but no one has called about training yet, as I said.
One question I had was--do they renew the QLDB, Stedman's SpellCheck, and SEMD when new versions come out?
Thanks a bunch,
Cindy
cweb@netins.net
You need to visit------------
another website to see just how many MT jobs are being posted and see how many experienced MTs are needed. All of these services will not pay for the expensive technology that VR is demanding in price. The way your one-track mind is, you'd think ALL hospitals and clinics in the U.S. are going to be VR. HELLO--don't you realize there are still many who work off of Dictaphone machines?? Give me a break.
On my last visit to the ER - sm
I took one of my grandchildren to the ER last summer. After the diagnosis was made, etc., I was given a printed report that looked like it was transcribed, but it was not. The attending doc entered the info into a computer and that was it! It scared me - I thought to myself, Who needs a transcriptionist? The same at my regular physician's office. I tell him what is wrong and he sits there in front of me and types my complaints into a computer with a diagnoss and treatment plan and VOILA!
In a nutshell, I am very afraid that MT will become obsolete soon, and I don't know what many of us are going to do.
I'm too old and tired and over educated (master's degree in business) to get hired anywhere, especially not in this economy which will stick with us for awhile.
I visit the African Cam a lot SM
right now there are about 6 zebras at the water hole! I put a link in this post. Once here, you would click on the words Nkoro Stream in the top left side of screen. The live cam will pop up! It is so cool. They have night vision at night too.
Chickadee
Don't you have a panda to visit? Ha!!
Only kidding, seriously. I throw down the towel, I apologize. I really, really do. Anybody who loves pandas is a great person. I love pandas. I also love peaches. I am sorry I was horrible. I apologize.
I noticed on my last MD visit
that the nurse who took my vitals, weight and chief complaint for being there had one of those EMR gadgets and was struggling with it and talking about how much she hated it. She could not even spell nausea (she said this aloud) and had to use the end of her pencil to hit each letter keypad (as they were so small) to explain it. I wonder how many doctors delegate the task to their nurses and other office staff?
I once worked for special needs patients and would take them to the doctor sometimes and that doctor started using EMR for his practice. I watched him once through a window in a charting room with it, he looked very frustrated. It then made sense why the patient reports and encounters from his office had started coming to my office so sloppy, whereas they had not been before, with poor grammar, little punctuation, incorrect capitalization and often sentences that just did not make logical sense. The doctor was doing them on his new fancy-dancy EMR. It seems to me the answer about EMR really depends a lot on the quality of the report the doctor and/or health facility actually want.
When my son had to make a visit to the ER the
PA asked about my background because I was talking the talking. When I told her what I did she said that their work was done by MQ and it was horrible. I don't know where the work was done. I briefly QA'd offshore work and it was bad. I know that for a non-English speaking person, they are doing pretty good, but pretty good isn't good enough. I'm seen some pretty crappy work from U.S. MTs too.
Heartland/Presidential VIsit
Anyone interested can go to www.baynews9.com, click on the article about the presidential visit to Tampa today. Go to the comments and read my posted comment. Our president is allowing things like this to happen in this country and the average person is not aware of what goes on with offshoring of medical records. Everyone needs to find places like this to post so that ALL people, especially our senior citizens, vets, etc., can be fully aware of this disgusting trend. Americans need to take back America! PERIOD. END OF STORY.
I'd pay a little visit to the LABOR BOARD, myself. sm
Many years ago, my last paycheck from an MT company I worked for BOUNCED. Not, once, but TWICE. (I put it thru a 2nd time at the owner's branch). So, I went to the Labor Board for help. They not only got me the money from the last paycheck, but also some insurance reimbursement I was owed to me. Apparently this had happened to others at that place, as well. A former co-worker told me the L.B. paid the COMPANY a visit one day, and they went through her office with a fine toothed comb. Found lots of illegal little problems going on, and put her out of business for good. What goes around, COMES around! ;p
sorry - i don't visit those boards. I was only referring
I'm perplexed. The few times I visit this board, ...SM
I frequently see people questioning companies, negating companies, etc. I can only speak for myself and 10 MT friends that I have had in the business for 10+ years now, we have almost all stayed with the same company for many years. We are all quite happy and paid a fair rate for what we are worth in experience and skills. When I peruse this board, I find that the profession comes across very negative. With all due respect, are the majority on this board new MTs trying to find their way, or MTs who cannot fit in with a company for whatever reasons (accuracy, speed, etc.) and shed such a terrible light on the profession. Y'all would not believe the positive networking with successful Transcriptionist who have truly been rewarded in their careers. Please know that if you are truly talented in this field and have built the number of experienced years required, this is not natural to see this negativity. I have been with a company (approx. 50 MTs for almost 10 years now) and have been treated and paid what I am worth. I'm beginning to think the majority of posts here are from those who cannot make it in this professsion. Believe it or not, most companies can recognize so within the first several weeks of work. No offense to anyone. I am sure there are many here who are much more talented than I am in different apsects of life. My point is: If you are truly educated and gifted in the MT field, you will continue to prosper. If not, this is not your calling. Try something different.
Agree. I never visit my state's board. I bet a lot of
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is the deductible for insurance still 2500 bucks w/ no copay for doc visit?
That is the sole reason I quit. That and the fact they switched me from account to account as soon as I started making a decent line rate with one.
They also have the ability to slow down how fast you can download files. They slipped and told me that it was to help control traffic on the server.
8 cents new pt, visit, lower rate for returning visits??
Now this is a new one.
I loved it loved it loved it - sm
when I was working at a hospital in St. Louis, they used Chartscript, and I was paid by $0.09/line - I would average 2200 in 7 hours!! I learned it in 10 minutes and was well on my way
oh how I loved YOG...
just thinking back on that company makes me feel a homesick kind of feeling.
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LOVED this job!!!!
I worked for this company about two years ago and LOVED the job. I eventually had to quit though because of a family situation. The owner is very nice and helpful. There were a lot of times she was extremely stressed out because of everything she had to do each day, but I never found her to be rude or pushy. If I am ever looking to get back into transcription, she will be the first person I go to for a job! 
LOVED the job!!!
I worked for this company a while back & loved the job. I say to anyone out there reading the same rubbish I did, use your own judgement about a person/job and don't let bitter faceless people influence you otherwise - and THEY talked about being rude?!!! If I wasn't forced to give up the vet op work (family reasons), I would never have left! New clinics kept opening every year, and the owner always did her best to keep me informed and made my job as easy as possible! Some people prefer to work for large transcription companies, but I prefer to work for smaller companies, where you are recognized as being an indvidual that is an IMPORTANT member of the team.
Yeh, right. She was rude to you AND THEN offered you the job? Come on! It sounds more to me like you stunk on the easy test and are bitter about the results! 
We truly loved MDI-MD
I think all the anger you're seeing from MDI'ers is because we really WERE led to believe that MDI was a very solid, responsible company that took great interest in their MTs. And in fact, this has always been true. I have NEVER had a complaint with MDI and have truly valued my job with them. When I was hired, their ad said they were looking for people with 10 OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE!!! I had never seen such a high-level expectation in an MT job ad before, which is why I applied. And they maintained that level of competence throughout.
So this acquisition comes as a genuine shock to all of us, more of a shock perhaps because I think most of us have had a very good personal relationship with MDI.
It may be that this Transcend acquisition will NOT be quite as horrible as we all think, and I hope it isn't, but either way, the fact remains that our relationship with MDI will change and eventually disappear, and we're quite sorry for that. I loved this stinkin' company and respected it, and I'm sure my fellow MDIers did too. But life is about change kids, so away we go.....................!!!!
I LOVED Medrite!
I was a lot more productive on it than on DQS. It was a lot more user friendly as well. DQS is set up for VR, not for the lowly MTs.
I loved working at TC (sm)
and every time someone from TC calls me to see whether they should jump ship, I always recommend they stay because you're not going to find much better anywhere else. And I'll tell you the same thing I tell them - if I had a choice, I would have stayed with TC. I was there for 3-1/2 years and loved almost every minute of it. Good pay, great accounts, etc.
I loved #4 and #8. Where do I sign up?
I loved that acct too....
Typical M-Q then one day it just vanished.
Me, too. I loved YOG, and the accounts I had. Oh well. nm
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If you loved it, why'd you leave? nm
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Loved your post too...
We should pick this up on the FL state board. Hope to talk to you there.
i LOVED alltype.
loved the manger, etc. only thing i hated was Chartscript.
It has been a while, but I loved working for them. sm
Although pay was on the low side by a bit, it was nice to have the same doctors every day. You could build macros, etc and speed through the work.
don't know how GSI is but i worked for EMS. loved it there. sm
email me if you want more info.
I would have LOVED to work for them.
I applied once and they were very interested, supposedly, but again I had to train for 2 days in North Jersey. I just cannot do that - I am way down at the other end of the state and just cannot do. I was really disappointed, though, as they seemed like my dream company - I have never taken more than 1/2 hour to learn and master any system, any platform. They never even offered me the option to train at home - oh well.  I was hoping my 25+ years experience might help, but it didn't. I wonder why they only occasionally offer training at home?
CC was the best! I LOVED working for her. sm
Just was never the same after she got promoted. She was the best supervisor I ever worked for. I don't work for OSi anymore, did twice over 7 years. Probably not again.
I loved working for them.
Pay was very nice and they left me alone to work. Sometimes they can be difficult to contact but overall a thumbs up.
Loved The Way You Replied!
I know this is days after your discussion but just saw your post. Laughed out loud at the way you replied to the previous comment about better rate. Guess it was just one of those moments that I needed a good laugh.
LOVED MEDWARE
I absolutely loved working for Medware. I had to quit due to personal reasons, but they said that they would hire me back whenever, and believe if whenever comes around, I will be back. Wonderful people to work for.
I loved Futurenet.
still have contacts there, too.
Loved FN but never enough work. NM
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I always LOVED the IBM Selectric...sm
Didn't you just love the feel of the keys and the sound of tap-tap-tap! I loved having different fonts balls to use for different projects.
The 80s were the days, for sure! Back when word processors were paid for their skills!
I truly loved Axolotl and (sm)
kick myself everyday for not keeping up w/ my line counts. I was let go last May because of the low productivity, but for over 3 years my acuracy rate was very acceptable. I was good at what I do, just not good at producing it fast enough. The platform is very MT friendly and pleasing to the eye and the IT staff is extremely knowledgable about Lotus Notes. The editors and mentors are always ready to answer a question (no matter how stupid you may think it is), and they are quick to remedy any situation.
I was unemployed for 7 months following Axolotl and recently started with an established company. I'm sure I will like this company as well; I'm pretty easy to get along w/ and quick to learn; but I'd love to be able to say I am an Axolotl employee again (I'm still too embarrassed to show my face there).
If you are looking for one of the better companies to work for, Axolotl is your best bet. But, just like all companies, numbers are the bottom line: You pride yourself on producing 'acurate transcription', but if you can't produce 'fast and acurate transcription', move on.
Me too....loved YOG and being a pet....purrrrrr!! nm
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I LOVED hearing this!
And I love the idea of people being made to pay for their own foolishness and cheapness! Serves him right!
But, what makes VR seem like a good idea is that when it does not need to be on constant life support and works just a LITTLE better, an employer still gets our expertise as editors for a fraction of what we used to be paid as MTs. And many of us believe the propaganda put out by our MTSO that, sure we'll take a 50% or more cut in pay, but be able to do 3 times as many lines, so the switch will be a GOOD thing and bring us more money. They have to try to sell us on the win/win scenario because otherwise nobody would give it a chance.
Ha, ha - loved that "ew"- tee-hee
C-phones have icky sound quality too.
Loved your assessment (sm)
I think some of these companies who outsource to India do get complacent about what rules they need to follow, since it's pretty much anything goes in India, as long as you serve them dinner on their shift. Spheris bought out HealthScribe and I can assure you that HS sent a significant portion of their work to India. They had a lot of accounts done over there including OHSU, Oregon Health Sciences University. When OHSU started getting suspicious about the quality of the work (it looks like it was done by someone who doesn't understand the English language), they flew the CEO of HS out to Portland to promise with his hand over his heart that their work was absolutely, positively not going to India....but it was....and probably still is.
I too have loved MDI for years now but something has definitely changed..sm
I have always had plenty of work and suddenly little to none. Very frustrating especially when emails trying to get answers or resolve the problem result in nothing. Up until now I have had no complaints but I can't live on what I am able to barely make now.
loved your last line - givingthemwhattheypayfor..nm
Loved it! So, so funny because it is true!
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Just trying to make you feel a little more loved. LOL
:)
I absolutely loved your post! sm
I do have a husband that provides, but we are definitely a two-income family. We are partners and wanted to keep our children home to enjoy these exact same things you speak of, sporting events, hot chocolate, a kiss on the cheek each morning and being able to bring the gym shorts to school that were forgotten in a flash. I must say your post has moved me. I often wondered what I would ever do if something happened to my husband (God forbid). I wondered if I could survive doing MT and still be at home and now I know, it can definitely be done. I admire the fact that you have also taught your college-aged son the value of money and how we must work to have the necessities and work even harder to have the finer things in life. I also do not believe in keeping up with the Joneses as the riches in our life come from our children and the wonderful times we have (sounds mushy I know), but nothing beats it. I think what makes mothers great MTs is the thankless job it can be at times, but well worth it indeed. I wouldn't trade it for anything. My husband drives a 10-year-old pick-up and I do have a payment on my newer car. We figure there's at least one that is reliable. We have a modest home, take no elaborate vacations, and enjoy just doing things as a family! Thanks again for your post. You are truly blessed and so am I!!! 
LOL! Loved those Blues Brothers! :) nm
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Me too! I loved that job, but did not stay through the second week.
My quality even brand new was over 99%, and my line count was up there. My family needed me to have this job, but after being chewed out twice via e mail regarding scheduling which was unclear in the interview and could have been handled easily and with finesse, instead caused me to leave because I did not want to work for someone like that. I wish the communication had been better, because it was silly for the company and me to lose the relationship because of bad communication and grumpiness. My loss is your gain, though. For those of you there or going there, lucky you. And now you have no worries because if the problem is taken care of smooth sailing. BTW: I am the MT who wrote a few months ago that Axolot was the bright star in a dim transcription world or something like that. I'd always praise the company and the position, but was extremely sad to have had to leave due to a personality conflict...Good luck to all on this job, it is worth waiting for, and keeping!
I think we all loved Carole. We were lucky to have her....nm
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