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If I had known that they offshored before I accepted employment with them I never would have gone there to work.  I've been here long enough now though to not want to lose my benefits. 

Still ... making a DECENT PAYCHECK and making a living without being stressed out over the type of work that I'm doing is just as important as good benefits. 

to heart.  It wasn't an easy decision as I heard just as many negative comments as I did positive comments.  After careful consideration, I decided to give them a chance.  I think I'm better off having heard all the negatives and positives as I was able to make a more informed decision.  I really hope I'll be happy there.  I'm not naive enough to believe it will be perfect (what company is?), but I want to start off giving them the benefit of the doubt.  Everyone's different.  I worked for Spheris and hated it (others I know love it there).  I worked for Medquist and liked it (lots of people hate it there).  So it's my hope that I'll find my niche with TransHealth.

I really do appreciate your advice, though.  I hope that you have found a job that is better suited to your needs.

Take care,

Chickadee

Right now things are slow, probably on all or most accounts.  Get yourself a backup when it's busy.  Then you have it to fall back on at times like this.

Approximately two and a half weeks ago I accepted a job offer for IC status. It would be another full week before I would hear from them again, and another four days before I was able to train on the platform. As I sit here now, I am losing money, because I still do not have a password to begin work (this being yet another four days after training). It seems like a good job - a job I would like to keep. However, I am getting very frustrated with the lack of communication. I email and do not receive responses. I call and leave messages, and do not receive a call back. I have considered doing overflow work for someone, but if I ever get going on this job I am afraid that I may be spreading myself too thin to do that. I do not particularly want to name the company, but if you would like to know you are welcome to email me. I will, however, let anyone that may come on here asking about this company know.

Thank you for letting me rant.

Thirteen years is a lot to give up for the unknown.  The current Transcend employee below basically said as much about her own situation, and she makes a lot of sense.

Why don't you try it on a part-time basis?  Then if you find it's a better place for you, you won't lose anything.

When I worked at TS, the platform was down every other day and tech support was virtually nonexistent.  Maybe things have changed for the better.  I hope they have.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Hi everyone,

I just need some advice here. When put on a new account is it common to make stupid mistakes while getting used to how a doctor dictates? Does QA to some degree expect that these little mistakes are going to be made when starting out on a new account?

I was recently added to a new account and I am not making many mistakes, but the VERY FEW I have made make me want to kick myself--HARD. They aren't big mistakes..just something that when I see corrected I say WHAT WAS I THINKING ...(though, it did make sense to me when proofing at the time)...  basically the hear one word and it turns out to be another scenario, regular English words, not medical...the ones that make you feel  

Don't get me wrong, my QA is wonderful and doesn't try to make me feel belittled because of that or anything. She is excellent. I just really beat myself up over things like this.   I certainly don't want to look sloppy!!

Is this the norm for everyone just starting out on a new account?

Thanks for listening and for any words of wisdom.

Jess

Can anyone tell me about Phoenix MedCom.  Have a choice of them and a local physician's office with hourly pay of only $14/hr.  Please tell good and bad.  Also I have never been an IC before, so any tax info appreciated.  Please email ASAP.  Thanks!

I have been a very depressed MT lately working for a company who never pays me on time.  The accounts are fantastic and the work is the type I love doing, but I do not get excited whatsoever anymore because I cannot guarantee my pay to be on time.  I communicate with the manager this issue and she says she understands, but she is not fixing the solution.  I told her I wanted to resign because I was offered another position and that I need to be paid on time.  I have bills to pay and MTs or any employee at any company does not work for free. 

My question is, if you were in this type of situation, would you just continue doing work for this company and start working for the new company and see how things go?  I know it's not good to quit a job whether you are not sure about how the new job is going to turn out.  However, this new company says they always pay their MTs on time and even have direct deposit. 

What would you do in my situation?  I am so nervous to give up this job I am doing now because it might not be like the new one, but on the other hand, do I just try out the new job for a month and work both jobs part-time and see how the new one comes out and if it is a match?  Of course the present job is just sending me tons and tons of work to do, but I will not be able to do all of that work if I am concentrating on learning another job.  HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am thinking about testing with Cymed.  I know they merged with another company recently.  Can anyone tell me do you type in Word or in some other sort of platform?  I absolutely hate and cannot tolerate emdat.  I wish to stay away from that program at all costs.  Do you run out of work?  How do you feel about the company?  I am not at all happy where I am now.  It is time for me to move on. 

My sincere advice is to not to join Four Seasons Transcription as they don't pay on time or don't pay at all. There are hundreds of companies which are good, so be wise and don't choose this company.

I work in the medical records department of a hospital and our transcription is going to be outsourced to an outside company.  We have been told that our transcriptionists would be taken in by this company but it doesn't look very promising and we would definitely take a pay cut as well as lose a lot of benefits.

We have several options aside from going with the outside service.  Some of us could move to the radiology department but they don't have room for all of us, and it would go by seniority in terms of who they would offer it to.  But I am afraid that the radiology transcription could be outsourced too before too long.  Since I have seniority I would have first choice to move to radiology but then I would lose my seniority because I would have to train from scratch there.  I have never typed radiology before and would take a pay cut.

Also there is a small hospital nearby that still does inhouse transcription but I just think that it will all go out to the national companies before long.

I don't know what to do.  Go with the company and take at least a 30% or 40% pay cut, apply with the small hospital, or start at the bottom in the radiology department that could also be outsourced in the future.

Can anyone give me advice about what to do? 

Thank you for your suggestions.

I got a phone call yesterday from a staffing agency.  They want me to come in for an interview for a Transcriptionist position at the hospital on the Air Force base.  If I don't need their medical benefits my pay will be $17 an hour.  I don't know too many details because my interview is not until Monday.

Anyways, the schedule is from 5 p.m. until around 1 or 2 a.m.  The reason I went into the MT field is so I can stay home with my special needs daughter and not have to put her in daycare.  If I work the shift that was offered, we still will not have to pay for daycare, because my husband works days.

The problem is it is either Tuesday through Saturday or Wednesday through Sunday.  In all reality, it would actually give me more time to spend with my daughter playing.  I will sleep when I get home from work, wake up with her in the morning, and then maybe lay down for a nap with her in the afternoon.

I know this may sound weird that I am asking for advice, but I would just like to know what other MTs think.

TIA!!!    

Can good money be made doing only clinic notes or are acute care accounts better? I would also like to know your opinions about DeVenture and Transhealth. I know that TransHealth just got bought by WebmedX, so what are your thoughts on WebmedX? I would like to know what anyone thinks about these companies and if you had your choice out of these which would you choose? Your thoughts and opinions are appreciated. Thank you.

I am considering a part-time position with TTS. The recruiter gave me two options: Dictaphone platform, which uses Extext and VPN, no VR yet, on an acute care account with 1000+ dictators at 9 cpl OR Escription that does have VR on approximately 40% of the dictation, multidisciplinary clinic which covers every specialty under the sun at  8 cpl for text, 4 cpl speech editing.

I am not familiar with either of these platforms, but was told they are both word-based. This may be a no-brainer for most, but I have never worked with VR and suppose I have that fear of the unknown.  However, it does sound like the better of the two options.

If anyone can offer me advice on which they would choose, please let me know! Thank you.

I don't know anything about them but I took a cursory look at their website.  I'm assuming you're a new grad.  If correct, you will cost any company more than you produce in the beginning.  I don't know why you are desparate to find an MT job but it is not something I'd recommend anyone to get into now.  Unless you're the exception, you probably won't make much money right out of the chute.  It sounds sort of like you would be paying $99 for the privilege of working for free.  I can't see where there would be much future in that.  Look before you leap.  Good luck.