I work at a hospital and we have a quota of 15 per hour which is 120 per day. nm

• lines versus reports - Latrice
  • I've never heard of a goal higher than 100 reports for radiology. - Misha
    • I work at a hospital and we have a quota of 15 per hour which is 120 per day. nm - MI MT
  • radiology line versus report - grannyMT
  • This is the biggest problem with Radiology! - sm
    • line versus report - Latrice
    • I will only work by the report for radiology and only if sm - RadPro
      • Not paid for links........ - DJ.
        • Ask for the raise if the account doesn't pay links. You may be sm - KS Rad MT
      • Your radiology acct - babe
        • I work Mon-Fri and occasional weekends as needed but have done this - RadPro
          • Your radiology acct - babe
            • A good mix. I don't mind ESL docs. I think that some U.S. docs are worse! nm - RadPro

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This is the slow period. Most MT's know this. After working 9 1/2 years at a hospital, this happened there, too. Don't get in a tizzy. Once it picks up, you'll not be able to breathe.

One year at TT and this is a breath of fresh air to me after working all the hours I did. Sure, I need the money, but it can be made up later, so I'm not worried, and I don't think the naysayers answering should worry either. Soon you'll all be complaining of TOO MUCH work.

TT Rocks.

Questions for DSG QA folks.  Do they pay per hour or by line?  I heard someone say by the line, but then someone else say they had to give feedback.  I have never worked for someplace that paid you by the line AND expected you to give feedback also.   If it is by the line, do they have a daily quota?

Thanks

Has anybody out there ever used all accessible shortcuts, typed steadily, and seen after a grueling 8, 9, 10 hours lines equalling approx 77 per hour?    I refuse to think myself as doing something wrong:  Just want to hear from ANYBODY who has done what s/he can, yet finds him/herself always unable to meet productivity.  I am at a crossroads right now so it is a good time to leave transcription, but I cannot believe my forays into at-home land yield the same results:  exhaustion, impossible quotas, and the sneaking suspicion that the nearly-industry-wide policy of not paying for headers is cruel, immoral, and unethical--CONSIDERABLE quality time is spent on getting this info right, and what automatically populates must often be, umm, massaged by our exhausted fingers.  I would love to hear any comments from anybody about how they met productivity.  I would need to increase by almost 100% in order to barely tread water:  I cannot do it.  Just wondering how all you VERY hard-working people survive.  Wish there were an emoticon for throwing in the towel.

I am not sure what it means for us yet.  I did work for an MTSO part-time for 6 months.  The hospital had better pay and a much better benefit package.  Another benefit is that I am familiar with the territory.  I don't have to google every nursing home, hospital, doctor's clinics, doctors name in the area as I am familair with them and their specialities.  I hope that makes sense. 

Hospitals can be unsteady.  I have worked for 2 different ones.  The first one was going to shut down but that didn't happen, then it was going to merge with another hospital, that did not happen but it gave us a great scare a few times.   The same thing with the one I am working at now.  It was going to merge with another hospital.  They opened a surgery center and that took away some of our work.   Now they wre saying they are going to go to VR.  It is not here yet but they are seriously talking about it. 

that we have not been able to work in for several hours now due to their internet problem?  I'm new - how often does this happen?  Is this rare?  I sure hope so!

Thanks!

I am working all the time editing/fixing and trying to remember all the rules for each account.  I do not see with the way the platform is ever being able to make the amount needed to keep my insurance, and they have already extended my insurance for me before.  I thought when I started doing more editing I might be able to get more lines, but then I would have to do double the lines, and with the way the reports are looking when I see them there is too much fixing to ever get there.  It looks like when the computer does not know what the doctor is saying in plain English it just types whatever it wants.  It is actually amusing how it comes up with a whole sentence of unrelated words.