I would completely disagree with you. I switched
Posted By: sm on 2009-03-24
In Reply to: I disagree. - acute care reports are lengthy
from radiology to acute care, and the difference was overwhelming. Switching from a specialty or even a few specialties to doing acute care, which involves ALL specialties & procedures & dozens if not hundreds of different dictators, is a big big change. I think your post would most definitely mislead newbies.
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Not attacked? I completely disagree...and when is the last time
you actually talked with MTs, in an open type forum. My views are not all that far off from other MTs. Many MTs are afraid to speak up because employment is volatile.
I have done it myself, either spoke up and been squeezed out of a job, or kept quiet and just have agreed with everything happening and suffered in silence just to keep a paycheck coming in. We can be let go anytime anyone wants to. There really are not many laws protecting us.
Spheris MTs, any out there who switched from TWS to SM
Clarity/Cornerstone and to ShortHand care to comment? Good, bad, same? Please share....thanks. 
Baited and switched
I don't like Transcend. Applied for one position and got another which was one of the worse accounts I have ever had in my entire career!! They must have a hard time getting and keeping people on that account. Anyway, I didn't like the way I got set up so I quit.
Has anyone switched from MQ to SoftScript?
and if so, how did it go? Any info would be greatly appreciated :) TIA! :)
they switched to Emdat and now pay 7 to 8 cpl
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Hi there, I worked out of Nashville, too. I have been switched around SM
between several CSCs due to closings. This one seems okay, at least the office staff is friendly.
I also have lost a lot of lines when we switched to DQS. SM
It seems like everyone else loves it and makes big lines but I haven't had that experience at all. I think it bites in a big way.
Those who have switched from Transcend to Amphion
Can I hear from those who have switched from Transcend to Amphion about how their pay is, have they made the same or lost money. How do you like it there and how is the WORK FLOW?
Nice people, but I was switched from
account to account because they ran out work. I also agree with Regina about the non-stop e-mails, etc.--too much distraction during the work day. They pay on time as agreed, but not too much. I'd say keep looking.
Here's a funny for you. I switched professions at age 48.....
I jumped into MT from a accounting/administrative secretary work. Got sick of the backstabbing and college graduates booting out all the oldies who knew their jobs. I was next.
I have no desire to go out there for a regular job. What I see in stores and shopping reminds me too much of people at places I used to work, so even Wal-Mart, etc. doesn't turn me on.
My dream is to hit the lotteryand retire...fat chance since I never play... LOL
If you like to be switched on accts all the time.
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Switched to an IC job at 8 cpl, great dictators, no ESL
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Old posts say you get switched around a lot and the software is clunky. What about
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That is absolutely correct which is why I switched to IC. I had the same situation.
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Switched once, all together 6-7 accounts, awful quality
QA could not have been nicer, could usually fill my blanks, but when you can't get a handle on a dictation from the first sentence and it's all downhill from there, I didn't want my initials on those reports. I emphasize all the positives I stated about the company. If someone wants a real challenge with every report, and expects it to take a while before comfortable with the dictators, it could be a nice home. I just could not make enough to pay my bills.
Yes! Just switched 3 weeks ago from IC to employee and hating it! nm
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I switched to flexible to keep my options open. (sm)
So far I am finding the platforms others have out there are not allowing me to make as much money as I did with MQ even with the cess pool. I work for a great company now, truly fantastic people, but their platform is slow and often down for one reason or another.
I am going to give it a little longer, but may be calling to crawl back to FT with MQ when I am eligible to change classifications again. I switched from FT to PT and then flex so I am sure I will have to wait a year before I can swap around again.
I would think now is an extremely good time to at least call them and check it out. What have you got to lose?
So are you saying your account has not been switched over to a Transcend platform yet?? Thanks! nm
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Any Warminster MTs have any thoughts on the email about getting switched to the NE region. Just
wonder what you think about the whole thing.
If you've switched companies, encourage the rest!
If you've decided to join us in the fight to keep our confidential health information and MT jobs in the states and not sent overseas, PLEASE let us know and help encourage others to do the same. I recently have and currently work for MDI-MD. We really need to keep encouraging each other to make the move. If you're not sure if a company outsources to either Pakistan, India, or the Philippines, just ask here. We'll help figure it out for you!
Let's not quit and let this just remain a hot topic for a week or so! WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER! Remember, if you take a cent less in pay, it's well worth it to help an American MT-based company prosper and help these companies that are more concerned about money than Americans' jobs lose MTs and possibly large accounts that these American MT-based companies could have a chance at acquiring.
This is US TAKING A STAND! I just want to encourage you all to truly consider this.
The companies I know of that definitely don't outsource offshore right now after THOROUGH research are Keystrokes, Axolotl, MDI-MD (where I work). I'll keep researching. Just remember to post here if you are questioning a company. I'm still researching others and am including Pakistan and the Phillipines in my searches.
I'm contacting medical facilities in my area (Pennsylvania) to let them know that their confidential medical information could possibly be outsourced offshore and to consider helping keep jobs in America by researching their MTSO and hire a company that doesn't do this. If you feel inclined to reach medical facilities in your area/state, PLEASE do this for all of your fellow MTs. I know there is at least one of you in each state on this board!
We had a ton of people in our office quit because of the low line count on DQS when switched from
another DOS platform to DQS. Same account, same doctors LESS lines.
I was switched from one heavy ESL acct to another and couldn't get the lines, so I bailed. Other
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I am not completely sure about this,
but I think in India and in general in the 3rd world countries not every doctor dictates typed reports. I can image that they just keep their handwritten notes.
Correct me if I am wrong on this.
They need to have Deb retire completely
and have no contact with anyone they put in her place. She hates the world and passes her personal dislikes and vendettas down to everyone else. She has no management skills, no people skills, and operates like she has a mixmaster in her hands at all times.
Agree completely. nm
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Agree completely
For all the work you do filling in the demographics and NOT getting paid for the header or footer, NO THEY DO NOT PAY WELL.
completely agree...(sm)
You'd be wise to jump on that one in a hurry!
to be completely honest
Alot of people on this board do not have a life outside of MT'ing, home all the time, not around humans much, antisocial, and that makes for deep seeded anger/cabin fever and frustration that comes out the only way it can...through this board.
Completely true!
What a great post!
Is anyone completely satisfied with their job?
I don't want to be a job hopper, but what is up with these companies???
They offer one thing and then completely turn around and do another (only after being employed for a month or so)----
You will be completely satisfied and productive on one account and completely out of nowhere they switch on you, throw you on a new account (when they said they wouldn't because they like to see their MTs productive).
I get my Expanders and macros set up ...and BOOM... new account.
Then there you are learning new account specifics with a bunch of crappy dictators---It feels as if you are starting all over again with a new company.
Can you ever be really happy? I am not asking for specific company names here. I am just wondering since changing jobs 3 times since leaving MQ THIS YEAR if all of the companies are like this. Maybe I just jinx myself by getting happy and excited and telling people how great this new company is. lol.
It is not just the switching of the accounts.. it is the IC companies that start out to be 24 hour TAT and then ask you for a schedule after working for a couple of weeks (even when you are getting your required lines in). Or the companies that even though they are IC and you did give them a schedule expect you to log on any time of the day to work. AGGGHHHH.
I get that this is the business..and I don't want days filled with glorious dictators and simple work (I know that is not possible). I would just like to be left in ONE PLACE for once with a primary account that doesn't get switched for no reason and get my work back as agreed upon! Hey throw all of the horrid ESLs you want at me on the account... just leave me be! lol. Seriously.
I just cannot be productive working like this.
I completely agree also
I don't even work for OSI, but people who do work there (or at any company for that matter) should be able post whatever they want. If you don't want to hear about it, then don't read the posts. Some people actually find it very informative in case they ever need or want to look for a new company. This way people can be well-informed about other's experiences with the company. Again, if you don't want to read more about it, then just simply ignore the posts.There is no need to tell people what they can and cannot post about on this site.
Agree......but not completely.....
I agree with the concern that work is going to companies overseas that do not comply with US standards (either HIPAA or financial), but, at least SPI owns the companies in India and the Philippines - with the corporate office being based in Manila. I cannot even imagine the companies MQ or Spheris uses for outsourcing.
agree completely
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Completely agree
I totally agree. You do need to call the office if you are experiencing this, and I am very sure they will do something to fix it. My lead MT has been GREAT. She has answered any questions that I have had immediately, and I am otherwise left alone to do my work, which I love. I am able to get a very high line count everyday, and my lead MT keeps telling me what a great job I am doing. I wish I had found Keystrokes a long time ago. They are the best in my opinion.
Completely agree
I have been with Keystrokes for a month now and couldn't be happier. I get awesome line counts every day and my lead MT is so nice and always very helpful. I was very pleasantly surprised when my very first pay check was direct deposited right on time and it was for the exact amount that I had calculated at the end of the pay period. My fiance is also about to start there, but he has been waiting for about 3 weeks since he got his equipment to get set up, but hopefully it will be today. I am on an ER account and never run out of work and there are not even any ESLs! I work on ExText and LOVE it. It is probably the easiest and most efficient platform I have used in a long time, but they do have other platforms on different accounts, which I hear are just as good. I hope to work there for many years to come!
That is completely true
The platform is all up to the hospitals and clinics. The company just goes along with what the client wants to use for a platform.
I completely agree!!!!!!
What a pain in the a**!!!!
IMO, it's completely relative. sm
I have an account in Cquence which felt cumbersome at first, but then I got comfortable and produce as much there as I do typing, say, in Word offline. Recently I started a Meditech account and...hey! Cquence is absolutely wonderful compared to Meditech!! So my opinion of Cquence has gone up, for sure.
That is completely untrue.
MANY of their accounts are still on Lanier. I should know. I'm on one of them. As a matter of fact, at least six clients are still on there, if not more.
There are e-mails from the owner daily asking people to stretch. There are demands for weekend work STILL. The recruiter has been know to say that SHE is the one true authority on QA, often defying what both the client profile and the QA feedback say.
I'm curious if you're just trying to keep people from knowing the truth, as people are leaving in an almost a mass exodus. Damage control, perhaps?
I completely agree with everything you just said! sm
However, the one thing irritating me is the reduction in pay. In 1999, I was making 31K year salary. Now, salaried, I am making 29K a year. I have 10 times more responsibility than my other job and make less money. I work my butt off and for what? I do more work, they just add more on. I worked production for many, many years. I know I made better then (and this even included 4 years with the squid!) Oy vey - there is my vent because I never do. I truly believe in the harder you work, the better you will do. However, sometimes even I want to throw in the towel!
Completely agree!
I have worked for KS for almost 8 months now, have 2 accounts, and have never been treated better by a company. How is it rude by turning someone down for a job? I have been turned down for jobs in the past when I was perfectly qualified for them, and I never took it personally or took it as the company being rude. I simply moved on. KS has many different types of accounts from radiology, ER, basic 4, clinic, etc., and it may just be that they did not have any openings that they thought would suit you at this time. That may not be the case at all, but I have no idea. I am not a recruiter, just an MT. If it matters to you that much, maybe you could contact them and ask why you received the e-mail than you did instead of coming on here saying how rude they are. JMO.
I agree completely
I have to also agree that they by no means micromanage at all. In fact, they are the least thing from that. They completely leave you alone. I have been very impressed with the way things are run! 
I completely agree with you...
I have been able to make my lines by being flexible. They, in turn, are very good with me. There has to be some compromise in this business. If there is no work on your regular shift, you just may have to go out of your comfort zone and work a flexible schedule now and again. You get what you give.
I Empathize With You Completely
It is just not right to get your line count average at a good-paying level and then have it knocked down to nothing because of a crappy dictator. I could go on and on and on about this. SOME (not all) hospitals, clinics, etc (and I know this to be a fact) will send the junk to the service and let their home people do the gravy jobs. Yet, the people that work for the services risk their pay every day because of it. I didn't choose to work for a service. Was basically forced into it. I love transcription, ABSOLUTELY LOVE it, but am seriously considering training for something more secure. Just haven't decided what, yet. Maybe nursing, but I'm not a young person anymore, so I do not know.
Hang in there. Maybe with help from above, you can make up for it all in the next couple of days. I truly empathize and sympathize with you!
I completely agree!
Plus, try taking vacations! Not happening. Luckily my contract with a hospital got eaten up by one of the large services but it was the best thing that could have happened. Now I work for a company and THEY have to worry about getting me the work and a paycheck on time.
I was making more money but I'd rather let someone else have the associated headaches.
I am completely out of the loop.
I think the new payroll company keeps overlooking me, and often I have to ask for information that seems to be sent to everyone else (For example, my benefits paperwork wasn't sent until I asked for it.) I will have to ask again to have the 401k info sent to me. I have no paperwork on this. Did you get anything yet? What is the deadline for cashing out? TT hasn't given us info yet on their match, have they?
I understand completely
about needing your paycheck when you need it. I am living paycheck to paycheck (usually not making it that far) just like 90% of MTs are. But if the funds were to be released on the 5th (Friday), they still wouldn't be available until Tuesday at 6 am, at least at my bank. So if they released them on Monday it would be the same thing, there at Tuesday at 6 am.
Agree completely.
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I agree completely!
I agree with Mrs. Webber completely. I couldn't have said it better myself! The only thing worse than not getting paid on-time is not getting paid at all. Unfortunately, there are companies out there like that, which I found out the hard way with TSI of Illinois. If you have been considering TSI, save yourself a lot of trouble, and don't bother. THEY DON'T PAY!!
I agree completely....
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Agree completely!
I just had to laugh. I too was on AV, weren't they just the best? And no special considerations either. The only peeps who stayed on AV were the ones who didn't care...and I don't care what the managers said...horrible, horrible, horrible.
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