MDI, less work? good dictators disappearing?
Posted By: me on 2009-09-14
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Is is just me? or am I getting less and less work, more and more difficult dictators, seems the account is seriously over staffed, transcribing reports on the doctors tails, and the reports I do finally get are only the MOST difficult dictators it seems....
Is our work going to India after all?
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Good owners, average-low pay, good dictators sm
Send out checks the next business day after they receive the bill. Only work when you want. It's a nice p.r.n. position.
Chickadee
If you have a good range of dictators...sm
I do radiology and acute care for a facility. There are some doctors I am glad I get paid by minute and there are some that I wish I was not so it all equals out. I read an article some time back about being paid by the minute of dictation is really the more fair way for Transcriptionist to be paid. I have 3-4 docs that I speed up so I do their lines in half the time but still get paid for the whole time. It works for me.
Offshore can barely do good dictators, which is why
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Oh, yes, and another thing, VERY FEW ESLs, good dictators!!! NM
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Oh, yes, and another thing, VERY FEW ESLs, good dictators!!! NM
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Good dictators end up on ASR so it can only get worse. My accounts are all picked over.
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Ummm...No, large account I'm on just has good dictators....
It's on EditScript, and I was system receiving alerts of higher priority jobs coming through and I accepted them. The dictators were by and large very good and many of the reports required minimal editing.
It's luck of the draw when it comes to being placed on an account. I am very grateful to have been hired for the account I'm on.
Sorry you apparently aren't as happy. I hope your day gets better.
Unlike the poster below, I did not find the ESLs good dictators at FN. sm
In fact, in my over 20 years of experience, they were the worst I have ever heard. We got way more than 3 e-mails a day, too. More like 10 to 15, beginning for help and sometimes bordering on threatening. If you are really good with ESLs, you MIGHT do okay. But who wants to put up with that?!? No bennies either. Glad I am long long gone. The grass really is greener.
Of course it's good, but with the awful dictators and the trash dictation we get anymore, this ki
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From what I remember not very long. They are flexible, pay is decent, good dictators,
I have never had any problem with them.
slowly disappearing... nm
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QT Medical is a wonderful small company. Very friendly and flexible with good dictators. sm
I have to be honest that I know nothing about the health insurance as I do not carry it. Anyway, they are an absolute wonder of a company. Apply at www.qtmedical.com
Jobs in queue have a way of disappearing --sm
awfully quickly once in the MT's queue - the better the dictation (low ESL, etc) the quicker it disappears. But nobody knows anything. 
for being sick. geez, louise ! ummm, not doing your job and disappearing? perhaps...
they have great benefits. I've been there for almost 5 years and it's great. Don't listen to the naysayers. Make your own opinion after you get here. Bitter people make the worst advocates.
I agree. This past year has been terrible with MQ. Never enough work, crappy dictators, no pay for
weekends and holidays anymore etc etc I guess with all their legal woes we are paying for it and then have to have few blanks and 98% QA on dictators I have never even heard of. A joke to be sure and no matter how good the new pay plan is or they allow everyone a window to work then everyone will be working all hours to get lines for incentive which they probably never will. MQ is losing a lot of MTs and I expect that will continue. They seem to just keep pushing and pushing and it almost seems like they want people to leave so it really makes you wonder what is going on here. They really just dont care.
Because people only want specific work types, easy dictators and certain hours...
That is why some people find a shortage of work, while others find an abundance. I cannot believe these last few threads and the vitriole of some of your responses. Any time a company is mentioned, any company, there are always a bunch of negative responses.
Maybe you all should check within yourselves to find out why you do not have enough work.
I happen to work for a company that is being negatively mentioned in these posts, and I am extremely happy. They may offshore, but they treat me very well, are communicative and I have never missed a paycheck. I also will do any work types, ESL, and will help out extra when asked. This is one of my first times on this board and I probably will not be back.
Let's see...lousy sound quality, dictators with no skill, unavailable QA, running out of work.nm
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The best co. ever! Good work, good people, good pay, good bennies.
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I'm with them. Good work environment, easy accounts and I'm making really good money. nm
Does anyone recommend a pretty good company that is good to work for, pay always on time and plenty
of work. I know that is asking a lot, but just curious?
Is Transcend a good company with a good platform to work on. They are advertising.
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U.S. only, very steady work, some VR, good pay, good insurance, no PT, schedule. sm
That should cover it!
NO WORK at Transtech -- did no good to work the holiday for 1.5 lines, did it?
I am sure the office staff will share their PAID HOLIDAY MONIES with us who sit here with no work. This has gotten to be such a frustrating profession. I guess I need to relocate to Houston so that I can work in the office, too, and reap those wonderful paid benefits that us at-home piecemeal workers do not get.
Much good work going to India. Bad work left
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Dictators
Actually, yes. The dictators are very good and the variety was also a good mix.
How many dictators a day do you do who
speak clearly, enunciate each word, isn't eating, chewing gum, or flipping through the chart while they are trying to dictate, who does umm, umm, umm every third word? I don't think VR will be a threat any time soon, if ever.
dictators
The majority are good. After a few times of transcribing them and with sample reports, not a problem
You must be getting my **not so bad** ones, then ! Let me have some of those dictators ! n/m
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Hispanic Dictators
Hopefully its not De Tar Navarro. That's an awful account. They have quite a few of "mush mouth" RN's who dictate for the doctors. You don't get samples, so you pretty much wing it. At least you don't get the defy's (QA markers at MQ) counted against you!! De Tar is all progress notes and a few discharge summaries. You're lucky if you can get 3/4 of your required line count!! Other than that account, the others were pretty easy (with the exception of those bad quality sound files that is).
They are in a folder as are they for a ton of dictators.
Unfortunately, there are TONS of them that I have to scroll through. Even though they are alphabetized by dictators last name, it is very time consuming.
Difficult dictators?
So MDI-FL and WebMedx both have decent health insurance for a decent price? And what do we have to do to get that? Are they all ESL? Or do they truly have decent dictators where you can make some money. I have done very few ESL. What typing speed are they looking for?
Been there . . . this is actually a step up on dictators for me!!! NM
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Depends on who the dictators will be.
At Spheris, I got paid 0.09 for acute care but only 0.075 for ER work.
I could do nearly twice the lines of ER work, though, because of better dictators.
So, I pushed to do as much ER work as possible and made considerably more money.
Yep REALLY low job #'s from dictators from hell
slow dictators
but can't you speed them up with ExText so they sound like chipmunks, hahaha....
Some of these cesspool dictators would not...........sm
 actually be so bad if there wasn't so much background noise and you could hear what they were actually saying!
Awful dictators
Awful dictators. They cannot keep people on this ortho account. The sound is so muffled, you cannot understand even an otherwise very clear dictator. They do not have a website.
We could say the same thing about their ESL dictators...sm
who are making a 6-figure fortune off of our backs...while they pay us pennies. Learn the language, at least!
definitely horrid dictators...
and the account specifics would make you nuts. specifically, they wanted tables edited that would take about 15 mins/per @ 4 cpl. also we kept running out of work, so yea, at $7/hour I quit and am doing just fine now back on clinic work.
Stuttering dictators
Just wondering what you all think about this: Should a doctor who obviously has a terrible problem with ssssstuttering be dictating? Seems like it might be an invitation for errors on the poor patient's medical record. What do you think?
but if the company has dictators sm
who dictate like this then YES it is fair to test you on those. It does no good to give you a good dictator (whatever you deem to be good) and then most of the dictators of of the caliber you had on the test. It is very fair and honest to the potential employee. What happens if you test on a dictator that is good and then your account has the really bad ones? Is that fair to you or the company?
It use to be that folks in the MT profession accepted this as part of the profession and none of this was ever a point. Seems now MT has come down to lines, spaces, cpl and all the rest and forget the real reason behind this profession, THE PATIENTS!
Dictators getting worse all over.
More and more ESLs. Many younger doctors not as 'literary' as older (retiring) doctors, may have opted out of language and literature courses in school in favor of science courses. In some cases good dictators requiring less proficiency to transcribe may be sent offshore or routed to VR. Seems to me that some younger doctors don't care much about documenting their work and don't spend any time preparing a dictation in advance, then fly through it just to get it over with.
Thanks. They told me it was mainly Hispanic dictators..??
I'm curious if it is mainly acute care (OPs, HPs, Dis, Con, etc.) or clinic...??
I didn't think they paid overtime..? If I'm an IC, and they don't keep up with hours, should I have to put up a schedule? THanks.
If you like getting docked pay for lousy dictators, go for it. nm
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Was the test really difficult? How bad are their ESL dictators?
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Your dictators are clear, and there's *no guessing at all*??
So if you get one that isn't so clear, does that mean you *guess*?? 
A fair share of ESL dictators.sm
Platform easy to learn, I think it is a good place to work.
FutureNet ... Very very difficult dictators
The people at FutureNet are nice and for the most part easy to work with. Their platform is easy to use. The accounts are the bottom of the barrel as far as dictators with thick accents, fast talkers, slurred speech. QA is nice but can't help you get used to these awful dictators. The quality of dictation just stopped me in my tracks, it was so terrible. Again, the staff are pleasant, but they aren't the ones who have to try to decipher the dictation to make a decent line count.
If you have the experience, the pay is higher than most nationals, and if you have an extremely good ear for accents, you can do very well. The dictation is internet based so you don't have to scratch around for your own unlimited long distance. The pay comes on time in my experience, but there's no Direct Deposit. The line counter is always accurate, I have checked against my own, and never any discrepancies.
The editors always seem able to fill in the blanks, so it is proof that some people can understand these dictators, but even though the folks at FutureNet were some of the nicest I have worked with, I could never get a handle on the accents, so regretfully I had to move on. Don't be fooled by the test reports, the actual dictation is much worse.
Lower rate/better dictators
Again I agree with you! The MTSO, hospitals should go to dictators that are bad or hard to understand and ask them politely to clean it up. How are we supposed to do our jobs 100% when we get crap to deal with? You give clean dictation you get clean reports. Any fool can figure that out . . . . well maybe not.
I see no problem with yawning dictators. I'm sure if I
worked a 16-hour day, I'd be yawning too.
Dictators who don't know what a Chief Complaint is. (sm)
Here are some chief complaints: Chest pain. Shortness of breath. Back pain. Type that and now you have some context and you're ready for the history of present illness. But so many dictators want to include all sorts of patient information, like age and details of what happened. That is not a chief complaint guys. Comprehend the headings and let them help you save time! Grrrr.
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