That explains it. I remember that test. Who....sm
Posted By: oldtimer on 2009-07-21
In Reply to: Our supervisor when I worked in-house did it for fun - NotOP
the heck cares how many lines per minute someone can type. Many of us here could type pretty near that fast if we could figure out how to transcribe from the written word vs dictated word. Most of our brains are not wired that way. It was a really ridiculous test for MTs. I want to know how many lines per hour you can transcribe from the dictated word. Most doctors don't dictate 100 words a minute.
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I didn't have to test and I can't remember if they
called the same day or the next day.
I don't remember the test being difficult. sm
But it is part of looking for a job. Unfortunately we have one of the only jobs that I know of that most companies make the applicants test before even looking at them. It does get time consuming looking for a new job.
I cannot even remember her name and she did not even send me the test before she left.
So, I guess I could re-apply or just not worry about it. I have applied for a couple other Ortho positions, just waiting to hear.
that explains
 the quality of their MTs work!.
Well, that explains it!
You have to work like that in order to afford the coffee at Starbucks!
Well, that explains a lot if it is them....
BTDT, no thanks! 
Oh, its you! Well that explains
You have got to be the nut case who lost her marriage, her health, her BP, her back, her everything and her life due to the fault of subcontractors, we assume. Had I known, I would not have wasted my time. Seriously, you are brain dead, flat lined. The entire thread to which I am responding is directly about the woman subcontractor that starts with a T. Now, call me wicked brilliant, but I was able to figure out the connection to the 2 solid days of bashing this woman and connect the dots. Your dots, however, are obviously not connectable, nor are they probably even dots anymore. Realizing that its you, I now also realize fully the futility of trying to have an intelligent conversation, and bow out as everyone else has done when you hop on a thread with your clever dialogue. That's why folks are feeling the need to restart the conversations - you jumped in and totally confisculated the entire subject matter! So, my silence does not represent your victory by your keen observations and accusations. I am not TTD, I don't know her, I just no dialoging with you is a total waste of time and energy. Buh Bye!!
Thank you. Probably explains why
the work load is so light. From these posts I gather I work on the platform that lost the account.
That explains a lot
I've been sitting here wallowing in one of the last days I have of typing this account at this pay rate yet somehow I can't seem to get the lines to come. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me to find that they've found a way to fudge the lines, too...maybe stretching it to a 70 count line. Paying less for typing more...the new Desi American way.
Usually a spelling test, a punctuation test, and maybe 3-6 test files to do. Sometimes done using
s
or spaces which probably explains the
discrepancy.
Well that explains it. Florida is the sm
biggest ripoff there is. Everything is twice what the rest of the world is. I used to live there, totally ridiculous. If you're not in a city, you might check with your county farm bureau as a last resort.
OMG! That explains it, then. MQ mgmt, and
ex-management are literally scum. After that enlightenment, I wouldn't say I was smart to send MDI-MD packing, but rather my MQ disgust radar was going off, and I didn't know why. Isn't that bizarre? That happened to me at another company a while back - one I was checking out before leaving MQ, and I accidentally recognized one of the names of management on a group email, and inquired. Sure enough, it was a company started by all ex-MQ mgmt. I tried to stay the course, but it was just the same old BS under a different company name. So sad, as I had heard great things about MDI-MD as well. Thus, my willingness to give them a shot. That's really a shame. Lots and lots of MQ MTs left MQ for them as well, and I know not many of us can handle any additional financial hits right now. So sad. People get the courage to leave one monster, and end up in the monster's spawn. Sorry if I offend anyone, but if you know MQ, you can relate.
Well, that explains a lot of things - none of them good.
Ahhh, only been at it a year, that explains it.
Oh, well, that trust fund explains how you can
put up with VR! Thanks for the truth, FOR ONCE! Yes, you see, when I win the lottery, I will be able to afford to do VR too! I'm waiting for that time, which I am sure is just around the corner, to learn VR. 
So that explains why her experiences are totally
different than anyone else who works for Transcend on the BeyondBelief program. Unbelievable the number of glitches on that platfom that never seem to be resolved.
That explains my unanswered phone calls. nm
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That explains it, yesterday I had no work, this morning DS on today's date. NM
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Please everyone, read the post made by Tammy Johson above. It explains everything.
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I guess this explains part of the reason we keep running out of work. My office lost a lot of huge
accounts in the past year.
I took a test for a company and my foot pedal would work with the test and I had keep going back
over the dictation time and again to get all the words because I couldnt stop and start it by the foot pedal. What can I do about this.
Just took the test myself. No actual dictation to transcribe. Just a written test.
For 13 cpl, I might do it if the dictators aren't a total horror.
I just took the test today - thought it was a great test of MT skills.
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There is no written test. Must have been a different company. I took their ortho test sm
and it was easy. You had to know your terminology but it was easy to understand AND I used my foot pedal.
Is the test through mttest.com a timed test? Thanks. nm
Wow, really. I can't even remember the
I will be calling KS today then. Thank you for your honesty and getting back to me.
I remember that, too. Everyone was trying to get on with them.
I had two MT friends who worked there, then things started going south. They kept trying to get me to apply there.
i remember...
a posting from someone saying they are good to work with and are hiring. sorry dont remember much else. good luck
I don't remember,
Sorry.
That is exactly how I remember it.
They did pay me a good line rate, but with no headers/footers, and I had a hard time making 1000 lines a day. I think I was on the worst account they had, BMH, about 90% ESL (worst I ever had too). My QA would call and scream at me for doing cardio, not for a mistake, but because I was not assigned to it. The clerks used to beg me to type it. She was supposedly the worst one there.
I can't remember her last name.
Been about 10 years since I worked for her.
I remember something about that but
don't remember which companies. Can someone please tell me if Amphion, Cymed or Medware is one of these companies? I'm about to apply to all 3 of them.
just remember...
The US MT will always be in demand. Unfortunately, in some cases only in an editing capacity. Do you think that work being transcribed in India is able to be edited and returned in an acceptable manner to the US doctor dictating it? Absolutely not. The foreign physicians in our country depend on us to produce properly formatted reports, so how can a MT from India possibly come close to accomplishing this if it were not for the editing US MT. You really can't blame the US physician who contracts with a national co. and does not know his work is going to India. Why can't HIPAA reinforce a regulation stating that no US transcription should ever leave this country in any capacity? Certain countries have restrictions on importing and exporting products. Why does are country not step up to the plat? MTs have to form some kind of alliance to stop this...petitioning the government, etc. Striking is not the answer because until some enforcement is in place, our jobs will continue to go overseas and back here for editing.
I think I remember you.
I remember the post (if it was yours) on the company board and remember it didn't stay on the board very long. If I remember correctly, even though they removed your negative (truthful) post, the majority of the posts that remained were negative, complaining about things like the terrible platform and some being afraid they would have to apply for food stamps soon.
And if you're the person I'm thinking of, I believe you and I even emailed each other a couple times because I, too, had many concerns when you brought yours to the board.
You weren't wrong, and neither was I. The only mistake I made was I stayed there a little longer than you did. I should have left when you left.
I can't blame the newbies either because they simply don't know any better. It's part of the process with this company. They make sure things are great at the beginning, and then the downward process slowly begins.
Every single thing you have said is true. If people don't want to believe it, then they can waste a few years of their life at Transcend, too. I'm just grateful that I now work for a credible, honest company and couldn't be happier. Hopefully, this will remain the case, and I can stay with this company for many years. But after my experience at Transcend, my radar is definitely always on, and at the first hint of preferential treatment to someone else or lies being told to me, etc., I won't hesitate to leave this company as I hesitated to leave Transcend.
How to remember
An easy way to distringuish is to think of the first 3 letters of adduction. You are adding it to your body, therefore it is towards the body. The same would be true for adductors, so just think of addition to your body in any form and you should be good to go. Hope this helps.
As far as I remember...sm
you had to do up a schedule for every week of the days you would be working. You picked the days and number of minutes you would commit to. So, if you were working part-time and committed to 50 minutes a day, you could work those whenever you wanted to, (50 minutes x 5 days) as long as you made your commitment. I don't think you ever had to work any weekends.
As for being an IC, I have never had this kind of insurance. As far as I am concerned, if the doc signs it, he is saying he read it over and agrees. I don't think any IC MTs have ever been sued, but I don't know for sure. Maybe post this question on the main board. The companies save big bucks using ICs so there must be something in place for protection. I think most MTs are ICs.
When you are an IC, you set yourself up as your own business, sole proprietor. It is as simple as registering your name. I have an accountant do my income tax every year and it costs about $200. Hope this helps.
i cant remember the name.. c msg
but the email came from someone in Recruiting (female's name). The same person who informed me about passing the test and contacting me on the next recruitment was the same one who sent me the attachments ot download. Our situation is very different, but just by their pay scale, you can do better. I can deal with not being paid for headings (I guess), but I cannot deal with not being paid for spaces.
I think I remember something about them on...
MtChat.com. but I cant seem to access it this week. I cant really remember the deal but apparently they did something to their employees that made a ton of them quit so that is probably why they are hiring. You might want to keep checking back at that website and see if it comes up and then it will let you do a search on them.
anyone remember
 Does anyone remember ddi, inc. Those were the days when transcription was a great job.
I remember that
I thought that those MTs had come from a company in the Sacramento area that had lost the majority of their work supposedly to VR. I also thought that a lot of those MTs were let go with only maybe a handful offered to stay on board.
I have not gotten my e-mail for the conference either. Maybe they are going to send it later on towards the end of the day Pacific time.
I do agree that our accounts do require that they be done here in the US. There have also been a lot of companies I suspect thought that have lied through their teeth about having work done here in the US and send it abroad.
What about MDI-MD? I remember once there was.. sm
a discussion about their line counts not being counted correctly either. Does anyone have any information on that?
maybe I did see that but I can't remember!
Thanks.
I remember them saying ...
... that it was an account by account fix and to be patient if it does not happen for you right away. Patience seems to be the word. Heck, it's been cockeyed since about the beginning of the year -- what's another week or 4...
Just remember you get what you pay for....
you left out the fact that while your on QA all those months, pay is 2 cents!!! I got suckered in by them a long time ago and hope all of you that are thinking about it, run while you can.
RE: Just remember you get what you pay for
Pay is not 2 cpl while you are in QA. You get charged for QA when you are out of QA but repeatedly abuse QA by sending things that are not necessary. I mean, if you're out of QA, is it really necessary to send half of your reports because somebody didn't want to look something up? Our dictators aren't bad, with the exception of maybe 2 or 3. It doesn't take anyone long to get out of QA unless they just aren't trying. A lot of things have improved at RC, one of them being that there is somebody there to help new hires and interns and feedback is given. I know this for a fact, because I am the one to do that. I hope you have a great day.
Can anyone remember the name...
Can anyone remember the name of the company that was advertising a while back for Transcriptionist that had changed their name. The manager came on and wrote out a big explanation for why they were still answering the phones with the old name even though they were supposedly not the same company...
It seems like the new name was All American MT or something like that - and the old company was an Indian-owned company.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
They have another one too, but I can't remember the name of it.
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From what I remember
Now it has been about 2 years ago, and I don't work for them anymore, but from what I remember training was all day for an entire week, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There were breaks in between. I couldn't have done the training with my then 4-year-old. Thank goodness my husband was working 3rd shift and could take care of him while I trained. I hope this helps. I don't know how their training is now.
If i remember..
Chartscript platform..Actual IC. No schedule. Can't remember the pay.
What I remember
1. Use EXtext. I found it pretty easy and user friendly.
2. Cheapest health insurance close to $400 for 1 person. HMO and PPO available. Too expensive for my blood!
3. Deductable on above $2500.
4. ESLs - about 75%, frequently ran out of work, asking for more accounts = must be trained and then no one available to train you for weeks.
5. QA - cold, no follow-up explanations, nowhere near enough in the beginning. Come down on you weeks later after never having told you about issue in the first place.
6. Emails very untimely.
7. Must go to them (New Jersey) on your own dime for flight, hotel, taxi, meals. Train for 3 days (could have been done over the internet), stay working for them for 6 months (if you can stand it that long - I couldn't!) in order to be reimbursed only $500 of your expenses.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
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