The suits and facilities often control dictation, not
Posted By: Drs and athe suits know who is doing dictation, ju on 2007-12-08
In Reply to: Here's a thought. sm - agree
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Sure, but nobody can understand the Ortho test dictation, no pedal, no speed control...sm
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I take it they are two different facilities? :)
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From above: they are giving you. I bet facilities are
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Actually, I have heard of facilities
Okay, my apologies if I thought you were biting my head off. I'm so used to the negativity that usually runs rampant on these boards that (without my usual pot of coffee to start my morning), I thought you were discrediting my concerns. Again, my apologies :-).
Back on topic, I have recently heard that facilities now do push every dictator through onto VR, no matter how horrible they are (I guess they figure it's the MTs problem, as usual).
There are very odd things going on at MDI-MD, and with the new offshoring, etc., it makes sense that they would pull back the ones too difficult for the ILPs to understand and pass those on to the American MTs.
But I seriously would like some opinions on why work is disappearing for 3-4 days, then reappearing for transcription. The ONLY thing I can think of is this, too, is work that was routed to the ILPs but it was close to falling (or already had fallen) out of TAT and they needed the American MTs to pull it back in line. Like I said, I've been on this account for more than a year and this NEVER has happened, EVER. The work was somewhere...the question is, where?
IMO, I think the lack of work, the only remaining transcription being the dregs of the dictators, and work suddenly appearing (and large volumes of it) 3-4 days after it was dictated just all points to offshoring in progress.
Any thoughts on that?
And, yes, BTW, like you I do VR and love it. I think Escription is just about the greatest thing since sliced bread, lol!
Most doctors and facilities have never heard of . . .
CMT, or the AAMT. Although they (AAMT) want to you to believe it matters, the CMT designation isn't really an important factor in the real working MT world. Quality is what matters to the healthcare providers with which I work, and unfortunately having CMT after one's name doesn't guarantee that.
The AAMT also is pushing for mandatory certification. That will never happen. I predict the AAMT will go broke within a couple years.
The bottom line is to do quality work. That will keep an MT working and in demand.
From what I know the three hospitals are actually one big account with three facilities and then
the fourth is a cancer center. I have worked at Transtech for almost two years and it's the best job I've ever had. I think you will have a primary account and then a backup. I don't know of anyone here who has more than that.
Most facilities don't know their work is offshored
the MT dept. head knows about it and nobody else. That's pretty evil. Hadn't thought about that.
Facilities have to have employees vote
on whether to accept a union or not at their place of employment or not. If the majority of employees vote no, then a union does not go into that specific facility.
All those facilities amount to 1127 sm
actual beds (the size of 1 large teaching hospital), clinic work, a rehab center with 40 beds and an imaging center.
The list of facilities sounds impressive, but does not amount to the number of accounts we have lost and will lose over the next few months.
The way W overhires, this account will be like all others, everyone fighting for some work.
Sure. To the suits but not to the MTs.
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I liked the suits at first -
until I found out what monsters they were.
that's right, the Suits
I meant my company's top executives, who think we should be able to produce 60% more, and were probably told this by other Suits. I'm sure none of them have any transcription experience.
No suits here....
... I don't even own a suit. Well, actually I do, but I've outgrown them, if you know what I mean.... But I'm just a minion and proud of it. I've been a manager and a supervisor. No thanks. The money was nice but it cost me too much.
I only post what I've been told by people I trust, and based on my own experience. And, as I always say, others' mileage may vary....
Depending on where you live, there are many facilities hiring.
Check with Radiologix. They had an ad running for MT, pay well with great benefits.
If you check around, there are many other facilities hiring in-house if that is what you prefer. Some are hiring at-home employees also with a better setup than what you describe.
Pick yourself up! Don't let it get you down. Life can be much much worse.
Really, if you were in a room full of people and everyone threw their problems into the middle of the floor, you will see you really have no problems at all!
Good luck to you!
Um, some facilities are getting back huge mistakes!
Depends where you work. If you have access to all reports, try looking up some that have gone to the facilities. Where I work, it is frightening!!!! ; 0
They will outsource and find out facilities are willing to accept
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Some facilities or hospitals keep their own servers in-house sm
to store their medical records. eScription is a software program used to access those files.
It all depends on how each client handles their contracts with eScription. Not every client or hospital is the same.
I think most here would agree that going to the suits with any of our (sm)
problems ends up being useless. However, these boards are a good place to vent a little steam. If it weren't for a little venting once in a while, I reckon it'd be fairly easy for many of us to finally lose our cool, go Postal on our supes, and end up on the 6:00 news getting dragged off in handcuffs.
I believe it was actually a big meeting of suits,
ya know, the real thinkers and shakers, at some annual meeting or something. I know of one manager who had to slink back to the office - there were offices in those days - with his tail between his legs, as the word beat of the monkeys beat him back to the office. It was horrible. Happened probably a good 10 years ago, though, so its been their mentality for a long time.
Suits, I hope you know
how serious this is, and how profoundly you are impacting the lives of many hardworking MTs and their families. You are going to have a very unhappy workforce. Not a good thing.
Big facilities contract out MT through administration. Drs have no say, they dont pay the bill.
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We need to CALL THE FACILITIES and let them know what is going on! OR Class Action Lawsuit
...we need to all go out on strike! If we ALL stopped working tomorrow, called the facilities and let them know why, where would WebmedX be?
Our only hope lies in the facilities staffing MTs direct. SM
Win/win. They save a ton even if they pay us more per line which in turn puts us back in the bladk. We get affordable health coverage and labor laws.
SIMPLE AS THAT
Suits Salaries and Perks
What someone said on another thread got me to wondering about the salaries of those at the top. I googled the head of Transcend and came up with this on a Forbes article. Not too shabby. This was for 2007.
Salary |
$250,000.00 |
Bonus |
$0.00 |
Other Annual Compensation |
$0.00 |
Long term incentive plan payouts |
$0.00 |
Restricted stock awards |
$0.00 |
Security underlying options |
$0.00 |
All other compensation |
$0.00 |
Option awards $ |
$55,250.00 |
Non-equity incentive plan compensation |
$87,500.00 |
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings |
$0.00 |
Total Compensation |
$392,750.00 |
Drs probably dont know. Suits arrange and pay for
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Webmedx SUITS, read this
We know you read the boards. During the call tomorrow when you tell everyone just how much pay is cut we want to hear how much you've cut your own pay.
You've told us how efficient and productive this ISR technology makes us. So as we're getting more efficient and productive, you must certainly be getting more efficient and productive. Therefore, we'll want you to tell us about your own pay cut on the phone call on September 22.
Also, we want an answer as to why we never get annual raises BEFORE this economy went to pot. What was your excuse then when you talked about how business was booming and you went and bought a transcription school? Why didn't you give your employees a raise?
You market yourself as the REMARKABLE leader in the industry, touting your status as hiring only domestic workers. Well, wouldn't it be remarkable to give your employees regular raises? What's remarkable about yet another company who pays MTs crap wages, doesn't regularly give raises, has low work volumes, and is cutting pay? That's pretty run-of-the-mill in my opinion.
Are you making what you made 10 years ago? No? Then why should we be making what me made 10 years ago? Remember, we're working for the REMARKABLE Webmedx. Do something remarkable to earn that adjective, please.
Could you be confusing "using the facilities own MTs" with "sending to India" mayhaps?
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Check the Laws and lost suits
Anything you post on a public chatboard or in a chatroom can be used against you by your employer as reason for termination if they so desire, and you will lose in court if you try to sue them. Plenty of these suits lost since the Internet started.
I worked for a bad legal transcription firm for 3 wks - fired after I posted on a legal chatboard (along with tons of others) - within hrs of posting some stuff. Definitely was why - no doubt. I then began researching whether this is legal - and by god it is. I used an anon name and no email. This co later had all neg posts regarding his co removed from the site.
As to this chatboard - the co I just left had many, many posts removed because they did not like their content.
Fortunately most cos recognize the need of folks to vent and don't want to be bothered. But some of these smaller cos really monitor posts, and mgmt posts as if they were MTs in response to neg posts or just to toot their own horn.
MQ good until Jan. 2006, when the devils in suits took over. nm
That's the attitude that keeps the suits rolling in cash.
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It's not law, but it's usual general policy to avoid law suits. nm
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good, let them do all the India work, and take all the hits for law suits...
I wish they would monopolize the India market and totally stick with that...
I also posted an article about this a few weeks back, even with pictures of the offices in India (lot nicer than here).
hope they put all their money into it and then when technology takes all our jobs, they will have nothing.
Medquist, hate it or not, has invested rather in the technology, thereby will be the leaders in that. if I worked there I would train and learn everything I could about working with that technology because that eventually, in my opinion, will drive even Indian MTs into unemployment.
WHy should I care if you are impressed or not. It it suits me, I don't give a darn if anyone
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It is the real deal. Back to not every company suits every one.
I have been there 2+ years and never had any problems. I make good money, have a good account, don't get bounced around, and have good management. The recruiter is very good to try and answer your questions or you can email me and I will tell you what I know.
"The Suits" is the proper term for these people.
There are Suits in every industry. They are the MBAs and they consider business a giant chess board. So much fun to move all the little pieces around and see what happens. Don't be afraid to sacrifice your pawns.
Annoying, Condescending, Uppity Snakes in Suits
They're always slipping these things in casually at the end of the day. Stupid suits.
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Control I
I agree with you regarding ulterior motive. The simple answer is to DEMAND to know up front when working with Ex-Text whether Ctrl I will be used and if not, WHY NOT. If no answer to this or if given some vague answer, DON'T work for them.
Control I
Not being able to use Control I sounds suspicious to me. Dictaphone can set up any line count in Control I. One woman in Florida is paid and charges by every 37 characters and dictaphone has that set up. So anyone stopping you from using Control I has their own motives.
They have control over it
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Of course they have control, you don't think they are going to gyp themselves do you.
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To the OP, this is just a classic example of KS PR control
My facts cannot be wrong, as this is what happened specifically to me. I do not have to stretch the truth whatsoever. The true version is colorful enough. Imagine being hired and thinking you are going to have an unlimited amount of work, quitting your old job, only to find out a week later that not only you, but the other girls on the same account no longer have any work. Sorry, the deal fell through. Certainly not MY fault, but KS's. The thing turned out to be that the account was just an overflow account. Go figure.
As far as the bounced check goes, I don't know what "one of the 8 means", but my checked bounced and I received NO letter from KS's bank. As a matter of fact, I had to email again and again and, yes, again the office to get my money and fees paid. It took quite a while. I have the paperwork right here in my desk. I have proof.
To the KS MT who says I need to get my facts straight, I believe this is once again Lee pretending to be an MT or one of her management team trying to deflect the truth. It is the usual way of KS.
If you do take a job with them, I wish you good luck and I sincerely hope that you do not have the same problems as many of us have had.
I use Control F or find
I go to top of each page and do Control F and type in name of company or whatever I am searching. Seems to work pretty well and quicker than reading through all the posts!
Also Control T (indent),
Control X (cut) and Control A (select all).
I need these functions to do my other job. I got around the problem by changing the Control X, T and A commands to function keys on my keyboard. This way, I can do both.
Control and quality
You know, MTs can't have it both ways. On one hand, we seem to want recognition that what we does can impact patient care and thus is very important. On the other hand, we don't want to be held accountable for the errors we make. When a patient's chart has a major error in it, that can impact patient care. And unfortunately sometimes the only way to get people to wake up and pay attention is by penalizing them for those errors and for going so fast they simply are not paying attention. I've never had a deduction for those kind of things so perhaps can't really speak to it, but the way I understand that policy it seems to be quite fair to me.
Question about using Control I. sm
I'm in a similar situation and feel my I Chart line counts are pretty low. Do you mean to use Control I while in the I Chart program or use it while in the ExText program? At least I can verify how many reports and what my line count is in I Chart but the fact remains that I Chart is slow to give results and usually I receive my totals after hours.
Control-I in EXText
is what I use. However, if the MTSO will not allow you to use it, then it will not help you. Control-I in EXText counts the lines immediately. I don't use I-Chart for line counts for that reason right there...too slow!
If they allowed use to use Control-I,
they wouldn't be able to manipulate the line count!!!
They disable Control-I
to be able to control the line count...could be good, could be bad. Depends.
they've got control and it's not going to get any better....
until they get tired of the game or nobody plays anymore.
Why do you think you will be OK with this if you cannot have the self control to diet now? sm
It is failing because the underlying reasons are still there. The basic one is -you will be fat if you eat too much and exercise too little.
No, I am not skinny or naturally thin but I am average weight and have self control to not eat junk food and fast food and triple portions and I exercise. Every day whether I feel like it or not. It is a commitment and having surgery is both a dangerous thing but also a cop out. You want to be there for your children? Great, but what are you showing them? That you can do whatever you want and wave a magic surgery wand and poof! no more need to have self control. That is not a good thing to teach your kids. They need to see good eating habits, good exercise habits and no excuses. Kids are heavier now than ever and if they think that there is a magic surgery at the end, like many parents are teaching by example, why should they try to eat healthy and exercise?
The scariest thing I ever heard is that the children now are the first generation ever that have an estimated life span SHORTER than their parents because of obesity.
What are you showing them by taking the easy way out? Do you make them do homework or make excuses for that? Do they do chores and know what work is or do they get everything handed to them? IT IS THE SAME MESSAGE BUT IN A DIFFERENT MANNER!
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