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You are right. I am going to implement this title immediately. Thank you very much! nm

Posted By: RI on 2009-02-12
In Reply to: One thing we should do as well - sm - MT Headed

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The title was something like
'EMR Scribe' or 'Medical Scribe' or some nonsense.
The title should say "I wish." nm
:)
Your title says it all...MT way too long
BITTER..
What is the storyline title to the article?
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Title: TRANSCEND QA Position

Can anyone tell me what the QA staff (team) is like at Transcend?
I’m thinking about applying for a position but want to know what the quotas
for QA are, and approximately how much of the total volume is ESL? The
good, bad and the ugly are all welcome!


Thanks




I think the title of post set people off...
tell your ex-coworker: no, you do not know of anyone hiring; if she asks again, tell her the same thing. Be thankful she did not ask to use you for a reference; then you have a problem.
It's TRX...the OP listed on the title of her post

The name is in the title - DICTATION BY PHONE (nt)
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I understand even less now. MQ does not have the title of "proofer" either! No editors and no
proofers! Just makes me wonder who you really are.  No offense, but a long time ago lots of lawyers were fishing for info using questions like yours.  I've been with MQ for 14 years, in a lot of "titles", and never heard 1 office having proofers! Not one of our job descriptions! As for retroactive pay, I have never heard of that either! So guess I'll just exit now, as obviously cannot help you!
It's a mythical title created by the AAMT to get yet another fee out of us
Ask any doctor what a CMT is. They have never heard of it.

Well, there ya go.
I think it's just the fact that she is posting under a false title
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I would suspect that with the name Global in the title, its probably India...dunno though.
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Medical language specialist is a title made up by MTs. The truth is...sm

...we are transcriptionists. Our job is to type what the doc/PA/nurse dictates. Look at a court reporter; she can call herself a legal language specialist or a juris stenographer or whatever else she comes up with, but her job is to provide a transcript of WHAT IS SAID in court. She is not changing anything, and nobody expects her to. In fact, if she did, there would be huge repercussions!


 Same for closed captioning transcriptionists. What is said goes in the ears and out the fingers, no changes.


 The difference between us and them is that we deal in medical language.


My title and my job is medical transcriptionist. I have also been a transcription editor. If the account says type verbatim, I do just that, and it matters not to me if the doc ends the sentence with a preposition. I'm here to provide a hard copy of what he said, not make him look like he went to charm school. If the doc/site/account/client decides the charts look foolish, they are free to allow me light editing privileges for the sake of clarity.


If you want to correct someone else's words, become a copy editor.


 


Are you saying that you are immediately
no message
You will get set up immediately with
no problems and they are the best company I have worked for as far as helping solve problems immediately.
The one immediately above us. nm
 
I would be looking for another job immediately...sm
Good luck on the matter.
Sure, we will all email you immediately. Are you really
ewwwwww!!
If it was me, I would have told them no way immediately. nm
You showed great restraint.
I quit immediately.
You got paid for the straight typing, no templates.

They advertise quite a lot and that's probably the reason why!
Need ananswer immediately, please!!
On Friday of last week,  I drove almost 100 miles to an interview that was supposed to be a subcontractor position.  I was asked to come in for the day and type some reports to get familiar with the account and to see if I wanted to do it.  I drove the 100 miles, typed for the company.  Keeping in mind that I was a subcontractor and could work and quit when I wanted, I decided to give it a try.  As soon as I got home, she called and wanted me to work on Saturday to get the hospital caught it. So, I transcribed on Saturday.  Then, I received a call on Sunday requesting that I type.  So, I typed on Sunday.   I got phone calls all day yesterday, Monday, pleading that I work and the hospital is seeing that I am logged on, but no work is coming in.  The work was not coming in because I received Japanese/Chinese discent dictators and it literally took me an hour a report.  I received calls all day long.  To work, change things,  work more, and I was told now that I was their go-to girl and needed me to work, work, work.  I could not log off because I would get calls.  So, today, which is Tuesday,  their system broke down and when they finally fixed it, guess what, they needed me to work an additional 8 hours.  This was after I got up early to work, but due to their system break down, I was hours behind.  After listening to 3 messages on my answering machine, I sent an email telling her I have accepted another position.    Four hours after I sent her the email, she called me up and asked why I was not working for her and that she is going to lose her account.  I asked her if she got my email.  SHE SAID SHE GOT MY EMAIL, BUT DID NOT REALIZE I WAS NOT WORKING FOR HER ANYMORE.  How ridiculous is this?  She said she needed me to log on now because I was her go-to girl and she was going to lose her account.  I am exhaused, but she needs me until Friday or she will lose her account.  I am a subcontractor.  Also, I signed no papers and she could shaft me for my money if I stay. WHAT SHOULD I DO?  SHOULD I LOG IN AND WORK UNTIL FRIDAY AND HOPE SHE PAYS ME OR JUST MOVE ON?  She sounded desperate, but she has worked me out all ready.
I quit immediately, too.
It won't be a blip on the radar of D's sell-out, unfortunately, but at least I know I did the right thing for myself and my belief system/ethics.

Congratulations to us, and anyone else who is in a position to do the same!
I'd see a red flag immediately if a company sm
waited a year to test me. From everything you said, it sounds like this company is desperately trying to fill a quota of US MTs to land/keep this account. Anyone born in the USA would do. If you were sincere in not wanting to work for companies that offshore, you should say so clearly right at the start and not go through all the traveling, testing, and ironing! I'm sorry this turned out to be such a negative for you. Best to do research beforehand.


I heard back immediately

 I got a one sentence email saying I didn't have enough experience. Must be pretty difficult work. I have been typing all work types for 19 years, especially psych and radiology..the two on the list. I have also done ESL in every job I have ever been employed. Oh well, asked her to keep my name in the barrell!


 


 


start immediately to think about ESLs........
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I too made quota immediately
!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was immediately offered a position with

Webmedx after the interview.   I didn't have to test based on my experience and score on the verbal testing. 


If you applied through TransHealth they still seem to be operating as two separate companies and dealing with a different group of people.  I applied to them before the merge and I never heard from them after submitting my resume. 


Stop typing immediately....and see what happens.
They'll be blowing your phone up. Tell them, when they put your check in the bank, you'll start back typing, because you don't type for free. They gave you a date you will get paid and they should honor that. In the meantime, be looking for something else.
I would immediately eliminate Focus.

It is Indian run, low pay, and constant turnover.   I haven't heard much good about Diskriter either, though certainly better than Focus.  KS is good for some, not for others.  It wasn't a good fit for me.  Axolotol pays better than any of them, better benefits.   The account they are hiring for has a high percentage of very challenging ESL dictators.  The company itself is great though. 


All of you should stop working immediately so that they can see how valuable
you are. Let them work it out then.
docking $10 per report for mistakes. I immediately sent in
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This discussion will cease immediately. You are WAY off base. We do not

cater to any company in the manner you describe just because a company may be a sponsor.  The reason that we remove content about ANY company is when posters use this site as a sounding board of their complaints posting to the point where the thread flames.  At that point, I will remove the thread and tell posters to take discussion to email until things settle down. 


If you have problems with a company, you need to take it up with them. Sounding off on this forum about the inner workings of any company is innapropriate.  Posters need to use tact when posting.


Many of you know me well enough by now that I would not remove posts just because some MTSO tells me to.


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mine post immediately as soon as I end the document.
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Find another job immediately - Not a good situation. Been there, done that. nm
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I corrected it immediately in my lower post....nm
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and was emailed immediately that the position had been filled, ad is now gone..hmm (nm)
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Do the MQ firm scheduled start immediately or in January? nm
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Depends. If you're hourly, you acrue immediately!
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I was told hourly start to accrue PTO immediately...
production employees after 1 year. BUT - that doesn't mean you can't take a vacation, just that you don't get paid. When I worked a factory job some years ago, you didn't get any vacation the first year - paid or unpaid!
Focus Infomatics - Experienced MT's Needed Immediately!
I work for Focus and Bobbi is the HR lady not a manager. I spoke to her when I applied and she is very nice. Also, editing is 4 cents a line, not 3.

I've been with Focus for several months now and enjoy it. I always have lots of work and get paid on time.
I heard Back Immediately - Posted by Blossom
I am not at all surprised to hear this, as this has also happened to me. I was given some insight into this by an HR representative for one of the major companies...Many of the experienced MT/QA's do not view the AAMT-BOS as an absolute bible. This was meant as a guideline, but many companies embrace as if it is written gospel. Apparently, the most of experienced QA/MT's remember the times when we were actually paid, and if the lack of work was due to their fault, we were paid for downtime. I guess us old-timers have to just lay down and die because we are too old to retrain in another field.
Contact your state labor board immediately!
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I just Googled SmartMed and immediately got info on Summit..(sm)
Good luck!
When you leave a company, is your insurance canceled immediately?

I'm assuming I'll still be getting my premium taken out of my check up to the end, so does the insurance go til the end of the month?  Want to make sure my daughter's dentist visit in Oct is covered, and 2 weeks notice would put me into October but I wonder if I should wait until after her appt for my last day.  Does anyone know? 


Oh yeah.... I got a new job!!!  I got a new job!!!


        


Mine posts immediately, but the count is wrong. nm
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We shred all resumes with typos immediately w/o responding. sm
You would be surprised how many resumes that we receive have errors in them, both spelling and grammar. I am not a transcriptionist, so I am not overly picky about grammar, but at least spellcheck your resume. At least half of the resumes that we receive have spelling errors.

The emails count too. If you do not proof your email when I applying for a job, how do we know you will be more careful when transcribing?

At least 10% of the emails I receive have either no capitalization or no punctuation. I disgard those too. Someone who is too lazy to capitalize the first word of a sentence or use punctuation in an email applying for a position probably is too lazy to proof their work when transcribing.

This is not meant to be cruel, but it is the truth. The image you project when applying for a job is very important, even if not face-to-face.
One word for them..UNPROFESSIONAL. I applied and immediately tested
as they were in a big hurry to have someone hired so I dropped everything, tested, and then NOTHING.. I emailed numerous times asking if they had received my test but they could not even respond to that. The testing was easy and so I just could never figure out why they could not at least say they hired someone else or whatever the reason. I just find them extremely unprofessional (initials KB) if I remember right. I would never work for someone so unorganized anyway.
I e-mailed them and responded back almost immediately, offered low pay. 45 minute interview. nm
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Thought TX was "at will" employment?? or fire/quit immediately w/o reason
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Hopefully, you will hear back. Unfortunately, I immediately heard back from MD-IT
but somehow with over 16 years of experience, I blew the test.  I was soooo disappoionted and yet pretty stunned.  I am by no means perfect but I haven't flunked a test in years.  I expected it in my early years but not this far down the road. I was so confident and they will not tell you which part you did not pass and why so it really just blew my mind.  I must have been in shock for like two hours after I got the email. Oh well, someone will want me....hopefully.  I was thinking about OSi but I don't think I could take another rejection if I never heard back.