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Thank you again for taking the time to type this very informative post.  These types of posts actually help many people, I do believe.  Like you, I do all my own MTSO work and have not yet had to farm any out.  My MDs are great in that they all pay me by the 15th of the following month.  I pretty much demand that because the work is all back in their offices by the 30th or 31st of that prior month....so wanting to get paid by the 15th of the following month is reasonable.  I am sorry for your delinquent client but my docs know I only bill out once a month and that cuts down on the billing part of being an MTSO. 

What I HATE about being an MTSO....is all those receipts you have to keep all year long...but it's not the keeping of the receipts, it's the TAX PREP that we face within the next 6-12 weeks....oh what a mess that always is....not a mess - but so time consuming that I do hire someone to do that clerical stuff to get things ready for the TAX people......my daughter is the one I hire (and yep, I do pay her well to do that part of the work). 

Again, thank you so much for your informative posts.  Be well....

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For your normals that have either an abbreviation or a long form use the following:

type bp, get BP

type bpp, get blood pressure

type wnl, get WNL

type wnll, get within normal limits

type copd, get COPD

type copdd, get chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

type cold, get COLD

type coldd, get chronic obstructive lung disease

Yes, sometimes the word cold will be used in a report, but it is so seldom unless you are doing pediatrics, that you will and should notice it.  Hope this helps.

At this point anyway.  Transcend has gained several new accounts recently, which has been broadcast from here to there.  What wasn't broadcasted is that they also LOST several large accounts over the past year, a couple just recently.  Some of the accounts that have just been added on are overflow accounts.  As each account gets transitioned over to the new platform, the option for typing will be great as the VR is extremely BAD in recognizing a lot of these new dictators.  Those editing on the accounts now are actually training the system to recognize what the dictators are saying.

As time goes on, the system starts recognizing more and more dictators are transitioned to editing.  Once the system becomes "smart" and is working at peak performance, less editors will be needed to work on the editing aspect, as was already experienced with a very large ER account that staffed 25 or more MLSs and dwindled down to 10.  We all saw what happened there.  When the editors were scrambling for work they switched to typing, and were told to do so by the AMs.  So think about what that means for those typing.  If less people are needed to edit, where do those already working on the pre-existing accounts go?  To typing on the new accounts.  When the work load is low, all those shifted from editing to typing will be doing the work YOU have been doing all along. 

Also, there will always be a need for some to type because there are some doctors that absolute cannot do VR.  Now just imagine if you choose to type rather than edit.  These are the doctors that you will be transcribing for day after day: Mush-mouths, speed-talkers, whisperers, extremely difficult ESLs.  In other words, all those that the system will never be able to decipher.  You may be getting a high rate for typing, but it is going to take you longer to do them because if they were that easy, the system would be doing them first.  No matter what option you chose you are on the losing end of the deal.  If you chose editing, it is FULL editing, not QA filling in the blanks.  Depending on how fast you type, you may never be able to achieve a consistent, day-after-day 40% increase in production, but you will be taking a loss in compensation.  If you chose typing, you're stuck with all the leftover garbage that the system cannot do on its own and your production still suffers.  No matter which way you look at it, you will be working harder and receiving less until the point eventually comes where 2/3 of the work force is scrambling for work while the other 1/3 is popping out 20,000 lines per pay period. much like it is now.  While you may have the option of typing or editing NOW, certain people in management have been telling their favorites that the goal in the future is to get ALL accounts and work types on editing.  Why do you think so many "in the know" are now scrambling for or were already told about the hourly team leader positions before they were even announced? 

Think about it.  This is not the first mass exodus Transcend has seen over the years. That became common knowledge when they had the push to hire back all those who had quit over the changes before.  Many there, even working for 5 years or more, are leaving this time.  If workers have gotten bad treatment before and left in the past, as is happening now, it will happen again.  A leopard does not change its spots. 

They (management of companies who ask us to do this) know that most people who do MT are not wealthy people, or even average income-wise and are desperate for any work/income they can get.  They use this information to their advantage and always will. You said it when you said "a few measly hundred dollars".  To many MT's that's a lot of money.

Unfortunate but true.

I havent seen anyone else be able to do that on the new platform.  What is your secret because I have tried and could only do 425 maximum on the best day with the best dictators on.  Way too much work for that kind of money.

Been with them for quite sometime now.  Lots of work, but complete full listen and extremely difficult to reach that type of line count on VR.  Not to mention, there is a lot of changing of the guards per se going on in the company and it's just a really wierd situation. 

Hope that helps.

Been with them for quite sometime now.  Lots of work, but complete full listen and extremely difficult to reach that type of line count on VR.  Not to mention, there is a lot of changing of the guards per se going on in the company and it's just a really wierd situation. 

Hope that helps.

You will do very well at editing, because you can't spell and probably never use any expanders! 

An MT cannot do editing and use expanders, so LOST MONEY right there.

Please, there has to be companies out there who want straight transcriptionists and not going through SR first.  If anyone knows a company that is loyal to their transcriptionists, possibly have benefits, and are honest that is looking for a well-educated, hard working transcriptionists, please tell me where.  I have been in this business many, many years...but every company I contact, they are going to speech recognition.  And the pay is much less.  HELP!