not exaggerating

Posted By: moon1010 on 2008-10-01
In Reply to: EXAGGERATING A BIT, NO?...SM - NC MTtoo

When it comes to offshore MTs who are fine with medical terminology/meds, but have little or no command of the English language, then the time spent re-doing their garbage - for less than they were paid to type it in the first place - is a very accurate description of what it's like to be an editor.

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Considering QA - Advice - QA
- I QA'd a 4-minute report yesterday with over 100 blanks - Going back to MT'ing... nerves are shot NM
- I love QA, but I'd only do it for a good hourly wage that - is as much as I make MT'ing. nm
- QA - Not for me - GothMT
  - I've worked both per line and hourly..sm - Bayou MT
- Nobody out there does QA and finds it rewarding? - QA
  - There are some things that are rewarding (sm) - moon1010
  - You see the same people sm - who can be happy?
  - QA - Shelly
  - I do QA and MT and I like doing QA... - MtMommyof2
- Did QA for $20 an hour 5 years ago and will never do it again for any amount! sm - DLC
  - i would take $20 an hour in a heartbeat! - x
- Thank you! - QA
- Normal pay for QA? - About 50% to 75% of MT (NM)
  - EXAGGERATING A BIT, NO?...SM - NC MTtoo
    - not exaggerating - moon1010
- Wouldn't do QA again for a million dollars. (sm) - BTDT
  - Actually, yes...lol - QA
    - Think carefully about it because sm - who can be happy?
      - She is meaning you will see lazy MTs while doing QA that no longer care - MtMommyof2
      - what a nasty shot at QA people - QAer
        I also found that remark uncalled for - QA
        I agree...and that is the way I look at it too.. - MtMommyof2
        Sorry...I misunderstood what you were saying - QA
- My biggest challenges (SM) - frustrated editor working for peanuts
- QA - Just my experience - Zville MT

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EXAGGERATING A BIT, NO?...SM

If you were to make 50-75% less than what MTs make, you'd make 50-75% below minimum wage, because that's what most MTs nowadays are able to eke out.

You report having to correct crappy work that you have to do over again? Are we to believe this is the work turned out by the average MT? I won't even go into leaving 50 blanks... give us a break, please.

It would be a lot more fair and correct to put the blame where it is due...Poop in, poop out. Blame the dictators! Easier to blame the MTs, right?

o.k., I was exaggerating a little, but...
this was posted my an MT, 06/11/09, I quote:

'You have to be extremely fast at scanning for mistakes, you would have to probably keep your foot pedal at fast forward always and have some very good dictations that would enable you to do this. I do both but have done 600-700 lines VR an hour BUT before flames leap up at me and say not possible, I have a really good system and really good dictators without many....

this translated to 15-17 pages (1 page is counted with 40 lines) of editing in 1 hour! To keep up this speed, day-in, day-out, not a single correction or looking up references can be done.

It is posted on the Main Board, 2009-06-11, and you can there follow up the comments.....

Well, aren't you exaggerating? Do you really think that
straight transcription is and will always be the only and most accurate way to deliver reports?
Doctors enter all the data into pre-prepared templates and combine it with front-end VR, done by themselves. This is surely a big change for them, but with time they will get it, like you got MTing. Doctors can be very smart if they want to be.

This will be the end stage of MTing: Front-end VR done by the dictator himself with usage of templates. Until all hospitals and clients change to this it will take time.

There was such a big uproar against VR and now almost everybody does it.