"Normals" - sm

Posted By: anon on 2008-01-29
In Reply to: Question of personal ethics - because I need another set of opinions.

Not sure if this will be a popular answer, but I have the same thing happening where I work, and I go up and change all the errors in the "normal" before I send the work in under my initials. I refuse to have my initials associated with this type of work/errors. Nothing has been said to me about it in the 3 years I have been doing it, and I will continue to do so. Yes, it's a matter of pride, and yes, I normally follow directions, but I won't compromise on this issure. Just my opinion.

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Question of personal ethics - because I need another set of opinions.
- Normals - jlo
- canned transcriptions - deb
- Errors in "normals" - Ldyehawke
- Also have errors in normals I am told to use--sm - Dee
- correct errors and look for another job. - sm
  - p.s. integrity, integrity, integrity, - sm
- At my former company we were told to fix - ja
- Same situation, and I leave them. sm - R
- Personally if it were me - Becka
- It's a good question. Here's my response (sm) - JMO
- "Normals" - sm - anon
  - IT COULD LAND IN COURT SM - anonme
    - Oh I know, I've studied legal aspects of med recs, too, been in this a long time. sm - R

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Maybe she uses "normals" lol
IMO that should not be legal either.

Errors in "normals"
As an MTSO, we've received "normals" from our clients with errors. We have also received "samples" from the clients, which supposed have their normal phrases in them. We send these samples to the transcriptionists with the caveat that they are for FORMAT only, not for content.

If the normals have errors, it should be brought to the attention of your supervisor, Editor or service owner so that corrections can be made. I certainly would not want something to go out under my company name with errors due to uncorrected "normals" any more than a Transcriptionist would want to put his/her initials on a document with known errors.

If your service says to leave them as is and you know they're wrong... definitely come talk to me. We have plenty of work for transcriptionists with integrity.

About 15,000 not counting "normals"/Shorthand
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