...your E-mails have to have proper English and punctuation.

• You know you're an MT when.... - finish this sentence
  • . - LGT
  • MT when - kh
  • text/IM messages have to be deciphered and analyzed - nee
  • you ask all your friends to email you rather than call. nm - txmt
  • After years of typing, you can no longer read your own handwriting. nm - wmx
  • you get irritated because you can't spell check your handwritten letters - me
  • You teach your 3 y/o daughter abdominal anatomy on the chart in the doc's ofc while waiting...nm - Oh yeah
  • you proofread all business letters you receive in the mail and have fits over the errors! LOL (nm) - Sandi
  • you don't really listen to people because you figure you'll - rewind them and listen later.
    • I actually asked my MD the other day do dictate his corrections instead of handwriting them in. - Yes!
  • You go to other internet boards and think everyone - from Montana is a medical transcriptionist.
    • I don't get it. Are you from Montana or something? - MT
      • LOL. - No.
        • MT is abbreviation for Montana - LOL
  • You talk about medical bloopers at a party - and you're the only one laughing - nm
  • dropping everything you pick up... - when things go flying out of your hands...
  • You know you are a transcriptionist - your keyboard has no letters on it!
  • You charge your kids to proof read their homework. - nm
    • Per line (nm) - Who me?
  • You start a letter to Norman - Dear Normal:
  • you cnanot spell unless you are typing or faking it in the air - dls
    • OMG...yep! Air typing!!! it's like - air guitar
  • When a friend asks how you are today you reply "Oh, I'm feeling within normal limits." - RadGuy
    • Or after a boring weekend when working at a hospital someone asks "How was your weekend?" and - answer "Uhhh, atraumatic." actually did thi
    • In no acute distress (NM) - Who me?
      • Mood and affect are normal - rofl at these
  • You know you're an MT when - sienna
  • this has to be my favorite post ever...keep 'em coming! ROFL...(no message) - MTbuster
  • You know when your 7-year-old can spell (and locate) the pancreas. nm - I knew
  • When you play Balderdash and can fool everyone with your definitions. - LOL
  • When someone says the pie you served is "exquisite" and in my mind - tigger
  • PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - Ask your friends if they can spell this!
    • I can't even spell that! LOL - Sheeeeesh
    • Yikes!!! - LOL
  • When somebody states they got 'novocaine' at the dentist and you know its an archaic term. - Miss Know-It-All
  • Your own physician tells you that you know too much. nm - mlstoo
  • You're typing a recipe to email someone and put... - mix together in a large bowel. nm
  • OMG...these are hilarious...I think it's safe to say we all have - medical transcriptionosis?
  • you never type don't or can't but only do not and cannot etc...lol - silly ol me
  • And how about, "My turbinates are boggy" - omt
  • My favorite, but I'm stealing this one from awhile ago - omt
    • On the same theme, you've done so many ESLs that you can understand (& interpret for family or - Nyuk nyuk
  • When your family calls you wanting medical advice. - If you can spell it, you are as smart as the MD.
  • When you fall down a flight of steps and announce, "I have eccymosis over the lateral malleolus.& - Self diagnosed
    • Me too. - mtathome
  • You proof read signs and get irritated when there are mistakes. - NM
  • You correct others' spelling and get jumped on - nm
  • You spell it "hurricaine"...nm - MT2
    • So that's why I do that!!!! LOL... nm - perfectionist transcriptionist
  • ...your E-mails have to have proper English and punctuation. - I don't feel comfortable using LOL!
    • and you proof read IMs too - Not alone
  • Your son develops a rash and a fever and you swear he has Scarlet Fever! nm - Dancin Shoes
    • Glad I'm not the only one.. My kids have had cystic fibrosis, leukemia, mono, and bone cancer. - All in my imagination of course. nm
      • How about yourself? I type a report on some horrible disease and think "Hey, I think I have that. - Hypochondriacs R Us
        • I typed so many stomach cancer reports that I swore I had it. - tell me about it!
  • When your 5-y/o knows the location of his popliteal and antecubital fossae (nm) - MadamX
  • You ask your know-it-all friend if he can spell esophagogastroduodenoscopy. nm - T
    • Say "I'm having a MedQuist Moment" instead of "Maalox." - RadGuy
    • which your 6yo child can spell (& who loves to hit egdy for you - to see it expand) nm
  • Your emails don't make sense - cause of all the shortcuts!
    • LOL!!!!!!!! - I've nearly done this!
      • I do it contantly on Chat room, IMs - LOL
  • you actually use the word "grossly "in - a sentence
    • You know "prophylactic" doesn't necessarily mean condom. NM - Endiqua
      • You swear to never have another surgery sm - mlstoo
        • and you know the mistakes that happen - I am sworn off
  • You step on someone's foot to get them to repeat what they said if you didn't hear them the - JoH
    • people speak and you see the words spelled out in your mind... - poopie
    • Oh.. I Love that!!! ROTFLM.... lol.. nm - You all are hysterical!!
    • Very funny! (nm) - Who me?
  • typing pleural when you mean plural - How many times has this happened?
    • haven't done that one right in years - me too
  • You sit on the cough. :) - MT
    • The patient was prepped and raped...nm - MTsquared
      • that you do not use an expander when you work. - dead give away

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if the supervisors didn't bounce MTs off of QA in less than a week and then gripe at everyone about leaving blanks, if the account specs were clearly delineated, if the pay was worth a darn, if the QA feedback was constructive and consistent, then maybe the MTs would care about quality and loyalty. 

If so, then just include that with a nice letter to your past employers about the fact that your working arrangement did not work out. 

If that doesn't work, you may want to see if there is a way to sue her for defamation of character.  She has to have good grounds to be calling your previous employers.  Was this the lady at Seascript?  She seemed to have some problems, but I think she was getting help.

A co-worker sends the entire e-mail response in all caps regardless of the question.  I was always told it meant shouting.  If there is some other meaning please inform.

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for a few individuals.  These are so discouraging for the ones who are doing a good job.  Supervisors are not so important that they can't take the time to change the e-mail address so the letter is sent to only those who are messing up - and, conversely, if you can't take the time to figure out who is messing up, then you won't take the time to find out who is doing a good job, so you will never give a raise. 

Yes - my letter is perfect example of sending an e-mail to every supervisor and MTSO.  See how ineffective it is?  Makes you feel very defensive if you are not guilty of doing this.  Imagine how it makes me feel when I get these notes after working 10-12 hours to try to help you get caught up, and then you send out a note that basically says how lazy we all are.  Thanks a lot.  There are a lot better companies out there than you, and even a few who might appreciate high quality and high quantity work.   

 I told him to clean the area with hydrogen peroxide, and, after that, he can apply the Neosporin ointment. 

How would the punctuation be on this sentence?  Did I do it right? 

Thanks in advance for the help..

HI,

  I am taking my medical transcription course through Allied Schools. I am having a problem trying to punctuate the dictations properly. I would like to know if anyone can help me with this problem. What I thought was proper punctuation seems to be different with medical transcription. Are we supposed to transcribe the punctuation as the doctor dictates or correct it to what we believe is correct?

   Also, I have an assignment that I just transcribed that is impossible for me to punctuate. If anyone can help me, I would truely appreciate it.

I was very careful about punctuation until I had to research things and found that the MTs at my hospital NEVER use commas. I could barely understand some of the long, strung out sentences. I always researched obscure medical terms to make sure my work was accurate, yet I make $10 less an hour than others there because the pools are set up so some MTs get the profitable work before the rest of us. The point of this is, I don't feel that my excellent work is appreciated, and I don't believe the pool situation is fair, so I just do minimum to get by.  I also work IC to supplement my income,  and my IC work is much better because I feel appreciated.

Regarding the posts down the list about the docs who dictate run-on sentences or add bunches of periods, etc.  I am wondering why they are not instructed to not include punctuation at all.  Our company has us disregard what they say anyway (since it is usually way off), and it seems they are making it extra rough on themselves.

I have one who says comma practically every other word.  It really threw me off at first, but now I hardly even hear it (so used to ignoring it).  But think how much easier it would be for them to not even think about it.  What works the best is when they just use their voice inflection to signal the end of one thought/subject and the beginning of another.  Being someone without a whole lot of medical background, it gets confusing when they don't.

Why is it no one seems to communicate with the dictators about such things? 

I have MS Word 2003. This program has always capitalized the first letter after a colon (:) and for some reason today it stopped. I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I have been in Tools, etc, and see nothing that addresses this problem. If anyone has had this problem and knows how to correct it, please enlighten me. LOL

TYIA