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Posted By: TravelinMT on 2009-04-18
In Reply to: You don’t have a clue as to what this job entails - What in the world?
After having read this entire thread, I have a couple of things to say. I taught a Medical Transcription course (med. term, anatomy, physiology, and hands on transcription for 10+ years). The first night of my class I did an orientation and told my students right up front what to expect and not to expect from this profession, at least 1/4 of them never came back after the first night. Was I too hard on them, no I didn't want them to waste their time or mine on a job that was not what they perceived it to be. I had a huge population of young moms who wanted to stay home with their kids. I told them right up front, this is not a job you can do with your kids running around in the background. Kids need to be watched, fed, and have mom's attention and you can't work and do that at the same time. The statement about the kids being on Spring Break right now and if I am not fired by the time they go back to school, I know I will do better.....BIG RED FLAG. You can't produce reports that a patient's life may depend on by saying when my kid goes back to school I will do better, what will happen during the summer when it is not one week but three months?
That being said, I think you need to take heed to some of the suggestions you have been given as to how to set up expanders, spell check, auto correct, etc. Transposed letters should not be getting through spell check, incorrect words such as to and too, yes but befoer should not. To answer the question of what QA is for, let me ask you this, do you really think a QA person should have to correct your typos to make the report acceptable should it have to go to court? I think you are lacking the experience to work as an MT at home, my students were told by me no less than 2 years full time on-site before they should even attempt to work at home. If I was to make a website for your home based transcription service, would you want all the words spelled correctly or would it be acceptable to have typos in it? Your reports are a representation of you as well as the doctor you are transcribing for. Working at home does not mean you don't have to pay a babysitter while you work, you could not take your kids to an on-site MT job everyday so why do you think it will work at home? I understand your frustrations but I think you have set yourself up to fail, you could do it on-site because you had only the normal job related distractions not child related. Maybe you can find child care for your child while you get your skills refined. I have seen alot of MT's over the years who have had to send their kids to some type of day camp during the summer because they can't be a mom and an MT at the same time.
I was a CMT for 20+ years, I have gone to work at 1 a.m. to catch up a backlog, worked on holidays, worked 16 hours straight, you name it...I have done it...my experience speaks in what I have written above
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