AMA, AAMT, JC are just live gvment. Making "rules" but not following

• RE: Question - klownmom
  • I think it is best not to use abbreviations as much as possible. - MTmom
  • Honestly, I think you can use either (sm) - MT
    • Also get 2 more characters if use okay. - nm
      • Very good point! I say go for more characters! - MT
  • Keyword here is "BOSS." - nm
  • Okay, okay? - nm
    • RE: Question - klownmom
      • My MTSO doesnt care if use cc or mL, just be consistent. - Facility doest seem to care either. nm
        • I love how the AAMT BOS falls third to - mimi
          • You do have only one crowd to please. The facility. All this other baloney is - just someone's (AAMT) opinion. nm
            • truly agree. NM - mimi
              • 'They' in my comment being the aamt.. - mimi
        • cc is not correct, mL is. cc is a dangerous - abbreviation. (nm)
          • The doc I work for always says cc - trose
            • If you transcribe for a private physician and he wants - x
            • Whatever the facility wants is what you should do. - nm
          • you still have to abide by the doctors' requests - mimi
          • Says who? AAMT? Bunch of old ladies with - too much free time, IMO. nm
        • RE: cc or mL - klownmom
          • Joint Commision and AAMT. Who made them gods? Do they - make laws? No one asked me to vote for them. nm
            • This is actually according to the AMA style guide - Dictatoress
              • AMA, AAMT, JC are just live gvment. Making "rules" but not following - thru with them. Just puffing themselves up. nm
            • Joint commission is the accrediting body for hospitals to receive reimbursement. They want it to be - Amanda
            • I do believe the JC is only concerned with files being complete as in - mimi
              • RE: mL or cc - klownmom
                • well I guess the AAMT got to the JC too. - mimi
            • Joint Commission is the entity that provides - x
              • And I guess they go thru and read every report, looking - for cc and mL? Again, never a word from facilities
                • No, they don't read every report that goes - x
            • JC and AAMT. They dont sign my checks. - nm
              • RE: mL or cc - klownmom
                • hospitals are the doctors.. - NM
                • yeah, pretty much what we're saying, accounts set the rules - mimi
                  • and until then, I'm not concerned with what AAMT/JC has to say. NM - mimi
                    • You are fine unless you are working for an - x
                      • RE: Question - klownmom

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I have a Master's in English, work for a major, well-known medical publisher, and I will put out a book that will keep both the dictators and MTs happy by, as the above poster mentioned, following traditional rules of grammar and punctuation...and one that doesn't change just to enable publishing another edition!

How does that sound? 

E-mail me as well, and we'll do this!

I suggest you have your father read my post and explain it to you.  Apparently you have poor comprehension skills.  Talk about ignorance.

My point was NEW immigrants who come here not to become American.  Obviously, this is not apply to all NEW immigrants, because as we know, many of them bust their butts to become American in every way including service in the military.  My point was that so many of the NEW immigrants, meaning those from the last 25-30 years, come with different aspirations than previous groups.  This is documented by social scientists who have been studying this very point for a couple of decades.  Look up some articles in any journal of American sociology or political science and you will find research on this subject.  

 I am perfectly aware of New Spain and New France and even that Russia once owned parts what is now Washington state and Oregon.  Do the people in Northwest US demand to have legal papers printed in Russian because 400 years ago, Russia settled that land?   Are you aware of the language controversy in Quebec, Canada?  We don't need that in this country and having English as our accepted common language has helped prevent some of the fighting and death that results from people coming to blows over language.  Language is the root of "the Troubles" as the Irish call their 100 years of conflict with England.  England passed a law making English the official language and forbad Gaelic in public places, including schools.  Look how that has worked for them.   In the U.S., it has worked because it has been understood as a custom and new immigrants were proud to learn English, because it was a mark of American citizenship.

You need a history lesson - New Spain was SOLD to the U.S. government  and New France was sold to the U.S. government by their respective kings because France and Spain needed money to finance their wars with each other.   So, Spain left voluntarily.

BTW, my brother wrote my parents in English during WWII and his letters were confiscated - is there a group that will protest such actions again Irish-German Americans? 

Wnat to see what ignorace looks like?  Got a mirror?

not impressed one bit

you can make $12.50 an hour being a secretary and be dumb as

dirt.

you can make $12.50 an hour doing data entry and not know one

word of medicine or the other junk we have to know and be responsible

for and get grief from QA about.

you can make $12.50 an hour doing a lot of things and not have to

put up with the junk MTs are having to put up with now.

70k a year, I can have the 850 square foot bedroom if I want. In fact, my home is a mere 2200 square foot, on 5 acres in the country, only worth $450,000 but I paid off the mortgage in full in 7 years, by- yep, you guessed it-- working my MTSO.  I have no debts. I own 4 cars. I have money stuffed in my 401k. The point was made in an earlier post by our beloved Patti, who chooses to live in 1000 square feet - and also put 15K in her retirement account and takes home 50K. When Patti mentioned her home was 1000 square feet, some ignorant troll said  (now say this in a high falsetto) "shocked! my bedroom is 850 square feet! How can you possibly live in only 1000 square feet."  Jealous, no. Anyone who wants to own, maintain, clean their 850 square foot bedroom can be my guest. Me - I go for a little smaller but still nice, with more freedom and lifestyle. That's why I put in my 5-10 hours a week running my service while you're working full time. LOL!

I would ask for at least 11.  If you have been there that long, why not?  I always ask for more than i really want cause you can negotiate.  If you end up with 10.5 that is still a good rate. 

For ESL's I want 11, but I don't get snippy if i have some here and there.  I do one now exclusively and he can be a big pain but i can understand him fine and ESLs are great for making normals because in my experience they repeat A LOT. 

The going rates around here seems to be 8 cpl with many companies...you are doing good at what you have but there is nothing wrong with levering your experience and services for more money.  You have proven yourself already to these people.  If they turn you down you can start looking elsewhere but only do so if you are taking a step up. 

Alright folks let's move this off the word help board because it's become a different discussion.  First of all, I personally believe that we should type what doctors say, everything they say and not change a thing.  So if they say Synthroid 100 mg, leave it.  If they say There was changes.  Leave it.  However, our companies and many hospitals don't agree. 

If you were to try to get a job editing books at a publlishing house you would need a degree in English and you'd get paid a whole heck of a lot more than we do.  But we do the same job, fixing the English of doctors, having perfect punctuation, correcting verb tenses.  Not to mention the medical side, knowing all the drug dosages, correct lab values (yeah we get marked off for those too).  I love it when I have to leave something blank like I just did "H&H 13/4/38"  ???

IMHO we don't get paid enough to do all we have to do.  We are not just typists.  My friend is a nurse and when I told her everything we have to know she told me we could all be nurses!  This is because I carried on a conversation with her about cardiac cath, CABG and people who have IV dye allergies and the compliance issues with Mucomyst.  She was shocked.

We get no respect from many doctors.  I actually had a PCP that I went to when I was sick say that because I was an MT I knew too much about medicine in a really condescending voice.  Had another say then what do you suggest when he tried to tell me he'd done all the possible tests.  Corrected another to his face. 

So call me whatever you want but if I hear the doctor say something that is inappropriate in the same manner that Potassium 132 is inappropriate or Synthroid 100 mg is inappropriate, I'm going to leave a blank.  Maybe the doctor is mad or frustrated but the medical record is a legal document that the patient can get access to anytime they want.  So when the doctor calls a patient a land whale or says she's f-ing pregnant again or is a retard or is an SOB (and I don't mean short of breath), IMO I am covering their butt by giving them a chance to rethink what they say before they put it in a legal document.

I make close to 3,000 dollars a month typing....I'm not sure if anyone thinks that's a lot, but I feel very fortunate to be making this kind of money.  I have been doing this for a little over 20 years.

I hope this helps!

"Ummm, STENOGRAPHER, please change..." etc.  Yeah, like I'm sitting here doing Gregg shorthand!!!  Drove me nuts! 

Also used to have one who loved to editorialize as he dictated...had a great sense of humor, tho', & I really enjoyed him.  He'd always start off with "Hello Transcription!!!" 

Sometimes I wish I had a tape of all the docs' bloopers to listen to on the days when I wonder why I do this for a living 

Any of you who do this, how in the heck do you make any money? I accepted a job with a company for 4 cpl for VR, but I nearly have to type the entire reports over.  I was doing it part time and it takes so much time that I figured out I am only making 5.00 per hour.  What's the average rate for this?  I  gave it up, it's not worth it for the line rate, considering I was editing typed transcription as well that came back from India and it was just as bad and took just as much time.