Amen to that sister. Meant to type throw not through. NM
Posted By: Jamie on 2007-08-11
In Reply to: PTO - no taxes - Patti
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Amen, sister. I'm with you!
When Tommy boy doesn't get what he wants, he goes on the attack. Telling Matt Lauer he knew nothing about psychiatry! What, Pray tell, does pretty boy Cruise know? He is nothing but a spoiled bully. I refuse to waste any of my money on him.
Amen, Sister!
I'll be the one with the mug on the right, okay? 
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Amen sister! I often wonder now sm
when I started in 1979 at the age of 24, the folks in the office who had been doing this for years then. What did they start on? The hospital I was trained at (forget schools), I had a male Transcriptionist train me who is still transcribing today and he is 60 years old. He had been transcribing for 12 years when I started so that is 40 years for him total!
Amen, sister!
I was the original question poster, and was stunned at the sarcasm when I came back in to check responses today. I agree, I think people don't really have a reason to lie about their IQs, and it shows in this dialogue that we are a pretty darned intelligent bunch. Wow. But it must make others feel insecure, for these other posts to have sprung up overnight. I think maybe in MY case, keeping my IQ quiet was the rsult of the same thing (dissing me for it) happening in school. Dunno why people with normal IQs have to feel bad, cuz yer right, smart people have just as many problems, if not one more, as others.
Amen my sister!!!
I agree with you, I am a Christian as well and have been since I was 15, I am born again and cannot understand how people get by day to day without Jesus! I totally agree with you, everyone slams Christianity but then again the bible tells us that would happen so I guess we should not be totally surprised by it! :)
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Amen to that, sister!
What a blessing,and I thank God every day for it.
Amen, sister
I have seen pure garbage passed off as transcription in the last 5 years that it makes me want to cringe. All in the name of line count and getting the job cleared off the system. The supervisors are asked to put a stop to cherry picking because it "would slow the cherry pickers down". When first learning this maddening and yet very interesting job, I have shed many a tear, spending an hour on a report that was 1 minute or less just to get it right. Now we have cherry pickers who think they are transcriptionists, but they have not paid their dues and they are still wanting the older ones to do that for them too! Yet, the "supervisor" does nothing.
I am disgusted with the transcription companies who continually demean our professionalism by offering 8 cents/line, yet they are paid much more than that. They are making huge profits from our work. They cannot keep a Transcriptionist because the pay is lousy, or they don't pay on time or a myriad of other problems, yet i have seen them "praised" on this board, stating they must be doing something right. HA!!! They have a turnover that is unbelieveable and they are in constant turmoil to get TAT that is unrealistic with the few people they have not run off for various reasons.
This is not a fun job, but it is an interesting job and there are too darn many out there calling themselves transcriptionists, when they are nothing but cherry pickers who are looking for the fast buck and don't care if the report is correct or not. Nuff' said.
AMEN sister!!!!!!!
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Amen, sister!
On the platform I work on, there's really no way to cherry-pick unless you actually download the job and see who it is, and then abandon it. Before downloading, we can only see the client name and work type, not the dictator's name.
If we have to abandon a job for any reason, we had better have a VERY good reason, involving active fire, arterial blood, or a crashed computer; and we had better be on the e-mail (or the phone) ASAP telling our supervisor why we abandoned the job.
As for people who don't show up and don't call in, I can only think their mothers didn't raise them right. That's just plain bad manners!
(These sorts of things are part of the reason I really, really hate being a supervisor... the trouble with being a supervisor is you have to, um, supervise people. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again.)
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AMEN SISTER! I also do quite well sm
on 8 cpl. Been doing this 32 years, making less than I did years ago but doing ok. Its what you get use to. My house is not paid outrigth either and my mortgage is 1007 a month. I do it quite well and its easy to cut back. don't need a fancy car, cause I don't go anywhere, don't have credit card bills, just mortgage and utilities and the regular living stuff. I don't see what all the fuss is about. This is still a job you can make a decent living at.
Amen, Sister. You said a mouthful!
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Amen to that sister!!! You go girl!
 GOOD FOR YOU!!!! I am in your boat too!
I am with you against the Gardasil, amen, sister!...nm
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Amen, Sister! Great way to start the day! sm
You are so right, and thank you for reminding (me) of this.
Amen, sister, I totally agree with you....
That's all I want to say.
My sister used to type for a doc who used to - sm
do his reports in various fake accents.... even though he had a normal American accent, and under normal circumstances was clear, & easy to understand. I guess that just got too boring for him, or else maybe he thought he was spicing up her day or something. He would go by the patient's last name -- if it was a German last name, he'd do it in a German accent; if it was French, he'd do it in a French accent; if it was Japanese, he'd do a Japanese accent; and so on and so on. Drove her crazy. And when she asked him to stop, he just did it even MORE.
What a weird profession this is.
Amen, type exactly what he said...
Why would you even bring this up?
AMEN! I actually used to type UPI teletypes
when I worked as a newsroom clerk back in the mid 1970's. That was the only way to send a breaking story from one newspaper to another around the state. Little teeny keyboard and if you made an error, you typed XXX and then started over. It went to an editor, then it went to a typist (which was me again on the receiving end) who typed it on plain rolls of brownish paper on a manual typerwriter, proofed it, wrote changes in red pen, rolled it up and sent it down a shute to the composing room where it was proofed again and every single individual letter on a metal plate was arranged into words and sentences for the printing press. I'll tell you what though, there were a lot less errors in the newspaper back when people actually read the stuff to proofread it.
That was my very first computer experience job when they got a "desktop" computer that was bigger than a 32" TV.
My manual typewriter in that newsroom had a loose carriage so when I hit the return bar, 9 times out of 10 the carriage would fly off on the floor and I'd have to pick it up and set it back on. I used to take stories over the phone on that old battle axe typewriter with the phone receiver crooked under my chin. Small town and people were so used to it, I'd say, "Can you hang on a second?" and they'd say, "Gotta pick up the carriage again?"
They built a new state of the art newspaper building about 15 years ago and just bulldozed the area to expand a an existing parking lot. The old printing press was in the basement of the old building and they just buried it and paved over it.
Time marches on.
Kudos to all of you oldsters out there. I think one thing that makes us really great is our ability to keep adapting to new technology.
Amen! Amen! Amen. You have helped me this day, by taking out time to write such a post!
May God bless you tremendously.
sorry - more inside - meant to type sm
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I meant to type 'EMR' has little to do.....nm
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I meant to type--they feel entitled and are
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[sigh]....I meant "got". Too early to type!
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I meant bought. Hard to type and listen to the music at the same time.
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Lanier is a type of dictaphone, but when speaking of a C-phone, it's meant as the Dictaphone Con
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Sorry, 'MT way too long,' my post was not meant for you, it was meant for Wow! Sorry!!...nm
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Now can we please throw away ....
the AAMT Book of style for Medical Transcription - or better yet, send all of our copies to India. They will need them more than we will. We have at least been through grammar school and now that the AAMT book is full of flaws, but because the industry standard is to follow the Book of Style we have had to compromise our teachings by our own education system to do what the "Book" says. YUCK - I have hated that book. My aunt was an University English teacher - way smarter than anyone who wrote that book. I call her for clarification.
Yes, and I believe the responses were to throw the bum out
if he gets even the tiniest bit annoying. We also can't forget the comments about having a man support us, not having to work and being told what to do.
I might as well throw my opinion in there. sm
There have been so many opinions posted, I might as well give you MY best advice: Call your husband and talk to him. Just be honest. Tell it to him exactly like you told us - that you and the kids have really been missing him and were looking forward to seeing him, and that you were kind of hurt when he said not to come. Be honest with him, and give him a chance to be honest with you. Actually listen to his reasons and try to understand his line of thinking. At the very least, you'll have let him know how you feel, and he deserves to know that and have the chance to explain away your fears. The posters below don't know you, or your marriage, and that's OK because they were trying to help. But bottom line is this - he's your husband and you love each other for a reason. He's not going to want you to spend the next days/weeks feeling bad and he'll take the time to make you feel better.
Don't throw in the towel yet.
I know things may not seem positive right now but look at counseling as a possible way of turning this all around. Try to get your husband interested in a hobby or something. It sounds as though he has no zest for life anymore. If he is not happy with himself it can cause problems in your relationship.
Think I am gonna throw up! ugh! nm
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To throw a statement out such as a
single mother just means, again, nothing more than a person working, same as a divorced mother or father but you know, you never hardly hear that term, do you? People don’t go around saying I am a married mother as they do with I am a single mother. I will say again, to me that denotes just another person in the work force, nothing more, nothing less. Seems like you went off the deep end trying to make something out of the fact that I said 1 person working is just like another. No favoritism for anyone in the work field.
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Actually, throw out the BOS and use the physician's preference.
I learned that disc is eyes, disk is computer disk, and disc/disk for back is up to the account preferences. The doctors do not care what some stupid AAMT BOS book says because it's THEIR notes and they aren't regulated by the AAMT.
When is it time to throw in the towel entirely?
It doesn't work for me to be a fulltime employee for a big national. However, it doesn't work to be an IC for a small MTSO either. The obvious middle of the road would be SE for a medium sized company. However, it seems like that just takes the bad from employee and combines it with the bad from IC. I wonder if I'll ever find a good place to work. I should just bag MT entirely. I know I'm not the best MT or employee. I'm not perfect. There are a lot better MTs out there. I'm not all that bad either. Maybe I could make a living posting stupid auctions on ebay. 
I do not keep anything - pretty much give it away or throw it away.
I have no piles of anything around. I am a neat and tidy "freak". As far as finances, I keep a check book, but could not tell you where every penny went or is. As long as I am within $200 from the actual balance +/-, I am happy. I use MAC card for everything, don't keep much cash in hand, and pay my bills on line most times.
I have a stress free life most days, other than the daily little peaks and valleys related to work. Our family just lives life and we don't sweat the small stuff. It is simple once you get the hang of it. You need to learn to "let go" of "stuff" whether it be monetary things or emotional controlling issues. Be carefree sometimes and just live life to the fullest and stop worrying what anything is "worth". Some things are only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it, and in most cases, it is not much!
I am happy giving things away if someone can use them. It makes your heart feel good to help somebody out once in a while.
So, get rid of all of the "stuff" you have piled up and live carefree for a while. Let me know how it goes! You will be much happier!
Yes - hubby is the pack rat. I throw everything that is not being used out.
After I read the newspaper, it is in the trash. Nothing sits around. Hubby would save everything; however, he works shift work, so when he is at work, I toss things in the trast. My home is neat and clean and everything is in its place all of the time!
Taught my 2 teens to be the same way - Love neat and clean and organized!
My home is not enjoyable if crap is everywhere - in my opinion.
Yes, as below and throw in some black olives
Don't mind me, I just need to throw a little fit and gripe a little!
I HATE HATE HATE this dictator. This is how he dictates if I were to strictly adhere to the verbatim rules of transcribing:
PROCEDURES PERFORMED: Cysto, retro, uretero with stent placement.
INDICATIONS: This is a lady who had perc litho by Dr. X. She had a perc tube. She had a nephro stent. On the pull of the nephro stent, did an antegrade nephro and apparently had obstruction in the ureter which was a probable stone. She was set up for a cysto retro Friday, but she ate, so she was set up for this morning. She understands the risks, options, complications, etc.
HE DRIVES ME INSANE! He has a very conversational style of dictating that makes it incredibly hard to make sense of his reports! He abbreviates everything, makes up his own words, and has been known to dictate one-word sentences!!!!!
We need a firing squad for dictators like this! 
Breath in, breath out. Okay, I'm finished now. I'm just having one of those days, crappy dictators, communication channels between my brain and my fingers have broken down, and I just need a nap!
Back to work.
Please tell me you are worth working for. That you don't throw
don't only have mush mouths for dictators, that you are not difficult to work for and put ridiculous requirements on us. I have worked for several people who boasted how wonderful their company, pay was great, but ended up having a slow platform, client specifics the size of telephone books, not enough work and being pushed off onto other accounts that only slow me down even more, to the point that I make practically no money. Then, on top of that, told that oops my paycheck was going to be late, or it bounced, and given endless excuses. The door swings both ways doesn't it?
You might throw some visual aids in there too.
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throw a blustering, indignant fit, though. Maybe
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Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents
On the GoMDT board, the company proveros was offering an internship. The pay was going to be 4 cpl for straight transcription and 2 cpl for editing. Well I have been working now for about 6 months so I am still a newbie but I do have a little bit of experience under my belt now. I was not interested in the internship but I applied so I could test just to see what the test was going to be like. This is for an internship, MTs fresh out of school with no experience, so they have no idea what it is like to be working for an MTSO. I get the test and it's one of those test voice files from the site that a lot of MTSOs use as their testing site, which IMO all of those tests are horrible and I cringe when I try to start taking one of them. Of course, the file sounds horrible. There are a lot of words that I can't make out. The voice quality is horrible compared to where I work at. I do my best and leave blanks for the words I can't make out. And you know what? I failed the test. lol It just boggles my mind. Why are they making a test so difficult and hard for newbie mts? I could understand if this was for a company that requires exp., but this is for an internship. It just shows how unfair this profession is to people trying to break into it. 
HEY, Throw this poor dog a bone?
I am a "newbie", been looking for MT opportunity with no luck. I would gladly take one of the jobs you didn't like, just for the experience......
At this time, I would just like a job doing Mt but beginning to think this was a mistake.....definitely must not be the same as it used to be.....
AND they are trying to throw in more nit-picky things about what this doc wants...
and this doctor always needs to go to QA and this resident needs an extra signature line and make sure the visit you selected was at the right place and be sure to change this worktype for this doctor because we cannot teach him to do it and we can't tell this doctor that worktype 800 is really not an EEG because we don't think he'll get it and no we can't get the software to recognize a visit ID when its entered and no you cannot start the audio in the document information screen so you can verify the patient and please automatically know when the doctor gives one name at the beginning of the dictation and a different one at the end who he is really typing about and take the following VR sentence and make it a lucid part of a medical report - CT scan guided biopsy performed February refills banding is without mucus brain which is negative.
My VR plan is quickly shaping up like this...take a 20-hour a week job at the local nursing home for full health insurance benefits and find an IC job doing transcription for supplemental income and repeat year after year until ready to be in nursing home.
Yes, I like to keep things and my husband likes to throw everything out
To me, either keep it, sell it, or give it to charity. He just wants to throw it all out. Sentimental things I do like to keep though. Are you the need one or the pack rat? I just have a problem letting go of things that we might someday use though. I look at it like this, why go and spend the money on it in the future if it can just be stored away until then :)
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