As do politicians, going back to the Kennedy era

• Transcribing Report Of Family Member - Alice in Wonderland
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    • Exactly........geeezz! - nm
  • How about this.......wait until the time comes and approach your sup then.. - Christina
  • yes, I feel you are, and you should - Snow Bunny
  • I personally don't understand - mtroadie
    • I agree...sm - slh
  • It would be against the confidentialty rules (sm) - It's a big fat NO NO
  • If it ever comes up, discuss it then - MTinNC
  • When I worked at a local hospital - Texas Girl
    • Please tell me you are joking! - OMG; now that's real professional
      • I don't know how... - Texas Girl
        • I think you did the right thing. - Mtmom
          • Thanks. To me also it would be like saying - Texas Girl
            • we could probably change the - Linda F
  • Not very professional to - Shocked
    • transcribing report on family member - tgrider
      • no way - Siren
    • Hey, there WAS no one else to do it. - MTinNC
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  • This has actually happened to me some time back sm - Lyndia
    • ditto - am self-employed, 1-person - sm
      • Absolutely. My situation exactly. - MTinNC
    • Then everyone who posted here who said (sm) - Honestly. Where did you learn your skills from?
      • It must be nice to have someone to float your work when you "DON'T" - feel like doing it.....
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      • My company - Tessa
        • I agree with above poster (sm). - LRS
      • and, by the way, we mostly are - Linda F
      • excuse me, but that was rude. - Linda F
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you can think of in support of the SAFE-ID Act then.  Posting here is just preaching to the choir.  And I agree, why can't the overseas transcriptionists type the ESLs of their native countries?  Surely, they can understand the East Indian or Pakistani accent better than we can.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s108-2312

Here are some other bills regarding privacy.

http://www.citizen.org/trade/offshoring/privacy/index.cfm

HR 4366 The Personal Data Offshoring Protection Act of 2004.

 21st Century Health Information Act

Wouldn't that have been a great one to transcribe?  Not because of who it is, but just due to the type of the surgery he had--open brain surgery with intermittent wakeful testing.  I've been an MT for about 27 years, majority in acute care (now clinic--boring), and I absolutely love doing OPs.  I really enjoy doing long, complicated, interesting operative reports like I'm sure this one was. 

Gruesome?  Maybe , but well wishes to the senator in any case.

I'm not sure how many people they are hiring but you shouldn't stress too hard over it. Do the best you can.

I actually tried to dump a report today, which I never do, because it somehow got into my pool in error (not my area of expertise), but it jumped right back up at me after the next report.  So I decided to just do it.  I don't know how well I did, but I did it.  It was over 150 lines long and took me forever.  Lo and behold, 5 reports later, same guy, same type of report 145 lines. Second time around was easier and faster though.  The way I see it is that if I get negative feedback, I'll let them know that those kind of reports really shouldn't come my way.

But cherry picking for line count is just plain wrong.

The other jobs I took involved quite a bit of computer use, too.  I got tired of the office politics and other garbage, so I'm doing MT again.  Now, I prop my keyboard up with a block of wood, although you can use a telescoping keyboard drawer/shelf to do the same thing.  I have a habit of letting my wrists rest on the keyboard, so I had to modify it to get my hands into the proper position.  It might have helped if I had taken piano lessons.  LOL  The only time my wrists ache now is if I work too much, which has been the case lately.  I don't know if it would be helpful for you to try.  I've been doing data entry or some form of computer input work for 17 years now, so I'm hoping carpal tunnel or repetitive motion injury isn't definitely in my future.

I was told the same about two years ago by recruiter in Midwest.  She did not give specifics, but basically said that the full time employees would get priority if the work was low. 

I have a 1936 medical dictionary that the hospital I used to work at was going to throw  out. It's leather bound, but the cover is missing. There is actually a section on using leeches for medical treatment.

Think about it. How far back does MT go? The docs used to write notes and then they had the nurses write the notes, but how far back does the first actual typewritten MT report go?  Did they hire someone to type while they talked to them. Someone posted below about an MT that sat in on autopsies to type the findings. Hmmmmm. Interesting.

The old doc I used to work for (with the typewriter) was from the old school and always did handwritten notes until the insurance companies required them either printed or typed. He reluctantly hired a Transcriptionist but this was in the mid-1980's and he was still grumbling about paying someone to type what he could write when I worked there in 1994.