BALONEY! If this person is typing sm
Posted By: MT 30+ years and running on 2009-03-20
In Reply to: 8 cpl. is too low for ANYONE living and working - in the 21st Century!
300 lph and 8 cpl, how is that not enough to live on? The only way it is not enough to live on is if you don't get enough work. What I am seeing is "newbies" wanting to make 12-15 cpl starting out and they can't produce much per hour. If you are not able to produce then you cannot make a living in this business unless you get hourly pay. That is the long and short of it. In order to be able to produce consistently you have got to have tons of experience which takes TONS of time and years and sweat to get. I am so tired of hearing about how we don't make enough money (and some don't make enough) but then finding out the person complaining has very little experience, cannot do certain work types, doesn't like ESLs, can't do ESLs, etc. etc but wants top pay. Its not going to happen. Unfortuantely, to make it in this business you start out working, keep working for years, get your experience, learn every type of work type there is, sweat and cry over the really bad dictators and learn to deal with it. If the work is there and you can do EVERYTHING and are WILLING TO LEARN EVERYTHING over a period of YEARS, you can make it in this business. But, its based on the work being here. The cpl is secondary
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BALONEY! If this person is typing sm
300 lph and 8 cpl, how is that not enough to live on? The only way it is not enough to live on is if you don't get enough work. What I am seeing is "newbies" wanting to make 12-15 cpl starting out and they can't produce much per hour. If you are not able to produce then you cannot make a living in this business unless you get hourly pay. That is the long and short of it. In order to be able to produce consistently you have got to have tons of experience which takes TONS of time and years and sweat to get. I am so tired of hearing about how we don't make enough money (and some don't make enough) but then finding out the person complaining has very little experience, cannot do certain work types, doesn't like ESLs, can't do ESLs, etc. etc but wants top pay. Its not going to happen. Unfortuantely, to make it in this business you start out working, keep working for years, get your experience, learn every type of work type there is, sweat and cry over the really bad dictators and learn to deal with it. If the work is there and you can do EVERYTHING and are WILLING TO LEARN EVERYTHING over a period of YEARS, you can make it in this business. But, its based on the work being here. The cpl is secondary
Typing person
You bet! I wanted to share that people do listen. I also agree with your 60 Minutes idea. Any clue as to how to get in contact with them? I think 20/20 would be another great show to air this issue. Good ole John S.
And the baloney about 100,000 (whatever) sm
new jobs created are probably those that are offshored. More misleading spin to lull us into thinking our economy is doing great.
A big fat baloney!
I have heard confidentiality even before the HIPPA and??? We used to have to sign forms saying would not give out information about a patient longgggggggggg before ever heard of a HIPPA and the point being?? Totally ridiculous. There are loads of loud-mouths in the hospital who talk in the halls, on the elevators, on the floors who have 1:1 association with the patients. People now afraid of their own shadows.
BALONEY
I could write pages about them spotting mistakes, yeh, right. Just hearing that reminds me of a probably adoring elderly person putting them on that spot on the right hand side of the almighty. Just ticks me off to hear how they are spotting.
Baloney
What a stunningly ignorant statement! Since when did the definition of 'abuse' come with a prerequisite of being enjoyed by the abuser?
That's like saying an abused child with a broken arm is not abused unless the person who broke the arm is having fun...
And as to the comment "would you rather see it have it's voice box removed?" More ignorance!
As if there were only two choices! Shock collar or voice box removal.
HOW ABOUT YOU TAKE THE TIME TO TRAIN THE DOG not to bark? HOW ABOUT NONPAINFUL COLLARS LIKE CITRONELLA?
Baloney is right, you can work sm
for a large teaching hospital and make good money. You do have to make up your mind to do this and figure out your own way of doing things. I do the same thing and I work for a huge complex in Detroit, mostly ESL, mostly residents, PAs, NPs, etc and no normals. There are folks who can do it.
BALONEY: Not only do I agree with you 100%
You hit it right on the head. I am in this biz for over 27 years and you are so right. I believe that a lot of the problems in our industry are b/c people in early career or midcareer become prima donnas and want to be paid tons of money but not willing to think about patient care. It is when you lose your ego, and know it is about the patient that the money suddenly flows in. I think it is Karma at work. If it is about me, me, me, then me, me, me won't make any money. But when it becomes about serve, serve, serve, the money will be there, more than enough, and so will a long, happy career and MT able to have it all. Baloney, you are no Baloney, you are so correct!!
You do have only one crowd to please. The facility. All this other baloney is
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No, that's baloney. Study-up on meaning of 'cult'.
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Not *discussing* your line rate is a bunch of baloney....encouraged by employers....
They don't want us all to know what each other makes so they can keep paying as low and unfairly as possible.
How is the WORLD can letting someone know your line rate hurt you or anyone? It doesn't--only benefits employers.
Not *discussing* your line rate is a bunch of baloney....encouraged by employers....
They don't want us all to know what each other makes so they can keep paying as low and unfairly as possible.
How is the WORLD can letting someone know your line rate hurt you or anyone? It doesn't--only benefits employers.
I work for the person. I know. Very excellent person, personally and business-sense.
It is an INSULT to have QA hovering over seasoned MTs who know what they are doing. She trusts her MTs and again if there are questions there is one person, a trainer, who can answer them via phone, e-mail or instant message or you can send the whole report to them if you choose.
Point was is the person willing to make up for the slack of the person who types 1 job when there is
if that is all they WANT to type. Is the person who wants to be a supervisor willing to make up for those people?
You have crap supervisors, editors and mts in the business like you have good ones. Sadly, the really good ones of all of them are few and far between.
Typing. This is NOT typing, it is transcribing. There is a BIG difference. sm
Transcription includes typing, but so much more.
When you have a QA person that is picky and another QA person that is very lenient where does that
leave the MTs because some are getting a lenient reviewer and others are getting one that picks at everything. How do you reconcile that issue with the difference in QA mentality. Some people make out well and the other people could be just as good but dont. I wonder about that.
The person MTSO pays is the person who
dsf
One person's "custom" is another person's
"house arrest". I'd never go to the Middle East because of how they treat women. I don't agree with their laws or "justice" system. For example, the woman who was gang raped as punishment for the actions of her 12-year-old brother, a boy who wasn't even an adult. How's that for a "custom"? Let's not forget bride burning. Burqas.
Besides, foreigners don't follow our "customs" when they come to this country. Half of them don't even bother learning English. Instead, we're expected to pay for healthcare and foodstamps for illegals and print everything in Spanish.
I won't be oppressed or treated as a second class citizen, and I wouldn't treat others like that either. A "custom" is more like putting up a Christmas tree, not being abused based on your gender.
i'm sure it will vary from person to person.
I recently did the same thing and am loving it! The freedom from time clocks, the better company, make losing the benefits well worth it to me. You need to set up a plan to have $ set aside for taxes though. I should have done this years ago!
Wrong person. I'm not the person you were
any money. You have a sucky attitude, a "poor me" attitude. Get off your lazy whiny a$$ and work instead of complaining and you will make money. I have one account at 10.5 cpl, two at 14 cpl and one at 15 cpl. I make a lot of money, even on the 10.5 cpl. But I'm not sitting around whining either. And I didn't whine when I made $6 an hour.
OMG...yep! Air typing!!! it's like
don't even think of typing before you get
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80+ and still typing.
A great woman crossed into the arm's of God this morning. She was 80+ years of age and still doing medical transcription up to the day earlier this year when she was diagnosed with cancer and even then she came to the office just until recently. She loved her job and everyone loved her. She will be greatly missed in the world of transcription as well as among family and friends.
Until we meet again.
80 and still typing
did she live in NJ?
When I had typing in H.S. (sm)
we had those little pieces of chalky paper that you would have to slip down behind that little "thing" on the platin, and type on that. Can't even remember what it was called it was so long ago. Boy, were we thrilled when white out, yellow out, and pink out came along. LOL
Will you be actually typing them?
If you are then they are ripping you off. I for one refuse to work unless I get paid for everything I type. It all adds up over time!
Typing Fun
Hee, I do that all the time. I like to see how fast I can make them speak and still type along.
anyone know how to go from typing
To search Google for terms without using the painful mouse? Thanks.
I did something while typing
that changed my settings on my IE. Now I do not have my toolbar at the top and my icons on the bottom do not show for the programs I have up, but this only is when I am on the internet page. When I am using other programs, my icons show at the bottom. Now my favorites show at the side instead of being able to use the pull down through my toolbar. I do not see anything I can use to fix this. Any ideas?! Thanks... 
You will still have some typing with VR.
You'll get more done with the VR, but he'll pay you less for the editing. What type of VR is he wanting to use?
typing
I found that I make out better typing than doing VR. I make half.
What are you typing???
Too broad of a question -- is is a seminar, deposition, insurance statement or what. I have done a lot and for 60 minutes per tape it has averaged out to over $100 at 10 to 11 cpl -- many years ago. Again depends on what you are typing and the quality of the tape. Lost my shirt one time on a planning meeting, too hard to understand, etc. Took many hours to do and not enough pay. More details and could answer you better.
Are you first typing what you
want to save, as in "-year-old," highlighting that,and then choosing "Autocorrect"? If so, you should have both choices of "plain" and "formatted text" available. If you then choose "formatted text," it should work. I had that same problem a long time ago and it was explained to me this way. Talk about easy! Good luck! :)
$40/1h rec = 4h typing = $10/h pay only? nm
Just typing, typing, typing.....
Can you do this every day, 8 hours long, with only a total of 40 minute break?
No talking, no emails, no telephone, no nothing? When do you eat and pee?
Don't you have a husband or children, who want to interact with you? What's the advantage of working at home, if you work like this?
This is a 'sweatshop', what a life! No, thanks!
What's going to happen to your blood circulation, your veins and arteries??? Your health? How long can you keep this up?
Are you trying to lure MTs back to this profession under even harder conditions?
No, thanks!
typing
I would call putting in Expanders and normals manual work. Actually, also typing is a manual job.
also, (something different), typing in -- SM
CAPS is YELLING. just plain rude.
you'll be fine.
Typing on your lap
I just moved and my new desk setup is a built-in desk which is too high for comfort for typing on the keyboard. I can adjust my office chair up, but then it's too high to comfortably reach the pedal. I have been typing on the keyboard on my lap for two days but my shoulders are sore and so are my calves apparently from flexing when I wasn't aware of it all day.
Awhile back I read here that some MT's type on their keyboards on their laps. Please give me any feedback how it works for you and also do you know of any products out there or things around the house to support the keyboard and make it easier to balance on your legs. I kind of like typing like this other than the strain on my neck and legs from trying to keep it balanced and from sliding off.
Thanks in advance! 
always typing
My kids say that is all I ever do anymore---MT work at my computer. When I am home I type! Sometimes 10 or more hours per day........
But, I tell them I could be at work someplace for 8 hours and that is what I would do there.
Typing IME's
Just trying to get a few ideas for obtaining more work.....probably like a lot of other starving MTs!
Does anyone type strictly IME's? If so, is the pay any better than traditional transcription? Any info greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Sometimes I feel like actually typing exactly...
what they say so they can see it for themselves - or someone who knows the difference can see it! Some of my faves today:
"Jackson-Pratt draining removed..."
"Muscle strength 4+ on right upper extremities..." - Pt has more than 1?!
"There was depressed of right scalp secondary to miss of scalp." (Patient had a laceration and underlying skull fracture)
Could go on and on - but one of my favorites is when they spell a word or a drug for you and it's TOTALLY WRONG!!
Some though, I have to say, are very aware of how difficult it is to understand them and actually end up being better than some of my American dictators. Those ESLs I prefer over all others.
150 wpm straight typing.....sm
In high school 1st quarter typing I was doing 70 wpm, by the end of the 1st year of typing in high school I was at 100 wpm. At the end of the 2nd year of typing I was averaging 140 wpm.
If it is typing on the screen, then it should not
be a problem, just the same as if you use AutoCorrect or an abreviation expander. You are NOT after all bringing in text from another word processer...you are creating text on the screen you see.
Maybe someone else in another country is typing it?
Correct typing
Please tell me if I am right or not. On a recent dictation a doctor was giving current medicationa and he said "p.r.n. ibuprofen", I typed Ibuprofen p.r.n., because I was taught that this is the correct way. She informed me to type it the way he said it. I looked at another transciptionist work on this same doctor and she typed PRN Ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is not capitalized unless it is in the beginning of the sentence. I do not want to compromise my work or correct transcribing, what do I do? She also informed me that the Book Of Style is not always right. Well, I was taught that it was the final authority. Help!!!!!
speed typing
Okay, ladies. I have been working for 8 months now as an MT and my typing accuracy still is lacking quite a bit. I have the typer shark program that I use sometimes. I type about 50 WPM. Not good enough for me. I was hoping that somebody could give me suggestions or hope that it will come with time. I seem to be a little bit better lately, but I keep hearing about MTs who type 300+ lines per hour. It takes me a couple hours or more to do that. Depending on the dictator, of course. One woman said she used to type the news and that seemed to help her. I just need some encouragement that I will get better, or maybe some people don't.
Faster typing
Well, my mother insisted I know how to type, so I took 2 years (yes 2 years) of typing in high school, so my typing speed was pretty fast to begin with (though I graduated high school over 20 years ago!) I have a friend who did the "Mavis Bacon" or whatever it is called typing software and that really helped her pick up speed.
I use Instant Text and try to put in everything. I have been an MT for just under 2 years. I do acute care, and I average 260 lph. On days I'm lucky enough to get a good run of ER reports - I can easily do 350+ plus per hour because most of it is canned, and I have jump codes in my expander, so I can whiz through a lot.
Good luck!
speed typing
I also use IT, as it is through the company I work for. I am still getting to know the program. I tried Mavis. I found her to be cute, but annoying. I think am just being impatient. I really like the typer shark program. It's actually fun. I think I will take the time to work on understanding IT, so I can get it to work for me.
Thanks your input. It did make me feel hopeful!
speed typing
Will do! Thank you for the encouragement.
I used to be a typing teacher...
I used to be a typing teacher and also had long nails at the time. I got one of those split keyboards (ergonomic) and it helped. Having my hands in that position allowed me to type a lot easier with my longer nails. You might give that a try. Keyboards are really cheap.
Because typing pathology from
rare. I would love to do pathology again, but I will never go back to an office environment again.
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