Easy mistake to make! (nm)
Posted By: anon on 2006-09-14
In Reply to: oh, I didn't know that.....looked like...sm - suggest you read all the archives here..sm
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Big mistake to every go lower than what you currently make. Don't do it.
My mistake, I am not thinking tonight, I actually make 11.5 cpl, clinic notes. I earn my money thou
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We make it look easy
The reason so many people think it is such a glamorous job is because those of us who have been doing it for years make it look so easy. We can sit in front of our computer (at home) and breeze along through the toughest ESL dictators without picking up a book. Why wouldn't everything thing they could do this.
Reality will show your friend that there is a lot more to being an MT than just typing. I think back to the days before internet when I had to use a book to look up every difficult or new word. Very time consuming. At least new MTs have internet resources.
Repetitive = easy, so no, they usually don't make more.
But there are exceptions to every rule, of course. As was stated in another post on radiology, the software is usually maddeningly inefficient, so sometimes it is hard to find and retain MTs for certain facilities. But the reason the software is bad for MTs is that they usually bought it with the hope they could change over to VR, thereby putting most of the MTs out of work. Radiology can be fun if you find a place where you can work in-house, have the skills to win the respect of the radiologists and learn to be able to read their minds, which helps you a lot when they misspeak.
It is NOT an easy way to make money
and most companies advertising at-home training and promising the moon are out for your money. Medical transcription is a CAREER and not a JOB. Stick with engineering and do some crafting on the side to make "extra money."
You make it sound so easy, BUT
I believe medical editing is more difficult than straight transcribing, especially if the MT lack years of experience. If the VR text indicates an incorrect term but it looks and sounds close to the accurate term, it would be very easy for an inexperienced MT to not realize that mistake and not make the proper correction. I only hope the physicians are reading their reports. Unfortunately, many of them do not because of time constraints.
With my 20+ years' experience,I do foresee potential problems with VR in the hands of inexperienced MTs. Unfortunately, many MTs will lack the necessary editing skills to acquire a 100% accuracy rate. They have mainly been taught to transcribe verbatim.
We will have to wait and see if any major issues present themselves with VR. I think it could be a very efficient system, but I do not believe the job of editing should not be taken too lightly. I think editing VR text could be easier if you are simply editing for a few physicians, but not for a multitude of dictators in the hospital setting.
Poll: Please yes or no, don't explain, make it easy.
Is it sensible to rebuild New Orleans below sea level?
They are boring but easy, and you can make a lot of money. nm
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Thank you. All of us at SS do our best to make it easy. I am so happy to see when it works out wel
We are here for our employees. We just have to know if there is a problem and we will do our best to fix it. Thank you for you vote of confidence in us!
sorry - ....make them easy targets for the scam. nm
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so easy to make your own baked chicken and tastes better.
Just wash a whole chicken (clean inside, as well) Then salt inside.
Put it breast-side DOWN on small baking rack in shallow baking sheet (I line the pan with foil first), bake at 350 for 30 minute, then turn the bird over onto its back (drain the cavity when you turn it over, put those droppings in the bottom of the cookie sheet). Bake for another hour, turn over (and drain cavity again) for 15-30 minutes, and then turn back on its back for a little longer. I do put some foil over the bird for the first hour or so just to save splatters on the oven. With whole chicken at 69 cents a pound, you just cannot get an cheaper, easier meal than this.
Well, I would like to applyl. I hope you can make a go of it but it will not be an easy road. If
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Easy to use! You can see old reports & copy to make templates from them, look up doc/Pt
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kettle corn is great, easy to make, and you can spice it up...
and there are pretzels, potato chips, veggie chips. you can quickly roast any kind of nut and spice or sweeten them up. I use sucranat for sugar, or turbanado, anything not bleached.
yummy fruit, fresh or frozen.
lots of things you can do...
7 cpl gross and counts blank lines, IC status-- make a ton of money because it's easy work...nm
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I agree. Bean-counters desperately wanting to believe the exaggerated claims for SR make them easy
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The easy answer, taking all the easy work and
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Well, Word is easy to buy and easy to install. Word 97 works great. Cheap. SM
I still would not work anywhere I could not use a spell checker with grammar checker and a Steadman's Medical Spell Checker.
IF they want people to TRANSCRIBE MEDICAL REPORTS, then I guess they better get the programs they need.
It's like probably 110% easier to buy and install Word 97 than to try to program their own programming. And, yes, I do mean Microsoft Word 97. Why? Because you can install it unlimited times, in case you need to install the operating system again. And it has a few features that Microsoft, in its un-wisdom, took away in Word 2000 and 20003 and 2007. So, yes, I'd go with Word 97 for its cheapness and it works better than the later versions. Just my opinion, with 20 years experience being an MT. So what if they "don't have it" on their computer? It's easy to get.
It was my first mistake ever...
and I'm sure you've NEVER made a typo in your entire life. You are my idol.  Oh, yes. Uh huh.
Not really NM above. Mistake.
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Big mistake for me
I became an MT after my surgery because I can no longer drive at night and can no longer work in a building due to severe dry eye after the procedure. I used to be a computer programmer prior to Lasik, with the same company for 17 years. I miss my old job and my old eyes. My vision is not very good due to irregular astigmatism induced from the Lasik procedure and haze that formed in the cornea. Most people do not realize what can go wrong because you only hear about the good results. Unfortunately, I'm one who ended up with many, many unresolvable problems from this surgery and it has turned my life and freedom upside down.
mistake her for a man - LOL
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My mistake
I'm sorry, it is definitely 10,000 lines, I think I must have been seeing 1000 minutes but thinking 100 minutes. Sorry about that. Very long day.
yep, your mistake then. thank you. NM
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thank you Sandi, appreciate your help! My mistake
meant w/o blank lines but in my haste I worded my post poorly. Sorry!
She's not the only one who makes that mistake....
I had a medical records director 20+ years ago mark on our evaluation under "skill level", that out MT job needed little skill for the job. I refused to sign the evaluation and told her she should be ashamed of herself. Can you believe it? And she had an ART just like me...go figure!
oops mistake
Meant disk failures though your disc in your back could fail. Writing, thinking and typing all at once sometimes throws me off. Mind is working too fast.
Look, you made a mistake.....
no need to go on the defensive and start calling people fanatics. Just because someone loves their dog like their child doesnt make them fanatical. It also does not mean that because their pet is treated like a child that their pet is not trained. Are your children untrained? My goodness! My children behave very well. Treating a pet like a loved child, in my opinion, would mean they are treated with a lot of love tempered with discipline and boundaries. I think that you are fanatical in that you cannot seem to have a normal middle ground when it comes to these two issues.
SAW ON FOX NEWS SAID IT WAS A MISTAKE
They said Ryan gave a number said to be Chris's, but actually when people called in it was the voting number for the girl!!!! Everyone should hound the Idol website!!! I knew something had to be wrong!!
Just want to avoid the same mistake...nm
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You are right...Homans' it is, my mistake. nm
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I made a mistake....
For my hard hyphen I assigned Alt + H, not Ctrl H as I had posted.
I do remember (sort of) trying the hard space and I couldn't get it to work. I believe it put in an extra space. I'm sure I tried the backspace and pause features without luck, got frustrated and quit. I should try playing around with it again because that would be a great time saver. I know I have Dr. in my ESP as dr....but closing up that space would be better.
I believe it put in an extra space. I'm pretty sure I tried several combinationns
But you get DINERO for doing that! If it's the same mistake,
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I'm sure she's aware of that mistake! nm
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Oops! My mistake...sm
... you can dial in with your Lanier using VOIP just as you can with a regular phone line (I again said C-phone in my post below).
Mistake in post
My point: You mistakes
You forgot the word make. LOL. Couldn't resist
Why not call them and ask if there was a mistake?
Tell them that you were told you'd get pay for training and it didn't appear to be on this check.
Couldn't hurt!
Stoopid mistake
Okay, I need some feedback here. I did this stoopid mistake on one of my accounts over the weekend. I downloaded the jobs, was typing happily along and oh, about 30 reports in realized I had been putting the wrong doc's name on the darned things. AFTER they had been uploaded to the client. I've worked on this account for about six months now, and I have NEVER made this kind of error before. As soon as I was aware of the mistake, I immediately emailed my supervisor, but unfortunately there was nothing I could do to get the reports back and fix the errors.
I know that 'confessing' my mistake was the right thing to do. I also know the client must be pretty upset. To make matters even more embarrassing, I had just asked for more work from the powers that be since my monthly quota is only equal to about an average week's lines.
I guess I am looking for someone to tell me that I am not the only person who has done something so very stoopid. I hope I don't end up losing my job over this. It is the first major mistake I have made, so hopefully the company wouldn't be so short-sighted, but you never know. We had just gotten an email memo from the pres of the company a few weeks ago saying how since there were not enough reliable, quality MTs out there, the company is switching totally to VRE by the end of the year. Anyhow...
You can bet I will pay extra-close attention to the next jobs I get, if I get any...Can't believe I did this.
What do you all think? Thanks...
That to me is a very understandable mistake (sm)
I'm betting he does not end the report by saying his name - so you just assumed it was the same doctor each time and nothing jolted you to let you think otherwise - very understandable in my mind - I did secretarial work for 25 years before this and have done this for 13 - totally think innocent mistake - proud of you for owning up to it and not defending it - you made the mistake, corrected it and moved on - enough said. Chin up - you are still a good MT!!
Probably a simple mistake...sm
You know this is not supposed to be perfect. We are posting on here on free time when we let our guard down. Sometimes we don't go back and proofread our posts. When we are working we proofread and make sure things are right. I assume you never make mistakes?
funny mistake
I typed: the patient is an 86-year-old man being envaginated in the emergency room....
That's hot. javascript:editor_insertHTML('text','');
Guessing or mistake?
What is annoying about this is that the QA is making an assumption that you guessed rather than just made an honest mistake. Either way, it's a mistake. She should have kept mouth shut and not tried to analyze why the mistake might have been made. If it were me, I'd wait til I cooled off and then e-mail her, telling her that I did NOT guess and never do guess, but simply made an honest mistake.
To Truffle - Not a mistake
Do we work for the same company? How do you know?
Anyway, this was not a mistake or filling in QA. I don't mind following account specifics, as long as I know what they are. It is quite a lot of trouble to completely learn and prepare yourself to transcribe **strictly adhering to BOS** and then be told that is not the way it is really done. Other companies have done this as well. You need to give account specifics and be sure about them before transcription goes to QA in my own opinion, which means nothing.
Otherwise, I guess I could have worse problems. Just venting. And otherwise, I love the company, my account, and my QA.
Easy easy money they are!
I don't mind seeing those puppies filter in at all. Same for H&Ps. They are always different though, so can't really pop in the same pre-formatted autotext, but it's usually WHAMMO 2-3 pages at a time. Give them a shot...you may just be pleasantly surprised!
In a big hurry to grow up at 20, BIG MISTAKE
No one at 20 has the life experience to know herself, let alone know what to want and expect in another person.
Second time, and successful time, age 39. Better to choose than to "settle" for whatever's in front of you at the time.
Apologize for the mistake...meant sm, not nm.
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Do not lease. Big financial mistake for you. (nt)
I thought it was a teleprompter mistake-nm
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no mistake, i'm sure. read carefully
4000 lines a DAY. Lettuce, etc.
very sad someone would post these msgs.
I made the mistake of falling for that
pitch in 2004 when I applied at TRS. When I left one month later because they kept running out of work and bouncing me around, I learned to disregard any endorsements.
As it was later explained to me, the award is based on employee votes. Depending on how many people vote, it can be determined by just a handful of people. Hardly a ringing endorsement...
my mistake - I misread your post!! sorry...
and here's some new (OLD) info on Barak himself, who I almost was going to vote for UNTIL I read it.........thank goodness to my Canadian friend who sent it to us.
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I just think that we all should know some background of the person that we elect for the president of the United States of America. Please read, then make up your own mind who to vote for. Thank you,
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas .
Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father Returned to Kenya.
His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim from Indonesia.
When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia.
Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta.
He also spent two years in a Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim.
He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school”.
Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best.
In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya Soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over His son's education.
Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam.
Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta . Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking Major public office in the United States , Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.
Please forward to everyone you know. The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level.
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