Fresh out of school and this is your first job??

• Just was looking at another MT site and MTs from MQ are talking about getting emails from the - MQMT
  • Amherst threats - mqmt
    • I am also sitting here with no work again from Amherst. I dont believe this. - nm
  • I also received a note today about hiring more if - another MT
    • Ahmerst - MQ'er also
    • West Coast to Amherst - PFT
      • I think anyone whose accounts have been transferred to Amherst needs to email Amherst and also to - MQMT
        • The lady in charge at Amherst is Kim Myers. She has the regular emal address for MQ. sups. - nm
          • Amherst's email - MQ'er also
            • Yes but Kim Myers is her supervisor. Tonya Widdle I think you mean. What is her problem. She needs - nm
              • Her name is actually Tonya Huger - PS
      • Yes, live on W Coast and my acct transferred - MQ mt
  • Maybe all this hiring with no work has something to do with the proposed 1 hour TAT? - ??
    • You cant have a 1 hour TAT and MTs have work. They are completely nuts. We are being used and abused - nm
      • That was my point. There will never be any steady work for anyone with TAT at 1 hour - see msg
        • Has anyone had a conversation with the people at Amherst about this situation. I am not sure where - MQMT
        • your point - not staying
          • Smarter than the average bear :-) - Can you say where you are going?
  • What do you expect MQ or any MTSO to do? - sm
  • I am at a loss too regarding this sm - Karen S.
    • re: Kathy S--MQ Amherst - PFT
      • I don't know what the fuss is about... - MQ Rocks!
        • re Kathy S - MQ'er also
          • Ditto. - nm
        • Fresh out of school and this is your first job?? - Curious?
        • Dixie, is that you? You should be the MQ ... - wondering
          • Dont think Dixie is looking to favorable right now. Hope she stays on her other bb and keeps her - MQMT
            • Oh, uh huh...Dixie looooves MQ and has - wondering
        • you must not work for amherst ofc - lucky you
        • I dont believe a word you are saying lady. - MQMT
          • re: Dancing Shoes and MQ Rocks - PFT
            • The accounts are not out of TAT just maybe the 1 hour TAT some idiot in Amherst came up with to - MQMT
          • I, too, work for MQ out of one of their CA offices - 7 years now. Steady workflow sm - Dancin Shoes
          • you must be administration - you must be admin
      • I cant believe it. I was just transferred to Amherst and said how much help they needed this weekend - MQMT
        • If we are in the same boat so are all the other MTs so I think we should really do something about - PS
          • Do you realize they just hired more people for these accounts. What a rip. Sick to death of it and - PSS
      • Amen! - Karen S.
    • working - same here
  • Would you mind ... - Kathy
    • One assumes - Jenny
    • It is the other huge MT website but one other time I put the name on here and they deleted it. This - MQMT
      • other site - new here
        • I dont want this whole link deleted so they are saying exactly the same thing about being asked to - sm
          • Me too! - One more MQMT
            • Amherst office - PFT
              • Why the stupid idiots called everyone to work on the holiday to make sure they meet their 1 hour TAT - MQMT

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experience you have no clue.  You don't know about various platforms, equipment needed, insurance, taxes, contracts, not to mention your transcription skills are limited and you have no QA skills.  

Unfortunately there are many like you who seemed to have not investigated this business and how hard it is to get a job before taking classes and then end up in the same position as you, graduating and no chances of a job. 

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on her own and definitely cannot expect to earn $50k! 

EMR is coming whether you like it not and whether your doctors are older or not.  Eventually the older doctors will retire and the new generation coming out of medical school are products of this technological age.  There is no stopping it.

Now, no more odors from the mushroom house, please.

in my mind.  Maybe after I've been out of the loop for a few more years, I might start to forget what it was like.  But I highly doubt it, because all I have to do is go to any store, hospital, bank, restaurant, heck even a traffic light and just watch...watch the angry, impatient, "me me me me me me" people out there.

Working at home...I kinda feel like I'm my own boss.  Sure there are e-mails and TAT issues, but I actually have control over most of that stuff.  I get out of my job what I put into it.  Yeah, some days are harder than others, but that's just life.

Fresh in my mind are the 8+ hour days of standing on my feet ALL DAY LONG at a register on Mother's Day in a sweltering hot greenhouse putting foil and bows on potted plants, or answering phones at an answering service that were so busy that at the end of 4 hours my voice would be hoarse, or being unable to pee because there was a line of ornery patient's waiting with scowls on their face because THEY needed their outpatient tests booked RIGHT NOW because THEY were on their lunch break and their time is money!  (and then when you finally do get the chance to pee, some nasty-a$$ crotch-cricket-ridden patient decided to leave a floater or pee on the seat!)  And all of this was at least 10 years ago now and still painfully vivid. 

So yeah, go ahead and work in the real trenches and then make a fair comparison of working at home versus working somewhere else.  Whackin' on keys and having to repeatedly playback some ESL now and again ain't nuthin' compared to putting up with a bunch of crap that you can only imagine if you haven't experienced it first hand.

I appreciate your experience and insight!  I agree about clinic work being boring; so is radiology.  And VR/speech rec has really taken over radiology and clinic, the same for EMR.  I know it's going to be a huge challenge for a few months, but I'm up for the challenge!  Plus I've done interventional radiology-type transcription (minimally invasive procedures) with really tough dictators, so I have a bit of a heads up. 

Thanks again!  I'd like to update you in my transition late this summer.

basically had the words correct.   They were such common terms I don't know how anyone could have gotten through school and not had them at least 100 times.

Also doing one search on Google with the misspelled words would have probably turned up the answer.

I have a national coding certificate.  I cut back on my MT work and got a job auditing physician records and scoring their documentation, then gave them feedback to maximize their reimbursement for the services they provided.  When I moved to a new area, the field for the type of coding I was doing had less of a demand, so I increased my MT work.  Now that I'm back in my "home town" I need to network and re-enter the field.  The money is just as good, if not better in some cases, with much better benefits, plus it is something you leave at the office at the end of the day.

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But I try to keep them all as simple as possible, one office with 2 surgeons has their own letterhead, so no problem there and they want things very simple.  All work for all also, besides getting printed by me, is put on a diskette for them to download on their systems for them to make whatever changes they choose.  All others with no letterhead, I supply all paper for (Xerox) and free delivery and pickup to all.  It is free for them, I pay someone to pickup/deliver.  That's how simple I want it, and I also want to bill out and get paid only once a month. 

Everyone seems to like the idea, and it has been working for quite some time (10 years) and my theory is, if it isn't broken, don't fix it.  *LOL* 

As for the national, my weekend work, each client has a CP (client profile) and some of the CPs are more difficult than the others and once in a GREAT while, I might forget SOMETHING but then I contact someone beyond who usually fixes whatever I messed up.