From an MTSO's standpoint, I would tell them what happened and ask for time off. sm

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no, I'm not one ... just throwing a coin into the playing field ...

Wouldn't having only ICs working "for" a company mean less liability. IOW, if MQ phased out the SE status, could that take a potential monkey off their back?

OTOH, they can hire all the ICs they want, but if those ICs only work for MQ, they're still considered SEs ... correct?

I transcribed the report. I didn't tell the doctor about it. I didn't tell the little MTSO I worked for and I didn't tell my family member. I have not ever disclosed any of the information I heard, either. As a professional, I can't be "interested" in what I am doing, not in that way. What is contained in the medical records is not my business either. I transcribed the report as any other. I have to say that the family member in question doesn't know I transcribed anything to this day, although it was years ago. It was, and is, my job to produce accurate medical records and not to concern myself to whom they belong.

I have talked to other MTs that this has happened to and they all did exactly what I did. As a fact, the MTSO above had this happen to her. A friend had an abortion, but told everyone she had miscarried. This MTSO had been working for someone else at the time and had transcribed a report that discussed the abortion. She kept it to herself because it was the right thing to do. A gal who was a nurse at the doctor's office knew both the MTSO and the woman who lied. SHE was the one who broke confidentiality, but before all was said and done the MTSO had been blamed for it, her boss had been blamed for it and there was quite a stink, but the leak didn't come from the MT end of the equation.

One time I had a fast food chicken sandwich (decades ago) and it felt like a tiny bone was stuck in a manner which you described. The store gave me a piece of soft white bread which immediately cleared the problem. Just thought I'd share that, just in a possible future case........

of my supervisor, who brought it to the attention of the doc. She said that he got huffy and argued that there WAS such a word as "equivocable" and that he wanted me to type it. This is not a mispronounced way of saying "equivocal". I found that out when I flagged it the first time. The doc actually thinks that is a word, and nobody is able to tell him otherwise, not even a dictionary entry! That was when my boss asked me to note it on my log every time he did it so that we were covering ourselves.

Then the doc got annoyed that I was putting it on my log. Because, after all, it was saying that the Great One was wrong! Horrors! So then she asked me to take it off the log. The problem with just typing in equivocal is that it is a verbatim account and this doc has it in his pea brain that "equivocable" is a word. Secondly, there are times when he says his made-up word when the context would suggest "equivocal" and ALSO when the context would suggest "unequivocal". I am not an MD, so I don't want to guess at which of these two very different meanings he intends based on the context, you know?

I think I am going to take the advice of the MT who suggested keeping a copy of my files, which I do, and keeping a copy of the email where my boss asked me to stop flagging "equivocable" on the log.

her business is, no matter when (or IF) the MTSO is paid by the client. I would NEVER contract with an MTSO that expected me to wait to be paid until they were paid by their client. Impossible way to do business, very unprofessional.

I tried two different nationals and was bounced around from account to account on both of them. One account would run out of work, the equipment would go down, or they needed help on another account. Each account had pools of 100-500 doctors, so it was just ridiculous. I couldn't use my expander hardly at all. I couldn't make decent line counts because I could barely keep the account specs straight. Then they'd dump me off QA in less than a week and start me on another account.

That's when I made the decision to either get out of MT entirely or only do it on my terms. I'm working to make as much money as I can in as little time possible. I'm not here to be a goody, goody, "go to" Girl Scout saving the supervisors' butts from staffing problems and elapsed TAT. They didn't offer incentive or differential for taking on over and above. Why should my paycheck suffer because they under or overstaff?

Anyway, I found my fit. They scratch my back, so I'm very willing to scratch their backs.

I just started at a hospital, hospital work is new to me, but they're giving me a week to get my line count up to 160 lines an hour. I've been there 60 days. My question is what company is good that trains you on-line that will help place you also with a company on-line. I just need help learning hospital reports. I've been typing clinic for 7 years. I think I'll lose this job. I can't believe it! Thanks for your help.

Feedback is great, it's how we all learn. But that's not the purpose of having you there - the purpose is to get the work done.

I promise, having been on both sides of the fence, MTSO and client, that it was not one bad report that got you tossed. It was enough of them that they couldn't have it happen again - and it may not have all been your reports, remember.

Again, sorry this happened to you, but yes, it IS your fault, not that you could help it. I'm sure you did the best work you could, with your limited experience. Chin up, there are other places out there. Just learn from what happened.

and I definitely lost 50% of my work to EMR. Also, they will be adding VR to this system in 6 months, which reduces my serve to just editing. What they want to pay for editing, I can go to work at McDonald's and make more an hour....

I've been in this business for almost 30 years. Some things have changed over the years, but one has remained the same: This profession attracts people with limited social skills who don't know how to communicate with others effectively.

I'm sure you weren't let go because of your age. That was a lame excuse he came up with to cover up the fact that he most likely owed a favor to someone and hired a friend of a friend as a favor and you had to go to make room for him/her.

It happens all the time, unfortunately. When you work a solitary job, live a solitary existence, and are clearly uncomfortable taking the bull by the horns and facing someone in person (thus having your replacement fire you instead of doing it himself) that's what happens. Cowards and social outcasts make up 99% of this profession - nature of the beast.

NASSAU, Bahamas -- The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith has been found dead in the Bahamas, where the former reality TV star and Playboy playmate gave birth to a baby girl days earlier.

Authorities had not determined what caused the death of Daniel Smith, whose body was found Sunday morning, said Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for Trimspa, the diet products company that has been endorsed by Smith. Bonnema had no other details, and calls to Smith's lawyer, Howard K. Stern of Santa Monica, Calif., were not immediately returned.

A statement on Smith's Web site said the son died suddenly.

"We have yet to learn the cause of death but do not believe that drugs or alcohol were a factor," the statement said. "Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being."

Walter Evans, a spokesman for the Royal Bahamian Police Force, would say only that the son of an undisclosed celebrity had been found in a room of the private Doctor's Hospital in Nassau.

Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6 pound, 9 ounce girl at the hospital on Thursday, her Web site said.

Her son had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister," the statement said. "Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace."

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year. Since then, she has feuded with Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, over her entitlement to the tycoon's estate.

Bonnema said she did not know the name of Daniel Smith's father or that of the baby girl.

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Associated Press writer Daisy Nguyen is Los Angeles contributed to this report.

After a sandwich for lunch I wanted something sweet but didn't want a big dessert or anything so I decided to just get a cinnamon hard candy. Well I must have taken in a breath as I was putting it in my mouth and it went straight down my throat. It was lodged in part way down. I could breath but was REALLY scared. I don't know what I was thinking but I tried to make myself throw up. OH MY what if it would have got stuck coming back up!!! Probably not a bright idea, but I wasn't thinking straight. Well the gagging must have made it go further down because the feeling isn't as bad and it feels further down, unless that is just a feeling from it going down. Right now I am just going to assume that it is still in there but further down. HOPING it will dissolve. Do you guys think if I drink hot tea or something like that it might help dissolve it quicker? I'm kind of afraid to drink anything (definitely won't eat anything for a while!!!). Anyone ever had this happen or heard of it happening to anyone???

She said she had money problems herself being paid on time, but would take elaborate vacations, and even bought a beach house, all the while pushing our payday further and further off. When her checks started taking a week to clear at my bank, I got out. I work for three different companies as an IC, from large to small in size, and I have NEVER had that problem since. I loved my accounts with her, also, but one of these days your check isn't going to clear at all. That's the handwriting on the wall, so to speak.