Good post. I was starting to wonder if possibly - sm
Posted By: My 2 cents (per line?) on 2007-06-12
In Reply to: Please ignore the grammar police - I do! They take away from (sm) - dinosaur
the Grammar Police are, as you said, simply trying to divert the focus of this thread to grammar, spelling & punctuation on this board, when most of us agree it's not important in this type of venue. (hee... maybe we should go on a "punctuation strike", and eliminate it altogether?) Anyway, you are right about doing research, and coming up with a compelling letter and petition. I think much of what has been written here in this forum could be put into it, and the compilation would be pretty powerful.
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Possibly - good idea - thanks - still
contemplating the recliner - actually had to move one into my office to make way for the Christmas tree - but I bet I would have 2 cats in my lap so must see if that would work!
Thanks Snow Bunny. Good advice too. Hopefully, with the oil and possibly the Lindane, will eradica
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original post - thinking of starting MT
It was something about becoming an engineer becoming an MT or an MT becoming an engineer and working from home - just thought they needed to know what physical and mental attributes were necessary to take on this MTing. I have often found that the MT develops whatever symptoms they transcribe the most - for me it was psych and drug dependence - I thought I was going insane until I woke up and realized it was all just a dream.......
Wow, starting a ridiculous post just to provoke people
Thread starting to get out of hand. If you want to talk politics, post
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starting out that is really good , I started out at 5.5 c
You really cant go by the line count. Is this company going to give you a set amount of minutes to transcribe or are you able to pull what you want whenver you need it. That has a big part to play in how many lines you get.
Also is this clinic or acute. Clinic normally has shorter reports (but not always) and acute can be pages and pages or very short.
I think I was getting anywhere from 600 to 1000 a day first starting out, but it has been so long ago it is hard to tell.
Starting over you have a lot of good advice below on..sm
your situation. I must say I do feel for you and wish you all the best. Take care of yourself and those children first. That is most important and I will most certainly be thinking about you and saying a prayer or two. Take your time and do whatever you have to in order to make a safe and happy life for yourself and those children. Bless you and wishing you happiness.
MT2B, it's a good average sort of starting point. SM
Not at all bad, not fast.
More finger-speed will come with practice. Your next step is to buy the best word Expander you can find--recommend either ShortHand or InstantText, both avery well thought of by their users--and start with an initial goal of doubling that speed to 140, then improving from there.
An MT is paid by the line produced, and imagine how many more lines you will be able to churn out when you can type "hyd25mpb" and have "hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg p.o. b.i.d." type out for you. Plan on starting with abbreviations not for medical words, though, but for the common nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs used thousands of times a day in every document. Like "t" for "the" and "v" for "that," and so on. If an extremely common word's more than 1 letter long, consider if you shouldn't be shortening it. I shorten "he". Seriously--it's a tap of the D on my keyboard.
Strongly recommend a book like Saving Keystrokes by Diana Rolland and the website productivitytalk.com. Best wishes.
Starting pay is 6 cents a line, fairly good account stability.
I had lots of ESLs. Benefits are okay. They have a new, stricter QA policy in place with new compensation, hard to get a 98 or above as it is by the BOS. It was okay, but couldn't make any decent money. Need to be a super high producer.
Starting job using Olympus Player/pedal - does this have a good player with slow down speeds - I do
Until now I have always used company software with player included. I hate to spend money and find out the player is mickey mouse!!
Thanks- you may e-mail me if you prefer.
Here, Here! Good post. (nm)
very good post JZ
I have been working at home for over 11 years as an IC and employed. I have many times tried to juggle two jobs for various reasons, lack of work, always received the worst of the work when work is available, tiring of it, etc. etc., and I have always found it very difficult and actually end up working many more hours than when working just one job. I wish I could do it, but to date I have had great difficulty working two jobs, even if one is part-time, one full-time, or both part-time. Be sure it is what you want. Good luck!
HA! Good post. (nm)
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good post but..............sm
I read that BUSH only approved enough money to restore the levees for a category 3 hurricane (this might have changed in the recent past though) and when I heard that, I couldn't believe it. The levees needed enough money to withstand a hurricane 5. I know this because I live on the water in the SE for 30 years. Yes, it's up to the locals and nobody was condemning your governor. I do agree it's not a political affiliation thing.
But what I saw is that most of New Orleans (not the inner city) and outskirts are where a lot of poor people are/were and my feeling is this administration is not racist...they merely do not know how to deal with poverty and the poor. That's VERY sad. 
Good post!
An excellent and accurate post-very true!
Good post and I think BOS would
agree - only thing they do differently (I think and too tired at this point to verify) is serial 7's I think? I don't use the BOS as a know-it-all but use it as a guide if I cannot find it anywhere else or have no idea!! Thanks so much!
good post...
this was a very good overview, but for demographics entered I don't know if anyone pays for that though obviously they should...the element of weighted lines for very difficult ESL and maybe some non-ESL "club members", but it is something largely kept on the drawing board of MTSO but is needed especially because of the line rate aspect, versus hourly wage differential in the scheme of things. The industry members make sure to take very good care of themselves while they take care of us as much as they think they can without making it easy.
Very good post
I totally agree with you...very well said...plus like the next poster said, "It is a jungle out there."
Good post!
You gave out a lot of practical advice and good information. It was a pleasure reading this post. Thank you for taking the time to try to help others!
good post
Please consider when we were newbies many of us were fed a pack of lies about how much money we'd make right off the bat and how "easy" this job is. I was told that from the RNs who taught us at the local community college. I knew no one personally in the business to whom I could turn for the real story. These people had NO idea of the real world. It was suggested to me by several professors that I take this profession up as a way to make "easy money fast" to help pay for my RN courses. I believed them since they were from the medical field. My transcription teacher was the only one to level with us but back then it wasn't as bad as it is now. I still had hope.
I was lucky on my first job -- made excellent money on just 3 doctors, 1 specialty, templates for the most part. I thought it was a dream come true. MTing seemed to be all that it had been cracked up to be. Then my employer dropped the account, 12 of us were out of work immediately. I decided to go with a national so that that would not happen again. I was given 26 specialties with over 100 dictators all at once, and it has been another universe altogether. I am glad for the experience, but school never prepared me for THIS! I am trying to be patient, wait it out hoping things will get better because I enjoy the job, but it is not what I was told it would be.
I now work 2 jobs, weekends and holidays included. I spend my free time studying. I have learned the "real world" of transcription by first-hand experience and reading the posts on here from you experienced MTs for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration.
There really are some of us who are trying our best to become proficient at this and take our jobs seriously. If we seem unreasonable in our requests at first, it might just be that that is what we were told we would receive and we bought it. Never in my wildest imagination did I think you experienced MTs made anything even remotely close to what I was/am being paid. It wasn't until I started reading this board that I wised up.
You are right, we have to band together, not fight. We're all in this mess.
Good post
HE, HE, HE is right! How dare we ''rude, ignorant'' MTs not embrace the ramblings of someone whose fellow countrymen are co-partners in the outsourcing of our jobs and the stagnation of our wages! Tsk, tsk, tsk--how ignorant. How very politically incorrect! Your post was great and more power to you! (Wonder how well-received we'd be in their country if the shoe were on the other foot!)
Exactly! Good post!
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Good post! nm
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Good post!
I totally agree! Also, let's not fool ourselves in thinking that these reports are for the benefit of the patients. For the most part, they're for the benefit of the billing process.
Good post
First and foremost I never claimed to be perfect..This is for the snippy remark that someone made below...
This is a really good post..My pain doctor feels the same way he uses local companies. My physical therapist got so sick of the crap she was getting back she asked me how to make up shortcuts and all and now transcribes her own reports. It is faster then fixing mistakes. Thank God because she is great and I really didn't want to change but I would have...I need help with this, this is a huge undertaking...Everyone needs to ask their doctor where their information is going and who transcribes their records. I do it and if I don't like the answer I educate and will go elsewhere. Most of the docs believe it is a violation of Homeland Security..These are private docs I have spoken to not hospital docs..
Let me give you my background information so maybe you see why I am so against my information being sent overseas especially when we are at war..I am on disability from the police dept. I was a police officer for 14 yrs before having a disk fusion and had to retire..I took up MT work because I am a single mom and it allowed me to work from home and raise my boys..It is one of very few jobs my pain doctor thought I could handle so I did it. It has allowed me to raise two great kids so I feel I owe it to at least try and fight this..
Maybe I'm off on a tangent. I am in the process of researching HIPAA and how it is enforced overseas. Where I work I do VA work and need a clearance to do it..I like that..I jump on this board and see the complaining about no work so after talking to my pain doc and my boss I decided to try and help...Right off someone jumps down my throat because I misspelled HIPAA oops sorry. I never claimed to be perfect...But I am darn sure not willing to sit back and do nothing as more American jobs go overseas. I'm coming up on 50 my life is pretty much done with as far as money goes plus I am in pain every day so whatever happens to me happens I really no longer care...What about our kids and grandkids that is who I am thinking about..This country whether or not you choose to stick your head in the sand is on very fragile ground economically and security wise..
So basically you can choose to sit back and let some of us do the work or you can jump in and help..What I am asking for doesn't require much at all on your part I am doing most of the work with some really good ideas that have been provided by those that jumped on board..
I love my country and refuse to give up any more of it without a fight...So if you have some helpful remarks please feel free to let me know. I can take critism and I need a lot of guidance on this project..What I don't need is a smartA remark because I hit a wrong key on the keyboard..
Agree, good post!
Wow! Now THAT is how to complain! Good post!
Well written! No vulgarity or name-calling or cussing!
Excellent points!
You should be an attorney!!!!!
Good job!
Good post. I agree.
I didn't care for his last sentence tho!
Good post but one thing.....sm
you said you'd wait until you become financially secure before getting married so you could then could leave him and be okay $$-wise.
I left after 13 years of marriage and we pretty much had nothing....my sanity being numero uno. The stats are this....that after 5 years of divorce, women are in better shape than men financially and emotionally. That's what I've read and that's how it also happened for me. I was in better shape than him 5 years later. So, don't undercut yourself. We can make it on our own whether we have a man in our life or not!!!! It's an old wives tale from post WWII I do believe that women are not *complete* without a man and that is a total crock of s**t.....in my mind/heart/soul.
DITTO........good post...............NM
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Great post! Good to know : )
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good post but MTs there do not have 2 Masters
But what you said about cashiers is pretty right on but incomplete. Where I live, cashiers are slowly but surely being replaced with YOU, yourself, scanning your stuff at the store(s). Home Depot has been doing this here for 2 years or more and I read that MANY supermarkets are going this route. Soon there will be PRETTY MUCH ZERO CASHIERS in this country.
But I don't agree with you on the fact that the USA or every MD/facility in the USA is going to want to offshore. As I know it, plenty of US mds/facilities are PULLING THEIR STUFF back into this country.
Do not give up hope - I do not believe all of it will end up in foreign countries.........not 10 years down the road - by then, I do believe people are going to OPEN UP THEIR EYES WIDER and pull it ALL back here. *grin*
But then, I'm an optimist - always was.....not delusional...just optimistic....glass=half full, never half empty.
I MEANT the one above you is a good post
nm
Good post, MT student!
You're right about the wages for other medical field positions. My daughter is a RECEPTIONIST in a surgeon's office and makes $18 an hour! While I am happy for her, of course, I do not like the fact that we MTs have become so devalued.
I agree. Good post. sm
"I do not understand how medical documentation ever transpired into a production-oriented job. Production WILL have priority over quality when it comes to a paycheck. Why bother looking up terms in reference books or on the internet? That takes a lot of time and can affect an MT's paycheck. "
I agree 100%. Though I remember back in the olden days when I worked in the hospital, some people would work and others would socialize and not work. Maybe this is a backlash of that. But mostly I just think its corporate greed.
Funny! Good post. nm
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Good post. I agree with you.
I think someone mentioned once about the garment industry workers, when they started rising up in the 70's (remember "look for the union label"?), some people thought it was much ado about nothing, others ignored it, but people did not change their spending habits. And now if you want US-made clothes you are in for a real challenge finding them. The winds of change...and it ain't good.
you need to read her post again, then take a good look at your own.
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Here's another that covers A LOT! Good post, BTW! sm
http://linksformts.googlepages.com/
That was a good post! Totally agree.
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Good reply - LOL. This is just the kind of post
she would understand; it's on her level, which sounds about like my niece in 1st grade. You should've added "na na na boo boo"
a good post, NOT; lousy focus you have
first you sling insults at MQ as a 'nonbusiness' -- do NOT back up your accuations with anything whatsoever substantial and then drift into 'mumbo-jumbo' about how the profession has degenerated --
MQ is the giant because they are VERY good at business -- and they give me and lots of other MTs a fabulous job and are always improving as a company...as far as the profession, yes it is changing, as everything else in our world. So we either adapt, or get left behind and whine. If you are all that unhappy, it looks like time for you to move on to greener pastures in another line of work.
It's a good way to get lots of hits on your post!
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Very good post - was getting discouraged as a member myself.
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Good post! What I find especially ironic
is at least in our state all the phone work, etc. related to welfare and foodstamps has now been outsourced overseas.
Uh, hello... how about giving those jobs to the people who are on welfare or foodstamps cause they can't find jobs?!?!? Since when did the government care about saving money anyway?
any bit of info is good to know; ignore the post below
nm
You said a mouthful! All so very true! Good post!
NM
Good to see India Mts now ok to post. Tjanks
What an awesome post. Real good
advice.
Thank you for taking the time to post this good advice. NM
nm
Actually READ my post. I wrote "A GOOD COMPANY"
Thick, thick, thick.
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