Hats off to all MTs - sm
Posted By: passing through on 2006-05-19
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I posted this late last year, but this year I made it during MT Week. I sincerely tip my hat to ALL of you who do medical transcription. The knowledge you have to do your job is priceless, and you certainly do not get paid enough. That knowledge not only includes all the terms you use, but where to find the ones you don't know. And putting up with all kinds of dictators, their body noises, extraneous noises, shuffling papers, etc. I truly, truly do not know how you do that job day in and day out without going bonkers. I do radiology, and I really love it. They tried to cross-train me, and started me on discharge summaries and psych reports. I ABSOLUTELY HATED IT!!! If I had to do that everyday, I would not get out of bed. But for radiology, I'll stay up all night and work...go figure. I just wanted to tell all of you how much I admire you and all that you do. You truly are not appreciated enough and are not told often enough, and although my lowly opinion doesn't mean squat, I just felt I needed to tell you all that you are admired and respected by this lowly rad MT. Hope you all have a great MT week.
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Hats off to those that had to do it the hard way
Because I'm a lousy typist!  Seriously, if I started this career years ago with old timey equipment (and I did use that equipment in many clerical capacities, just not as an MT), I never would have stuck with it, I make too many typos.
I consider myself lucky that I entered this field about 5.5 years ago, with no formal training but a good grasp of computers and some terminology from coding/billing, trained inhouse in only one specialty; then had to relocate and decided to try working from home. I never could have done it without the inhouse training/experience, that is certain. But at the end of 3 years inhouse, I knew I could succeed without the gang of old-timers that helped pave the way for me.
What I found to my advantage offsite was my drive and ambition - something often sorely lacking inhouse. The ladies that trained me are very set in their ways. They are used to a set number of easy familiar docs, at one location, and their leisurely hourly pace. Some confided that they had attempted at one point or another to work for a national from home, and they simply could not take the variety of docs, the ESL, the rapid production pace, having no pair of "second ears" to help them over a garbled phrase; they never bothered to use expanders; these things were too much for them and they could not make a living at it, so they had to go back to in house. They are suprised that I was able to make a go of it in cyberland; and I keep in touch and thank them now and then for making it all possible.
Anyhow, thanks to eveyone who has mentored a newbie and helped them find out if this is where they belong. Its not for everyone, and many of the complainers on here need to admit that and move on to something they find more fulfilling.
What a WONDERFUL thing to do. Hats off to you. nm
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i may be weird, but i prefer ds over ops. hats off to you folks...c msg
i work with chartscript and im able to look at prior discharge reports for each doctorpatient and doing a copy/paste; this helps speed things up. i dont know if your program allows you to do the same.
its kinda hard to create normals because off different hospital courses for each patient.
if you get doctors who pretty much have a normal format, you could create normals for each and just edit as you go; like any other worktype.
sorry couldnt be more helpful. good luck.
remember when nurses wore the little hats...hahaha
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