How would the doctors/rich HMO CEOs feel about

• Food for Thought - Worker in USA
  • That sounds all well and good - until that employee at home
    • So you get a backup, like I have - anon
      • Again, easier said than done. - sm
        • So you charge ,12 cpl...(sm) - Dinosaur
          • I've offered this before. - sm
          • I agree - teaser
    • you get a network of MTs to cover as backup whom you can trust. kinda like docs are "oncall" - LMT
      • Easier said than done, but you keep beating a dead horse. - sm
        • as an IC you are a business - I Agree
        • sounds like YOU are - edit
          • And you are doing nothing more than whining. Re-read the post. - sm
            • to me, your response is RIDICULOUS! - edit
              • Oh, it's you, Shroom. I'd recognize that attitude anywhere. - sm
                • WRONG, whoever shroom is - edit
            • why don't YOU do what YOU say - edit
              • Is this the last we have to read from you? - sm
                • bye, ding dong, good riddance!! - edit
                  • That explains ALL your childish behavior. - nm
                    • "Childish?" Look at yourself - edit
                      • You really need to understand the issues. - sm
                        • 21+ years, and you think you - edit
                          • Thankfully, self-employed so I don't have to deal with the likes of you. - sm
                          • I meant CNA, - edit
                            • Two dogs, barking at each other - through a fence.
  • While I would like to see that happen, too, - I don't see it as an option. sm
    • Doctors' offices, not hospitals - anon
      • All of a sudden you have these - accounts where you have no vacation
      • As with everything else in healthcare, the downslide of MT - started when the HMOs moved in. nm
    • How would the doctors/rich HMO CEOs feel about - working for less money each year? nm
      • You may not believe this, but doctors are working for less - money each year.
        • you are right - I do not believe it - I - know better
          • small mentality usually means small pocketbook - Yes, they DO work for less now.
            • Depends on where they work......... - NM
          • big homes do not mean - just me
      • They do have to work on less insur payments, etc. - But that has no effect on this issue.
        • Gaaaaa.... don't even get me started on what the - insurance co's. have contributed to this mess!
    • And high producers do not want hourly pay. - We like at-home production pay!
      • In my experience hourly employees - don't product as much as cpl workers.
        • Depends on where you work and how you're paid - and treated, among other things. nm
      • Being a high-producer is a good thing, but so is quality, - sm
        • Hey, I have never made lower than 99% on my - quality reports. Never.
          • LOL - I agree with you. - beating the dead horse sm
          • So if you were making 7cpl and were offered 10 cpl, - you would turn it down? nm
            • Depends on incentive offered, benefits, and - nature of the accounts, work schedule, contracts,
              • Provided bennies were identical? - nm
        • Furthermore - sm
          • My former job paid by the hour. Higher producers with - higher quality got more per hour. nm
        • The big companies are cheating you? - They are providing you with health insurance
          • what big company actually provides you with health insurance? sm - LMT
            • On-site employee status is not cheap either. - Healthcare is expensive everywhere.
          • When paid hourly, we still had a minimum daily line count - which was higher the more we made. nm
            • Who is cheating who then? - I have never seen it work that way.
              • Well see, the thing is, your experience is only - one in thousands. Everyone's is different.
  • Hourly or Per Line? - Neesey
    • Why *settle* for less than you made in the ྌs? - Did healthcare/meds/co-payments drop in price? NO!
      • ? I don't know what that little square is - - It should be 񓟜s"! nm
        • Aaaaah! Okay, I'll spell it out - nm - Nineteen eighties. sheeshhhh
  • most private doctors... - missed TAT etc
  • May I just add... - Worker in USA
  • I Agree 100% - worried MT
    • You're right. (sm) - So tired of being devalued!
    • Exactly! What are the big nationals providing? - mtstudent
      • It's cheaper to hire a national than pay employees - and overhead. NM
        • What are they providing to the MT? - mtstudent
          • The big companies are cheating themselves, as well. - see mssg.
          • Low wages? I make approx $60K a year at - a national. ? LOL
            • How? By working 12-hr days 7 days/week? - High producers should get MORE cpl, not LESS!
              • No. I work four 10-hour days. I'm really fast, really - experienced. On rare
                • I found that the more OT I made, the more of it - went to the government.
                  • I don't do that much of it but my wages have pushed me - into a higher tax bracket.

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Thats just for the lucky people that come upon something by accident.  lol.  If your looking, it will never happen.  If you ask most rich people how they got rich, they will say I worked real hard for it, or I just got lucky...   I tryed looking in to a few of the get money things, but they all seemed to be SCAMS to me..  If you do find any though, let me now.  

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"If I discover a zinc deficiency, I typically recommend 25 milligrams of zinc picolinate twice a day to start," says Dr. Silbert. Of course, you can also eat more of the foods that contain zinc. Your best bet is seafood such as cooked oysters and crab. Meats such as lean beef and lean pork also provide zinc, but they’re not really recommended because they are high in saturated fat. Other sources include eggs, whole grains, nuts, and yogurt. If you plan to take more than 20 milligrams of zinc a day, it’s best to do so under your doctor’s care.

Hope you're okay with the train tracks.  Wouldn't want you to have to transcribe your own visit note?  or 

Anyway, if me and hubby's workload keeps increasing, we'll have to call back that housekeeper.  We have more time (a little :) without having kids - so I can just imagine - but still...so much to do, so little time. 

Well..have a good evening...uh...morning!

we live below our means, which means we save cash for what we want, don't charge silly impulse items, realize that retirement is right around the corner and it is our responsibility, not the government, to take care of ourselves. My point is that many people have bought more house than they could afford, have high car payments, credit cards are charged to the max, have to keep up with the Jones' and then complain about being broke. While I agree that economic times are tough now, there are many people out there who have spent themselves into hard times without and now regret it, but sure didn't want to live on a budget when times were good. Look how lazy the younger generation is now...they expect everything new now, don't want to work for anything because their parents over indulged them, they come out of college expecting to make six-figures and have an easy life.

Don't get you panties in a wad over my opinion....it's just that...my opinion, we are all allowed to have them, this is still America, right?

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said that the current global investment pattern was "profoundly abnormal" and in no country's interest.

"It is not sustainable in the long run that the emerging world would finance the industrial world. It doesn't correspond to the interest of the emerging world, neither to the interest of the industrialised world," he said.

In a similar vein, Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said countries like his, one of the emerging stars on the global economic scene, were under threat.

"Global imbalances are deepening and that has serious consequences for developing countries like India," he said.

The United States is currently seeing huge inflows of capital from the developing world, notably China, that are financing its current account deficit, bolstering the dollar and keeping long-term interest rates low though bond purchases.

The danger to the world economy is that when the inflows eventually dry up there could be sharp economic and market dislocations.

"There are potential triggers that could create serious consequences for the global economy. The first is a southward movement of the dollar, the second is an unexpected increase in U.S. interest rates ... Thirdly, (a spiral in) energy prices... will lead to inflationary expectations," Chidambaram said.

U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said that his country needed to play its part to solve the imbalances but also called on China again to let the yuan currency strengthen.

"The U.S. needs to increase savings, starting with a reduction of the budget deficit," he said. "China needs to move its currency to be driven by underlying market forces soon." The growing significance on the world economic stage of countries such as China and India has been a major theme this week at Davos.

U.S. officials such as Kimmitt have been keen to say that they are not expecting any immediate change in the flow of funds from China in particular and that U.S. financial markets are robust enough to handle a change.

There are some concerns on the bond market, however, that China is losing some of its appetite for Treasuries.

India's Chidambaram, meanwhile, said that he expected flows from China would change as local consumption grew.

"I think the direction of exports will change. A country like China will be forced to stimulate domestic demand ... I'm not judgmental about China. The people of developing countries have to have a higher consumption of goods and services," he said. "

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-28-davos-rdp_x.htm?csp=24

Generally speaking, people associate the rich with privilege, availability to the best.  Best education, best tutors, best doctors, best therapists, best everything.  Generally, filthy rich people don't have to work and those who are rich but do work have spouses that shouldn't have to work - and often don't anyway.  There should be no reason on earth that their children should be deprived of ANYTHING, especially their parents example as role models.  But where are the parents?  They're off on world cruises, movie debuts, fashion shows in Europe, ski trips to Aspen or the Alps. Their kids are home with nannies and au pairs who raise them because it's their job.

Most poor people, unfortunately for them, are often lumped into the entire group of "welfare moms".  There are some "welfare moms" who are just as dispicable as the rich who have no time for their children, waste their time on men instead of their kids, waste what little money they have on drugs; but then again there are some "welfare moms" who haven't had a good education and have to have minimum wage jobs, those who made bad choices about teen sex and ended up pregnant, or those who aren't even welfare moms at all but hard-working single parents who have to work 2 jobs and are STILL poor.  They're not with their children because they CAN'T be.  They can't work to support them and be there too.  The outcome is all the same...the kids get their examples from TV, music, sports, or the streets.  What is really sad though is that nowadays the example the poor kids get from entertainment are usually the skanks that came from privileged background a la Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchey, Britney Spears, Gotti boys, Drew Barrymore, etc.

I work for a small MTSO, and I have been asked to work on a certain doctor.  It happened to me because I was getting his work done on time and how he wanted it done.  So, yes there are good reasons for this to happen. 

Thanks!

What do ya'll think about doctors who lie in their dictation.  I have come across this twice within the year - so I am sure it happens quite often.  Once was my own personal MR - doctor came in and told me I had a coronary spasm but when I got my records there was no mention of a coronary spasm or anything else having to do with coronary - he basically said he didn't know what the problem was - other than my blood pressure was 220/114 - which I had to take my own medicine in the bathroom to get it to come down -

then - a friend of mine had a bariatric procedure and developed a stricture - he then had an egd under conscious sedation (he is 21 years old) and he became combative on the table.  The doctor came into the RR and told us all about how he had been up and down on the table and how he was not able to do a dilation because of this - then when we got his records - the report said that he had used 3 different balloons and dilated the stricture successfully.  However, my friend was not able to keep anything down - so the doctor went in and did the egd again under general - and could not even find the anastamosis site - he was sent to a specialist who did an egd using dye and fluoroscopy.  Another stricture is forming and the specialist is going to place a stent which is not approved for bariatric patients - it is something they place in people who have esophageal cancer which allows them to eat until they die since the cure rate for esophageal cancer is so low.  I wouldn't let them touch me again - but this is a young kid and he doesn't know any better.  I might also add that the anesthesiologist and the nurse that was in the room on the first EGD came to the RR and told us how bad the situation had gotten before the doctor gave up.

long story long - do ya'll think this is common?  can we no longer trust doctors with our lives?  I realize they are scared of malpractice suits - but, as with my friend, we know that the doctor messed up his tissues - and the specialist told us how bad the tissue looked - like it had been "stabbed through with a knife, inflamed and beginning to scar up".  But do you think that they lie in all of their reports where something goes wrong - or that they color the situation so that they come out smelling like a rose?