I'm interested in knowing how much
Posted By: truffle on 2008-01-03
In Reply to: What should an MT make with 10 years - MT4eight
one should make after 19 years? I ALWAYS short-change myself and would love to know how to know when it is okay to push for more and when it doesn't matter because they won't go any higher. A couple of weeks ago, for example, somebody said Diskriter offered them nearly 10 cpl, but I had 18 years of experience when I interviewed with them last year, and they said 8 cpl was as high as they would go. If I had said, no thanks, I have to have more per line, would they have gone higher? Somebody explain to me how to negotiate... I would hate for my paycheck to be 20% less because I'm not savvy enough in this regard.
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I would be interested in knowing this as well....
I am interested in knowing more about wireless
I am in the very same situation as the first poster, although I do have a reliable ISP and connect at 50+ Kbps all the time.
I know nothing about wireless and am wondering if it would be advantageous for me. Please keep in mind, I not the most computer literate person. :D Could you explain it to me in further detail? If you would like, please feel free to send me an E-mail.
Thanks so very much.
Sandi
I'm interested in knowing the brand - I'm looking a new chair. Thanks! nm
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I would be interested in knowing if they have young children too?
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Knowing what I know now, NO, I would not become an MT. nm
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It is just knowing what you
are typing as you go along, reading as you type. If you are using abbreviation expanders, make SURE that you have not typed a WRONG expansion. Good Luck!
Comes sometimes with just knowing the right people. sm
Many of these positions are not advertised, just referred.
Knowing English as well
In your post you said "I am knew" to the transcription world. It should be new. This is just what would keep you from passing a transcription test.
Not knowing your husband, so I'm
not sure if this will work. Place the clothes in the basket but DON'T wash them anymore. Clean the dishes but DON'T cook for him anymore (this also eliminates the need for paper plates). See if he notices....LOL.
Knowing what my mortgage is....sm
truly keeps me motivated....the mortgage is HUGE....*bites nails*
*lol*
I has been my experience in knowing other ICs--sm
that they usually try to find someone who will cover for their work load while they are gone. It is not fair to overload the other ICs who work there too and that would keep you from being overloaded yourself when you return. It may make your employer a little more amenable to you being gone, if they knew that there would still be someone there to do the work. just a thought.
Knowing what I have heard from others
including nurses, the field is wide open for the pay scale. If I had the chance to go either MTing or nursing, definitely choose nursing. The situation in transcription has been going down in pay and I doubt it will improve. I have met nurses who have their house notes paid, their vehicles paid, $$$$ because of physicians wanting someone in their office. To me this is a no-brainer. I do not think the 2 compare when it comes to the bottom line, money that is. The working at home is ok but my pay, for example, has fell in the 80s from the high $50,000 to maybe the medium 20s now. If younger and had the chance, I would say nursing is a wonderful opportunity.
Knowing the truth....
Anyone who has been in this industry doing MT for more than 30 years and has survived knows the score. We feel grateful for our skills and we are humbled by the years of dedication it took to crack any nut thrown our way. People in the industry know who we are and most of us just prefer to do straight transcription because we know what we are doing and feel comfortable.
Also, we love the challenge of being able to decipher a really difficult report and make that doctor happy especially the ESL.
From my point of view, there are just to many MTs who go to QA hoping to learn something but the learning is in the transcribing. Just reading the reports is not going to give you that edge. You need to develop the "ear" and a knowledge of the specialties that only true dedication brings to the forefront.
We're living in a time when people want to make easy money without really having any experience or real knowledge. They just feel if they go to that good school, they will be all set and ready to make big bucks. It's that mentality of entitlement minus the years of hard work and dedication that is ruining this country. Sadly, it seems the more you know and the harder you work, the less you make.
Call it moral degredation.
You gave notice to your old job w/o knowing
what your line rate would be? Am I understanding that correctly?
thanks...just knowing there are others, same age bracket, skills, etc...does help...
like you, I LOVE this job, and actually chose it - not the other way around. Fortunately, it has not cost me anything, really, like the other poster mentioned; but I too am scared.
It is always upsetting when you life changes because of things out of your control...at our age, we are from the times when people had one job until they retired. I know that is history, but man, this way is ridiculous. Flying from job to job, no continuity, no structure. What good can come of this anyway.
like the other poster mentioned, who cares about us anyway, really. the rich only care about getting richer, and that crap about giving the tax cuts to the rich and they will 'share it' - what a bunch of fools we have been.
thanks for sharing!
ROFLMAO - you're better off not knowing!
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kids have no business even knowing about this!!
nm
You're right, it doesn't, but it does help already knowing
the basics of medical terminology and such.
Hard to say without knowing your interests.
Try to find a site that helps you determine a good fit for your likes and skills. You may also want to consider some community college course(s) in subjects of interest to you to help determine where you want to go. Look at this as an opportunity to try something completely different if you're so inclined.
Without knowing the details of your finanacial situation . . .
it's impossible to know. If you have good credit 18 points shouldn't be hard to do. Didn't he have any other suggestions? One thing you can do is, if you have a good banking relationship, get a small signature loan from that bank and pay it back in 30 days. That will raise your score, but ONLY if the bank doesn't pull a credit report, since that takes off a few points. Get a $500 or $1000 loan, let it sit in your account, and then pay it back. It will only cost a month's interest and should raise your score enough.
They might not, but I would still get satisfaction knowing I didn't keep quiet about it. sm
And you know AHDI probably has the attitude of "well nobody has ever come to us telling us we're not working for them," or some such thing.
Sort of like passing your driving test and knowing. . .
That you'll never have to take it again!
Well, at least until you're 80. 
I'm interested in a MT Course??? HELP!!!
Can anyone give me some advice on going thru a MT course? I would very much like to do an online training but not sure if they are legit or not. I have some information from Allied Health which is about 1500. Is that normal? Does anyone know of any better courses? Is it okay to take an online course? I have so many questions but don't know who to ask. Do you guys get paid decent money? HELP!!! HELP!!! All answers will be appreciated!!!
I was interested but...sm
I was interested in finding out answers, not listening to flaming. You were rude to the poster in your first post. How is that helping anyone? No one else had to have a rude comment. So, no I am not interested in your post if it is smart instead of productive.
B and E. Not interested! nm
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Who is interested?
Insurance companies are interested. If you are running for political office, lots of folks would be interested.
Not interested
I am not interested in your suggestions. I posted a message to the Administrator, not to you or anyone else. You don't tell people what to skip. Since we are making suggestions here...I SUGGEST that you not respond to my messages that are intended for the administrator.
I'm interested in this myself.
I would only need it to receive faxes, not send. It says that with the free account you get a non-local number versus a local number with a paid account. This wouldn't matter if the person I am getting the bulk of my faxes from is not local anyways, would it?
Also, I am referring to the efax software. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
I'm interested
Hi, there - I'm actually in the Midwest, but have the capability to handle uploaded dictation, and am definitely interested in taking on a new account. Do they require the MT to be located in their area?
Theresa
I am interested :) Thanks! nm
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I don't know, but am interested as well
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I am interested in VR, also. Which co. is this?
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Interested in more than QA sm
I don't know if it was clear in my original post, but I am interested in more than QA, for instance supervisor, manager, coordinator, etc. QA would be last on my list.
Interested in tips on moving up in company.
Not Interested
I don't believe a word she says and am not interested in communicating with her!
Would be interested to know
what are some of the negatives, if you wouldn't mind sharing...I was actually thinking about applying at a state hospital, and there seems to be a lot of good reasons to take the job. So, I would appreciate your input on some of the things I might want to be aware of before making my decision.
Thanks!
I would be interested in this as
well, if you hear anything! I use my F11 key as well and would like to try another key.
I am interested in this too!
I have just started hearing about the EMR system. I have heard this will do away with clinic reports, ER reports for medical transcriptionists, but it will not replace acute care.
You getting me interested!
Ok for my headings I have hpiub which will expand to "HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: " all in bold letters. Is this what you mean by a macro or do you mean to actually set up a macro in MS Word?
Thanks
I'd be interested to know if you have the facts on this
Not flaming at all, just would like to know what goes on, what they're not telling us. I've seen documentaries on how humanely they do it, by injection for cows and they give pain relievers to chickens. Am I being naive here?
Thanks, i'd be interested to learn more
Butting in here... I am very interested in sm
this. Is it hard to learn? I know I probably sound ridiculous but I take it we just have our headsets on and dictate what the doctor dictates, right? Can you edit as you go along, such as putting in addresses and such? This is intriguing to me. Does it end up saving you lots of time in the long run?
Thanks for any information you can provide. I would love to have one of these, I think.
To snowbunny and anyone else interested...
You asked what line rate I thought my experience and expertise was worth. Realistically I would think anywhere between 13 and 15 cpl. Of course, that would put me back to where I was nine years ago! Forget inflation, I would be happy to have my old radiology clinic back at that rate but, wait, they are now paying a large corporation 8 to 10 cpl. And, the corporation is paying someone in a third world nation a pittance of that. However, for the Transcriptionist in the third world nation the salary is great! Perhaps we should be happy that we are doing our best to bring these third world countries into the main stream. While that sounds sarcastic, it is not completely sarcastic. I do not begrudge the transcriptionist doing the work. I am just tired of Corporate America paying the executives exorbitant salaries with "golden parachutes" and leaving the worker hanging. Executives can ruin the business, trash the name of the company in the news and still be handed a bonus in the millions! Sure the upper management should be paid more for the responsibilities they bear, but 500%, 1000%, and more?! This is happening in every business - not just ours and I believe it is the main reason that we are losing business to other countries. American companies cannot pay American workers what they should be paid in order to live in our society as long as they pay huge salaries, bonuses, and buyouts to their failed executives. Perhaps executives should be paid only if they produce and the company is successful ... kind of like a ballplayer! Start losing money and you are out of work! But wait - that will only cause them to fire more American workers and piece meal out the work to people who can live on less. Where are we going wrong? Yes, we need corporations to make a profit, yes we need to pay upper management for their skill and expertise, but shouldn't we (the collective we) try to keep American workers working???
Im interested and whants to know more.
Well, im a Editor already for MQ and im not sure if i want to renew my contract with them. It actually interesting to teach kids english. Is there a online school or training program for this i so could learn while doing my current MT work?
Here is a question for anyone interested....
I was reading on another board... The problem with the larger companies was switching from account to account to account. However, learning the account specifics (or at least printing them so you can refer to them) should not be that hard. I want to know what is so hard about jumping around? I work 7 accounts as an Editor and never have been able to figure this particular "gripe" out. Docs are docs are docs. No matter what hospital they are at. Reports don't change that much. How hard is to jump from to another? I just don't see why this is such a problem. Your paycheck should not be an issue, because as an MT you should be able to transcribe any doc out there. If you really have an issue with this, you might want to rethink what you do for a living.
But in saying the above, just for a note, I don't understand these MTs that can only do 800-1000 lines in 8 hours either.
I am an older MT (16 years) and have had to do all of it. Never thought once about any of it except do my best at it, learn from it and then excel at it.
The thing that really interested me is the sm
potential to set my own hours as a deposition court reporter. I also see jobs to do closed captioning for television working at home. Right now I just want to be sure - before I spend the money and time - that this is a field that won't be taken over by VR anytime soon.
A few more tips for those interested
I use the number 8 key for my ectomy words.
For examply. Appendectomy is programmed as a8
Cholecystectomy c8
Hysterectomy h8
Tonsillectomy t8
You get the idea. In the rare instance that this interferes with another word (i.e. T8 on a spine exam. I type t8n which means (NOT) so it will expand to simply T8.
instead of using the semicolon, I do pretty much the same thing but with the slash / on the right side of the keyboard. I use this pretty much when i can divide words such as t/a therafter. u/w underwent u/g undergone l/h lightheaded.
for family members I use the number 9. For example,
b9 is brother s9 is sister sil9 is sister in law d9 is daughter gm9 grandmother gd9 grandaughter.
I use the letter z quite a bit to just to phonetically shorten words. For example.
dz disease anz aneurysm rz resolve rzd resolved rzg resolving bz because czd caused czg causing etc. If i here a "z" sound in a word I take advantage of it.
My psych words take the prefix nut. nuts is psychosis nutc is psychotic lol. Cute, I know, but I never forget these.
For really common words that I type a zillion times: AR anterior pr posterior ll lateral ml medial I try to make these as short as possible.
KEEP THE TIPS COMING. This is great to share.
Do you have a link? I'm interested.
nm
Question - I am interested in getting
Vonage. I have roomates & have to share a ground line. There is a teenager in the house who is always monopolizing the telephone. Would I be able to get Vonage set up just for myself on the computer, or would I have to get the person who has the land line to order it?
Would your niece be interested ...sm
in talking with one of the agencies that works with pregnant women that really goes in depth with her about the options? If you know anyone who had an abortion try to have her talk to them because I've not known any woman who had one that didn't wonder about the baby and what the child may have been like if they hadn't aborted it, and despite what the abortion doctors try to say - it is a surgical procedure and ends the life of a child and there are emotional implications from that. She should also talk with women who have given up a child for adoption as well. If she's serious about not wanting to keep the child then she should consider adoption and realize that there are resources out there to help her through the pregnancy, including the pregnancy bills, and alternatives that will give the child to a loving home instead of a dumpster.
Dr. Phil seems only interested in
for his weight loss supplements and snack bars. I read the ingredients and they are full of trans fats, which are the ones that plug up your arteries. Now he is in movies too. Tired of him and his pop culture psychology.
Interested in MD transcription--help!
Hi--
I am a high school social studies teacher whose salary is so low I can't live off it. I am looking for a part-time job that I can do from home and am interested in MD transcription but I'd like to find out more about the job first.
I've looked around the internet and found much conflicting information. I've seen pay ranges from as low as $8. per hour up to a high of $40. per hour and want to know what I can really expect. Also, can I easily get a job working from my home? I already have a graduate degree. Do I still have to go through the official training for MD transcription or can I get a job and do on the job training? If I have to train, how long does it take and how much does it cost? Will paying for and going through the training virtually assure I'll get a job? Also, what schools are the best/least expensive? I don't want to get ripped off. Could I work at this job from home as little as 10 hours per week?
I guess what I really need is some direction to a web site, or book to help me work through this process to determine if I really want to do this.
Is there someone out there who can direct me?
Thanks.
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