I'm not sure which I'm more disgusted with..your glee at the money or your laughing at him bei
Posted By: practically speechless on 2005-12-03
In Reply to: My husband just signed up for group life insurance with work which will give him 10x his salary if - Dancin Shoes
upset. Better check the will..he just might add a clause that you lose the money if you remarry!
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Disgusted too!!
You're not without company! I wanted to reply because I feel your pain. Part of being an MT (for me) is I can't stand the "rat race." The way some companies handle themselves is unexplainable. To me, employment should be a win/win situation. Instead, they act as though they hold the almighty key and we should take it, gratefully. I would like to know what my working situation will be before I begin. Don't I have the right to interview them back? Afterall, isn't it a joint effort? Maybe I'm being unrealistic, but I hate the rat race and glad I work from home. I'm just not cut out for these office people.
Disgusted!
  I'm just totally disgusted when clinics call me inquiring about service. I always ask to receive copies of transcripts before I quote a price. The quality of their transcripts is just a complete joke, and that's putting it mildly. Run-on sentences, no punctuation, etc. It just really looks like a fifth grader typed it. You'd certainly think that with all the years of education the docs have had, they wouldn't tolerate this slop to save a dime. What a joke! I really feel sorry for the health care in our country. And you know what the problem is with this? The docs don't call directly to speak wtih the MT Service owner - they have "their girl" do it, who doesn't know a hoot and a holler about medical transcription -- just the bottom line - "HOW MUCH DO YOU CHARGE?" I do believe once the docs take the time and interest in their patients' notes, things may change.
What's your opinion on this?
DISGUSTED!!!
Has this happened to anyone else? Once you learn an account, get pretty decent lines, making decent money, boom -- your account is switched. Then, when requesting downtime, oh no, we are not paying downtime, we had to take work from you because of your low QA (up until then QA was 99+ or better) hummmm??? (P.S. I have 22 years experience, not at all new to this game). I am receiving corrected reports for mistakes in THEIR macros, which I had informed them about and was told to leave them.....??? I was told, "Oh sure, we have LOTS of work, then run out almost daily....
I read a post from an MTSO wondering if there were any good transcriptionsts out there (you bet there are!!), well I am wondering if there are any decent companies left out there. I have worked for a couple different ones now, seem to me they are all shady characters. They promise you the moon, then once you are working for them, everything changes. Nothing is the way they promised!! Seems like once a Transcriptionist starts making some really good money, they do everyting they can to take it away. I need to win the lottery!!! or a new job.
Disgusted with this site
I'm almost to the point that I don't even open this site when I see it in my E-mail. The subjects discussed are in no way related to my profession as a medical transscriptionist. Who cares if you go to Wal-Mart or Target, really? And the bickering back and forth is so petty and stupid. To carry on an ongoing dialogue about who knows what and who is the smarter is pretty stupid. I have more important things to do with my time. Can't we make this a professional site?
Discouraged and disgusted
I have a training course, a 3-month internship, and 4 months employment into this line of work and I here I am only making 2-5 cpl. I apply for jobs, but they won't even let me test. Why is this profession so hard to break in to? It seems so incredibly impersonal and these human resource people seem so curt and rude, like you're not a real person. Today I feel like I've made a huge and costly mistake getting into this business. Anyone out there considering it should think twice!
I don't do crummy work, but I am quite disgusted with what I see in this industry.
I don't know why we put up with it. They lower our pay, send our jobs overseas, expect us to be on call for no pay at all. They dance around the IRS definitions of employee, SE and IC. I've been threatened before, verbally or email abused by supervisors, and even had to resort to legal tactics to get my rightfully deserved pay.
All they care about is production. I've mentioned to my supervisors a few times when I found errors in medical records or extra spaces showing up at the end of paragraphs in people's work. I wasn't tattling or trying to get anyone fired, but I felt the errors should have been fixed. Nothing was done. The people churning out those reports make more money than I do because I take the time to look things up and properly format everything. It doesn' t get me anywhere.
I am most definitely NOT sloppy. I am disillusioned because we are treated as nothing more than sweatshop TYPISTS.
Is anyone else as disgusted as I am with the current network TV fare? (sm)
I have never seen so much junk on television as there seems to be this summer season so far. I tuned in to those two new reality series - the one on ABC last night, Master of Champions, and the one on NBC on Tuesday, America's Got Talent. The one on Tuesday was nothing more than a take-off of the old Gong Show. Ridiculous people doing crazy stuff that somebody thinks is talent. And the only really "talented" ones are minor talents at best. Last night's show I thought would be more interesting with the contortionist kid who shot an arrow with her feet (that one was actually good) and drift drivers. However, they lost me in the first five minutes when they turned the drift drivers into motorized cheese graters. (They basically had to do cookies about this block of cheese with this grater attachment.) This reality stuff has just gone completely overboard when the major networks are putting this kind of garbage. This is the type of stuff I would expect to see on the lesser networks. I'm ready to throw the TV out the window!
Disgusted, your last paragraph is so true! Thanks for voicing it out loud! nm
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Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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They are using US and laughing at us. NM
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Laughing!
For someone who has been on "both sides of the game" you sure do not have your facts straight. You do not have to be a member of AAMT to take the CMT exam!!
not laughing
but cutting it off with a knife takes all the fun out of it.
eating vertically is, I guess, round and round, as opposed to side to side. Didn't know how to describe it. I eat both ways, actually, I don't want to miss a thing!
got me laughing too!! Thanks. nm
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still laughing
giggles are good and docs come up with some fine ones. just had this on H&P.
GU, RECTAL, and BREAST exam are deformed!!!!!! lololololol
Not laughing at all.
I have read several articles where people talked about doing that. I hadn't even thought of that and my tailbone is as sore as the rest of yours are.
Thanks for the reminder! I think I even have one of those babies stashed somewhere. Time to take a break and find it.
I'm still laughing...that is great...
Now I've got all these images in my head about Internest Street in Transcription City. This is really, really funny. My dog is looking at me wondering why I'm laughing to myself. Oh well!! Probably will be thinking about this all day...will develop a whole town, with many streets and avenues.
What other names can others come up with. Lets build this city. OK everyone, send in your suggestions!! 
I am not laughing at the technology.
At this point, at least to my understanding, the health insurance industry and Joint Commission require detailed documentation,especially the insurance companies who love to quibble on what they'll pay. When the detailed documentation is no longer being required and standard text and check off systems are used, the docs have no way to cover their butts. Let a few of them be sued for malpractice because they have no detailed proof of exact treatment, and we'll see just how wonderful this mobile system works. The insurance companies will be in an uproar over the judgements they are paying out.
I didn't see anybody laughing.
Everyone thinks Frankie boy has major mental problems.
lol! well, laughing through my tears, actually.
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Laughing Out Loud. nm
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If you can stop laughing for a sec...
Where are these "places where typing pays decent$$$" and "there are tons and tons of men," please? I've been in the working world for over 40 years and no matter what the job, men are going to be paid more, even if they are just standing the "Slow" sign on road construction. The only exceptions I know of are jobs where equity is demanded by law - such as state government and big corporations that are affected by the federal wage and labor laws.
Part of the reason are men paid more is because they think they deserve it and will not accept the same kind of treatment most women will take for the sake of a job. Also, men are more likely to be put into management and supervisor positions, despite their education and experience. It happens in nursing, customer service, any job that is predominantly female. There are probably a lot of reasons for that and I won't even go there.
ok, got it - you were on floor laughing *LOL.nm
 
LOL=laughing out loud (nm)
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ROFL ASR keeps me laughing
I get lots of funnies too
Laughing at this doctor
he thinks cc, as in carbon copy, stands for closed caption. Please closed caption Dr. So-And-So. 
Those are both priceless!!! Now I'm laughing. nm.
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Laughing - you are soooo right
QA is overrated and yes they do need to get themselves.... QA are MTs that think they know more than a regular MT... in a nutshell....
I think this must be a joke, and I am not laughing.
Why are you both obsessed with laughing??? sm
Jasper is laughing... You're laughing... Acusis is laughing... Glad to see you're all so easily amused.
My personal experience with the MTSO in question is that they have been above-board and forthcoming with info in past *crises* and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here. Besides, as I read Jasper's post, this pay cut was strictly for the editors... I'm not an editor.
I'm also smart enough NOT to cut off my nose to spite my face: IF my MT pay rate is cut, I'll still choose to stick around with Acusis because I have decent benefits including freebie money in my 401K, relatively pleasant accounts, and I KNOW that to start all over again with any other company out there, INCLUDING the beloved and hallowed WMX, I'd be making LESS per line and I'd be running out of work. So...
You and Jasper go right ahead and jump ship. I'll be glad to pick up your OT, and I'll bet I'm not the only one who stays behind to pick up the slack.
Best of luck to YOU, too, and thank you for leaving. *chuckle*
Laughing when you said the doctors are doing their own
editing. They cannot even spell most of the time.
OMG, I'm in tears I'm laughing so hard!
That is so funny!
Still laughing my ... off and now im gonna work
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Not laughing at your bill.. that bites..but
in California gas & electric has sucked big time for decades! I average around $2000 a year...throw in some rolling blackouts too.
lol=laughing out loud, tia= thanks in advance
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I believe lots of laughs/laughing and
thanks in advance.
When new, my boss started laughing
when looking over my report, apologized and said she was sorry but she couldn't help laughing. I had typed "the patient has a four-foot stump" instead of forefoot. Then another time, the doctor's first name was Gus, and I had typed Gums, thankfully they caught it right before it went on the record.
Make money? I'm not making any money because of my decision. You read my reasoning
You can agree with me or not, but don't make false assumptions please.
I defend her for being out there while you were yoda'd out on the couch laughing at her. :) nm
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I can barely type I'm laughing so hard
Yes, you are going to get slammed for saying some of that stuff, but it is Hilarry-ious!!! And, oh so true. Oh, my side hurts!
I agree...verbatim is not a laughing matter
I am a grammar geek. I was an English major in college and actually once upon a time wanted to be an English teacher. I've been an MT for 22+ years now, and one of the hardest things for me to do is to type verbatim when all I want to do is correct the grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc., of a dictator who has neither the knowledge of proper English grammar nor the time to care.
Sometimes it's not just a matter of being grammatically correct but a matter of being accurate. For instance, if a dictator says under a review of systems, *No history of chest pain, palpitations,* and I type it that way (verbatim), it could be construed to mean that there is no history of chest pain but there IS a history of palpitations, when the dictator most probably meant no history of chest pain OR palpitations; that is, NO history of chest pain AND NO history of palpitations. Now, I realize *verbatim* transcription doesn't take a Transcriptionist off the hook for not using common sense, but if you tell people *verbatim means verbatim,* then you will more than likely get finished reports with verbiage similar to the above example. My trouble is that some days I can't find a happy medium--I either want to fix it all or leave it all and blame bad sentence structure on the dictator. Of course, I do neither, since wholesale editing is not appropriate and *verbatim* does not mean incomprehensible. One of my pet peeves is when a dictator says something on the order of *The patient was explained the risks and benefits of the procedure.* What? I think the dictator means that the risks and benefits of the procedure were explained to the patient. Do I dare edit? Of course, I make just as much money if I leave it, right? Plus, I can fall back on *verbatim,* LOL. What about when a dictator says something like this: *The patient was taken to the operating room by Dr. Smith after he was hit by a car and suffered multiple orthopedic injuries*? I actually did laugh out loud when I heard this sentence recently in an actual dictation. Poor Dr. Smith, performing surgery right after being struck by a car!
And: Today you are laughing, tomorrow you wil be crying, believe me...nm
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You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
I also blew some money signing up with Quixtar... The only way to make any money is to bug everyone
you know into signing up. I felt like a snake oil huckster. I hated it. I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money.
RUN, do not walk away! I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!) Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing. Then make a business out of it. That's the best way to have a side business. Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar? Not so much.
The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
Who's laughing? I'm just shocked that you take offense to the person who is correcting
YOUR mistakes, rather than the morons who are making these ridiculous errors, making the MT profession look silly. These mistakes should not have been made. I'm embarrassed for you my dear, not laughing at you.
Absolutely Hysterical!! We did not stop laughing. My side hurts. nm
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Not rebuild an historic city in US? We would be laughing stock of world, oh, we
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Oh, geez! My cheeks hurt from laughing. That was pretty good!
Hilarious! First time I've burst out laughing all week! Thanks. nm
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Yeah, money, that's it. I paid $20.00 for my dog. Money is NOT THE ISSUE
walk him daily, play ball daily, he sleeps in my office daily while I work. Yeah, I got a lot of money, NOT HARDLY. And, my dog is HORRIBLY HORRIBLY ABUSED because he wears a collar around his neck. It's people like you that make me sick. I am done defending my use of the shock collar. I am going to continue with it and my dog will continue to be pampered , educated, fed, kept warm, and love me for everything that I do for him even when I remind him that his barking needs to stop. So, with that said, I will not respond to any more of your CRAP in reference to the shock collar.
I am laughing so hard, I swear I fixed my 'pot' (for potassium) expander, and it came out pota
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