I LOVE typing reports for podiatrists!
Posted By: Jai on 2008-01-25
In Reply to: podiatrists - GIGI
My first account was for a practice of 3 podiatrists and I so wish I could find another account like that. I miss it. 
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x most have macros, and the funny thing is that in the summer if one fall of the monkey bars you get a bunch more, or trampoline accidents, get one get half a dozen, love it, never boring!! Hope this helps!!
Typing Family/Friend/Own Reports
How do you handle having to type a report for a close friend, family member or for yourself? If you have independent contractors, do you allow them to type a report on a family member or themselves?
add to that ASR, getting paid 1/2 for basically re-typing reports! nm
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Poll- who reads/proofs reports after typing?
do you quickly glance at the report, read it word-for-word, or just cross your fingers and hope you didn't miss anything?
I'm just curious.
you do know you are probably typing your reports into an electronic system youself. sm
Hospitals went paperless years and years ago.
I love it too. We used to also get the LifeFlight reports
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All and any Operative Reports! Love em!. sm
Including Cardiothoracic and cardiac caths.
I absolutely love ER/ED reports.
When I worked at a hospital, we had a rotating schedule on who did those and x-rays. Like poster below, if you don't want them I will take them.
I love psychiatric reports, really fascinating, always different. nm
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I have a doctor who will sing his reports every once in a while, love it. (nm)
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I love those long reports. I think of them as free money.
It's just straight transcribing with no stopping to verify patient or physician information to start a new note. I'll trade you for 1 minute long dictations by a little Russian guy?
I do understand the frustration at the duplication of information. Then again, the copy/paste feature works great at giving more lines for free with no typing. LOL I always thought that if I could find a way to simplify the medical record while still utilizing MTs, I'd be rich.
I do only Op Reports and love it. Great line count too. sm
Everyone is different, although I think you can learn them and you may even like doing them. Give it a shot and good luck!
Been specializing in op reports for 25 years now. You do need to keep up with the medical equipment terms. There is something new every day.
Podiatrists
That's funny cuz I also have noticed that about podiatrists.. There was one podiatrist on an account I used to work on who was really hard to do... grrr... and one now who drives me nuts... I have also noticed the same thing about physical therapists. Not all, but a lot (at least in my experience) are younger docs who speak in a monotone type of voice where it's hard to distinguish where sentence ends and another begins. I've noticed this a lot with female PTs, where they also seem to sort of slur their words together and sound like they are talking to their friends rather than dictating a medical report. Aggravating.
podiatrists
Does this group of people really consider themselves doctors? I'm only into 10 lines in this report and so far the patient has diabetes "myelitis" and has had a myocardial "infraction". Do they buy their licenses or what? I know real medical doctors do the same thing but for cryin' out loud - 10 minutes about an ingrown toenail? You know, if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
podiatrists
Well, I'm glad you have gotten all the best. I've been in this business for 30+ years, in the hospital and with a service and with my own business. I haven't heard of one that was: (1) a good dictator; (2) could pronounce other common medical terms that my 83-year-old mother can pronounce who didn't even graduate from high school, (3) had the sense to know his report is a legal document and that what he says goes into it or (4) had the common courtesy of dictating like they were responsible people. There is no reason why anyone cannot pronounce diabetes mellitus or myocardial infarction. This has nothing to do with patience. This has everything to do with verbatim accounts and sloppy dictators vs those of us who want to do a good job. I've run across my share of cherry pickers - maybe that's why I always get the bad ones. Ya think???
Lucky. I love long reports. I thought I got a good one, but it was a 1.5 minute
report with 12 minutes of dead air. Sit here and do nothing. For free.
Why are so many podiatrists bad dictators?
Is it because they have to look at ugly feet all day? They talk too fast. They use obscure abbreviations. Do they have inferiority complexes because they work at the bottom of a person? What is it?
LOVE teaching hospitals and long-winded reports. Less ADT time which I'm not paid for.
Hate filling in ADT screens w/ searches just to do a one minute report.
I've always thought that podiatrists are trying to trump themselves up into something
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The MR reports were being filed. Referring physicians/medical care providers reports were not.
This is a hospital radiology department with in-house MTs and a clerk who is in charge of the report distribution.
The two sentence normal reports will balance out the 3 page reports.
I am Wendy too
Typing. This is NOT typing, it is transcribing. There is a BIG difference. sm
Transcription includes typing, but so much more.
Your English teacher does not do medical reports. This is for medical reports.
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But I feel like a dork typing...every time I try to type But it is coming out as Nut!
I love it too - love doing my nails 5 hours a day and staying awake
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I tell all my friends to try it -- sit in front of your computer while you have no money to pay your rent and instead do your nails, you get a real buzz down in the pit of your stomach.
Also LOVE LOVE ESCRIPTION and make good money but...
Can I ask how you sit there for 8 hours. Lately, I'm having a motivation problem. When I focus, I can rack up the lines, but lately, I get so easily distracted. My mind wanders and I struggle to get my lines. Any tips on how you stay productive who do you work for?? I work for Transcend.
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Working at home served its purpose for a long time; I was ready to go out into the world again now that I have no little ones at home.
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The arms can be lowered so they won't be in your way, I don't know about the tilt limiter. But I bought my off ebay about 6 years ago and can't do without it. No I do not think you can find another chair that even compares to the aeron, changed my working life completely, no sore back or butt. You won't regret it, but you will if you go for a cheap imitation.
OMG...yep! Air typing!!! it's like
don't even think of typing before you get
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80+ and still typing.
A great woman crossed into the arm's of God this morning. She was 80+ years of age and still doing medical transcription up to the day earlier this year when she was diagnosed with cancer and even then she came to the office just until recently. She loved her job and everyone loved her. She will be greatly missed in the world of transcription as well as among family and friends.
Until we meet again.
80 and still typing
did she live in NJ?
When I had typing in H.S. (sm)
we had those little pieces of chalky paper that you would have to slip down behind that little "thing" on the platin, and type on that. Can't even remember what it was called it was so long ago. Boy, were we thrilled when white out, yellow out, and pink out came along. LOL
Will you be actually typing them?
If you are then they are ripping you off. I for one refuse to work unless I get paid for everything I type. It all adds up over time!
Typing Fun
Hee, I do that all the time. I like to see how fast I can make them speak and still type along.
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You will still have some typing with VR.
You'll get more done with the VR, but he'll pay you less for the editing. What type of VR is he wanting to use?
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I found that I make out better typing than doing VR. I make half.
What are you typing???
Too broad of a question -- is is a seminar, deposition, insurance statement or what. I have done a lot and for 60 minutes per tape it has averaged out to over $100 at 10 to 11 cpl -- many years ago. Again depends on what you are typing and the quality of the tape. Lost my shirt one time on a planning meeting, too hard to understand, etc. Took many hours to do and not enough pay. More details and could answer you better.
Are you first typing what you
want to save, as in "-year-old," highlighting that,and then choosing "Autocorrect"? If so, you should have both choices of "plain" and "formatted text" available. If you then choose "formatted text," it should work. I had that same problem a long time ago and it was explained to me this way. Talk about easy! Good luck! :)
$40/1h rec = 4h typing = $10/h pay only? nm
Just typing, typing, typing.....
Can you do this every day, 8 hours long, with only a total of 40 minute break?
No talking, no emails, no telephone, no nothing? When do you eat and pee?
Don't you have a husband or children, who want to interact with you? What's the advantage of working at home, if you work like this?
This is a 'sweatshop', what a life! No, thanks!
What's going to happen to your blood circulation, your veins and arteries??? Your health? How long can you keep this up?
Are you trying to lure MTs back to this profession under even harder conditions?
No, thanks!
typing
I would call putting in Expanders and normals manual work. Actually, also typing is a manual job.
also, (something different), typing in -- SM
CAPS is YELLING. just plain rude.
you'll be fine.
Typing on your lap
I just moved and my new desk setup is a built-in desk which is too high for comfort for typing on the keyboard. I can adjust my office chair up, but then it's too high to comfortably reach the pedal. I have been typing on the keyboard on my lap for two days but my shoulders are sore and so are my calves apparently from flexing when I wasn't aware of it all day.
Awhile back I read here that some MT's type on their keyboards on their laps. Please give me any feedback how it works for you and also do you know of any products out there or things around the house to support the keyboard and make it easier to balance on your legs. I kind of like typing like this other than the strain on my neck and legs from trying to keep it balanced and from sliding off.
Thanks in advance! 
always typing
My kids say that is all I ever do anymore---MT work at my computer. When I am home I type! Sometimes 10 or more hours per day........
But, I tell them I could be at work someplace for 8 hours and that is what I would do there.
Typing IME's
Just trying to get a few ideas for obtaining more work.....probably like a lot of other starving MTs!
Does anyone type strictly IME's? If so, is the pay any better than traditional transcription? Any info greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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