I am not feeling well today so pardon if I am making mistakes. I just think that it is time to stop
Posted By: I did not mean nm, there is a message in the above on 2005-09-12
In Reply to: Just remember that it is not the people on this board who short changed their people and ONLY after - nm
defending the illegal activities of this company. I know I defended them for many years.
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Are you making mistakes? If it is something
like punctuation I wouldn't worry too much, just try to do whatever they say. If you are making big mistakes like spelling terms incorrectly, using Google to research and just because there are severl hits you decide the word/term/spelling is correct and so with it, although there is a ton of misinformation on google. Did you spell a drug wrong, a doctor's name wrong, just did guess at a word rather than leaving a blank, etc.
I think the majority of QA is helpful. Some get off on a power trip, but most really want to be helpful and help you be the best you can be.
I recently made a job change and I felt like I would never get a report back from QA that there wasn't something wrong with it. It wasn't so much an error as it was that the account was extremely particular. I would fix one error, only the next day they would find something else. I have 20+ years of experience.
Try not to take it personally, look at it as they are helping you to be a better MT. If you continue to make the same mistakes get you some brightly colored sticky notes and write yourself notes and put them where you'll see them as you work. Even though you probably want to get a high line count you need to concentrate on quality first. Take the time to proof thoroughly.
None of us are immune to making mistakes
There's not one of us who has not screwed up before (or will at some point). Try not to be so hard on yourself!
I HATE making mistakes...."they" and "probably"!!!....nm
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glad i'm not the only one feeling like this today
I'm not a QA person, but am a seasoned MT and with the new changes with my company that is also going downhill, we are all on an even playing field, and it seems when I talk to my supervisor, i'm appeased, just to get me to hush for the time being, or off the phone. I am not getting the work types I was hired on for and no matter how many times I ask, I get a vacant response, so I've decided to stop asking. The communication lacks where I am as well and sometimes there is a little dishonesty. I really feel like beating my head into the wall sometimes because it is like being jerked around and not getting respected. It does not matter anymore in this business if you're good at your job, reliable, have been doing it awhile and are proficient. Its extremely frustrating to get blown off constantly. I too would like a company where you are recognized based on skill. Sorry I can't help but know you're not alone.
Feeling good today!
 Roses to my QA today. Received a nice email with pats on the back. It just kind of made my day!
Feeling so exhausted today sm
couldn't be that 9500 lines I have done since Tuesday, could it? I have to pick up and work later and/or tomorrow. I think I am fried.
What did you type this week?
nada - just feeling contrary today
 
CAN'T STOP TODAY
Nobody can stop work or make demand today. A plan needs to be put in place for a certain date as stated above by one of the MTs who has a very good starting place.
When a friend asks how you are today you reply "Oh, I'm feeling within normal limits."
mistakes all the time, tsk tsk tsk...(NM
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I see really bad mistakes all the time
here on this site. I probably would not say that ESLs could do better but I do not think it could be worse either if trained properly.
You should be making tons of lines today. LOL!
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there are all kinds of spelling/grammar mistakes here all the time
This is somewhere that we can let our hair down and let our fingers "loose". If most of us transcribed the way we type here, the doctors would almost be better off hand-writing their reports!
Most of the time 80, 79 or 78 if I'm feeling hot....sm
luckily for me I'm on the cold-natured side so during the summer heat I'm not sweating too much in the 90 degree outdoor heat. In the winter I keep the thermostat around 70 and if I feel cold I'll go up to 72.
It has to stop some time, like
For instance, would anyone work for 5 cpl? Okay, there were some desperate takers. So now, let's see if anyone would work for 4 cpl. How about 3 cpl? 2? 1? Anyone interested in working for free? How desperate do people have to get?
oh please - stop wasting my time
you sound like a child
When you stop caring, it is time to find
It does not matter if you do QA or greet people at Wal-Mart, if you don't care it is time to find something else to do.
It isn't just about you that QA makes these changes. QA is doing their job to their employer's expectations. Either take it as constructive criticism or leave, but don't make someone else pay for your lack of concern. Having done everything in a medical office from scheduling appointments to transcription to bill collection, I can honestly say that quality matters - it matters to someone, somewhere - and if you are not in that loop, please for the rest of us that still care even after close to 30 years of this business, please, please take yourself to someplace you can be happy.
I do not agree with every nick-picking change QA makes, but I don't dwell on it or stop caring. I keep plugging away at doing the best job I can. I am doing something where I make good money and feel like I have an impact on patient care without having face-to-face patient contact or co-employee issues that come with working on-site.
So, go, shoo, get, go on now. Let me have your work.
ROTFLMAO. STOP!!! I haven't laughed this hard for a long time.
Can you imagine 10,000 MQMTs just wanting to show Frank a personal touch? He will be one tired guy.
Start Stop digital player has a time stamp feature..sm...
I'm not sure if it puts it in Word or what it does. I've never needed it.
I think a program that would pull header information from Word and add it to a log file might be needed by quite a few MTs. I don't know if that's feasible since everyone's needs would be different. A lot of MTs like to keep logs though, myself included.
If I think of anything else I'll be back.
The MTs actually making $$$ don't have the time to sit on this board complaining. nm
I would be 43 and have no life at this time and wish I was making decent money, but not ;0( ...NM
NM
Today was the only time that
DocQscribe went down like that, so get over it. It was a pain, yes, but it is up and running now. Name one other time that this has happened. If it takes you 5 hours to do your nails, then you must have some pretty nasty, funky thick nails.
Two jobs don't equal one when it comes to making money and not wasting time. sm
Recommend looking for one good job.
If you would take the time you have spent here today
and work on building your expander, macros, etc. you could get your line count up faster. Don't know if you have a line per day committment or hourly committment, but if you have lines you can get them finished quicker with a better expander and have more time to play or do whatever. I am NOT a morning person, but I feel so much better when I do make myself get up and then by 9:00 I've made my line committment and I've got the rest of the day to do what I want/need to do and if I need more lines I can work an hour or two after dinner. I almost feel like I have a 3-day weekend because I'm finished so early that on Friday I'm done early, my DH has an early day at work and is home by 10 usually so we have an almost full day to play.
Reassess your situation. What were your reasons for coming home to work? If you didn't have to work at all, would you spend all day sitting in front of the TV watching all that mindless garbage and letting the housework go? Maybe you're burned out or depressed. Maybe you just lack self-discipline as somewhat else suggested and you really need structure.
Just some things to think about. Working at home isn't the fairly tale that most people think it is.
Needed this big-time today...thank you! :)
Well, collectively it probably took 20 minutes of my time to post today.
My kids are out and about. I did all my work. I'm a good girl, you see! I don't really get your perceived "jab" at me at all. Why do you think that because I am in favor of someone being an MT and keeping their precious baby at home as opposed to in day care, that somehow that means I say I spend every minute of my life focused on my kids? I really think when you respond like this, its because you are not confident in your own life - I won't delve deeper, but you feel guilty. Guilty enough to have to make fun of me and put imaginary words in my mouth. I never said a whisper or innuendo that MT mothers with kids at home have to focus every second of their lives on their kids. That's ridiculous! We all know that! And I assume you're the same poster above about camp? You use the same SM. I am sorry to disappoint you that I don't understand your "revelation" about my identity! I never said a word here about camp, and don't follow that thought at all. The OP asked if she could do it - be an MT and have a baby at home. I recognize another poster from below, childfree by choice. She and I have had some wonderful debates in the past, and I think we usually agree to disagree! But certainly nice meeting you, I think??
Anyone else working today? Am I the only lowly sole with nothing to do until dinner time?
I feel like I am the only on working today, as the Boscov's parade is on TV, my two teens are sleeping, my husband is working OT and here I am working also. Gotta cover my account today, at least until this afternoon, when I have to cook for my little family.
Just wanted to see if anyone else is out there today!
I thought there was one to cook in crockpot. Don't have time to do the stove thing today but than
:(
Fill in the blank time! Today I feel ______ (for me it's good)...sm
Good work day so far, kids will be home from school in a couple of hours and the weather is nice outside.
Time, Vegetarian Times, Creative Knitting, Money, Today's Nutrition. nm
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I bed your pardon.
Beg your pardon...
Been an MT 20+ years, been an MTSO, got tired of pounding the pavement and putting up with MTs who didn't show up or had such poor quality. Sold the company. Went to work for another company. Moved into management. Get along great with those reporting to me - I've been in their shoes and work alongside them to support them as much as possible.
p.s. pardon the typos nm
nm
No, pardon me, I forgot something.
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Begging pardon!
It is NOT the only way for them to compete. That is total and utter BS!! It is just a better way for them to satisfy their GREED!
Beg your pardon. Not T. Someone who knows who works for them
and no am not management
Pardon my ignorance but sm
When did they start using flash drives and how? Most of mine don't know how to use the computer! Please share. Sorry for your problem, sounds like the office manager is gloating over this - it's their problem, not yours. Charge them for the lines find out how computer literate the staff is. They usually pay peanuts and get monkeys!
sure i was. i'm making fun of the people who are making a case for background checks, etc
to do medical transcription at home as if they may do something AWFUL with the info they receive. So if you want an invasion of privacy let's REALLY invade it and make sure fat chicks don't transcribe because they are so busy eating they can't get the work done, they mess up the keyboard with food and if they are provided health insurance they will raise the rates for the company sky high because their health risks are higher than others. Then there are the psychological issues overweight people bring to the table. After we eliminate fat people, we can go on to eliminate diabetic people who may have low blood sugar while typing and go into a spell and type the wrong thing. I could go on and on through the process of elimination. How about prescribed medications that may cloud your thinking? So you take Ambien to sleep but you have an Ambien groggy hangover when you are transcribing? Should they transcribe. How about your teens are on your last nerves and you take a Xanax? Should you be allowed to transcribe?
Pardon me, and not to sound like an old crank...
but I think the current spectacles for preschool graduations, kindergarten graduation, 6th grade graduation, or even 8th grade graduations have just gotten out of hand. Formal dress for a 5-year-old finishing kindergarten? We've just gotten carried away making huge productions for children out of normal everyday stuff. No wonder they act the way they do sometimes. Some kids expect fireworks for every move they make in this life. I'm not that old and we didn't do jack diddly squat for any of the above occasions... Even 8th grade, it was just "have a nice summer and see you next year." I just personally think we should save the big hooplas for something that is actually a culmination of a lot of persistent work. High school, college, etc. But kindergarten?
well, one posted close to that...pardon me...nm
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Pardon my stupidity, but what is an MTSO?
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You're bedding my pardon? Oh my!
I beg pardon, but I have to strongly disagree with above post.
If your heart is pounding, if you cannot catch a breath, if your vision is blurred, if you no longer recognize your surroundings (even for a few seconds), if you feel like you are going to die.......yes, you may well be experiencing a panic attack. Or you may not.
There have been too many times that people diagnosed themselves with a "panic attack", not even knowing what that is, and ended up dying with a heart attack or stroke. As in dead.
This is simply because of ignorance.
Once again, the first thing you do is to make sure the symptoms you have are not physical. And, you go from there.
If, once diagnosed as actually having panic attacks, with no physical reasons, then you learn to deal with it. You learn to "feel" it coming. You may be happily shopping in a mall or whatever, and suddenly feel like you cannot breathe. There is not a breath to be taken in. Your heart pounds. Your vision goes. Your extremities are not responding at all. You feel you are dying right there, right then. My first impulse was always to run, but I felt my body would not cooperate. It did. It always has......because it was panic attacks, and not a heart attack or stroke, etc.
So, you sit down. You pull your car off the road. You stop frying chicken. You take yourself out of harm's way, in other words. You learn to deal with it.
But, if you do not know for sure that this is what is occurring, you're a fool to treat it as anything less than some kind of breakdown in one of your systems. Cuz that's what it feels like. And, anyone who treats that particular feeling without seeking medical advice is a fool.
Any other advice is ludicrous.
Lots of food (pardon the pun) for thought! THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE!!
Thanks!
I beg your pardon. Some of us who work as IC put in more hours daily than employees!!
Heck, most of us take pride in our work and can run circles around your QA with accuracy! Please, you are way off base.
I agree there are some "fly by night" ICs who just don't care about QA or TAT, but that is not the majority. You can not make a generalized statement for all of us IC MTs. I am respected and paid very well by my Hospital for my accuracy and speed and knowledge!
I beg your pardon. I have elderly relatives in nursing homes who are constantly in and out of
hospitals. The elderly especially need our reports to be ACCURATE, as nobody gives a hoot to "talk" about them, let alone doctors getting to actually know and remember patients. EVERYTHING about their acute care in hospitals is taken FROM THE PAPER MEDICAL RECORD, and also when they get bumped back to the nursing home. The caretakers take ALL info from the transfer sheet. Reality check for those who need help most - elderly who cannot rattle off their histories themselves.
Pardon me, but your ignorance and obvious lack of class are showing.
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Maybe I misunderstood the OP's concern. Pardon if my response doesn't pertain. nm
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stop and full stop
that reminds me of a doctor who had his own very unique word for period...he called it a "perikat". All through the report...Perikat... perikat.... LOL
HELP with Shorthand. Suddenly today when I tried to start work today.sm
my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away! I checked and the Type It button is grayed out! I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies. Can anyone please help me ASAP? I am lost without it! TIA
Perhaps you are right. This one is dated today. The original article was on Yahoo today also with
But this article states it would only affect new customers right now. So I am upset over nothing. I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge. I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me. It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc. It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.
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