I am with you..When I was hired I was very up front about wanting vacation time...sm

• Pressured to work Holiday - Anon
  • Holidays - Huh?
  • I got lucky this year. Scheduled off is Sunday. :) - omt
  • Geesh! What's up with you people who refuse to work holidays? - Hard working
    • Huh? (SM) - Anon
      • scheduled days, I work 'em.....nm - If the holiday falls on any of my.....
        • ADDENDUM.....sm - If the holiday falls on any of my.....
    • I disagree...just because you are in a certain profession doesnt mean you cant have time off..sm - No holidays either
    • Working holidays? Out shopping in stores where someone IS working - MQ'r
    • Exactly - me
    • Gotta agree with you there. My mom was a lab tech -- lots of Christmases and sm - LTMT
      • True - although when an employer hires - hard working
        • Again, we agree. Very selfish to think they should have every holiday off, as if they are sm - LTMT
  • I am with you..When I was hired I was very up front about wanting vacation time...sm - No holidays either
  • I work every holiday -- don't really mind, but would be nice to have extra pay. sm - Dreaming MT
    • Regular pay on a holiday? (sm) - Anon
    • At least you know you're not alone..... - me too
  • Well, we have to "volunteer" for 3 holidays a year - volunteer (?)
  • Pressure to work holiday - MT
    • Was on doing maintenance (SM) - Anon
      • yep, IC..and looking forward to retiring! - holy cow
        • Whoops, how did i get here? LOL. - holy cow
      • at least you get 1.5 pay...unlike us! - holy cow
        • Independent contractor here (sm) - Anon
          • Work some holidays - don't really mind during the winter months, but - IC here too
          • working today - texan
            • Not me but to each his own (sm) - Anon
  • I love my new company. I'm off today and tomorrow - big nationals = indentured servitude for peanuts
    • I agree about big nationals - MT

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there have been a lot of changes.  I emailed you and you did not respond so I now wonder if you aren't just trying to flame ETP.  With due respect, if you are meeting the guidelines for qualifying for benefits and after 9 months you aren't getting them, it makes me wonder why they wouldn't give them to you especially since you did not get a bonus.  They only gave bonuses to people who qualified for them.  They gave you the criteria to earn the bonus so you could keep track for yourself of every level that would earn your bonus.  You can always call HR.  Heck they even have an open door policy so you can email any of the head honchos.

If it were me and I knew honestly that insurance was a benefit I wanted and did not have, I would never wait 9 months to find out what the problem was.

d~

I am an IC.  Contracted with just 1 drs. office since they generate plenty of work.  There is another at home IC, who works there, too.  We have been backed up quite a bit lately, so they hired another IC to work prn.  My question to any other IC's out there is--Do you ever take family vacations?  How do you accomplish this?  Do you tell them your office will be closed for a week? What do they do about work while you are gone?  What usually happens to me is they punish me the week before by giving me extra work.  While I am gone, they just pour all of my work on the other IC and she gets backed up, and then when I returned I have twice as much work to do.  I feel like--why did I bother taking vacation?!  I get burned out prior to vacation, and after returning to work I get burned out again from trying to catch up.  I mentioned today that we need someone to cover when we, the 2 IC's take vacation.  I was told the other IC "never takes time off" with a smirk.  I felt like saying, "Well, I am sorry, but I have a family and a life and it doesn't revolve around this office!!!!"  Got any advice?  I am so burned out and need some time off!!!! 

every other week.  I have never seen doctors take off so much as these docs I type for.  I work for a national and assigned my own docs and these two are always taking weeks off.  I so need another part time job but do not want to waste my time on a horrid account where I will NOT make any money.

and there is not one thing on earth wrong about their taking it.

I'd be up front with them and just flat out tell them that you'd rather they didn't contact your current employer.  Most companies understand that.  Offer plenty of references so they have a way to gauge your work.

Your name sounds familiar.  You wouldn't happen to have a husband named Mikkos, would you?

"Front-end" SR means that the original dictator's speech is turned into text. "Back-end" SR means that someone listens to the original dictator, redictating and "cleaning up" the original dication.  This "sanitized" redictation is then fed into the SR engine. 

The main disadvantage of "front-end" systems in the healthcare setting is that they must try to adapt to the speech peculiarities of many different dictators, whereas a "back-end" system only has to deal with the speech patterns of one dictator, namely the person who does the redictation.

Back-end dictation adds a layer of human intelligence to the conversion of speech to text because the person redictating presumably catches errors, eliminates hesitations and miscues, squares up ambiguous sentence structures, etc. - things that front-end dictation cannot do or does very poorly.  As such, while the back-end speech engine might still cause some errors that require keyboard correction, there should not be nearly as many as front-end systems produce.  And, a back-end SR application can be less sophisticated than a front-end system because it is not being required to deal with so many vagaries of human speech.  In fact, a back-end SR application does not need artificial intelligence at all, whereas front-end SR really does.

I have been curious about them as well because I have thought of applying to work for them.  I am with a company now but feel I need to make a change for the better.  It is a small company and I feel I need to be somewhere else.  I just was not sure about the company.  I would welcome any input on this matter

Kebra 

and I am totally clueless!  Had a call from a cardio group today and they want to send me transcription via WAV files, guessing I need a WAV pedal??  HELP

Also, I am tired of the old tapes and want to "go digital"  I have heard of 800#'s for a call in system, but dont know of any websites.  Any help is much appreciated!!

TIA,

sunnyMT

would care to share tips on getting started with Instant Text, especially the best way to go about customizing the glossaries . . . just received my IT and I'm anxious to get going, but it does seem that there is a learning curve and takes some getting used to.

Thanks to all!

I have had my own transcription service for several years now.  All of my doctors are local and everything is dictated on microcassettes.  I am looking into going digital and I have heard that there are phone in services that you can go through for a charge every month.  Does anyone know who would be a good service to use or how this works?  If anyone has any info on this I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!