I couldn't agree more. Lost my mom 13 years ago sm
Posted By: mlstoo on 2006-05-05
In Reply to: from someone who does not have Mom anymore - Patti
this coming August. I miss her the most on Mother's Day.
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We couldn't keep up interest & attendance to keep the chapter going. This was years ago. nm
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Couldn't agree with you more.
Yeah, I complain, too, but basically this is the best job I have ever had and I can't think of too many jobs where I would the freedom that I do now. I am most thankful for this job (even with all the junk that goes with it). Hope everybody has a good day!
Couldn't agree with you more!
I agree with you 100% - Well put!
I couldn't agree with you more!!! (sm)
We better bust our butts while we can to prove ourselves against the looming competition, if you know what I mean.
Well said! I couldn't agree more! (nm)
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Couldn't Agree More
I couldn't agree with you more. I posted above stating my views.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Agree 100% and couldn't have said it any better myself.
No, I got my credential 30 years ago, didnt keep up hours. couldn't afford to. so now I'm ju
but like i said, cant take away my knowledge.
I've used my laptop to MT for about 5 years, full-time. Couldn't
I love being portable, plus I have a small working space. It's great transcribing on the deck (or at the beach) on nice days. Have never had any technical issues; there's always some sort of adapter thingie that's available for whatever comes up.
couldn't agree more with you, Dano - nm
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I couldn't agree with you more, they are the worst! nm
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Remembering those lost 4 years ago
I just wanted to take a moment to remember those lost in the planes, the WTC, and the Pentagon 4 years ago including Laurie Neira, one of our own, who MT'd for YOG.
I lost my brother 17 years ago and still cry every day.
I know it wasn't my father, but the loss is still great! I understand. The pain will never go away, it will just dull. You need to remember that you must go on and live with his memory and love in your heart! It really does get a little easier as time does heal a bit, but it will never go away.
There are times now that I can get through the day without a tear, but one song on the radio or one look into his daughter's eyes and the wells start overflowing.
I, by no means, am depressed. Actually I am a very happy person; however, that does not mean you take a minute to think about someone you have lost and shed a tear or two, wipe them away, and go on with your day and life.
Just know, he is with you and it will get better. One day you will wake up and smile just knowing he is looking down on you! Then, you will be able to start to heal and the pain won't be as great.
I was hit by all 3 that summer, I lost power, I lost work, I lost savings...but..sm
NEVER did my employer in any way imply or threaten or dare even mention that my job was in jeopardy because I could not work immediately following a trifecta of natural disasters! My jaw agape is not at your concern about working, but at your concern that you would lose your job because of it. Companies have to have a heart in some situations. You're one MT, your company won't go under without you working for a week or 2 or 3.
I agree! My bill was $324.00 for gas heat. I couldn't believe my eyes! NM
couldn't agree more!!!! WHOO HOOO FOR THAT LADY
Exactly!!!!!!! She sounds like a very antisocial person with some serious hang ups. She needs religion!
You have been going 5 times a week for 2 years and have not lost weight? So..
it's basically more than $300/year for social hour? I've been going for 2 months faithfully and didn't lose an ounce until I went back on Atkins this week. It's nowhere near enough of a workout.
As someone who lost their husband almost 2 years ago, I can tell you that no amount of money could
ever replace my best friend and husband. Yes, I have tried the dating thing, but to tell the truth here, it's not the same and I don't think anyone could ever replace the father my children lost at such an early age.
By the way. he had just turned 34 when he died, so I suppose you might want to give your hubby a big hug tonight for thinking of your future without him, especially when we truly do not see ourselves leaving this world so soon.
Hugs to you and yours!!!
I agree, THEY lost
Where else are they going to find an employee who is willing to work as hard as you are, who is as conscientious as you, as experienced? I think that whole company is going to be in sorry shape when you're gone.
In fact, when you find another job, don't even bother to work out your notice time. What are they going to do, fire you?
You don't owe them a thing, Hayseed. You have given them your time, your skill, your energy, and what have they given you? More work, longer hours, interruptions in the middle of the night...uh-uh. You don't owe them a single thing.
Their loss. And don't you dare weaken if they start trying to negotiate with you. You know it's only a matter of time until you will be back to the same old thing.
You made the right decision. You did what's best for you. In my book, that is a BIG WIN.
I would be kind to them, and polite. I couldn't agree with them or encourage their ideas.
I don't hate them, but I know the true God. He says: You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, and a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
I can't go along with a lie on that magnitude, but I can be kind to the person and show them love, hoping to interest them in the one who loves and has forgiven me.
I've lost a local account today that I have had for five years......
I cannot believe that this happened to me today. I went into one of my doctor's offices this afternoon to pick up his tape for today. I was given a tape and told that his wife, who is the office manager, wanted to see me in her office. I thought nothing of it because she sometimes has extra things that she wants me to type up for her and we talk quite often also.
She tells me that she just has not gotten around to talking with me yet, but "tomorrow we will start dictating through a company over the internet". I was blown away! She said she wanted to give me a break and that if it does not work out she will let me know. The whole time she was tell me this she was writing me a check as I had just turned in an invoice.
My first inclination was to throw that #@%$ tape at her and say "do it yourself", but I knew that wasn't the "professional thing" to do. I was thinking how could she do this to me, not even a 24 hour notice. She handed the check to me, I snatched it and walked out.
I have had this account for five years exactly (began August 1, 2000). I have never took a day off, never raised my rates, never asked anything of them, and my work has always been the best possible quality. I have been the most dependable person they have could had. I have passed up other accounts because of them, and I always put them first. Thank goodness I have other accounts to fall back on. In our town, there is only one other transcriptionist besides myself, and we both have more work than we can handle most of the time.
Just thought I'd remind all those other MTs out there that no matter how good we are and no matter how much we try to please everyone we are still not appreciated. I will never be fooled again. No one will ever receive the attention from me that I gave them. 
Yes, it does. My hosp is typing in MOX, we lost Word many years ago due to cost.
Good luck!
Agree... Lost my docs
to EMR. I was offered to work inhouse doing data entry and scanning old records into the system. They have had to hire three or four people to work on that, instead of paying for transcription, so I don't really see the savings in $$$, not to mention it takes more of the doctors/assistants time doing data entry. It's a dead-end position doing data entry/scanning and the money is not even half of what I can make transcribing, so I just went with a national to stay at home. There will still be the need for transcriptionists but EMR will definitely cut into the available job base in the future, in my humble opinion.
Lost account of 28 years to Dictaphone because hospital believes it will eliminate all transcription
Curious if any of you are working for Dictaphone or Infomatics and doing an account out of Miami with mainly ESL dictators? I was convinced I would not lose the account after a few days with VR. However Dictaphone is not using VR right away and will transcribe reports the regular way until they have a database. I am certain this hospital will never be done by VR. I posted a job on here about a year ago offering 18 cents per line to help with this account and not one person accepted after hearing the ESL doctors we have. They are that bad. Anyone else have this happen to them? Losing to Dictaphone And we have had to do most of the work for over a month since they supposedly took over because their system is not working.
I recently lost 20 pounds. That means I lost 80 sticks of butter.
    
I doubt your brother has won more than he's lost. To win that much he's probably lost 3 times
So he probably has more bills than money. Otherwise the casinos would go broke.
I agree.. but, my son was 5 years old
His first time in school and he wanted to play with it at recess. We did not know it was in his backpack or obviously we would not have allowed a toy of any sort at school rather it be a gun or a doll. The reasoning behind the suspension was that other children may be frightened it was real. PLEASE!! It looks like a plastic toy.. and then the principal proceeded to grill my son "do you know what you have done etc".. He was FIVE years old. You would have thought he was in a gang and he was treated as such with the whole zero tolerance in school but in kindergarten.. I think we're under no direct threat.. Thanks for all the opinions out there. Goes to show we are all individuals with individual beliefs.
I have been an MT for 9 years and I agree on most of what you say but
When placing a job ad, where do they put it? Under general or Office/clerical, not under Healthcare, Medical, or professional. If you could see some of the reports I see, you would cringe on these so-called MTs. Don't number a list, don't use references, don't look at their account specifics, just type and think they're doing great...and graduate from a school that teaches MT (and not an online/correspondence school either). Everyone is out for the almighty buck. The local hospitals here hire TYPISTS because they want to keep their expenses low.
While I take pride in what I do and in believe quality-not quantity, you have these services chasing the big bucks. You get what you pay for and that is why the MT profession has gone so far downhill. We are considered TYPISTS or CLERICAL workers, not professionals and so, we don't get paid what we're worth. It's enough to get anybody down and not give a darn anymore.
I agree - MA programs are 9 mos to 2 years
There is no licensing or regulation on who can work as a medical assistant, so one can even be hired and trained on the job, but these days, most MAs go to vocational school or a 2 yr CC program to learn the job. MAs most often work in doctor's offices.
CNAs can get trained in 6 wks. CNAs almost always work in LTC or hospitals.
The focus of training is entirely different. CNAs assist the nurses, MAs assist the docs.
PA vs MA has been well covered already so I skip it.
I have worked for BTS for nearly 3 years and agree
with everything said. The pay is direct deposit and always on time. The MT manager is an AWESOME person to work for/with. I too have had disagreements (several) with QA, but overall they are very helpful and do their best to work with you to become a better MT. And best thing is...I have NEVER run out of work.
Oh, I totally agree with 30+ years
how can you go wrong? Me with 20 years, I have been there and done that. This CMT jizzjazz just came about as far as I'm concerned. I've had a wealth of success and have my own accounts that do not require I know a book. They go on my integrity and no I'm no where near perfect, but who is? I have seen a lot and have experienced quite a bit in my years, and I'm only 37. So go figure? Wow, has this profession evolved? I basically had 3 years of transcription in high school/medical secretary, and fell into it, but gee whiz, how this has become a production oriented/dog eat dog profession!
I only IC for one company on-line along with having my own accounts, and I can say the company knows the difference between IC and employee. Yes, believe it or not, they will ask if I am available. To me, that's true IC status. I work from a pool, which is fine by me because if I get busy with other things, I know someone is keeping that client happy with that company. I only do it for the experience and thoroughly enjoy my work.
I'm glad someone else is feeling it though with regards to IC versus employee. Some will really get upset and say that the MTSO needs to cover the account and need to know when you are going to work. WRONG!!! The MTSO needs to cover the account. Period. The End. They do not need to know what your hours of operation are or how many lines can you type in an hour.
agree...have been transcribing for over 16 years
and have never been asked if I am certified. Have never been offered more money to become certified either.
agree - haven't had a car payment in years
paid $6000 cash for a 93 Volvo wagon back in 2002. Too many people think they need a new (or pricey) vehicle and really have better things to do with their $400-600 per mo. Every time I look into getting something new or simply newer, I decide that I neither want to take that much money out of savings, nor do I want to have such an outrageous car payment. I would totally prefer a brand new car, but it seems like such a waste of money.
Ouch. I happen to agree with her. 15 years sm
here - and I would not recommend this field to anyone. She asked for opinions and we gave ours - we did not "make" our problems anybody else's.
With 33 years' experience, I agree. It doesn't sm
get any easier, because there is a constant influx of ESLs into this country who can barely make themselves understood. If you want to translate, yes, translate, and transcribe pidgeon English
day in and day out, make less and less money as the years go by, then this is the career for you.
I used to love what I do. It used to be rewarding. Now I feel like I'm following behind elephants with a shovel.
I agree, easier but I worked on production years ago
as I think the original poster Patti also did and I was, shall we say threatened 1 time for being cutoff from production and having to do paper work because of the fact I out typed the other transcriptionists there- it can be done, I have done it working on production, now is more simple time and I also like using goggle, etc. When working like that years ago I never took the time to read over each report- waste of time- do not do that now. I have been in the situation 2 times in my career of being told how much I make, etc and most did not like. One hospital I worked for in the 80s only had 2 transcriptions for the entire 300+ bed- we never used outside work, kept things up and yet told look what we make! I see lots of people who only do this job so they can stay at home. I stand by my original posting.
I agree. It's an impossibility for me even with years of experience AND good dictators. nm
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Agree with poster... it takes 2-3 years from graduating from a program sm
to start to make any decent wage. I personally love this job. Where else can you get a job that requires no college degree that you can make 40,000-50,000 per year???
I agree with Misty, after doing rescue work with cats for over 20 years, they do adjust and become v
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Couldn't you just ask if this is appropriate?
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Couldn't have said it better myself. nm
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couldn't of said it better myself...nm
Couldn't have said it better, thank you, NM
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I couldn't have said it better myself
Nuff said. You said it all!!!!
Couldn't have said it better myself. nm
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I couldn't have said it better myself.nm
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I just had one who couldn't
pronounce the simplest word, like catheter. He does cardiac caths all day every day, and can't even pronounce the simplest terms for his specialty! They shouldn't be able to graduate like that.
Saw my name and couldn't help myself here...
I'm among the 200-odd people who visit every day but don't wanna post because, well, it just doesn't seem right. But, seeing as I saw my name in black and white up on the screen, I just couldn't stop my fingers from typing.
I wicked miss all the jibber jabber, work related and nonwork related. I miss the usual faces, the usual arguments, the good times, the bad times, the times when I swore some people were on the rag...
I too got privately disciplined by the former MTStars staff for my potty mouth, got mean e-mails from people who called me a hick, and got awesome e-mails from some great people out there...and I miss it! All of it! The good, the bad, and the ugly.
We had our little domain name "stolen" a few years ago when we didn't renew it in a timely manner, so I kinda know what it's like. Except ours wasn't a business, just a place where friends and family that we left behind could see what we were up to. The web host kept all our hard work and wouldn't relinquish it because they claimed it was technically theirs...I'm not 100% sure, as I'm not the technical person of the household, but I know that basically we had to start from scratch. You kinda feel violated in a weird way.
I'll keep checking for the "other" MTStars to see if it's back up and running, but for now I'll just hang out here and wait. My personal stuff is all over cyberspace, so I'm not concerned about identity theft or anything like that. Who in Sam Hain would want my life anyway?!
you couldn't pay me enough.
I was offered a job managing an office that sent all the work to the Philippines. I couldn't bring myself to do it. The manager job from the other board (if that's the one you're referring to)sends their work to India. As tough as times are now, I could not bring myself to take jobs away from American MTs even if it meant a decent paying job for me. Still hoping Obama will tax the heck out of these companies that offshore, but not holding my breath.
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