I doubt they would tip you off but the mammogram - sm
Posted By: XXX on 2006-07-30
In Reply to: Question re mammogram (having one, that is) - sm
will be read the same day and I am sure they will call you with the results if there is something suspicious or if it needs a re-do. You can always request that the radiologist calls you that day with a verbal report, cannot hurt, and should help your anxiety. I just had my first one and got the report in the mail a few days later. They did 6 shots as they were not happy with 2 of them when they took them (I am flat chested so it was a little harder to grab and squeeze the tissue they needed in order to see). I hope all ends up well for you.
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ode to a mammogram
For years and years they told me,
Be careful of your breasts,
Don't ever squeeze or bruise them,
And give them monthly tests.
So I heeded all their warnings,
And protected them by law.
Guarded them very carefully,
And my bra I always wore.
After 30 years of astute care,
My Doctor found a lump.
She ordered up a mammogram,
To look inside that lump.
"Stand up very close" she said.
As she got my boob in line,
"And tell me when it hurts," she said.
"Ah yes! There, that's fine."
She stepped upon a peddle.
I could not believe my eyes!
A plastic plate pressed down and down,
My boob was in a vice!
My skin was stretched and stretched,
From way up under my chin.
My poor boob was being squashed,
To Swedish pancake thin.
Excruciating pain I felt,
Within it's vice-like grip.
A prisoner in this vicious thing,
My poor defenseless tit!
"Take a deep breath", she said to me,
Who does she think she's kidding?
My chest is mashed in her machine,
And woozy I am getting.
"There, that was good", I heard her say
As the room was slowly swaying.
"Now let's have a go at the other one".
Lord have mercy, I was praying.
It squeezed me from up and down,
It squeezed me from both sides,
I'll bet she's never had this done,
Not to her tender little hide!
If I had no problem when I came in,
I surely have one now.
If there had been a cyst in there,
It would have popped, Ker-pow!
This machine was designed by man,
Of this I have no doubt,
I'd like to stick his balls in there.
And see how they come out!
A mammogram isn't that expensive. I just had 2 and they were
$125 each, most of which I paid out of pocket due to insurance deductible. BC is usually very good about paying for preventative care, such as mammograms and Pap smears. The doctor should just submit the bill to BC for payment, this isn't something you need preapproval for.
Question re mammogram (having one, that is)
Having a mammo and ultrasound tomorrow for palpable lump discovered last week. Never had one before and am wondering if the techs will tip you off in some fashion if the results look favorable. Also have appt with surgical oncologist later in the week, but I am on pins and needles mostly because I am a self-supporting single mom and can't afford substantial downtime as well as other issues with DD.
I'm also a little concerned about the speed with which all of this has been arranged. Hopefully it's just out of an abundance of caution. TIA. Hope this didn't post twice. I don't know what happened to the first one in the email verification process!
Bilateral screaming mammogram
The doctor said that, then got so tickled at herself that she could hardly go on with the dictation.
I found out my mammogram was abnormal after 3 weeks!
I assumed the doctor's office would call me if it were. It wasn't until I got a letter from the radiologist 3 weeks later that I learned it was abnormal. I called my doctor's office and the secretary assured me that they had called me and had left a message. I asked the secretary what number she had and she kept saying, "tell me what your phone number is and I'l see if it is what we have." I asked to speak to her boss and she found that they hadn't even been sent the report. I was LIVID! That secretary disappeared within a few days. I also brought the matter up with administration at the hospital where the test was performed. There was a "hurry up offense" to get me in for an ultrasound and I didn't even have to sit in the waiting room. Fortunately for me everything was okay.
No excuses. 30 day TAT. Absurd.
Hope everything works out okay for you.
i am like you, i doubt it was even sent given her sm
flakiness it sounds. i would send her a certified letter demanding your money back within so and so days or you will contact the police dept for theft as well as sue her in small claims. however, small claims doesn't help much. you have to file in the county she lives in, which you can do via fax, but around here it costs like $60-70 just to file. then i assume you would have to go to OK for the court date so a lot of added expenses adding to much more than the $100. even if the court orders her to pay, there is no follow through with small claims. hey, you can contact judge judy, lol, and might even get a semi-vacation out of it for free. i would threaten her though and call her with a blocked # or use someone else's # to call her.
yep, when in doubt
 Just laugh at them. In the olden days of the Lanier stations, we had a female dictator that would keep cutting herself off like that. The report would be in like 20 pieces, and she would keep coming back on, didn't even sound frustrated or anything, just kept saying, "I am continuing." What a DOPE - SPEAK UP!!!!
NO DOUBT
This country is so screwed up right now it is not even funny. Do not believe the "lowest unemployment rate ever". It is LOW because people have RUN OUT OF unemployment and are off the books. He needs to be on unemployment, waiting for his checks and see how he likes buying gas at these prices. By the way, going up another 10 cents per gallon here today so they say.
Doubt it
Probably not qualified.
Doubt it.
x
Doubt it.
x
Doubt it!
I am sure someone else will come along before too long and enlighten us! At least we can hope so or this place is going to the birds because it is b-o-r-i-n-g!
No doubt....
Saw was scariest I have seen in a long time. Not for the squeamish!
I doubt it would help.
Not being negative here, but I've tried it. I don't think your company would approve of you using it, and I don't know if it would even work with their platform since it's not Word-based. Do you use an expander? Which platform are you working on? How many accounts are you bounced around on? Have to look up patient info?
I Doubt That. It happens all over.
8 years working for a hospital and we always had our "dry" periods around the holidays. Sometimes, it would be a month, sometimes 2 months. Last year it was 4 months! There was work, but very, very slow.
I now work for a national and am in the same boat. It started drying up around the holidays. I'm working a couple days a week, but not a full week. . . but I really don't care. I worked 7 days a week for 8 years and with everything else I do, time off is like heaven...but in the end, it will be like the 'other world' when the bills start piling up. 
without a doubt (OP)
I think the MT profession needs more respect, and no, we are not losers. Its work smarter, not harder. We earn what people with BA's earn, without the stress, in the comfort of our own home. Who wants to be stressed their entire life?? The corporate world is taking over, but they are all having heart attacks in their 40s.
My hats off to you for going back to school. Sometimes it takes a no choice situation for us to get out of our comfort zone, and just throw ourselves out there and see what income we can scare up. The past couple years I have really been exploring my passions, and that is what I want to take into retirement, something I feel fulfilled doing. Like you said, creatitivity. Even if I have to work 2-3 jobs. Thanks for your post, I figured I wasn't the only one a little worried.
Don't know, I doubt it - sm
but perhaps a system restore if you have Windows XP
good luck
I doubt it.
,
I doubt you need it
If you are an employee, you don't need it for sure as the finish product belongs to them, not you.
If you are an IC with a contract that the notes belong to them/the provider, you don't need it.
If you are working for a clinic on your own, always put a clause in there that either you don't support electronic signatures or the CYA "dictated but not read" at the bottom of the note.
In any case whatsoever, if you are doing your job properly you shouldn't have an issue. Also it is very plainly the physcian's responsibility to read their notes before signing. I know most don't but it falls on them. We are not the MD, PA, whatever. If you question things you think may not be right and don't guess, that should be enough.
Thanks, but I seriously doubt that she will--sm
It seems like she has already made her decision, as I have read previous posts from her on the same subject. Personally I think she knows this is a subject that is going to evoke responses and she is just trying to stir things up, but she is pointing her blaming finger in the wrong direction...in my opinion. I wish her luck.
Sorry, no doubt BOS says that..nm
nm
#6 without a doubt
I was a legal secretary in litigation for many years. Only time I worked under daily pressure like this was right before a trial and that wasn't that often and I got paid supremely well for it too, especially before a trial, and I didn't know squat compared to what I need to know to do this. Then I ran a word processing/editing service with an emphasis on doctoral dissertations. Compared to each, THIS is by far the most difficult. We are typing and UNDERSTANDING and CORRECTING DICTATED ERRORS IN a foreign language all day under pressure day after day. Our job requires education and experience and skills the former did not. Besides that, what we do affects human lives and our mistakes will follow them the rest of their lives so we must be accurate. By all means it deserves a least a #6, especially if we go EMR and most docs don't check our work and that's pricing it LOW.
I rather doubt that, but if that's what you
then go for it.
I actually don't send mine very much. But even if I send them just ONE question a month, they still gripe about it. Pulls them away from their potato-chip and cookie binge-eating and their soap-operas, I guess.
Yes no doubt you do
And if you are good at what you do, filling in the blanks, the more power to you. I am sure it is not an easy job unless you are a superduper MT/QA person with a ton of experience. There is no silver lining in QA work from your perspecti
I doubt it has anything to do...
with creating an electronic medical record; in fact, the documents may already be uploaded to an EMR format. It sounds quite simple. They are trying to save money. I have had many clients over the years who operate in a similar fashion. It's not something new.
I seriously doubt it
I think it is just when the doctor dictates an "abbreviation" such as 'insert my usual physical exam,' or something similar to that. Obviously I can't know for sure, since I don't even know which company you are talking about, but it does say "after an abbreviation has been dictated," not transcribed.
I for one had little doubt when you
asked the question in the first place that Welfare would be your choice.
Why don't you rise to this new challenge in your life and get another job just to prove to us that you can pay your baby? Do it just to spite all of us @*?ches.
I doubt she has done this very much
She says - To do this for a living, do all mt's have to be 100% accurate ALL the time? I thought that was what the editors were for or was I mistaken?
I am not new to this, just new to doing it full time at home (with no other job duties in between). I see no where she has told of any training, reminds me of another poster that came on her and never told where she had worked or if she had and asking questions, loads answering and yet did not know beans about the work.
When in doubt, MYOB
nm
If you are really in India, which I doubt, but is entirely
possible, you may be interested to know that legislation is in the works to STOP all offshoring of any/all work which might "compromise the security" of U.S. "entities." This includes, of course, healthcare records.
I don't doubt you, anyone knows statistics
can be manipulated to show anything you want them to.
I would highly doubt that considering
you had been "riding" your horse all day. That stench will carry for awhile!
I doubt there are many who are going to care. SM
It's the nature of the beast. I used to care more about it, but I found no one else really did. So if both are correct, I guess it's something that probably won't be standardized.
Ugh! A STAT, no doubt!
When I used to do hospital dictation, there was one MD whose dictations were always in the 20- to 30- minute range. What was worse was that he was the kind with long pauses followed by speed-dictated phrases. That's my least-favorite style. And he'd have the audacity to mark many dictations STAT. I think there should be a rule that 9 minutes is the longest a STAT report can go on, so the Transcriptionist has time to do the other, real STATs!
Ophthalmology - without a doubt!
I have always had a really hard time with ophthalmology - probably because I get it so rarely.
I think Wannie is exactly right. If in doubt,
DON'T. The bottom line is that this sort of relationshipi always fails, so why waste your time? Listen, because you have been given some excellent advice here.
Uh, yeah. I doubt something like that will ever end. nm.
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I doubt any MTSO would say THAT...she might say
she sees the decline of the field, but believe me, we are way too happy to be in the MTSO seat!
Have no doubt AAMT says that...
I think I'd rather bank on the history of the English language and punctuation rules around for centuries as opposed to AAMT rules.
I doubt all is well with their world, but if you
Apply for a cushy job, you may find you are much better off MTing. I have heard this song before. With upper level jobs comes upper level responsibilities that quite frankly some MTs may not be ready to comply. JMO. I agree with wages that are low and we as MTs should be compensated, but the responsibility is low as well. When you transcribe from your home behind a screen, you answer to QA and maybe a supervisor. These companies answer to the actual doctors and hospital administators - ho - hum. 
I doubt any of them work with a MAC - sm
tell her to research it, I would not waste my time on it. Have her look up Gearplayer, Bytescribe, ExpressScribe, etc. and check out their websites herself. I would be very surprised if any of them are MAC compatible.
You think? Highly doubt it.
These people are getting promoted. LOL
LMBO - no doubt!!!
I needed that laugh!
Somehow I doubt the doctor would have said that
If they were miscarriages.....
I seriously doubt the generic
be any sort of proficient with transcription. Heck, the medical VR programs can't even get it right and they are SUPPOSED to bed trained to the dictators voice. Good luck if you're looking for a quick way - I don't think you've found it with Word speech recognition.
no doubt we deserve more
Hi other Emily!! :)
I took a look at my own medical records and was apalled at the medical errors and mistakes in the reports... There should be some standard in this industry! I work my ass of and have 98-99% accuracy for the past 10 years and it is disappointing to see what they are willing to accept to save some money. If the average person knew that their medical records were not being done with the quality and care that I make myself give... I think most would be upset. Maybe I'm crazy... but I know this as well, not EVERYONE can be a transcriptionist! This is a skilled trade and I am definitely feeling unappreciated lately, but obviously there is little we can do about it.
About your own company, I am an IC, and I just asked for a raise (i should have just stated it) but either way they aren't taking it. I was underbid by 2 cents a line and they, I'm sure, will go with them even though they "want to keep me". I feel angry that there isn't some standard that we are set forth and that we all have. Then again, it's all gonna go to voice response at some point, and only editors will then be needed. It's time for a career change, it's just a sobering thought and I'm not ready to do it...
Good luck with what you decide
im gonna doubt it
I can't tell you for sure, I am assuming you mean editing? If that is the case, Who KNOWS how much stuff you will actually have to change and what your line rate will actually end up per hour you know? Unfortunately these things have to be done and then figured out...
That is already happening in my office no doubt about that. You are 100% right.
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You DOUBT everything. Probably why no one ones to deal with you professionally or otherwise.
Just slightly dried up and cynical, you need on the cyber support you can get. You are doing great on the job girlfriend. Forget that your family and friends don't call you anymore. Just count on me your cyber buddy.
I doubt very much they "promised" you a particular salary. nm
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I highly doubt that is the reason.
I mean, how many people truly observe that holiday and think I need to get all the work done that I can now because it is Veteran's day in 2 days. It's not like there is a Veteran's day meal like Thanksgiving or presents like Thanksgiving.
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