I find it ridiculous and pathetic that somebody who
Posted By: Jan on 2009-03-07
In Reply to: Very sorry if I'm creating the wrong impression...sm - TechSupport
volunteers to give expert advice for free, like you, is being attacked by people who are less knowledgeable.
And that it comes to a point that these experts have to 'apologize' for being so knowledgeable, instead to be thanked for their advice and help.
Your writing style, grammar, spelling, punctuation, all are of highest caliber, I congratulate you for this.
And I have never spotted a typo! (I might have missed one, but I do not think so).
Please keep on giving us your expert advice, thank you!
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How ridiculous and pathetic, rather slupid!...
Go and drown yourself in drugs and medicaments, we'll see who bites the dust first!
Another Xanax-druggie?!
How ridiculous and pathetic, rather stupid!...
Go and drown yourself in drugs and medicaments, we'll see who bites the dust first!
Another Xanax-druggie?!
isn't it just pathetic
Make a buck, make a buck.
Pathetic...
I can't wait to get out of this profession. When I hear someone like you say that you've been doing this for 19 years and you make 8 cpl and say that PROUDLY is just SAD.
Im sure these blood sucking companies who don't give a crap about their workers would LOVE you!
...pathetic.
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What a pathetic person you are!
So, what you are saying is that the $20,000 that was donated is nothing? PUHLEEZ - If you do the math you big brain, that is enough money to give at least a few hundred families enough money to get food, clothes, and some well-needed necessities! Now, YOU go do the math! It is people like you that are such greedy SOBs and are not appreciative of anything. I know of a family that was displaced and I can guarantee you this - THEY know who is being generous and who is not. In my opinion MQ did what they could! Obviously NOBODY does more than they can - HELLO! You didn't clear your savings account and cash in on any stocks to send money did you? HECK NO!
I know. It's totally pathetic already
It would be comical if it weren't so tragic. I have never seen anyone with such low self esteem. She has to come on here and browbeat people who aren't even complaining. Then she wants to brag(?) that she made $200 in NINE hours???? I do feel sorry for her, but I am getting really sick of listening to her venom.
You guys are pathetic
Can we just wait until we get the darn packet before we start crying like babies -ENOUGH ALREADY!
That's not funny, it's pathetic
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What's really pathetic is how people who are so
of their own lives feel some sick kind of vindication and gratification from having the last word on an anonymous message board.
Okay, honey. Go ahead and have your little victory for the day. It's all you have, and I know you are just dying to post a reply!
LMAO
I have a life to lead. Have a good day, but thanks for the entertainment.
LOL!!!!!! Kinda pathetic that I have nothing better
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My life is pathetic. *sm*
I work outside the home and I make a good wage/yearly income. I took up medical transcription on the side in hopes that some day I could work from home. I have to travel almost an hour to work each way and I live where we have major snow and ice storms and the older I get, the more anxiety I get about driving in this weather. My husband hasn't been able to find a good job (he works about 30 hours a week at a dead-end job with no benefits) and I have a son in college. I find that I work all the time with almost no social life. I also have friends and relatives who seem to be working more than one job either both jobs outside the home or one job outside the home and then doing something on line. No matter how much I work, I never seem to be able to get ahead and it scares me. I do not have an extravagent home nor do I drive a newer vehicle. What is wrong with us that we have to work more than one job to make a living and how am I going to face retirement? I am thinking I will have to do medical transcription from home until I can no longer see and just pray that it is still around. I never in a million years thought that my life would end up like this. I should have listened to everyone when they said it was just as easy to marry a rich guy as it is a poor one.
my life is pathetic
You sound so cruel in your reply. What if you had not found another man who was nice. What if you were still with your rich ex? I cannot believe that you would say such a cruel thing to this woman ESP. when you have been through the same experience yourself!! Not everyone gets a second chance to find a better person and/or life like you did. You need to apologize PROFUSELY to "my life is pathetic." I've had my "down" times, and as YOU should know, it is not easy to keep a happy face and have hope for the future. Again, you just got lucky; not ALL of us get that second "lucky" chance for a better life. Step back and take a look at yourself!!!!!
Pathetic. Outsider p.o.v.
The "anon" poster ended it yesterday and if you can tell who he/she is with the moniker of "anon" then good on ya. You look pathetic.
i agree, its pathetic
the mass generalizations. i never have understood it. Maybe i have been blessed enough to grow up near and know people of many races and cultures and i see the HUMAN in all of us. sure i have some prejudices, but its more toward those with massive tattoos, klaidoscope hair color etc, fhe things people choose for their appearance, not gender, skin color, age, etc.
you are SO mistaken and PATHETIC
I have worked for her for over 5 years and NEVER had a problem.
Guess going national to find decent transcriptionists is a mistake. All you do is slam, slam, slam. Pathetic bunch a lot of you are. You deserve stuggling with the huge companies and low work and crappy platforms and VR at half the pay.
Oh, my gosh! What a pathetic attitude...
Those poor people need help! What would you expect them to do? They have lost EVERYTHING, and many of them didn't have much to begin with. They can't go back to where they lived. Most only have the clothes on their backs. Shame on you.
pathetic refund back to CEO
you go girl!! tell him you want your postage reimbursed - haha!!
1. Me. 2. Me. 3. Me. 4. Me. 5. Me. Total # in household: 5. pathetic, huh? sm
Also, we have a total of 11 acres - 3 of which have to be cut. Our riding lawn mower broke in the spring, so guess who is out there pushing it? Yours truly.
If I don't do it, it doesn't get done....And I need things to be done for my own sanity. Can't stand a messy house.
That's pathetic that a hospital would pay for such work.
The hospital should be ashamed of themselves for hiring an offshore company.
You are pathetic. I make $35 an hour with
you would make some money. Instead you want to stir up trouble and complain. Why not look at what you DO have instead of what you DON'T have? The reason I am in MT is because I make $35 an hour and I can't make that anywhere else. If you don't believe it, I don't care. I'll go back to my work now and make some money, and you can sit on this board and b*tch and make nothing. And it's your own fault!
This really is pathetic. 5 years ago I started out with .07 and they are still only paying that?
You're really looking pathetic here. Notice how everyone thinks so? Move on. nm
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That is ridiculous
Sometimes people are not where they want to be but where they HAVE to be. If I didn't have to be sitting here listening to these idiot dictators, believe me I wouldn't be.
ridiculous? no ....
I don't think my complaint was 'ridiculous'. What is ridiculous is receiving pages of scribbles in the mail on a daily basis - half of which I can't even read. THe other MT's in the company warned me already about this QA dude - he's a bit of a nut case.
No, I never claimed to know everything; and I'm open to hearing specs of individual facilities; of course!. My gripe was the pettiness of it all ... but I thought that was obvious in my post, MS Busy MT'ing. Maybe you're the one that doesn't know it all !
That's just ridiculous. nm
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This is getting ridiculous.
Now there's a job on the job seekers board looking for an IC MT to do acute care with ops for 7.5 cpl. IC!!! With ops!!!! Give me a break. That's equivalent to about 6.3 cpl after paying self-employment taxes, not to mention overhead. Their website says "HIPPA" instead of HIPAA, too.
That's ridiculous!
BUT! We are supposed to transcribe his work with a smile on our faces....GRRRR....... I swear they just don't THINK!!! Good luck with that one.
That is ridiculous. Don't come WHY?
Looks like at the very least he enjoys his peace and quiet away from family but then maybe there is more to this than meets the eye.
That's ridiculous
I also have a 4-year-old and the whole point of preschool at this age is the social interaction, then the academics come in to play. She still has another year of preschool before Kindergarten, doesn't she? Maybe you should consider looking into another preschool. Sounds like the teacher is the problem.
Oh please, how ridiculous!
It was her sister for crying out loud! And I can't even believe the OP was questioning this. Extremely odd! ;0
Ridiculous
That is really time consuming. But that is my opinon. What you could do is to by sylcount and save each patient as a file and then count them and they would list each file out by the patient name. You could do an extension or by their name do cn for chart note, lt for letter, etc. Then on your invoice if you do totals by doctor, Dr. Smith total lines, Dr. Jones total lines, etc. and attach the print out from Sylcount that would show each file by the patient's name and the line count. I thought it was bad when I was subcontracting and I had to break out chart notes from letters/consults/x-rays by date and doctor. This again makes me thank my accounts as I just keep an Excel monthly line count by doctor, highlight the docs, attach to an invoice that has total line counts done in Quick Books and hand it in and they pay. Some accounts don't even want the daily break down by doctor just each doctor and a total line count. Have never been questioned once over my line counts. If this is a sudden change then I would tell them that there would be an hourly rate to figure this out and keep track of the time it takes. But again, one of the simplest programs that would do this for you would be Sylcount. Good luck.
Really ridiculous especially when...
typing into the hospital system because all they have to do is type in a few things and get this information.
That's ridiculous.
Is it ridiculous
to list a Brainbench certification for medical transcription on your resume?
Ridiculous
Sometimes I wonder how much nicer this industry would be without all the control fanatics. I wish they could just be shipped out to some island to battle amongst themselves, play those control games that they enjoy so much, and leave us to complete the work in a rational time period without all these ridiculous rules.
Seems ridiculous
As much "fixing up" we do of what is actually dictated, I think it's pretty crappy if you get points off for simple punctuation.
Just think if we all left everything completely verbatum (especially those dictators who say coma every other word or say to put periods in the middle of a sentence)!
go to chat room on web site and find out. i'm working but if you find out, let me know.
creepy dude.
the start up $$ is ridiculous
That's what I think is so sinful. They sucker you in telling
you can be an employee, you can make 12,000 a pay period
easY!
None of that is true. And then you are left trying to figure out
how to pay the insurance, pay for the computer you sunk money
into buying and meeting their requirements, reference books,
the whole 9 yards.
And do they have a conscience about leaving a mom and her children
with no food? I really doubt it.
And NO a new MT is not then ready for the next job because
all over again he/she will have to INVEST in the new stuff that
THAT particular company to meet THEIR peculiarities.
I'm sick of transcription now. When they sent us home - that relinquised
the responsibility of these nationals from providing equipment and
turned all the $$ over to profit for them and ate $$ out of our income - not to
speak of the extra utilities run while home. This computer heats up
my house terribly in the summer - it helps in the winter but it still makes
a considerable dent in my bill compared to my neighbors who work during the
day.
Ridiculous complaint?
Busy, you should really try to be a little kinder.....or read her complaint a little more closely. I think her complaint was not about CONSTRUCTIVE feedback. If she gets hard copies she can't read, what good are they? Just how ridiculous this QA thing can get; one of the editors in a company I worked for corrected my "40-year-old black female" to 40-year-old Black female." No problem, if that's what they want, that's what they get. I corrected my Expander to "Black." Editor #2 comes along and corrects me saying "black or white" is never capitalized. I fired back a very disgruntled e-mail and said editor #1 had corrected me and that I KNEW black was never capitalized but if they wanted it capitalized, fine with me but somebody needed to get their sh*t together and figure out what they wanted from me. At least with that company, editor #2 had some sense, she sent back a very nice e-mail saying that to appease editor #1 to go ahead and capitalize it until I was off QA and then do it whichever way I wanted and in the meantime she would not count me off for it. At least editor #2 had some sense but ridiculous? YES, indeed.
Busy, if you're working for both MQ and Spheris, I assume your experience is about the same as mine. I worked for MQ and for Spheris when they were Edix. Once I was off full edit (in a very short time), I never heard anything from either company QA again so I assume they were happy and I went right ahead doing my best.
that is a ridiculous comparison!
dogs, birds, cats, etc are all different animals that required different diets and have different needs. You can't even compare 1 dog breed to another b/c every breed has its different needs, so that being the case, how can you possibly compare dogs to birds?? That is just ridiculous.
Ridiculous, it you can't at least make 10 cpl
why not stick to your guns and work in something else for a while? Who can eat as a newbie at 3 cpl. If you work at McDonald's you would at least be able to eat!
No wonder the market has gone into the toilet. It is full of workers who won't stand up for themselves! If the docs want someone cheap, they get what they pay for. I am also sick and tired of typing record reviews with mistakes from EMR and dirt cheap workers included. But they do get the medical words most of the time. Forget the easy words like seat, it's sit, and that drives me nuts !!
The docs will never get sued like that, so don't count on that one!
No, the whole thing is ridiculous.
I agree he shouldn't have taken the money at all, but it shouldn't have been offered or put him in the situation at all. Despite whether or not the incident was handled perfectly, it is unfair that he was expected to wait for treatment because of disputes over who pays. He was unable to reach his employer, everyone was gone, small company. Reports and money can be figured out later, not when he needs immediate treatment for possibly broken bone or at the very least a nasty effusion that needs drained and could later affect his tendons.
The system is definitely broken.
I'm sorry but I think it is ridiculous for "businesses"
I know I want itemized statements for services. Wouldn't you?
Your own bookkeeping and accounting does NOT give you direct pay, true. It is part of running your business.
Where do charges stop? Do you need to be paid to get out of bed in the morning? To walk to your computer? To turn ON your computer? To load your programs?
Something, ladies, you simply have to do for yourself.
to me, your response is RIDICULOUS!
"American workers are pricing themselves out of the market with both their hourly wage demands......." This is YOUR statement. How else am I supposed to see it?? BTY, I am NOT whining, just stating the FACTS (as I see them). You had your say, and I had mine. Grow up!
Sometimes I think some of these doctors get more and more ridiculous ...
by the day.
I feel for you in this and will be sending positive thoughts your way that you'll get through the rest of the day without becoming too overwhelmed and stressed out.
That pay is ridiculous even for a newbie
If you graduated and did well from a good school (such as M-Tec or Andrews) you will have no trouble finding a decent job for decent pay. Starting pay for newbies should be in the 7-8-cents a line range. No lower than 6.
At 4 cents a line,at 100 lines per hour (typical for a newbie) that's only 4 dollars an hour. At 150 lines per hour it's only 6 dollars an hour.
I think this company is trying to get someone who has NO actual MT experience and may be desperate to work at home--maybe have skid-by skills.
No. Not for PT, not for FT, not ever. That kind of pay is beyond ridiculous.
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Okay, I just started SR, but come on! This is ridiculous. SM
First, this is an American, clear as a bell dictator. Dictation does not come more straight forward than this guy:
SR: This is a vaginal lady
Actually dictated: This is a 51-year-old lady
Somebody explain to me how SR is such a wonderful tool?!?!?!
I am doing SR on Dictaphone EXText and it is just awful. Reports are just full of this kind of crap. I was just wondering does the Dictaphone SR server "learn." I know there are some SR programs that learn after the same correction is made consistently. The SR server will then auto correct itself. Is this true with Dictaphone? Because I have been doing SR for a couple of months now and it hasn't gotten any better and I'm making the same corrections over and over! I might as well be transcribing!
The ridiculous part
... they should know I am smart enough to know the difference. This makes me think that they are concerned about me getting information they would rather I did not have.
That's ridiculous, since you have been working
for about 3 years.
MTSOs work together with MT schools which do anything possible to lure people into their training programs.
Just keep looking and testing until you get hired.
As far as I know one can only get 'additional taining' through an internship (there are very few out there and they ask for a fee and do not pay for work doneduring the internship)) or to register into a complete program.
There are no short 'refresher courses.
If I were you I would ontinue to apply. And don't let 'them' tell you that you are not good, you are good, they only want your money.
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