I have a question about overflow..sm
Posted By: Becky on 2007-03-23
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Does anyone working in an office use a service to send overflow work or work when you take vacation, etc? Any information or suggestions would be very helpful. Feel free to e-mail me. TIA
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Overflow is what can't be done in house. So your "overflow" will not be steady. Be careful, overflow most of the time contains the mush-mouths. Ask him how many different dictators it will be.
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Overflow work??
A cardiologist just left a message for me wanting to know if I would be interested in their "overflow work?" What exacty is overflow?? Sounds like leftovers!!
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SunnyMT
Get some overflow assistance...
There are MTs out there who specifically want overflow work to fill in some gaps. This way, you can still hold her job for her when/if she is able to get back to her usual production. If not, at least you'll have a backup to get help when needed and you won't go out of TAT.
You mean "buffer overflow"...(sm)
Programs create temporary storage locations in memory that are called "buffers". A buffer's size is specified by the program, so it can only hold a certain amount of data. When more than that amount is sent to the buffer area in memory, an "overflow" occurs.
A buffer overflow is bad for two reasons:
1. It can corrupt data in memory "adjacent" to the buffer.
2. It can be used as a form of deliberate attack on a system.
There's no way of knowing how your buffer overflow occurred, of course, but the second item above means that you should always make sure that you're updating your Windows with the latest patches and your antivirus software with the latest virus definitions.
This is not an issue related to the brand of computer you're using. However, on that subject there's no reason you can't use a Dell with Windows XP. I was just looking at a new Dell laptop online the other day and it comes with XP, even though Dell "recommends" Vista (they're required to do so by Microsoft). And, of course, you can always buy a Dell with Vista and install XP on it yourself if you wish, either as a replacement for Vista or as a dual-boot option that you would select when you turn the computer on. Given the size of hard drives today, I'd recommend the dual-boot option. A local computer shop can help you with this.
Quick! Need some temporary/overflow work
Does anyone know where I can get hold of some temporary/overflow work? I am between jobs and applying but this takes time, as we all know.
I need to work in MS Word and with high-speed, business-grade satellite. We have no land line (cell phones only). I am able to pick up voice files from a secure server, transcribe them in MS Word on my computer, and send transcription back via the secure server.
I did find some temporary/backlog work but now it's all caught up, so I need more.
I have 20 years' experience in everything from acute-care hospital to clinic notes.
I would appreciate any help anyone can give me here. Thanks! 
There CAN be absolutely nothing when a service only does the overflow for an acct and does not
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I'm there with ya! I worked for a hospital that outsourced overflow to a very large, VERY SM
well-known service. The quality of the work was shockingly bad. There's no way to describe it except to say it was painfully obvious that the MTs on our account had no business being MTs. They didn't even have the very basic skills for the job, let alone the medical terminology.
I had the opportunity to read through the contract, and there was a paragraph in the contract that clearly stated that not only did the service promise to adhere to a specific TAT, but also promised high quality, proofread reports. Basically saying that they employed a highly qualified QA staff that insured nearly error free reports. That's the OUT clause as far as I'm concerned. I started a file of every report with errors from the service, every ridiculous error.
A new supervisor for our department was hired and her first order of business was to cut the flab out of department. She told us that the service doing our overflow was being paid something like $60,000 a MONTH! The hospital was paying the service 45 cpl. Now do the math! The service gets 45 cpl and pays you and me 7 to 8 cpl to transcribe for them or even worse pays 2 cpl for an India-based MT and 3 cpl for an American QA person to edit and correct it, so that's only 5 cpl they end up paying. That's quite a profit. I vowed the day I found all this out to NEVER work for a national service again and especially not THAT service.
The new supervisor was against outsourcing which was good news. She set out to renegotiate the contract or drop the service all together. I threatened her with breach of contract and that's where my little file came in handy. Needless to say, the service backed off and we not outsource overflow to a service local to our area and a much more reasonable rate.
My advice to you is start your file and keep track of everything. Tell your boss to reread the contract, especially those paragraphs that speak to what the service promises to provide for the inflated line rate!
Good Luck!
Opinions please! I have been asked by a small rural hospital to do their overflow. SM
It is clinic notes that are pretty easy to type. Some of the work is digital and some is still on tapes. They want me to come in and pick up tapes, and they want me to print and deliver reports when I pick up the tapes because they don't know much about setting up a remote printer. I made an introductory offer of 12 cpl for the first month and then 15 cpl if we both feel like continuing to work together. I felt that since I am going to be out the cost of gas and ink, my offer was more than reasonable. Well, they countered with a flat 12 cpl period with a one year contract and then we reevaluate at that time. While I was mulling that over, she called back and asked if I would be interested in doing some radiology for them in addition to the clinic work. So basically this account will keep me very busy and is not going to be just overflow.
So now I'm back to thinking 15 cpl and because they balking, not offering the introductory rate anymore.
What does everyone think?
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