I hear that; we had tapes broken several times where silly office people had put post-it notes on th
Posted By: dotf on 2007-03-19
In Reply to: Are you referring to a cassette tape that has dictated material on it? - giddy pc guru
In retrospect, it was nearly laughable.
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I have asked numerous times if people like the Amherst office but seems no one ever offers their
opinion about that office. Just transferred there and I am sure many other MTs on here work out of that office.
broken tapes
It is not your fault, many docs still use tapes and it has happened to me, they all do not want to change and use what works for them. Please don't be discouraged by negative comments. There are ways to splice a tape but I have forgotten what I did in the past, I think an office machine dealer did it for me. It's all part of being in the service business. Excuse any rude remarks, my heart goes out to you!
I taped my broken tapes back in the days.
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Replacing broken tapes, printing?, gas costs...gotta
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Silly ole tapes.... I'm poster below
I have three of my own accounts. I also IC for a company online to supplement just a tad.
Hey Admin, sorry to hear about your broken leg! Feel better soon!
Soon you'll be dancin like this! 
hard to hear tapes
My guess would be it is his recorder or the tape. Old tapes or old machines that rewind them loose can cause this problem. Could be battery issue too. If happening with multiple doctors, and sure you have ruled out above, try seeing if there is upgrade to your sound card or software and windows media, etc. - whatever you are using. And, yes, headphones do make a difference. I picked up Sony ear buds for about $15.00 at Best Buy and they are way better than headsets we get with tape machines. Hope this helps.
Have most people had good luck with their MQ office closing and moving to the regional office. Have
things gotten better or worse for you.
SOAP vs office notes
Some of my docs use the SOAP -see below, all broken down into these paragrahs with headings.
S: (subjective)
O: (objective/physical)
A: (assessment)
P: (plan)
Others, my surgical oncology docs, just dictate and I put them in paragraph form and no headings. Also I have one that does the S and O and then puts his Assesment and Plan in one paragraph.
Hope that helps. Patti
Yes it is possible - we are talking doc office notes
with templated physical exams, using Expanders for whole sentences and paragraphs, etc. I have done it - no padding here either.
I should also note - this was done on microcassette, pickup and delivery, etc.
Office notes versus SOAP:
Could someone explain the difference between an office note and a SOAP note when doing transcribing for a specialty doctor. Thanks.
Generally office notes versus hospital
For my accounts anyway, my multispecialty is office notes, letters, in office procedures and acute care is hospital notes.
Marry me?! :) Seriously...hear, hear. Good post. - nm
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I was sent a courtesy copy of the office notes for a family member once.
This was soon after I became an MT. I was so appalled at the sloppiness of the typing and the rampant use of inappropriate abbreviations that we switched doctors. At least I knew what the abbreviations were for, not sure the typical lay person would have.
Again as has been said many many times I think it depends on the office and the region.
I've tried to go back to the office a number of times and
I never can make the transition. One consideration is your wardrobe. You have to start dressing in office attire which is something I don't miss and found irritating when I went back into the office. I also found that after working at home for as long as I have done it, it's kind of stressful to get out there and try to be social and friendly. Office politics is another negative. Offices are very much like high school, very cliquey and filled with gossip. There is more to working in an office than just doing your job. At home, it's just me and my PC. I do the work and I get paid. In the office, there's you, your PC, the person who shares the desk with you, the person who sits across from you, the person who sits next to you, your supervisor right across the hall, the doctors knowing you by name and seeking you out to complain about their dictation, the constant ringing of phones, chattering of voices. The people you share office space with, one will always be hot, one will always be cold, one thinks it's too bright and there's a glare on her screen, and one thinks it's too dark. You can't wear perfume because the girl next to you is allergic...
I could go on...
Yes, I tried to post same last night about 10 times, and it won't let me post.
I used to breed lab puppies (please no activist flames)! I had a champion female white Canadian lab, and people would be on a list for years if by chance I bred her, which I did twice, and so that I could continue her line. Anyhow, she's my sweet Skye who passed away 2 months ago? At any rate, we had the same problems with kids in the "hood" who wanted to come over and play once the puppies were old enough to be exercised daily and played with. At first I thought, how cute, right? Puppies and little kids - what better picture! Well, the majority of kids were adorable, but there were always 1 or 2 sick ones who would smack the pups, smash and hold their heads in the dirt (a real common thing, but I don't know why - psychiatrist anyone). At any rate, I finally had to ban the whole group due to the 1 or 2 creeps, had to call the police, the whole 9 yards, and that's EXACTLY what the police officer told me - next thing is there will be poison meat or a donut in the yard. He told me to always go out and patrol my yard, especially alone the fence line every day before I let the dogs out, particularly at night. I went out with a flashlight. It was about a month later, but sure enough - poison meat. Because there were so many kids involved, we obviously couldn't pin point the exact family, but the police went and read the riot act to them all. It would stop and not happen again for a year or so, but every now and again we would find something. My dogs were NEVER out and barking, so it was nothing like that - it was just over the puppies and the cruel kids.... Not trying to freak you, but that's the way these kids and their families are. You can really judge someone's character by ill treatment of a PUPPY, of all things. And the parents?? They sound whacked. Please be careful.
Why do so many people LOVE operative notes? I see posts about it all the time...
how they make good money on them, they could do them all day, feel cheated when they don't get them? I have been doing this for years and years and still kind of groan when I see them come up on my screen. Fill me on the secrets and maybe I won't whine so much when I do them. Thanks gal!
In bad times, people ignore healthcare -
some things you have to have even in bad times, but all the elective stuff which keeps a lot of us going is not being done in this time of crisis. I was typing 50-100 GI procedures a day, now I am typing about 20!
The economic crisis is having a big effect on healthcare - don't kid yourself...
In bad times, people ignore healthcare -
some things you have to have even in bad times, but all the elective stuff which keeps a lot of us going is not being done in this time of crisis. I was typing 25-50 GI procedures a day, now I am typing about 15!
The economic crisis is having a big effect on healthcare - don't kid yourself...
Anyone hear when the Warminster office is closing now that all the accounts have been switched to
Amherst.
I've heard people have to try a new food 10 times before they know for sure they won't like it
I heard that somewhere.
I had a SIL who actually SAT on her young children and force-fed them new foods if they refused them at the table. We were appalled, but weirdly, the kids often got up from the floor and happily ate the food they were just force-fed!
Tried to post 3 times yesterday and kept getting
an error.
I was going to suggest knitting/crochet. It is all the rage these days and they have lots of groups that get together in various locations to knit and chat, sip coffee, etc.
I have a book called Teach Yourself Visually Knitting & Crocheting - I got it at B&N for about $25.00. Wonderful book. I have been knitting for a year but whenever I need help on a new technique or can't remember something I pull it out. It has actual photos of how to do the stitches instead of a B&W drawing, that a lot of books have. I'm sure you could find the book cheaper on-line. If she would like to take lessons it seems everyone is offering them these days and in the groups there is always someone willing to help out when needed.
You can get a skein of yarn and some needles for about $10.00 or less. Hobby Lobby has sales all the time.
Knitting can evolve into spinning and dyeing too. I haven't done either yet, but hope to learn both.
There are thousands of patterns you can get on-line for free, though if she develops a yarn fetish it can get quite expensive.
Yeah, but good times or bad, people still get sick, hurt
I do mainly pediatric oncology, orthopedics and GI, and it seems to be increasing, not slowing down.
Two times mine didn't......but I think I saw a post
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I hear people say that we should do something..
But what? Does anyone have any ideas as to what we could do. The only thing that I know would make them choose the US would be to drop ourselves to a penny a line--pretty sure no one is willing to do that (I know I'm not). Is it legal for them to send work over seas where confidentiallity laws would not be the same? I know that I wouldn't want my medical records somewhere where they may or may not respect the laws of confidentiallity. Anyway, I have no suggestions, but there are so many smart people on this board, I'm sure someone must have had an epiphany of some sort.
That's exactly what I hear when I ask people who
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A couple of times a year the suits post as
an MT. I used to work for SS and they were so bad that I can't imagine them fixing all the problems in my lifetime.
Times change..including this policy about who is able to post. About a year ago,
this board started letting everyone post job openings, at least to what I can remember. I know at one point if they were India-based/affiliated etc..then they could not advertise but since anymore it is so rampant with companies being associated with India, they started letting them post. I could be wrong but this is what I recall.
Boy, do I hear ya on that one! People think I'm working less (sm)
and basking out by the pool every day. HAH! I've been putting in 11-hour days and having to call it "8" (much time wasted looking up doctors & experimental drugs). More interesting and challenging, but requires a lot more research & knowledge per page to complete. Co. wants topnotch MTs, but still I'm making less per line than at the in-house job. But I had to take this financial hit in order to get away from the hideous management style at the old job. I DO get to break up the day, but that has its pitfalls, as well, and can make for a long, long day.
So I guess we MTs get a choice (if you could call it that): Work in-house and be browbeated & treated like the scum of the earth daily, or work at home and be considered invisible & non-human.
Hear people talk about VR issues
There is no way, none that a person's record could be any more compromised than with the dictators we have to put up with now days. They are unable to speak English to where you can make sense out of it. I get livid anytime I have to put up with this crap every weekend. We even have some PAs now who are non-English speaking. Where does this stop?
Could people in the Amherst office tell me
whether the accounts they work for are local to their area, or do you do accounts that are across the country? The particular account I work on, I trained with all the ladies on it a couple of months ago on DQS (we all worked on it in another office w/o DQS), and so far, we have a lot of work.
Wondering if the problem with lack of work just depends on which accounts you work on and not necessarily a problem as a whole.
I know quite a few people that use Open Office and are happy with it.
I thought it was free (donations accepted, of course), but perhaps that has changed.
Please post a followup when/if you hear anything about this...
Starting to talk to supervisor (and then probably payroll) myself about this, as I'd also like an explanation as to how this figure was derived (so I can hopefully double-check to be sure it doesn't occur again).
I feel somewhat like a stupid unpaid shill for MQ now, having defended the line counts on DQS on several MT boards a couple of times now, because I have occasionally randomly copied and pasted my reports into Word and "seemingly" confirmed that the line counts in DQS were accurate.
Considering the amounts of these checks in general, being dependent on how long one's been on DQS (mine is less than $8, but I've only been on DQS for six months or so), I suspect it's something like them incorrectly rounding up (like maybe not crediting 64.5 as 65 but as 64?) or some little arithmetical folderol like that.
Anyway, I'd be very interested to hear what the discrepancy is all about, from anyone who hears anything. I sure do feel that we were owed an explanation in the letter along with the check, regardless.
It is going to be very interesting to see how you people feel once your office is closed and you are
moved into a regional office on DQS and find that there are tons of other MTs on the accounts you always had. It is coming for everyone so you might be singing another song as time goes on. Enjoy it while you can. Time are changing.
I know a lot of people it helped (I worked in a doctor's office) SM
BUT you have to really want to quit before you start it. It doesn't make you want to quit - it just helps you w/ the depression and the withdrawal symptoms that come along w/ quitting. Good luck.
My company foreign owned but they have US office people
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post office jobs
Unless you are a prior veteran or can qualify as a minority, you will have a difficult time getting the job if you are near a major city. My coworker and I (she is black) took the test. I scored a 98, she scored 83, but she got the job.
Please name a post office processing
We are talking about handling mail for the US postal service. Not any other entity. Inmates are not allowed to handle mail anywhere in the United States. It is absolutely forbidden by the federal government. Name a center where inmates handle mail.
Oh, the stories I could tell on the Post Office.
The short story is that since the rates were raised the service has declined. My PM, an acquaintence through my kids' school, doesn't even want to hear my voice on the other end of the line because he knows that something else is messed up.
For whom do you work? We shall all apply - please post - anxious to hear!
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For whom do you work? We shall all apply - please post - anxious to hear!
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For post office jobs see link
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Their fault, not the post office, sending
somewhere I have never lived.
And you'll almost never get just Op notes. Probably get mixed acute care - op notes, discharge su
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I saw a special about theft in the post office years ago. SM
This isn't saying they all do it, but luggage handlers and post office employees have a high rate of left. I bought a really cool Video Now XP for my granddaughter. The tracking information says it reached my local post office and they scanned it in there. They say they never saw it even though they scanned it in. Someone there has a really nice present for someone this year and they didn't pay for it either. Disgusting.
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES INFORMATION SOLD?
It seems the postal service is selling employee information including information to access the employee's health records? The article stated that they did it because they "needed revenue." I can't believe I saw this.
Link below:
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?id=13890624&ps=1011&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
Mandatory for address for post office but otherwise is a style point--
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I used "normal" multiple times only because the post I responded to used "normal" as the
By normal I meant NOT sexually perverted, NOT socially inept, NOT desperate, etc.
I also posted later that maybe I misunderstood what the original poster was talking about. I originally thought she meant internet dating in general, but now it seems more like she means married men looking for "friends" online, which is totally different and not at all anything I have any knowledge of.
I have no idea, though, what your comment about "DC" is regarding. I didn't say anything at all about a "DC."
Neither. I just know these people and saw the post about FlashType
when something is stolen from another.
But if people who know things do not post
it on the board, how should TechSupport know that some people already know it?
So she offers her knowledge in a, as she explained it,
rather extensive and elaborate way, so to give all the information and avoid misunderstandings.
End of discussion!
Today is Saturday, my free day, I have to bake a chocolate-cream-cheese cake for my daughter who comes and visits!
Have a nice Saturday evening!
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