I hold New Orleans totally to blame

They knew they had a city under sea level. They knew the levees could only withstand a Category 3 hurricane. They had three days to get enough food and water into the Superdome.

Need I go on?

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My son and two other friends doing. Staying in the Cotton Exchange Hotel on Carondelet St in French Quarters. I found this on the internet (after days of searching for an opening), so I hope I have at least gotten them a decent room. Just wondering if anyone knew of this hotel and any suggestions for nice places to eat, etc. (All 20 years olds and never been there)

If so, GET THE HECK OUT! We don't want any MT's to become statistics. Hurricane is a comin'.....

I'm not familiar with that particular hotel, but I would imagine anything on Carondolet Street should be decent.  Just make sure they stick together and stay where people are.  Essence Festival is this week, so should be pretty crowded.  As in any major city, there are definitely areas they should not venture into, and I'm sure the hotel concierge can help with that, as well as restaurants (there are many  excellent restaurants in the area!).  I hope they get to experience many of the great things about this city while they are here.

Yes, I agree, I think that is not a bad wage for my area.  I work for a medical school in NOLA (hint: Go Green Wave ) as my FT job, but transcription is not my primary job.  I honestly couldn't do transcription FT every day!  My hat goes off to all who do though.

I just read below that a lot of you believe that Ray Nagin is a "hero" for speaking his mind, etc.  My DH just told me this morning that he read the evacuation plans for New Orleans and what the city and its leaders (Nagin being the main leader) were supposed to do in the event of a hurricane, flood, etc.  The manual stated that ALL public transportation was to be used to but the elderly, sick, poor, and those unable to get out to higher ground until the storm or catastrophe passed.  He did not do that. He got on tv and told those to get out. No public transportation or school buses were used to get these people out. 

I hate to judge, but I just cannot help but think that this guy is all talk and no action?  I don't know, sure does sound like it to me.  I too thought he was awesome, until my husband explained the evacuation procedures and how the city did nothing but warn of people to get out - and did not help them....

I know, sounds like the blame game and I am sorry if it sounds like I'm blaming.  I just can't help but state this when now the facts are coming to light.

You go girl!!  My thoughts exactly....

I've learned to take a more pragmatic view of the problem rather than blindly placing all the blame on the doctors themseves.  Rather, I place the majority of the blame on the shoulders of the government and the insurance companies for driving up the costs not only to patients but to the providers.  Practices have found that they've got to cut back somewhere. Some have turned to EMR, some are using voice recognition, and some have resorted to going the cheapest way possible, offshoring, to create the documentation REQUIRED by insurance companies and the government in the first place.  Though we may debate the morality of sending American jobs overseas, they're not doing anything illegal.

The biggest problem I have with offshoring, as my friend once put so eloquently, is "I wouldn't want my medical records to go to some country we're going to be at war with in a few years." (thanks, AK!) We Americans are expected to abide by government-imposed HIPAA laws, but does that extend to offshore companies?  They say they are HIPAA compliant, but who really knows? Which "government" agency watchdog do we have to protect our privacy in these other countries?  Gee, we're having such a problem with identity theft, wonder why?

I've taken to asking any new physician that I go to who will be typing my medical record after this office visit.  If they say they sending it to some really cheesy company in India or even refuse to tell me who, I walk.  How many of you do the same thing?

"Anonymous" and "Untouchable?" 

Don't speak for me.  You don't know me.  I have always wanted to deal directly with the MTs.  There are other QAs who agree with me, too.  But we have been told in may meetings that just will not happen.

Of course, I would imagine the anal ones who should not have their QA jobs would not like to do that, because they could not back-up their corrections.  But I stand behind mine.  I would rather talk directly to the MTs -- lack of communication is good for nothing but misunderstandings and bitterness. 

I am not out to get any MT.  I will not make a change in your report unless it is an outright blatant medical terminology mistake or a formatting error.

Why are you so mean?  You don't know me.  I wouldn't be nasty to you.  I have never done anything to you. 

Bitterness is not good for anyone.  Why don't you place your anger towards the QA who is giving you troubles?  Turn that QA in.  Keep doing it.  If more MTs would speak up, then the ones who should not have jobs will be held accountable.

I know what you are talking about.  I understand.  I see it myself when I look at completed reports and I see what some QA are doing.  It is wrong.  But not all of us are the same way with our jobs.  I have always tried to be professional and helpful to the MTs.  I leave notes with info that they might need concerning the particular report, and even thank them for their hard work. 

I am sorry you feel so hateful towards someone who never did a thing to you. 

it didn't cut the mustard and you want to blame somebody else? You know, one report will not get you canned.

I do feel sorry for you, again.

As for the *blame game* - most states and MOST judges don't care....they don't care if your spouse is caught in bed with people.  Hopefully the OP's state is like that.  Many states today are *no contest* states.  If you want a divorce, you can get a divorce in most states with no contesting.  If the OP's state is not like this - is not a *no contest* state, the OP needs to file for a divorce in another state, where the OP would need to get residency status in that particular state (using someone's address who you know real well). 

...for taking another transcriptionist's word over mine regarding a situation involving only the two of us. I blame my employer for overlooking the fact that another Transcriptionist was 15 minutes late EVERY SINGLE DAY for five years, had temper tantrums at work (even the employer said she needed anger management classes), and antagonized the radiologists - and yet still, somehow, I was the "bad guy" and that employee was the golden child. I blame my supervisor for being IN THE SAME ROOM and witnessing the cold and cruel way the other transcriptionists treated me, when I had nothing but pleasant things to say to and about them, and still allowing the manager to "let me go" when it finally came down to a choice.

No, I didn't fit in. I don't lose my temper at work. I don't try to turn people against other employees. When there is a problem at work, I have the courage to address it and calmly try to work it out. I treat other people with respect and dignity.

You're absolutely right. I didn't fit in. But I should mention - I left there August 28, 2005, and they STILL have not filled my position, nor have they filled the position of another employee who left at the end of December 2005. What does that say about who "fits in" at that department?