I see I spelled *grammar* wrong in my post above. *sigh*

• A challenge to all MT's....sm - dinosaur
  • Please ignore the grammar police - I do! They take away from (sm) - dinosaur
    • Good post. I was starting to wonder if possibly - sm - My 2 cents (per line?)
      • You both are very wrong in your assumptions - NOT the grammar police
        • Eubonics is offensive. - sm
          • Again, that was someone else, not me - NOT the grammar police
            • Ironically..... - NOT the grammar police
  • I'll send out letters - letterwriter
    • Thank you, thank you! - anon
    • "The pen is mightier than the sword" - My 2 cents (a line?)
  • You would be better of just going to work and not spending so much time tilting at windmills. - nm
    • That mindset is why all us MT's is po' !!! :( - My 2 cents (per line?)
    • That's what I was thinking too. - nm
  • Not to be negative but . . . - Violet
    • ? How does MT work translate into *Paris Hilton*? - My 2 cents (per line?)
  • We need to get a consensus here of as many MT's... - dinosaur
    • If you don't know grammar, you have no business - being an MT,
      • Get over yourself, Grammar Police - sheesh! - Notta Nazi
        • Oh so very wrong you are - NOT the grammar police
          • Business is business. Internet forums are - playtime.
          • I agree w/you. BUT, in your 1st sentence...sm - Ali
            • Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth sm - NOT the grammar police
              • Huh? With all due respect, I think you are... sm - Ali
                • Perhaps you are not aware sm - NOT the grammar police
                  • How interesting! Thank you. nm - Ali
                • I see I spelled *grammar* wrong in my post above. *sigh* - Ali
    • I'll write it..I am a professional freelance writer as well as an MT - mg
      • Where can I get freelance work? NM - Elsie
  • Is there some way to emphasize the HIPAA discrepancy? sm - searching
    • Maybe searching internet and newspaper archives - sm - My 2 cents (per line?)
    • I am going to look into their specific wording on this today - mg
  • Has anyone worked for different companies - mt3
    • yes, me for one - Janine
  • I thought offshoring WAS illegal!!! - susancarol
    • It is against California Privacy Laws, and the patient can sue from what I read. - paintyper
  • I'm IN!... - susancarol
  • Not the grammar police BUT - your post needs some serious editing
    • Oh, get OVER it. This is an online forum, - for chrissake.
      • To quote the original poster - hundreds of thousands of WELL-WRITTEN and WELL EDI
        • That was hundreds of thousands of WELL-WRITTEN and WELL EDITED letters - nm
          • There's a time and a place for everything, and - My 2 cents (per line?)
  • You're RIGHT ON. (And a day's pay - doesn't even fill my gas tank!
    • Which route? - Siren
      • count me in! why doesn't someone set up like a yahoogroups - sm - LMT
      • It doesn't have to start out at the top - sm - More ideas welcome! :)
        • Count me in! - MTOhio
          • Here are some people who might at least LOOK - at the MT situation.

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THROUGHOUT the report.  Since I don't keep a copy of the chart on my computer anymore, I can't go back and look at it to see what I did.  I vaguely remember though, 2 days later, that I had a patient that was not on the patient list so I spelled phonetically, marked it for QA that this was throughouit the report and sent it on its way.  I questioned the person telling me about the mistake as to whether it was spelled right in the demographics and a couple more questions trying to clear my confusion about what could have happened.  This is certainly not something that is my norm, for sure.  She replied once, but after asking another question and telling her that I'm really not trying to give her a hard time over this, she has not responded again.  Is it possible that someone QA'd my report, fixed the patient's name in the demographics but didn't look at the report body.  Perhaps I should have flagged every place that it is mentioned as well?  "The patient" certainly would have been a sure thing here but not allowed. 

So now that I've ranted a little more over this I'll let it go (hopefully) but I just can't believe I'd have done this.  I even use "uj" in my Expander and change it to the patient's name with every report, just so I don't make a mistake remembering how to spell some of the names.  I guess that's the biggest reason why I'm having a hard time with this one, because I do the same think on EVERY report, uj=whatever the patient's name is as per the demographics on the patient.  AAARRRGGGHHHH.  It sure does bug me.

they said they are paid on production.  I saw yours and I did understand yours, but somehow I guess while I was reading it, I responded to the other one. 

Sorry about that!  I too made much more per hour as an MT even if I made $25 as QA, but I am vehemently opposed to QA being paid per line. 

 - here goes, anyway!   ----  "How funny would THIS be?"  

I know it would be impossible to ever get MTs to stick together on anything, let alone a work-stoppage kind of strike.  But can you imagine the hilarity (at least on OUR end, anyway), if for just one week.  Heck - one DAY, even -- we all decided to transcribe everything verbatim?  And I mean, VERBATIM, not the 'fixed-up' kind of verbatim most of us are expected to do.  I mean verbatim, as in if they don't punctuate anywhere in a 3-page letter, they get a 3-page unpunctuated letter.  They screw up the 'copy-to' addresses, then instead of spending OUR time looking up the correct address or spelling of the recipient, let it go as-is.  If they say "left" and MEANT "right", they get "left".  When they bounce back and forth between calling the patient a "he" and a "she", and don't clarify it, then that will be come a report on the world's first simultaneously dual-gender individual.  All the little checks and balances, and save-their-@ss type of transcription we do automatically, doesn't get done for one day.  Unfortunately, it would probably cause every Editor in the country to simultaneously call in sick with killer migraines.  But that's okay, at least it would be FUNNY.  And lord knows, this profession could sure use a laugh now and then, couldn't it? 

... simvastatin and folic acid.

I thought that was the definition of verbatim account. What is a verbatim account definition, pls?

COPD, that's captial C, capital O, capital P, captial D.  LAD, capital L, capital A, capital D. 

Plus...

Patient has been in drug recovery - that's R-E-C-O-V-E-R-Y

Really?  I did not know that.  Thanks so much.