I sincerely hope that you are correct in that we will jobs coming back to the states, but I won't
Posted By: Tinks on 2007-02-06
In Reply to: even though - stephanie
I realize that India is a third-world country and it is a small percentage of Indian workers who are benefiting from the offshoring of American MT jobs and it may be only a small percentage of jobs been offshored, but the impact of this small percentage to the entire industry of medical transcription is tremendous. It has lowered the standard wage for the American medical transcriptionist. How can an American MT compete with 3 or 4 cpl? By accepting only a little more per line than the Indians or by taking jobs editing the Indian MTs work for 3 or 4 cpl. Either way, we lose. We make less than we did 10 or 20 years ago and that's progress?!?!
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I SINCERELY hope you are right, but (sm)
I was thinking the same as you until just recently, until I had time to think about it and study the letter which states as one of the "highlights": A newly defined full-time employee classification with flexible scheduling.
My thinking (sleep-deprived, so forgive me if it is not eloquent): If they can offer former SEs flexibility and they can eliminate the quarterly bonus, it might be to their financial advantage.
Many MTs who are SEs have insurance from spouses or just can't afford MQ's insurance, so they opt for SE. Now, they may have done some kind of cost comparison thing and found that SE versus employee is not as cost-effective on the SE end as they thought. What else about being an SE costs them anything? PTO is the only thing I can think of (and unless they improve that significantly, it's not worth much). Stock options? They aren't even selling, right?
They are also offering flexible scheduling for part-time employees.
Regarding your insurance question, back when my office was bought out by MQ, the insurance for a family was in the range of $500/month. For employee only it was pretty cheap. May have changed since then and I don't know anything about the plan.
One more thing... the SE bonuses coincidentally come out in October, the same time this new thing will be introduced. Perfect time to eliminate it. I just have a bad feeling, but time will tell.
Hope California would join the two states
doing the protest soon!!!
Total # of outsourced jobs? More less the population of 3 entire states!
Try to calculate that economic nightmare!!!
Microsoft states "We're better off moving jobs out of US"
It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”
True, but this has been a long time in coming. I truly hope something
For S.P., if you still check out this board, it looks like things are starting to happen. I hope you're still hangin in there! Keep the faith!
Probably take out as we will be coming back that day - sm
from VA Beach. Jenny spent last Easter in hospital after her nephrectomy for Wilm's, so we thought it would be good to do something different this year. Seeing DH's parents the following weekend probably. She just got her Port-A-Cath out so its a celebration of sorts for us.
coming back to MT--??? gone?
I thought I had posted this question on this board, but the topic seems to have been removed. Anyone know why?
It is coming back
There are a bunch of shows that start later, "mid-season" and the only dates I can find are "early 2007", but I was wondering about Medium is how I found it. Medium will be back mid-season, along with Scrubs, According to Jim, Reba, George Lopez, King of Queens, Supernanny, The Sopranos American Idol, America's Got Talent, etc...... bunch of them!
Wow, it's all slowly coming back to me
flexibility. As long as you do your 40 or plus pages per day.
wow, makes me want to keep coming back...
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I was just coming back to update...
I did not find one, however, my wonderful father-in-law who used to design computer components 20 years ago opened up the broken one and fixed it for me. It's still fragile, there's a broken screw housing thing that was somehow preventing the pedal from contacting the switch sufficiently, but if I treat it gingerly, it'll get me through until my employer sends me a new one. Whew!
LOL! I was just coming back to change that to 1024. Thanks!
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Very excited about the Sopranos coming back
I have been waiting since I first heard they were coming back last year...
and I'll probably fall asleep before the ending. Happens all the time. 
Contract not renewed. She was told she was not coming back.
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Correct! I hope that fiberoptic comes your way soon! nm
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I would not do them back to back - I have done 2 and 3 jobs at the same time -- all PT - sm
It is possible to do of course but you will burn out fast. Now I do one almost FT (about 30 hours a week) and the other is about 8-10 hours a week-- I still get beat doing that and that is w/o set hours. I find that the older I get the harder it is to work late and I am only 40! But a mid afternoon 30-minute cat nap helps a lot in order to keep going on busy days.
I go back and correct it but I also write
down the incorrect spelling and put it in as a macro so it automatically corrects next time I type it if I type it wrong again. I have the usual spelled words in there such as teh, tehy, ohter, and a ton of other words that I just cannot seem to get right, especially on those days my keyboard seems to have a mind of its own.
Back before politically correct
we never worried about the small stuff, such as this. Now people are worrying about giving out grandparents history?? What difference does it make either way?? When I go to my doctors office, any doctors office, they want to weigh me. Why?? They are not giving me anesthesia so really no reason but they want to do it ANYWAY. People are so paranoid now days, OMG I tell you my mother had cancer, my grandmother had heart disease, what difference either way. Just do not GET IT.
Hope the admin comes back soon
Unbelievable. SHAM ON YOU HENRY SMITH
Hope you called HR back. (nm)
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hope they bring more back....
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Let's hope the car doesn't come back...
with every hidden nook and cranny filled with drugs! Your sis and BIL have a screw loose to let allow a slacker child, who happens to be an adult, do what he wants with a car they pay for. JMHO, so don't bother bashing me, it won't change my mind!
I hope he doesn't get voted back in either because worse than Eric
is CRAZY Ivette. I LOVE Howie and want him to win. Nobody else but Howie has entertained me on this show. So cute and funny when he pretended he was going to kiss Beau. W/O Howie, I can't watch it even if Kaysar comes back. Don't like that entire Cappy groupie scene. Do you think CBS will bring back a firefighter hero instead of an Iraq guy for ratings though? I know we are supposed to decide but I doubt that is true in the end.
2 jobs here, also back to school, single working mom...sm
hi just me,
i'm rapidly approaching 50 and working 2 jobs (1 FT as MT, 1 PT as virtual assistant)using different programs (50 hours a week total), and going to school PT (10 hours a week), all as a single parent with a house and yard. in addition, i volunteer about 4-6 hours a week. NOT EASY! But, it CAN BE DONE! I think the secret is in motivation, planning and organization. my outlook calendar program looks like a rainbow! (and the task list is pretty daunting at times) =) let me know if you want more advice via email...good luck!
Back to school....or secretarial jobs??? Selling on Ebay??? Not sure myself....sm
I've been pondering all of the above, back to school and ebay seem to me to be better than back to the clerical/secretarial pool. I'd like to get into working with kids or with people in general. I'd like to work with disabled children, specifically children with speech problems, occupational therapy, speech therapy, applied behavioral analysis, something like that. I know this job will not be here for the rest of my working life, time to start planning now I guess.
In the back of Advance Magazine you see all the coding jobs. Can access it online, too.
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Thank you sincerely. (no message)
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Thank you sincerely for your post.
Seriously, I really needed this. I have already decided I'm going to keep her home for the next six weeks of school. I may even keep her home next year, given what you've written. She will only be 5 in June. I turned 6 in kindergarten. I firmly believe she needs to spend some time with me now that I'm not as stressed out from living with her father. We currently share a bedroom - Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears - and I'm getting closer to her. I didn't feel comfortable sending her to school, but I did. I can find time to type around her and still have tons of time to spend with her while her brother and sister are at school. Her brother is 3 (four in September) and is doing very well in school. Different kind of kid. I'm sure it will be a battle on Tuesday with the teacher and the principal, but with all of your support I'm now ready to stand my ground. She will not finish the school year with a teacher/school that thinks she should be "up to snuff" with kids that have been in school all last year and this year. They will probably be ready for kindergarten with all that behind them, but she's just starting this stuff. Give me a break. Thanks again. Wonderful post. I needed it.
And if you sincerely read and comprehended my 2 posts, I ....sm
tried to make clear that these were EXACTLY my sentiments .. my mention of Northern only referred to the fact that I studied the average range of pay of MTs years ago, and have consistently noted the trend that the area which you are transcribing in directly affects the pay scale, mostly for in-hospital work ... up North, there is such a higher cost of living, unfortunately, and I believe this leads to some higher wages ..heck, we have had manufacturing companies leave the Northeast region because, along with utilities and other operating expenses being cheaper, they knew they also could offer less pay to the workers down South because of the pay scale. This is no reflection on who is smarter, better, etc., just stating statistics to look at when deciding if you are being paid/offered pay fairly. Again, why look for an arguement or insult when NONE was intended, only assistance and info, which was requested? Civil war was over many years ago, true?
i smell fishy? who puts sincerely in their post on here?? NOT ME! nm
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I hope this applies to companies like Medquist. I hope there
isn't a way they can get around it. I REALLY hope.
supposed to be, after people lose their jobs, they are forced to take part-time, lower-paying jobs..
with little to no benefits. service jobs. where are you going to work in a few years, when Medical Transcription is replaced by technology? McDonald's, Walmart? you really going to like that?
Do it correct always. It will learn. Everyone has to do it correct all the time. nm
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Several jobs on Monster & CareerBuilder for inhouse office jobs down there through an
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I did 3 jobs for a while about 3 years ago, you burn out quick, I was doing 3 MT jobs though...after
10 months I cut down to 2 as I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket. But I am considering going down to 1 in September for my sanity, its a good steady job so financally it should not be an issue. I have 2 right but have not worked the 1 in about 3 weeks due to some problems at their end, supposed to learn a VA account but not sure if I want to pursue it right now or not, they are waiting to hear from me at this point. I still have a lot going on with chemo, etc. so am mulling things over. But if you have a full-time day job, then I would just go with 1 part-time MT job at night, unless 1 is during the week, and the other weekends only, then of course you will be working 7 days a week, very tiring I know. I have been working 7 days a week for 3 years now but I do slack off now and then of course to recharge and get sleep etc. But burnout happens fast and I doubt you want to lose your day job so be careful. Good luck. 
Also they have to pay to set up new states
So they might not want to hire from states not set up in already.
If you are careful with putting the correct report in the correct report shell and patient, you will
not have any problems. I only take away this option when someone is careless. There can be NO room for error on this. One mistake can be very serious. Many do it well though, so just double check and you will be fine.
Indeed it does, as the letter clearly states
it was a DEP error
It clearly states in the message that they
regarding the status of the job.
document where the IRS states this please? nm
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she states below that she did try in the past sm
to bring on another IC but they were resistant to the idea.
She has already tried doing what you suggest, to no avail.
I have been in this situation as well, and while it is very true that we are, in essence, vendors to our clients, there are offices that are truly difficult to work with.
It is a good idea to consider taking an employee position in this case, I agree, but please know that she's already tried addressing the issue in the way you suggest. :-)
Some *states*. YIKES!
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Working in 2 different states. sm
I know a MQMT who does this. I don't know the particulars, but she's literally on opposite ends of the map at different times. It seems to me that there should be no problem doing this. Of course, time zones, etc. may vary, but things like that should be easily resolved.
Have fun, whatever you decide!
I work for a hospital 6 states away. SM
I have a physician list and I have a website to look for other doctors. But how can they expect me to know how to spell patients' names? They can't. I have a disclaimer at the top of my log sheet that says common or phonetic spellings will be used where patient name spellings are not provided.
That was the thing that held me up when I worked "live" from home for a hospital. All that diddling around finding out whether it was "Kathy" or "Cathy" -- I don't do that any longer and you're right, it makes a HUGE difference.
4 states are taking refugees
The governor of Louisiana has asked four states to take refugees: Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah. I know Utah is scheduled to take 1000, starting to be flown in today (call the governor's hotline at 866-873-2437 if you live in UT and want to help), but I don't know about the others. I would imaging they're taking more since they're closer. This is being coordinated through FEMA, but the governor's offices of those other states probably would be of more direct help. If you don't live in one of those states you could try to contact FEMA, but I imagine they're swamped right now.
I agree with most of this, but in most states you can't lock him out. sm
I agree you should get away from him, especially if there are kids involved, but in most states you're not allowed to lock him out of the house. It's his residence, too, and the police and judges will tell you that he has just as much right to be there as you do. Please be sure to check with a lawyer or with the local police before trying to lock him out of the house.
the post clearly states "replace" so you
Within 5 years, I think most if not all hospitals will be on ASR, and our final destinations as MTs will be editors. Until they decide they do not need these formatted reports altogether.
In most states, if not all, it is illegal for a company
to charge you up-front for information about work, software necessary to work, etc. They should do a payroll deduction, still doesn't guarantee they are a legitimate company though.
The audience would be the blue states,
aka, the ones who voted for Kerry. I guarantee this movie will flop in the red states. It's just one more attempt to push the gay agenda down our throats, making it more mainstream and palatable. Won't happen in my state, Texas. There is no such thing as a gay cowboy, that's an oxymoron.
Labor laws in some states (particularly CA) SM
are more stringent and some of the nationals won't hire from certain states because their laws are stricter than federal labor laws.
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