I so totally disagree. I have worked with lots of men who are transcriptionists... They are awesome
Posted By: CatNap on 2006-07-01
In Reply to: They aren't that rare. I've worked with SM - my opinion only
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Totally awesome!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Totally disagree
Only because I have a neighbor in her 50s, she's tall, still thin, not a wrinkle, so obviously she has kept herself up. Its not about age, but about wearing the right clothes for the right shape. She wears tanks, and also long form fitting dresses, very stylish and i've also seen her wear shorts. I hope to look so good when i'm in my 50s. Of course if she were out of shape, dying her hair the wrong shade and wore black eye liner, it would be a whole different story. 50 is supposedly the new 30. But if you have as great of a figure as you did in your 20s as you do in 50s, show a little of it off, we don't die once we reach the age of 40!
Totally disagree
Eliminating absolutely everything a kid can get hurt on is turning our children into fat, soft, weak sissies. Most schools have already done away with recess and then wonder why kids can't sit still in class - label them all with ADD and drug them up on Ritalin. Remember getting 2 recess periods plus lunch hour to run and play? I never knew a hyper kid throughout school! We played (and fell off) the monkey bars, got thrown off the merry-go-round, tried to jump off a swing going too high, sprained ankles, had cool casts. We jumped bikes over ramps made out of plywood and a couple of cinderblocks, sleigh rode down hills so steep we had to tie a rope to get up the hill, had "spotters" watching for traffic on the 2 cross streets we had to cross once we hit the straight stretch at the bottom. We walked across railroad bridges without hand rails (the horror!) about 150 feet up to get to the best swimming hole on the other side. Fell down hills, skinned knees in bike wrecks, fell out of trees, had homemade swings made of rope break and knock the breath out of us. Dodgeball was fun!!!! There were always some girls who could hit so hard it would leave a red welt the size of a basketball, but it was still fun. We had spotters for trampolines in gym class, but they ALWAYS moved back of somebody looked like they were going to fall. We ran laps in the bleachers. We camped out on the riverbank without sunblock or mosquito spray, didn't worry about the snakes, saw them all the time. We swam in creeks way back when some cesspools still drained into them (and never caught any funky intestinal disease). We rode dirtbikes, wrecked, laughed, got up and rode some more. We hit the door at daylight and came back after dark, usually bruised, exhausted, but anxious to do the same the next day. What do lots of folks do with their children now?? Don't get dirty, don't do that, you might fall. Sit down, stop running around. Girls playing football??? (I did). People don't let their kids get out and play anymore. Getting minor injuries is all part of that. I have a weak ankle to this day from jumping out of trees into leaf piles and getting at least one sprain every fall. Now the most injury a kid risks is carpal tunnel from holding a video game controller all day. We ate raw cake and cookie dough, ate potato salad that had been out more than an hour, cut up turkey and chicken right on the counter and never got salmonella. I feel really sorry for kids now because they can't be kids!!! They just don't make the friends they used to and get out and get tired and dirty. They are kept in the house, kept totally clean in front of some electronic box to entertain them. We had bears and mountain lions all around our house, rattle snakes, copper heads, etc., and still would hike way up in the mountains. Just about every time we swam a snake would swim right by. Kids are going to get hurt and it's unfortunate that some do get serious injuries, but we can't just outlaw and discontinue every single thing that might cause an injury. I read recently some states are stopping even playing tag because of the emotional damage caused by not ever being it...gimme a break!!
I totally disagree with you.
I earned my Medical Transcription Degree by an online school and it was the most thorough schooling I have ever had. When I was attending a brick and mortar school a few years back, I took a transcription course and it didn't teach me anything. The online schooling was much more thorough.
I totally disagree....sm
because MTs, when doing VR, are editing and correcting the document that the VR system is putting on the screen. Lots of work, whereas the QA corrects only the blanks and the little errors the MTs missed and not even all of them.
VR editing is much more strenuous than QA editing.
totally disagree
Give me an example of when a patient's life was on the line due to a d__med hyphen or a number that was spelled out or written as a number. QA people, not all, but most have to do this to justify their jobs. I also agree that AHDI has made changes regarding things that we learned from grade school on up to college, i.e., correct grammar, punctuation, etc.. I too also feel that AHDI has to justify its existence.
I totally disagree -- politely :)
Because of the changes coming with world-wide standardization of coding and the yearly changes in the verbage of codes, deletions and additions due to ever changing medical technology, I believe it to be as interesting and complex, if not more so, than MTing. To be a certified coder, you have to put your neck on the line for jail time...do we do that as MTs? No, we make the provider take responsibility for the finished product. The Office of Inspector General holds both the provider and the coder responsible. With 21 years of varied medical setting experience under my belt, I say even MTing is not as satisfying as winning a debate of a coding issue during an audit with Medicare or Medicaid and setting the standard for the rest of the industry in that particular state for that code.
I totally disagree with the statement that
"With VR, one MT can do the work of 2-3 MTs doing straight transcription." I can type just as fast as I can do VR at a rate of about 300 lines per hour and transcription pays twice as much as VR. Its just not fair or right. VR is NOT a lot faster and sometimes I get a report in VR that is so messed up that it would be easier to erase the whole thing and retype it. But if I do that, I'm still only going to get paid at the VR rate. Isn't that lovely? VR is FAR from replacing transcriptionists.
Trish, I like you but I totally disagree that MTTest is the best
way to find a good MT. I know as fact my way works and it does not waste hours of a person's time. I get good people because I know what to ask and how to screen people. If more recruiters knew how to do it, they would not have to waste all that time too
Let me add though, the people there were awesome and very nice!! I wish it would have worked because
Yes, they gave me Reglan and Fioricet..worked awesome!nm
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Must disagree...I also worked 3 jobs while kids little...
but not for a better lifestyle, just to support our family in Hawaii as my husband was low-ranking enlisted military. Please let it go and get back to the original thread... overhiring and waiting for work in the queue and making no $$$ for a decent living.
And I disagree with that. I've worked home and in-house,
Everyone is different and some people don't rely on jobs to provide social interaction. When it comes to my job, I prefer being at home working independently without a lot of interruptions and enjoy the freedom of working from home. If I were stuck in an office with rigid hours, then I'd be resentful. Personally, I loathe being stuck in an office full of catty backstabbers and love the solitude of home. When I want to socialize, I call one of my friends.
You also have to be able to let QA remarks roll off your back a little, but that only works if you don't have the threat of being docked or terminated as a result of those QA remarks. Find an MTSO that doesn't hold those things over your head (yes, they do exist).
I do think the key IS where you work, but not home versus office - it's finding a company that values MTs, not sees them as mere production machines. They are few and far between, but they're out there. I lived through my share of bad apples in this biz before finding the good ones, so I speak from experience.
Totally not MT related but lots of smart people here for advice, I hope.
My son had a girlfriend some 8 years ago, she ran off with another guy to another state and it really didn't hurt my feelings at all. They had gone through a lot in the less than a year that they were together including my son helping her cope with a rape trauma that she had been through. I wish truly I could remember the number of months between the rape and her leaving, but I felt it was a short time. That really doesn't matter, but 5 years ago this girl sent an e-mail telling us our son was the possible father of her child "you do the math" but she "really thinks the other guy is the father." My son called her and she was going to send paperwork but never did. Now jump forward to yesterday, my son gets notified via phone that she's looking for him, that she has his daughter, and we're really not sure what to do. The girl does not know where we or my son lives but knows the general area. I'm afraid she'll just show up on my doorstep one day but my son doesn't live here anymore, he's a man with a life of his own. What would you do? Does anyone know the legality of all this?
Lots of people worked up to it.
They got it going and then used it for maybe 1/2 hour one day. Then used it a bit longer the next and so on, until they were using it exclusively.
Another way is to create a glossary with the stuff in your current Expander so that you get used to using it with familiar phrases. Then you can add to it as you get better. That's what I did. DO use the marker keys though, rather than the spacebar to expand. That takes a bit of getting used to, but it is so worth it later on to be able to get full use of all of IT's features later. :-)
take essential oil and mix with salt and do a hand scrub. feels awesome, smells awesome, and very r
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BBQ, slaw, cornbread, ham, casseroles, lots of veggies, chicken pastry, lots of desserts!! BIG fami
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Lots of inexpensive decorations at Big Lots. Had a party last year.
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LOTS and LOTS of video tapes and DVDs.
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Age of transcriptionists
61/female/married 40 years/ 11 grands
How many men transcriptionists
are out there? Have been noticing a few men's names lately and was curious as to how many men transcriptionists there are.
M.D. transcriptionists
The doctors who are supposedly training for transcription have degrees in ayurvedic medicine and homeopathy. Neither has much to do with western medicine. And, can they type? Some of this sounds like bluster to me.
MS transcriptionists
Hi guys. I put this on the state boards, but I don't think anybody reads those. Are there any MTs from Clarksdale, MS or around that area? Love to hear from you.
Low Pay for Transcriptionists
I am 57 and have been transcribing for 28 years. I recently moved from California to South Carolina. I was doing VERY well there working in a clinic, but since moving here I am living at the poverty level. Even with my experience they started me at $ 10.00 an hour. I've checked all hospitals in the area and none pay any better. This is very disappointing. I've applied all over the place, and nobody seems interested. And working for 7 to 8 cents for a 65 character line is like giving your time away for nothing and 3 to 5 cents per line for editing. At 57 I am in bad health, have spent my life transcribing, and don't know how to do anything else. I plan to enroll in school in the fall to learn a different trade.
Hey VTS transcriptionists! DQS still down
Now BizGroup, too. Just keeps gettin better and better. I know that MQ is huge, but we are teeny-weeny, and this is day two with no work...gettin really frustrated.
are you implying that transcriptionists
that work for MQ are less professional??
meant transcriptionists!
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Retiring transcriptionists
I retired at age 62 after sixteen full time years and twenty part and full time years. I worked in a fast-paced institution doing all types of transcription. Believe me it took a toll on my hands and wrists. I now suffer burning tendinitis in my right wrist with deQuervain tendinitis in my thumb.
Veterinary Transcriptionists??
Does anyone transcribe for a vet? How did you get in to this area of transcription? It sounds like it would be interesting. Maybe they just have their secretaries transcribe. Thoughts on this.
Thanks!
Diskriter needs help all around - they need transcriptionists for
all shifts, and are finally getting desperate enough to hire PT
Any dental transcriptionists out there?
I transcribe all ops, and I have an oral/maxillofacial surgeon, but no samples on him. Is there anyone doing this type of transcription who might be able to send me a few good samples of dental surgeries?
Thanks.
Ophthalmology transcriptionists out there?
Any other MTs doing ophthalmology? I'm working for docs who are on the east coast. I get so FRUSTRATED because the reports are so short I feel like I'm starting and stopping all the time. I've done 33 files today for a whopping 600-ish lines! Great docs, easy to understand, mainly letters to the PCPs. Most of my files are easily less than 3 minutes long and when I do get a long one, he can't make up his mind so I end up erasing and retyping, and STILL don't get a decent line count.
Just looking for a sympathetic ear from another Ophth MT. I feel like I'm in a different world than these other guys I read about on here!
male transcriptionists
I worked with one where we were paid $25 an hour - he would come in on Saturday and Sunday and milk the clock for 12-16 hours when there was only about 1-2 hours of work. This went on for a couple of years. Then I had another male MT as a supervisor and he was very nice and has always helped me to find work when I needed it. Different strokes for different folks.
Are there any traveling transcriptionists out there and do you like it.nm
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Transcriptionists are smart!
I had a doctor say to his "residents" that they should do transcription because I was answering all of the questions they could not, just because I've transcribed for so many years! That was kind of a nice feeling, if I do say so myself! So... maybe we could all be doctors some day!
Transcriptionists that do not know punctuation
I just had a dictation in which the doctor specified (correctly) where the quotation marks were in relation to the period at the end of the sentence and stated that he was tired of having to correct reports where it was incorrectly placed. I was aghast! How could anybody transcribe and not know elementary punctuation?
remote transcriptionists
Go to mtjobs.com. There are plenty on there.
any Tampa transcriptionists here?
I would love to know - I have a question.
thanks!
EMR will not reduce the need for transcriptionists
What we do at our office is we transcribe the reports and they are scanned into the EMR - the only difference is there is not an actual paper chart anymore.
any transcriptionists been disabled by
I am an avid gamer and a MT. I'm only 30 and already my wrists get sore periodically. I'm wondering if there is a point where I will be disabled due to transcribing and difficulties with their hands and what to do to prevent it. TIA for replies
VLM -Tried in the 60's to get transcriptionists to join a
union to no avail. Nurses at that time also were non-union - they decided to unionize as their pay and benefits were also abysmal at that point in time. Compare that to their income & benefits now compared to ours. The reply I received for not joining a union then was that the transcriptionists did not want to jeopordize patient care in case of a strike. Well,I agreed we played an integral part in patient care, albeit felt it was secondary compared to the role of nurses regarding patient care - who decided to risk going on strike and made the choice to unionize!!
I totally dropped out of transcription for 10 yrs, only to return and find that AAMT was the answer to our problems. Need I say more ?
As far as the scenario of striking in this day and age with no income, I imagine if I'd add up all the slow days, days without work, holiday periods without work, I could also survive a strike. Only difference being knowing I'd return to work with better benefits including help with health care coverage and increased pay, rather than decreased pay. Shoot - maybe even being recognized as a "Profession" instead of a typist - cognizant of our intelligence & knowledge!!
I don't know to this day if unionizing would have helped us back in the years when it was feasible, but still feel we couldn't have been any worse off than where we are today!
Trying to organize a union now I'll leave in the hands of my internet savvy young ones. How this could be accomplished in this day and age is now beyond my level of expertise!
psychiatric transcriptionists
Please help! We are a group of psychiatric transcriptions working for a hospital who have been bought out by another hospital. We had no line count or QA. Now the new hospital has QA and wants us to type minimum 1500 lines a day. We type assessments, h/p, progress notes, consults, neuro and psychologicals. We have many foreign docs who ramble on. We also work on Dolby transcription and dictation system. Their medical people are required 1000 lines per day and x-rays 2000 lines. We don't feel like any of us can reach this. Are they asking too much?
Radiology Transcriptionists needed
Hello Meg,
I am the GM of MDI and would love to hear from you. We have excellent benefits. Our radiology transcription coordinator is the best. Mary will help you with scheduling and start you out with an account. Yes, we do pay $29.99 for ULD. Call me at 800-205-7047.
North Alabama Transcriptionists
Are there any hospitals based in North Alabama who use at-home Radiology Transcriptionists?
funny of the day- substitute transcriptionists
Retired Devoted Transcriptionists
Good for that lady, it is possible to work that long and work well. She is in Heaven with the saints. I am retired but not "dead." I would love to transcribe part-time but when they see the dates in my work history, for some reason they treat me like I am already dead. I have so much to offer. I was self-employed for a long time and did very well in my business from tapes. If someone would give me a break and let me practice doing it over the "Net", I would do it for free until I got it down pat if I had to. I can't think of a better way to spend my retirement years than to keep on working part-time. Now in my retirement, I would love to work from home part-time over the Internet. I am HIPAA aware and abide by all the rules. I love transcription, have the speed and knowledge to do many accounts, even acute care, etc. However, when I apply, I cannot describe to you in adequate terms how I am treated when I show interest in a part-time job in my profession. I have so very much experience, strength and love for my profession that it is like a fire in my belly. However, no one seems to want to accommodate someone who only wants to work part-time and they look at me as though I'm nuts to want to work at my age (60's). Their loss. Is there anyone else out there who feels the same way? Are we all just from the days of yore and useless? I am a a perfectionist at everything I do. I had to give up my self-employment for personal reasons and have been on a few interviews in which I was treated badly. I sure do feel like I've been "dumped" by the very profession I threw my heart and soul into, maintaining my CMT, etc., until several years ago, only to be trash heaped. Sorry, just venting. I would just like to know if there are other people of retirement age in the same boat. I have a young mind, a great attitude, and a youthful outlook. I won't lie about my age and I won't lie about how I feel. Abandoned.
What a shortage of medical transcriptionists
Whoever says that needs to take a look at the job board and the posting that has over 1,000 views.
There are no transcriptionists looking for jobs either.
Any North Alabama Transcriptionists?
I posted on the state board, but I don't think many people go to that board. I was just wondering if there any home-based transcriptionists near me. Thank you for your time.
North Alabama Transcriptionists
I am in Limestone County.
Seems like a problem for a lot transcriptionists even the good ones
Maybe we could set up a challenge thread where we check in at the beginning of the day and then at the end of the day to see if we did what we said we would do.  We could post our line count holding ourselves accountable. Make a little game out of it because you would be more motivated to post a good line count than to surf the web. I understand completely and I am disappointed and annoyed with myself when I do less than I know I am capable of doing.
Seems there are plenty of flaky transcriptionists...sm
out there. I have been working for the same MTSO as an IC for approximately 12 years. During that time, I have found in talking with the owner that there are plenty of transcriptionists out there who don't do the work when they are supposed to, call at the very last minute to say that they won't be able to do the work (which is okay sometimes, but some people do this weekly). They will start the job and last two weeks and then disappear off the face fo the earth. They make the same st*pid mistakes over and over and over and over. My company has a real appreciation for the few of us who actually do an excellent job for them and we are treated with great respect. We get the best accounts and when something happens where we need extended time off (like having a baby!), they will make sure someone can cover our accounts without making us feel guilty. Good luck with your company. I hope you find some good people to work for you! P.S. Apparently "st*pid" is a bad word on this board!
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