I suppose a good object lesson

would have been, just once, to type exactly what he said, down to every repetition.  Wouldn't if feel good do do that just one time?  I mean, it would be 'verbatim.'

Often I will go ahead and type both versions when someone keeps mis-speaking:  'The patient was brought to the ER by his friend, his girlfriend, his fiance.    He had onset of pain on Tuesday, or maybe Wednesday, Tuesday night or Wednesday morning....'  Hard to tell with some of these dictators what they are trying to change/add/subtract. 

So far there have been no QA repercussions over this.

• OMG! laughed right out loud at this one sm - Lorie R.
  • I just hope she is an ESL! nm - Ella (retired)
  • one of my favorites did this - sa
    • These are making me chuckle - Happy MT Robin
      • I suppose a good object lesson - Scamp
        • I sometimes do that with one of my surgeons - Happy MT Robin
      • used to get one like that - sa
        • The best one was when - Happy MT Robin
  • You gotta love 'em - Happy MT Robin
  • Oh please tell us that at least - Veteran
  • I am totally feeling what you say - Yellowdog
  • But don't forget how much smarter she is than you - not. NM - ncmt

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to ER/ED?  Is it just the steady diet that you object to?

Most accounts I've worked on have a pretty short TAT on ER notes, especially if the patient is being admitted, which may explain why their sorting system is giving them to you to do first. 

I once made the big mistake of agreeing to 'help out' on ERs and H&Ps on weekends (being a 'team player' and all)  and found that these reports were replacing everything else in my pool, every day of the week.  As long as there was one H&P or ER note, I never got to the juicier stuff.  I've always like psych, but this prevented me from getting any psych for weeks at a time.  Like you, when I complained I got no satisfactory answer and nothing changed.  This was one reason (but not the only one) why I did eventually leave that MTSO. 

thanks for the Italian language tip.  I never said I was Italian-American, though my best friend is.  *LOL*

Have a great Sunday! 

Would anyone be willing to give me the ballpark range for what contractors charge their clients in Florida.....like 13-15 cpl.  Also anyone from California with the same information?

I am just starting out and I don't want to low-ball anyone!  Thanks!

If you're really fast and can average 300 lph or more and are making at least 10 cpl.

I hate to see them mislead people like that though.  It takes a long time to build up that kind of speed.  There are people on this board who say they can do it, though.

is going to be the end of our quarterly bonus. My concern still is if there is no work how do you get any incentive if they lower the base rate. Sounds like employees will have a larger window to get their work done which means we all will be scrambling around for work at all hours.

I'm trying to understand.  Do you save the transcribed reports on the same jump drive?  If that is the protocol, then wouldn't the MT before you typed any reports, then wouldn't they be saved to the flash drive?

If so, then you could open up the flash drive and if there are any Word files or text files, you open those up and see what they are.  If they are transcribed reports, write the patient's name down and don't transcribe those notes.

Whatever the case may be, I would absolutely tell the office manager or whoever you are meeting with that you will type everything on the flash drive and that you expect to be paid for everything you type.  You gave them freebies the last time and you're in this business to make money.

but I live in the northeast and not much need for that where I live.  I also live in a small town so that limits my options.  I have spent the last couple of years as a substitute teacher to supplement my MT job and just completed 4-1/2 months as a long term sub which I enjoyed and was a change of pace from MT.  The only problem is as a sub or ed tech you only get paid during the school year so I would have to keep my MT job for summers and school vacations.  With the way things are going in the MT world I hate to rely solely on that.  I don't want to find myself without any job whatsoever.   

Thanks for all the responses.