I think microcassettes are used more often nowadays then minis.

• New MT - BCurtiss
  • In over 10 years at a service (sm) - tnmt
  • I think microcassettes are used more often nowadays then minis. - I wouldn't buy either until I knew what was nee
    • was needed. (got cut off). - everydayearthling
  • Neither, really. Depends on employer. sm - and what they use

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Has anyone out there had trouble with Maxell microcasettes popping from the spool.  For some reason, our office has gotten a batch of tapes that continues to pop from the spool when the physician dictates to the end of side A and then onto side B.  Tapes are popping left and right.  At first, it was just one particular physician's tapes, so we thought it was the machine.  However, now they are all popping, but only if dictated to side B.  Has anyone had better luck with other brands?  Need some help.  The physicians don't want to redictate, so I am losing $ and they are wasting time dictating only to have the tape pop.

You DO NOT want to be picking up tapes. Believe me! You do not make any money when you aren't typing...don't go there. Go to Bytescribe's page on DocShuttle. For under $300, you can get an FTP administrator, and a Client. FTP sites costs less than $50 a year. Get an Olympus recorder and mess with it until you know the recorder and uploading/downloading inside and out. Docs love to dictate on their handhelds (pacifiers), then all they have to do is dock and upload to your ftp site. Cuts down turnaround time and takes care of stats. You will have to have something in place to offer the physician who hasn't used a service yet. Pick what works FOR YOU and sell him on it (i.e. decreases turn around time, can accomodate stats, he has the completed files back in his office for HIPAA purposes, he can make his own corrections without waiting for you to do it, etc.). Put a positive spin on whatever is helpful to you and sell him on it. I even have some of my docs buy the recorders and software, or offer to "lease" it to them for $10 a month. Docshuttle also has a TASP in case you get the guy who absolutely must dictate into a phone.

As far as getting an account is the easy part, but figuring out the equipment, paper logistics is the hard part...that's why most MT's don't become an MTSO or even get their own accounts...harder than you thought,hmm?

It is my opinion that there are very few docs left that truly care about their patients.  In working with them and as a patient.  Having a sickly child, I have been through 6 peds in 11 years for one reason or other.  Only had one truly great ped, he saw sick children even on his day "off" and still saw them in the hospital and if he couldn't treat whatever, he wasn't afraid to send you to a specialist.  He saw patients until he died.  I believe he was in his 80s.