I thought this was a great post!
Posted By: sm on 2006-06-09
In Reply to: Food/medicine caught in throat - seasonedMT
Maybe in the wrong spot, but a good post. What a mess, huh? I have to ask - did they charge/bill you for that? I wouldn't be paying!
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Great post. I swear by both Advantage and Frontline Plus-- both work great! - sm
I don't know about "natural" approaches for the house. I have always used flea bombs in the past before the miracle of Advantage and Frontline changed my life. Have not had a flea problem at all since I began using those products about 10 years ago, dose all the dogs religiously once a month with the Frontline Plus except in Dec.-Feb. to save a few bucks and because the ground is generally frozen by then and no fleas are scurring about. -- Hope you get flea free soon.
Great post -great job of wording your answer! (sm)
Original poster - I completely agree with this answer, especially the part about finding yourself and using all that you have learned intellectually and connecting that to something that you will also enjoy with your heart!! You have so many wonderful options for your future - much more than many of us.
That's too bad! I thought he was great! nm
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great description. Never thought sm
of it that way. But sure seems like there is more QA than there use to be. That could be because there are so many new MTs (not knocking the newbies) that the companies are hiring for less money than they deserve so they can get cheap labor. That and the biggest problem, OUTSOURCING!
That is a great story. I thought you were going to say it was a snake. sm
I used to live in a big old farm house and snakes would get in occasionally. Also an owl came in through the old heater pipe. I miss the country but it would give you a little high blood pressure once in a while.
I used to let mine out too and thought nature was great -
Until he went missing and animal control brought him to me in a bag the next day! Who knows how long he lay in the road after he was hit by that car. It just breaks my heart thinking about it. My cats stay inside now and are very happy with their cat trees and toys.
Great idea...I've often thought of doing some...
thing similar. After all, AAMT was started by individuals with an idea. Unfortunately the original, most likely that *good* idea has been long lost.
So, form a new organization. Set up testing. Issue a credential. Actually represent the American MT. What a concept. 
I just finished training, which I thought was GREAT! sm
The platform is EXText, although I think they have others. I like the way they seem better organized than other companies I've tried. I'll let you know about the 2-week honeymoon period whether the "marriage" will last or not!
Another well-thought out post! And may I add -(sm)
that many of us who started MT with many other skills besides just doing medical transcription were over the years gradually relieved of other duties we had (i.e., as medical secretaries, or medical office managers, etc.) because what made us MOST VALUABLE to our employers in years past was our ability to TRANSCRIBE. Eventually even things like putting reports into charts (I used to walk through the hospital doing that- best part of my day), copying, filing, typing papers or book manuscipts, or even putting paper & ink in our printers, was replaced by just one thing: Type, type, type. That was fine, we thought, and maybe even better! But then we all started getting carpal tunnel syndrome and other RSIs, and suddenly just doing our jobs was injuring us. But the Greedy Ones didn't care. I actually knew people who were fired for getting this ailment (in the days before the ADA was passed) because it slowed them down a little bit. I had a co-worker who typed all day in bilateral wrist splints, chomping down pain-killers and sobbing as she worked, because she couldn't afford to even take the time off to heal, as she'd been threatened with termination if she didn't keep her line count up. So, after doing exactly what our employers wanted us to for all these years, now all of a sudden we're told we're only worth a couple pennies a line, even if that line contains information that only someone in this industry could transcribe, spoken by a voice that only a trained and acute ear could understand and decipher, and that is highly private and against the law to divulge to anyone, including the very patient upon whom that information is being dictated. Yet it's okay for that information to go to a country where our laws don't apply, and even if they did, where it would be impossible to enforce them, and where dishonesty, corruption, and the very hunger and economic need of its MTs puts a gaping hole in whatever security we Americans thought we had in thinking our private medical and ID records were actually that - PRIVATE. Something is most DEFINITELY wrong with this picture.
Thank you....I was just going to post that same thought
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Oh Yeah, me too! I love the Queen! I hadn't thought of her, but she'd be great. nm
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Maybe it was where you post fell .. I thought
that you thought I was telling you that.
OH WELL I'M CONFUSED NOW. ROFL
I meant no harm or bother to anyone.
My babies are in bed. I'm going there, too. I think I'll just stay quiet for a while.
For a minute there I thought I had written your post! If you sm
get an answer to your question about where does one go after 30 years in this business, please post it because I too feel I lost 30 years to this profession and am still waiting for some respect and fighting for decent pay. It's hard to explain how I feel to anyone who hasn't done this work. And yes, it is disheartening to see our profession in such disarray and all respect shot down because we are looked upon as chess pieces in the game of greed.
I didnt really read your post, but thought i would reply anyway
email me if you have enough nerve to speak to someone more in person than on the boards. I would be more than happy to have a debate with you if you are mature enough to handle it, but would rather not do it here.
Personally, when I first saw that post I thought that idea was insane. I still do! nm
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What a great post...(nm)
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Great post! nm
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This was a great post, thank you!!!
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GREAT post. Thank you.
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Thank you for the great post
What a nice thought. A happy MT week to everyone!!!
WOW what a GREAT post!!! nm
Great post! LOL
I always always have to follow it up with an explanation as to what it is, exactly. I think I'm going to start saying I'm a *medical* court stenographer ;)
Yours was a GREAT post!...sm
More advice would also be that one has to *put in your time*, especially if you're young, i.e., I worked at a hospital for 8-9 years in 3 diff depts, did MTg along w/other duties, then worked for a svce 7 years, and another one for 1-1/2 yrs, then got my own accts.
But I learned terminology all along the way and at the hospital took a basic med term course and got a certificate, (not CMT though). Learned 3 fields there while working. However, when I got to the first sve, thinking I knew sooooo much, WAKE UP CALL, I felt I knew nothing - as svce had full hospital accts (along w/pvt MD accts). I took on 12 accounts there for 7 years. I learned just about every field there, love working from home.
Just for the record, I ALWAYS get dressed every day and never *stay in my jammies* working, as someone else posted, as if that would be something to aspire to (?). I think getting dressed is great discipline or keeps one disciplined I think, in my opinion.
Hope everyone has a nice profitable week
GREAT post nn.......thanks for that!!!..sm
I, too, believe we are the JEWELS of the industry - us older ones who have been doing this work for 3+ decades or more or less.......We step up to the plate just like we have been for ALL those years.
Thanks for your positive post! You hang tough too!!! *S*
Lottery? We have a better chance of getting hit by lightning, unfortunately, than winning the lottery - which is a 1:14,000,000 chance at that. Hence, I NEVER do play it anymore.
Have a great Sunday!!! 
Great post, really. :) NM
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Great post.
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great post!
What a great reply! It's odd that on this MT forum, medical transcription and the qualifications necessary to be a successful MT are often trivialized or maligned (like the nasty poster who said ''It takes intelligence to be an engineer''). Yet when the MT--who knows better-- protests, she gets personally attacked as ''neurotic'' or ''personality disordered''. What MT would take the time to visit, for example, a forum for teachers or nurses, post nasty pot-shots about a profession, and then claim the person responding to the insults is ''neurotic'' or somehow at fault for responding!
Very well said. Great post. Thank you. NM
Great Post!
I love your avatar, by the way.
Yes, stories like yours will inspire the incoming hopefuls to this field. Determination, savvy, and brains do count tremendously, not just the program attended!
Great post, but I'm
I think unions served a purpose at other times in history, when children were working in sweat shops & that sort of thing. Now I think they can be kind of dangerous...& become part of the thing a group was initially struggling against. Too powerful, too money-hungry. I've witnessed things like people being forced to join a union in order to get a job. The job was an on-call position; i.e., no call, no pay. At the end of some pay periods, people would have no income but still owe union dues. That sort of thing. Also they can protect good employees; unfortunately, they also protect terrible employees who deserve to be let go. This can cause the rest of a great staff to have to work around one inept person who sleeps on the job.
What a great post!
I recently quit an in-house job to go back working at home. Hated the politics, the doctors were crazy unorganized and waaaay too much drama. Now I get to work in pajama pants and a t shirt, no more 30 minute drive to work and even as I type this, one of the cats is trying to sit in front of the monitor to get my attention. Right now it's cute, as I'm not on the clock. Later on tonight, however...............
Great post
I agree 100%, we can all sit here and complain and cry in our milk that all our work went overseas or we can try to do something about it by informing the general public in an intelligent and fact-based manner. I just saw the commercial on TV for "watchdog" true it is a company that makes money off of monitoring your credit. I had never paid any attention to that commercial before today. It got my attention "today" when they said "70% of identity theft" is NOT credit based and they were talking about medical records being disposed of improperly, people getting medical care by using someone elses medical information that was obtained in some type of illegal manner. That commercial got my attention because of what we have been talking about right here. So if we informed our neighbors, friends, relatives, doctors, nurses, etc. How many of them would sit up and take notice and say "Wow that is what they have been talking about?" The most we have to lose is a little time...time is going to pass by whether we use it for this purpose or not. If we do nothing the time will still have passed, more of our jobs will be gone and what used to be a good profession will be reduced to "anyone with half a brain can do it because no one pays attention to what the medical records say anymore."
We can't make it change, if no one does anything but sit here and complain about it.
I truly believe that MT's are a well-educated, intelligent group of professionals, let's show them what we stand for as professionals before it is too late.
Great post, eyetype! nm
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this is a great post...professionalism is the way to go (sm)
being sadistic does not accomplish anything, and if people really wanted to help others, there would be different hiring practices to begin with, rather than hiring so-called substandard MTs only to rip them apart every chance they get, and then come on this board and mock them.
Do the overseas MTs get treated this way? Seems to me they are thriving in this business...
Great post, thanks! Wonder what the car man's story is? nm
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GREAT POST and I agree.....nm
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YEAH - GREAT POST....sm
GREAT POST.......
To the first poster - You need to ask him? Tell him!!! All households should be equal....everybody's things being equally important.......
YOU GOT IT, ANON - GREAT POST....nm
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EXACTLY - great post!! not paid enough!! sm
With all that we have to know, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, equipment, physical therapy, OT, rehabilitation therapy, cardiology and all THAT entails, neurology and neurosurgery, physiatry, psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics someone in this thread has the audacity to say we are less than professional?
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Great post by the Admin!! also, know....sm
You can rest assured that it's far better to raise a child in happy divorced home than a miserably married one.
My daughter was only worried that she'd be the only one in her class coming from a divorced family, and I really reassured her that, unfortunately, every other seat in a classroom back then (15 years ago) and today (in my area) is a divorce situation. She came home almost immediately relieved that what I had said was true and that she didn't feel ever like she was a misfit.
Best of luck!!!!! 
That was a great show! Thanks for the post!
I missed about 20 minutes of it, but recorded the rest. Fascinating look at the other side of things. I have always known that the Indian (whatever 3rd world country) workers themselves were not our enemies - its the govts as usual creating all this situation. And now their culture is crumbling and turning into our culture. Poor things! And, while I certainly don't want to lose my job to offshoring, they are right that we as Americans can rebuild our lives and reinvent ourselves. Those people die. They are desperate and that's why I give them 100% respect and anticipate them making leaps and bounds in the industry. They have a great incentive - pure survival. I have also QA'd lots of foreign work. There are occasional bad MTs, but there are some fantastic MTs as well. Sometimes far superior to the quality of USA MTs. So, I'll be looking over my shoulder for sure and keeping my skills current!
Great post! Good to know : )
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Great post, related to all you said....sm
The answer is comfort - some get comfortable where they are at (and for my PT work, it's my situation at the moment....*lol*). But I have lots of irons in fires and when I get fed up, it's onto bigger and better things. 
Great post, Dolores.
I hope she'll take your good advice because her getting so upset and frantic over nothing is not good for her blood pressure or general health.
Great post with VERY useful information. nm
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If this is so great, why not post the link here.
after passing that exam and paying all of that money, people would want that list posted on the highest mountaintop!!!
another GREAT post and with statistics!! T.Y.
Great post, but why not Florida, please?
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YOU GO GIRL - This is a great post, thank you...(NM)
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What a great post - so much to identify with...
I especially like Lillybelle's posts also. Just recently I have considering the same thing as in letting go some of the 'perfection' as it (literally) does not pay.
However, have you ever heard QA complain? There are a lot of posts right at this site where there is nothing but complaints about how 'lazy' MTs are etc. Not that I want to rekindle that argument, but I always worry about a backlash from QA, even for leaving reasonable blanks...
Ever feel we are backed into a corner? Geeze!
Great post and I agree with everything you said.
I make above 75K a year for the same reasons. If you are highly motivated and work into a good focused schedule I know it can be done, improving your production and your paychecks.
You don't have to sacrifice your life either. I work less than 40 hours a week, but those hours are spent on focused WORK.
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