I totally agree...how old are we to call other people stupid???
Posted By: Keystroker on 2008-08-21
In Reply to: wow, a little perspective please - cj
Give me a break...we do not go to school for countless number of years and just because we have to correct a doctor's spelling on certain things, doesn't mean we are smarter than they are...give me a break...if you were expecting to making 75,000 in this field you made the wrong career decision...how about a little bit of respect for a fellow MT...
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oh sorry grammar police...but you did call people stupid..
that was not taken out of context
Did u get the stupid ph call
And you ask, what is it about?
I don't know.
And you ask, why don't you know?
I don't know.
And you say well it probably doesn't apply to me, right?
I don't know.
And you say "I threw away the letter because I'm SE and the letter didn't mention SE. So why am I getting a package? "
I don't know.
And finally you say, well is it specifically to me?
yes.
Then you wonder, if I'm a SE, why are they sending me SPECIFICALLY anything AT ALL?
HAIRY!! do not call yourself stupid!!
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That's so stupid. If that's the case, do you get to call the
physicians and tell them to enunciate?
I love using that one. People look at me like I am stupid! nm
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You know, people are totally spoiled now
When I started out we worked on typewriters (do you know what those are?)- some had correcting tapes - you hit the backspace and typed the same mistake, took that off and then you backed spaced again and continued typing. On the first several computers we had no spellchecking at all. Where I learned we had to have less than 3 errors (either medical or English) on a page before we could get production pay. Our work was much, much better than what I see just being posted on here with the misspellings, etc. I use spellcheck now but only because, first of all required and secondly just makes me feel better but not a crutch for me in any way.
People know not to call me
on Monday nights. Can't miss a minute of it. I think it's best show also. Poor Edgar!
I'm not defensive at all. I think people who call
others fools because they can't appreciate humor or don't like their views are the people who are missing the point and can't see anything but their sorry situation. When you sit in judgement of others from your high horse of course you can't find humor or anything else. Really get over yourself or crawl back into your imagination where you are queen.
The people who call me from India are AM
ALWAYS polite, agreeable, call me "ma'am", say please and thank you, etc. They at least attempt to seem concerned with what I need from the company.
ANY MQ SE PEOPLE GET THE PHONE CALL YET?
What is this all about?
Here we go again. You call other people liars because YOU can't do
what we do? That is just not very nice. Think about what you've said!
I do acute care. I wouldn't touch clinic work with a 10-foot pole, because I'd starve. Operative notes only, but for four hospitals in one state and one hospital in another state. I don't usually check my line count every day but I can tell you that I do 150 minutes in 5 hours just nearly every day. Rarely do I work longer than that.
Please be nicer to people who have come here offering to help you. I'm not selling anything and I never was sure the OP was, but every time this subject comes up, people come and try to help, only to be called liars and scoffed at.
I hope I don't get myself banned from the board for this, because I'm telling the truth.
No I don't call people from the internet...sm
Never really thought about it.
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?
Funny how people are different. I find islands/beaches to be totally boring.
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Funny how people call you 'racist when you
Ever call people you meet online?
I feel a little weird calling someone that I met online. Yet several people have left me their phone numbers to call them just to chat or some ask me to IM (instant message) them. Are they too trusting? Am I too mistrusting? It just feels weird to me. I am on my own. No kids or anything. Soon to be 45 years old. So I guess maybe that comes across in my e-mails that I am lonely and they are just trying to be nice. However, I would prefer just to leave a message on the message boards like this one or send an e-mail. I guess I want to know if others are exchanging phone numbers over the internet and IMing people they meet over the internet? The people I meet are usually people suffering from autoimmune disorders or people in chronic pain. They are usually responding to a message I left. I can't do anything about this condition so I try to focus on others and offer whatever words of encouragement I can over the internet to those suffering.
I totally agree
This is a 10-year-old girl, not a mass murderer. She is in a lot of pain, having suffered a most significant loss, and is trying to reach out, not always in positive ways, but the flowers are wonderful. Where they came from does not matter. PLEASE do not read anything nefarious into her actions.
She needs help, and smiles, and maybe a hug when she is ready.
Fear is a terrible thing, particularly when it turns normally rational folks into masses of paranoid jelly. I despise that we have come to this.
I agree with you totally, thank you!
I totally agree with you..
I have been editing work that would just BLOW YOUR MIND. On top of mispelled and misused words, we have bad grammar and punctuation and then typing something different than what the doctor says and if you read it, it doesn't make sense. For example, I cam across this yesterday, "which was done when he was very-very young apparently a ditch is inspected." He actually said "which was done when he was very, very young. Apparently, it did get infected." I come across contractions, etc. This gal actually argued that her scores are always 98%. There were so many redlines on her work, I might as well have scrapped it and typed it myself. I don't know if this is due to schools or not, but when I was a newbie, I don't remember making that bad of mistakes!!!
Thank you, I agree totally
Get over it already. They cheated you, are cheating you. You MUST like it if you stay and continue to be treated that way. How many other MTs have had a bad job???? Trust me you guys at MQ are NOT the only ones. There are TONS of jobs out there. Go get one, that is what the rest of us do. Go do it.
I so totally agree sm
I posted my resume on MT Stars a couple of years ago and, like you, I was flooded with calls. The company I selected, I didn't even know existed. I have been a very happy camper for 2 years, plenty of work, decent pay, great tech support, wonderful people who make you feel like "family." Best move I ever made.
I think maybe the reason why people keep allowing themselves to be used and abused by companies with sporadic work is the known versus the fear of the unknown factor. Believe me, the stress of starting a new job is small potatoes compared to never knowing you will have enough in your paycheck to cover the bills!
I totally agree with you!!
I have stuff come up on my screen that just blows me away. Most of it could be fixed if they just read over their work and saw that the sentences do not make sense.
VERY WELL SAID!! Totally agree with you!!
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I TOTALLY agree with you...
What looks cute and hip on a 20-year-old just looks cheap and classless on a 50-year-old. I'm 45, so I'm not some young thing poking fun at middle-aged women. Older women can look very classy and actually YOUNGER if they "dress their age" and by that I don't mean mumurs and bedroom slippers or stretch pants and sack-like tops. When I dress up I might wear a nice tailored pinstriped suit or something like that. I do NOT go out in anything from the junior department. There's a reason for "junior" clothing and it's not size, it's the style of fashion. To all the women who disagree with you, I'm afraid the notion that older women look young and cute in daisy dukes, a belly shirt, and a navel piercing comes from those who dress that way " thinking" they look hot, not necessarily the opinion of others in general.
I totally agree with you. sm
We never went on vacation with our kids and left them with grandparents to come back and find out that our own lack of parenting resulted in somthing that our own kids may have been doing behind our backs all along.
Give me a break. Blame it on gramma? How about staying home with your kid and taking a good look around to realize that he's the one that's hiding things, not your MIL.
There is obviously a lot of hatred between DIL and MIL here.
Message for you mom, "get a grip." This stuff doesn't all happen because their at gramma's for the week. You're obviously doing something wrong here. Forget your "vacations." and your "rules" and be there for your kids. Teenagers LIE. It's been going on for centuries.
You can go on "vacation" when they're all grown up and gone. By the sounds of your message, I would say the sooner they go, the better.
I agree totally.
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I totally agree! Thank you!
The people who are criticizing seem to think that the president can just snap his fingers and immediate help will appear. There are people all over the country who are going there to help, donating money by the thousands, etc., and nobody says anything positive about that. Nobody could have predicted a disaster such as this and it takes time to get things rolling, but it IS being done.
I totally agree
Many physicians, young and old, are not on the technology coat tails. They have absolutely no interest in changing the way they do things. I think that as long as using this technology does not become an across the board required mandate by some governing agency, transcriptionists will be in high demand until doomsday.
totally agree
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Totally agree with you
He always was respectful and nice to everyone, a good guy but when he sang, it was a different Marty. I only tuned in to see him perform and then would change the channel. He reminded me of an Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam when he sang with so much angst. Loved it!
I totally agree. sm
I used to be married to a hunter. The whole idea felt wrong to me and I hate guns. I haven't had to deal with hunting or guns for 20 years now.
I'm sure I will get blasted by some NRA people for saying I hate guns, but oh well. 
i agree totally
I have taught children who were mainstreamed in 5th grade who wanted to do extracurricular activities. Social skills are lacking. Around here, they test them and sometimes they have to be put in a lower grade. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and look within. Some behavioral problems are learned responses to what is going on at home. What is the attitude towards authority in the home? See other avenues.
Totally Agree
I would prefer to work for a little bit less money and have a wonderful boss than get paid a ton and hate my job.
I work for 7 cents per line now and I don't mind it at all. I have a wonderful boss and love my job.
I totally agree
Recently I switched to being an editor, I have only been in transcription for 6 years and really feel like it is not a good profession. We are all treated like robots, whether it be an Editor or a transcriptionist!!
I totally agree. This is the only job I have
ever had that you have to take a "test" for the job. Usually, you just interview and if the person doing the hiring knows what they are doing, they can tell if you can handle the job or not. They know what questions to ask, etc just to see what you know. The length of the testing for MT has become quite ridiculous.
totally agree with this.
report after report, different account each time, hard to be productive like that.
I totally agree!
Your 16 years of experience has obviously not taught you that there are many different situations in this field that make switching from account to account very difficult. As the previous poster stated, specifics for accounts can involve much more than formatting, oftentimes involving individual physician specifics, just one point that makes your "docs are docs are docs" theory ridiculous. Multiply this by 5 or 6 accounts, each having totally different platforms, 50 doctors dictating, half of which are ESL's. You stated "As an MT you should be able to transcribe any doc out there". Really? I would love to test you on a 45 minute arterial bypass graft report transcribed by a doctor right off the boat from Turkey. Your holier than thou attitude is ignorant, insulting and argumentative.
Yep, I totally agree. nm
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Yes-- I totally agree!
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Agree totally -
There is no pleasure in the holiday for me anymore. The holiday is nothing but a pain in the butt. I put up a 2 foot fiber optic tree for about a week, and that's it. If he wants to decorate outside, fine. If not, that's all I do, besides wrap the gifts and bake for Christmas dinner. Enough is enough. All the years of decorating, putting it all away alone, and cleaning up ...I'm done. If they canceled the holiday, it would be fine with me. Doesn't mean what it's supposed to anymore anyway.
I totally agree
When my adult children are here, I feel a need to stop working for short periods of time to go to the mailbox, cook, take out the garbage, etc. An MT is out his/her best when we hit that "flow"...you know when your fingers are flying in sync and your voice player is on above 100%...but you need to stay in the flow.
When I was on an acute care account, I also did voice recognition and dictated what I was hearing in my headset to save my fingers with a better line count than by using my fingers (never got above 350 with voice, though, as I left the account before I could get higher BUT I was doing this for more than 50 docs).
Having an ergonomic environment does contribute to better productivity as your hands, back, legs, everything feels better and it is easier to get into your flow. After 25 years of keyboarding, I only have tired muscles in my hands but no symptoms of carpal tunnel (TYG). I really do encourage people to take advantage of abbreviation Expanders if for no reason other than to save their hands so they can still open jars when they are still in their 50s.
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I totally agree
The person who made the statement first said 'I don't think he likes women'. To me, this was a lot more tactful that when people started using the 'G' word. I am SURE that he will not appreciate this.
I totally agree!
I'm sure it will be endorsed by the PBR and the PRCA-- NOT! For those of you in the "blue states", that stands for the Professional Bull Riders and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Nobody I know would waste their time or their money to see such drivel. It only appeals to the liberals.
I totally agree with you!!
I am trying my best to get out of this business. I have anxiety myself and it has been exaggerated by this profession. I do not think it is healthy to be in isolation. Even God saw Adam was lonely therefore He created Eve. So, I just got started with an at home business. You have contact with people selling a product. The website is TheFreshAirShop.com. This is a true at home business.
I totally agree!!
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Totally agree
I think my previous docs are just realizing that... I only had one who did not want EMR who said from the beginning... "My time is worth more $$$, so why am I doing work that I used to pay office staff to do??? I still have contacts who work there so I get the inside scoop... it's not all it was cracked up to be!
I totally agree.
When she posted a few days ago asking about what to do about her truck and posting the amount of her payment, someone advised her at that time that she should not be posting her personal affairs here. She asked the administrator to delete the posts and the admin deleted them. Now she's back here doing the same thing. It's scary to think that someone who seems so unstable, mentally, is responsible for a child.
I totally agree too.
The kid can't help what he looks like. You could see he was very uncomfortable with that split screen. Ryan should have more sense. I don't like him anyway. I hope this kid gets a lot of votes and goes far. I am also annoyed with Paula, and I think most of the time Simon is right on when it comes to the singing ability. Sometimes I think Randy and Paula are too nice to some of the contestants.
I totally agree with you
I am on your side, if you read my below original post I googled this 3 years ago when I was first alerted to this situation, no need for the links, unless you think others would benefit from them, so many people need to know this information, so thanks for putting it out there in such an in depth way.
I totally agree...sm
And as I said before, I'm a southerner too...doesn't Mandisa have Atl connections, or did I dream that? 
I totally agree - unless you are 100% IC!
I would not want anyone with an infant at home working for me full time!!!
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