I totally agree with you. Even samples passed out by the MT trainer were full of errors

• I wonder why there are so many folks - in the world of MT who can't...
  • Misspelled words, punctuation - babe
    • That is my dream job, as well! lol - :)
  • So, English is a second language..LOL! - professional?
    • well, plenty of doctors get jobs and don't know - Wannie
  • I agree... whats funny though - Manda
    • Get paid more than you????? - sm
      • I agree...I am a transcription supervisor - Not!
        • Medical transcription jobs from home - Diane Moore
  • I am right there with you. It drives me crazy. A typo in a casual e-mail is one thing... sm - GLF
    • Totally agree! - sm
  • What aggravates me are normals and samples - sm
    • I totally agree with you. Even samples passed out by the MT trainer were full of errors - Misha
  • my PS makes typos but I wouldn't trade my PS - for any other PS out there......sm
  • Because most are not MTs..! nm - nm
  • hmmm...perhaps you should edit your OWN posting about someone else's mistakes. nm - kps
    • Please, one typo is NOT the problem.. - nm
      • as long as it is not a legal document, who cares?--nm - kps
        • Oh I care, it's making a joke of the company - sm
          • I am sure that emails to clients and emails to IC --sm - kps

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there are few points that are not necessarily correct..at least with my company MedQ.

While I can still "type in my pajamas" I have no automy over my schedule, need to clock in, in my own living room, to maintain an impossible TAT.  I agree schedules are very important...but rigid scheduling held to the minute is not even possible in an office envirment, let alone your own home.  A 10 hour window has and always will be a more productive way to produce your work.

I do not agree we have it good.  I feel it is an abomination that our profession and hard earned skill (a skill that takes a minimum of 3 years to perfect in order to work at home...alone) is paid such a paltry amount.  I have never complained over the years of not receiving one raise...I was more than happy making my 45-50 K a year...but systematically reduced to 20-25 K a year..and working harder for it..is unacceptable.

What really frustrates me is the axiom.."well you don't like it..go somewhere else."  I wonder how nurses, x-ray techs, pharmacy techs..and other group of medical professionals that also require 2-3 years training before performing their jobs would take being systematically deducted 40-60% of their pay..and told to..You don't like? Go somewhere else!  Of course that would not happen to them...they have a union to protect their interests.

So while I agree constant bellyaching gets you nowhere and the inevitable deterioration of this profession is a fact, I am not grateful for this job...nor do I think I "have it good."  Other than the extremely poor economy which does in fact make me grateful to have any job....it is patently unfair and criminal what has been done to MTs.  And until I see contracts between MTSO and hospitals that delineate how ASR work is paid at 40% less than MT work..I will never believe hospitals pay a lower rate for ASR.  They have no idea what work goes through ASR and what does not. 

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!

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 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.

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. 

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'm having a difficult time with a new account.  There are many things that are being changed when I know I'm right.  I even reasearch and can verify why I do what I do.

What would you do in this situation?  I'm going crazy.  I'm having a hard time because I can't do something I know isn't correct regarding grammer, medical term spelling, etc.

Help...I'm so frustrated.

Just a short story to share with you....The other day I picked up 6 tapes to transcribe.  All the tapes *looked* like there was plenty of work on them.  Two tapes I had to listen through both sides (took about 1-1/2 hours) because THEY WERE COMPLETELY EMPTY.  I called the one office these 2 tapes came from and jokingly threatened that I will have to start charging for TIME.  I spoke to the doctor personally who claims he didn't let the tapes run.  I didn't believe him at first but then after the call, I realized whoever changed the tapes out (that would NOT have been him) probably accidentally hit the PLAY button on both occasions, so the tapes ran almost to the end of side A. 

I have been in this business for close to 30 years and have heard many MDs going to the bathroom, chewing gum or eating food, entire phone calls heard on the tapes, entire discussions with the patient(s) on the tapes, driving and dictating (where all you hear is the traffic), walking and dictating either through the halls of the buildings or around their homes, DOGS BARKING incessantly in the background, and then the worst, the absolute worst in my mind is MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND which comes through very loud, louder than the dictator.

So, like I said - all this stuff is common even though we DETEST all that.

Have a great day!