I use both and like both as they both have their advantages..NM
Posted By: AzMT on 2007-02-01
In Reply to: Can't compare autocorrect to an expander (sm).... - anotherMT
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It has advantages and disadvantages.
Crappy accounts with ESL doctors, poor pay, long hours, social isolation, just another number to a big corporation.
But on the other hand, no drive to work, get to work in your PJ's in your own home, and the very BEST part is I get to be with my child everyday and I would not trade that for any position or any amount of money! It is just one of the many sacrifices we make as parents. It is the one thing that makes the long hours and frustrating doctors not seem quite so bad.
However, it I were not a parent things would be different.
Hope it gets better for you :-)
I agree. There are advantages to both.
I worked for a company that had a call-in system but also picked up and delivered tapes. I had to either work in-house or drive to the company headquarters and pick up tapes. I have done both. Although the sound quality was usually better, I hated the call-in system. If, for some reason, you failed to pump the pedal for too long a time, you were disconnected. Doctors called in 24/7. Since you were on the phone, there was no screen to look at to see how much work you had. I was forever getting calls from the office telling me that I had more work on the system, or a stat. Now I work for a company using the internet. With the tapes, I was 45 minutes away, so they could not just spring a tape on me. Although it seldom happens, it is easy for them to send you a voice file and ask you to do it stat. Given all the advantages and disadvantages all the way around, I prefer getting dss files. However, if I could get a client close by that paid well and was easy to work with, I would not hesitate to pick up tapes.
Advantages and Disadvantages
Every job has its pluses and minuses! It all depends on what is important to you and how you look at things. I want to stay in the MT profession for a long time and I will make every opportunity count! I will not be broken down by decreasing wages or anything else. I feel positive about my decision and let's stop putting the profession down!
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Agree to the concept but what I would offer is to show the doc the advantages of going digital and
most of them want to buy new toys anyway. As an MTSO, I stay up on the latest technology that will help all of us do our jobs better. For example, what if he has a stat report? That can be dictated and posted to the FTP site, done and back to the office in 15 minutes. Can't do that with tapes. Plus with digital files, you can copy them as you transfer, so there's a file in the software program, one on the ftp site and one at your office, just in case somebody gets erase happy. I feel the quality is better. Once in a while I get somebody who has a phobia about the big bad Internet but I would at least sit down with them and explain some things. Most fear comes from ignorance anyway.
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