I would start with hospital websites in the surrounding areas to whatever facility you type for. SM
Posted By: MissouriMT on 2006-10-24
In Reply to: Websites to search for doctors - IndyMT
Hospital websites usually have a pretty good physician directory you can search through by name or by speciality, which is nice.
I also use the AMA website which has a sound alike search feature which is helpful. Here is URL for the AMA doctor finder.
http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html
Also, some states have websites for the medical board licensing or professional licensing where you can look up doctors with licenses in that state. You might do a Google search for whatever state your facility is in.
Another good one that I use is the WebMD physician finder. Here's the URL for that one:
http://doctor.webmd.com/physician_finder/home.aspx?sponsor=core
Hope this helps you.
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Yes I have found some facility websites that have pics of all the MDs
and I have to say they may be the most unattractive group of people I've ever seen! I guess if you have nothing else going for you, it's a good idea to become an MD! Sort of ruins that sexy voice visual, huh? LOL
If your hospital/facility could take MT back
from the outsourced services, would it be interested in doing so? If you think it's Take Back Time at your hospital, facility, doctor's office, I am ready to offer them a proven solution to take control back into their own hands and create a win/win situation for hospital, MDs and MTs. It's Take Back Time!
How about you? If you could work for a hospital or facility without having a service between you and them, would you be interested? Do you have the proven quality and experience to offer a hospital? (Excluded: new grads, MT wanna be's, and trainees - this question is only meant for those with solid and strong acute care experience)
If the above scenarios appeal to you, contact me and let's talk.
I do that with the hospital websites, too.
But I'm lazy. I'd rather keep a browser window open or save the list to text format and use the search feature than print it out, find my notebook, and hunt through a hardcopy.
I used to type for a pediatric psych facility.
At first I used to laugh, thinking maybe I'm not so dysfunctional after all. Some of the cases were just out of control kids and this was the only option, but there were 7-YO or younger who had attempted suicide. I don't do them now and don't know how someone can do them for very long.
Look at your local hospital's websites
jobs open. The reason you don't see them advertised is a lot of hospitals outsource all their dictation. But some still have in-house (or at home) MTs.
Unless a facility name accompanies the phrases you hear/type, you should not capitalize.
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Any chance of taking a tiny ad out on local hospital websites, if not too expensive? Perhaps Drs wo
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Did you start with hospital experience?
instead of investing in equipment, or start with a small system or a used system if you want your own call in equipment. Bytescribe seems to have the best deals on dictation call-in systems. But if you are just starting out, you may decide to go with a TASP instead so that you don't have to invest in equipment.
The hospital experience is crucial. That way you have a sound base. You have the knowledge and the experience. And you have contacts and references from a hospital, which is going to get your foot in the door. That's why I say that is my #1 recommendation. Start with getting experience working IN a hospital and be the best MT they have. Work hard and prove yourself to them. Go the extra mile and impress them. Don't be a whiner. That's the best advice I can give you. When you send out flyers and you can give local hospital MT supervisors/HIM managers as references, it opens doors for you.
I type into a hospital system that does not have ....
a line counter for radiology and the other line counter I have does not work either. Just wondering, because I have a superfast radiologist that is short and to the point and I have another one that is slow and long winded reports so it would also be hard to average per minute of dictation.
I've also tested at a hospital. I only had to type one report and
the rest was the interview and a small written test on abbreviations and proofreading test for correct punctuation etc. I certainly was not asked to come in and sit and do 6 reports. Overkill in my opinion and totally turned me off to this company.
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Anyone visited Tweetsie Railroad in NC and surrounding attractions lately?sm
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I work for an agency, type for a major hospital - no hourly wage - just production. nm
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Depends on what kind of hospital? Large urban hospital or small community hospital? SM
Also, is it a large teaching hospital? If so you have to consider there will be A LOT of different residents dictating, usually a lot of ESLs at teaching hospitals, and the residents rotate out and new ones rotate in every summer. So you can't expect to get the same dictators and build up your macros because the dictators change all the time.
I would say 9 cpl would be a pretty good offer for a small to medium community hospital where you will be doing the same dictators on a daily basis. But for bigger, urban or teaching hospitals I would want at least 12 to 15 cpl.
I have it bad in a few areas. I use - sm
Aloe Vera 100% Gel from Fruit of the Earth. It works great and gets rid of it. I get it in the health food section at Hyvee (one of our local grocery stores).
I used to use Aloe-80, which also works great, that I got at GNC.
Nope I don't live in one of "those" areas.
I live in a quiet little neighborhood with nice neighbors. Used to have a trailer in this same neighborhood until my family sold it. Nobody looked down on us either.
Hello..you cannot predict an earthquake, but you know areas that are prone to them. NM
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agree 100% when areas not predicted get hit; they can't prepare. sm
i am 280 miles inland and rita affected us here. we have NEVER been under a tropical storm warning as we were with rita but did get prepared. i stocked up for 2 weeks as they told us too and stocked up gas before it was gone. however, it turned and hit the unprepared areas due to forecasters.
where are you, in lufkin? i am in tyler.
Tell that to certain tribes in remote areas of the world
Body deorating has been around about as long as man has been around. Your opinion is just that, yours, and I'm glad not to know you in person.
Be sure to keep areas dry and free of all sugar composites.
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You're right. Unfortunately, in some areas inhouse work is
I keep hoping some sort of changes in U.S. laws may come to the rescue before it's too late, and the whole industry becomes offshore and automated. Because if that happens, there will be less and less reason to want to entrust one's care to an HMO.
i wis i had that problem! sometimes that happens and we concentrate in the total wrong areas. so g
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just some information for MTs in rural areas where high speed is not available
Hi all,
Was just on the Sprint website a little bit ago and checking out wireless cards for my laptop since I will be moving to an area that doesn't even have landline service available yet. Sprint is now offering a wireless card that is a USB card and apparently will work with both a laptop and a desktop as long as you have an available USB port on your computer. Might be something to think about 
You must live in a metro area because rural areas pay even less per hour.
Of course you can buy a big house for 130,000 in a smaller town and the same amount won't buy you a pot to pee in, in a place like San Diego or the D.C. area. It's all relative.
While AAMT does have a good QA program, they severely lack in other areas.
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I'm 1 hour north of Sacramento but lived in Citrus Heights/Roseville areas for 10 years (sm)
and pretty much 'ditto' everything CAMT says... Kaiser very big in Sacramento but you could start applying to nationals and have a job by the time you got there!! Congratulations and good luck on your move!!
I am an MT at the facility where the
report came in. This dictator is not our best, but he's not our worst, either. I also transcribe his dictation. MQ does our overflow and has for YEARS! This is not an ESL dictator, and this physician has been at our hospital for years. I know nobody is perfect. All I'm saying is, I would never send a report through with that many blanks without someone checking first. I also know that yesterday one came through from MQ with more than 14 blanks, and it was from one of our easiest dictators! It doesn't matter whether you are management or an MT in the trenches (as am I). You should take pride in your work and care what the finished product looks like. If you have done your absolute best, then okay. If not, then there's a problem. With multiple reports coming through like this every day, it makes us wonder if all whoever types these cares about is getting the lines and doesn't care about the work they do.
Maybe work like this is why things aren't going so well at MQ, at least according to what I read on these boards. And for the record, I worked for MQ for a short period of time as an IC about 6 years ago but chose to go to work in-house for this facility for benefits.
I have been transcribing for 19 years, and I have had my share of difficult dictators, ESL, bathroom talkers, dictating in cars, airplanes, screaming children, fighting spouses, gum chewing, burping, and hearing other bodily functions, along with transcribing while parties, code blues, superbowl games, etc. are going on in the background. I know about crappy dictation and good dictation. I struggle through the bad and rejoice in the good.
The patients deserve the best. Our best! Yes, the ultimate responsibility should be the physicians, but isn't it our job to create the best possible report with what we have to work with? Medical Transcription is not a perfect world. There are no perfect dictators, but I do know a couple that come awfully close! In a perfect world there would be no sickness and we wouldn't be needed!
It's time for us to quit complaining about the dictation and do our absolute best with what we have. We owe the patient that much.
It is up to the facility not the MT (eom)
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Whatever the facility wants is what you should do.
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No facility should be given permission (sm)
for any kind of physical discipline. Its not a spare the rod spoil the child issue. When having to discipline someone elses child, the results could be far less or far more than what the parents would have inflicted. The result in some cases, especially in Texas, is the accidental deaths of children. I spank my children, on the behind but as a LAST result. THerefore, I would not allow my children to go to a school or facility, camp, counseling, etc, that would attempt to discipline my child physically. Call me and I will come and take care of it, but don't put yourself in the parents position.
incompetent facility
Your story sounds like something from a small town (or small office). That many radiology reports withheld from being distributed, you know some of them had remarkable findings such as a chest x-ray that needed a follow-up MRI, CT scan, etc. I hope this girl gets terminated soon enough and out of there. Otherwise, the radiologists themselves will be paying the price and hence it would be followed through to the administrative office/CEO office of the medical center/hospital.
This is how we let facility know they need to check
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No, I know not every facility/provider is
compliant, but two wrongs don't make a right. I want to keep my nose clean if the facility/provider is ever charged and investigated for a HIPAA violation - if the gov't has done so thus far. You think the gov't will buy 'oh, I was non-compliant because my client signed my checks'?...nope!
It is still up to the facility to make that
determination, not the individual MT. We only do what we are told to do.
Wow, this must be directly for a facility. Sm msg
Very hard to imagine an MTSO paying that type of money, although it is well worth every penny! Good luck! Grab it quick!
Yes, it is for a facility, remotely. sm
My concern is the salaried position and not hourly. The hours are supposed to be 9 to 5 Mon-Fri; however, if the workload is heavy, no overtime is paid, no shift differentials, etc. because it is a salaried position.
I could end up working a 60 hour week for the same amount of money as a 40 hour week.
That is what is holding me back right now.
I guess I could always try it and if for some reason it doesn't work out and they demand more than 8 hours a day without any type of incentive or bonus pay, then decide to leave or not ~ good idea?
Contact the facility...
That's the best thing to do. I don't think they want people posting that type of information here.
Been there-done that, but you can not complain to the facility
If you are working for a service, it is their responsibility. I would not put a report note or anything of that nature with the report to the client as it could cause YOU a lot of trouble. I have had so many bad dictators like that - one even fell asleep while dictating!! I know you have to take the good with the bad but like I have said before, an account has to be profitable to me or I do not want it. Bottom line, I am here for the paycheck just like they are. When I worked in house years ago, the doctors were actually offended and insulted if you brought up discrepancies in their dictation. Then the MT company did not care much when I complained. They just said to make sure you typed accurately exactly what was dictated. Again, accurate garbage is still accurate garbage. It is the provider's responsibility to dictate a professional medical document before you can transcribe one. If he/she cannot do that, there is not really much you can do to help them.
Where I work, the facility wants L used.
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Usually Dr. dont hire MT, it is thru facility and
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The facility is a "suit" who has no idea of MT. He
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Usually not Dr. who pays, but facility/hosp that
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Doesnt matter what we think. Facility way is
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MT works for the company, not the facility
It has been my experience that approaching an issue like this comes across as bullying and I have not had very good results with this method. Its like ha-ha you got one more chance kind of a deal. Rather than putting it off on the facility I would have sent a directive to the MT and asked that it not happen again, stating that the facility expects top notch work from us and anything less would not be acceptable to them. If that fatal second blow were to occur, then let the company deal with any disciplinary action it normally takes and/or perhaps move the MT over to another account. I have worked both sides of the fence, so I know this technique never works, almost always results in more and more errors.
Maybe facility doesnt know how deal with IC,
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You do have only one crowd to please. The facility. All this other baloney is
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I was searching for a Kaiser facility and the article came up (sm)
I don't know if I would call it better, but different sites come up.
It doesn't mention what they plan to do about identity theft and their 3 years is now up. Anybody work for this Kaiser facility?
Others are working without spell check, facility
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Sounds like facility is trying to save money by
I have a job where MTs were to put in billing and coding number. Use # X for emergency admits, except if it is Tuesday and sunny, then use # XX. That sort of thing. I had no idea what I was doing but figured if Dr was going to sign off on this mess, it was all on him.
Only a problem if your MTSO/facility decide
to use it. From what I have heard, not everyone is going to it.
I inquired about that as my MD provides care at a nursing facility & assisted living, he said
that he just hand writes notes it is cheaper, and if patient has to be admitted he dictates a full note at the hospital. But basically he said it was up to the individual facility, so you might want to check into it.
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