Is anyone else as disgusted as I am with the current network TV fare? (sm)

• Is anyone else as disgusted as I am with the current network TV fare? (sm) - disgusted TV fan
  • I feel your pain! This is the time of year sm - TV couch potato
  • we haven't had a tv in 9 years... - TV IS Disgusting
  • summertime is like this on TV always...nm - reruns galore too; gets better Aug/Sept
  • I agree. I only watch network television - sm
    • I am seriously considering cancelling my cable, SM - IHJB
      • Yeah, it would be rough cancelling your cable - sm

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You're not without company!  I wanted to reply because I feel your pain.  Part of being an MT (for me) is I can't stand the "rat race."  The way some companies handle themselves is unexplainable.  To me, employment should be a win/win situation.  Instead, they act as though they hold the almighty key and we should take it, gratefully.  I would like to know what my working situation will be before I begin.  Don't I have the right to interview them back?  Afterall, isn't it a joint effort?  Maybe I'm being unrealistic, but I hate the rat race and glad I work from home.  I'm just not cut out for these office people. 

I'm just totally disgusted when clinics call me inquiring about service. I always ask to receive copies of transcripts before I quote a price.  The quality of their transcripts is just a complete joke, and that's putting it mildly.  Run-on sentences, no punctuation, etc.  It just really looks like a fifth grader typed it.  You'd certainly think that with all the years of education the docs have had, they wouldn't tolerate this slop to save a dime.  What a joke!  I really feel sorry for the health care in our country. And you know what the problem is with this?  The docs don't call directly to speak wtih the MT Service owner - they have "their girl" do it, who doesn't know a hoot and a holler about medical transcription -- just the bottom line - "HOW MUCH DO YOU CHARGE?"  I do believe once the docs take the time and interest in their patients' notes, things may change.

What's your opinion on this? 

Has this happened to anyone else?  Once you learn an account, get pretty decent lines, making decent money, boom -- your account is switched.  Then, when requesting downtime, oh no, we are not paying downtime, we had to take work from you because of your low QA (up until then QA was 99+ or better) hummmm???  (P.S. I have 22 years experience, not at all new to this game).  I am receiving corrected reports for mistakes in THEIR macros, which I had informed them about and was told to leave them.....???  I was told, "Oh sure, we have LOTS of work, then run out almost daily....

I read a post from an MTSO wondering if there were any good transcriptionsts out there (you bet there are!!), well I am wondering if there are any decent companies left out there.  I have worked for a couple different ones now, seem to me they are all shady characters.  They promise you the moon, then once you are working for them, everything changes.  Nothing is the way they promised!!  Seems like once a Transcriptionist starts making some really good money, they do everyting they can to take it away.  I need to win the lottery!!!  or a new job. 

I don't know why we put up with it.  They lower our pay, send our jobs overseas, expect us to be on call for no pay at all.  They dance around the IRS definitions of employee, SE and IC.  I've been threatened before, verbally or email abused by supervisors, and even had to resort to legal tactics to get my rightfully deserved pay.

All they care about is production.  I've mentioned to my supervisors a few times when I found errors in medical records or extra spaces showing up at the end of paragraphs in people's work.  I wasn't tattling or trying to get anyone fired, but I felt the errors should have been fixed.  Nothing was done.  The people churning out those reports make more money than I do because I take the time to look things up and properly format everything.  It doesn' t get me anywhere.

I am most definitely NOT sloppy.  I am disillusioned because we are treated as nothing more than sweatshop TYPISTS.

I have the best job I've ever had in my life, and it came from friends on the board. Every job I get is the same way. Word of mouth. I have only filled out one application for employment since 1983 and I already had the job.

They really are out there and it sounds like you are qualified. Are you wanting full time or part time?

Have a show like Candida Camera where a resident spends an hour with a patient that he doesn't understand.  When the doctor asks where the pain is the patient can point to his chest and as soon as the MD starts listening to the chest, the patient can change his mind and tell him the pain is in the back.  When he goes to the back, the patient can tell him, "no wait, in the stomach".  He can give him a list of medicines all spelled wrong and dosages all wrong.  Then when the doctor is giving him instructions, the patient can start talking on his cellphone, making the doctor sit and wait while the patient talks to someone else.

Or....

In another episode of Candida Camera, show a physician talking to consulting doctor who speaks a number of different dialects or a doctor who talks a million milds a minute in half-syllable words.  Watch Dr. A try to understand what Dr. B as he makes up words, lab tests, and diagnoses. 

Homeschooling with others in a network is a little different than just plain homeschooling. 

So, how do these children learn to pick their battles?  Do you as a homeschooling parent throw an eraser at them once in a while or pass a love note? 

I'm not so sure I understand.  

Your Wii is interfering with the wireless network. We just purchased home theater system and were considering the wireless speakers. When I asked the salesman about possible intereference with the wireless network, he said that is a problem and we decided instead to go with the wired speakers.

I'm not an expert in this field but you could try checking with someone like the Geek Squad or Firedog at Circuit City to be certain.

Hello, I was curious if anyone out in MT land would be interested in starting a new MT mentoring program with me. I'm not advertising or anything like that, I just have an idea that I would like to have a sort of email network that new MTs (or experienced ones too) might be able to email me their question and I would have a group of MTs I could email the question out to who could respond if they knew the answer. Does that make sense? This would be a free service just to help fellow MTs out.

I think this is something that would be invaluable to new (or old) MTs because I remember being a newbie at home and being sort of lost in space as it were.  If you are interested you can email me.

***E-mail address removed by Moderator. 

You get your news from CNN?  Well, that explains a lot.  As far as being ready for kids...Plenty of people have only as many kids as they can support themselves, AND buy their own house, AND provide for their own retirements.  It's called planning, not reproducing to the extreme under the umbrella of being a "good Catholic" and then being unable to provide.

Basically, you need to have an available network (also called hot spot) that will allow you to connect to the Internet. The card is only hardware, not the actual network.

Does anyone know exactly what this involves?  I know we have to have an IT person do it.  What do they do to set up a network betwen 7-8 computers?  I'm trying to understand this more before I contact the IT person, so I don't sound like a complete dummy.

Does anyone know how much something like this costs?

TIA

When you're there, let the computer search for the network and when it is recognized, connect to it. You will need to enter a passcode if it is a secured network (which it should be). You can save that confirguration to your laptop for future visits. It's really the same process as with a wireless router at home.

Now, if neither router is wireless, you can get a cable from places like Staples that will connect directly into your laptop and the back of the router. You will still need to set up the laptop as described above but, again, that configuration can be saved.

I live in a small town and we don't have Starbucks, Panera, etc., close by but the public library has a wireless network that I can connect to for free; you might want to check into that option as well.

The biggest thing you should be concerned with is that you are operating on a secure network and that information going across the network is at the very least encrypted according to HIPAA standards.