It's amazing we let people operate on us who cannot put two words together to make a sentence.
Posted By: nm on 2006-03-09
In Reply to: After hearing some surgeons - old MT
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Not so much fixing words but sentence structure
Sentence structure and syntax are what slows me down. How do you make restructuring sentences not slow you down?
It's amazing how many people
are handing a diaper to a fully vocal 3 or 4-year-old so they can go to the bathroom, and then the kids hands it back. I know a couple people who have fallen into this trap with their kids. Ridiculous. You did the right thing. It was just a matter of wills and convenience for him, and a matter of sticking to your guns for you. YOU will eventually win, and as long as you don't punish or turn it into a big fight or something traumatic, the kid will eventually give in.
It is amazing a lot of people ....sm
Think this is not a real job. They believe that anyone can do it. They don't understand it is not just typing. You have to be able to understand what the medical terms are they are using and many different things. I have been asked before how to get a job in this and the person said: It is basically kind of like data entry isn't it? I said no it isn't. You have to know medical terms that are used and know how to spell and all that stuff. You have to have a course in medical transcription too. People are lost on this field.
I agree also. It is amazing to me that people
say they make $7500 a month or whatever, yet when the conversation turns to the commercial about making $75k a year with baby in lap, everyone balks. It is just not possible. You would have to be making 20 cpgl with extra spaces included-LOL!! I do not believe either. Now if someone said 1300 a month, that I would believe, because that is the truth!!
so many people was wishy-washy nowadays...love to see people make
a stand for what they believe in...
it is kind of wierd those statements have to be made in the first place but guess we are an ever-transitioning country and are still young. so many different beliefs yet not much tolerance.
I found your post respectful, and right on as to how you feel. it does not seem that difficult to sift through to read and respond to messages someone might not care for...
Don't those 2 little words sometimes just make it
worth it, or make a difficult report OK? I wish more docs, and you are so right, especially American docs, would just be considerate enough to say that! 
In other words, these people don't know who's being a jerk to them
So I fail to see how "telling someone off" while hiding behind a monitor gives anyone any sense of empowerment, but to each his own.
An old boss used to make up words (sm)
She was so proud of herself and tried to use "big" words. She would throw her head back so proudly and say things like we needed to make sure we were "oriententated" on "autholization". Yes, she said it the way I spelled them. Those are just a couple of examples. Memorandums were no exception. I took one of them and highlighted in red once all the errors with a big red F. Shameful. In our meetings, I had to look down to keep from making eye contact with anyone. I would get the giggles if I didn't.
Words that always stop and make you look twice
Mine is affect/effect. I always have to double check that one, what are some others?
People dictating who cannot pronounce the words
and do you notice when they are reading others have reported, you can tell they are reading word by word by word and yet half are ones they cannot even pronounce and stumbling all around. Ye Gads!
Lots of 'em, but use a Lab Words, Sted's Ortho/Rehab Words, & Tessier's Surgical Words most
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Aggresivity - Why do docs make up words?
Dictates: The patient has increased aggresivity.
Sigh. And NOT an ESL dictator.
Don't you just love it when dictators make up words? .....
This doctor said, loud and clear, "meningismatic" for meningitic. !!! This particular dictator is also constantly making up words. It's actually kind of entertaining at times--only when it's obvious what he really means. If not, and I have to leave a blank, I'm not exactly laughing......
people speak and you see the words spelled out in your mind...
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OPERATE ON THE TAPES!
May sound silly but I did this a couple of times - to which was greatly appreciated by the doctor who would have had to redictate!
I just chipped hole in cassette where the tape passes through to the spool, put a tiny piece of scotch tape on the end of the tape, tapped it down onto the spool and carefully rewound the tape onto the spool. And of course threw out the tape when done transcribing it...
Since this is happening to you a lot though, a better solution would be to tell the docs NOT to dictate to the end of the spool, but of course that would REQUIRE COOPERATION on the part of the dictator, so probably nevermind. :)
MDI-FL was bought by Transcend, but they still operate
separately.
operate is to perform surgery -
procedure is more like EGD
i don't know why people make fun of mq and ceo(s) of mq. they are trying so hard
it takes TIME to award these prizes and to figure out pay increases. They have priorities you know. They are fighting lawsuits, figuring out bonuses for management and trying to save their own jobs or at least accumulate some cash in an offshore bank before going to jail or getting fired for running a scam operation bilking the shareholders, clients and MTs.
Just be patient. In a year or so Frank will come through (or at least his replacement) as to who won the Hawaii trip.
I'm with you ... people can make their own choices. nm
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No need to laugh. Many people make that and much more. I do. nm
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Some of us are IT people who make more money
doing MT. I've found that I know more about computers than the so-called IT people working for MT services. However, I would never recommend PC Doctor. AVG Free is the best free antivirus software out there. And you're not an id-iot. It's also tough to know which programs will cause a software conflict until you actually try them. Hope things go better for you.
I am not worried about what other people make... sm
What bothers me is that people post about how there wages are so low, their income is low, and it discourages the new people in the field before they get a chance to see for themselves what they can or cannot do. I just really do not see how people can not type more than 75-100 lines an hour if they are really working their job. I consistently type 350-400 lines an hour for 6 hours a day. That averages me to $35-40 an hour - which is way over minimum wage.
ISP is DOWN!!! Dial up modem is too slow to operate
Well, this is really something. For the first time since being at home, Comcast is down.
Dial up modem is too slow to register my keystrokes and I get kicked off the hospital's system (which is 3,000 miles away).
I do believe, after experiencing this, that technology is going to be the determining factor in outsourcing. I used dial up modem for a clinic when with MQ but it was only a few hundred miles away from me and worked just fine. Could it be that the farther away you are from your account, the less optimal dial up modem operation is?
Can you imagine what would happen if all accts were linked to a foreign country and the server went down?
This event led to a 911 emergency as I was only MT on my acct scheduled to work today. I am actually shaking as I know how important it is to get the radiology work done in two hours.
Just had to share this with you guys.
They operate under the guise of the All American Company
With seminars for management, cheering, singing, praising the American way when in actually, they are going to suck every dime out of the pockets of this country, steal jobs and leave us without an income to pay for their products.
They are EVIL!!
I operate the joystick with my foot if it is on the floor...
If I am reclined, then I can still do it with my feet by placing the controller between both feet and using either to hit the joystick. I personally do not use rewind or fast forward ( I just use the auto backspace), but you can use the other buttons on the controller as fast forward and rewind.
I have seen editors/QA people act put-upon because we make mistakes.
That's their JOB to correct mistakes. And while we are working on production and a QA/Editor has time to listen to something over and over, they act like we should have gotten this and why was it sent to QA blah, blah. Editors forget the sole purpose of their job is to fix the report and move on. Some of them have to lord it over you with comments that are totally unnecessary. Just give me the answer and I certainly don't need a speech or reprimand with the answer. You do your job and I'll do mine. I don't lecture you, don't lecture me.
Just make a "mean people" forum nm
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KD, are you on crack - very few people make $50,000/year - sm
I make about $58,000, but I work my butt off doing it, have 18 years experience. You sound like a Sally Struthers ad when you make a comment like that! Next thing you know, you will be telling this woman that she can breastfeed her child while she is transcribing and have another one sitting on her lap!!
I do love this job, but I tell people to expect to make at least $25,000-$30,000/year.
Geez, you people make it sound like
"my family" has a bunch of incestuous perverts running around. Give it a break! My kids never even started it, the other kids at school did. ALL boys think it's funny to overexaggerate when they get hit in the privates. It's not like they're walking around playing doctor or anything. It's the rolling around on the ground, Oh! my privates! that they think is funny. As if your sons, brothers, or whoever is going to tell you about it anyway. You're overthinking it and turning it into something it's not. I did say I do not tolerate it or find it funny. I am a darn good parent and I don't trash talk my kids' teachers either. I've never pulled them out of classes or switched schools. So please, spare ME the lectures and get out of your little glass houses.
You people make me laugh.Half say they sm
betrayed their families by making pretend they weren't gay, but they were MADE to have families becuase you condem them for being together. So let me see if I get this straight-don't pretend you are straight and don't be gay. What is that called? Oh yeah, SICK. If people left each other alone to be what they were born to be we wouldn't have families betrayed to begin with. Get it????? Think hard.
some people need to make themselves sound important
Obviously this person who considers MT a "profession" is in denial and has low, if any, expectations for herself.
You can't make people up this late in the game!
LOL
Power can make people crazy.
She sounds like a manager who caused me to leave my last job. She also was terrible at details too, but what a mess she turned out to be, starting all the rumors. Ridiculous.
Defensive people make the most errors
I bet... if you are good you would be quiet, if you are a bad MT you will blast poor QA lady all day.
what do the middle people make per line?
I may be negotiating a contract directly with a radiology business, but I"ve only done independent contractor work up until now. I'd like to enter into negotiations seeming like I know my way around the block: what do companies (who hire transcriptionists) tend to make per line? How would I find that out?
OMG! Footpedal will not operate. Winscribe. I can hear dictation
when I click on the arrow for "play" but my pedal is not registering. Tried a different pedal and the same thing! Have a call into the Help desk but I am panicking!
Anyone have any idea would could possibly be wrong???? I have very rarely had foot pedal problems.
Who ARE these people who make this stuff up every year charge $ for it??
I could make one up every year myself. Why do they think they are an authority. I have never understood this, and will never buy another one. I bought one in my life for $75. What a waste of money to read someone's "made up rules for this year."
But really. To make this work, don't you have to intrude upon people's lives and SM
make a horrible pest of yourself? Honestly? My riding instructor, who is one of the dearest friends I've ever had, gets into these schemes. His latest was Tahitian Noni juice.
He had some remarkable results with it on a horse that was just a juvenile delinquent - she reared in crossties, acted up at shows when she wasn't in the arena, she was just a PMSing witch.
So I was impressed. I went to a meeting with him. Come to find out, they don't actually want you to buy the Noni juice - they want you to recruit other people to recruit other people. Biggest mess of flim-flam I've ever seen.
the people who really make BIG BUCKS are business owners
especially when they go into...say- window washing or something right away, instead of into debt. In general, I'm for college - plan to push my kids to get their master's right away as that seems entry level nowadays - but where I made really good money was owning my own service. Make(made) more as an MTSO than I ever will as a nurse-practitioner.
But just because people are not willing to financially help doesn't make them any less helpful th
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Questions like the one quoted SHOULD make people angry.
There's a difference between needing help with something difficult, and asking a question that NOBODY who is working as an MT should have to ask. If you can't figure that word out or find the answer yourself, you shouldn't be working as an MT. Period.
I really admire people that can make that kind of money
but knowing the hours she must work, and the days she must put in (probably all week plus the weekend), that's just not for me. Money isn't everything and I'd rather make my $40,000 and have my weekends free and work my 8 hours, five days a week and be done. Again, this is just me. Now if I could make that money working normal hours, I'd be happy. (I can dream can't I?)
Here in North Carolina they get to operate a motor vehicle at age 15 when accompanied by
a licensed driver. No, they do not state WHO has to be the licensed driver (i.e. friend, neighbor, etc) or how long the licensed driver needs to be licensed, but at 14.5 years they start driver's education in the schools! It is ridiculous to me, as they are children operating a very dangerous toy and I pray they up the age before my children reach it, as I do not feel children possess the maturity and forethought to drive at such a young age.
People are jealous, I think, so they make snide and disparaging comments.
SOMETIMES, tho, you get these same people coming back asking you how to get trained, how to find jobs like this. It's a weird situation.
don't worry about frantic people who try to make a point by calling names.
They are immediate losers when it comes down to winning any sort of valid logical argument and you can see this person is a LOSER because they did not mention any companies to support their argument and instead lashed out at you. HOW SMART IS THAT?
Yes, write some letters to the Dell people....if you make some noise you will get your refund.
and mail/fax whatever-- get their attention....don't be outright nasty but you can get pissy a little. It will work and you will get your money back.
The people proofing are human. Humans make mistakes daily.
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You'll need a lab words book and maybe the Derm and Immunology Words..nm
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Stedmans Med $ Surgical Equip words, Path and Lab words, and Tessiers Surgical Word book (3rd
edition). I never buy drug books anymore. Waist of money in my opinion. New drugs come out so often, it's best to use the web.
if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.
As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
The Sted's Ortho & Rehab Words is probably my most used book and then the Lab Words book. GL! nm
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