It is and isn't trivial. Trivial about the spelling, but there is obvious pride (which I have too
Posted By: My take on 2005-12-18
In Reply to: I agree -- check, cheque, chex, etc. -- who cares as long as you can cash it? :-) sm - Long-time MT
to America. I think THAT is what the post was all about. Here in America we do it this way, etc. Many, many Americans are tired of the pandering and adjusting to the "many" ways of life out there - This is America and if you choose to come here then you should abide by our ways of doing/saying things. I feel strongly about that too! No feelings hurt, I hope...
If I were to move to France, I certainly wouldn't try to push my agenda or my way of speaking on others and expect them to pander to me in any way. I would respect their culture and their ways.
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The mistakes were trivial
They did not tell you the rules and you did it correctly. They should have told you that you were to change it. I just hired on with a hospital system who really appreciates good MTs and you can find someone who will, too. Hang in there!
1/2 cc is not trivial - it is inaccurate!
Maybe if you just try to remember the rules per AAMT BOS when testing, things will go better for you.
Good luck!
This is trivial but driving me insane
I saw Matt Lauer named his new son Thijs. Does anyone know how this is pronounced? I can only think of "thigs" (rhymes with figs) and that just seems too weird to name anyone.
some doctors dont think that is trivial. They expect doctor's name to be spelled right
When you are working for someone across the world, it is hard to find the name of that particular doctor.
She is right to put a blank for this.
I had an account that demanded the physician's name to be spelled correctly. They think of it as an insult.
Job pride
After seeing several posts here about how boring this work is, I wanted to take a poll and see how many of you take pride in this job. Do you see it as data entry/typing or a rewarding career?
Pride?
Yes, I take tremendous pride in what I do. We are indeed language specialists; however, I am very disturbed that the pay is not any better than it was when I was doing it 20 years ago.
I take pride in what I do, but....
I no longer see this as a rewarding career. I make less now than I did 10 years ago, thanks to voice editing and outsourcing, this job does not pay me what I used to make 10 years ago, and I only had 3 years experience back then. So, for me, while I take pride in producing quality reports (98.5% was the lowest I ever got on quality control, EVER), I do not feel this "career" will last me until I retire. I love the personal benefits, and I love that up until this point it allowed me to be a stay at home mom to my son, while supporting myself and my son (single mom), but that pay is so low that I can't afford much. I'm much faster actually transcribing than editing, yet more and more reports are edited and so its harder and harder for me to make the money I once made so easily. It saddens me to see how little respect this career yields, yet I still hold pride in producing reports to the best quality. I unfortunately would not recommend this career to anyone new, and I myself am looking into going back to school next Fall to start another career. As long as this job holds out until I finish school, my son and I will be fine. While I still love my job, it just doesn't pay well, everyone I've tried to hire through pays what I was offered 10 years ago starting at a company, and that's sad to not have a raise in 10 years and to have to work harder to get less pay, so for my son and myself, being a single parent, it just does not pay what we need with more and more demands and less and less pay.
However, until my last day I will always work hard at producing the best quality report because I do take pride in my work. I always will.
Take all the pride you want but make sure you get sm
the minimal line count requested in the time allowed and I do.
A Matter of Pride
I choose not to be a CMT (was one but chose not to renew as a matter of pride; i.e., didn't want to support AHDI's program of reduced-rate certification of Indian MTs at offshore sites with my fees), and I keep myself educated -- as a matter of pride. I participate in Medscape's CME program & keep track of the units. No one knows it but me--and indirectly, my employer, since everything I learn applies directly to the work I do. I make sure I tell any potential employer that I choose not to be a CMT and why. My current employer (an MTSO) totally agrees with my perspective. AHDI: Association for Healthcare Documentation in India!
Pshaw.
I take a lot of pride in my work...
I am not in this to make money, I am in this because I love the job. I produce quality work and my employer knows that. I was told once many years ago that it's quality, not quantity that makes a very good transcriptionist. I don't care how many lines everyone else gets; I get mine in every day, have a decent paycheck, know that there are slow times throughout the year and don't fret when work is little to none. I don't bash my company for every little thing on a website that they can easily monitor and find out who I am! I started out in-house 3 months after taking classes at the local community college and have never had a period of unemployment in the last 7 years. This is a professional job and I treat it that way; I get up, take a shower and dress just like a "regular" job. My initials go at the bottom of every report; I am not submitting junk just to prove how fast I am. Those who rush through, don't proofread or don't take the time to look things up are the ones who should really consider getting out of the business. Leave the work to real professionals who want to produce quality work and know how to do it.
I take pride in my work. I always take care, as if the
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yeah, my husband's pride and joy!
Brenda and Eddie, king and the queen of the prom, were still going steady. LOL! He has 6 koi fish and some goldfish which he has named, but I can't remember them all. One is Spot, one is Stripe, I remember. He has a bullfrog, don't remember what he calls him, and he's not here right now, but it's probably Hrrumpp! LOL! It's funny, but when he goes down to see them, all his pond friends come swimming over to see HIM too! Go figure! LOL!
There is such thing as taking pride in your work. nm
Misplaced pride. The physician is documenting something, Or trying to. NM
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Might be obvious but who is SE?
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maybe you need a man because of your obvious
That's obvious-we all used to be something
but we don't make posts with our former titles. Get over it..
its you and its very obvious
Well then its obvious that you don't have much
faith in your children nor your parenting skills if you have not taught them how to make decisions for themselves.
It is obvious
they don't care. It is not only cardiac docs either.
Thank you, Dr. Obvious...
Doctor dictates:
"The patient takes Doxepin for insomnia. He has been taking 25 mg four of them at time, but I am prescribing 100 mg tablets which is the same."
This just made me giggle...
OK, now it's obvious to me...
could be wrong, but it seems that they are paying you ONLY after they get paid. That means you are at the mercy of the accounts payable department of the hospital... I never work for an MTSO when MY payment is tied to THEIR payment from their clients.
This may be obvious, but...
I am pretty sure that she was referring to the manner in which her very unsupportive post was worded, i.e. "a REAL transcriptionist". How in the world is that helping someone who is coming here for a little bit of help and, dare a person aspire for, a kind word... anyway, just mho.
Let's take a moment to put ourselves in her shoes instead of trying to think of a way to boost our own ego. Perhaps the place in which she worked had a different style, a different format. I even have done some recent work for a hospital who wants all of their references to the spinal disks spelled disc (even though this is specifically a no-no with AAMT). I'm not an expert, but if there were a helpful thing that I could think of to say, it would be to buy of borrow a current AAMT Book of Style (3rd Edition) and make sure that you are all up on your format and style. Anyway, good luck!!
It is so obvious
that some of these docs do not have the first idea what they are going to say when they dial in. They have not bothered to organize their thoughts or mentally outline what they intend to dictate. They just 'wing it,' go back and add, delete whole paragraphs, then maybe say virtually the same thing as the deleted section somewhere else. I've learned never to delete but to cut sections just in case they get pasted back in someplace else.
One guy in particular says things like: 'Put temperature was 98.3 degrees and say BP was 130/70 and write respirations were 18 and could you say weight was 225 pounds, and like, he was sort-of short of breath?'
How do you verbatim that? Dude! I'm not you pal and we're not having a conversation here. Do you realize I'm supposed to be transcribing EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SAY?
Do you have any clue what they are up to. It is obvious they are up to something.
I just hope everyone is calling Corporate.
sorry for your obvious hairball. nm
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It was such an obvious question
I am sorry but it was such an obvious question at least to me and kind of reminded me of a Jeff Foxworthy song/routine. They mail their payments to you where your business headquarters or your AP/AR is located. It is like your car insurance you drive in California but your insurance headquarters are located in Arizona so where do you mail your check??? Or the MT's that work in a different state, where do you send those checks? It just struck me ironic that someone who was thinking of doing what you are venturing out to do would have such a basic question to ask. Struck me as a little weird. And yes I have been an MTSO for 18+ years now. Good luck to you and I hope your accounts follow you with your move and you are able to pick up more accounts wherever you move. You might be the next big national and then you can come back and really let us have it. Again, good luck. Patti
It is SOOOOO obvious who you are
And it was so obvious last night who you were as you were posting with different names about what you were "eating". Please.
I am NOT starting flames. I was trying to let the OP know that not everyone on this site is mean and nasty. This place has really become a hole in the wall since you started frequenting the joint. Makes me wonder why I waste my time.
Obvious what 1 requirement is...
Obvioulsy one of the requirements of becoming an MT is rudeness and being quick to judge! I was just asking for suggestions and what being an MT entailed. In no way did I suggest that I had any idea about what MT requires of a person. Sheesh!
I know if someone posted on the engineering forums I am a part of I would be more than happy to give them suggestions on how to get started, different paths they could take, ect. Then again, I like to impart my experience so maybe I can help others learn from my mistakes so they don't have to make the same ones.
Obviously MTs work from home for a reason - seems that most of you don't work well with others!! Only 1 person actually took my post for what it was and told me their experience!! That's a real shame.
Obvious that law was written by men
Do they think that because we have breasts we can't drive correctly? OMG.
This is especially upsetting, seeing as most females who are getting permits are teenage years and breast cancer is not so common in that age range.
As an aside, a friend of mine had to go in for a mammogram a while back. Her insurance company refused to pay for it. Said it was not a necessary exam because she is "not old enough to need a mammogram". Her doc found a lump and wanted the test. Why is this not necessary?
I should think the answer would be obvious. They will take less money. nm
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dictator just stated the obvious
"ORAL tobaccoism" -- like what other kind is there !!
oh i suppose it could be cutaneous via patch, but sounded dumb...
It's obvious she didn't mean cases
that actually required ER attention. You are just stirring the pot.
It's quite obvious from your post that you have never suffered....sm
from depression and I take it from your moniker that you are a man, which explains a lot. Please refrain from commenting on things you obviously know NOTHING about.
Not obvious to me. Not all well-compensated MTs are in management.
They're just good at their job. Not hard to understand.
the overstating the obvious award goes to
gotta love residents - "the left lower extremity part of the physical exam could not be performed due to a left lower extremity amputation."
So true. Or an obvious misspelling does not
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This is such an assinine remark, obvious you
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IMO, a thread is closed when it is obvious
that nothing new is added to the OP and it deteriorates into a 'troll', unjustified insults, foul language and just tit for tat, going in circles.
True, as the moderator pointed out, it is not moderated for 'niceness.' but the post has to be civil. One can make a stronger point with politeness than with disrespect.
obvious management post here as usual nm
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Right! It's pretty obvious who the miserable person is here!
You're math is correct. It is obvious
the new plan is designed to reward high producers. There's no away around that fact. If you currently do 1200 lines a day and you want to earn incentive on the new plan, you will have to either get faster for the same hours you work now or restructure your work days to be longer and get more production.
I think everyone has the idea that a new plan means that everyone is going to benefit and that everything is going to automatically be better and improved for all. Not true.
MQ has changed their pay and benefits plan to better increase their revenue. They were not making changes to harm nor help MTs, necessarily. These are business decisions. This is now what they are offering for pay and benefits and we can take it or leave it.
Personally, I believe they want fewer employees, all high producers, and it would be cheaper for MQ to have a smaller workforce of high-producing MTs and pay them overtime than an abundance of low to mid-range producers. This plan will help ensure some of that.
Regardless of what some of the mealy mouths say on this board about me, I am not happy with the way this plan impacts all MTs. Not at all. I'm just not going to be upset about it because every single one of us do have options and those who feel uneasy about this plan should heed their intuition and explore other options.
I think this is the beginning of a slow attrition among the MT workforce.
This is strictly my opinion.
What is with all the obvious spam postings today?
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Your obvious ignorance is not worth responding to, NM
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When are people going to look past the obvious "someone got my job"
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Yes, I thought that was obvious. I totally understand that too. sm
Even though I'm listening to the reports and typing them out then doing my own proofing and editing someone is having to listen to them again and correct my errors. THAT person deserves and needs to be paid as well. Not to mention the company needs to make a little profit. So even if the company is being paid say, 12cpl, after paying me and my QA I'm sure it comes out fair.
I want to thank everyone here for their advice and opinions and helping me to sort this out in my own mind. 
I think I am getting a fair wage.
No, but it's pretty obvious that the longer you leave it up,
the higher your chance is. That is why if you are not using it, you should shut it down.
Another management reply. Pretty obvious, huh?
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It's obvious that you don't bother to read posts...
just post garbage comments.
I quit looking, too. It's obvious there aren't ANY jobs
I dont think they will do anything on the new pay plan during the Summer for obvious reasons and
those being if people quit and with so many on vacation they may not be able to cover their accounts. So I bet we will hear pretty quickly in September. Yep I bet.
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