It is very frustrating when your pay is determined
Posted By: I know how you feel on 2005-07-09
In Reply to: yes I want from NO ESL to ALL ESL - frustrated
by your output and you can't produce with the dictators. It does get easier and I can do them fairly well know, but I do some really, really bad ones - heavy accents, mumblers, can't pronounce words, etc. and even though I can get through them without any blanks it is VERY frustrating, especially when you have several of them at a time.
Some of the dictators I have now I can fly through, but the first time I had them I was ready to quit because I left lots of blanks and I just don't leave blanks. I can't believe I ever thought they were hard because they are so easy now. You have to train your ears. Give yourself a couple of weeks and if it doesn't get better ask for another account or start looking. Every company is going to have some bad dictators, ESL or otherwise, but doing 10% and doing 90% is a big difference.
Good luck - hope it gets better.
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Well, after all this, I've determined something must be
wrong with the file itself that it won't play. You see, I currently work in Emdat Inscribe and I get sound just fine with that and I've taken three other MT tests recently via the net and the sound has worked fine, too. I do not use a foot pedal and am quite comfortable using hot keys. Oh, well, I've spent too much time on this to no avail. Thanks everyone for your help. You're the best.
that's determined by your bills!!...
There is an easier calculation but I think most companies require 1200 lines a day nowadays. Some 800 to maintain fulltime. One way to figure it is that you take the amount of lines x cpl and divide by 8. If you typed your other stuff in word, check the line count to see what you have done on a good day when paid by the hour. Hopefully you are getting paid characters and spaces as opposed to just characters.
If you figure you can put out only 800, which is still a good bit, 800 x 0.08 cpl divided by 8 would be $8/hour. 1200 lines would be 12 an hour. So, if you are currently making 10 an hour, you would have to put out 1000 lines a day for $10 an hour.
It can be done.
letter explaining that since they have determined
we are 20% more productive with ASR we deserve a 20% pay cut. Do you suppose they are giving the client a 20% break? Yes, it IS the entire company, anyone that does Automated Speech Recognition.
OP notes are a challenge - just depends if you are determined enough
to learn how to do them. After doing DS, HP, CR and Clinic Notes, I was asked by former National to try to do about 20 OP reports. I was terrified !! Thought I had a good grasp of anatomy, physiolgy, etc, but I'll swear I ended up looking up every instrument, suture, needle, forceps, retractor, etc., & hate to guess how many hours I spent doing those 20 reports (that was before internet resources & my salary was dependent on how much work I did !!). Going from Clinic Notes, etc., to OP reports is not an easy transition - there is a vast difference. I did struggle in the beginning & know it took me a good 6 months before I became comfortable transcribing them. For me, it has ended up being for my benefit. That National, from that time on, only assigned me OP reports. Having since left original National & having searched for a job with different companies stating that I specialized in OP reports, I received unexpected offers at a higher than average cpl pay !
Don't be disillusioned thinking that you can apply for a job doing OP reports after doing Clinic Notes if you have no experience doing such. If you don't have an opportunity to try to learn them in your present job & you're interested in learning such, you might consider getting the SUM practice tapes that have original OP dictation. Just depends on how much you want to learn their terminology & how much effort you're willing to put forth :o) :o).
Able to view line count, see how it is being determined.--sm
also completely word based, with all the Word functions being operable, such as compatible margins, abilithank you to use tab functions, etc. Able to view previous reports. Not SLOW, which to me, is huge. that is all I can think of, for now. I am sure there is more.
You can do it but you have to be determined, have a solid office background helps, obviously an - sm
interest in the field helps too. You don't get a lot of sleep when you are trying to work with kids at home. I started this 3 years ago when my kids were 2 and 3, I basically only worked when they napped and at night after they went to bed. I only worked part-time too, but for the 1st 10 months I had 3 PT jobs, so I was basically FT and obviously very tired. But I was trying to get as much experience and exposure as possible. It has paid off for me. I generally work 2 jobs at once as I don't like having all my eggs in one basket (I need a min. monthly income of $1K) though right now I am only doing one PT, about 3000-4000 lines every 2 weeks. I am back to working nights and early morning now though at the current time. But a strong office background helps a lot, discipline, and determination. My strong office and lab background helped a lot for me to make the transition to working at home and also I was used to working unsupervised. You tend to get thrown to the wolves doing this so you better be able to land on your feet quick. CareerStep is supposed to be a very good school though, I know a few people who did it and were hired straight away, granted that was 3 years ago and the work is a lot harder now at least with the nationals. I prefer the small MTSO, generally a better grade of work and people. Good Luck. 
The program is being determined by the file extension you're receiving. sm
If you're receiving a voice file that's opening automatically in MediaPlayer (which is what I think you're trying to say), then you will need to change the program that is automatically associated with that file type so that it will open the program you want to use.
The easiest way to do this is to open Explorer, locate the voice file, right mouse click on it and choose Properties. On the General tab in the first "block" where is says Opens With, click the Change button and then choose the program you want to use from the list that appears. This will change the program that opens ALL files with that extension.
To change
if you determined you do have a sound card, uninstall express scribe and reinstall. sm
i have had some computer issues recently and it seemed there were some quirks with downloading it. i had to reinstall to get mine functioning although i wasn't getting the exact same response as you, but issues. i would also update your drivers if you do have a sound card before buying another one. right click my computer icon, hit properties, hardware tab, device manager, look under sound, video, and game controllers and you will see a sound card there if you have one. also notice if there are any yellow triangles or anything as those signal a conflict. email me if you need to.
That must be so frustrating! sm
I've only purchased brand new units (around $200), but they only last a year or a little more for me. I think they make the darned machines with too many plastic parts and they just don't last.
I don't think I'd trust buying a used one without some sort of guarantee.
Sorry - hope things get better!
very frustrating
I was not aware that the MQ levels were based on number of lines typed. The email I got differentiated the levels by work types.
its frustrating but all you can do is
report it to your mgmt. they have the power to stop it if they want to.
How frustrating is this?
 I have a NP who is dictating. She calls the patient by his first name, calls him by his first part of hyphenated last name, calls him the last name of the hyphenated last name (i.e. Mr. John Smith-Jones is sometimes John, somes Mr. Smith, sometimes Mr. Jones). What a BIG pain for this verbatim account. "uj" usually gives me the patient's name, now I can't use that because she keeps changing her mind what she wants to call him..................grrrrr.
it is frustrating
It's a little easier for me now because the kids are older, but what I try to do is get up early before everyone else and get a good 2-3 hours in. This works for me because I'm a morning person. If you're not, maybe you could work at night? I know it is tough - you just have to shut yourself in, close the door and become unavailable to the rest of the world !
I can see where it would be frustrating...
I am an MT who also takes frequent breaks to rest my hands and my back. My daily production is pretty good, but my production per hour would not really impress anyone.
Perhaps you could suggest modifying the report to contain just daily production. I do not see where productivity per hour or some of those other items are pertinent to anyone else because there are people who will shoot out anything to get a line count and there are those who are gifted at typing 100 wpm, neither of which I can/will do.
It is frustrating for sure...sm
I used to work in-house with a lady that was a cherrypicker. There was one hard dictator that she said "I can't do his and it takes me too much time." Well, it took the rest of us a lot of time and frustration also to do his, but we did it. She was allowed to get away with it because she was good friends with the supervisor. Needless to say, all the other MTs left (except her) and they couldn't find anyone to work there and stay, so now their transcription is sent out to be done. The cherrypicker is stuck there doing whatever anyone hands her to do now. Serves her right!
very frustrating.
I actually just put medical transcription in the search box and came up with 4 pages of videos all foreign. Yikes.
Oh that would be frustrating.
It's not just you. The job is especially frustrating
when the dictations are horrible. Let's see, today I've got speedy spit chick, the um um um um um um um um um um um chick, the old guy with gas who constantly loses his train of thought, and the two foreigners.
How frustrating
and sad. OT, but I would have loved the opportunity to get out of the Northeast cold!
It's very frustrating trying to access
This qualifies for the Stupid Business Decisions award.
It was very frustrating to learn but
after 3 months, I have grown to like it.... well maybe I have grown not to dislike it so much. I would still rather work in MS Word. It is NOT the best platform out there to be certain. The spell check is awful and I copy everything into a Word document to double check. You cannot copy back into Emdat though. If there are any changes to make you must type them. For some reason if you copy from Word, although it looks okay to you, on the physician's end it is wrong.
It is nice not to have to worry about the line count. It is VERY nice not to have to save each patient separately. It is nice to have the patients name available (although that is not always the case). Overall, I give it a C.
Hope this helped.
The same things happens to me...so frustrating
I have to manually right click and delete all of the extra smart lines. I've had it to where I have so many smart lines that I only have a couple of inches at the top of my screen to type in. It happens more some times than others. It happens whether I'm working in straight Word or ExText Word. I find that if I log out of Word and back in, I can get it to stop happening for awhile, but that is so time consuming, especially if I'm logged in to ExText. I've looked on all of the boards for a solution but haven't found one yet.
Yes, it gets so frustrating when trying to work
and having to shut down because of a storm. I recently started with a new company and had to explain the quirky weather around here so they wouldn't think I was just slacking off...lol. But, they are very understanding about it, but it drives me nuts!
This happened to me too - it was SO frustrating! SM
I found that I had a lot of Spyware on my computer that was bogging everything down, and that was causing my ShortHand to work VERY slowly. So when I typed out my abbreviations, it would print out the abbreviation followed a couple of beats later by the whole phrase, know what I mean? It was a huge problem. I ran Spybot (free) and it fixed the problem, but not before my production was drastically decreased and I ended up having to give up one account because the majority of the phrases I used on it were in my shorthand and I just couldn't keep up. Good luck, and I hope this helps!
Frustrating on both sides
You are absolutely correct about the hyphens - if the linked words form an adjective followed by a noun, they are hyphenated. I know it's frustrating to have undereducated QA people, and as a QA person, it's equally frustrating to have people who absolutely never hyphenate, put a comma after every 2 words (or none at all), etc. I really really hate when MTs start a sentence with "patient comes in......" when the doctor clearly states "THE patient....".....that drives me insane! I had a report the other night where I had to add "the" 27 times! It's amazing how many people do not understand proper punctuation usage, adjectives, verbs, etc. I certainly wish I had more like you who know where they go!
Truly Depressing!!! Frustrating!!!
I know I have posted before....thanks to all those that have given me leads.....but I am so depressed....have applied at too numerous-to-count companies....and STILL no MT job!!!!! Have some medical background besides my MT diploma, yet cannot get anywhere!!!! Even bought a foot pedal.....how is one supposed to get experience if no one will mentor them....and I have applied to all mentoring openings.....but no responses!!!! I JUST WANT TO CRY!!!! Seriously thinkiing that this was a big mistake.....wanted to further my career....but this hasn't helped!!!! And unfortunately, I cannot afford to take another MT course......sorry to post again....I just needed to vent.....so miserable!!!! Sneaser
Yes I tried it many times. This is so frustrating. nm
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Yes, it is frustrating when trying to converse with people
who don't understand English.
Oh golly, that must be frustrating and annoying.
maybe you can make a game for yourself of second-guessing the QA folks. It sounds like they are the kind of ill-informed people who would rather cling to their ignorance like grim death than open their minds and learn something useful. If you look at figuring out their foibles as a game, maybe it won't rankle so much.
I would agree they are slow and frustrating
but once you have them down you can make great line counts on them.
As a side note, I have been doing ops daily for 10 years and I still use my Stedman Medical and Surgical Equipment word book often. If you are going to dive into ops you must, must, must get this book before starting. It will help you a lot.
How frustrating! Maybe you could offer to charge them half price, but
I would not let them get away with taking advantage of you. I know you need the job, but it's not fair for them to expect you to spend all that time (especially over a holiday weekend) and effort for nothing. Offering to only charge them half price at least gives you something for your time and also offers them a break. It was their mistake - not yours but halfing it with them will hopefully show them that they are willing to work with them on it but also let them know you're not a push-over that they can take advantage of.
Good luck!
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