Just my experience.. I get less sick when I am working in the car.

• The traveling MT... - jss
  • Car sick - LRS
  • Motion Sickness - Alice in Wonderland
  • I can't read for long in the car or do crafts because I get - me
  • Just my experience.. I get less sick when I am working in the car. - MTing
    • Thanks MTing - jss
  • I get motion sickness and I think if you are prone to car sickness - RockinMT
  • I get extremely car sick - Ralph

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Just got back from Lake Tahoe.  I told some of you I would report back and let you know how it went.  This was my first experience MTing on the road, and it went so smoothly.  I worked about 20 hours from the hotel.  They had nice comfy chairs and table big enough to hold all my stuff comfortably.  It was amazing being able to look out over the lake and the mountains while working.  My only complaint was this particular hotel did not offer a weekly rate for WI Fi.  They charged by the day, and it was kind of pricey at $12 a day.  I was worried about not having my books, but it was not an issue at all. 

Taking a vacation by myself was the most amazing experience.  I would highly recommend it to any of you who need to get away from the daily stresses of life.  I feel so refreshed!

that you wouldn't mind sharing.  I heard that they used to drop your pay based on how many reports you send to be QA'd.  Is it really that way?  Just want to know before I would consider applying.

and with a really good incentive plan.  I live in the Kansas City area.  $10 seems like a low starting point even with only two years experience which is the usual benchmark for hospital MT jobs. 

It's been my experience that the low end of the pay scale for hospital employed MTs was around $12 an hour.  Also, it's been my experience that the pay offered is usually based on years of experience and how well you perform on the transcription test.

I would say if their pay is that low, they should at least be making it up with incentive and it doesn't sound like they are.

JMO

Of bad dictators and QA that takes up for them!!!!  I am sick to death of:

1.  Doc saying paragraph after every sentence.

2.  Docs never dictating the first name of doc they are writing to.

3.  QA asking us to insert certain sentences in certain places for certain doctors who do not dictate them.

4.  Docs wanting their own specific headings but not dictating them.

5.  Docs who ramble, never saying period.

6.  QA asking us to **fix** their grammer, mistakes, fragmented sentences, and verb tenses and sometimes when we do, we are docked points for **not transcribed as dictated.**

7.  QA not wanting anything sent to them, stating **researach medical terms and facilities you are not familiar with.**  If they are not there to help us out, what are they doing there????

8.  Docs, NPs, and PAs who do not know how to dictate, pronounce, or spell.

9.  QA asking us to use BOS, but not knowing it themselves.

10.  Doing work I do not get paid for.

Before QA became involved, in years gone by, if a doc's dictation was awful - then that is what he got for transcription and more times than not, they would straighten up and make a better effort.  Not now - we or QA has to almost do the dictation for them!!  They are the ones with the medical degree - not us.  What happened to us just transcribing what is dictated.  Why can't they be responsible for what prints out??  If someone could let them know how much trouble their dictation style causes, it would cut my transcription time in half.  My list could go on and on.  It is a terrible time to be thinking about getting out of the business, but if this crap keeps up - I have to give it some serious consideration.  The job just AIN'T what it used to be.

that holiday you refuse to work?  Grocery stores, food joints & seems any store is open on holidays and you expect them to be fully staffed, so why shouldn't we?

Yes, I took off for the first time on Christmas day, in 18 years and it was great, but I worked Christmas eve and this whole past weekend.

Someone has to do it!

Small talk is a bridge that connects us to people, and let in what might be a close relationship, whether it be friends, or mate, or whatever.  This is how people break the ice to see whats deeper. 

I, like you, became defensive and withdrawn being out of it for so long, and thought everyone was the enemy and out to get me.  Once you change your perspective, you'll realize its not them, its you, you're the one who needs to change to become happy. 

The world is not negative, dreary, and awful, that is just how you see it because you're isolated and scared.   

Emetrol for nausea.  Always worked for me.

I can't help but vent. I was at a family picnic last weekend and YET AGAIN someone approached me about "doing what you do at home".  Uh, you mean my JOB?!?!?!?!?!?!

She said she is trying to get some family member of hers to "do what you do at home". I gave her a bit of a blank stare at first and then as NICELY AS I COULD I explained to her that it is a great job but anyone considering it should know that working from home isn't as easy as the advertisements make it sound. (this is someone who I don't know well, picnic was at my sister-in-laws and she had her side of the family there as well). Anyway, I explained to this lady that I have been doing this for 20 years and I went to school first, then worked in doc office 6 years, then hospital 4 years, then home.  I told her that companies want people to have at least 2 years hospital experience before working at home.  AND, most hospitals want someone to have some MT experience before hiring them.  So I told her not to think that it is easy for someone to just starting ~typing at home~ right away

She then *explained* to me that her sister lives near Cleveland (we are from a small town) and that she would probably have a better chance to work from home being from a bigger city.  I then tried to explain that I work for a national company and that is the standard for the entire country.  She didn't say a word.

HONESTLY I think people really think that we have a nonskilled job, like anyone can put a desk and computer in their home and sit down and start doing this.  UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.  I just wish people would understand that it is a real job!!!!!!

This is one reason that I advise anyone who goes to a doctor when he/she is seriously ill, to take someone with you.  I mean, bring your own advocate right into the examining room, if possible.

Twenty-five years ago I was working at a nursing home on the night shift.  Part of my job was to recopy the doctors' order sheets each month.  They were then mailed to each doctor, who would sign and return them.  Part of this page was provided to Medicare as PROOF that the patient had been seen during the required time period of 60-90 days.  Without the required visits by the doctors, the nursing home did not receive the money from Medicare.  I reported this situation to a long-term care advocate/ombudsman.  Nowadays, I understand that there is a main physician at the facility who may or may not actually see the patient, but he signs the papers.   

You make me sick!  You are obvious.  "A few" are legal. "Good luck finding a decent, well groomed, good hygiene one who is illegal. Alot of them are thieves also"  - how dare you.  I live in South Texas and have lived in California and in Chicago, where the populations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans are dense, and I probably more than you have had my fair share of contact with "those people" becauase I am one of them - so I guess I'll send myself back to Mexico because my ancesters 125 years ago came across illegally, right?  You mask it well under the pretenses of "oh, my taxes," blah, blah, blah.  Yes, we have a problem with illegal immigration, but sorry, honey, you will not send them all back; yes, they need to be stopped; but because you've had bad experiences with some Mexican nationals, does not give you expertise in all things illegal immigrant - and STOP CALLING THEM A FREAKIN ALIEN!  If you'll notice even the media has stopped that nonsence!  Peace!

This has to be the most underhanded, greedy, bold-faced attack on our salaries that I have seen in my lifetime.  It is just a ploy to keep more money in the MTSOs grubby hands. 

Our fingers are still hitting that spacebar.  Our fingers are still hitting the tab key. 

How about this -- we don't touch any keystroke we are not paid for!

But people will stay and people will take it until all the work is eventually offshored to some other stinking country. 

I can't wait to finish school.  I have had it.  I already left my MT job with a national for a smaller local hospital that still pays an hourly rate.  But I am just keeping this job until I get through school.  And it is not related to medical or typing or transcribing or anything close. 

This industry has become one big scam!

I constantly see all these job openings asking for experience.  How can I get experience, when no one will hire me without experience???

What a lousy day!  I am sick to death of getting 100 different doctors a day and maybe one of them speak English.  Makes for a very long frustrating day.

"suck up," as you so graciously put it???  She likes the software.  She said so.  Why would you think you are in a position to judge HER????? 

Perhaps you have done some sucking up yourself, so you are thinking EVERYONE is not sincere with a compliment????  Not everyone is as transparent as you are.    Do you feel better when you slam someone when you think they might be exhibiting a trait you possess???  Counseling may help you.

After 24 years I am just so thoroughly BORED with it!  It is all I can do to sit here all day and do this.  I have stayed with it all these years because where else can I make this kind of money?  But I wish I had learned to do something else.  Does anyone else feel this way?