Lord, preserve me from Sam's Club! That place is dangerous!

• Is there anyone out there that hoards up things for no reason? - me
  • hoarding - jane
  • Nope, after moving 9 times in 9 years, I hoard - NOTHING that won't fit in my car
  • Hoarding - sm
    • Did she steal them or just buy them and have no place - for them?
  • My mom hoarded things too - also born 1935 - sm - Laura E.
    • That generation sure did have some hard times, and it seems to have - marked some of them for life. sm
  • One of my mom's friends has a whole closet with nothing but toilet tissue in it. - She's of an age, I think it's because of her
    • Did your mom grow up in the depression? Woman I worked with did the same thing. - When she retired, we had a retirement
      • yep, she grew up poor... born 1935, so I'm sure sm - di
    • My mother in law has tons of toilet paper too! - sm
  • I hoard food..any kind. - Getting older
    • Sam's Club will get you every time! You cannot - leave there cheap!
      • Lord, preserve me from Sam's Club! That place is dangerous! - di
  • OMG I do the SAME thing; jello and pudding!! - sm
    • Seriously, I think it's Bill Cosby playing... - Jodi
      • You know, it may be because of Bill Cosby! - I used to love those pudding pops!!

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It pays the bills.  I love it, hence my name!!! 

Just trying to drum up a little motivation.

If we pact to do 100 lines a day more each day that we earn and then put that net amount into savings each paycheck, it can add up a bit!

For me, that would be 500 lines a week or $160 a month gross.  By the time my taxes are taken out, that's about $131 a month net and THAT adds up to $1572 a year! 

Any takers?!  See who earns the most for it or heck even stays with it?! 

things are charged, billed, or anything any more.

It just seems like they wanted me to work for nothing to clean up ASR reports.  It was pitiful what they wanted, considering what they needed me to clean up.  I could have typed it faster and better using my word expanders.

No doubt a travel agent could give you an idea of how things are.  If it was me, I think I'd wait a bit.  They were hit pretty hard, and there is a lot of cleanup, I'm sure.

Wherever you go, have some sun in the fun for me! 

Pharmacies make plenty of mistakes on prescriptions and I have never heard of one being shut down.  They aren't any better or more careful at their job than anyone else in health care these days - which is to say, the consumer/patient needs to be on their toes at all times because you simply cannot trust anyone to do their job properly. 

Yes, sloppy writing is responsible for some of these mistakes, which is one of the reasons why many elements of  the AMA, the pharmacist associations, and the pharmaceutical industry are pushing for all drugs to have an individual number assigned, so that medication errors can be eliminated or at least greatly reduced.   Thousands of people are injured, make sick or even die from prescription errors every year.

I have been doing MT since the 1970s and I have seen huge changes in health care.  Most obvious change is that it has become a BUSINESS rather than a human service.  Most if not all involved in health care delivery care foremost about the bottom line and their own "bottoms."   Like one of the posters below, I too have noted how long the disclaimers are at the bottom of the H&P and Consults, particularly by the surgeons and interventionalists. 

When I started MT, almost no report was more than 1 page long.  Now, I sometimes transcribe reports where the "disclaimer" section with risks, benefits, alternatives, possible outcomes explanation is half a page long.   This information is already contained in the consent forms that are signed by the patient, so it is redundant to include it on the dictated report, but more and more MDs are doing it.   I have also noticed, or perhaps it is just my perception, that all dictators are including more information about patient attitude, knowledge and compliance regarding their (the patient's) regarding their medical condition.   Personally, I think that is a good thing - people need to take more responsibility for themselves and stop expecting the doctor to solve all their problems. 

Q.D., QD, q.d., qd (daily) = Mistaken for each other = Write "daily".

I woud say this should over ride anything BOS has to say, but we aim to please the client.  As transcriptionists though we should be aware of these dangerous abbreviations since it can affect a patient's medical record and how it is interpreted.

Go to this website: 

http://www.ismp.org/tools/errorproneabbreviations.pdf 

if you kill unnecessarily, don't say GOOD LORD.......you think KILL first before RESCUE....and yes, do some research, snakes have feelings of fear and pleasure and feel with their tongues.

idiot.....probably a D.C./repub supporter too, kill first, ask questions later..... 

A way of not taking the Lord's name in vain.........My religious studies raised us this way.  It's done merely out of respect.

 Hope that answers your question. 

You're partly right.  Joint Commission has no jurisdiction over a private office setting; however, this was adopted by Joint after it was first given to the national pharmacy assocition.  When a doctor has his/her nurse phone in a prescription or writes one himself regardless of private office or inpatient setting, s/he better follow these guidelines. 

Having worked in a pharmacy, I understand how critical it is to be able to know EXACTLY what the doctor wants the patient to have presribed.  Pharmacy is going down the same path as MT work.  Notice how many insurers allow for your prescriptions to go to a mail order company who will fill up to three months of your prescriptions at a time.  The first line of defense these companies have (well, really just one anymore as they are becoming the MQ of pharmacies), is to scan the prescription.  If it is not written clearly, a body must contact that physician.  Addtionally these mail order companies allow MDs to relay prescriptions online.  These guidelines better be followed or they will be contacted.

Depending on which division within the mail order pharmacy you work, a tech may fill more than 100 prescriptions an hour.  If ONE of those prescriptions is filled incorrectly, it is reported to the State Board of Pharmacy who requires a monetary penalty be forwarded by the company depending on the error classification.  If there are too many errors in a given month, the pharmacy is shut down, the supervising PHARMACIST receives (typically) a $5000 fine and a one month to five year suspension of practice, all actions of which are published and distributed to all 50 states in a monthly newsletter.

To say this is all AAMT's fault is ludicrous.  To say the doctors are not going to change their ways because they have god complexes is ludicrous.  This happened because too many mistakes were being made through haste, bad handwriting, lack of time to thoughtfully write prescriptions, etc.  This is today's reality.  If you do not adapt, you do not survive.  Just ask a Cro-Magnon.

d~