Mom's a smart lady and absolutely correct!
Posted By: sm on 2005-12-03
In Reply to: LOL Yeah, my Mom used to tell me that if I wanted to meet guys, - where the boys are....
Online dating also falls into the desperate category. If someone doesn't want to meet people the conventional, in-person way, they have to be:
1. Socially challenged.
2. Facially challenged.
3. Vertically challenged.
4. Weight challenged.
There are a lot of people out there who do that kind of thing and that's their choice, but I'd rather meet face to face instead of trolling the computer from behind a monitor looking for goofs that no one in the real world would want.
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You're a smart lady.
I need to wise up!
Smart lady! I admire you.
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I absolutely have a cleaning lady - sm
about $65 bucks every two weeks, she does all the hardwood floors throughout my house, bathrooms from top to bottom (with bleach), dusts and vacuums. All the "big" stuff that I never do since I'd rather work and make money than clean my house.
absolutely correct
not supposed to be done
You are absolutely correct.
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Absolutely correct! And . . .
I've been an MT since 1978 and the MT world revolved quite nicely in the days when we were all in-house and given credit for having a brain and being able to figure out how to compose a coherent paragraph with the crap dictation we were given to work with. QA never existed then and everything was just fine. No lawsuits that I can recall, so this is just more red-tape nitpicking on the part of the at-home services to kiss the client's butt and make them think they're getting something special.
So lame.
Absolutely correct!
Stupid people remain stuck in neutral. That's why they're stupid.
You are absolutely correct. Here's my fix.
I think that probably the easiest solution for those companies is to just hire employees. When it comes to trying to meet client TATs, scheduling shifts, etc., ICs are mainly a pain, anyway.
Absolutely correct!
People who knock college are just jealous of the people who did have the ambition and brains to go, and spend their lives complaining, passing blame, and resenting others (and themselves).
You are absolutely correct
My oral surgery practice wants me to put cc, not mL. The paying customer's preference comes first!
Happy Fourth of July, all, by the way.
that would be absolutely correct!!
You are absolutely correct...
However, I worked on-site and only made $25,000.00 after 17 years, started at $7.00 an hour. So, the ones who say they made $75,000.00 are not giving you all of the facts.
The realm of an MT per hour is from 13-17 an hour; look it up. It's true. However, if you have your own accounts (which I do), I charge more per line and have templates set up so that I breeze through my dictators that I've done for the past 10 years, which yields me around 25-30 an hour. These circumstances are not common, I know that now.
I think you're doing great! Keep up the good work! I'm not here to blast ya'! You are the wave of the future; no MT will get rich and never have been rich.
I think some of us who have been in this profession though see that it's tough to raise rates at this time because of the fear of losing the account to a large company. I'm just a small guy, I don't require much really, so I'm happy with what I make. I also love being at home full-time. I'm able to manipulate my schedule and not feel so "hum-drum." I learn something new every day, not all pretty either, but I've learned more specialties working online than on-site.
At this point in my life (I'm in my 30s), this profession suits me just fine. Advice to new MTs, give it a whirl! You may be surprised that you really can make some money if you just relax and stop listening to the "nay-sayers." As a matter of fact, I have never done VR, but think it would be interesting. If pretty much everything is there, then all the better; this may be another good way for a new MT to break into the business and learn is with the VR...
Endorsed by an MT who still feels "liked, wanted, and needed" in this profession! 
You are absolutely correct.
It should be 'were given'. Before having children and staying home to MT, I spent 6 years teaching English and grammar - 'were' in this case is grammatically correct.
Yes you are absolutely correct....
It is the on-site jobs that gets ya' out there.... Some docs are just great payers and know good work when they see it. I think they like local because you are familiar with all of the things that go into that report, i.e., referring physicians, facilities, diagnostic centers, etc. It saves them the headache of correcting all of those mistakes.
My own personal PCP has complained to me in an office visit about the local hospital that uses an outside service and can never get his name right. The problem is that the physicians are not the ones making the decisions, it is the hospitals that make those decisions as far as in the hospital environment. I know physicians at the hospital that I worked at that were p'od when they found out we would no longer be transcribing their reports. They were just so set in their ways and they got good TAT and a good quality report - but no more, and yes I still to this day hear terrible feedback about the outsourced company and how the doctors spend countless hours correcting things. End of Story... {sigh}
You're absolutely correct sm
I've had editors tell me that they love getting my reports with blanks because they know they can go directly to the blank and try to fill it in, they say some MTs they have to almost completely re-type the report which takes more time than typing it in the first place. I know this to be true from my own editing. I tried to work with the MTs if they could be salvaged. If they still insisted on not doing their job, I did my job until they were relieved of their work duties. :)
AFib is absolutely correct...nm
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Above two replies absolutely correct!
Rules and standards are necessary but they should be uniform. ''Rules'' cannot be followed when they are arbitrary--the individual preferences or whims of whatever QA person gets the report. Great posts!
Absolutely...this is the place to correct
and please correct me before I send a mailing to doctors! I do think cai would appreciate it in that respect. Definitely, help a sister out when you get a chance!
poster above is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...sm
A tech support person who used to work for a certain company I used to work for...well, we knew one another before and after we both quit, he gave me the scoop on what these companies do. It is underhanded and deceitful and downright dishonest. that is why I do NOT trust NOT ONE MTSO anymore....they are all dishonest......I don't care how good a company is stated to be on any board.
All they care about is the mighty dollar...the owners of all of these companies....they are getting richer and richer and some of us are one foot away from being homeless.
I have no respect for any of these companies, nada, zero.....
Absolutely correct! Snow Bunny is right! nm
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Absolutely!!! Mine has been correct 95% of the time....
BUT - you have to do your own or have somebody knowledgeable do it for you. You really have to know what you're doing and understand it. The 5% that I don't get right is because of "pilot error" - screwed up on the math - AGAIN!!!
Oh please, drop the drama - she is absolutely correct.
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you too are absolutely correct! Client pref rules..NM
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You're absolutely correct - they always pull that card when they have nothing else
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You read my post ABSOLUTELY correct. Supervisors don't need my appreciation nor
do I need their's. We all just want to get paid if you are honest. I don't have time to worry if I am appreciated by MQ. I just want them to pay me for an honest day's work. I guess that shows they like me, they really, really like me. Talk is cheap. I get it all the time from MQ CEO/management, how much I am appreciated. I just want to paid for my time and don't want to hear all the talk. I mean who really cares. So if they appreciate me and don't pay me for my efforts, what do I do with this "appreciation"? Bank it?
I absolutely agree with you. You've made it grammatically correct
hope this all comes through.
Your change is much better than the one suggested below which totally changes the sentence and would not be correct in my opinion.
"mean lady, ice lady, flaming monsters"
watch others feel hurt? from my computer? locked away? huh? you have clearly let your imagination run away with any powers of logic you may have had. sad.
Naaaaaaasty lady. Bad lady. Pooh.
(pouting)
Do it correct always. It will learn. Everyone has to do it correct all the time. nm
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If you are careful with putting the correct report in the correct report shell and patient, you will
not have any problems. I only take away this option when someone is careless. There can be NO room for error on this. One mistake can be very serious. Many do it well though, so just double check and you will be fine.
Absolutely, I absolutely love my job and
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No need to be smart with him. He's got my
respect for having earned his degree, whether or not he's working in that field and for whatever reason.
Not because they are smart...because they
IQ was never the issue!
If they are smart and get out ;)
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We are just so smart... sm
 and great at what we do that we need a challenge once in a while. No, switching professions is not the answer if your desire is to stay at home. I have found that helping each other through these message boards has been quite invigorating, and to know that I am not alone in my endeavors is quite reassuring, I must say!
Smart Gal!
Yes, this is the only job I believe where the salary goes down in time instead of up. You are smart to find another career. I have been in this line of work over 20 years and only wish I had made another move early on. Good luck to you.
You are one smart person,
this, Soft Script would go out of business!!! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
Smart Young Man
Your son sounds like a very smart young man. Not many kids these days truly care about their education. They look at high school as a party/social time, and dont look into the future what so ever, and said thing is a lot of our children are not getting the guidance from home either.
My son loves to learn and loves to be challenged and with him being home schooled we are able to do so.
And one other positive note on home schooling college intrance exams have shown that home schooled kids are just as smart if not smarter than those who go to public or private schools. The one on one they get is a big big factor in that.
Best of Luck!!!!!!!
work smart - -
You must be an IC. Yes?? Is that where "it's" at?
Monkey's are too smart for the job! LOL - nm
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That's a smart post.
I like how you think. Very good.
info on Smart Med
Their pay is pretty good. Bennies pretty good. Platform not so good. Tech support leaves much to be desired.
There just might be, but rather than be smart alec
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Transcriptionists are smart!
I had a doctor say to his "residents" that they should do transcription because I was answering all of the questions they could not, just because I've transcribed for so many years! That was kind of a nice feeling, if I do say so myself! So... maybe we could all be doctors some day!
smart move. JMO
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You're smart to do that.
You must feel much less bored and isolated by getting out into the real world and taking part in something more involved-feeling.
Really Smart Docs
From OB ultrasound report: "The fetus is single."
Good for that fetus! No fetus should marry before being born.
that's pretty smart.
will have to remember that.
Smart Type
You are better off just using one Expander at a time. There are things that ST will do that IT will not and vise versa. It is a matter of figuring out what is best for your needs.
You are welcome to email me and I can answer more specific questions for you.
You are 1 smart cookie
No matter what your age, you have done all the right things in order to have things go smoothly and be a productive worker at home. I like your way of doing things!
Is this legal or just not very smart? (sm)
I have a cardiologist who dictates from a template. Even if he does not mention things from the template, they are to be left in (negatives and positives). This includes in the PE a respiratory rate of 12. He never mentions it, but I have been told to leave it in. The odds of every patient he sees having a respiratory rate of 12 are pretty astronomical, and I think a lawyer could have fun with this if pressed. My supervisor agrees but feels we should give the client what they want.
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