My kind? The blame goes far beyond our president.
Posted By: TM on 2005-10-28
In Reply to: Answer this question.. - SM
He should have finished his first battle before he started another. He has done nothing to ensure that our safety is any better than it was pre-911. If anything, it is worse.
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President's Day
hopefully our next president will see this
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Who was the US president when U first became an MT?
President Clinton for me.
? US PRESIDENT
Gerald Ford
US president
That would have been Daddy Bush.
president
Carter - 1979 - American
Someone should have told our President that...nm
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Well, I'm glad YOU are not the president...
The same people who wanted to tar and feather GWB for not piecing together some snippits of information before 9/11 and tried to say that he should have seen it coming are the same people who criticize him for stepping into Iraq to remove a dictator who even Bill Clinton said needed to be removed. If you think terrorists weren't conducting business in Iraq? You are naive. If another attack were traced back to weapons or nukes passed off in Iraq, you would be blaming Bush for ignoring all that was known about Saddam and the danger of leaving him in power. In a post 9/11 world, with all that was before him BEFORE the war as far as intelligence, he did the only thing he could do. I think in the long run it's going to work out in Iraq, but again, that takes us back the patience thing. I've got it, you don't. History shows that Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will a new Iraq.
The president has it in for you, yeah, that's it!
Blaming other people because you refuse to keep up with the world and desperately want to hold on to a job that's clearly on its way down the toilet is the exact attitude that ends up getting nowhere in life, but that's always someone else's fault too, right? What a defeated, running in place attitude you have! See you at Walmart applying for the prestigious greeter job (that will be the president's fault too).
LMAO
That president is such a wimp.
You would think he'd be as far away as possible. I miss President Palmer.
The individual who is now the president of
the insurance company association (whatever it is called) is Mark Racicot, who was Bush's right hand man and head of the RNC. They do not care about the welfare of people, just their own pockets.
President of AAMT going to
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Writing to president sm
It's a good idea but he's been talking about it for a long time and doubt he'd agree, his mind is made up. What has to come across is the confidentiality issue which I believe is another moot point. It's very sad and I think has been in the making by the hierarchy for years. Doctors don't care period. They have families, hate dictating, would love to have it off their backs. I guess what we have to do in response is be discreet and not tell them anything we don't want the world to know. Sad, sad,sad!
My email to the President
I wrote this email to the President this afternoon. I cry each time I read it. I know I may have a few errors in the punctuation but I was very emotional when I wrote it. *Please note I am a newer Transcriptionist hence the money comment.
Dear Mr. President,
I am a medical transcriptionist. I just got laid off this morning from my job due to our largest client taking their work back in-house and sending some offshore. I have worked 3rd shift for a year for not very much money. I have sacrificed family time, personal time, money, and my health. I have rearranged our family schedule and my body clock. I needed to work and did what I had to do. I worked the job I could find. It was not much money but that money paid my mortgage, put food on our table, paid our auto loans, and credit cards. There are very few jobs out there.
What do you suggest I do now? What are you going to do about offshoring? How am I going to tell my husband? I voted for you. How are you going to help me, (Name) the Transcriptionist? Do I now have to work for an overseas transcription company. That seems very un-American to me.
We pay our bills, we are good people, we work hard but it does not seem to matter. I'm a tired American. I'm tired of working so hard for so little. I'm tired of not making ends meet. I'm tired of being told to be patient and it will turn around. I'm tired of the rest of the world taking advantage of our generosity. I'm tired of my husband driving a (Corporate name) truck all day and night and showing very little for his efforts. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired.
Well, I guess I can get some sleep now because I don't have to work tonight.
So Mr. President, my policy questions for you are:
1. When are we going to take our jobs back and take care of our own people?
2. What am I going to do for work now?
Thank you to whoever reads this. It may not be seen by the President but I feel better having told him about yet one more struggle of an American family.
michelle for president!!!! nm
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Three words to discribe Mr. HIS President....
"Male Shovenist Pig"!
The nerve of some people amaze me. Anyone know if he is Indian?
Three words to discribe Mr. HIS President
"Male Shovenist Pig"!
If you cannot even take the time to spell correctly what you are describing, how can anyone take your comments seriously. "chauvinist".
"discribe" How about describe?
Our president has even alienated his own base.
I visit a local political board that is primarily conservative (something I am totally not, but it's still fun to go watch the "fireworks") and even the hardcore Republicans are peeved at him. Apparently this immigration "amnesty" bill he's pushing has really not settled very well with his "peeps." I didn't vote for him twice, so my conscience is clear, but I still think he's a tool, president or not. I never had respect for him and never will. I know I am not alone either and I'm sorry if that offends you, but I'm exercising one of the primary freedoms that our poor soldiers are dying and getting wounded for--freedom of speech.
The president himself deserves respect only
when he begins to show respect for the office he holds, the populace he serves, and the constitution.
MQ offshoring - My response to the President
Here's MY letter--below--to our President. Our jobs are going people. But our president has other plans. To the poster below--do you think that lovely older woman who asked the question about offshoring--or any of us lovely people sitting comfortably in our home offices right now working--are cut out for jobs such as (taken from the transcript) building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs ?? Are you ready to climb a friggen wind turbine and service the propellers?
I was so upset with his answer. First, I called the White House. This is our right. You ALL should do that. Second I wrote the following letter to the President. My own little two cents. Then I copied it to every news agency out there that I could think of. Again, just my two cents. You all should do the same. Let him know that his answer just will not do. What are we all supposed to do, in the meantime, to buy food and pay our bills before we get trained to build turbines, solar panels, or go to the lab to create the next biofuel?
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President Obama—
You owe the American displaced workers an apology.
How dare you.
I am shocked at your response to the video question about the offshoring of American jobs. How dare you say to us that we don’t want those jobs that are going offshore anyway. Mr. President, for those of us who have lost or are about to lose our jobs to offshoring, yes we DO want our jobs.
You then went on to blame offshoring on the credit situation. Oh come on! The financial disaster has nothing to do with offshoring. Offshoring is the bastard child of government ineptitude and the corporate greed running rampant in our country. Offshoring means getting the same job done by cheap third-world labor. Offshoring is about not paying decent wages and benefits. Offshoring is about stuffing corporate pockets with more money.
If there was an international symbol for offshoring, it would be a picture of a CEO’s heel grinding into a third-world worker’s back.
These greedy corporations have sold out the American worker and are stepping on the backs of the low-wage third-world workers .
I am outraged. I DID go to school Mr. President. I HAVE a degree. I have invested thousands of dollars into reference materials and equipment to help me perform my job better. I also have invested almost 30 years to my career. My career is very technical. I could rattle off a bunch of words here for you, and I bet you would not know what they mean. But I do. And I have performed my job with pride all these years.
How dare you brush off the offshoring question with such simplicity.
Well, I would rather Americans have jobs, not undereducated or poorly educated third world nations.
A lot of the work from my field goes to India, Phillipines and Pakistan. Didn’t I see a group of Pakistani’s burning the American Flag on TV recently? Do you know that when my company’s work goes offshore, it contains the name, birth date and social security numbers of Americans? This is information, that in the wrong hands, could be used to ruin someone’s life. How can we be sure in countries with unstable governments, with such widespread hatred for America, with the arrogance to burn the American Flag on national TV, that this information will be guarded with care? The sad part is, after the Pakistani’s anti-American demonstration, chances are they all went back to work---doing jobs taken from Americans.
How dare you say we don’t want our jobs. What is your solution? Wait for these “green jobs” to be created some day? Go to school while we are waiting and then hope that we will be hired when we are in our golden years?
How dare you belittle what we all have worked so hard to achieve in our lives. Not all offshored jobs are call center jobs. Many of those jobs are now degreed and highly skilled jobs also.
And—your comment about our children becoming engineers was laughable. With all due respect—get with it sir—those jobs are also being offshored. Also, what are we, the displaced workers, many of us middle age, supposed to do in the meantime before we get trained to build solar panels, wind turbines and create biofuels. How should be pay for our food and our rents and mortgages?
No, Mr. President, you are so very incorrect. We DO want those jobs. They feed us, clothe us, and keep us off the street. Not to mention they help us strengthen the tax base in our own country--America.
Yes, We WANT our jobs, Mr. President.
You owe all the displaced American workers an apology.
You Are Wrong.
Tell that to the President and congressmen/women that should be a requirement sm
and lets see what happen LOL
the president's vacation isn't long enough. needs to be permanent.
as for brain surgeons, they may be making enough money to pay the rent AND take a vacation; I'm not.
My husband is a union president and says we should definitely organize.
But what would then stop them from further outsourcing?
Your opening statement about our President is disrespectful.
Whether or not you like him, he is still the President and that office should be respected. Unfortunately, your statement is reflective of the mindset and mentality of many in our country. And people have to ask why the rest of the world doesn't like us--we don't even like each other.
At the very least you should be respectful of those in positions of authority. It's modeling of appropriate behavior that our children see and emulate themselves.
Interesting Article on eScription President
Interesting interview of eScription's CEO
http://health-information.advanceweb.com/Common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=94859
Still waiting for response to my letter sent to President
Bush about Katrina. I called the White House and later sent in fax and so far have no response. Good luck.
Yeah. They are so fair that they fired their president like they fire everyone else.
xxx
Don't forget Marilyn Monroe for being too demanding of the president.
Subversives, all of them! LOL
Is Monday, Feb 12, President Day? Brain dead this morning. nm
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Once President-Elect Obama is in office, we'll
in the last 15+ years to make our voices heard. He, too, wants to tax the crap out of companies that offshore American work, which is as it SHOULD BE! Why should America be ENCOURAGING companies to offshore?
India was one of the few (if any) countries in the world who was not happy to see Obama get elected, and precisely because of his views on offshoring , and taxing the companies that do it. He will be getting his ducks in a row and formulating his agenda in the first months of office, and that is the time to be sure that all members of our government who can be reached by phone, letter, or email, should be given specific feedback on how offshoring medical records is hurting US, as well as patients, and the rest of the country.
Voice Your Concern about Offshoring - E mail the President - see here
Go to whitehouse.gov/contact or ehow, etc. I did just that today. They invited me to e mail the president - so I did. Not sure he will ever get it but it was a nice friendly letter. I asked him to find out and report how many jobs are being offshored every single day, faster than he can create them. I asked him to try to get specific figures on tax implications and our social security system. No one has ever given out this information, which would probably be a difficult task since the offshoring companies will not fess up to how many jobs really leave the U.S. I figured if any one could find out it would be President Obama himself. As an aside I asked him could it be true that the big banks who received approximately $150 billion dollars of our money actually applied for 20,000 new visas for foreign workers (up 1/3). With our own money?
I asked him how his stimulus package was supposed to work. I have always stimulated the economy, worked, and paid taxes. Now my job has been given to a foreign worker who does not pay taxes. What gives? If that is not on a drain on the system, then the lines for unemployment income are. I mentioned that the stimulus checks handed out were never going to trickle down to the average American citizen. Look what they are doing with it. The best stimulus he could give us is to save our jobs. We can't spend what we don't have. I also congratulated him on his new job, financial security, the American people keeping the mortgage up to date on the White House, and that his kids certainly seem to have everything they need. Keep up the good work and get back to me on those huge figures. Oh, and I gave him my figures, unemployment at 50% of your earnings for 6 months.
Your e mail can be one sentence or up to 5,000 words. Can you imagine the President receiving e mails from 300-500 MTs in one week. Do it.
Brain surgeons and the U.S. President take vacations; so can you. The world won't stop if you do!
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Don't blame QA!
If your quality is there, you don't need to worry. If you are worried about your quality, don't blame it on QA people. We are not "out to get you," just making sure that we send a quality product to our clients. That is our job. I have been in this business for 30 years. I try to help our MTs by giving them good feedback. It is insulting to me as a professional when an MT with poor quality whines about what QA "did to her." You should see some of the garbage I have to fix daily....Some reports take an hour or more to QA - just one job!! We have productivity quotas to meet, too, and this hurts us. This is why the poor-quality MTs are being gigged in their pay. If you are not a poor MT, no worries, right?
Don't blame QA
You go girl!! My thoughts exactly....
i don't blame you there
now if others will do the same, we could actually have good debates/venting sessions; I appreciate your answer
I don't blame you at all. We did the same
for my nephew and I will get a list of music alternatives from my sister and post for you.
Keep up the good fight!
can't really blame them 100% either
I've learned to take a more pragmatic view of the problem rather than blindly placing all the blame on the doctors themseves. Rather, I place the majority of the blame on the shoulders of the government and the insurance companies for driving up the costs not only to patients but to the providers. Practices have found that they've got to cut back somewhere. Some have turned to EMR, some are using voice recognition, and some have resorted to going the cheapest way possible, offshoring, to create the documentation REQUIRED by insurance companies and the government in the first place. Though we may debate the morality of sending American jobs overseas, they're not doing anything illegal.
The biggest problem I have with offshoring, as my friend once put so eloquently, is "I wouldn't want my medical records to go to some country we're going to be at war with in a few years." (thanks, AK!) We Americans are expected to abide by government-imposed HIPAA laws, but does that extend to offshore companies? They say they are HIPAA compliant, but who really knows? Which "government" agency watchdog do we have to protect our privacy in these other countries? Gee, we're having such a problem with identity theft, wonder why?
I've taken to asking any new physician that I go to who will be typing my medical record after this office visit. If they say they sending it to some really cheesy company in India or even refuse to tell me who, I walk. How many of you do the same thing?
Can't really blame them.
You are working for them actively IN their system.
I wouldn't bat an eye at it. I say kudos to the hospital for protecting patient information and upholding HIPAA appropriately.
I did not blame anything on anyone.
I simply stated a fact. Some MTs are incapable of making a successful transition to editing. I did not blame anything on anyone. Do I think that the measly pay rates offered by some companies for editing are fair? No. There are also companies that pay a reasonable, but not great, pay rate for editing.
I will reiterate what I said before. If you cannot make a living on what you make doing editing--then don't do it. Period. Bemoaning the fact you can't make decent money while your bills pile up accomplishes nothing.
So, you blame this on QA? How do you know
"Anonymous" and "Untouchable?"
Don't speak for me. You don't know me. I have always wanted to deal directly with the MTs. There are other QAs who agree with me, too. But we have been told in may meetings that just will not happen.
Of course, I would imagine the anal ones who should not have their QA jobs would not like to do that, because they could not back-up their corrections. But I stand behind mine. I would rather talk directly to the MTs -- lack of communication is good for nothing but misunderstandings and bitterness.
I am not out to get any MT. I will not make a change in your report unless it is an outright blatant medical terminology mistake or a formatting error.
Why are you so mean? You don't know me. I wouldn't be nasty to you. I have never done anything to you.
Bitterness is not good for anyone. Why don't you place your anger towards the QA who is giving you troubles? Turn that QA in. Keep doing it. If more MTs would speak up, then the ones who should not have jobs will be held accountable.
I know what you are talking about. I understand. I see it myself when I look at completed reports and I see what some QA are doing. It is wrong. But not all of us are the same way with our jobs. I have always tried to be professional and helpful to the MTs. I leave notes with info that they might need concerning the particular report, and even thank them for their hard work.
I am sorry you feel so hateful towards someone who never did a thing to you.
I just sent Bill O'Reilly a copy of letter I sent to President Obama. Anyone who can, email him
while the topic is fresh from his recent show. I do think Bill O'Reilly can at least get this offshoring debate out there, and right now we need publicity and basic facts to reach the viewers.
How can you blame the landscaper for
what the wind did? Any tree will uproot or break unless it is a palm tree if the wind is bad enough.
No blame placed on anyone. Surely you have
limits in your life, don't you? I would hope so. Those are the lines I have drawn. I have had to change accounts before and change employers before. I may have to again, who knows?
It doesn't cost me anything whether you take that as blaming MTs or not.
Not anywhere in that post did I blame MTs. I took responsibility for what I wanted to do and I am ALLOWED to make those decisions for myself. Perhaps you should do the same for you.
Enjoy your day!
Blame the names
on the 911 system. To help keep dispatchers from having to deal with sound alike names and sending emergency services to the wrong street the 911 center in most areas gets the final say so on whether a street name is okay or not.
When a small rural county I lived in went with the 911 system those of us who lived in the small cities had to rename some of the existing streets since there were streets in the rural areas of the county over 50 miles away with the same names.
I don't blame the merchants for doing that
actually, he said he didn't blame me..nm
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Who else would you blame this on? You did the work. SM
it didn't cut the mustard and you want to blame somebody else? You know, one report will not get you canned.
I do feel sorry for you, again.
Your management is to blame, not the MT.
Your management allows it to happen.
Talk to them.
It is isn't up to you nor me nor anyone else not in management to regulate who gets what work and when and how much.
you can't blame them for killing themselves to get here,
and adding further insult to injury, we put everything in their language. however, thanks to our system of welfare, too many US citizens refuse to work the hard labor jobs, so we "need" the illegals.
blame game..........sm
As for the *blame game* - most states and MOST judges don't care....they don't care if your spouse is caught in bed with people. Hopefully the OP's state is like that. Many states today are *no contest* states. If you want a divorce, you can get a divorce in most states with no contesting. If the OP's state is not like this - is not a *no contest* state, the OP needs to file for a divorce in another state, where the OP would need to get residency status in that particular state (using someone's address who you know real well).
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