Nope.Not her. Not starting trouble. Just IMHO.
Posted By: OP on 2008-10-05
In Reply to: 1) Plenty of positive posts. 2) QA post was not a Simple Question; you know that. - are you her? Trying to start trouble? nm
Honest observations. Wondering if this board is a good or bad part of my day, and thinking out loud. But, as usual, mixed feedback and as this post above which I am answering shows, a lot of paranoia out there too. Probably this is it for moi. Just not my style. See ya.
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Nope, I don't feel "LUCKY" to be treated like an imbicile by my company. Nope, No way.
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IMHO...sm
QA gets the pits because the good ones aren't hard. I've never done QA, but I know the reports with blanks I do have are from really awful ESLs or Americans. I think I'm pretty good with ESLs, but some of it is just flat mush. And of course there are those folks who don't really care about what they're putting out, figuring QA will cover their butts. You're going to get the dregs just by nature of your job.
As far as going back to MT, if you love it, do it. Life is short, why hate your job? It's a big part of your life. I work for MQ and I'm doing fine, contrary to all the nay-sayers out there. I'd say research companies or look locally, because it's not all as bad as you might hear. I've worked in offices, as an IC, and now as an employee at a national. Good situations are out there, just do your research, and take all the complaining with a grain of salt. Complainers are usually the loudest people on the boards, it's human nature. Email me if you want to chat more. Best of luck! 
IMHO
I worked as an IC for a private practice for 4 years on an hourly rate. It worked out just fine. Of course you have to keep track. That sometimes can be difficult but it certainly can be done.
IMHO
Well, I'm a "newbie" also and am getting so discouraged with looking. If it were me, I'd take it and run. I haven't even been able to find a company that would offer that much of a chance! Anyway, like I said, I am a newbie also, so I don't have an experienced opinion, but its an opinion all the same.
IMHO...
Okay, with an hourly rate you can do some figuring. I believe that, even though one would typically have more experience doing QA, they do not necessarily make more money on a per hour basis because their line per hour rate is much lower than the MT rate to make up for the greater number of lines done when editing. I think QA is primarily a bonus in that you don't have to do all that physical typing. I think MT and QA makes about the same amount per hour in general. Assuming this, then you can figure out where you are pretty much.
If you type 160 lines per hour at 0.08 cpl, then you are making $12.80 per hour. I don't know for sure, but that sounds like a pretty average number of lines per hour and line rate for many MTs out there, so what you are making sounds pretty average, IMO.
If you want to challenge yourself, however, you can do better. I can do almost 200 lines per hour and make 0.09 cpl, so that's about $18 per hour. That's as an independent contractor working at home through an MTSO, not an employee, and not as an IC on my own accounts (make much more on those with no MTSO middleman). Even if you stayed with the 0.08 cpl and upped your lines by 20 an hour to 180, OR if you went to 0.09 cpl and stayed at 160 lines per hour, you get a raise to $14.40 per hour.
Hope this helps!
Well, IMHO we MTs
are worth MUCH, MUCH, MUCH MORE than that! 
IMHO your best bet is to find an
accredited community college near you that offers an MT course. They don't really help you find a job, but they don't make empty promises about that either. They will introduce you to other established MTs in the area, and you may find a mentor there. Also, the cost is reasonable and the instruction hands-on, usually by a CMT in your area.
Unethical, IMHO
I have this to say to that person
1. Its stealing from your fellow teammates. You are awarding yourself 4 hours of their shift and their work because you're too lazy or too incompetent to get your speed up. They have bills to pay just like you do, and are sitting there out of work because YOU stole it. Especially if THEY are honest and only work approved OT.
2. Its lying to your employer and yourself as to how efficient you are, when you are falsifying your time card. It is also putting them in jeopardy with the labor board, should you both get caught.
3. Its bragging to post this - bragging that you are lazy and incompetent, and like to steal work, so you think you're smart and slick to have found a way around hard work and better skills. Shame on you!
Thank GOD where I work the ONLY way you can type a job is if you are punched IN to the time clock. So I know you're not my coworker. I pity those that are.
IMHO, I would leave. (sm)
Some people/companies are using the hard times right now to profit themselves, basically just reducing pay when there is really no need. Yes, I understand that there are legitimate companies who are in trouble and really need their employees to reduce their pay or lay them off.
BUT, ask the doctor if his income has changed in anyway. Has the patient load decreased? Are the insurance companies not paying? Its just like these executives who get a 250,000 bonus after they get bailed out, yet they are laying people off left and right. Just does not make sense to me and if they really think they can find another LPN to do their transcription and do their nursing, then they need to try and find one. I am sure you can get another job somewhere else where you will not get taken advantage of.
IMHO, MTWS is better
MT Word Seeker is definitely better IMHO. The search results are more to the point, perhaps because it searches 1100 medical / MT websites.
can't think of one female who dictates well, IMHO.
the point in a nutshell, IMHO sm
the point I think everyone is trying to make here is, yes, most of us have done it and succeeded with small children, BUT it is by no means easy. You have to be flexible and hopefully have a flexible employer. It's not impossible, it can be done, but it won't be a piece of cake! If you're motivated, organized, and willing to compromise a portion of your sanity , then by all means, go for it. But the bottom line is this...you have to do what works for YOU, not anyone else! Think it through and make an educated decision, and not one just based on the opinions on this board. Good luck to ya! 
Drs comments were inappropriate, IMHO
Dont you think his comments are a little inappropriate? To be dictating and saying that? He can put the information in a research paper he is writing but to state it while dictating?
IMHO and experience, in most, if not all careers-SM
the better your memory and flexibility, the better your success. If your memory is so-so, then find tools that will increase your success, i.e., account post-its and sample reports, even reading something out loud. For me, if I handwrite what I am given in print regarding an account/doc, I am more likely to remember it. Making handwritten notes takes time, but helps things stick in my memory.
IMHO..too high. Ours was 11 min/hour. NM
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Picky is the name of the game IMHO. Either it's right or it's not.
nm
IMHO, you don't want silent...you want quiet. sm
Keyclicks do provide important feedback.
IMHO outsoursing is only one piece of this pie. (nm)
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IMHO outsourcing is only one piece of this pie. (nm)
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Meat cooking is harder, IMHO
Remebering my childhood as an animal eater, I think it is harder cooking for meat eaters and way more expensive than vegetarian foods.
IMHO Speedtype is a costly version of...
MS Word's AutoCorrect. I bought is and asked for help in transfering my AutoCorrect entries to it. The owner kindly answered she would do it FOR me . . . for an additional fee of $25!!!! Being as I had just paid $189 for it, I thought that was terrible! Her instructions for doing the transfer do not work. I honestly think it is just a ploy to make more money.
I finally did the transfer myself, after numerous tries. Now I don't even use it. Since it isn't anything "special," it isn't worth the trouble. I much prefer IT to SpeedType. In fact, ANYTHING other than SpeedType is better, in my opinion.
IMHO, outsourcing is only one ingredient to this stew. NM
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The absolute worst IMHO is the dictator
who loads up his mouth to capacity with marbles and then proceeds to talk.
TechSupport what do you think? IMHO this is all in preparation of EMR, compressing the
long, very narrative and repetitive version of straight transcription. You are building a new software, or at least a software template for EMR. Isn't this it?
Bayscribe kicks ExText's booty, imho. SM
I have worked on both. Bayscribe only has the 1 page on which you enter information. There are dropdown lists of providers (no additional lists or documents), you can easily change templates at any point in the report, and the only shortcoming to Bayscribe that I have found is the spellchecker, which works okay but could use some updating.
ExText, on the other hand, had multiple pages per report, no way to easily access provider information, changing a template required a bunch of steps, etc. etc. I never did make much progress with ExText, although I know that some of my friends love it.
It may be what you're used to, although I think it would have been a lot easier to start with ExText and move to Bayscribe than it was for me to start with Bayscribe and then move to ExText. Bayscribe is also fast to load and fast to work in-- no VPN.
Hope this helps.
I agree Nature Sounds better than music.. IMHO.. NM
NM
IMHO, helping humanity is along the lines of teaching, volunteering, nursing, working with
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Does anyone have trouble with TMJ?
I have an appointment with an ortho to have it looked at. I have the clicking, bruxism, headaches, jaw fatigue and pain, loss of hearing on one side, and now neck pain and crepitus when I turn my head. The pain radiates all the way down my back. I'm so scared that i'm in the last stages and can only be helped with all sorts of surgery. Has anyone here been fitted with any sort of device that reverses this effectively? It makes my life miserable.
Don't want to get in trouble but want to ask a ?
about our MQ accounts.
I work out of the Amherst office and so far, I have enough work. This weekend we are a bit out of turn-around but the ladies on this account, and I, are working quickly to change that (when I'm not poking my nose on this message board).
I am wondering though, if it's just a few isolated accounts that are running out of work from the Amherst office, and it is illegal to discuss what accounts those are? It probably is--just think it would make a lot of us feel better (especially those of us out of Amherst that are starting to worry) if we knew that it's the same few accounts that are running out of work all the time, and not ALL of the accounts.
I don't know. This whole situation makes me sort of sick. I'm thankful I have work, but very sad that many of you appear not to and wonder when my account is next.
all the ones I usually have trouble with
I make expansions with my incorrect spelling to the correct one. There is just times I feel my fingers are dyslexic!
I had no trouble doing this on my last job, but cannot seem to do it now.
Different software. I have some of the same accounts, but none of the fast-moving accounts. This is all clinic work, but so was the last job. A lot of demographics to enter. The doctors give you all of these before they tell you which format this is, i.e. letter or office note, so you have to wait until you know to even start typing.
I don't have any trouble with
x
the trouble is, they don't want to pay us
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Anyone else have trouble with
I recently started working from home as an IC. This is my first job as an MT. I am really enjoying it thus far, but I am having the hardest time getting to sleep at night. For the past two nights I have been awake until 4 a.m. Can't seem to turn off my brain. Since it was the weekend it wasn't that big of a deal, but tomorrow is Monday, and I have to get up early to get my son to school, and get to work. I was just curious if anyone else ever seems to have this problem, and if so, any suggestions on how to shut off my brain? I'm exhausted and I know my work quality will suffer if I don't get some quality sleep.
I had trouble with this too.
I save as a file and then attach the file. There is an option towards the end to "save to rtf file". I could not get the option to e-mail directly to work.
He is already in trouble.
 He just had his sister call me which is a direct violation of his Stay Away Order. Tee hee. The police officer last night told me that no matter what he tells him that he WILL do at least one of the three things to violate the order. Ta Da, he obviously hasn't improved his listening skills in 24 hours. He will never ever change. He doesn't hear God knocking like I did. I pity him in his blindness, but not very much....
It was too much trouble for me to
strip out any header/footer information, dates, ages, etc. on individual files and also take out "doctorisms" that are not actually in Stedman spellcheck. If you have ever gotten stopped by spellcheck and hit ignore, how can you be sure the information you enter into IT is right?
Anybody else having trouble using
I just cannot get the hang of this expander. I am not meeting production as a result. I also continue to get not so great QA scores because of 'expander' entries that are not intended to be in the doc.
Trouble
AMEN!!!
My 4 yo is having trouble.
Hi, I could use some advice here. My daughter just started preschool a few weeks ago, we just moved to a town that offers it. The teacher has been sending notes home that she won't listen or concentrate on the work. They are starting word recognition and writing in preschool now. The notes express concern for her in kindergarten next year. My daughter has never really been interested in writing or coloring. She likes to look at books and play with dolls right now. The teacher tells me that her hands are "weak" and that I need to work on that. I've spent the evening crying since she brought home the latest note. Her father and I are separated, so I'm kind of alone on this. He thinks she has ADHD because it "runs in his family". I'm not sure I believe in that. Perhaps my marriage and impending divorce have really impacted her badly, but I don't think that has anything to do with writing or drawing. Please...I could use a stiff hug right about now. Thanks for any advice. Lynn
Believe it or not, I had more trouble with
time off when I worked inhouse at the hospital. That manager wouldn't bend at all. You could call in dead and she would still expect you to be there. The company I work for now is much better, as long as I am able to switch my shifts, they don't care.
The trouble is...
you'll always be sliding between financially challenged and leisure fun time challenged. There's no easy way out of it, and I've been at this for 20+ years and it has only gotten harder to make a living and also make a life. Soon you'll be able to make more money at Wal-mart or McDonald's than in MT so I'm glad I'm really close to retirement.
so much trouble
I used to have so much trouble with my internet service through my local electric company - every time there was a storm ,etc. . my internet was out. . I switched to windstream and I have not missed any work since. . I am very pleased with them. .
I did have trouble after that sm
I visited there as well and that same day I had a terrible time, my computer shut down and stated I had no programs installed, took me all day to get going again, don't go there!!
Trouble too
I have trouble with this too. I'm guessing certain personality types will lean this way with a stay-at-home job.
I know others who don't have any problem with it and are on the go all the time when not workig.
It would probably be good to take a class or join some sort of group so that we have scheduled time away; otherwise it's too easy to stay home even though it isn't good for us.
Anyone have this trouble?
I use lots of Expanders and create more all the time. It's great when I do the same account or two regularly, but during spells of getting more accounts (when my main ones are low) I find I waste time fumbling to see if I have an Expander for things.
I have had to deviate from a normal expansion pattern (in a variety of ways), and as long as I am typing the same several dictators, I get used to the way they speak and my expansions and all the deviations just come automatically. However, when I get tons of other docs saying things in so many different ways, the deviations don't come to me and I fumble. I think I could go faster with more straight type.
I know people say to have expansions for everything, but do any of you have a good way to determine when it's better to just type it out? - I don't think anyone could use 100% expansion (or even 90%), but does anyone have any advice or general thougths on this?
Thanks so much!
The only one having trouble dealing with anything is you
If your life sucks it's no one's fault but your own. Successful people take accountability for their lives and move forward instead of placing blame wherever they can and being angry at the world like you obviously are.
The only one having trouble dealing with anything is you
If your life sucks it's no one's fault but your own. Successful people take accountability for their lives and move forward instead of placing blame wherever they can and being angry at the world like you obviously are.
The trouble is, everything is politicized...
For every report of something horrible, there's another one disputing it. I didn't sayh we shouldn't be custodians of the earth, but when one single country is blamed, and by its own citizens yet (especially when THEIR man is NOT in office) without taking into account the pollution that comes from places like China and India and Brazil, or Europe for that matter which doesn't even use unleaded gas (last time I heard), then I refuse to get too worked up. We can't even have a hurricaine without somebody bringing up global warming. Do YOUR research and you'll see that nothing unusual is happening that hasn't happened before, long before greenhouse gases were a problem. This earth has reinvented itself more than once, and long after we're gone, it will still be here going strong.
Trouble with docqscribe
I can't log on either and I have been on hold with 888-dictate for over 45 minutes.
I guess my doc would be in trouble.
I was recently in the hospital which happens to be the same hospital I work at and we do not outsource at all. We have our own MTs. If the doc needed to get the HP, OP note and DS done that he did on me and the report had to be done by an MT that doesn't know me then he would be in trouble because all the MT knows me. LOL. I do trust my co-workers and we are all aware of HIPPA and confidentiality. We only get reminded once a month.
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