Oh my Lord, I could have written

• This really BUGS me, & I'm getting sick of it! - sm - Flibertygibbit
  • Gaaaa! - vin
    • Dunno.... the QA's who post on here sound pretty - darned self-righteous, to me.
      • Typos above. I know. Just put in 14 hrs. and - my fingers are fried. - nm
  • This whole conversation seems to have gone off in - sm - Flibertygibbit
  • Well, to be totally outright... QA should not be needed...... if u are good at your job!!! - peeples
    • Would help me tons if all dictators sounded like - Glory1863
    • NOBODY is so good that they don't need a little QA - sm - Flibertygibbit
      • Yes there are people actually good enough to hit 98% accuracy. Happens every day!!!!! sm - ugh
        • Just 98% accuracy????? - Me
          • If you have your own accounts and need to - leave a blank, then the doctor fills it in.
            • So you NEVER send anything in with blanks, or - get portions of your work audited?
            • I GUESS YOU DON'T MAKE 98% THEN, HUH? - MTMTMT
              • What's with all this smugness about your accuracy, and - your implication that others are lacking?
        • Most MT co's REQUIRE 98% accuracy in order to stay - sm - Flibertygibbit
          • If that is actually happening, then - Z
      • Do u think a lawyer or accountant or doc has "QA" person - nope, if they screw up... they scr - hess
        • Oh my Lord, I could have written - your post myself!!!
        • Not in defense of errors or anything, but - sm - Flibertygibbit
  • I am very glad to say there are - Z
    • Too bad the QA's are tested before they're - - turned loose on us MTs! -(nm)
      • I meant to say 'AREN'T tested' ! - nm - duhhh....
        • My editors ARE TESTED - Me
          • Well then yer LUCKY. And hopefully they've all been - trained to edit in a standard fashion?
  • I share your pain - OPMT
  • In actuality, if the report is edited in any - way that person's initials should
    • absolutely! sm - Lyndia
  • This is something that bothers me too sm - Lyndia
    • I do agree, we need QA people, if for no other - sm - Flibertygibbit

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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. 

I learned probably before you were born, and believe me, it was a lot harder then.  I've learned much over the years.  Another point I would like to make in regard to Fahrenheit.  If there was no spell check, and no one ever told you that you were spelling it wrong, how would you know?  That's why it drives me crazy when I see words like "definitely" spelled definately, "misspelled", spelled mispelled, and "there, their, and they're" mixed up.  People get mad when you correct them, but truly, they should know these words, and they should be happy to learn as long as it is not in a nasty way.  I had an argument one time with my son's first grade teacher.  She had them copy off the blackboard, something about daffodils, and it said something about "they're little petticoats."  I went berserk.  This was someone teaching MY CHILD the difference between the 3 "there, their, they're" words. 

Big and burly and ever so sweet and patriotic and humble.  God bless America and my singing cowboys.

Girlie boy-men not so much.

back when I was in high school in the late 70s!  The first high school I went to was just like that.... there was a large snob/bully society  (the snobs were basically verbal bullies because they'd put down people that weren't in the  "clique", and I had some idiot teachers.  My algebra 2 teacher was so stupid that she would write a problem out on the board, stop, look at it and say  "oh that's not right" and then erase it, doing this 2-3 times per problem,... then wondered why no one had a clue what to do on tests.  

I was grateful when we moved to another town and the high school in the next town was much smaller.  The teachers cared about the students and teaching, and the students generally cared about each other.  There weren't snobs there because the area was economically depressed and no one had a lot of anything.  I was able to participate in a program with a local college where during my senior year I went to high school 1/2 day and college 1/2 day, so the 10 of us that did this (out of a graduating class of  99) graduated from high school with 30 hours of college credits completed.  We were also able to do this because the local college gave us discounts to participate in this program. 

When I've asked on classmates.com about some of the snob/ bullies from the 1st high school not a single one of them has had a great life.  One of the ones that was in the "it" girl group has been divorced 4 times now and is a heavy partier, and I've been told that she looks like crap from the years of partying.    One of the guys who was the most "it" for the males died from AIDS which he ended up getting after he moved to New York to get into acting, turned to a life of male prostitution and picked it up there.    The successful people are those who hung around with people like I did.  Out of the group I hung around with 1 is a pediatrician, another a dentist, another is an architect, another is a software engineer and every one of us has stayed in contact throughout the years and get together occasionally. 

First of all, let me explain that I work not from dictation but a handwritten template that I fill in--typewritten "transcription" in turn.   The physician fills out the form while in the treatment room, circles correct choice from a list, etc.; sometimes the nurse does this.  I've been instructed for the third time to "type as written" when I've questioned meds or inconsistencies.  This goes against my training and principles (if that sounds sanctimonious, so be it)--when I can't reference things. I've had as much as half with questions and blanks where information was simply skipped. I don't have the patient charts to consult--just a stack of forms.  I have respect for the doctor professionally; her patients, many of whom have been coming to her for years, seem to love her.  Never had this experience before, either with transcription or as a secretary.  Most of the time my supervisors have been happy that I caught errors.  Please let me say these aren't nitpicky things--it is misspelled drugs like Demedex rather than Demadex!

The last time I said I wouldn't put my initials on the reports I questioned and was told I must put my initials "to tell who to return work to," even though I'm the only one doing transcription.  Furthermore, the office manager told me the doctor takes ultimate responsibility because it's her signature on the notes.  I'm going to comply while looking for other work, because this is one of many things we just don't see eye-to-eye on!  What do you all think?  How to deal with this?  TIA!

Good luck wherever you have gone.