Or when the Irish came over a century ago...
Posted By: tnmt on 2008-01-16
In Reply to: who's taking over? - no one in particular
And the Italians and the Chinese and the Jews fleeing Europe....
There have always been immigrants and unfortunately it always seems that the "previous" group wants to look down on them. Only ones that DIDN'T get to do that were the Native Americans, and if anybody's entitled to do it, I agree they are.
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Welcome to this century.
There are computer programs where the information is plugged in at the time of the office visit by the tech/medical assistant that sees the patient into the exam room. The doc writes on a piece of paper what the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment plan consists of, and then the program spits a reported out all on its own. I had a doc tell me that I'd be out of a job fairly soon due to these types of programs. Of course I've done nothing but flourish, but I must admit his reports do not look too shabby. It looks as if an actual Transcriptionist took the time to do it. Now how much these programs cost is another thing and I'm not sure every doc could afford it. What is the difference between allowing someone to "glean" at a progress note and come up with a report than to have reports going out using VR. Not all VR reports are "edited". Some go out just the way they are and are never looked at again. The Joint Commission will never know the difference between a dictated report or one that was "gleaned" from a progress note. They do not have access to the dictation. We had just quit using tapes about five years ago at the hospital I worked at. We also were never required to put the "job #" on the report once we went digital. They were more worried about the context getting out in a timely manner. The hospital I worked for also resorted to faxing all reports to the referring doctor. I was against it as I felt the USPS was doing a fine job but to stay with the trend, the reports were faxed to the offices. Too bad because most of the time the fax machines were busy and the report would get set aside to fax at a later date and probably never got faxed ever. I have also been asked to "read" a preliminary report handwritten by an interpreting physician to a physician that was seeing the patient in the office at that given moment. I could have misread a value or word, but it flew. When they want the results, they want the results. I think the administrators tend to turn a "blind eye" to these kinds of things because once you lose your referring physician then you no longer have oupatient/inpatient "customers". No "customers" equals no money. 
Irish
I had a doc from Ireland that was very hard to understand. I also think Brittish is harder to understand than some others. Glad someone else feels that way!!
Try Irish dance!
My 16-year-old daughter got involved a couple of years ago, and it's wonderful! I had to sit through all the classes as I'm our area coordinator, so I decided to join the adult classes. It's a very social dance form, especially with adults who do a lot of what is called ceili dancing, which essentially dancing with a group of people. In Ireland, it's not unusual for 4 to 100 people to get together than do progressive dancing (stopping for a pint of Guinness as needed) for hours on end.
To look for a school in your area, go to http://www.geocities.com/aer_mcr/irdance/irteach.html
Whatever class you take, YOU GO, GIRL!
It would be nice to not have them, but in the 21st century you
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Irish dance competition.
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And the Edge is my favorite, Irish man + (nm)
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Advance to the 21st Century and get a new job
In the 21st century most transcription is
done digitally. What are you so upset about? You don't type from a hard copy of a patient's record do you? If so, you are a perfect example of why they should go to EMR. Bad move becoming an MT - especially at your age.
Hi, Irish. Don't feel bad about asking questions and needing help, EVER!
That's what this board is for. Well, that's what most of us believe. Some us like to bash people and argue and just be plain mean, but ignore them.
SM stands for "see message."
NM stands for "no message."
Do you have an abbreviation expander? If not, I would suggest PC Shorthand. In my opinion it's the easiest to learn and use and it's affordable. If you choose or already use PC Shorthand, then I would follow the Mary Morken link that someone posted below and download her abbreviation and Expander list as it is formatted for PC ShortHand and it would be a great starting point for a new MT. I would take the time to print out her list as well so you can read over the abbreviations and expansions and become familiar with what you're using. Then start adding your own abbreviations to the list.
Hi, Irish. FWIW, I use my numbers keys for all SM
they're worth--just the opposite of what you're asking, but my experience is that I need more keys on my keyboard, not fewer. 2dg is 2nd digit and 2dgg second digit.
I don't have IT, but I'm sure it's very flexible. For me, j = has and h = had, e = was and c = are, d = and, k = she, u = her, and so on. I have literally hundreds of sentences compacted to their initial letters using them, including practically every variation that can be produced of them, as well as practically every phrase that is contained in them (please feel free to, please do not hesitate, call me with any, me with any questions, to call me if, contact me should you, and on and on. To differentiate those that use the same letters I pick a key word in the phrase and use 2 letters from it -- contact is cn and call is cl. With this system, virtually no memorization is needed. A D added to a letter designating a verb makes the phrase past tense. And sooo oooonnnn!
BTW, with editing, being able to drop in little 2- and 3-word correction phrases, as well single words of course, becomes the name of the game.
Not exactly what you asked for, but I hope it sparks some thought on how you want to build your systems. As others already said, various systems for various situations are required. For instance, in my system for caps, I actually try to avoid using the caps key and hpi is HPI, hpii is history of present illness, and hpizz is History of Present Illness.
It's fun figuring out what floats your particular boat...
Welcome to the 21st century and good luck
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In this expensive 21st Century, even a rank beginner deserves
even 12-15 cpl will be below minimum wage, if the current inflationary trends continue.
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