PUSH those MTs!
Posted By: tiredof it on 2008-03-08
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Out of the blue I got a call from one of the bigger MT companies, asking if I would be interested in a supervisory position. The recruiter and I chatted for quite a while and she said she would like to forward my resume to the higher ups. The higher up that called me appeared to be a young recent business school graduate who was probably busy having his shoes shined as we spoke. He immediately jumped on the negative bandwagon and let me know that they needed someone who was going to make those MTs toe the line and get their production up (clearly not anyone like me who might have some ideas about how to get production up without threatening and intimidating the MTs). They clearly have all gone down this rediculous path... and think most MTs are just trying to get away with something and don't want to work. Not very rational thinking on their part. MTs want to work. They just want to get paid for it. I'm so sick of it. I see it everywhere. Other professions do not work like this, getting paid only for production. Truth is it just doesn't make any sense and for the life of me I can't figure out how any of them can tell themselves they are making an honest living and claiming to manage something they don't have a clue about. Why the heck doesn't someone come up with some ideas about what will actually work. This work is not going away no matter what they say. I don't see much progress in speech recognition and the send to India thing isn't working either. They need us, they just don't seem to know it yet. I'm not a work horse for corporate profits and silly barely out of high hot shot managers who think they know what they are doing. Its just all getting so old.
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I don't think you should push your luck!
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I feel for you - I am too! I don't like to push my views on others
and to each his own, but I certainly wouldn't complain if I never had to touch a piece of bacon (ugh!) or raw meat again. I'm married to a meat lover.
Seriously. Advice to push his buttons was way out
of line - very dangerous - you meant well, and it may have worked for you, but that was way out of line. You have no idea of the gravity of this woman's situation, what edge this guy is at, and easily she could be killed - be logical, not emotional.
You have to push the transcribe button.
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Maybe it's time to push for legislation to make
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I didn't push hard with my Belkin, but
I hated how big it was and how my body didn't like it so well. I recently made the switch to the Kinesis Advantage from my Belkin, and I really, really like the Kinesis. It's so much smaller, the keys are really light to the touch, and I can set it in my lap, which I prefer to the desk. I would recommend the investment for the Kinesis if you can. Besides the thumb keys being the greatest invention ever, the number split is at 5 and 6 like on the Belkin. If you look for a reburbished Kinesis Advantage, it will save $60. It has the same warranty as the brand new one. Mine is a refurb, but it's good as new.
WHAT? Does ex-text do that? These companies push so hard for VR, there has to....
be a great advantage to them. I hear of girls doing 3000 to 4000 lines a day but have never talked personall to one. I couldn't , too much editing of sentences left out, doctors who have the habit of changing commplete sentences, sending you back up a report to add this this and that. Geez, that is not counting the a, the changing from the to that, a to an, on and on ad nauseum.
Does BOS 3 now not push a dash between things like 3-cm incision or
what is the rule for this. I dont have BOS 3 but I do have BOS2.
They dont need to cheat now since they have lowered all the lines pay and will probably push like
crazy now to get everything they can on ASR.
Gatorade ... push it. He is dehydrated maybe with that weight loss.
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My office did not allow feedback. They just wanted us to push the numbers. They just did not care.
They don't care if you get it or not as long as it is fixed by QA.
EMR is part of a big government push for decreasing errors in healthcare..sm
the newer generation of doctors is very comfortable with point and click. They do their banking by internet, etc. As the older docs retire, there will be less and less actual dictation. Some fields don't transfer readily to EMR, for example, the ER doesn't like it because you "can't tell the story" with a point and click. Another big advantage of the EMR is you can search the data. When Celebrex and other Cox-2 inihibitors were pulled off the market, all the EMR docs had to do was search the records for a match and they could then call all patients on these drugs to get them in and explain what was going on. They also will check for drug reactions within prescriptions, etc. That's why the government is pushing for EMR. Not to mention it will help build that insurance data base...I'm sure their lobbyists are pushing hard for that too.
If is difficult to work in a recliner and push a foot pedal. It can
be done but creates a strain on your feet/ankles and slows you down. I work on a picnic table under an awning when the weather is nice, but I'm not able to work as well as I do at my desk because I'm not able to have a keyboard tray and working with my keyboard on the table makes it too high. I've even tried work in bed using a tray across my lap, but then again you have the problem with pushing the foot pedal. You could use the keyboard for your function keys but it would really slow you down.
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