Planning, organization, schedules, determination, and
Posted By: Busy MT'ing on 2006-03-12
In Reply to: How many MTs feel like they have control of their lives? - me
making others be responsible for themselves and respectful of your time, effort, energy.
Taught the boys to do laundry, cook, do housework.
Taught family/friends to respect work/study schedules.
I don't feel the obligation to answer to anyone else anymore.
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I'll say this again, tears are NOT necessary. Determination is. As well as a sound intellect. sm
You CAN do it! Good luck.
Are you an MT or planning to be one?
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Planning to DIVE IN!
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Yes Fox is planning on broadcasting
From an article from our local news station:
"The broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and the cable networks Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC planned live coverage of the speech. "
schedules
We have to work a schedule every day because its patient care/coverage, but we do have flexibility because sometimes things do run out AND sometimes they get swamped and NEED our help! Wont they see that that wont work? I guess if people are sick or on vacation they will transcribe it themselves. LOL
Hope it works out for you all.
schedules
Yes, I realize the reason that MTs have to have set schedules for TAT, coverage, etc. I actually don't have a problem at all with a set schedule, but it is really frustrating when continuously (nearly every day), there is no work to do during your schedule. When I started with MQ, I gave them a schedule and had every intention of keeping to that schedule. Within the first week, I ran out of work and had to work at a different time to get my lines. That was nearly two years ago.
It's not the schedules, it's the PAY. That's sm
why they can't get help from US MTs. The nationals I have applied to are offering about 6-8 cpl for experienced MTs. Who can live on that. No wonder they can't get good experienced help.
No, it is the schedules
One thing works in relation to the other. I can tell you that each day I turn on my computer I have bleeding from the eyes because I cannot get people to work their schedules and they are NOT making .06/line either! It drives me crazy because they have a great situation with our company. The bigger companies have always had their problems in direct proportion to the way they mistreated their people and eventually it will come back to bite them, but somewhere in this equation our home grown MTs have to take responsibility for themselves and know what they are doing, do it in a timely fashion, and produce a good work product. If the clients are not happy .. it should be obvious that they will move on. No company should have to QA each sheet of paper that leaves their office, but many should!
pay schedules
Because based on my experience - they either have a tier structure based on production/experience/test scores or the rates are based on the particular account you work on and vary from account to account. I agree I'd like to see at least an average range given but it seems most don't.
Schedules
National companies are concerned with getting the work back to the hospital within turn around time. It usually does not matter to them who gets the work done. A company is not going to "save" work for a certain person's schedule. If you want more work, you may have to try working outside your schedule. This is just the way the game is played. Maybe it isn't fair but then you know how the say goes....life is not always fair.
schedules
Sounds like you are one of those people who wants a set schedule, regardless of when the work is there and evidently you are not willing to work "off schedule" - you are in the wrong field my friend, most MTs have to work whenever they are needed, not just when they want, the company I work for often asks for extra help, in return I ask for time off and have the pleasure of knowing I am not going to be scrutinized for it, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours - the MT business evidently is not what you expected???
schedules
Same here - and I work Tuesday-Saturday - but as an IC, if I want a weekend off, I just tell them I can't work. I have found a pattern though, at about noon on Friday everyone shuts down and then those of us who do work the weekend are flooded with work - wonder why the CO. hasn't figured it out and done something about it. We even get paid more to work on Saturday and Sunday - but go figure.
IC schedules
A lot of the companies allow for a 12 to 24 hour window to get your lines in. I guess that's where the flexibility comes into play. I picked my hours with my company and stick to them, but they do not require their IC's to do that. The companies are out there that aren't so rigid with the hours, you just have to find them. Good luck.
I'm planning on getting blue flu that week. nm
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I am planning to volunteer today.
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What are you planning to do with the psych degree?
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We are planning on going Aug 20 when the rates drop...lol
WOW - I have been checking out both Compass Cove and Caravelle.. I have a 3-1/2-year-old..So you liked Compass Cove the best, huh? Did they offer the full breakfast buffet? Were the rooms really clean and nice? I am going to check out their prices now....I love the beach...I have had such a hard year that I am looking SO forward to it...We are going to 6 days/5 nights.....Thanks for the info!
Go for it, I am planning to send out a brochure - sm
in my area shortly. Have my business cards designed, now working on my brochure, then just going to run 25 off at a time on my printer and send them out the the docs/specialities I am proficient which happens to be quite a few. So if 1-2 docs get back to me out of 100 I should be set. Tired of making 7-8 a line depending on the account I am working. If by any miracle I get too much work I guess I will just have to hire someone to help and work for me!
MT's choosing their schedules.
One of your complaints about being a supervisor is regarding people who give more than their fair share of time and those who are "just there when they want to be". I just want you to clarify. You see, when I hire on at a company, I tell them EXACTLY how many hours I will work. One of the main attractions of this job that companies always cockadoodle and cluck about is that you can name your hours. Flexible schedules, be with your kids, blah, blah, blah. Or you commit to a minimal line quota, and again, I tell them EXACTLY what line quota I can meet. I can tell you from past experience -- going on 20+ years now, same GREAT company for the last 5, that some other companies wait until after you've started with them, agreed to a schedule/quota plan, and then say, sorry, scrub your personal home plans, you see basically we lied and comitted contract fraud when we took this account on and promised them 2-hr turnaround when we are understaffed. But we have to lie, that's how we get accounts. A former supervisor for MQ actually told me this. She truly justified doing business this way. And yes, it was MQ. But neither of us work there any more, and I'm sure other companies do this as well. And I'm REALLY sure that makes it okay.
I don't think the MT should have to apologize for saying "No, I can't help you. I put in my time. Sorry. I have a spouse and children and other responsibilities." And you're right, they may be only there for pocket change, since that is what so many companies offer. Why kill themselves? Sorry, but the MT has the right to choose whether she wants 10 hours/week, 20 hrs/week, or 60 hrs/week. She takes the smaller check as a trade-off. So you see, there may be another perspective.
I'm rarely on here lately because of schedules ...
I work when I want to so stick it if you don't like it! Hahaha
work schedules
I just wanted to let you know that Spheris wants you to work your schedule, whether you have achieved your line count production "quota" for the day or not. If you are scheduled to work 8:00 to 4:00 and you achieve all your required lines for the day by 2:30 p.m., they still want you online until 4:00. It's something they enforce and regularly check up on.
Kids schedules
My 12-year-old daughter isn't as busy as some that I know. She has Girl Scouts every other Thursday, Student Council after school one day a week, and an after school bowling team (for her middle school) from 3:30-5:00 one day a week for the next eight weeks. She also wants to do Color Guard this year, but I'll have to see if that is going to be too much for her. She's a straight A+ student and I want to make sure she has enough time to do homework without feeling rushed.
Schedules are there for a reason
Say I'm scheduled to work a certain time slot. Say you feel entitled to work an extra 4 hours each day that laps into my time slot. Then I consistently run out of work and start doing what you're doing. Soon everyone is working weird hours and schedules mean nothing, and the supes can't adequately staff accounts because everyone is cherrypicking their hours. How is this fair to anyone?
work schedules
I worked in house 24/7/365 and we were called in on our days off and after hours. Middle of the night call ins were not unusual.
A new organization
would not be that hard at all to get going if you could round up a enough people to help get started. I think that is a fine idea.
New organization
I am not sure, but I was told there was another organization out there once upon a time and it folded because of the attendance in the AAMT. I was not part of AAMT during those founding years, so I am not really sure how it all came to be. But, an organization strictly for the American MTs is exactly what we need.
We also need an organization to
I don't think the CMT certification itself was a terrible idea. What IS a bad idea is paying fees to AHDI, the organization that SOLD OUT --that got everyone hooked on the CMT certification and then switched to a philosophy of support for offshoring by establishing foreign CMT certification sites as well as new certifications intended specifically for the people who are lined up around the world to do your job for a couple of rupees per line.
There are employers who don't care about credentials & those who do. If you think some kind of certification will help you, find a new organization. ACLS training will speak infinitely more about your ability to transcribe cardiology reports than the CMT certification exam. Go to eMedicine.com & sign on to their CME program. You can study cases & take tests & track your CME units on their website. There are plenty of organizations out there that are better known to the medical community than AHDI & will look AT LEAST as good on your resume. Be creative. We need to dissociate ourselves from AHDI. Let them become known as the Association of Healthcare Documents transcribed by Indians.
There is an organization...
for American MTs that somebody posted here before. I don't really know anything about it and so can't vouch for it, but it looks to be the only decent organized alternative to AHDI (formerly AAMT) available.
http://www.ataus.org
Certainly a better first step than wasting time thinking about an ad hoc strike/walkout, proposed by someone who *isn't even an MT,* for goodness' sake.
I am planning to give this company Manipha
Global some test files. From there I can verify who's telling the truth. The forum readers will definitely hear a feedback from me in a week or two.
Not always...not all companies are flexible with schedules!
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Schedules. Are you talking about *employees*...
on *schedules* ... or SE/IC's on *schedules*? Thanks.
Kids schedules outside of school....sm
It's amazing to me how many parents push their kids to the extreme with extracurricular activities. I saw a cousin this weekend and her 2nd grader is taking 4 dance lessons (4-1/2 hours a week), an acting class (1 hour) is in some special gifted program that meets 1 hour after school each week and is in the church kid's choir on Wednesdays. This means this 7-year-old has 7-1/2 hours of extracurricular activities scheduled.
I told her that my 6-year-old chooses 1 activity to participate in outside of church kids choir (meets on Sunday) and that's all she does.
What about your kids if you have them? If you have your child scheduled in a lot of things aren't you worried that they will burn out? I've recently read stories that a lot of kids that are overscheduled are getting depressed and I can see why.
New AAMT organization
Honestly, I would have to sit and think long and hard about what I would want to see. I can tell you that I think the first thing would be to change the BOS. It is too restricting, and should not be considered a "bible" of sorts, because all companies are different, and no all use the BOS.
Secondly, tighter control should be maintained over local and state chapters, as they run by a few "click" members and new blood is not appreciated or allowed in other than just the audience.
Those are just 2, I could go on and on and on... Hey, if you have any ideas of how reorganization can be done, I am there 100%. Feel free to e-mail me. I heard at one time there was another organization, but it never survived.
That is qhy I quit their organization after
This whole organization is a crock
Someone has to pay for all their travel, first class all the way.
I am still shaking my head i amazement about the one biggie in the organization who got his CMT with only 1 year of at home training doing office notes - no hospital experience, etc. This shows how truly worthless the whole certification process is. Credentialing should reflect adequate training in all areas of the profession, and it certainly degrades the title if someone was able to get certified by doing doctor office/clinic notes.
I love this idea! I'm in the planning stages of a website... SM
and would love to sell this T-shirts on my website at some point in the future.
I have a friend who is in medical billing, got her coding certification, but can't get a job without actual work experience as a coder. So we've brainstormed and thought we might go into business together. Create a company that offers medical billing and medical transcription and eventually coding services to private practices, hospitals, etc.
I'm also toying with the idea of incorporating some sort of online MT mentoring/education program into the new business venture.
But like I said we are in the planning and brainstorming stages and when I read about this T-shirt idea, I thought it would be a fabulous addition to the website. Because one thing is very certain our business venture will stand firmly against offshoring.
Are you planning to move the external drive to the new computer?
If so, save whatever data you want to move on the external hard drive (you should already know what the letter drive is for that one). Connect it to the new computer. Easy enough.
Don't forget the Sun-Thur/Tues-Sat only schedules as well! sm
I wrote a post about this a while back and was surprised by the reaction I received.
Every decent company seems to have gotten into a new trend of giving MTs two options only, give up every Saturday for the rest of your life or every Sunday, period. All I heard was "well this is 24/7 business." Well so is law enforcement, nursing, and even being a clerk at the nearest 7/11. I don't know any cops, nurses, or clerks that have such limited options that require never having a weekend off again...ever! Even doctors get an occasional weekend off! I refuse, but that's just me. :)
Around the Atlanta area there's an organization ....sm
called BuyOwner and you pay a flat fee for whatever services you want, and it's a lot cheaper than using a full-fledged agent. The people who live across the road from me got a contract on their house within 3 days of listing with them and I've known others with similar results.
The first thing you need to do is make sure you have your expectations realistic. Research what similar homes are selling for in your area. Clean up and declutter as much as possible. Get those closets pretty empty to make them appear to have more space - same for all rooms in the house. If the rooms haven't been painted in a while spring for some fresh paint - be sure to choose neutral colors like white or off-white. Clean the carpet. Keep the yard trim and put in fresh flowers. Keep some of the air freshners that send out a scent every few minutes going through the house to keep it fresh smelling. Go ahead and on the for sale sign in the yard list the price - Good Morning America's report last week said this helps a lot as it lets people know right off hand if it's priced in the budget they're looking at. Doing so will also keep folks from swiping fliers you may set out because they're interested in finding out the price.
As far as realtors go, ask for recommendations from friends and neighbors who have used one. Let the realtors know that you expect them to aggressively push your home sale, i.e. talk it up with other realtors, put signs up everyone they can, etc. Ask them what their plan is for selling your home. Make sure pictures taken of your house for show on the internet show the best angle possible of rooms - 70% of people now look on-line before going to see homes so you want your home to catch their attention.
As far as the realtor that posted below to always use a realtor - I say that if you find one you're comfortable with then sign up. Definitely don't do just the "FSBO sign" in the yard and ad in the newspaper if you're serious about selling, but there are ways to get the word out without paying the high commissions that are worth a try. Signing with an agent doesn't guarantee you'll sell the home quickly.
Good luck out there!
Doesn't surprise me, that organization is as (sm)
shifty as they come. A coupla' broads got VERY rich by selling the rest of us down the river.
Evil, deceiptful organization! nm
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HIPAA isn't a person or organization
HIPAA can't step up to any plate, because it's not a person or organization. It's just a law.
Perfectly rotten organization...sm
...that has prostituted themselves to the MTSOs, presiding over and encouraging the loss of jobs overseas using our dues to fund their trips and perks.
It's particularly ironic, in this setting, that the name of this pathetic organization mentions "document integrity", when their position regarding offshore transcription is the very antithesis of promoting integrity in American health documentation.
...and as for the Book of Style, words fail me.
AAMT/AHDI is an organization that should be
AAMT/AHDI is the the same organization, and it -
has played the largest part in lowering MT standards and MT pay. They claim it's been 'raised' by their attempts at standardizing all MT work, and by offering bogus 'CMT' credentials, but all it's done is backfire for the American MT. We paid our US Dollars for these credentials, (at a higher rate than the Indians, I might add). AAMT/AHDI's power grew stronger as the duped more and more medical establishments to do things their way, due to the cut rates they were getting from national MTSO's who were in bed with AAMT/AHDI, and sending more and more of their work to India. That in turn has decimated American MT wages. I know of few (if ANY) other companies, other than those who are facing bankruptcy, that are paying workers less and less each year. The MT business is alive, well and growing, but each year its workers see less and less in the way of compensation for a job well done. It can't go on forever. Eventually they're going to hit the zero-point. Then what? Maybe we'll pay THEM for the 'privilege of doing MT work?
It's imperative that MTs start getting in touch with each other. Their co-workers, MTs they meet online, MTs who work at other companies. It's time to start comparing notes, and start coming up with a plan. Regardless of whether it's a walkout, a sickout, a letter-writing or phone campaign, posters, flyers, radio time, or an ad in the newspaper, the more people that contribute, even a tiny contribution in the way of time, skill, or just their own voice, the better our chances are of still turning this thing around before we all become extinct.
Regarding a legal board, we are not planning to add any new boards. We feel that there are plenty of
boards for various topics of discussion. There also will not be a MQ board set up. Posters may post on the Main board or Company board about companies.
Its all a matter of organization and using your time wisely! I have
3 kids that are pretty wild. I have tried babysitters and they only last a day with my kids, but I am still able to put in a 40 hour week, clean houses for extra cash, do all meals, take care of the house, laundry, etc.
I have a binder with chore lists, schedules, meal menus, etc. It helps a lot.
Is there an organization (informal, not like AAMT) for radiology MTs?
Just wondering....I think it would be nice to be able to communicate with other rad MTs.
Medical Transcription Service Organization nm
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The ADHI is a SCAM organization. Don't give them
your hard-earned money, ESPECIALLY when the 'renewal' apears to be premature. $100 is far too much to spend for this worthless 'credential'.
It's what you can do ON THE JOB that matters in the end, not 3 letters after your name.
This group's sole purpose for existing (besides a few key execs striking it rich) has been to close down what used to be a good American white-collar, middle-class job, and send it all to India. And you just KNOW they're getting their palms greased by India to make this happen.
Ask them this: If they're set getting everyone 'certified', then shouldn't what you pay for that so-called 'certification' be in direct proportion to what it does for you? Or where most of the work is going these days? The Indians get a discounted rate for their CMT's and RMT's. If you're determined to continue your certification, tell them you want the same deal they're getting in India (and Philippines).
How are you planning to deal with the oncoming high winter heating bills?
I'll be bumping the thermostat back another degree or 2, down to whatever leveI I can not be cold at. Otherwise there will be less "fun" money spent if it has to go to the oil companies!
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