Right on, JMO. Also, when I have the ability to choose dictations SM

• Refusal to do certain doctors... - SCMT
  • On my acct are 2 drs. that all know are horrible. - We are told SM
  • I have an idea. Let the MTSO do impossible - Dr. She is getting the most money having SM
  • First rule of being an MT - thou shalt not cherrypick
    • MY first rule, before being MT. is I have to - support my famly and cant to it with bad dr. nm
    • Let the next MT refuse him also. Be open bout - not wanting to do him, not sneaky. SM
      • They're not going to give up a lucrative account - because it has bad doctors
        • Thankfully for me, this has not been my - experience. If it were, would have to SM
        • It would be one thing is MT was getting 15+ cpl - to do garbage but at 9cpl, not worth it. nm
          • I don't understand this attitude. At other - Just My Opinion
  • Never actually refused to do one doctor out of many, SM - MissIndigo
  • I have worked with people who have requested - kt
    • Maybe if we all refused to do cruddy Dr, they - would be forced to learn to dictate better. nm
      • knee-slappin' LOL (nm) - IGETIT
    • If you priority is to make less $ in order to learn - a hard Doc, good for you. Gve me the $$. nm
  • Unless you have a job where you can pick - Just My Opinion
    • Right on, JMO. Also, when I have the ability to choose dictations SM - MissIndigo
    • Have asked to be taken off 3 accts cause cant - make money. Was never a problem. nm
    • MTSO in this for the $. So am I. If I cant make $ - I might as well do this for free. nm
      • AMEN to this! nm - nm
  • Would MTSO rather keep good MT who knows - the ropes, can do the work, except for 1 SM
    • put it this way - it's you or the account. NM - IGETIT
      • Not good ones and so far I am still employed - same company. nm
        • if you were MTSO, would you give up - igetit
          • The person MTSO pays is the person who - keeps her in business. nm
            • and they get 500+ applications per job ad. - jusme
    • Yep, a good MTSO will get rid of the crappy doctor, not the good MT...sm - Resignation Ready
      • You are so right - Cindy

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to download twice and I would make sure I set that up.  Download to the file that will be coming to you.  Then use the backup download to a file that is totally separate.  I call it backupvoicefiles.  I have found files in the backupvoicefiles that for some reason didn't come to me in the regular file. They would have been lost if I didn't know to check this. Phillips has no explanation for why this happens. I have been most happy with the Phillips equipment especially since I figured this part out. When the girls are looking for work that he claims that dictates and I have not transcribed, I know the approximate numbers to check and have them go into the backupvoicefile folder and check to see if it is there.

Good luck.  My doctors love the Phillips better than they did the Olympus and much fewer problems.

please make sure that Animal Control did not list this as an "incident" so that it may not be used against your dog in the future, even if no charges were filed.  A lot of states have a strict "no bite or 3 bite" policy and would not want this to count against your dog later in life.  My brother-in-law's dog bit a child when it got tangled up in her bicycle wheels (granted she should not have been that close to the child in the first place), so we've learned to be very careful about our animals. 

She was put under anesthesia to have a large mass removed from her chest.  What I thought might be a malignant lump turned out to be lipoma.  She had hip dysplasia all her life and was arthritic but never thought she would lose use of hind legs.  Surgery was today.  Picked her up at 5:00 and now, 4 hours later, I am truly concerned.  She is a weinaraner.  I am to give her 10 mg of prednisone daily.

Geesh, I wondered why the vet didn't bring the dog with her when she talked to me.  And when we discussed surgery, I mentioend that anesthesia was hard on senior dogs (it was hard on me and I am healthy adult). 

Just wondering here if she will recover.  Maybe smeone here knows something about this.  Thank you

Re:  Stat dictations.  Does anyone out there charge extra for STAT dictations that come in during the day so that we have to put aside what we are working on and type a STAT letter/document and send in?  This sort of thing can keep one behind in Turn Around Time if it happens on a regular basis.  If anyone charges extra for STAT dictations coming in, what would be a good fee to charge for these besides the line count?

Ginny

If you key in alt-ctrl-Z while the first one is loading, it will prevent the other two from downloading from the queue.  When you are ready to submit and do another file, you will need to key in that sequence again to allow the next one to come in.

Anyone know where I can find a few sample dictations, like WAV files, on the internet, along with the completed typed reports.  Need to test job applicants.  Happy Holidays!

I thought after seeing on television so much could get away from this but just had a dictator say, "drowsy and unable to, you know, respond to questions appropriately."

I thought the you know, you know, you know would not come through on here.

,,

I know there are some who are really great and are careful or even just considerate.  But I think for the most part they just think it's a pain to do and want to rush through it and get it done... let the lowly MT deal with whatever garbage comes out the other end.  Maybe I'm a bit bitter, but at this point that's how it feels.

Disclaimer: No need to critique spelling, grammar, or punctuation within my posting... this isn't work, it's a message board.

:I

Any info on Precyse Solutions...Silent Type....Breitner ????

Need to give decisions by Friday...help!

And empty, not-yet-used concentration camps do not physically exist in the USA, yes?  And your president has told no lies in 6 years, yes? 

SHEEP I tell you...........BAAAAAAAA.......

Hi, MT's!

I'm trying to make a decision about my job, and thought maybe your input would help me put it into perspective.   I'm thinking about changing my MT job.  I have gone over a long list of the pros & cons, and still am up in the air about it, and hope to make the most informed decision possible.  Here's the situation:

I have transcribed since 1975.  I have been at my current job for roughly 29 years.  Still, I am a long, long way from retirement, if ever.  Most likely the earliest that could happen is 2025, but I'll believe it when and if it happens!   I have always worked in-house, initially for services, then for a hospital, and for the last 29 I've been at a multispecialty clinic.  20 or more years ago or more, it was a decent place to work, but that has all changed and now it's very stressful.  We get blamed for every mistake the doctors make, management communicates with us very little, and what they pay us has not even begun to keep up with the cost of living.   Still, on the plus side, my commute isn't too bad, I enjoy the variety of specialties to type, and I have the most seniority.  Although our pay isn't so great, we do have paid time off and fairly decent healthcare, though it must be at our own clinic.  We have a 401K retirement savings account through work.  Our pay is by the hour, with no overtime offered, so we have no opportunities to increase our earnings.  I've been saving to buy a condo, but at this rate it's always out of reach.

I have had my eye on a national service lately that seems to be much better than most of what you see offering jobs out there.  I have a couple friends who work at home for this service, and they recommend it very highly.  The service pays on production, and when I tally my daily work that I'm currently doing and convert it to the service's way of paying the best I can, it at least SEEMS like I could make a lot more money.  The service also has a 401K, health insurance, and paid time off.  The hours are very flexible, which for me is a huge plus.  As long as you do a set minimum amount of lines per pay period, it's all good as far as they're concerned.

Lately I've been so stressed and unhappy in my current job situation that I'm almost ready to take a cut in pay, if that's what it takes, to be able to work at home, where I can control my environment (heat, air-conditioning, light brightness, office ergonomics, etc.)  Working at home for a national would also free me up to be able to move to a less expensive area.  That would help if the pay WAS less, but if the pay was equal to or more than I'm making now, then I could be socking a lot more of it away towards a down payment on a first home.  And if I finally did get to buy that home, being able to take short, "meaningful" breaks from typing (instead of pigging out at the candy-machine) would make it possible to take care of that home, as well. 

As it stands now, my list of "pros" for taking the at-home job is quite a bit longer than the "cons".  And just the opposite for my current job.  My biggest concern is the longevity of either position.  I am reasonably sure that bit by bit, MT work in the US is going to diminish.  The question is, which one is likely to fold first?  Our clinic already sends extra work out to a service, rather than pay us overtime to do it.  Over the years our MT Dept. has shrunk considerably.  The more it shrinks, the more work gets sent out.  Although we are told otherwise, my gut feeling tells me that it will continue in this manner until the department is eventually closed, and all the work gets sent out.

But, when I read all the message boards here, and people working for MT services talk about how much of their company's work is being sent to India, or being partially transcribed with VR, I have to wonder how much longer "live" MTs are going to be around in the service venue, as well.  And I don't think being an Editor wouldn't be an option for me, either.  Not only would I be bored to tears, but instead of paying more than MT, which it should be, it appears to pay quite a bit less. 

So, if you knew you weren't going to be retiring in the next 5-10 years, and you wanted to continue being an MT (it's the only thing I know how to do), do you think there is more security in staying with a long-term employer that not only very callous towards its employees, but is slowly but surely whittling away at their transcription department?  Or would you take the "unknown road", and go with what is currently a very viable and successful national company that would let you work at home, but may already be offshoring extra work?  (I haven't been able to find out if they actually do or not.)  I don't relish the idea of having to "start over" as a new employee, but the idea of having less stress and more freedom also appeals to me quite a bit. 

If you were in my shoes, how would you base your decision? 

Thanks in advance for any ideas you can throw my way!

Job A at 9.5 cpl but awful dictators, bad sound quality, speed talkers, cell talkers, ESLs about 90% of the time, blanks in 50% of reports. 

Company B:  7.75 cpl easy, long dictations, averaging 9 minutes, 90% English speaking, coherent, slow, pronouncing words, no blanks left all day.

I work at home full-time as an Editor making $15 an hour.  I've been offered a position as a pathology Transcriptionist working in the office for a local pathology group.  They've offered me $16 per hour with a review in 90 days and a raise to $17 at that time.  It's about a 30 minute commute one way to the office.

Which would you choose?