Surgery and Op notes here. Great moneymakers, too, if you can get them! Despise psych. nm

• Specialty - Stacy
  • Ortho is finite and fun, ETC is interesting, Ophtho is awful! If you like Surg... - Anon
    • Thanks - Stacy
  • Love cardiology, hate podiatry. Hate discharges, but - you need to do a zillion in order to learn. nm
    • oh.despise DPM also!!!worst of all.nm - me2
  • Specialties - Tonja
    • Sad - Stacy
      • Oncology - Tonja
        • Interesting - Stacy
  • Family Practice, Internal Med - omt
  • Surgery and Op notes here. Great moneymakers, too, if you can get them! Despise psych. nm - passing thru
    • I ditto everything Stacy said. nm - iheartjackbauer
  • I absolutely love pediatrics....but then - I have 5 kids!
  • Love psych notes. HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, - wannie
    • I love psych too, but getting paid very much for them is another story (nm) - Lovepsych2
      • Psych - Stacy
  • I love psychiatric reports, really fascinating, always different. nm - R

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Clinic FP/GP/GYN notes drive me absolutely insane.  I'll never understand people can do that (transcribing and/or treating patients even!) day after day, year after year, decade after decade...   

Any of you who are making 17 dollars or more an hour in an 8 hour day at the line rates that are posted - and I have ever see posted is jobs that pay about 8 cents a line or less.  Please share with us your secrets.  A lot of us have been doing this for 15 years or more, and cannot do that in 8 hours.  I have a hard time believing it.  When someone says how much they make in an hour, or how many lines they do per day, it is the assumption that that is in an 8 hour period since that is what the general population works on a full time basis.  My point being, is that it is misleading to people saying that you can make 20.00 to 30.00 an hour at 8 cents (I am assuming 8 cents a line, maybe I am wrong) if you are working 10 hours or more a day.   If there is a way to do this please tell us the secrets, because seriously we  would truly like to know.  I would also like to know who pays 10 cents a line anymore.  How do you find them.  I cannot - I have searched and searched.  We need to all stick together and be honest, otherwise I say let them send it overseas.  There are kids in high school making more than some of us.    

I’d like to go back to medical secretary work.  I’ve had cortisone shots in my ECU tendon 3 or 4 times and was warned not to have too many or my tendon could rupture.  It’s been very weak for a year or so and my left wrist is smaller than my right wrist.  I can’t type at all with my left pinky so I think it’s ruptured.  I have Word auto correct and Instant Text set up so I very seldom type As, Qs, or Zs.  I haven’t had surgery because I have my own account, no subs, a DD in college to support, and no disability insurance and didn’t want to take time off work for surgery.  I do have medical insurance though my DH. 

I’m debating whether to get a job, save up sick time, and have the surgery while getting sick time pay or have the surgery first without any sick time pay.

I’ve done medical secretary work before.  I figured if I use Word there I can save their Auto Correct and transfer mine.  If they use EMR, I can make my own shorts to stay away from Q, S and Z.  I could only accept a job where I don’t type for more than an hour straight, which is what I do now.  Then I started worrying about what if I have to use someone else’s computer?  What if I unexpectedly have to type more than an hour?

I think I have cold feet about getting a job outside the home after over 7 years at home AND I’ve had cold feet about having surgery!  Can someone help me think this through logically?  I can’t think straight when my feet are cold.

Would anyone know where I can get an express scribe patch for windows vista.  Oh and FYI... anyone buying a new comp, get it built where you have the option to get XP... Vista is nothing but a HUGE compatability issue.

Thanks for your help!!

Not a fan of Inscribe (Emdat) either.  Love TransNet with IDX or ExText

try another speciality.   I think everyone has potential somewhere, somehow.  She just needs to find her "speciality" if you will.

Unless, she has been on other specialities and her QA score is still that low, then maybe she needs to find another career!

You have a tough job having to QA that - bless you!

There was one posted on mtjobs.com not too long ago.  I did a sample report for them but it was a little more time consuming than I was able to take on.  I honestly can't remember who it was but go back on that site and look back about two weeks.

Cindi

DSM III or DSM IV has all the diagnoses and criteria.

Here are the links from my favorite places. I also have a word list if you need it. Let me know.

http://www.appi.org/dsm.cfx

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11428699&dopt=Abstract

http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/pa/pa03/pa03pdf/0306C-SWS.pdf

http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/curriculum/juvenile/glossary.htm

http://psychclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu/mse.pdf

http://www1.umn.edu/mmpi/Reprints/The%20comparability%20of%20MMPI%20and%20MMPI-2%20scales%20and%20profiles.html

http://www.psychiatry.msu.edu/Clerkship/MentalStatusExam.pdf

http://www.unl.edu/buros/bimm/html/index12.html

http://www.pearsonassessments.com/tests/mmpi_2.htm

http://www.falseallegations.com/mmpi-bw.htm

http://www.brainsource.com/nptests.htm

http://neuro.psyc.memphis.edu/NeuroPsyc/np-dx-demen.htm

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/tests/newfy99.html

http://www.wright.edu/~robert.rando/Interviewing/Class2-05.htm

http://www.utah.edu/umed/courses/year3/psychiatry/psychaid.html

http://angelsghosts.com/state_of_fear.html

http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/assess/mse.htm

http://www.psychpage.com/objective/mmpi2_overview.htm

I have done psych work for over 5 years and it's not just every day words.  I use several web sources (as listed by Amy) and also a psych book.  My psychiatrists also have to report the patient's medical history, so you have to know that as well.  Not to mention, a lot of people have psychiatric problems because of medical conditions. 

Stedman's has a great book that has listings of all the psychiatric tests.  Because of reports going to the medical doctors and psych abbreviations not being common, everything has to be spelled out (at least with my docs).  A lot of the psychotropic drugs can also cause medical conditions, like lithium causing hypothyroidism, Mellaril causing heart problems, Zyprexa and Depakote causing metabolic disorders, etc. so there is a lot of medical going on.  I keep my regular Stedman's on hand, lab/path, cardio, endocrine, ortho (a lot of psych drugs cause imbalances causing falls, which in turn fractures).  I could keep going on, but I think you get the idea.

It is very interesting work, but can be a downer. Good luck!

The patient is tired of sitting on the couch with a potato. 

This was a number of years ago when the term couch potato was popular.  I can only guess the patient was referring to his significant other and the doctor did not understand the term. 

Katie,

Let me know how the job offer goes.  I am interested in hearing about your training.

Thanks,

Gina

Psych reports can differ in the amount of pages depending on the physician and what kind of report.  But go with you gut instinct as to whether this is the move for you or not.  It sounds like a good deal, but gas prices are still high though they are going down a little.