The MT never gets blamed unless the MT is just makes something up sm

just to put something on the page.  If you cannot get what the doc is saying, send it for QA to get.  Maybe they will have some good hints, and samples for you to review, so you can understand this dictator.

• Guess what this s/l turned out to be. - ESL fun
  • ESL's a liability? - blahblahblahblahblah
    • If you can't get it, leave a blank. You always have that option. sm - It is up to us to understand it
      • I couldn't disagree more..sm - JLH
        • Amen to that! - clhmt
      • It is NOT Oriental, no such nationality. It is of Asian descent. - CatNap
        • May NOMB but, - l
          • BTW, I was born in the USA..nm - l
        • From dictionary - sm
          • From another dictionary - clhmt
            • But of course, only in North America for the most part. - sm
              • I wasn't aware Asian people were sensitive - I'm the OP, and
              • PS: See article - AND the name of the guy who wrote it! - sm
        • No one mentioned either oriental or Asian. - ???
          • Actually, OP did say probably oriental - (nm)
          • oriental ESL said when I slowed him way down . . . " - Get Outside
            • oops! Part of my subject line did not copy. Should read: - Get Outside
    • Of Course Not, The MT Would Get Blamed... - Amanda
      • Only if you guess at it, which is what too many MTs do. - nm
        • guessing - 12ste
      • The MT never gets blamed unless the MT is just makes something up sm - Utter nonsense
        • With our QA department, blanks count against us..sm - JLH
        • Our QA department is much too busy - Original Poster

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I used to work for a local service in a major metropolitan area that paid more than the national average.  I sat pretty comfy like.  Once the industry went national, then ALL companies became national, even the little local joints, unless they refuse to use far away people for some reason.  Anyway, she VERY relucantly had to reduce her pay offers in order to stay competitive with the rest of the nation.  If she didn't, she'd lose all her accounts to the cheaper places.  As it happened, she did lose her one huge account to a cheaper place, and things were never the same for her, OR for me.  I believe that's why we're making the same or less than we made 15 years ago. 

1/cent for no reason....I'm telling you the CHECK is fulfilling

some legal purpose.  Please run this past an attorney again.

I will try to call Drew, Eckl et all on Monday myself too.

You can use Ctrl + Shift + hyphen and Ctrl + Shift + Space for the hard hyphen and hard space.  If your work platform has overwritten these Word settings you can reassign keys for them.  Both commands worked for me in the beginning but IS did some sort of upgrade on my work computer which disabled my hard hyphen (Ctrl + Shift + hyphen).  I tried reassigning it back but no go, so I reassigned Ctrl + H.  Works like a charm plus saves me from hitting the extra key.  I know you can ESP words with hard hyphens.  I don't remember if I tried with the hard space or not (oldtimers!!). I'll have to try tomorrow at work because my interest has been piqued.  For the hyphen, I highlight the words with the hard hyphen, hit Crtl + Ctrl for the ESP box to come up, and then give it a short.  I'm going to try this with the hard space tomorrow to see if it works. 

OS = offshore

You know, people........ it just makes me want to cry out loud!  I am getting more angry as we speak.. you have all heard from me before about this business, but I'm going to be VERY frank and spill my guts right here in front of you and the whole MT world, hoping that someone who is in the right position will read it and HAVE THE GUTS to make a stance. (Can you say "hospital board of directors?") This is something that AAMT (or whatever the daylights they are now) should be doing for us. It's about time these "high and mighty" doctors listen up!

We are a family of hard-working people who practically have to become doctors just to transcribe these stinking reports.  I don't know about all of you, but I DON'T MAKE A DOCTORS' SALARY! I truly believe that all of you as well as myself try every day like the devil to do the very best we can to participate in patient care and earn a decent living, but as I have said a million times if not more, it is nearly IMPOSSIBLE and at this time, there ARE NO ANSWERS TO ALL THIS CHAOS.... 

Actually, I take that back... there are a couple answers..We are all reprimanded for the incompetence of the doctors.  THEY ARE NOT GODS as they would like to believe they are. They put on and take off their pants just like we do and when the he _ _ are they going to take some responsibility?  I, for one, am NOT afraid of them and if I had the chance to do it over again working "in-house", I would have the guts to tell them how bad they are right down to their burping, farting, yawning, chewing, mumbling, whispering, non-English speaking two-sided faces.  Let us not forget the 50 second operative note that should have been dictated clearly in 10 minutes.  Yes, they're busy, but the bottom line on this issue is that they don't want to do a surgery and BE TOLD to go and tell someone about it, so they dictate like their hair is on FIRE. IT JUST MAKES ME SICK.  It's part of THEIR JOB.  If they don't do a good job, how the sh _ _ do they expect us to do a good job!

Let us not forget QA.... We are punished and yelled at for leaving blanks........DUH! and I just hate the thought of a QA person (whose quality of work I don't even know), making corrections to my work - and don't tell me that at times, they are guessing... AND WHOSE NAME IS ON THE REPORT - OURS !!!!!!!!!!  In the end, if there was a lawsuit, we'd most likely be the ones to have to answer to THEIR blunders.  I would rather make my own mistakes and have to answer for them than have one or two opinionated QA people telling me what I did wrong... one telling you one way to do something and another telling you a different way.  I say, "leave the stinking blanks and let these JERKS" remember whose country they are living in.

BOTTOM LINE.......... Make the doctors more responsible... after all, they want to get paid and couldn't without us.  I say, "stand up and be heard", tell them to get with the program and most of all, SPEAK DISTINCT AND PROPER ENGLISH!!  THIS IS AMERICA, NOT PAKISTAN.

Please don't get me wrong.  I love what I do and for the right dictating physician (s), it is a gratifying experience.  Something has GOT to change. Thanks for listening... we're all in it together.  We need some mercy...   it's a thankless job  and   !

Or close to $300 per week on each MT?

No wonder I was broke when working for MTSOs.  Glad someone is happy.

I have heard the following soooo many times, and I have been very guilty of this in the past myself, namely:

Fear of booting out one client and going after new clients who are professional - ones who are amenable to actually working with an MTSO/IC as a partnership so to speak, realizing that it takes the individual dictator AND the MT to produce an accurate report, and both will mutually benefit in ways too numerous to count?

Why is it that some ICs will continue to work with a client that they know is a gigantic pain in the tush and will never give them heave-ho, no matter how how bad they become and how good the IC is and no matter how many hoops she jumps through versus just going out and getting a new account?

I have had this fear myself, but thankfully, my self-confidence has taken over this fear and my common sense has directed me in the right path, and do not think I'm slamming anyone because I'm not.  I'd just like to know.  What makes us - ICs - tick in this regard?

All replies welcome............................