They are all correct style and grammar rules. More concerning are the gross HIPPA violations sm

• QA question ! - susieQ
  • Provide the service you are being paid to do... - Chief Editor
  • These are not petty! These are major sm - 30 year MTr
    • 2-5 years in acute care wouldn't solve this (sm) - Another QA member
      • you are correct. I should have said sm - 30 year MTr
  • I do QA also and agree with that QA - she is helping you really. nm - hvlmt
  • These are basics. All of you should know - QA specialist
  • I totally can't believe that after 15 years - QA99
  • Listen to your QA - you might be up for a review?
  • Sounds like she is giving you - excellent feedback and you
    • not true. Crux is, she is being treated differently than others - in her ofice.
      • It will make her a better MT if she learns to do it right - so what
  • To SusieQ - Albert
    • .... - to Albert
      • that is the most ridiculous bunk i've ever heard! - whole thread belongs on comedy board!
      • What someone else is silly enough to pay you, has no bearing on your ability or character. - nm
        • .. but im sure you know that already - you are RUDE
          • Naaaaaaasty lady. Bad lady. Pooh. - gonna go drown my sorrows in a Pina colada.
            • and if she chooses to swim with..sm - ignore the florida troll-I live there too
              • my original post was perfectly - I was nice, and courteous!
  • I have to wonder if this is made up BUT if you are - genuine, then I would
  • Tell her THANK YOU! - TopMT
  • Wow, that's really awkward that you are being treated - differently than other workers. sm
  • I have only been doing this for a year.. - TM
  • I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
  • Your QA person is correct. More thoughts inside. - QA Mgr
  • bottom line it's what client wants...sm - every client profile is different but
  • Been doing acute care for 7 years now, - MT
  • I do all of them too! How long have you worked there? - Is it just too hard to retrain yourself or what?
  • I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
  • Some rules I follow..for #6, I think the first time an abbreviation is used, you expand and paren th - I agree with QA
    • that would be same rules not some. - yikes..me again
  • 15 years of experience and you don't know - these rules?? Very sad. Nm
    • everyone else has responded, - sad? Oh please ...
      • Not trying to be rude. It is just sad that this - sm
  • They are all correct style and grammar rules. More concerning are the gross HIPPA violations sm - MTSO
    • portability and accountability act....nm - It's HIPAA - health information
  • These are all normal things for me as well. - they are correct
  • Looks like your QA is going by the AAMT Book of Style - nm
  • I believe all of the examples you have here are - correct. It's the way I do it.
  • #2 should be 82-year-old female, - Wannie
    • Thanks to (almost) all - susieQ
      • RE: Thanks to (almost) all - Shelly Hendrix
  • With the exception fo #6, which we have been told - me
    • grade typing back in the 60s...lol...sm - taught 2 spaces after a period in BASIC 10th

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use numerals (except at beginning of sentence).  It conveys numerical information quickly when one sees the numbers rather than the word.

I don't know of a standard national font and size.

My BOS is at home and I'm at work.  If the doctor says 15.6 thousand and then says increased to 18 thousand which way is correct?

15.6 and 18,000?

15.6 thousand and 18,000?

or 15,600 and 18,000?

Where do I go to report this?

Two questions,

1. What sort of things do I need to have in place to be able to say I am HIPPA compliant at home?

2.  Can someone please give me the web address to MP Count?

Thanks

Has anyone else seen the news item about the man who intentionally put 12 nails into his head with a nail gun?   Isn't putting this on TV a violation of this man's privacy?  Even mentioning that he did it, or putting his x-ray/CT scan on for all of us to see?  I know it's a news item, but it is medical, and I'm sure HE didn't give his permission for this to be aired.  Any thoughts?  (He is doing well and expected to recover).

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I am a radiology MT and worked at the hospital who did my chest x-ray and lab work after I was given a dx of breast CA on Tuesday.  I had been given Xanax which I took and was in a sheer panic because I am afraid .

The woman MT I worked with at the radiology dept and I have kept in touch.  I told her as I was being worked up (did not tell her I had CA as she has a big mouth) to let me know if she does my chest x-ray and let me know if it is abnormal.  I then went into the surgeons office where he had been a faxed of the chest x-ray with the CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS:  Breast cancer.  on the top.  When I returned home, I had an e-mail from her that was an exact cut and paste of my chest x-ray with the exception that CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS:  Breast cancer. had been cut from the copy.  She has since stopped all contact with me and now I fear that the entire MT dept and hospital I worked in for two years with know I am suffering from this without my telling them.

I feel hurt and violated because she knew before I wanted her to (she typed the report I saw but mostly because she has stopped corresponding with me after seeing that I had breast CA.  When I was being worked up, she said my bad lifestyle was the culprit.  She herself has never had a mammogram and refused to see doctors (7th Day Adventist). 

Am I wrong for feeling this way?  Have rules been broken?  Shouldn't she have asked for my wrritten authorization before placing my chest x-ray report in an e-mail. and saying "good job" with reference to teh normal chest I guess (although the words "Breast CA" definitely negated that - it was almost as if she did not want me to know she knew. 

I am so confused right now and have no family members or even close friends so I cannot tell if what I am thinking is even accurate.  The Xanax and Prozac are not helping along with major anxiety.

Any feedback from astute MTs would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Anyone know what the penalties are for docs violating HIPPA?   I know of a case where a person was damaged from a new nonsurgical cosmetic procedure and about to settle with a company to pay for the surgical repair.  Prior to the settlement this patient saw a physician who sells these same nonsurgical services with a possible financial interest in the company.  This physician filled the patient's face full of temporary cosmetic fillers to cover the damage and then WITHOUT THE PATIENT'S PERMISSION released the patient's records to the company and wrote a letter stating there was nothing wrong with the patient.  The company subsequently canceled the pending deal to pay for the damages.   The temporary fillers wore off and the damage returned and this patient is now suing the company AND ALSO  the physician that released her records.  This physician has caused an already traumatized patient much more stress (a subsequent long legal battle) from this HIPPA violation.   What are the penalties?   Any criminal charges?

Thanks!!!

I'm very sorry that your lines are 90 characters line and you get paid by gross lines.  You are cheating yourself - that's not my fault.  You cannot change the definition of a gross line.  So I gues I'm not understanding what you are trying to say.  Now if you are trying to say that your line equals 90 characters and that's how you figure your lines, than you are not using gross lines.  You have defined a line to be 90 characters, whereas most MTSOs define a line as 65 characters.  If that is the case, then I must say again, you are cheating yourself.

So which is it, do you get paid by gross lines or by a 90 character line?

I've been working at home as an employee for over a year - using a style that was provided by the employer - now I have received a message that the style is switching to AAMT styleguide which is different from what I have been doing.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Just wondering why anyone would change midstream.  This is an old account and I don't know if there were complaints or if the style is being dictated by the company or the physicians - who don't really use any kind of style - we just try to make it uniform. 

I've been typing for the same clinic for the past seven years.  Our policy is to make all sentenses as complete as possible to make for better reading.  

I'm going to test tomorrow for a part-time job with another company.  My question is, do I type it like the doctor says it or do i make complete sentenses?

Example:

Doc says "patient has CLL."

I usually would type "The patient has chronic lymphocytic leukemia."