Thought India was in Asia? ; )

• which accent do you find the hardest to transcribe? - USAMT
  • Spanish accents. sm - JJ
    • Spanish accents. smC - JJ
  • accents - MT
  • Middle-Eastern females (speak way too quietly), Russian females, blacks - can't understand the mumbling
    • My Russians scream into the phone, especially the women. - typingplayer
      • annoying nomatter how you slice it - so true - nm
  • female African-American - definitely the worst
  • I don't do foreign-speaking docs.... - TeaL
    • Wow! I hear you and agree with - flibbertigibbit
    • obviously then you don't work for nationals..nm - national MT companies.....? nm
    • You might be surprised (sm) - Becky
  • A Cuban with a Southern dipthong - "snake bite through her teenee shoe" LOL - N
  • Orientals, although they try harder to pronounce words correctly Give 'em a A for effort (nm) - Getting Older
    • Effort is not enough...c'mon, brud plessure??? nm - Bubbles
      • better or worse than the Indians saying womting, wenous insufficiency... - oldMT
  • WASPy white guys, who slur their words and like to play with the language. At least ESLs are limite - hardest
    • You can tell they're White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) by voice alone? - wow, you're a racist!
      • Maybe nationalist. Everyone else is listing countries of origin. White english speakers at the wor - racist?
      • Not the poster, but jeolous of what? sm - MeItalian
        • Most of the country despises and resents successful white people - They're jealous
          • I see. You are funny. nm - Tee Hee
            • Okay, here's my posting - your turn - I know you're itchin' to reply!
      • Should have said English as a FIRST language. LOL - no offensive
  • French, especially the surgeons. Easiest: Middle Eastern, Korean, Chinese, Indian. nm - I'll be different
  • Oriental and Indian - V
  • yes to any of the ones listed below, PLUS - mtzone
  • Spanish, Slavic, and Greek. - IHJB
  • Spanish - Mexican version - me
  • Filipino and actually heavy Italian. Uggghhh. - MTEars
    • Where are all these Italian dictators? sm - MeItalian
  • Indian and Pakistani. Love the Orientals! nm - wanderer
    • People are Asian. Rugs and food are oriental. - What?
    • Indian and Pakistani, although (sm) - I completely agree!
    • Yuck !!! Will take Pakistanis and Indians over Asians any day.... nm - typing4dollars
      • Thought India was in Asia? ; ) - nm
      • I love the Asians, because they TRY the hardest, and it usually comes out funny. nm - R
        • Physical um um um Thrappy for physical therapy! - Fingers2TheBone
  • I totally agree. nm - Mimi

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I am sorry to hear of your loss.  We might as well  face it, this industry is going to the birds.  I have lost four Docs because of outsourcing to India.  It is a shame that the Docs have to find a cheap way out because of all the overhead, malpractice, etc. that they have to pay.  I have been in this for four years and I thank God that I have 12 years doing medical billing, for which I am going back to school to do coding.  There is no job security in this industry, you are treated like dirt, you do not get paid on time and not treated like an employee should be and now EMR.  What is next?  Robots to do patient care?  Good luck to you, but I feel this is just a little wakening up call to all of us that things are changing and not for the good.

One of the reasons there is still such poverty there is that India still has the caste system.  While becoming more westernized has improved the quality of living for the majority of Indians, those in the lower caste are not allowed the same opportunities.  They live in squalor without running water, food, education, etc.

Interesting article in "The Record".  Would love to hear opinions on this. 

http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_08062007p6.shtml

Please tell me they are not only undercutting us in pricing, but they are also getting  a break on the CMT exam?  I am "saving up" to take it! – see below from MT India

I'm not real sure I see your point. 

I'm not being difficult.  I just don't understand how a fire would cause companies to not outsource.

There were fires in California.  There was a hurricane in Texas.  I am quite sure these two disasters did not spare places where medical records are kept. 

Have received three phone calls from India...I can tell by the accent (I transcribe a lot of Indian doctors). The first two calls were just stuttering around, wanting my name, etc. The last one was Sunday night at 9:00 p.m., woke me up. I was furious and asked him if he knew what time it was. He said he had no idea, but started with that "your name please", etc. I yelled "don't ever call this number again", and I hung up. I have passed this around at work, and some people are getting calls from India...I think they get us off the computer some way. Anybody else having this happen?