Throwing some lighter fluid on that Book of Crap!

• TRAINING SCHOOL--I WANT TO START A - DON'T WANT SUED OR PUT OUTTA BUSINESS!!
  • Why re-invent the wheel? - Misha
  • AAMT guidelines about not using q.d., q.i.d. q.h.s. etc. - Totally confused sm
    • q.i.d, q.d., qhs, etc. - none
    • AAMT constantly changes the rules every time they have a new edition of their BOS to sell. - bunch of bottom-feeding crap
    • Administrator - posts out of place?? - Misha
      • She does mention the abbreviations in - her post, did you read it??? (NM
    • JCAHO has prohibited q.d. and q.i.d. SM - another MT
    • What about - PK
      • AAMT BOS - JK
      • Burn the BOS!!!! - anti-AAMT
        • Burn, baby, BURN! ]:-) - Lonesome Dove
          • Amen! - BURNT OUT MT
          • Throwing some lighter fluid on that Book of Crap! - nm
          • BOS is changed so you have to keep buying the new one--$$$$ - nm
            • BINGO!!!! - and we have a winner!
        • yeah - but WHICH version? There are so many! nm - Becky
          • There have been two. Surely that does not make - MQWHUNU
    • q.d., q.o.d., q.h.s., and others. - not the OP
      • q.d....... - MTqueenB
        • I agree - BURNT OUT MT
        • Me thinks people who change this stuff are trying to find job security - in a dying occupation
      • The company I work for also sent out that list... - gmg
        • dangerous abbreviations - jk
          • These were intended to help pharmacists - dangerous abbreviations
  • To compete with who? (sm) - Studying MT
  • I'd be more concerned with the company whose tapes - Jus me
    • THAT IS JUST WANT I HAVE FOUND - TRAINING SCHOOL
  • I'm confused... - What are you talking about?
    • Be Nice - TS
      • You're right, you could be my neighbor. My neighbor is flaky, too. - nm
    • IVE GOT IT - dave

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and after spending 3 days in a log cabin out in the middle of nowhere with my family for Christmas, I was reminded once again of that old saying "girls rule while boys drool"!  It was a beautiful Christmas with all the extended family ,but being the only girl out of 11 boys, I am an expert

our dress code, when I started to work tonight my cat happened to walk into the room and the furnace has been coming on this week because the weather is getting colder and you know how the static is at first, well I have a long haired tort and I just happened to glance down at her and hair fur was standing out on end like one of those scary Halloween cats and I just burst out laughing and my grandson asked me what I was laughing at and I told him, and he said to me I don't know why your making fun of the cat, your hair looks like that all the time gram.  Well I went straight upstairs and ran a comb through my hair, no wonder the mail man was afraid....Have a good night everyone....

I would like to point out that you are asking people to delineate their experience on their resume, and that is not the function of a resume. Recent experience and future objectives should be discussed in a cover letter. A resume is more or less a reference guide of your work experience. Your deciphering of one should come with your experience in hiring MTs; what companies they have worked for and what educational programs they have attended should illuminate to you what they've done in the past.

1.  If a company runs an ad looking for MTs and puts "competitive line rate" for compensation, or only asks for 2 years experience for acute Basic-4, expect a resume from everyone who graduated from XYZ "Typier" School in Whittier, Wisconsin. It's obvious you don't know what you want.

2.  If you set an MT up for testing, expecting them to follow abbreviated, slapped-together instructions by e-mail without a telephone alert it was on its way, don't expect the test back in 20 minutes. Legitimately timed testing is NOT done this way.

3.  For those of you who use online tests from third parties, I encourage you to go and take your own test. It will be very educational at the very least with regard to what you are spending your money for, which is not much.

4.  Still on the subject of testing: Give legitimate examples of the work the MT is going to be expected to do, and not the "cherries." If you have 50% or more ESL, you might want to pick out some of your more difficult dictators to provide as examples of what your company has to offer in terms of work being done for a production-based pay scale.

5.  Be prepared to answer questions about how you count your lines, and know that any MT worth their salt is going to want to compare your line count of their test with what the MT can count on their own.

6.  Don't tell people to expect a call from you, not call and then call, expecting them to drop everything to accommodate you. They are looking for work, not begging for scraps.

7.  Finally (for now), do not do a "bait and switch." If someone applies with you because you offered a particular specialty, or work type, a line rate "based on experience," a definite schedule, etc., and you decide later that's not the case...shame on you.

mom having an allergic/anaphylactic reaction.

Heart can't push the goo through.

Body went into shock.

She couldn't breathe.

Her blood began to clot.

Docs did emergency C-section in 6 minutes.

Then mom went to cardiac arrest.

Then another catastrophic thing happened.

Paula began hemorrhaging massively from every part of her body....from eyes, ears, nose, every incision, every bump and bruise.  All her blood clotting factors had been used up.

Docs poured blood clotting factors into her.

The baby's chances of survival were at 50/50. 

Mom was then noted to have unusual swelling in upper abdomen.

Surgeons reopened c-section.

Astonished to find 1 gal of clot-filled blood.  With the clots removed, her blood quit clotting.

Of the 10% of women who survive, most are brain-damaged. Only 1% survive without any damage.  She turned out to be in the 1% luckily.

A day later she was holding her baby and was OK.

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All this started with her first labor pain of her second child.  It was the leak of the amniotic fluid into her blood stream that caused her to immediately start to feel like her throat was "closing up" and she couldn't breathe (anaphylactic allergic reaction).  She passed out pretty quickly. 

with tons of MTs on all these accounts they cant do well. Dont they have any amount of brains up there. Well what goes around comes around.

Does anyone use both.  I'm definitely getting the CD/ROM and am debating about buying both.  I don't see any reason to have both but there could be something I don't know. 

I noticed CD/ROMs are on backorder but they're selling downloadable versions.  I can handle that.

...but cheaper crap.  Maybe as long as hospitals and MTSOs figure they are going to get schlock work anyway, they would prefer it to be cheaper offshore work, and go through the many layers of QA and proofing?

Insurance companies are one thing, but I have to wonder what happens when a report with serious medical errors ends up in court as part of a megabucks malpractice suit.  I mean if the doc dictates something like "50 mg of potassium" which the MT does not question, or some other horrible boo-boo that QA or the doc never catches.   We are at the bottom of the pyramid, with QA and the doctor himself also responsible for catching mistakes before he signs. Anybody know of any histories of this? 

I think things started going downhill when impersonal MTSOs took over the transcription business, then started buying and trading us like cattle.  We truly don't know our coworkers or bosses.  We're all just faceless typing machines out here.  I don't know about any of you, but I did not get a raise the last five years I was with one MTSO, only 1 raise during the entire 10 years, and certainly no praise for a job well done - ever. 

Yeah, I know, we still all should do our best all the time.  But motivation is sometimes lacking when you feel depersonalized and as though at any moment your company will be sold, your job sent overseas, or you will be turned into a VR Editor against your will.  Maybe some MTs are all about just typing as fast as possible while it lasts. 

Did the MTSOs start this by going overseas for cheap, causing us to say 'what the heck' and become low quality?  Or did we start this by being low quality, causing the MTSOs to go overseas since they were going to get bad work anyway?  Opinions?

Both parents are mid-60s now and for the most part quite healthy, though mom has had Parkinson's for a few years, which is thankfully very slow in its progression thus far. My biggest fear is that she progresses to mental decompensation from it.

I think my brother would shoulder as much responsbility as he could along with me for our parents. I'm already thinking about my next house being larger than we need just in case we have to accommodate one or both of our parents later. Neither my bro nor I live particularly close to our parents, either.

It's a daunting thought from all angles.