Transcribing is not typing. sm

• If given the chance would you go hourly or ... sm - passing through
  • I would take the hourly rate. - Bellsa
  • Yep - in a New York minute
  • I also went hourly... - MK
    • does your per hour pay - carm
    • Make much more cpl - Patti
  • No. MTs who are not motivated end up talking and we did all the work - It was very unfair
  • I went hourly - Melissa
  • At 9.5 cpl, 200 lph, you're already at... - UTMT
    • are you an employee or - carm
      • See inside for answers...>>> - UTMT
  • I would go with the line rate. At less than 9.5 cents per line sm - A liTTle less?
    • Inquiry to A Little Less - MedCat
      • I make 8.5 cents per line sm - share what?
        • Share What? - MedCat
        • But isn't the increased incentive JUST on whatever is over 300 lines? Not applied to the first 3 - nm
          • It is based on lph, not total lines sm - that is silly
          • It is for a consistent production lph over the pay period. All lines. - no
        • Per line - could never make much per hour. - Green-Eyes
        • It's posts like this that make me curious - sm
          • Transcribing is not typing. sm - Maybe that is the problem
            • thanks... - MTBlab
          • Well - been MT for 25 years and have always been - Green-Eyes
          • Whatever shows up on my screen. The work sm - no
  • Option 2 - MontanaMT
    • Never go back to hourly, if you adequately use macros, a typing program why would you want to sit fo - CatNap

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I will type a word out of nowhere, it's like my fingers are typing without any thought behind it. 

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Does anyone have any experience with this?  My family is involved in different activities that involve traveling two or three times a week with at least an hour's commute one way or more.  I hate to sit and twiddle my thumbs while traveling when there is work that could be done.  Is it possible?  Have to download internet files from my national.  Could I do that with a cell phone?  Any help at all would be much appreciated!

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to transcribe from a CD and use a USB foot pedal to play back?  I have been asked to transcribe a documentary and I am not very savvy when it comes to things like this (applications), so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

your transcription skills will most certainly qualify you for an Administrative Assistant/secretary position for the Military. I started as a GS-4 in Aug 04. Got promoted to a GS-5 in Aug 05 and now am lead secretary in an office of 50 people. I get an automatic promotion to a GS-6 in Aug 06. On top of the all the benefits, they are going to pay for my degree too. I know a lot of people complain about Federal jobs, but mine has been a blessing all the way around.

Moving to Idaho soon, would like to type for doctor's office..Any idea how I can find out how to go about this.  Where would I look to find out particulars.  Working for outsource now but do NOT want to get into that situation again..Too many confusing signals.

You know how they say sometimes your dreams are your brain's way of finding solutions to problems?  I find that when I am transcribing my brain does the best thinking.  Yes, I am focused on what I am typing but I find that all sorts of ideas/solutions just pop in my head while I am transcribing--things that have absolutely nothing about what I am typing.  Can't tell you how many times I think about what to plan for dinner, etc.  I wonder if it is because I slow down enough and am still in one spot that my brain is finally able to focus.  Or maybe it is because I am so focused on my typing that my brain has room to think of other things too. Does anyone else do that? 

Whenever I am working I think of cooking and cleaning. Then when dinner time rolls around I have already cooked and done all my housework (in my mind only) and am ready for bed.  I call this mind-cooking, or mind-cleaning.  Sometimes it is only place where I can find peace.  Isthat how you feel?

Someone's life is placed in my hands when I sit down to transcribe. One letter out of the way such as an "a" could change the meaning of someone's medical diagnosis. One slip of a wrong medication or dosage and the patient could die. We all know when docs get used to us getting things right, they don't even read what they sign. One pass-over of a word that we don't want to take the time to look up could kill a patient. Don't tell me to lighten up, please. That's your excuse! I have had an anaphylactic reaction to a medication. If someone decided to skip over this or whatever  - I could die, yes, DIE! I would no more drink and transcribe than play Russian roulette with an infant. Sorry, it's probably what you don't want to hear, but I would not want you NEAR my medical history. I once had a student skip over an allergic reaction and instead of looking up the name of it she just typed "the dye". When I caught her on it, she shrugged her shoulders as if it didn't mean a thing. She just wanted to get her line count in, looking things up took away from her $$$.

Please take me seriously, it's worse than drinking and driving. It's a serious, serious thing to do. Alcohol definitely affects judgement and makes you sloppy. Slop and medical transcription do not go together. I don't want to kill anyone tonight, do you? If you want to drink, that's your business, but don't drink and type someone's medical record! Don't bother responding for me to "lighten up" because anyone with half a brain knows I'm right! If you drink constantly, then you're still "drunk" when you get up in the morning, coffee does NOT sober you up. That's BS.

 Put the plug in the jug!

ever. I'm doing a stat transfer summary and I'm going along as fast as I can and all of a sudden as I proof this is what I read-I have to imagine that you would have to be pretty sick of listening to people just flip pages all the time, I'm sorry about that.  I wish there was a better way around it. Now, isn't that sweet of him? 

I just wanted to drop in and say hello to everyone.  I don't know if anyone here even remembers me.  I left the MT industry about a year ago, coming home to work on cottage industry things.  However, I was recently offered a good job doing MT again, so I'm back!  Just wanted to say hello to everyone.  I had let my office get into a huge mess,   but I've had a lot of fun undertaking an office redo.    If anyone cares to see pictures, I've put some on my blog.  Link below.

Lynn

Selectric typewriters with 6 carbons, all of which had to be erased if there was a typo or, more likely, a dictator's changes.  If a doc's dictation stumped us, he (very few females then) would get a tug on his sleeve, asked to listen to what he said and explain.  Having worked in a teaching institution, these doctors were more than happy to impart their knowledge to anyone who would listen. 

Then came the mag card machines, then computers. 

The dictation I listened to on IBM belts, then tapes, was a lot clearer than most of the digital dictation I'm subjected to now. 

And no MTs worked on Sundays and holidays, and certainly not every Saturday.

My Day's at the Hospital......

1.  Two co-workers who only typed about 35-40 rad reports a day.

2.  One co-worker who took 6 cigarette breaks and did not smoke.

3.  Husband of one co-worker came in and perked over our shoulders for 30 minutes each day before sign out time.

4.  One co-worker who never called in to proper channels when not showing up.

5.  Somestimes above-mentioned co-worker just did not call, we are supposed to have ESP.

6.  One co-worker took 1.5 hour lunch breaks.

7.  One co-worker to me to slow my a-- down.

8.  One co-worker in the outpatient department would walk all the way over to in-patient to unassign her pools because she "didn't feel like typing ultrasounds" today.

9.  Can you say cherrypickers.....

10.  Boss couldn't type her name if her life depended on it.

11.  Co-workers never looked in reference books.  Called across room - How do you spell....(Mind you there are three of us in one room).....

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Good Stuff...

1.  I thank my mom all the time for making me take typing in high school.  I type 120 words a minute.

2.  I took lemons and make lemonades.  I read up on the subject of Voice Recognition and saw that I would be voiced out of a job (in 2003).

3.  I took a few bs jobs, and got several "bait and switch" deals.

4.  Would get up to 350 lph and get switched to an account with ESLs.  Can do them, but .......

5.  Enjoy flexibility of working at home.

6.  I say I have paid my dues, but do we ever.

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I love this board.  That's how it got my present job.  That's how I settled on my word Expander (after sampling three). 

I have purchased and sold items.  I have utilized advice regarding reference materials (yes, you do need them - make a sacrifice).  I have increased my QA from 98 to 99.1).  I don't skip over reports.  I work when I am asked.  In my spare time I add more and more acronyms to my dictionary and because of this, I have received an unsolicited raise. 

As for these transcription schools, it's just like "real" college.  You get out of it what you put into it.  They do not owe you anything. 

Like I said, I love this board, but sometimes we go overboard with the fluff, i.e., what's for dinner, how's your puppy...").  It took me 10 years to find the perfect fit and the flexibility because I have another career as an accountant.  These two occupations co-exist perfectly.  No two days are alike. 

Some of us are looking at transcription as an easy what out of corporate America, but it's not that easy.  You have to stay FOCUSED and you have to learn to use REFERENCE materials.  And don't say you cannot afford them.  Think of them as an investment in you job SECURITY. 

Good Day.  Luv y'all.  Got work on the Lanier.....

I have worked for one group that paid me a flat 2.50 per page regardless of how many lines there are to a page.

I now type for a doc who pays 10 a line but I have to deduct for any skipped lines. 

I also work for a hospital and they pay 9 a line(on the Meditech system). 

Just a thought.  You could call medical examiner's offices and ask if they need help or ask them who they contract their work out to.  I used to type for an agency that had the New York Medical Examiner's Office contract.  You could try them.  Good luck!

Carrie

I have a question, does anybody know of how to get into transcribing for say a military hospital so you could get government benefits, or has anybody does this before?  Would love to have the safety net in retirement of some good government benefits.