True but if they dictated in mother language, might not be AS bad. nm

• Bad ESLs - What did he say?
  • What I don't understand is why the companies don't send - not that I approve of offshoring...
    • You have a point, but then, there goes 60% of the jobs. nm - What did he say?
    • I agree - me
  • ?? Bad dictators are bad dictators regardless of their mother language. - its just part of the gig.
    • True but if they dictated in mother language, might not be AS bad. nm - What did he say?
      • shimma shimma shimma - n/m
        • Exactly, get a US MT who can speak shima shima. nm - What did he say?
          • No one speaks shimma shimma, its mumbling, in any language. - n/m
            • True, but one who can speak shimma shimma will at least have a chance of deciphering the - mumbles. nm
              • When you have an EFL doctor and they mumble, speaking the language does not help - you to understand the undecipherable word. s/m
                • I agree with "the word" but it can sure help you transcribe everything - else. nm

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If you are a true IC, that basically means the company says "here's the work, have it back by x".  They cannot tell you (by federal law) what hours to work or when to work.  They can set a minimum line count that they would like to see met, and can use that as a reason to terminate a contract, but they cannot tell you when to do your job.  How to do your job, yes, as in account specifics and ways they want files put together.  Any company that tells you what hours to work and yet still refers to you as IC is doing so illegally, and basically is treating you like an employee to get out of paying taxes, or maybe, just maybe, they don't know the difference.

I have only ever been IC, and would not do Employee Status simply because I have to be able to set my own hours due to some outside work situations.  Now, if something happened and I needed Employee Status, say for health insurance or other benefits, I would have to switch, but I much prefer IC.

Sounds to me like the company you are with is either ignorant of federal law or is undeterred by it.  That alone would send up a red flag with me, but the decision has to be up to you. 

Good luck with whatever you decide. 

HC

wonder when people will just get over it and do what they can and move on. 

Hospitals can set up an account with the AT&T language line.  You call the number, give your account code and tell them what language you need.  They have tons to choose from and they are available in real time.  You have to use a speaker phone so the patient, translator and care provider can all hear each other.  Some 911 dispatch centers use it too. 

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt

Let's say you're Asian and have a doc who seems to possibily have a bit of an ''attitude'' about your ethnicity.  In perusing your own medical records, you see that this doc uses the term Oriental instead of Asian.  There's some confirmation that your suspicions were correct, allowing you to make a more informed decision about your medical care and who you want providing it.  Especially true with the word Negro, IMO, which I haven't heard in quite some time but have actually had dictated and left as is, even if I had the leeway to change it.

IOW, I think it's a patient's right to know if a doc is using words like that, so I don't change them.

The word lesbian, unless used in a derrogatory manner, is simply stating the patient's sexual orientation, which could be quite relevant in a psych report.  It's the same as describing a patient as a heterosexual female.  Not intended to "label" someone, simply stating a fact.  I see no problem with typing it as dictated. 

That is our title, Medical Language Specialist, which really throws people.  When asked to define what that is, tell them you translate medical dictation to document form, be it hard copy document or electronic docment, to provide pertinent medical information for patients, physicians and hospital staff.  See their reaction.   

Of course when they say "all you do is type," ask them to spell esophagogastroduodenoscopy as an example of the terminology you use.  That usually shuts them up.  (Smile)