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Posted By: Most docs do not want to dictate. on 2007-02-25
In Reply to: That is so illegal. My hubby is sm - MQ-MTr 30 years
There are computer programs where the information is plugged in at the time of the office visit by the tech/medical assistant that sees the patient into the exam room. The doc writes on a piece of paper what the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment plan consists of, and then the program spits a reported out all on its own. I had a doc tell me that I'd be out of a job fairly soon due to these types of programs. Of course I've done nothing but flourish, but I must admit his reports do not look too shabby. It looks as if an actual Transcriptionist took the time to do it. Now how much these programs cost is another thing and I'm not sure every doc could afford it. What is the difference between allowing someone to "glean" at a progress note and come up with a report than to have reports going out using VR. Not all VR reports are "edited". Some go out just the way they are and are never looked at again. The Joint Commission will never know the difference between a dictated report or one that was "gleaned" from a progress note. They do not have access to the dictation. We had just quit using tapes about five years ago at the hospital I worked at. We also were never required to put the "job #" on the report once we went digital. They were more worried about the context getting out in a timely manner. The hospital I worked for also resorted to faxing all reports to the referring doctor. I was against it as I felt the USPS was doing a fine job but to stay with the trend, the reports were faxed to the offices. Too bad because most of the time the fax machines were busy and the report would get set aside to fax at a later date and probably never got faxed ever. I have also been asked to "read" a preliminary report handwritten by an interpreting physician to a physician that was seeing the patient in the office at that given moment. I could have misread a value or word, but it flew. When they want the results, they want the results. I think the administrators tend to turn a "blind eye" to these kinds of things because once you lose your referring physician then you no longer have oupatient/inpatient "customers". No "customers" equals no money. 
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Or when the Irish came over a century ago...
And the Italians and the Chinese and the Jews fleeing Europe....
There have always been immigrants and unfortunately it always seems that the "previous" group wants to look down on them. Only ones that DIDN'T get to do that were the Native Americans, and if anybody's entitled to do it, I agree they are.
It would be nice to not have them, but in the 21st century you
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Advance to the 21st Century and get a new job
In the 21st century most transcription is
done digitally. What are you so upset about? You don't type from a hard copy of a patient's record do you? If so, you are a perfect example of why they should go to EMR. Bad move becoming an MT - especially at your age.
Welcome to the 21st century and good luck
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In this expensive 21st Century, even a rank beginner deserves
even 12-15 cpl will be below minimum wage, if the current inflationary trends continue.
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