What is your source for this timeline?
Posted By: Curious on 2007-09-25
In Reply to: If we get universal healthcare ESL docs will be - the least of our problems.
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My sucky timeline.
Sept 1999-- Hired by MQ at 8 CPL. Happy with job. Decent accounts. Plenty of work. 
Sept 2000- Still happy with job. Keeping myself busy. 
Sept 2001- Still happy with job. Keeping myself busy. Still at 8 CPL. 
Sept 2002- Around this time I start wondering if I can have a raise. Ask my supervisor who says, "My dear, you're already at the top of the pay scale." 
Sept 2003- Wondering if should get another job, since no raise in quite some time, but...the work is OK. I like the account I've always been on, so I just keep keeping along. 
Sept 2004- I get a call one morning that my account is moving to another office. Do I want to move with it? A bit scared, but after thinking about it, decide I'll move with my account. 
May 2005- Get a call that they would "love" for me to move to a new hospital account. Very leary, as I love my old account and it's a new step. Ask if it means I might finally a get a raise and told "that could happen." Ask if I can still work on old account since I'm so much faster on it. Said that would be fine, work on both! 
June 2005- New account is going on the "new platform"! Train a couple of days for new platform. Ask if I can still work on my old account as a back up. Told that would be perfectly acceptable. Still no news on raise.
July 2005- Get email early one day that my office has closed! Now who am I suppose to call? Given names of two other offices that "might" be the ones I'm to answer to. 
August 2005- Figure out what office I am now working out of BUT, guess what, your account is moving to New York now! Whole new set of people that seem sort of strict. Work load seems okay. Ask about a raise but told it will take six months of near-perfect QA first.   
October 1, 2005- Receive scary Harmonization packet that tells me I can no longer be an SE. Strangely, my account is out of work!! The secondary account is junk. No one will tell me who I can talk to to ask about the secondary account. Secondary account also runs out of work. Try to log onto my "old faithful" account only to discover that they've changed my password! Try to call someone, anyone, to help me but finally am told that I can no longer work on my old account. Argue, because that account always has plenty of work! But to no avail. I think no one is listening. 
October 14, 2005: Ask supervisor why my account has no work. Told it's because they want to keep turn-around, even if that means there is less work for the MT's. 
October 19, 2005: Go on MTStars and type out a timeline. Decide I simply can't take this anymore. All of the good qualities of Medquist have been taken from me. I don't have much to look forward to come the first of the year. Hang my head in sadness and update resume. 
Well, can you give me a source? I'd like
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No CD, but the book is the BEST! My #1 source
Its made very well and doesn't fall apart, as some of its competitors volumes do! I think its a priceless resource.
Please name the source of your post.
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Please share your BEST source - where can
How do we gain access to those jobs? Not many are posted on the job boards. Many MTs apply to jobs and never receive a response. So instead of being so mean, why don't you help your fellow MTs? We all should be nice all year long not just during the holiday season. The world would be a better place!
Reliable Source Jobsite
 WORDS OF WARNING: If you receive an email from The reliable Source Jobsite asking you to register for their site - DON'T DO IT. This is supposed to be a job database for all types of clerical work. However, I recently registered, realized I had registered at an incorrect job databased and asked for a refund. They stated I was not allowed a refund and that I was trying to get something for nothing. I then filed a complaint with PayPal. Later that same day, I received an email and also a telepone call stating that if I removed my complaint from PayPal, they would refund my money. I did remove my complaint. However, after my emailing them numerous times inquiring as to why I had not received my refund yet, they basically stated, "Ha, ha. We're not giving you a refund, never had any intention of doing so, and you cannot reopen the complaint with PayPal." I did contact PayPal and I could NOT reopen this complaint. After resigning myself to the fact that I'm a member of this database, I decided to use it. However, even though I have paid for this membership, I still cannot use it. The User ID and the Password they issued me are incorrect and will not work. I have made several attempts to email them regarding this matter, however I receive no reply. It is for the reasons above I thought everyone should be made aware of this - UNRELIABLE SOURCE JOBSITE
Reliable Source Jobsite
gnat is right. Tell us the URL and perhaps we can all band together (for once) and help a fellow MT. Hey, it's worth a shot.
Reliable Source Jobsite
For those of you that wanted there website it is:
www.freewebs.com/wahtelecommuteemploymentservices - I hope you guys get this okay. If you can't get it off of here, feel free to email me. My email is: tousuns@rochester.rr.com
I want to thank all of you. You would not believe how they acted on the telephone with me. Since tricking me into cancelling my complaint they lifted my user priviliges. I emailed them four different times and they do not even extend the courtesy of a return email. However, they still have my money and will NOT return it. Thanks for all of your help.
anyone know if this is a reliable source for this information? thanks...
taken from their site (I especially like about the outsourcing and 'robot transcriptionist' :
Allied Health Profession of the Month - March 2005
Medical Transcriptionist contributed by Paul D. Mason, Oxford, NJ |
What is Medical Transcription?
Medical transcriptionists (MTs) are the miracle workers of the medical records! They turn doctors’ daily dictation tapes - rough, hurried, harried, mumbled, muttered, highly technical, and always absolutely crucial - into clear, concise, polished gems of documentation. They work this amazing transformation every day under tight deadlines using just a simple tape or digital audio player, a computer, and a stack of medical books and online reference sources.
Jobs Outlook – “Boom”ing?
Remember all those “baby boomers”? According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job opportunities for MT’s will be good - growing faster than the national average for occupations through 2012, with the demand fueled by the increased healthcare demands of a growing and aging population.
It’s not hard to see that lots more senior citizens needing lots more doctor visits means tons of new medical records to be generated! There’s going to be plenty of work out there to go around.
Then there’s the big “O”: Outsourcing…
There has been a steady stream of news lately about various US industries improving their bottom lines by replacing American workers with low-wage overseas labor – skilled jobs like computer programming, telephone help desks - almost any job that can be performed remotely.
In medical transcription, however, issues such as little or no foreign enforcement of US privacy laws, instability of foreign labor, lack of English fluency, expense and uncertainty of adequately training foreign labor, etc. can greatly complicate foreign outsourcing and offset the initially perceived cost savings.
Legal questions have even begun: The California legislature has discussed prohibiting all California industries from using foreign outsourcing involving confidential data, mainly because it is simply not possible to guarantee privacy outside of the country.
The BLS states that foreign outsourcing should not significantly impact the medical transcription profession in the US.
Robot Transcriptionists?
Another MT industry buzz involves new technologies such as speech recognition technologies (SRT’s), computerized “smart” data entry forms (EMR’s, CPR’s), etc. that promise to automate or eliminate traditional transcription work. Several software vendors have been very successfully selling tools of this nature to various industries and have been making noise to promote their use for medical transcription.
It is becoming apparent, however, that the complexity of medical diagnosis and terminology combined with the life-and-death importance of accuracy will prevent large-scale acceptance of these technologies in the medical field for the foreseeable future.
According to the Medical Records Institute (an organization that promotes the adoption of computerized medical records systems), most current research shows that penetration into the medical field by EMR’s is only 5-8%, with SRT’s at less than 1%. |
ruled out source recorder as well...
I have used EP for .dvf files for quite some time now and even when I open previously transcribed .dvf voice files, which played at normal speed when I transcribed them months ago using the same version of EP, they now play too fast, just like the more recently dictated .dvf files I've received. So, it does not appear to be a problem with the source recorder. Keep in mind that all other files (.dss and .wav) still play correctly. I am only experiencing the problem with .dvf files.
These are all good thoughts, but believe me, I've tried everything I can think of, and I think it's something much more involved. There is a corrupt file or codec or something possibly, but I don't now how to identify the problem at this point.
I have gone through the Express Scribe user forum and have seen several posting made over the past couple of years regarding the same type of situation, but have not found a remedy for it in those postings. No tech support available for free version, so I'm out of luck there too.
Thanks.
B150 is a great energy source...
The only place I can find them around here is Wal-Mart.
I can't wait to see this in writing from a credible source,
because I've shopped Walmart.com and never had the "if you like this" statement and can't verify this story anywhere on the net.
It never happened. Where are you getting your info. Provide a source.
I just did a search. Nothing regarding your rumor but here's something you might enjoy.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997&product_id=1093812&sourceid=1500000000000001827160
What's a good source for very new medical terminology? sm
I'm wanting to avoid paying for a $95 subscription to something like The Latest Word, if possible. Is there a web site that posts new medical drugs and other terms that are so new they haven't hit the books yet?
thanks!
Google is a great source of information
on Internet terminology and abbreviations. Try it. You'll be amazed at what you can learn for yourself.
Where did you hear that? And what funding source? Curious. nm
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Good source for health insurance? sm
I want to start working for myself but need a good health insurance policy because I have two little girls. Any suggestions or advice?
or make sure its a good google source.
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To me, Dorlands will always be the gold standard. I have one, and use their online source also. nm
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Anyone have a good source for Alabama doctors, where you can find them by just last name or a few le
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I heard from a non-MT source that the use of excessive saccharin in the diet could cause CT syndrome
Would anyone have documentation of such?
Thank you fellow MT. I love that site.....good source of info without the complaing....
Thanks again.
Thank you fellow MT. I love that site.....good source of info without the complaining....
Thanks again.
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