Why do so many people LOVE operative notes? I see posts about it all the time...
Posted By: jj on 2008-12-14
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how they make good money on them, they could do them all day, feel cheated when they don't get them? I have been doing this for years and years and still kind of groan when I see them come up on my screen. Fill me on the secrets and maybe I won't whine so much when I do them. Thanks gal!
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Operative Notes
Does anyone receive higher pay for doing only operative notes? I am just wondering because my account paid last because it was ER reports but now I am doing almost all operative reports. Thanks for the info!
Same here, I like operative notes, but rarely get them, by the end of the day (see inside)
I am fuming. I make more money on operative notes and am motivated. Discharge summaries are hard to make money on for me, as they are all different.
I am actively looking for another job. I am not one to job hop. I just cant see feeling like this all day long. Good luck.
I totally agree. Operative notes are more complicated and should be
paid at a higher rate. I know it takes me longer to do them because so many different surgical pieces of equipment can be used etc. Anatomy has never been a problem but mainly the different surgical equipment items. I would love to find a job that offered me more. I just dont know where they are.
All and any Operative Reports! Love em!. sm
Including Cardiothoracic and cardiac caths.
Love OP notes, which I could do them always. nm
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I love ER notes and of course I never get them. sm
My favorite and I still laugh over this, was the patient that came in with a double AA battery in the rectum. Mind you the patient was about 25. Doc snickered all the way through the report and told the patient never to put anything there again.
I love doing OP notes
I love doing op notes. They are very difficult though and i do recommend that you go into them slowly if at all possible. I was doing strictly clinic notes when I came to work here, but lost a girl that did the Op notes and we decided to send our clinic notes out to someone else and I started doing OP notes and other types of dictations. They are my fav.
I love op notes.
I have very little experience in acute care (only about a year), but op notes are my favorite. I have applied to positions for op notes only, but of course, I don't have the experience to get the job. I find them to be much easier than other types of acute care reports since they are so repetitive. I loved the days I got a lot of op notes because I always got better line counts just because of how repetitive they are.
LOVE clinic notes
I do clinic work and I LOVE it. I transcribe for 3 docs. There are 4 girls on the acct. And we ALWAYS have work. When I am bored on Saturdays or Sundays, I sit down and type for a few hours. Rarely is the server empty by Monday morning. I have never been at a loss for work. It is so repetitive and easy. Each doctor has his own way of talking and I have tons of shortcuts for each doc in my autocorrect in Word. So easy, so fast, so fun!
I love 'em too but type everything else but and Progress notes (sm)
DOUBLE YUCK.
so many people was wishy-washy nowadays...love to see people make
a stand for what they believe in...
it is kind of wierd those statements have to be made in the first place but guess we are an ever-transitioning country and are still young. so many different beliefs yet not much tolerance.
I found your post respectful, and right on as to how you feel. it does not seem that difficult to sift through to read and respond to messages someone might not care for...
That's funny, I *love* ER's. Also Ops, procedure notes. Can't stand anything LONGGGGGGGG. n
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I just love it when our cat plops down on my note pads with my work notes....have to pull it all out
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Don't put people down like you did in your posts, eh? sm
"MS in BS" ring any bells?
You have issues.
Yes, I always have the notes. One time, it was an entire day worth of clinics except for one!
How did they just get one note and not the rest? There have been a couple of times when the doctor just didn't dictate on that particular patient, but most of the time I typed the notes, printed and delivered the notes, and then they say they never go them! And I always have them on my PC and backed up on CD.
I hear that; we had tapes broken several times where silly office people had put post-it notes on th
In retrospect, it was nearly laughable.
People either love it or hate it. I personally love it
but I know a lot of people say you cannot make any money on it and will not work on it. I do okay. I'm obviously not getting rich but I am making a living. I found it easier than Dictaphone and faster such in downloading and uploading job and you only have to log on one system and not like Dictaphone where you have to log onto the VPN and then log onto the program. It's always worth a try, but yes, the biggest complaint I hear is that no one can make a living and the cpl isn't that great.
I just love your posts! You are so full of
knowledge about the happenings at MQ and Spheris, as well as other companies you don't work for. It must be hard to keep up with everything. How do you get any work done when your opinion is so widespread on these boards?
Love your posts and your wit, Jasper
And so very sorry you're having to deal with this.
Why just some editors? Is it if you were under a certain level of productivity, seniority, or...?
There are VR companies out there that pay decently; you should start sending out that resume before they decide to cut the pay again.
From reading these posts, these QA people are scary....
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I have been reading some posts about people using AutoCorrect and ESP...sm
I use my ESP constantly and couldn't live without it. I add several daily and have been doing so for years. Why would I use AutoCorrect also? I am wondering if I am missing out on some added benefit. Could someone explain please? Much appreciated!
I love reading your posts..and having my own feelings
You are so right
Oooh, I just LOVE what's for dinner posts. sm
Funny thing is, I just put chili together for tomorrow. Dumped it in the crock pot. put the crock in the fridge and will do a slow cook thing tomorrow. Yummy. Must be cold and rainy where you live too. All I could thing of was chili, baked beans or a big pot of hot soup. :)
Tonight we had baked pork chops and oven baked red potato chunks. Very, very yummy and very, very easy. Here's what you do:
Dice up potatoes (with skins on) and layer them in a 13 x 9 baking dish. Add 1/3 cup cooking oil and 1 package of Lipton (or store brand) dry onion soup mix and stir it up. Then mix the other package of onion soup mix with bread crumbs, rinse off the pork chops, and roll them in the mix and throw them in a baking dish as well. Put both in the oven at 350 degrees. Potatoes usually take 35 minutes. Pork chops depend on the thickness. WICKED GOOD! 
Can anyone see the posts? People are posting replies. Wonder if it is everyone who is having probl
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I see your posts all the time on here
I like your posts and I think that you sound like a nice person. You always seem to manage to stay in a debate w/o being cruel.
Dontcha just love the way the ads are related to the topic in the posts?
Freaky. I have AOL with an animated character. When I am in an IM, the dog actually reacts with sad cry when I type the word "sad," and happy reaction with "lol." All the rest of the emotions coincide with my typewritten text. I find that to be rather unsettling. They basically are reading what we are typing out there, somewhere.
Hayseed, you crack me up! I LOVE your posts & your humor!
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hey, psychic is in your mind and your posts. i'm an mt. i just feel when people ramble about th
they usually have tried to relax and don't realize how crazy they sound. no i don't have a clue. i am reading between your lines which aren't making sense. i pretend nothing. magic 8 balls and psychic is your area of "expertise", not mine.
No wonder smart people try to hide it from all the not-so-smarts, if all these posts are any indicat
Does anyone actually take the time to read the posts BEFORE replying?
been "mentoring" with them for 9-months.....so Yes, she has already been taken for the $$$, and obviously being shot down saying she is not quite good enough yet to "work" for them. ---Ever now and then someone will come on and say they "work" for them and how great they are, but its a bunch of bunk, look at the archives, 99% negative, total scam all the way. Sorry you got taken.
You have not taken the time to carefully read the posts then
Don't come into the middle of something and start accusing the wrong people of stirring up trouble. I think you need to take a chill and read the posts below. If you take the time and stop looking at it with a prejudiced eye, you will also be able to see the thread. You are defending the wrong person here.
Isn't it great! I cringe every time I see the posts here about "tapes" nm
Board suggestion: Is there any way the time of the posts can be shown? (sm)
Sometimes it is hard (almost impossible) to tell the order of replies of posts, especially with the nesting. Can the time of the post be shown along with the date? The different time zones wouldn't have to be taken into consideration; just choose one.
I work and do not have time to read such long posts, do you?..nm
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And you'll almost never get just Op notes. Probably get mixed acute care - op notes, discharge su
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People who use them love them. sm
The learning curve is wicked (I hear 2 weeks). I opted for the Maxim instead. I hear the contoured is great for those with RSI.
I love people like you
Thank you for not turning around and taking him right back. He's a very, very lucky dog. I wish I could rescue a pound puppy as well but husband says no. We've rescued too many cats over the years, and right now still have 4. We had 7 at one point but lost 2 to old age and one to a heart attack at the age of 8, all in the last 2 years. If we didn't have 4 middle to old age cats in the home, I'd be at the shelter right now. I love knowing that there are people like you out there.
I love it when people say to me...... sm
Oh you work at home, your so lucky to have such an EASY job, especially when you can take off any time and work anytime.
Easy! Gimme a break! Easy!
This job some days is not easy! Especially when you have doctors who eat, burp, belch, mumble, or just plain and simple cannot speak, yacking in your ears all day long!
I'd like to slap a few of my friends who think this "job" is so easy.
I don't refer to it as a job either - I had a friend tell me along time ago, being an MT is not a job, its a way of life.
Oh, and for taking off and working whenever I want - hmmmmm - when does that happen! I work a schedule just like someone working in an office.
Okay - I had to vent! I feel better now!! LOL!!!
Ah, I'm a shy only child too, but I love being around other people. Keeps
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I love using that one. People look at me like I am stupid! nm
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I think I understand, now if people love VR
they either are lying, are management or newbies right? Seems like the chickens have come home to roost. You are talking about folks who don’t hate their jobs. Let me think about this. I did not see any encouragement about people last week trying to tell about working on VR, only you are a plant, management, lying, and on and on.
Why don't people practice peace and love,just
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But the secret is most people love oncology.
I'm not sure why, but it is more interesting than most specialties and not usually the downer you'd expect. I think it's just the terminology and (in my experience) very smart, decent dictators. Even the ESLs are understandable because the terms are so long. Four syllables to pronounce means 4 clues, LOL.
I love the way everyone things VR people are the slow ones
I type about 140 wpm and averaged on straight typing over 2000 lines per day. The hospital was outsourced and VR took over. I love VR and why do you assume that only slow typists like? I love it, our system is not crap and now I average above 500 or more lines per hour. Don’t know where people get off talking about the slow ones. You are assuming.
People do it all the time...
just make sure you're not short-changing your employer(s). If you're good at what you do and want to put in the time to do it right, what's the problem???
I do ops all the time too and HATE them. Why do people like them? sm
Give me a 10 minute discharge, ER, consult, H&P any day. I always wondered why people liked OP notes with all of the different equipment terms and such.
I love to see people exercise their minds (and their rights)...will check it out...
Thank you, for sharing...
After all, if no one would have stood up years ago, we would still be called the 'typing pool' and making probably $7/hour, AND answering phones, filing, etc.
AAMT did have a huge role in that happening, but I have not seen them do anything for the American MT in a very long time.
According to the Advance Health mag (which is turning into a 'rag' in my opinion), their latest article is how MTs with disabilities are now being trained in INDIA...and elsewhere overseas, and just how wonderful and joyous that all is - !?#@$#@
Sisters, it is TIME we do something and take a stand.
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