Wow, starting a ridiculous post just to provoke people
Posted By: Ya might need a life? on 2005-08-02
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Simply ridiculous. There are many people here who
have entered viewpoints on certain subjects. It is an insult to MTStars for you to entertain the notion that only one person would post here with views different than what you would like to see. Get over yourself and have a nice day for a change.
Exactly. And I used to tell people just starting (sm)
about the "continuations" that you see pop up in the phrase section, remember that you don't have to read every single one. The program is simply seeing patterns and offering you words that "come after" the ones you just typed. Just think of it as the program saying "You want fries with that?"
Another way is to set yourself a time limit, have your regular phrases that you use, a few per day, as the poster above is saying, then for 5 minutes an hour, or 30 minutes a shift, or whatever works for you, focus on the "extra" program features and gradually you'll find little things that work for you. :)
original post - thinking of starting MT
It was something about becoming an engineer becoming an MT or an MT becoming an engineer and working from home - just thought they needed to know what physical and mental attributes were necessary to take on this MTing. I have often found that the MT develops whatever symptoms they transcribe the most - for me it was psych and drug dependence - I thought I was going insane until I woke up and realized it was all just a dream.......
Good post. I was starting to wonder if possibly - sm
the Grammar Police are, as you said, simply trying to divert the focus of this thread to grammar, spelling & punctuation on this board, when most of us agree it's not important in this type of venue. (hee... maybe we should go on a "punctuation strike", and eliminate it altogether?) Anyway, you are right about doing research, and coming up with a compelling letter and petition. I think much of what has been written here in this forum could be put into it, and the compilation would be pretty powerful.
Thread starting to get out of hand. If you want to talk politics, post
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Good old Amherst and couple with their ridiculous QA point plan. They people in AMHERST ARE NUTS. I
hope MQ loses all of its good MTs and then the hospitals can yell about quality and leave. My account just disappeared after being transferred up there and then find they have hired new people for it.
Neither. I just know these people and saw the post about FlashType
when something is stolen from another.
But if people who know things do not post
it on the board, how should TechSupport know that some people already know it?
So she offers her knowledge in a, as she explained it,
rather extensive and elaborate way, so to give all the information and avoid misunderstandings.
End of discussion!
Today is Saturday, my free day, I have to bake a chocolate-cream-cheese cake for my daughter who comes and visits!
Have a nice Saturday evening!
Why do people post and say "This is off subject"
being discussed here. I thought ANY subject pretty much was fine (unless something that has another board specifically FOR that subject).
Excellent post! There are still people with passion out there - that is great to know...
Sometimes everyone sounds so harsh and cold about all of this.
Best wishes to you, and good for you for finding another way of making a living.
Hopefully, those of us over 45 will have luck finding jobs...
I should research what happened years ago when the steel mills shut down, or when automation took over. People must have had some kind of help when they got their pink splips...
Soooo...what are you saying? That people should post something that is worthy of the board in SM
your estimation? Would you like to have the monitors delete this post about KL and Regis? What is it that you want? Or would YOU like to think of a transcription topic and post it? What's the deal?
Actually, you are incorrect. People post their feelings on this site
to having to register and give their personal information, IP address, etc. Be pro-AAMT. I choose not to and that is my right. No whining, no complaining...I am just one of those American MTs who doesn't see AAMT as glorious as you do. Also an Old MT.
great post - we have people that work at home in our hospital - sm
but getting them to work is like asking them to do a big favor. They constantly have the excuse "oh my kids are here, I have to play with them." "I can't work because my kids have a cold." "I can't work because my kids want to go outside and play."
I could go on and on and on. Those of us that work inhouse and have kids don't seem to have "the problems"
I agree, nasty and rude people lately, where are the grownups is correct in a former post.
I agree with all you said. I come here sometimes just to share thoughts, experiences, and to really help others as it helps me to help. There are some unnecessary, hurtful responses on here. The admin cannot police all and she should not be expected to. Have a little consideration, people, we are all in the same lifeboat here. As for leaving the profession, think about it. I have been tempted many times, have tried working in other fields but totally boring after hearing all that I've heard as an MT. I can't read a non-fiction book as it all seems so shallow and ridiculous to me. For too many years I have shared the lives of people on a real, non-fictional basis through my work. It is an interesting and informative profession and even doctors are amazed at how much information I have in this little brain of mine. I have on occasion saved many people in my family (including myself) from unnecessary harm or eary intervention. Please think about it before you leave us. As for this board, I llove it except for the nasty posts, but that's life. As we all know, it takes all kinds. Most people here belong in the helping profession. If they're in it for the money, it shows. Character shows up in the positive posts on here. We are, after all, supposed to be in the helping profession, not the kill or be-killed attitude some have. I would say most of us come in here for knowledge, friendship and just plain sharing. If we have a little laugh once in awhile, it helps, but not when it turns into a cat fight. IMHO, of course! 
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.
if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.
As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
That is ridiculous
Sometimes people are not where they want to be but where they HAVE to be. If I didn't have to be sitting here listening to these idiot dictators, believe me I wouldn't be.
ridiculous? no ....
I don't think my complaint was 'ridiculous'. What is ridiculous is receiving pages of scribbles in the mail on a daily basis - half of which I can't even read. THe other MT's in the company warned me already about this QA dude - he's a bit of a nut case.
No, I never claimed to know everything; and I'm open to hearing specs of individual facilities; of course!. My gripe was the pettiness of it all ... but I thought that was obvious in my post, MS Busy MT'ing. Maybe you're the one that doesn't know it all !
That's just ridiculous. nm
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This is getting ridiculous.
Now there's a job on the job seekers board looking for an IC MT to do acute care with ops for 7.5 cpl. IC!!! With ops!!!! Give me a break. That's equivalent to about 6.3 cpl after paying self-employment taxes, not to mention overhead. Their website says "HIPPA" instead of HIPAA, too.
That's ridiculous!
BUT! We are supposed to transcribe his work with a smile on our faces....GRRRR....... I swear they just don't THINK!!! Good luck with that one.
That is ridiculous. Don't come WHY?
Looks like at the very least he enjoys his peace and quiet away from family but then maybe there is more to this than meets the eye.
That's ridiculous
I also have a 4-year-old and the whole point of preschool at this age is the social interaction, then the academics come in to play. She still has another year of preschool before Kindergarten, doesn't she? Maybe you should consider looking into another preschool. Sounds like the teacher is the problem.
Oh please, how ridiculous!
It was her sister for crying out loud! And I can't even believe the OP was questioning this. Extremely odd! ;0
Ridiculous
That is really time consuming. But that is my opinon. What you could do is to by sylcount and save each patient as a file and then count them and they would list each file out by the patient name. You could do an extension or by their name do cn for chart note, lt for letter, etc. Then on your invoice if you do totals by doctor, Dr. Smith total lines, Dr. Jones total lines, etc. and attach the print out from Sylcount that would show each file by the patient's name and the line count. I thought it was bad when I was subcontracting and I had to break out chart notes from letters/consults/x-rays by date and doctor. This again makes me thank my accounts as I just keep an Excel monthly line count by doctor, highlight the docs, attach to an invoice that has total line counts done in Quick Books and hand it in and they pay. Some accounts don't even want the daily break down by doctor just each doctor and a total line count. Have never been questioned once over my line counts. If this is a sudden change then I would tell them that there would be an hourly rate to figure this out and keep track of the time it takes. But again, one of the simplest programs that would do this for you would be Sylcount. Good luck.
Really ridiculous especially when...
typing into the hospital system because all they have to do is type in a few things and get this information.
That's ridiculous.
Is it ridiculous
to list a Brainbench certification for medical transcription on your resume?
Ridiculous
Sometimes I wonder how much nicer this industry would be without all the control fanatics. I wish they could just be shipped out to some island to battle amongst themselves, play those control games that they enjoy so much, and leave us to complete the work in a rational time period without all these ridiculous rules.
Seems ridiculous
As much "fixing up" we do of what is actually dictated, I think it's pretty crappy if you get points off for simple punctuation.
Just think if we all left everything completely verbatum (especially those dictators who say coma every other word or say to put periods in the middle of a sentence)!
the start up $$ is ridiculous
That's what I think is so sinful. They sucker you in telling
you can be an employee, you can make 12,000 a pay period
easY!
None of that is true. And then you are left trying to figure out
how to pay the insurance, pay for the computer you sunk money
into buying and meeting their requirements, reference books,
the whole 9 yards.
And do they have a conscience about leaving a mom and her children
with no food? I really doubt it.
And NO a new MT is not then ready for the next job because
all over again he/she will have to INVEST in the new stuff that
THAT particular company to meet THEIR peculiarities.
I'm sick of transcription now. When they sent us home - that relinquised
the responsibility of these nationals from providing equipment and
turned all the $$ over to profit for them and ate $$ out of our income - not to
speak of the extra utilities run while home. This computer heats up
my house terribly in the summer - it helps in the winter but it still makes
a considerable dent in my bill compared to my neighbors who work during the
day.
Ridiculous complaint?
Busy, you should really try to be a little kinder.....or read her complaint a little more closely. I think her complaint was not about CONSTRUCTIVE feedback. If she gets hard copies she can't read, what good are they? Just how ridiculous this QA thing can get; one of the editors in a company I worked for corrected my "40-year-old black female" to 40-year-old Black female." No problem, if that's what they want, that's what they get. I corrected my Expander to "Black." Editor #2 comes along and corrects me saying "black or white" is never capitalized. I fired back a very disgruntled e-mail and said editor #1 had corrected me and that I KNEW black was never capitalized but if they wanted it capitalized, fine with me but somebody needed to get their sh*t together and figure out what they wanted from me. At least with that company, editor #2 had some sense, she sent back a very nice e-mail saying that to appease editor #1 to go ahead and capitalize it until I was off QA and then do it whichever way I wanted and in the meantime she would not count me off for it. At least editor #2 had some sense but ridiculous? YES, indeed.
Busy, if you're working for both MQ and Spheris, I assume your experience is about the same as mine. I worked for MQ and for Spheris when they were Edix. Once I was off full edit (in a very short time), I never heard anything from either company QA again so I assume they were happy and I went right ahead doing my best.
that is a ridiculous comparison!
dogs, birds, cats, etc are all different animals that required different diets and have different needs. You can't even compare 1 dog breed to another b/c every breed has its different needs, so that being the case, how can you possibly compare dogs to birds?? That is just ridiculous.
Ridiculous, it you can't at least make 10 cpl
why not stick to your guns and work in something else for a while? Who can eat as a newbie at 3 cpl. If you work at McDonald's you would at least be able to eat!
No wonder the market has gone into the toilet. It is full of workers who won't stand up for themselves! If the docs want someone cheap, they get what they pay for. I am also sick and tired of typing record reviews with mistakes from EMR and dirt cheap workers included. But they do get the medical words most of the time. Forget the easy words like seat, it's sit, and that drives me nuts !!
The docs will never get sued like that, so don't count on that one!
No, the whole thing is ridiculous.
I agree he shouldn't have taken the money at all, but it shouldn't have been offered or put him in the situation at all. Despite whether or not the incident was handled perfectly, it is unfair that he was expected to wait for treatment because of disputes over who pays. He was unable to reach his employer, everyone was gone, small company. Reports and money can be figured out later, not when he needs immediate treatment for possibly broken bone or at the very least a nasty effusion that needs drained and could later affect his tendons.
The system is definitely broken.
I'm sorry but I think it is ridiculous for "businesses"
I know I want itemized statements for services. Wouldn't you?
Your own bookkeeping and accounting does NOT give you direct pay, true. It is part of running your business.
Where do charges stop? Do you need to be paid to get out of bed in the morning? To walk to your computer? To turn ON your computer? To load your programs?
Something, ladies, you simply have to do for yourself.
to me, your response is RIDICULOUS!
"American workers are pricing themselves out of the market with both their hourly wage demands......." This is YOUR statement. How else am I supposed to see it?? BTY, I am NOT whining, just stating the FACTS (as I see them). You had your say, and I had mine. Grow up!
Sometimes I think some of these doctors get more and more ridiculous ...
by the day.
I feel for you in this and will be sending positive thoughts your way that you'll get through the rest of the day without becoming too overwhelmed and stressed out.
That pay is ridiculous even for a newbie
If you graduated and did well from a good school (such as M-Tec or Andrews) you will have no trouble finding a decent job for decent pay. Starting pay for newbies should be in the 7-8-cents a line range. No lower than 6.
At 4 cents a line,at 100 lines per hour (typical for a newbie) that's only 4 dollars an hour. At 150 lines per hour it's only 6 dollars an hour.
I think this company is trying to get someone who has NO actual MT experience and may be desperate to work at home--maybe have skid-by skills.
No. Not for PT, not for FT, not ever. That kind of pay is beyond ridiculous.
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Okay, I just started SR, but come on! This is ridiculous. SM
First, this is an American, clear as a bell dictator. Dictation does not come more straight forward than this guy:
SR: This is a vaginal lady
Actually dictated: This is a 51-year-old lady
Somebody explain to me how SR is such a wonderful tool?!?!?!
I am doing SR on Dictaphone EXText and it is just awful. Reports are just full of this kind of crap. I was just wondering does the Dictaphone SR server "learn." I know there are some SR programs that learn after the same correction is made consistently. The SR server will then auto correct itself. Is this true with Dictaphone? Because I have been doing SR for a couple of months now and it hasn't gotten any better and I'm making the same corrections over and over! I might as well be transcribing!
The ridiculous part
... they should know I am smart enough to know the difference. This makes me think that they are concerned about me getting information they would rather I did not have.
That's ridiculous, since you have been working
for about 3 years.
MTSOs work together with MT schools which do anything possible to lure people into their training programs.
Just keep looking and testing until you get hired.
As far as I know one can only get 'additional taining' through an internship (there are very few out there and they ask for a fee and do not pay for work doneduring the internship)) or to register into a complete program.
There are no short 'refresher courses.
If I were you I would ontinue to apply. And don't let 'them' tell you that you are not good, you are good, they only want your money.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Why don't they fix it?
Are you pretty sure from past experience that it's not just ''saying'' it wrong on the results, but if the post does get 10 actual Thumbs Down, it's still automatically deleted?
We should really test it out with this post. Come on, folks, vote only Thumbs Up for this sucker, and let's see if it gets ''automatically'' deleted or not. (Vote on the original post, of course.)
No ONE should do VR for that ridiculous price.
Mine is 4 cpl and with straight intermixed you can make a decent salary.
Maybe things have crossed over to ridiculous
They better soon get some work or everyone will quit anyway. This is getting ridiculous. There is no
doubt they have some agenda with all this continuous hiring and no work.
You're ridiculous. He's an adult and she can't do that.
She can talk to him, keep the lines of communication open with him, pray for him, but she has to decide what consequences she is willing to accept by where she draws her line of acceptance.
You cannot make decisions for grown children.
What a hateful parent to even try. Counsel them with a tender heart-to-heart but try to force them into living like yourself? HATEFUL.
Out of curiosity, what are the ridiculous demands?
Just curious what they might be.
That kind of inflexibility is RIDICULOUS! nm
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Small MTSO here - 6 cpl -- ridiculous
I as a small MTSO would be so embarassed to offer 6 cpl to anyone. Could not believe what I read. At the most I take 20 - 25% of what I charge clients and pay the IC the 80%. I even do the pick up, QA, billing and delivery of finished products. But to offer 6 cpl is a slap in the face. Even newbies I offer 7.5 to 8 cpl and start them on the easiest accounts. Hopefully she can sleep at night and look at her face in the mirror.
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