Yeah, I'm considering it. Here is more info

• Report on SNL Weekend Update - bewildered
  • SNL gets their info for Weekend update from - public newspapers and public websites..n/m
    • by the way, SNL last Saturday was a RERUN. - public newspapers and public websites..n/m
  • I'm having a hard time understanding why you - think they would think the story came from you
  • IMO, you violated a patient's confidentiality by even posting about this - that you transcribed t - Cali girl
    • I was thinking the same thing. - nm
  • You must be in the Albany area.. - mtor
  • This was all over the news weeks before it - see message
  • hmmmm - Anon2
    • But - Straight Dope story
      • But - Anon2
  • Not sure of accuracy, but here's the - Straight Dope story
    • I heard it wasn't a reporter's job to be accurate; - Thanks
  • Your response to the boss was goofy - Kim
    • SNL weekend update - bewildered
      • We live in Virginia sm - trose
      • A big fat baloney! - Kim
  • I wouldn't worry. - WA MT
  • I saw that story too, but not on SNL - TweedleDee
    • Talk about gross (sm) - Bugs
      • Morgellons isn't new - SCMT
      • Ah that must be the disease people have when the MDs can't - sm
        • Good luck with your search - bewildered
        • Bugs, exactly what kind of bugs - Hallie
          • Previously unknown worm-like creatures made of - Bugs
            • Get another physician - Hallie
              • Yeah, I'm considering it. Here is more info - Bugs
        • Yup. Thanks. Hope you get some - Bugs
    • Roaches - no web - bewildered
      • There is a certain kind of roach - Me
      • I don't know, I found quite a few of these stories on searching..... - sm

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I understand where you're coming from.  The respect is just not there anymore.  Everyone in this business has heard for years about how voice recognition and EMRs are going to replace us all, which I just don't buy.  I work for a national on a difficult account with many ESLs, and it generates lots of work.  Every summer we have problems keeping up with turnaround but the management has yet to come up with a solution that actually works consistently.  I suspect it's a combination of MTs having kids home from school during the day now, vacations being taken, and people not working their schedules,  but most of all I think it's just plain burnout - we deserve to enjoy the summer too.  Last summer I worked so much to the point that I think I did substantial damage, and my body just cannot take it anymore (been at it for about 20 years, the last 10 years of it steady).  The powers that be fail to understand that we are not machines! 

Uh-huh

That makes complete sense (not).

It's called MT stars, as in medical transcription, so post regarding medical transcription - as in the profession......understand that?

You want Regis and whatsername?  Post on that board.

You want Romper Room?  They have their board, too......   Get the message honey bun?

Account instruction#1 says bold and CAPITALIZE allergies, list medications in number form regardless of what dictator says. Do NOT abbreviate in HPI, but you can abbreviate in Assessment if the doc does.  Don't use degree sign unless doctor dictates it.  List assessment in number form, even if there's only one item.

Account instruction #2 says bold headings but never bold or capitalize allergies.  Only expand abbreviations in Assessment but nowhere else in document.  Be sure to use degree sign when typing temperatures.  If there is more than one item in the assessment, use number form in listing them.

Account instruction #3 says never bold or capitalize allergies, don't abbreviate anything.  Never number medications, even if dictated by physician.  Can use the degree symbol if Drs. A, B, and C dictate such.  If Dr. D dictates patient's name in body of report and uses words that don't exist in the English language, be sure to type what he says since it's a verbatim account, and he complains all the  time that he doesn't want his report to sound so *formal* by using *the patient* instead of the name.   For all other reports, use *the patient.*  If Dr. E dictates the patient's sister, Sara, do NOT use the name Sara and just type *the patient's sister," regardless of what he really says. Dr. F might not dictated a numbered assessment list, but that's what he means.  Dr. G prefers to see the text of H&Ps on the same line as the heading, but on his consults, he thinks it looks better if there's a hard return, with the text starting on the next line.

As an Editor for multiple accounts, are you sure that YOU'RE paying attention to all the little idiosyncrasies contained in the sometimes 20-30 PAGES of account instructions for any given account? If so, I doubt you would find it so easy.

live in Bush's world.  Must be nice there! 

I would go for the scrubbing toilets... at least you get more  respect!

Although this is a 2003 article, I'm *amazed* (NOT!) at how the timing of this for June 2006 just *magically* coincided with our problem with Iran, and it mentions *bunker busters* which I've read Bush wants to use with our next war against Iran.

But, yeah, it's all okay and harmless, blah, blah, blah.  Do what you want. 

I sure ain't going near the "City of Sin" any time soon.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-06-nuclear-usat_x.htm

Not speaking of snakes here but going way back, God never said go kill and eat all the animals He put on the planet....it was MAN's interpretation of what GOD was trying to say.  God had no pen or paper or pencil.  MAN decided to go kill and eat all animals and then put it all in Deuteronomy........one of the 5 books of Moses......

blech........