Yeah and it talks back too! lol nm

• Do you ever find yourself talking to your monitor - Nanna23
  • Yeah and it talks back too! lol nm - all in a days work
  • I always yell SPIT IT OUT ALREADY!!! - LOL
    • LOL I do that too but we are really......nm - yelling at the dictator(s)...*rofl*
  • My son is only 7, so he hasn't caught on yet - NCMT
  • My poor mouse... - Trixie
  • Yes, especially since my printer stopped talking to me. - nm
    • My printer is really into domination, and won't say "please" when it tells me to load paper - But somehow I like it.
      • LOL...too funny!!-nm - NCMT
  • I'm guilty of leaning (sm) - TK
    • I lean, too!! Like it's going to help or something! - gmg
    • Me too. (no message) - Penny
  • All the time! Glad I'm not the only one!!! - gmg

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WARNING:     LOL

I worked in the diagnostic imaging department at a local hospital for five years. The front desk clerks, who at the time were also doing the scheduling, had to know the preps for all the exams, how to use the scheduling software, answer the phones and field all kinds of questions, not to mention deal with cranky patients and irate relatives who wanted to pick up films (after HIPAA was introduced), started out at $7.00 an hour.

Transcriptionists started out at $13.00 an hour. Need I say more?

Well, I am anyway.   Yes, I can do transcription without totally concentrating on it, in fact a lot of times I am mentally making up grocery lists, planning the rest of my day, etc. But I've been in the medical field, mostly in transcription, for over 20 years. And even I have to concentrate hard when I get a new doctor, particularly an ESL one, until I get used to him/her.

I am really tired of hearing people put down this field. Sure, it could pay better. So could about 95% of the jobs out there. Yes, outsourcing is a problem. Talk to the people who used to work for GM and all the other manufacturing plants that have closed down and moved to Mexico or wherever.

There are darned few jobs where you can work at home and make as much money as you can in medical transcription. No, you'll never get rich doing it. But you can make decent money. And it is an honorable profession - you are doing something to help people. Compare it to telemarketing, which you can also do out of your home, where you are trying to fleece people, or at the very least convince them to spend money they may or may not have. Compared to that, I would say we are pretty high up on the food chain.

  (steps down)

I'm not sure how many people they are hiring but you shouldn't stress too hard over it. Do the best you can.

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!