Yeah, but good times or bad, people still get sick, hurt
Posted By: die, have babies & operations - sm on 2008-12-29
In Reply to: In bad times, people ignore healthcare - - Amanda
I do mainly pediatric oncology, orthopedics and GI, and it seems to be increasing, not slowing down.
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Yeah, cant hurt to ask. I've worked in a similiar situation and I have never been turned down for
Just give him what you have told us..increase in work and wonder if your salary could be adjusted accordingly. Getting a raise from a private doctor is way easier than a national transcription company, let me tell you. Good luck.
Yeah! After 11 years of it, I'm so sick of it I could literally scream, and that's no joke!
And these docs who dictate faster than the speed of sound, like they could give a rat's butt because they're in too big of a hurry to get out on the golf course, I like to strangle with my own bare hands. I'd like to tell them all what I really think about them. Truly, I have zip respect for 99.9% of the doctors out there today, who seem completely incompetent. How they manage to get out of med school I'll never know! 
Yeah, men have no sense at times - sm
as for the plantar warts they can take at least 3 months of repeated treatment to go away. I have had them twice. I used mole skin treated with muratic acid both times. The first time took about 3 months of repeat applications. The second time worked a lot faster (about a month), whether it was stronger the second time or I did it better (I was 14 the first time) who knows. The acid ate away the warts and my foot is fine now. I hope you don't have to have them burned off, and I hope your son heals up well. Did you explain to you Ex that burning in this case means using liquid nitrogen, not heat? Totally amazing, too bad your son did not tell him to go burn himself with the knife and see how it felt.
Probably people aren't too thrilled about being sick on weekends either. nm
What-ev-er! I'm sick of people shoving their homosexuality down my throat.
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Oh, geez! My cheeks hurt from laughing. That was pretty good!
I am sick of people posting crap on this board and not backing it up. nm.
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Do you realize they just hired more people for these accounts. What a rip. Sick to death of it and
when you cant work a weekend they say well we will just have to hire more help then.
Garlic keeps you healthy. You smell so bad sick people avoid you.
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In bad times, people ignore healthcare -
some things you have to have even in bad times, but all the elective stuff which keeps a lot of us going is not being done in this time of crisis. I was typing 50-100 GI procedures a day, now I am typing about 20!
The economic crisis is having a big effect on healthcare - don't kid yourself...
In bad times, people ignore healthcare -
some things you have to have even in bad times, but all the elective stuff which keeps a lot of us going is not being done in this time of crisis. I was typing 25-50 GI procedures a day, now I am typing about 15!
The economic crisis is having a big effect on healthcare - don't kid yourself...
I've heard people have to try a new food 10 times before they know for sure they won't like it
I heard that somewhere.
I had a SIL who actually SAT on her young children and force-fed them new foods if they refused them at the table. We were appalled, but weirdly, the kids often got up from the floor and happily ate the food they were just force-fed!
I have asked numerous times if people like the Amherst office but seems no one ever offers their
opinion about that office. Just transferred there and I am sure many other MTs on here work out of that office.
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.
How good I was in better times?
I think the better times are now and no need to keep to myself at all. I am 1000 times off better now than when I had to work so much. From what I am reading, lots are sitting around and twiddling their thumbs. This is how this thread started by asking how many sit and wait for work… Say what?? All over the board, no work, waiting on work to come in, having to readjust my schedule for work, not able to finish my hours.
I love the Good Times reruns...sm
glad that TVLand is showing them now!
Yeah right, OF COURSE! How could there be other people who don't like QA people?
Could only be one. Hahaha. Dream on.
rude people? I would take good pay over polite people any day
Besides that they have never been rude to me and I have been here for almost 2 years. What do you consider a bad account?
I know my account is a little tough, but I am used to it. I am tough!
Yeah, suddenly there is a barrage of people asking questions
Do you think we're that stupid or what?
yeah, it's just that people will enter for something FREE, but if it costs a buck
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Yeah, and we are doing such a good job
protecting ourselves over here. Are you crazy? They picked up a handful of muslim men crossing the Mexico border into Texas. They didn't speak a lick of Spanish. I wonder how many others get across they never pick up. If you think that Bush went to Iraq for anything other then political reasons, you are crazy. I support our soldiers over there 100%, and I think since we started we have to finish it. If we didn't, we would be crazy. Bush did not have our best intrests in mind though. He might have fooled everyone in thinking he did. That is why he had such support. Every war has been political. I never said be nice to them. I never said war was not neccessary at times either. We have done nothing but breed more of them by our actions though or lack thereof. When you see the next terrorist attack on US soil, then you will see what a fine job our president has done in protecting his people.
Also, I don't have anger problems. I just feel very strongly about certain issues. Like I said before, there are 2 sides to everything. Everything is not so clear cut, and I get sick of people who want to put a generalized idea out there and think that it applies across the board or people who are so quick to judge others, but have never even been in a situation where they know what they are even talking about.
Oh, yeah, that's not good.
they need to get rid of her- its a patient care and safety issue!
I know exactly how you feel because you don't want this shoddy work to go out and I wouldn't either, but I wonder if your company takes for granted you will fix it so it enables them to do nothing about it? You might remind them that while this may be saving money for them at the moment, when a mistake she made ends up causing patient harm, what will be the cost then? Good luck.
I AM SICK, SICK, SICK AND TIRED
Of bad dictators and QA that takes up for them!!!! I am sick to death of:
1. Doc saying paragraph after every sentence.
2. Docs never dictating the first name of doc they are writing to.
3. QA asking us to insert certain sentences in certain places for certain doctors who do not dictate them.
4. Docs wanting their own specific headings but not dictating them.
5. Docs who ramble, never saying period.
6. QA asking us to **fix** their grammer, mistakes, fragmented sentences, and verb tenses and sometimes when we do, we are docked points for **not transcribed as dictated.**
7. QA not wanting anything sent to them, stating **researach medical terms and facilities you are not familiar with.** If they are not there to help us out, what are they doing there????
8. Docs, NPs, and PAs who do not know how to dictate, pronounce, or spell.
9. QA asking us to use BOS, but not knowing it themselves.
10. Doing work I do not get paid for.
Before QA became involved, in years gone by, if a doc's dictation was awful - then that is what he got for transcription and more times than not, they would straighten up and make a better effort. Not now - we or QA has to almost do the dictation for them!! They are the ones with the medical degree - not us. What happened to us just transcribing what is dictated. Why can't they be responsible for what prints out?? If someone could let them know how much trouble their dictation style causes, it would cut my transcription time in half. My list could go on and on. It is a terrible time to be thinking about getting out of the business, but if this crap keeps up - I have to give it some serious consideration. The job just AIN'T what it used to be. 
Yeah - that would mean you don't get good signal out there. sm
But you might inquire about the future plans for that area. Verizon progresses pretty fast.
Oh yeah and good luck!
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Yeah, it's early.....good grammar! You know what I mean though! - nm
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Yeah, that's a good one to have. I have that one and I bought it new. It's really helpful to
in conjunction with your abbreviation expander.
Yeah really Tinks... must be some good stuff!
Heck, yeah! Good pay for 1-1/2 years experience.
not good with people either, so that really
The thought of working for the public just makes me cringe. How do waitresses, cashiers, etc., put on that happy face all day long? Props to them.
Some people (definitely NOT me) are good at SM
ESLs and know that companies will usually pay more per line for ESL accounts.
I personally would want to commit hari kari (sp?) if I had to do ESLs day in and day out. JMHO.
Chickadee
YEP, and some people have good taste and....sm
and some others have NO taste/class....*lol* 
Yes there are people actually good enough to hit 98% accuracy. Happens every day!!!!! sm
QA has only become a real job in the last 10 years. Before that there was 1 QA person for every roughly 100 MTs!!!
Of course it was - too many people still believe we went there for a good reason. nm
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what some people have to do to feel good about themselves
"What do you all do when you have to type an expletive? I am working on an account where this comes up often. I refuse to type the actual expletive so I usually just put (expletive) and go on. No one has ever said anything, but I was curious as to what everyone else does."
That was my ORIGINAL POST. I wanted to know what any other MT in the field did regarding expletives. I didn't ask you to judge my character. I didn't need anyone telling me to "put my big girl panties on." All I was looking for was for you all to tell me what you did in that situation. I guess it makes you feel good to pound on a person rather than address the inital question - if that's what you need to do, then so be it. I am not new to the field. Been an MT for over 10 years and have never typed an expletive, though it hasn't come up often. Found this board and am mostly a lurker and thought I would finally run it by some others. Should have just kept it to myself. No wonder I like being an MT - you don't have to deal with other people very often.
Go ahead and feed the piranhas if that's what gets you through your day.
Bad. Good pay, but bad accounts and rude people
stay away IMO
I know people who have not had such good luck online
But good for you!!!
Good 4U! Fellow people-pleaser here LOL.nm
Thank you, sounds like you work for good people....
I think no matter where you go it has its little ups and downs. Have a good day and thank you for responding.
Of course, it is only as good as the people entering the data...
Also, when computers make mistakes, or are hit with malicious worms or viruses, etc., it could be devastating, could it not?
Also, more and more lately we are noticing actually a lot more mistakes with things that are automated, and once there is an error, it has been extremely difficult to get it corrected. Such as - errors at the DMV (?), errors in our car computer (? - again, it is always a mystery when trying to get things fixed), lets see, then there is the mixup with our phone number that belongs to about three other people (still not fixed because we are told it is all done on computer (?)...
Also, who takes responsiblity when there is an error, because with everything automated, there seems to be little or no accountability - you can hardly get through to real people in a lot of businesses today.
The idea of technology is awesome; however human error will always have an affect...
my humble opinion and just an observation. most information still has to be entered by humans. perhaps we will be obsolete.
Good advice but some people refuse to
split "amicably." I know for a fact in my case it would be a blame game and a huge mess. Been there many times and resorted to other ways of handling it. I wonder if what you suggested would still work for me?
Not the OP but helped by your advice.
Thanks,
me
Good advice. I wish more service IT people (sm)
that I have met were more helpful. They should realize that faster PCs = happier and more productive MTs = more $$$ for company and maybe an increase in his own pay! KWIM?
I have had the good, the bad and the ugly in QA people in the past sm
It shapes the way I do my job, on both sides of the equation.
Right now, I am teaching an MT to do acute care with my feedback. I must be doing something right (she is too and trying very hard) because she is progressing so nicely. She does rad too and she said that my help is making her a better rad MT as well.
I so rarely send anything to QA at my other FT job and I had to send one yesterday, the first in over a month! I was so p o 'd, but the doctor threw some obscure equipment at me and I had 7 blanks, but that was for only 3 words I could not document well enough to suit me. My favorite QA gal grabbed it and gave me some feedback on the words and she went on to tell me what a good job I did (not!) because she said that most MTs have 10 to 20 blanks for this same doctor. I almost never have a blank with him, but this one time...it was a complex lower extremity interventional vascular procedure and I am not up on the equipment for those just yet with the switch to cardiovascular from OP notes. I felt like a fool, but she was great.
I have some really awful ones and there is one in particular who comes to mind because of her extremely condescending and childish manner. I actually have the QA position for a gal who was fired because of a similar attitude problem.
As QA, we are around to be the MT's safety net. We here for an extra set of ears so that the document is as full and correct as possible. Providing feedback helps an MT so that the quantity of their work going to QA will diminish. If you really want a justification for your existence as a QA, it is in the number of blanks you fill in and low numbers of jobs you have to review. IT IS NOT a promotion! IT IS NOT job advancement! It is using the knowledge you have gained to help others.
I can sort of understand the attitude because MTs seem to be having more issues with quality than they used to, or so it seems to me. The quality most lacking is a sincere wish to do the job well.
Nice people, good price
Well, thank you for that. It's about time we get some decent service and good prices on equipment for the work we do. Maybe things are changing for the better. Do ya think????
Good grief people, what;s up with all this drizzle stuff??
You people are having a real good time condemning me....
Don't you know that you can DEACTIVATE your current OS when you upgrade to the next level? Obviously not. But then, most people here don't seem to be all that computer literate. I asked a couple of computer questions below which got absolutely NO answer.
Don't go jumping to conclusions that someone is a "scammer" and "ruining it for everyone else" until you do your homework.
What I think is so sad is that people may give up good jobs to go there to find out these things all
to late. The newbies can learn and use MQ and move on which they do but of course the clients suffer then with all the people learning on them but this is what MQ causes and when they lose clients with poor quality or people that just throw out work then they caused their own problems. You cant keep good MTs with no work I dont care what incentives you offer because they mean nothing with no work ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I wish people would understand that when MQ hires them.
well oldtime, I'll bet that you have good work ethics. But, people like you are far and few in
6 to 8 MTs only a couple actually work out. That is an absolute shame, but it's the truth. How do I know this? Because I surveyed several services asking the very same question to each and this is what the averages were. Of course, someone here will whine about how many services I surveyed, were they friend, etc., but I can say with absolute certainty that I was completely fair in my end figures.
My attorney tells me "A contract is only as good as the two people who sign it." nm
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Never had this happen either. Email the SH people. They're very prompt with help. Good
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oh good grief. Haven't we heard enuf of this? Educated people are just
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