Yes, but the sarcastic exclamation points were unnecessary
Posted By: Play nice on 2006-06-14
In Reply to: Good for you, but not all MTs want to be a - SM
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what's with the exclamation?
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I'm sure Mary is real; why the exclamation?
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People! It is EXCLAMATION, not explanation. Are you folks
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it was a typo. No one is disputing that exclamation is correct. calm down.
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The rudeness is really unnecessary. Don't take your
unhappiness out on people here.
Totally unnecessary.
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I do. I still believe it is an unnecessary cruelty.
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Immoral, unnecessary, probably illlegal war.
Exactly correct about being unnecessary insurance
In my contracts with clients, it is made quite clear that I will not be responsible for any mistakes that may create legal and/or other problems due to electronic signature or otherwise. The physicians know as my clients they must read their reports and also they know that I will leave blanks when I feel necessary to quality of report.
Also, the AAMT gets a cut of any of that insurance they sell... it is a money maker for them.
First, I was being a bit sarcastic ...
Second, while I think a union that is in full force today would make an impact in the problems the industry is facing, I don't think a new fledgling union start would change much for the better now.
Just my opinion.
What? Are you being sarcastic?
Honestly I feel sorry for some of the children of the people on this board. Can you give compliments to them, or is everything they do bashed too if not up to your standards or your opinion of what everyone's standards should be. Of course not, your kids could be living in the street and you'd be on here posting how wonderful they are. If these are grown women posting, they should be ashamed of themselves! Patti's house is beautiful, maybe not for everyone, but if she loves it that is ALL that really matters. The rest of you sound like you live in a trailer park.
Where did I say they were being sarcastic?
I did not. YOU are the one assuming now. I have editing experience, I have transcription experience and I have supervisory experience. I just don't have editing and supervisory experience in the medical transcription field. Thus, the "break into" comment. I didn't feel the need to go into specific details about my background and college education. But thanks for all the help. If you can't answer the question and provide anything positive to the conversation, why post at all? Just to be snarky and accusatory?
No not me....I was being sarcastic...
I was on your side. Mean that poster was the one stirring.
Are you just being sarcastic?
It's sort of hard to tell for sure.
If not, they would need her Soc# for government help, so I would think they would know she is working.
I would say, check out what your state offers and do what you have to do (quit if you must), but I do think it is very odd that you have been trying for a child when you are so hard up financially ... and even more odd that you didn't have a plan in mind as to how to deal with the health care.
I think we would all really like to hear your thinking on that part.
I was just being sarcastic! :D sm
Because they should NOT depend on us to automatically know how to spell anything right, not even "aspirin". If the doctor is going to spell out a word, he should spell it correctly or not at all. JMO.
Download Ccleaner. It will clean out your unnecessary files.
I used every day, works great!
GEt a clue I was being sarcastic, duh
And of course, I'm the "little" Hispanic girl - dumbass!
It is rude to be sarcastic.
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I, of course, was being highly sarcastic.
Wow. No sense of humor? Seems this place can do that to some.
Cheers, luv, cheers.
'still get over it' remark was unnecessary. Please refrain from crass remarks.
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Don't you think people know that? Stop being sarcastic!
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There are good points and there are bad and ugly points. Unfortunately, the bad and ugly get
deleted. Just the other day there was info and it seems to be more positive. Like any MT job, some love it, some hate it. But, having been employed there, the bad parts are/were true. The changes sound great but not great enough to make me change my mind about working for them. I do say she pays well for the area. She is one of the rare business owners who actually started out as an MT..I think that makes a big difference in pay.
This is just a sarcastic guess, but I'm assuming by the line - sm
why else would there be so many mistakes. If they were paid by the hour, maybe they would spend more time on getting to know the ENGLISH language. I actually had a report come back from India where instead of the word "children" it said "litter."
mean, sarcastic manager and QA cousin at meditec
The internship is fine, don't look to get rich though. Purely training. Good way to get your foot in the door. The reason why you may want to stay away is because of the manager and her cousin who is in editing. Mean, sarcastic people! That is how they treated me anyway.
No. It'll be the most expensive magazine subscription you'll ever get, and it's unnecessary
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yes it is free....mine was free....why the exclamation?
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Two points
According to the BOS:
1. You are supposed to substitute mL for cc.
2. When quanity and unit of measure immediately follow a heading such as estimated blood loss, use numerals.
two points
what is a sentence ends and the next sentence starts with...
80% how do you do that?
Just a few points
Okay...here goes...
So, currently I work in-house at my local hospital. (Probably shouldn't mention this cuz it's rude, but just trying to give accurate information)..I make 16.47 an hour, plus benefits. I love my job and it is supporting me and my husband (who is in college at the time...graduating in JUNE!!!)...So, it's worth it. However, I have to deal with a LOT of crap from the other MTs in-house. Lots of bitterness, competitiveness, bi*chiness, etc. I am dealing with it because I know I am not going to do this forever. Which brings me to my next point:
Don't stay in this job for a long time!!! You won't go anywhere with it, if anything you will probably get laid off due to outsourcing. I, myself, am starting school for medical coding. I will be done with school ($2000) in June and then get started in my new career. If have been a medical Transcriptionist for 6 years and have done everything from psychiatric to internal medicine to sleep studies as an IC (and it's not worth being and IC in my opinion because of all the taxes you have to pay...big bucks) and my best job yet has been working in-house at my current job. However, like I said, MTing is not going to get you anywhere fast. If you want a job that takes you to the next level, go into coding. There are a lot more career opportunities out there and you can eventually work from home being a coder as well.
If I had to do it over I would have gone straight into coding (except for the fact that I got a lot of medical experience working as an MT). Good luck to all of you who decide to stick with MTing, but I don't think it will reward you in the future. I believe it is a dying profession and we all need to move on while the opportunity is here.
I pray for all of us to be able to support ourselves and our family! I know it's tough out there and we all are struggling to make end's meat. Just keep on keepin on and we'll all make it through some how.
Points well taken, thank you.
Your points are well taken. I was being a bit vague in what I was actually thinking - there are times on this board that things turn really nasty and hateful, and some of the MTs who are on this board appear to turn on each other, squabble about meaningless points. I really didn't want to encourage a hate-fest against anything, that's all. I think that is indeed unproductive.
BUT, you are right... we can't just be all happy we want fair pay and expect things to change or that we will be heard. We do have to have a stance and a mission and goals. After posting, I did a search here on AHDI and found that I'm hardly the only MT who feels this way, and saw some really great posts back in Sept 2008.
And, I do agree, there are times when it pays to be against smoething (and risk appearing "negative").
So, where do we go from here? Most of these threads seem to die out... and maybe this one will too. I'm hoping it won't, but I really don't have a clue where to go from.
My thought is to brainstorm and continue this dialogue - but I'm not sure MT Stars is the correct venue?
What does anyone think about an email list - that would mean using our real names and emails - to interact off of this forum. I may be way off here - if so, please, opinions welcome! I am not sure going on and on about it here is the momentum that is needed... nor am I sure talking about it on an email list is either, but it's the only idea I have. I don't have the knowledge or time to create a website forum for a group to form via that method.
Maybe this will all sputter out after we all vent again here, I dunno, but I really hope not. Someone mentioned to me today it may well be too late, that trying to organize could push VR and offshoring even faster... I don't want to believe that.
I have a ton of ideas and thoughts and have seen so many good points and posts about how AHDI has hurt U.S. MTs.
We need to band together.
So. From here I make the suggestion that anyone interested in participating in an email list (where we can send a group email by hitting reply all and sharing our thoughts and hope and ideas for a mission and how to get something organized) write to me via email.
I'm not interested in being a leader of this per se, but I am willing and motivated to try as best I can to get some sort of ball rolling.
Let's do this?! I hope the MTs who were posting about this way before I did, back in 2008, will reply too.
Tech Support, your thoughts are exactly what I am envisioning us doing on an email list. Let me know what you think of this and if you want to participate. Thank you for responding so thoughtfully.
Any other ideas, please!
Points well taken, thank you.
Your points are well taken. I was being a bit vague in what I was actually thinking - there are times on this board that things turn really nasty and hateful, and some of the MTs who are on this board appear to turn on each other, squabble about meaningless points. I really didn't want to encourage a hate-fest against anything, that's all. I think that is indeed unproductive.
BUT, you are right... we can't just be all happy we want fair pay and expect things to change or that we will be heard. We do have to have a stance and a mission and goals. After posting, I did a search here on AHDI and found that I'm hardly the only MT who feels this way, and saw some really great posts back in Sept 2008.
And, I do agree, there are times when it pays to be against smoething (and risk appearing "negative").
So, where do we go from here? Most of these threads seem to die out... and maybe this one will too. I'm hoping it won't, but I really don't have a clue where to go from.
My thought is to brainstorm and continue this dialogue - but I'm not sure MT Stars is the correct venue?
What does anyone think about an email list - that would mean using our real names and emails - to interact off of this forum. I may be way off here - if so, please, opinions welcome! I am not sure going on and on about it here is the momentum that is needed... nor am I sure talking about it on an email list is either, but it's the only idea I have. I don't have the knowledge or time to create a website forum for a group to form via that method.
Maybe this will all sputter out after we all vent again here, I dunno, but I really hope not. Someone mentioned to me today it may well be too late, that trying to organize could push VR and offshoring even faster... I don't want to believe that.
I have a ton of ideas and thoughts and have seen so many good points and posts about how AHDI has hurt U.S. MTs.
We need to band together.
So. From here I make the suggestion that anyone interested in participating in an email list (where we can send a group email by hitting reply all and sharing our thoughts and hope and ideas for a mission and how to get something organized) write to me via email.
I'm not interested in being a leader of this per se, but I am willing and motivated to try as best I can to get some sort of ball rolling.
Let's do this?! I hope the MTs who were posting about this way before I did, back in 2008, will reply too.
Tech Support, your thoughts are exactly what I am envisioning us doing on an email list. Let me know what you think of this and if you want to participate. Thank you for responding so thoughtfully.
Any other ideas, please!
I agree with you on several points
That is, if you have a reputable daycare that is organized with caring people educated in childhood development. My neice was recently changed from a nursery (2 yrs old) because she was found lying on the floor in a corner at the nursery by her mother who came to pick her up at 5:15 p.m.. She had a 103 degree fever, and no one had bothered to call my sister about it. Anyone knowing that child would know she would have to be sick to be lying around when other kids are present. The new nursery is the different in night and day. She gets a report every day from what the child eats to even how many times a day she poops. It's wonderful and the child's attitude when she gets home... a world of difference. My sister thought she had a caring daycare, until she moved. Now she knows what one is really like. To all who have to put children in daycare, KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOURS!
Also, you second point, the shyness... I was also raised at home by my mother and never put in daycare and I was "painfully" shy when I got to school. I had a hard time throughout my school years because of it. Now as an adult, I don't think there is anything holding me back, but I had to work hard to get out of the shyness. I think because I was at home, I didn't know other kids but they knew each other and I never seemed to fit in.
great points...sm
You've really given me a lot to think about this early Thursday mornin'...thanks! You're right, though. A lot of the issues you bring up, I have NEVER thought of. Wow, pretty eye opening post! It's about time something worth reading was posted...
Here's some points to ponder....sm
1. You can go ahead and cash the checks you received and it 's guaranteed money.
2. You can wait and join the class action suit if you haven't and not cash the check; however, remember that in class action lawsuits the only true winners are the lawyers. They end up getting most of the money in the end and generally the plaintiffs end up with a very small amount. It irks me to see things like class action suits that results in the attorneys receiving millions of dollars in legal fees and the plaintiffs end up with less than $100 because the legal fees ate the money available up. Look at people who sue insurance companies over automobile accidents for example. Say an attorney gets them $500,000 - well the attorney gets $250,000 for legal fees and the injured party receives $250,000 - and in situations where they receive large monies it's generally because the person is going to have permanent health problems related to the accident that future insurance companies will exclude paying for. $250,000 isn't a lot of money if you have an injury that will cause chronic problems throughout your life.
3. Remember that if you do join the suit that this will probably be tied up in court for years so don't expect a quick settlement if they do decide to settle. Agreeing to settle a case outside of court doesn't mean the defendant is guilty - sometimes it's cheaper to settle out than to continue racking up costs associated with the lawsuit.
As a note I don't work for MQ - I've just been out there in the legal world to see very commonly that what people think will happen isn't what happens in the long run. The best you'll get is checks for any amount you weren't paid properly and possibly some interest, but don't expect to get a truckload of cash because they messed up your paychecks. Instead if you wait on the lawsuit then you may end up having to share the back wages with the attorneys.
You made several of my points..
With hard work and encouragement, the helping hand from the government helped produce productive citizens. You had the advantage at least of an intact family. Think of a poor baby born to an uneduated teenager mother with no father. Without a lot of hard work and self determination, no amount of money from the govt. is going to end that vicious cycle.
what is their points review
doesn't sound like its in our favor, is it part of the new mt/me rewards plan??
I agree with some of your points. sm
I didn't post my original post to argue. I simply offered a different opinion and what I thought were some good suggestions. I didn't realize everyone here had to have the same cookie-cutter opinion or they would be broad-sided. I agree that everyone needs some alone time. Never said they didn't. I just don't think a vacation is the way to accomplish that. And I never said I take my kids with me everywhere I go, and for you to make these assumptions is pretty rude. What I said was that I don't take a VACATION without my kids -- I think it's wrong. My opinion, and I'm entitled to it. And I have a very healthy relationship with my kids. I never said they were angels -- that's your assumption (again). But I did say that my kids are treated with respect, they treat me with respect, and we enjoy each other's company. Sorry if you don't understand that. I'll try to keep my opinions to myself from now on in case they conflict with the prevailing cookie-cutter opinion.
A lot of good points, especially one (sm)
I also like to stop and do other things. Constantly popping laundry in and out of the washer/dryer, running back and forth cooking in the kitchen, etc. So I agree that by the line is probably the best.
Excellent points! (sm)
I like the idea of the letter serving double duty both as information about and an example of your transcription.
[I also like how you broke your post up into small paragraphs -- so much easier to read online where solid, dense paragraphs appear so inpenetrable.]
Cold-calling and mail solicitations rarely yield immediate results, but within 3 to 6 months inquiries should start trickling in from the managers who were impressed by the presentation and filed the letter for future need.
a couple of other points
This is not only about our jobs - this is about our medical records - the quality of what is done overseas is not the same as what is done here. Errors made in medical records should be taken seriously. Secondly, our privacy is protected we are held accountable for that in the US - do you think for one minute we could prosecute someone in India who does not follow the rules?
And very good points. nm
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Excellent points. Very well said.
There were 2 points to the post.
Both points were addressed and specific solutions to both problems were given. Obviously, there are those readers, such as yourself, who only want to focus on one of the problems. I don't feel a need to lecture anyone on financial planning. I am simply offering a solution to helping this person overcome her problem for the future. Please trying offering a suggestion yourself instead of pointing a finger at those who do.
Good points. nm
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Interesting points...
I did some research on HIPAA compliance with companies who offshore to India. From the looks of it, the American-owned companies can be prosecuted for violations. Also, it appears that India has similar laws and can prosecute their own citizens who violate confidentiality. I definitely think there is more to the story than just people typing from cafes with no rules or laws. Being that offshored work is big business in foreign countries, it would be to their own advantage to prosecute anyone who violates confidentiality. I imagine there are laws in place already.
Under the summary points
This statement was my favorite, and I do hope a lot of companies read this survey and learn from it!
"Speech-recognition technology is only a transcription tool, and not a transcription replacement. The job involves too much professional intelligence and sense-making ability to have it migrate completely to speech recognition."
I honestly don't think a company should be able to lower our rate of pay because of VR...We are still responsible for sitting and listening and correcting mistakes...although I have been fortunate enough not to have my company have any accounts that use VR yet...but I have a friend and her company is doing VR, and her rate of pay is ridiculous!
why not? it's just key points of the chart ---
or chart condensed. anyone needing to know anything will go into the chart itself, including the courts.
specific points
Any specific points that you feel are meaningful to you. Whereas in my situation I am going to make the point that I applied at a hospital and intended on working for the hospital and not being outsourced after 10 years. The benefits aren't going to be as good for me, and also with outsourcing like that they put so many people on the account to get that turnaround time real fast that you run out of work. Those are just a few of my points. What I am going to do is make an outline of why outsourcing is a bad idea for the hospital and bad for us on a personal level just to sum it up, and then I am going to proceed on with my letter.
You also brought up points sm
I had overlooked. Being willing to work Sat, Sun, holidays etc. I realize there are folks that dont' want this type of job, unfortunately, IT IS THE JOB! Medicine is 24/7 and so is this job.
If a person doesn't want this kind of life, then they need to get out of acute care at least. Work in an office, M-F making an hourly wage. But, to make it in this business, at home doing acute care for hospitals, you have to be willing to work outside of what most people call normal hours.
Another point to be thought about is if you are willing to do this, when these companies are approached fron clients about taking in new work, guess who will get called to do that work? You will because you are reliable and good and they are trying to "land" an account. It is very nice to help a company "land" an account. Most of the time, you will have your choice as to whether or not to do that account or not and that is more stability in your job.
There are so many variables you cannot put this profession in a box like any other. You essentially make your own paycheck! Its up to you. In this economy, people better be ready and willing to work outside the normal 40-hour a week, M-F box if they want to keep a job. That is just the way it IS!!!!!!!!!!!
You gloss over several points
A) The majority of Canadians are quite happy with their care, and if asked if they wanted to switch to a private provider like the US has, they overwhelmingly vote 'No' (under 5%).
B) The average Canadian is not coming here for health care. The average Canadian cannot afford to come here for health care. And if you're going to judge the quality of health care by whether someone travels there to get it, India must be even better than us since a lot of Americans (and not naturalized or ABCDs) go therefore for their health care.
C) The mentality of punishing everyone for the 'sins' of a few is egregious, especially if you're using them as your rationale for withholding health care to the working poor.
D) And I'm sure this is heresy, but maybe I don't really need an MRI every time I stub my toe, a CT angiogram for a charlie horse, or a colonoscopy everytime I fart.
Canadians by and large love their health care system and are aghast at what ours is like. It's great that you have wealthy friends that can come here and buy the health care that most Americans can't get. But you'll have to excuse me from not feeling badly that they'd have had to wait an extra 48 hours to get those tests back in Canada; at least they could get them.
You make some good points.
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