Yes, those. They look "heavy", and even when a post starts out "another perspective"
Posted By: Laurie on 2005-07-21
In Reply to: you mean.... - Michelle
Big red flag!! Grab the BP pills, and read at your own risk! Sort of like the way my heart twists along with my stomach when my husbands says, "Now, there's something we need to talk about"...I know that is NEVER good, cause men never talk about stuff first!
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She starts her post with a
flaming FACE...look again.
The post starts out as she has never
been pregnant.
Anybody seen how Time Warner is going to start charging "heavy broadband users?" sm
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/02/article/time_warner_cable_will_track_charge_by_internet_usage
Another perspective
What you describe is something that happens unfortunately, and is not one's CHOICE. Your mother is to be commended and I admire her. Women find themselves alone through abandonment and death. Can't be helped.
However, bringing children into the world on purpose when you're young and stupid and trying to keep your boyfriend, or because you think it will be fun, or because your clock is ticking and YOU want to be a mother, and all the other poor reasons for PURPOSELY having children who will be raised without ao mother and father is something different.
Ever since the 1960s, it's become evil to judge these choices. We toss baby showers for 14-year-olds. We celebrate a single woman having a baby on purpose. There's no shame anymore. On the whole, single mothers have a much higher rate of poverty, and that creates a vicious cycle whereby an entire generation or two have repeated the same poor choices. The black family prior to the 1960s used to be MORE intact than any other group, now they are born out-of-wedlock at a rate of 69%. That has a huge impact on the raising of young men, who lack a positive example in their lives to teach them to be men. They're joining gangs as a replacement family and listening to gangster rap. The fall out from rampant single mothering is having effects on many aspects of our society.
Again, what your mother was dealt is an entirely different matter.
perspective
How sad! These things happen, so don't beat yourself up. We are all fortunate in so many ways. Ya just have to get past all the negativity, go forward, and don't look back.
my perspective
You're dealing with two factors: [1] Those physicians in private practice who use SR (speech recognition), and [2] Hospitals that utilize SR.
MDs in private practice are well versed in the proper use of the SR (Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Suite). Those who are REALLY knowledgeable can write macros and templates that will knock your socks off. I've seen the results and they are quite impressive. They won’t need more than their office secretary to clean things up.
Hospitals that use SR will have less and less need for the MT who physically transcribes the reports. Why pay 12+ cpl for a service when you can get the same result by utilizing the services of a 4 cpl Editor (or whatever the going rate is).
I mean ... in all seriousness ... if you didn’t drive a car that much, which would you buy: a 2006 Saturn for $18,000 or a 2006 Lexus for $35,000?
The end result will be the same either way. From point A to point B. And, that is ALL the hospitals and doctors care about.
I need some perspective here.
I don't know if this is just PMS or winter blahs or Christmas blues. I just really feel resentful lately. It's like I'm spinning my wheels and accomplishing nothing lately. I'm not happy about anything in my life because I feel like I can't catch up. The house isn't clean enough, I don't get enough lines in, there's always extra stuff needing to be done. Every day is the same old, same old. I'm running from the moment I get up in the morning. I have to drive my kids to and from three different schools every morning and afternoon. That takes up about two hours a day between driving and sitting in the parking lots. We were told our house was on the school bus route before we bought it, but then the school district changed the bus routes from 1 mile to 1.5 miles, 2 miles to 3 miles, etc.
I work parttime while the kids are at school, which means I'm at the bottom of the totem pole for work. Sometimes I have to sit and wait for work to come in. It also means I don't get a formal lunch hour, just a quick snack at my desk. I can't make enough money, not even with the side job I do on the weekends. I'm really tired of the strict schedule because some days I can't even get a shower in until right before I go pick up the kids. After I pick them up, then I have to run errands, clean house, get dinner ready, help with homework, and go to bed just to do it all over again the next day. My husband and kids help out, that's not the problem. I just don't ever have time to sit and drink a whole cup of hot coffee at one time, let alone watch a movie or read a book. I feel like I sold myself out to be chained down to this stupid job, but my peanut paychecks make me wonder what I'm doing it for.
Then I look around at people who are juggling fulltime jobs, hobbies, kids' activities, and everything else, and I wonder why they can handle it all but I can't seem to. Do I expect too much of myself?
Well...I have a different perspective
We had a neighbor lady (very obviously irritated) come over and demand her son's scooter and sweatshirt back.
I politely apologized and explained that her son had loaned the items to my son.
I could tell that she felt like you do and was not happy with her children sharing/loaning/whatever their items. So, I just handed them over and apologized. After she left I warned my boys to never borrow something from them ever again...that some people were like that.
But the ironic thing is (and of course I did NOT mention this to her when she came over) she has one of our bikes that my boys gave her younger son, a 4-wheeled scooter that my boys gave her middle son, two Play Station 2 games that my boys loaned to her sons and a Play Station 2 game controller (items they have never returned even though my sons have asked for them back).
Kids are kids and will ask for things. Her sons ask me for food and drink. I hope that my boys are not trying to mooch off her, but fear that they probably are. Children do not understand that it is not socially acceptable to do this.
So, I think you should try not to be too upset about all of this because your kids might just be doing the same thing (just being kids).
Chickadee
My perspective...
I know that it may seem that they are just spoiled when they are being picky, but I don't really believe that is the case with my kids anymore.
My ex-husband is very picky. He said that he read an article years ago that said some people are "super tasters" and that they have too many taste buds on their tongue. He believes that this is his problem. He is very sensitive to strong tastes, smells, and textures.
My kids are picky about the same exact things that he is, and they don't live with him. He lives in another State, so it isn't a learned behavior. My daughter gets nauseous every time she smells beef cooking, and so does her father's sister. My daughter has only met her father's sister a few times and didn't know that when she started refusing beef. (Neither my daughter or her aunt has ever eaten beef).
My daughter told me when she was 5 that she had wished that her pickiness would go away when she blew out the candles on her birthday cake, then burst into tears after someone told her that wishes don't come true if you tell them. To me, this tells me that this is a lot more than just being spoiled.
Try to look at it from QA perspective.
If you didn't know which eye was correct, and the dictator didn't know which eye was correct, what on earth would make you think that QA would be able to "fix it and put the correct eye? We aren't clairvoyant either. I would bet the bank that QA person filled out a note or whatever protocol is with the client, informing them of the discrepancy and that the report was -- typed as dictated -- just as you did yourself. Most accounts don't let the MTs view the private notes that go to the client, so you may be having a snit for nothing! Things just should not be the us versus them mentality - MT versus QA. It stinks and is quite tiresome. As MTs you just don't know all that is going on behind the scenes, nor should you. You guys are the ones transcribing your buns off, and QA is bombarded doing their thing, but we are all on the same side - try to remember that. Try not always being negative towards QA. No MTs ever, ever are thankful that a QA person figured out some impossible blank for them, or put together some disgusting ESL whose report was handed in like swiss cheese, but boy some of you sure do gripe at any perceived error on our part, and that's a dang shame.
Perspective
When I first started out, I took the attitude that my first job (working from home office) was an internship - a paid one. Though I didn't make a lot starting out, looking at the job as a paid opportunity to get around the learning curve helped keep the frustration level in check. Speed and accuracy come with time and experience - if you stick with it, the money will come. If finances can't tolerate learning on production, consider applying for an in-house position if that's feasible in your situation. Best of luck 
wow, a little perspective please
I can't believe something either - that you would be so insulting as to call someone stupid for expressing their opinion. No, not one clinician could do what you do, but that knife cuts both ways. And while you hold a medical record in your hand, the clinicians hold the patient's life in theirs. You may be a medical terminology specialist, as you say, but you did not need to go to school for many years to get there like they did. yes, my skill is worth more than $10 per hour, but your attitude is not. How about a little respect for other people? now, that would be worth something.
Another perspective on MT
My husband is a top-level executive (CFO) with a retail company. He was just informed that he would be required to take a pay cut that will amount to $1200 out of our monthly budget, or approximately $15,000 a year. We are also going to be required to pay an additional $200 a month toward our medical benefits, so we are looking at about $1400 chopped out of our monthly income effective immediately. Although I wish right now I was in a higher-paying field, I am grateful that I am in a job where I can increase my pay through increased effort. I decided early in the week to see if I could increase my production by really keeping my nose to the grindstone and focusing. I typed in 2 days what it usually takes me 3 to do. I will be making a great effort to help make up some of what my husband has lost.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that it's not only MTs who are seeing downward pressure one wages. At least we have the opportunity to increase our pay through our own efforts. My husband doesn't have that option. He will be working longer hours and being paid considerably less.
Perspective
When I took my transcription courses and graduated, I thought I really knew my stuff. Then I started in medical records at a local hospital and realized I knew nothing (comparatively speaking). Then after a few years there, I started working from home, thinking by now, I DID know my stuff, only to be thrown into an account on a large teaching hospital and realizing once again, I knew nothing!
So, maybe I wouldn't call myself uneducated in the beginning, but the education I had was only a seed compared to what I learned in the years since.
Put things into perspective
When I was a team leader, I had anywhere from 40-70 people on my team and I'll be honest with you, to have sat down and sent up to 70 individual E-cards, would be extremely time consuming. I realize that a blanket E-card may seem "impersonal" but I would expect your team leader sent it from /his/her heart. In other words, as others have said below, it definitely is the thought that counts. I doubt he/she meant to make you feel like you were not important enough to have sent an individual card to, but it was probably just a time issue.
The holidays are busy for everybody! Some of my relatives complain that they hate getting a "newsletter" in their Christmas card that I send out every year, but you know.....It's different than it was 40-50 years ago. Everyone is being stretched to the limit on their time, and I just don't have time to sit down and write a note on every single Christmas card I send, and I would rather send out a 'generic' newsletter to everyone on my Christmas card list rather than just sign my name only!
Hadn't put it into that perspective but sm
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke were HORRIBLE.
They didn't know even the basic stuff about ranching, even though they were all given instructions/training before they were put on the ranch.
I don't blame the cowboys in the way they left at all.
Mrs. Cooke was the one stirring up trouble, NOT Maura. There was a lot of double talking going on and it wasn't the cowboys. The cowboys worked for them, they weren't their slaves.
So the cowboys didn't round up the goats a couple times. Big whoop. Who in their right mind would leave food and dirty dishes out for EIGHT DAYS after a party??
Horse manure wasn't the only thing attracting the millions of flies. ICK!
An MTSO's perspective.
I read these posts and see the complaints about lack of work and how nationals/MTSOs are so unfair etc., etc. I am a small MTSO and have 7 transcriptionists working for me. I am very flexible and easy to work for, but I have a time service committment to the clients for 24 to 48 hours and my goal is to have the work turned around within that period. Now I don't charge my clients a lot, and I pay up to 10 cents per line. I do expect a high quality of work (which I don't always get). I have a lot of work, but I feel that 7 transcriptionists should be able to keep up no problem. My problem is that by the time Thursday and Friday come around, no one is on production and the work falls behind. I have sent out emails and asked everyone to please put in the required production time so we can keep up but I swear, I'm getting nowhere. Every week by Thursday we are falling behind and out of the 7 transcriptionists maybe 1 or 2 is on production and the rest slack off. Now, I have kids and I understand that we all have lives outside of work, but I keep the clients in order to have work for these girls and along with that come a lot of headaches for me, which I am willing to deal with as long as they help me keep up with the turnaround time. My problem is that I'm not getting the production I need from them and unable to keep up the time service. So, do I give up the clients and just keep enough for myself or become a very mean MTSO and demand required minimal lines each day? I give up!!!!
The point being that as MTSOs, we have the pressure of maintaining the turnaround time for the clients, otherwise they go elsewhere...we need the transcriptionists to honor their production committments daily (barring any unforseen problems, of course). I understand that being an IC gives you the luxury of working the hours you want, but if the MTSO cannot count on the production committments from the ICs on a daily basis, then we cannot keep the clients/work for the ICs to have work......it's a vicious cycle.
Where, oh where does an MTSO find reliable, quality people who are willing to work every day and honor their production committments.......[sigh].....
implied perspective
Let me ask you something for you to answer to yourself: If this was on a billboad for the world to see, it would bother you, right? And not because of YOU but because of the implication given -- that she works for a company who perhaps is of a certain persuasion and seeks employees of the same which right now is a controversial topic-- get what I mean? This is not to condemn the lifestyle but only to say it might lead others to think this company is of that lifestyle itself or seeks such employees which in turn might deprive you of business or other employees. See where I'm going? So yes, I do think it has an impact on your business and in a negative way. It's not like she's broadly smiling while holding a little baby and saying she works for you, giving the impression you can be a stay-at-home mom and work for this company and all will be well with the world. People don't think negatively of a loving mother. It's not a controversial topic.
Example: If the picture was of her drunk at the computer with headphones on with a liquor bottle nearby it would reflect badly on your company, possibly implying that you don't care about what the end product looks like or who you hire.
Now her behavior does not affect her work, so there is a difference. But still, I think there must be an issue here that the law would cover. You can't fire her for being lesbian. But bringing your name into the picture changes matters-- that's a different story especially when done so in this manner.
Think about how companies are so particular what their logo looks like and their web pages -- it is a form of advertising. You see something, you associate it with that company like the Nike whatever. There is a mental connection made in the mind of the beholder. It's happening to whomever sees this picture and depending on the mindset and morals of those who see it, it can reflect badly on you in such wise that you hire immature people who willingly broadcast scandalous things on the Internet, you don't care in what context your name is mentioned--in short, YOU are not professional because you allow your name to be associated with such a picture so who wants to give their work to you? And for other MTs, they may get the impression you condone this and they might not want to work for you, thereby depriving you of income both ways.
You may have grounds for legal action here if you wish to pursue it. But mentioning where she works in the context of whatever sort while engaging in behavior that is of a controversial nature certainly does NOT help your company's image and if you are the owner, I'd be mad as you know what. I know if I did such a thing, I'd get fired no questions asked. They'd find a lawyer and get a reason and fire me.
I'd seek legal advice as to the implications of this sort of thing. It's out there now. It's a problem you have to deal with. If you don't want to ask a lawyer, then ask her to remove it from the web site and make her sign a legal document stating she will not mention on the Internet where she works (get a lawyer to draw it up so it covers all possibilities) if you want to keep her. If she wishes to live this lifestyle, that is her business. When she brings your or your company's name into it, it becomes your business as well.
Good to get the other POV, and some perspective. Thanks. NM
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EMR-Some very interesting perspective
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/588354?src=mp&spon=17&uac=18085DK
EMR-Some very interesting perspective
See link below
Happier perspective
You'll get a lot of negative feedback on this board. I, however, am making 8.75 cpl doing straight typing and am enjoying the heck out of it.
As to your actual question of how to get into the field, frankly right now is a tough time to do it. I think the MTSO's who are hiring are getting inundated with resumes. Having said that, however, make sure your resume really emphasizes the transcription experience and what you are doing to bring it up to date. Then just send it to every MTSO that you can think of. The job seeker's board here is good, mtjobs.com is a good one, and I think there's another one that I don't know right off the top of my head.
It may take a while and you may send your resume out 100 times, but you'll hit that one where a real person looks at it and thinks that you're worth taking a chance with.
Good luck.
Another perspective on child support
My husband adopted his ex-wife's 3 kids when they were preschool and elementary age. They were married for 10 years. He loved them like his own. When they divorced she forced the kids to choose sides. They chose hers. He rarely saw them after that and didn't force them to visit if they didn't want to. HOWEVER, in spite of never seeing his kids, he paid $1500 per month for child support. He barely had enough left over to pay his apartment rent and monthly expenses. (I don't blame them for their choice; their mother made that choice for them). Incidentally, after the divorce she inherited her parents' fortune, several million dollars. She continued to take the child support knowing how hard it was financially for him; when he got behind during a period of unemployment she took him to court. Even as the kids got older, she continued to threaten to disown her them if they had relationship with him.
Unfairness can work both ways. It's not always the mother who gets the short end of the stick. Dad's sometimes get the shaft also.
One final note. The oldest son tried to maintain communication with his dad, but sneaked around to do it and had hell to pay when his mother found out about it. Eventually, his attempts to contact his dad stopped completely. About two years after that, for reasons that are still unclear) he committed suicide at the age of 20. I wish parents would wake up and see that their bitterness toward their spouse and bitterness over money can poison their children.
Putting things in perspective...
I was talking (actually complaining) about the usual MQ stuff with someone in the office when I noticed they weren't laughing and/or sympathizing with me like they normally do. I asked her if something was wrong and she said she lost a friend. I stupidly thought she meant work-related fighting and said "Another cat fight?" to which she replied "No, my best friend was killed yesterday in Iraq by the roadside bomb." Talk about feeling VERY VERY small....but it put everything back into perspective for me. I am so fortunate in so many ways...
Interesting perspective of outsourcing...
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Here's a different perspective on what really caused lung cancer.
http://www.vialls.com/transpositions/smoking.html
interesting perspective on outsourcing tech support
My husband was in a networking class last night and the teacher, who he says really knows his stuff, polled the class to see how everyone felt about tech support being outsourced. Well, the general concensus was pretty negative.
The teacher also voiced his opinion. He had absolutely nothing good to say about them. They don't know what they're doing. They read from a script and so forth.
He pretty much said, "The damn Indians don't know squat about computers."
The teacher ... is from India.
Interesting, huh?
This kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it. SM
God bless and keep our fighting men and women and God Bless their families who will be without them during the holidays.
This is wonderful have it on audio has really changed my perspective on things :-)
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I am 31 too and maybe it starts in your 30s. Who knows
I hate it when I have just uploaded a report and I freak out thinking I left something off or forgot to check something. I feel so dumb!
I think have children robs you of brain cells too!
Do you know when it starts? TIA.
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well thats' where it starts...
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Just because someone first starts
out as an MT does not make them unqualified for QA. In fact, an experienced MT chosen for QA at their present company is better, because they know the particulars of the company and the accounts.
The one that starts at 5 cpl?
See recent posts on the Company board, threads starting with ''DIT Pay from horses mouth via email'' and ''Ditt Transcrition SM.''
Their attitude usually starts it!...sm
I've dealt with some really helpful techs, but mostly alot of real winners (not):
One experience I had at MQ (no longer work for them), but I told the tech that the modem they just sent to me was fried. He told me that was impossible; they check everything before shipping. He made me do this and that for about an hour! When none of that worked, he said, "you don't know anything about transcription equipment do you?". I told him I knew enough to know when a modem is fried, and probably said something else! He told the supervisors that I was rude and whatever else he wanted. The next day the supervisor called and alluded that we had a "personal problem"! UGH!
After two supervisors had me do this and that with the modem and computer, they decided the modem was unusable and would ship me a new one (24 hours later with me losing work time while paying them to rent the equipment, not to mention getting stressed and frustrated wasting time with the tech with an attitude).
Your being frustrated and sarcastic is perfectly understandable! But, yeah, they "tell" your supervisor!
I don't believe it starts as a disease. I
fully believe it starts as something to pass the time or forget problems, but then the body becomes dependent and then it causes disease.
Actually, when it starts a sentence
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that's where WHAT starts? Communism? LOL
you missed my point if you say YES. FASCISM yes, communism hardly.
Everyone starts somewhere - ?s are good - nm
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just be careful when a doctor starts doing that - sm
I had a doctor in Miami contact me to fill in while his Transcriptionist is out for three weeks. I told him that I wanted 8 cents/gross line. I went that low because he was giving me 48 hours to turn it around. He told me that was ridiculously high and that he could never pay that amount. I talked to his office manager and asked her "just exactly how much transcription are we talking about here?" She said he fills a 60 minute tape every day. I did the math based on ALL the information I was given, and it came out to $60/day at 8/gross line. This MIAMI CARDIOLOGIST felt that paying $60/day was TOO HIGH - and he did not want to pay the fed ex to boot! He was looking to pay 4 cents/line. He did find someone for that rate.
It sounds like this is a doctor who will break you down to work for practically nothing - but beware, this also sounds like a doc that is shopping around behind your back to look for a transcriptionist that will do the work for less $$.
who starts these polls - the administrator
LOL mine starts around the end of July
nm
A group of people starts with one.
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Actually, It starts there, then carries on will all the company links and ads.
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before slamming starts..pay is good..work is there..sm
before the naysayers (or the ones cycling through the system) start, we pay top money, always have AND the work is there...have never had complaints of not enough work. I have had people claiming to do 100+ reports a day that do 20 a week...I have had MTs claiming that they have never had reports returned and yet every report they produce is full of errors or blanks. So either there are clients out there that take anything produced and have editors they pay to fix everything or these people are in LALALALALAL land.
I have had seasoned MTs apply that can not produce quality work...so while I have "been there and done that" as to working for national companies that give you 3 or more accounts because they over hire...worked for national companies that get you up and running then switch you to ESL only accounts so you never make bonus or even lines for the day...I have also been on the end of hiring and setting up people that have stolen equipment, programs and clients. I have hired people after good screening that have never started work, or worked one day and then never worked again.
It is a two way street...there are good MTs (all of which must be working because I sure have not found any lately) and there are bad..the same bad ones that slam newbies on the boards or give snippy answers for everything posted. AND htere are bad MTSOs out there too. Not everyone is a perfect match for each other, but as someone that has been on both sides, it gets old to constantly hear about the bad MTSO or even national companies, but we never hear ANYTHING about the bad MTs that are out there...and there are...ask any MTSO :-)
I'm not in QA, but I've always typed it P.r.n. if it starts a sentence, sm
as in 1. P.r.n. ibuproben. If you were typing out the Latin for pro re nata, that's how you'd do it (or at least I would), i.e. 1. Pro re nata.
However, I agree with "fixing" it when allowed. Some accounts are strict verbatim, others are what I call "smart verbatim," where they let you fix things to make sense, be grammatically correct, etc.
Get a good word expander for starts - sm
I started with ShortHand but then bought Stedmans Smartype which I love; and also a good spellchecker (again I use Stedmans). I don't know how I did it before w/o these. It is like night and day. They help out tremendously do save lots of time. So if you don't already have either of these, I'd highly advise getting them; very necessary to help speed up production, etc.
It counts the lines it ends up with, not what it starts with. nm
nm
I go through this every year when the school district starts hiring.
And I have cabin fever really, really bad from being home with the kids almost 24/7. Plus, I don't get much adult interaction in the summer because all of my friends are busy with their own families, vacations, work, etc. We don't get together as often as during the school year.
The work part of it is OK. I have good accounts, but it can be boring or frustrating with interruptions. Like the other poster, I have to play music in the background and buckle down to be productive. However, there is something to be said for the flexibility that I have in working at home. I'm here for the kids. I can take a break whenever I want to. I don't have to get dressed up or drive anywhere. No office politics. No supervisor screaming at me. No out-of-town travel. I have my own office now. I have total control over the thermostat. I can eat whatever I want to whenever I want to. I'm saving money by not using daycare. I make as much or more working part-time than if I worked fulltime, paid daycare, and had to drive to and from a job. Best of all, I have time during the day to exercise, clean the house, or do my hobbies. I'm not so exhausted by the end of the day that I just slap food on the table and veg out in front of the TV. I don't watch TV at all any more! For me, the benefits are still good enough to keep doing this for at least a few more years. I can always go back into the workforce when the kids are older.
I think you are right. I am seeing the same things. I hope it starts soon..I love it. Will visit
nm
I use ASS for Assessment, and wimp for Impression for one hosp that starts with a "w".
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