You're slamming her, and you can't even spell?
Posted By: OMG! on 2005-08-09
In Reply to: All I can say is THAT'S SCARRY and POOR YOU! - Cheryl
If it's so scarry, did it get injured somehow? Where did all those scars come from? Lemme tell ya, I'd rather have an "uneducated" MT who can at least spell basic English words than an "educated" MT who can't. I think a lot of this discussion has to do with the fact that some people are just born with exceptional linguistic skills and others aren't. Some of us don't NEED MT school because every aspect of MT comes easily to us. Some people think that if they had to struggle or study hard, we others cannot possibly be more naturally adept at it. Every person is different. We all bring different skills to the table. People really need to stop discouraging others from getting into this field. You can't measure the quality of an MT by a brief description of her previous education and work experience on a message board. If I had listened to y'all seven years ago, I wouldn't be an MT. People were so vicious telling me that I couldn't possibly be an MT. Instead of scaring me away, it ticked me off. I think I've proved all the naysayers wrong.
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Then why exactly are you slamming on your QA? WOW you are one twisted person!!
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I am slamming the attitude of QA personnel who obviously
hate their job as it is and obviously have verylittle respect for the people they do need to deal with. Your attitude alone is enough to make me not like you and I don't have to deal with you. Thank Gawd!
Thanks for not slamming me on my spelling of "emlpoyer"...sm
Seeing as how I am an "employee at will" I am hoping that they would respect the fact that I just cannot give them 2 weeks notice. In the company manual it says if I don't give them minimum of 2 weeks notice that it could preclude me from being rehired. Thank you again. I think I just might try this and hope that they respect it. They are a great company.
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 was referring to slamming the cherrypicking post
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I can't even spell that! LOL
:)
I am going with Ala. Not sure how to spell her name. nm
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6, you would only spell it out....
...is if there are 2 numbers in a row. For instance:
The patient is to take two 10 mg tablets daily.
(NOT 2 10 mg).
Hope this helps.
I spell it that way...
and I am in the US, although I am Canadian. I know in Canada I have seen it spelled both ways.
I know how to spell most and
what I dont' know, I make it a point to learn. I've gotten more than 1 "critical" error from QA stating that I had misspelled a medical term or drug, only to prove that I was correct and QA was wrong. Not to offend any QA'ers, but if you're going to correct someone else's work, you'd better know your stuff.
The one error was even spelled incorrectly by the neurologist dictating: olivopontine cerebellar degeneration. He spelled it out as "oliGopontine", but I spelled it according to Stedman's and proved both him and QA wrong.
Boy, were their faces red! My point wasn't to embarrass anyone, it was to type the report correctly. Spelling is important. We have enough other factors to squelch our line count. If there's anything I can do on my part to bring it up, why not?
What I do is when they say spell it out I put
it in my Expander program, so I can continue typing b.i.d. I don't have to think about do I or don't I. Same with contractions - put shouldn't in my expander and if I go into auto drive mode I don't have to worry about missing it.
I have 20 years of experience. I haven't worked for many companies, but I've had several accounts. One says do this, the other one is don't differently, and then there is the verbatim, but it isn't really verbatim because we still have to clean it up a bit. It is hard to switch, plus there alwasy seem to be little things no one has mentioned and isn't in account specifics, etc. I just got off of 100% QA (4 days), but I felt like I would never get off 100% because it seemed QA found something in almost every report. It just may be a comma that was/wasn't needed, but it was something.
I also make me a sticky note and put it where I will see it easily when they make a new change. It takes me maybe 3 days and then I've got it and can toss the sticky.
how about when they spell them
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we were on 4.6, but is this a spell
check you build yourself (for the most part) located in the same screen as your email, etc? Don't remember the field number now, 42 or 46? somewhere in there. Had to return through it and virtually scroll down to the word which can take a few minutes. hope I could help.
How do you spell
Does anyone else notice that AHDI and MTIA have the same address??
Kind of suggests to me that they've created 2 seemingly separate entities, one of which is trying to push mandatory certification and the other of which (surprise!!!) just happens to provide the test. How convenient. It's not like they weren't already making a killing on the CMT certification (especially since they've now got potential CMTs lined up around the world). Now The Word has come down from MTIA (their own creation) that certification is mandatory, so theoretically every MT in the US will have to ante up as well or be unemployable. Chicken or the egg; maybe MTIA came first & created AHDI. Either way, pretty soon they'll all be driving Bentleys if they're not already.
It's downright diabolical, & I'm wondering if it's legal.
Can't spell either.
So why should they be any better at counting?
It's not just the PAs that can't spell
I only have a handful of docs that can actually spell meds or instruments or other doctor's names correctly. And I have an RN who can't pronounce ANYTHING! And then she rambles on for 2 pages and will say, new paragraph. LOL! Waaaaay ahead of you, honey.
Is this when you spell check? If so....sm
hit the #4 and the "sound alikes" should come up on the screen you are use to seeing.
Can't spell aleved sm
The patient states his pain is not worsened by anything nor it is aleved by anything.
I checked dictionary. What am I looking for? Thanks for helping!!!!!
DQS spell checker
When you type "whre" instead of "where" when you spell check it the first word that comes up for a correction option is "whore." Wonder how many reports typed by some of our wonderfully accurate Medquist MT's made it through with the word whore in the report? 
spell-check
I think the most popular is Stedman's. I have been using Dorland's. I needed to update my Dorland's Medical Dictionary and bought the new 30th edition. It came with a free spellcheck. So I got both for 49.95 -- quite a deal. I've only been using it a couple months, but it seems comparable to Stedmans (and much less expensive).
Dew ewe reed as gud as you spell?
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spell checker I use
I have used steadmans spell checker for word in the past but the company I work for uses Spellex. I cant really tell a difference between the two but I do know Spellex has a free trial on there site so you can try it before you buy.
Need help on med spell...s/l cultazine...thanks. nm
You spell it "hurricaine"...nm
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And would it not help if you could spell knowledge???? nm
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dang, so mad cant even spell right lol
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Spell checker
I have used Stedman's spell checker on two different jobs and love it, but not the price, especially since it is just for one user. Can I really only put it on one computer? I am an IC and have two computers, and now need to buy a medical spell checker. What do all of you guys recommend? I like the fact that the spell checker automatically corrects a lot of the words, and does not simply flag them. I also do not want to go through a manual spell check after I finish a document. Is there another spell checker out there that works as well for less money?
Dang..I can't even spell it!
I am used to working in Microsoft Word. Is this platform a lot different? I am wondering how my productivity will be.
spell as the Romans do......get it?
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I always run a spell check!!! nm
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Don't ya know, an MT should be able to spell every word - sm
imaginable and never, ever make a mistake, even when it does not pertain to your job of medical transcription. Gee Whiz, some people!!!!
Yep, they spell out that stuff...
but would never think of spelling out a difficult medical term or another physicians name... nope.. and they think they are really helping you out!!
This is why I spell out the state name
entirely. Geez...I wonder what you would do with that one...another GROSS error? Even some of the doctors do not know what the abbreviations mean for states other than where they are located, i.e. AR for Arkansas or AK for Alaska, and nobody cares about that GROSS error. Just another observation and a reason why I spell it out. sigh
Agree with the above, spell out sm
everything and pay for a good background check. We have had rentals before and finding a good, decent rental form is hard. I get mine from http://www.offcampusnetwork.com/rental_forms.asp. The rental form is very lengthy, about 8 pages long, but it covers it all. You can save the form to your hard drive in Word and make odds and ends changes here and there to fit your needs. The sample is a lease but I wanted a month-to-month and just changed to to fit. Renting can work out great if your tenants know their limits. We had one or two who went sour about 6 months into the deal and we got rid of them, fast. Heck, the one gal we had to move her things to the curb. Fat chance she was going to stay and not pay. That's mainly why we only did the month to month plans.
There is NO correct way to spell
slang like that. Saturating is the correct word - however, if your QA people say different, then ask them to document it. I defy them to do it!!
Apparently, I cannot spell either...lol. NM
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Why not spell it correctly?
I learned a long time ago that doctors are notoriously bad spellers! What is the word?
I would spell it correctly. sm
That is why we are transcriptionists. It is our job to correct their spelling and grammar errors to make as perfect a document as possible. I have one that notoriously spells Homan's sign incorrectly and she spells it every time as Homman's sign, but I disregard her spelling, do not take it personal, and I just do what I know is right. JMO
I would spell it correctly.
It's actually Homans'. ;P
I have a doctor like this too. He insists on spelling one word incorrectly and even had his office staff try to correct me. I am a very flexible person but there is no way I will spell something incorrectly in a document if I know better.
and you don't know how to spell grammAr.
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I don't do as they spell either as they are usually wrong - sm
I have not had any complaints as yet. Granted if it is a drug or whatever I cannot verify then I state that on my cover page for that doctor.
and they don't like to be told how to spell anything either (sm).
That is why MT'ing isn't what it used to be.
that would be technical - normally I can spell!
Dang - I Can't Even Spell
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spell checker
If you are working off a template or sample that has been spell checked previously you have to reset your document in - tools, options, spell check - check document - so that it will re-look at everything. I do this with every document just to be sure.
I would spell it out; don't know what is proper
Spell check.......
I have worked in several facilities without spell check. You would think it's a given, but the folks who set these programs up are not transcriptionists and the dept head seems to care less. I don't think it is because we're spoiled, it's a backup for us also. I had one dept head say we can't afford it, so I offered to bring my own and then she said, you should know how to spell the words. Like we never accidentally hit a key when typing 90 miles an hour while trying to keep up with dictation backlog. I don't get it either.
Spell Check
When you see you have not capped something or similar, do you correct it as you go or leave it for when you run spell check?
I have noticed I do a lot of correcting as I go, and I think I don't trust spell check will catch it (as I have noticed it will sometimes miss extra spaces).
I believe this is slowing me down and wondering how you all handle it. ?
Must be a good MT...you can't spell
...LOL
spell check
Have to purchase a new spell check. Hard drive on my computer had to be replaced and with that lost the spell check.
Asking all the experienced MTs out there to advise which is best, Spellex, Sylvans or something else.
Price is also factor.
Thank you!
Spell check
I would definitely go with Stedman's (wouldn't let me use the actual name). Its what we use at the hospital I work at. I'm not sure of the cost, but even if it is a little more expensive it will make you more money in the long run because you will have to spend less time looking things up.
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