You never listened to the dictation to know.

No, decent dictators can form complete sentences.  They don't erase every single word interlaced with ah, um, er, then sit there so long that a 15 minute dictation only has 43 lines.  If a person can't complain about having a bad day to her fellow MTs without getting jumped on, what does that say about your personality?  The only B**** I see here is YOU.

• Argh. Can't. Listen. To. This. Doctor. Any. Longer. - going bonkers
  • Argh. sm - Not the half of it
    • But I'd rather listen to a side conversation than - me, too
      • But............sm - Not the half of it
        • You never listened to the dictation to know. - what would you know?

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As much as he loves his city and his people, which is very obvious, nobody could have predicted that Katrina was going to be this devastating.  Judging from the news reports, the people that stayed behind were, for the majority, the people that had no resources to get out.  The disabled, the ill, the elderly and the poor. 

I feel that the capable "idiots" that stayed behind to "ride out the storm" got whatever they deserved.

As far as the poster below saying that the mayor should have organized buses, etc., to get people out of the city, it's a good idea in hindsight, however you don't have months to plan for something like this and New Orleans is not a city of 10,000 people where a 2 day prestorm check of every building could be conducted.

If the mayor had a month to make preparations and knew the exact outcome of the devastation, things may have gone very smooth.  Just as relief efforts may have been immediate.  The devastation is far beyond what anyone expected.

Relief is there now within 4 days. Maybe not soon enough for some, but in a scenario that was beyond predictions such as this, there is a window of time needed to organize and recruit, etc.

This devastation was a very unfortunate act of nature, which is something none of us will ever be able to do anything about except get out if we can.

Even with rising gas prices, please open your dwindling pocketbooks and send even a dollar to the Red Cross for the relief effort. 

I wish I could have sent my check 4 days ago, but who knew?

listen to, and frankly the sound quality wasn't as clear.  But I was listening through my computer speakers, not with headphones, and I was controlling the dictation with my mouse, not a footpedal.

Do you work for MDI-MD?  My account there is C-phone now and getting ready to switch to wav.  Personally I will be glad not to have to worry about long distance and I'm ecstatic about the mobility it will give me - I can take my laptop out on the deck and transcribe on nice days (too much of a hassle to lug the C-phone out there and get it all set up).  I can take my laptop on vacation and access work from wherever I am as long as there is internet access.  Hopefully there will be no adverse effect on the sound quality but I'm willing to trade a little bit of clarity for no LD and increased mobility!

Wouldn't it be nice if there were wireless internet access anywhere you happened to be?  Like you could just take your laptop with you anywhere and get on the internet from ANYWHERE, whether it be in the sticks or a metropolitan city?  I'm sure that is coming one of these days, but it sure would be nice if it were available now!

What is considered the average amount of minutes for 7.5 hour day.  I'm thinking 45 to 60 minutes???

How long should it take someone to do about 60 minutes of dictation on average.

Thanks you.

LOVE YA!

Hope that helped. 

Just wondering how many lines within 8 hours do you "speciality" transcriptionists type?  Not acute care, not SOAP notes, just the specialty accounts?

I type for 11 different specialities that just feed into my "pool" of dictation randomly and am lucky to accomplish 1000 to 1200 lines within 8 hours -- any suggestions on how I can increase this number of lines would be greatly appreciated. 

...I'm in QA.  They want the at-home QA team to train new MTs over the phone, call MTs regarding stats or if work is missing, call the clinics to follow up on any issues, conference calls, and call the home office with daily issues that pop up.  We were told their clinic contact people and the front desk staff have too many other duties so feel QA should do this now.  I'm fine with that responcibility, just found it odd that they will not reimburse us. 

Perhaps it's not a big issue but as an employee I was curious if there were laws regarding these issues.  And this is a new protocol they are implementing so it's not like I recently accepted the job knowing this is how it would be.  The at-home QA team never had to do this before.  I do realize there are pros and cons to working at home but there seems to be a fine line where an employer can take advantage of an employee 

If I were an IC I would completely understand this.

My company is currently using the Winscribe Dictation system.  Its quite pricey but overall it is good.  You can set it up to do most anything. 

Job id#, dictator, type of report, etc and you can also put a spot for chart number to find things easier.  I just wish my docs would use the PC dictate part, as its less combersome then punching numbers on the phone, but overall it is a good product.  Just be sure you get it from someone reliable.

Thanks!  I laughed so hard at your what s/l, that tears ran down my eyes. I might print it and hang it up on the kitchen bulletin board at work.