anytime a doctor's wife is involved in the

• Question - Tam
  • keeping track - delphi1164
    • Yes - MTTX
  • Missing dictations - Diane
    • Thanks - MTTX
  • I do that for two of my three accounts, but I type the missing pts at the top of the - finished dictation on its own page. I personally
  • Patient list. - mtathome
  • Someone at the office sounds incompetent. Don't let them toss - giddy pc guru
    • No Way - MTTX
      • Are you IC or employee of the office - Patti
        • I agree with having a good relationship. - luv2type
          • Ok - MTTX
        • IC - MTTX
          • Woaaah, nellie...you need to be IC status only - You're being taken to the cleaners
            • WHAT! - MTTX
              • I think you are getting hosed. - MT in MT
          • You need to consider formalizing your agreement with them. sm - MTMonkey
          • IC emp??? what is that - Patti
      • I welcome transcribing correspondence - giddy pc guru
        • Five years - MTTX
          • It's time to get professional kiddo....sm - MsMT
            • Thanks - MTTX
  • That is pretty routine for them to want - a list of the patients not dictated on. sm
    • I Agree - MTTX
  • When I return my work to the doc - sm -
    • Exactly - MTTX
  • In my opinion... - Neesey
    • Lucky - MTTX
  • No it isnt your job. - MT in MT
    • No, they are not - MTTX
      • Give her some organizational tips - MT in MT
        • I Like your idea - MTTX
      • Boy I have BTDT too at my old job - dotf
        • I did - MTTX
  • anytime a doctor's wife is involved in the - susan
    • Amen! nm - MT
    • I have been really lucky with - B
      • Wonderful! - MTTX
    • You are so right - Tam
    • BINGO! - giddy pc guru
      • ditto the wife comment sm - americanmls
        • Agree! - MTTX

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Regarding Medquist, it's no secret that the company outsources offshore.  That has been made public my MedQuist for some time now. 

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What most don't realize is while there are laws protecting your medical data in the United States, these laws are unenforceable overseas.  So basically, a patient's supposedly "protected health information" isn't really protected at all once it electronically crosses the borders out of the U.S.  I think it is important that all patients be aware of this fact and have a say whether or not they want someone in India having access to their medical data!

I've been talking to a newspaper reporter in my area who is interested in running a story on this subject especially because I have firsthand knowledge of a local hospital who is outsourcing all of its transcription to a MTSO that offshores to India.  I'm very excited because I've been pushing for public awareness of this subject for a while and I feel like I'm finally on the threshhold of effecting real change in my little part of the industry.

Anyway, change has to start with us, the MTs.  We are MTs and we are patients.  We have valuable knowledge as MTs about what happens to our protected health information and we should pass that knowledge on to those patients who don't have the benefit of being employed in the healthcare industry and are unaware of what happens to all that electronic information that makes up their medical record.  I've told my whole family to ask "who does your transcription" at the doctor's office, the hospital, etc.  When the doctor's office or the hospital hands you a HIPAA disclosure, that's your opening to ask questions about who all sees your medical record, who does the transcription, and is your medical information protected even if it is sent to India to be typed.

Okay, that was my soapbox speech for the day. 

expanders/shortcuts and he said that's all he used to transcribe and that he was making $$ hand over fist this way and his wife too.....again he said he never *typed* anything, only used shortcuts for absolutely everything regarding MTg....and in that case you could do 500 LPH I suppose.....if not even more

I don't know the cost of this program any longer, but when I bought Shortcuts from him it did cost $149....it was a very long time ago though....hopefully that price came down over years.....

I think they are a total mismatch.  I don't see how she could have been attracted to him, ever.

I loved it.  I have the same problem with my fiance.  He comes home and makes cracks if the kitchen table has stuff on it.  My deck is the other side of the kitchen table so of course it has stuff on it.  Men, gotta love it.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Lisa

I hate it! She is obviously "shopping around" as they all do. There is no loyalty when it comes to wives. If you cannot afford to dump them, then hang onto them until you can replace them. She will make your life miserable. I did the label stuff with the 1" pressure-sensitive transcription labels, Don't pay stationery store price.I am sure you can Google it. I used a paper cutter to "chop" the transcription and return it. The wife wanted me to take the face sheets, already handwritten by her, and print on those! I hope it's a large volume account. If she's saying get as much as you can on a page, she is being ridiculous, the only way you can handle that is to reduce your font and then she'll want you to reduce your price. I feel your pain dealing with the wife, they're ruthless!

If you can't get them to go digital (God forbid, that costs money) then you will have to work around her. I have walked that walk and it ends up you'll have to be the dumper instead of the dumpee which will happen eventually anyway because of $$$.  My heart aches for you. If it were a big $$$ acct. you could set up a laser printer offsite there with the bottom half printing out the labels and the top the letterheads. But, of course, they wouldn't want the work of cutting and placing it in the chart. Been there, it hurts! I thought the doc would intervene in my case as he would rave to everyone about how pleased he was, but he said he only deals with the patients, does not want to know anything about the office staff problems. I finally gave them a notice and left promptly after two weeks. My pocketbook suffered but my pride suffered worse that he didn't step in. Grrrr! If you know digital, you could also buy them a recorder (out of your own pocket of course). Hope you get some good advice here, it's been awhile since I dealt with those "paper dolls" I used to call them,.

No wonder you have to do all this.  He has a wife telling him that you should be doing all this.  First of all, if he pays you, you need to be talking to him about this, not her.  Secondly, you need to decide if you can afford to go without this income.  Do you work for anyone else?  Could you pick up more work elsewhere?  If so, then I would do as other posters recommend and confront him with a new charge schedule.  If he wants you to do the corrections in-house, then have him schedule a time for you to come in and do this and tell him what your charge is.  If he's late, his office should have the courtesy to call you.  If not, I would make it a point to call in before leaving to check if he's running on time. 

He doesn't see consultations for free.  His time may be valuable, but so is yours.  Don't shortchange yourself.  Nine chances out of 10, he knows what he's doing is wrong and also knows that no one else will do it either unless he hires in-house.