do you get a lot of standards with your regular dictation?
Posted By: nm on 2005-09-22
In Reply to: I have been on ASR since 8/15 (sm) - PJ
I used to make $25 before going on DQS, now struggle to make $12 or so. Do you sit 3-1/4 hours straight? I can't do that, everything starts to hurt after about an hour.
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With regular dictation it would be at least 12.5 hours of work- sm
as I do not do radiology I don't know what that would mean in those terms. What is the average time for the radiology reports you do now? Take that # and divide it into 250 minutes and that will give you a ballpark idea on how many reports.
Sorry, that was not an ASR funny, just a regular ole dictation funny. LOL! nm
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You really need to ask for standards,
examples, proof. Any company worth its salt should be able to provide you with standards for scoring and reports that have been scored, preferably against AAMT standards (sorry, anti-AAMT folks, but someone has to create standards). Better yet, post the name of the company and I'll bet they wake up and get a little more proactive!
Standards...
If you just name your "standard" report an abbrev, like Metropolitan Memorial Dr. Smith's Echo...MetroMemSmithEcho (I don't know if it's case sensitive or not) you should be able to make that work...if you try to "save" it as a "standard" it won't "keep." I think you have to have certain "rights" in DEP to be able to create/modify a "standard." Please let me know if this works! 
standards not the same
If standards are exactly the same for working at home vs. going OUT to work, does that mean you dress the exact same way, only take one coffee break and half hour for lunch? Would you also be working in the evening like we do at home? I think not! One of the big advantages of working at home is that we can sit there in our comfy bathrobes, have a glass of wine, tie our kids' shoes, drop in a load of laundry, listen to a CD, watch TV, take time out to walk the dog. We are not in a public place like a laboratory or dry cleaners. We are in our own homes and entitled to do what we want as long as we are turning out work of good quality. OK, I feel better now. My wine glass is chillin in the freezer and the Chardonnay is about to be uncorked. Ciao ladies. And let's stop all the bickering. There are so many other really sad problems in the world!!!
do you get a lot of standards? That's
281 lines an hour. That's great. Yesterday I did 144 lines an hour. I don't get standards, have lousy dictators because I won't do ASR reports. You must have really good dictators and long reports. How do you do it?
Standards
It's definitely a good thing to have standards. I'm addicted to Judge Judy and I'm amazed at how many women are taken in by free-loading men. Far better to be lonely than to get hooked up with one of those. OTOH if your standards are honesty, integrity and faithfulness, that's good but if you start adding on must look a certain way, have a certain kind of job, no smoking and the list could go on forever, then the fact is: There is probably no one out there for you. So quit "looking," get out of the pity party (pity parties are VERY lonely) and start moving. Take yourself where other single people in your age group go and are likely to have interests similar to yours, with the objective of just enjoying life in general. You may be surprised at the people you'll meet who also have standards.
Oh and keep the standards/normals for themselves
Willow...re standards
There is a way to edit them once you have saved them but it is a major pain, you have to click on the entry with your mouse and then scroll through and click "modify" when you're done. But it is such a pain that I never do it that way with a long block of text because you can only see one line at a time. If I want to change something, let's say, a ROS template, I just go to a blank screen, type the short form to get the expansion, edit it from there, then block it and re-save it. Just remember to delete the one you don't want. Does that make sense? It's the quickest way I have found to modify something once you have already saved it. It could be much more efficient if they wanted to make it that way but oh well!!!
Privacy standards?
Who actually do you contact to report a breech of privacy standards in this business? I probably should know this by now, but I don't.
Same here...lots of standards
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Obviously they have much looser standards
In India and elsewhere. Our records should be kept onshore to protect our patients against myriad abuses. That is a no brainer.
Has anyone been able to transfer their normals/standards from
nm
Not quite. I wasn't referring to the standards
we can use with ctrl-S. In the expander, isn't there a standard capability? I think what I wanted to do was save a report using that. The report did save, but then I wanted to edit it, because I really just wanted ROS and PE. I was doing H&Ps and she kept (very wordy) saying the same thing over and over and over. But once I saved it I wanted to edit out the parts I didn't need and I couldn't do it, didn't know how to do it.
Does that make sense to you? With MTs or Legacy once you saved or created your normal you could edit it. Is it possible?
Any help is much appreciated. Sorry for any typos, it is so way past my bedtime!
Min QA standards - is there anyplace where these are published
I am wondering if there is some reference or expert source that holds a QA minimum standard. I understand the industry standard is 98% or better, but is this actually in print somewhere?
Test who decides the standards
Who decides what is correct and what is not or are you just talking about medical terminology? As far as I am concerned the BOS is just bologna or baloney. Who decides the standards? I can understand medical terminology but to decide how to type a date -- October 21, 2006 or 10-21-06 or 10/21/06 because they think it is correct one way but your account wants the other -- are any of them really incorrect as long as you are consistent throughout the report. I know that there are a lot of people that do not do a good job and I think that a medical terminology test would weed some of those out but as the Book of Style, I don't agree with that and never will. I have more of a problem with people who want the money but do not want to work or do the work in the time frame given, have more sick days that work days, and could care less that it is your name that is out there. This occupation is not like an x-ray technician that gets a certification, there are not several ways to take the x-ray and a group of people decide which one is correct and which one is not. I have received better work from an IC that has self taught herself and had me mentor than one that has a CMT behind her name. Anyway my two cents worth for a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Oregon. Patti
There have to be guidelines and standards in place
for every profession, including MT. While I don't like the AAMT or agree with some of its new ways, there has to be something in place for all MTs to go by so they are all on the same page. The only way to bring real professionalism back to the field is by mandatory certification or a license to practice MT. There are way too many inexperiences terrible MTs out there ruining all of our reputations! And I for one am tired of it.
lines/hour standards (sm)
What would you say is the "industry standard" for line counts in an 8-hour work day? Where do some of the companies want you to be? 150 lines per hour? 200 lines per hour? More? Less?
Just curious since I've been out of the loop for a while. Thanks.
If they really wanted to establish standards,
They would provide the book for free or at nominal cost so that all MTs had access and could get familiarized with it. Since not, I'd say they just want to make more $$.
There are some good folks who are trying to start an open source MT style guide. That's something I could get behind!
http://style.mtreference.com/tiki-index.php
Rigid/Fickle QA standards
Would you please say which company did this?
I think it's somewhat standard practice at the nationals to allow up to a month of full QA for experienced MTs, and back in the day when I was a newbie (20+ years ago), I was on full listen for almost 90 days.
To expect you to digest ALL of that new information in one day is completely UNREASONABLE!!!! (yes, I just shouted the word UNREASONABLE!!!)
isnt that funny? Even with industry standards, there are so many
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By today's appallingly lax MT standards, I suppose a few -
:D MT as a profession is turning into such a JOKE, isn't it?
Not having standards hurts. Some work types just (sm)
don't add up line wise as quick as others. For me Ops are the best line count, consults and discharge summaries are killers.
Retired or retarded? Anyone can retire if they set their life standards low enough
BUt if you think sitting on the couch pointing fingers at how bad the government is constitutes a wonderful successful life, good for you!
I'm not the one complaining about how bad things are, YOU are!
By the way, precious. I don't have to work, I want to, and am no longer an MT because I've gotten an education and moved on to a productive life with goals that stretch beyond the living room and the computer room.
Get over yourself. No one is impressed because your life certainly does not sound impressive in the least.
Most companies draw from the AAMT's standards and guidelines.
nm
Standard minimum production standards is usually 150 lines per hour ...
You can compute from that.
Hope this helps.
no way they can keep us at regular pay with VR
but our regular every day tax is
9.25% -- Bought some clothing yesterday and the subtotal was $159.97. The tax was $14.80. Total bill: $174.77.
They get us in other ways.
I do but don't use it on a regular
basis. It's a computer I can take with me and work, if I have to. So far, it's been great. I paid a pretty bit more for it than I wanted, but I guess that's a Sony VAIO. The screen is fantastic. I had a 17 inch HP, actually two of them, and both were quirkly and so I sent them back (I ordered them online from HP). The battery on the Sony VAIO I have runs down very quickly, but I use it plugged into a wall outlet with a surge protector anyway. The keyboard is nice -- I like the touch, but I have a spare keyboard that I use with the laptop as I can't type for beans on any laptop keyboard. The Sony's really need more USB plugs (mine has three, the HPs I had had four) but you can always add a hub if you need to.
Just filled up with regular at $2.87
 Felt like I got a bargain!! Luckily, my car mostly sits in the driveway. Love working at home.
regular old headphones
I wore the plug type but ended up with such an ear infection that it turned into cellulitis. They had to lance my ear and face area near the ear. Now I just wear the plain old stereo headphones.
Regular pay on a holiday? (sm)
I wouldn't do it. No offense intended but I'm wondering how many places do that? I've never heard of not getting 1.5 on a holiday for working? Hey, if I could, I would give you mine since I'm not using it. Have been an MT for a long time (16+ years) and have never and will never work a holiday for straight time. As I mentioned when hired it was agreed I would not work holidays and I plan to stick to it.
Also, you might want to take a regular keyboard
Not sure if you are used to transcribing on a laptop's keyboard, but it is very hard to do. I use a laptop to transcribe, but have a regular keyboard plugged into it - much better!
Starting or regular pay?
We as MTSOs absolutely have to start the pay lower and I'll tell you why. Hiring and training is expensive. We are paying editors by the hour to proof new hires 100% so we actually lose money on every report a new hire does. 3 out of 5 people we hire lie about their experience and are not qualified to do the work so it requires extensive editing and in a lot of cases, total retyping. Over half of the people hired do not do their required lines or hours per day, some are scheduled to start and just do not even show, do not contact us or anything. I get emails from people saying they are losing their home, their children, etc., and are desperate for work and then do 100 lines a day. It is not cheap to advertise, it is not cheap to pay man hours to test and train. So we start lower, and in the 20% of the time we get somebody who 1) does have the required experience, 2) really does want to work and does the required hours or lines, and 3) proofs their own work so it's not a total wreck when we get it, THEN we give raises, and good ones.
You want to know where all the 10-12 cpl pay per line went? Get out your map and look at India, Phillippines, and Pakistan. On the 11 facilities we have, the highest paying to us is 13 cpl. Try renting an office, keeping the equipment updated, paying employees, etc., on that amount of money. If we try and get a raise, they talk about other companies who have already contacted them and how they can outsource and pay only 8 cpl total. I understand now why companies are outsourcing. We can't find qualified workers or those who even want to work so it's easier for companies to outsource and pay to have the work proofed before being sent on to the facilities. We do not outsource at all, but we have hired so far 19 people for FOUR positions and only 2 remain. That's how bad it is for us.
Starting or regular pay?
The company I work for pays 11 cents a line...so they are out there! They also do not outsource and they need good transcriptionists....contact me if you want a good company to work for.
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No, it's a regular work day.
As a matter of fact, our company is making us work on Labor Day and as if that's not bad enough, Thanksgiving too! We get half of Christmas day off and that's it, But it's a good company that pays us well overall, 6 cents a 75-character line, plus if you type over 4000 lines a day, they'll pay you 2.7 cents for each line thereafter the 4000. I can't complain! After all, things COULD be worse! I COULD be picking lettuce or strawberries for a living so I count my blessings!!
These are regular admisions.
I have also done H&P in a rush before surgery. But they are telling me they need to be done within 24 hours of admission for a regular hospital stay. When I started this years ago, it was 24 hours from dictation and did not worry about them on the weekends because was told as long as they were on the dictation system and the doctors had access to it, it was alright Well, the weekend thing changed several years ago and the 24 hours changed a few years ago and I provide weekend coverage for H&P (although from my understanding, they still do not get placed on the chart). The hospital is telling me this is state regulations.
Thanks, I did not think it was, it is on the regular "natural" one though - nm
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I feel the same way. There are several regular
names that I haven't seen since all this mess started. Glad you are still here Hayseed.
Me either. They just look and sound like regular people to me.
I think the story might be getting a lot of attention because of the situation - cute teenager lost while on a trip in an exotic place . . . . .
Happy at MDI with my regular pay (see inside)
They do not give standardized bonuses on a regular basis. There are some weekends or holidays that they give bonuses based on workloads at certain accounts. I am not sure what you mean by not coming to MDI for "the bonus"? As stated, there are times they give "a" bonus. Hope this helps. Sometimes you have to be flexible to move to certain accounts that are busy.
As a full time employee, I get 16 paid days off per year and I get paid more per line that at Spheris or Medquist. (I was at both). Birthdays recognized? At Medquist, I only got Christmas as a paid day off.
For the person that was at MDI for two years, I'd love to hear from you by e-mail. If you were actually there two years and never saw a bonus weekend advertised, never got a Christmas card, etc., I would find that odd. I would also like to hear what has happened to make you so aggravated to post on this board now. Send me an e-mail, I have been with MDI a long time and your post just doesn't sound right.
She admitted below that her name is DixieDew. She is a regular
where I post
$2.39 for regular in Boynton Beach, FL.
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you do realize regular broadcast TV will be gone soon...
the only choice will be satellite or cable. Believe it is starting in 2006, but you will have until 2008, or something like that.
There will be no more signals, it will be all changed over the HDTV (which I really have no idea what that is, or why we will have to have it). The government will also own, I think it is 10 channels, or something like that...
It is kind of an odd thing to think there will be no more 'free TV.' Everything we have known and grown up with is changing, and nothing seems to be free anymore.
how will you know what you type is ASR and what is regular transcription?(nm)
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I do VR and regular dictators and I must disagree
with everyone who says only the good dictators are on VR and bad on regular, I get pretty much an equal mix of both on both.
No way would my kids be in regular school
It was bad enough years ago when I was in public school, but nowadays with all the drugs, sex, guns, knives, etc., in school, there is no way any kids of mine would be in a public school. I remember my study hall when the kids were totally out of control and the teacher was afraid of them-- it sure isn't any better now. If I could not afford a private school, you'd better believe they would be home schooled.
I'd just use a regular /baby shampoo until you can
flea shampoo for puppies, then get some Frontline or Advantage....just check what the age is for it, pretty sure you can use those puppies. Keep her away from the other dogs obviously, especially if she has worms as just about all puppies do.
There is a palm demo but I don't see a regular one.
http://www.fitaly.com/
In our regular grocery store.
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I have one. I switched back to regular but still have the old one.
email me if you need it.
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