for QA - and this is a pet peeve of mine
Posted By: sw on 2008-10-16
In Reply to:
 You QA in your post, I quote:
' ..I will see the patient in 2-day's time. NOPE, and this pisses me off! BOTH the hyphen and the apostrophe are wrong. ...'
The apostrophe is in the wrong place, I agree, but why do you want to delete the hypen? It should read:
I will see the patient in 2-days' time.
I am VERY positive that the hyphen has to stay in, as it is a modification to 'time'.
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That's my pet peeve
My doc says "assessment and plan #1" every freaking time whether there's a #2 or not...drives me up the wall. I hate having to go back and change it...but you know I do...that's my job. Sigh.
My pet peeve
I absolutely HATE it when, after having used docfinderplus.com (which is quite handy), I minimize it and then shortly after that I get scared right out of my chair when a "commercial" comes on.
Each have our own pet peeve.
I would not change pee or kid, but I would change tooken.
my pet peeve
is the word "irregardless." And I can't tell you how many doctors I have heard that from!
ATH, my pet peeve sm
I have never come across an At-Home Professions "graduate" who could do the job. I had started my training with ATH because I had a coupon for $25 for the first chapter. I had also looked into the SUM program. I was able to contrast and compare them. SUM was 10x as hard and in depth. It spoke to me as though I had a brain in my head and a LOT of information was covered as well, by body system. I could see right off that ATH was not going to be good enough.
I have managed a team and done QA, and having known what my MTs had used for training, those with ATH behind them had next to nothing behind them.
I can remember reading my SUM stuff about what actual transcription was like...background noise, unclear dictation and they touched on ESLs as well, though honestly these days there are as many ESLs as there are Americans. They were also up front about their completion and success rates. They stated clearly that 60% of those who finished the program would not be able to successfully be MTs and that, in point of fact, only about 10% of graduates would make a handsome income from this. I work technically part time and I have a full time income, so I consider that I am in that 10% even if I don't work full time. I was undaunted by these figures because I knew that I was going to do well as an MT and I have. If I had listened to the hype from ATH I am sure I would be doing something else now because I would not have been successful.
Unless you have tried to do this job, you know it isn't easy in the least. Training is one thing, but it won't give you a sharp ear (you have it or you don't), it won't make up for speaking poor English and thus having poor written English skills, it won't guarantee that you are one of these people who can instantly type what they hear. With the emphasis of so many of these "programs" on being at home with one's children or being available for family activities/problems, they are not giving an honest portrayal of what it is that we do all day. The emphasis should be on what it is we actually DO while we are at the computer, and it isn't. The 15 cents a line is a JOKE too. If you have your own accounts, which you really should not right away because you need mentoring, you can get better than 15 cents, or at least I can. Expenses run me down to about 8.5 to 9 cents a line, however, and I am better off being an IC at 10 cents with no bookkeeping to speak of (I am lousy at it). This is another reality that even SUM in its wisdom didn't mention.
Best of all, you gotta love those who think that a good training program will teach you everything that we "old timers" in this business know. Not many seem to understand (as I did) that most of this takes time and effort with constant learning and researching, memorizing and note taking and most of all, learning from the wonderful gals who have come before us...then paying it forward to others.
I hear your pain and all those interruptions on the phone!
another peeve
How about when their pager goes off and they hold it right up by the mouthpiece of the phone to check their messages with out shutting off the beeper? I just got one of those. Excuse me, I need to go have my eardrums removed from the center of my brain now. Oh, and he kept dictating the whole time, of course!
Pet Peeve
This is one of my pet peeves as well. There's this one female MD on my account that does it all the time. Yesterday, I sped up the dictation and listened quickly to it in its entirety so as to get an advanced peek at what she was going to do. It helped a little. If I were to have direct contact with this MD, I would make sure that she heard about the frustration that she caused. Otherwise, I work for a company and have no hopes that she will ever receive any feedback on this. At one time, there was an ER MD who would keep correcting herself many times throughout a report. The situation was made even more difficult by the fact that she keyed in all of her reports as stats, even those where the patient was discharged. So, being stat, her reports always rose to the top of the work queue. I complained about her to my manager; subsequently, I haven't received any of her reports in quite a long time. Either she doesn't work there any longer, or someone was actually listening to me.
pet peeve
I can feel the hairs on the back of my neck start to rise when I get a dicator who goes around the block to make a point and you are left trying to punctuate this monster thought into coherence.
I am not talking about a run-on sentence, which could be broken up into a couple/three sentences. I am talking about someone who just goes on and on and you are left wondering what the heck they started talking about in the first place. Most of the time, the sentence doesn't make any sense anyway.
Just letting off steam. Thanks.
pet peeve
I can feel the hairs on the back of my neck start to rise when I get a dicator who goes around the block to make a point and you are left trying to punctuate this monster thought into coherence.
I am not talking about a run-on sentence, which could be broken up into a couple/three sentences. I am talking about someone who just goes on and on and you are left wondering what the heck they started talking about in the first place. Most of the time, the sentence doesn't make any sense anyway.
Just letting off steam. Thanks.
pet peeve
I hate it when they hold conversations. Had one doc complaining that he couldn't go to Wal-Mart without someone stopping him to talk. He said he didn't have any idea who any of these people were and he was tired of it. Said he had to get in his boat (he lived in FL) and go down to Wal-Mart in the next town so he could get his shopping done. Poor guy!
Your vent is my pet peeve with MTs now. sm
You WANT to be paid more but can't do the job. You CAN'T understand the ESLs. Well then learn or get out. This is the REAL world of MT and it is people like you that give the MT profession a bad name. Sorry if you had a bad day or whatever, but if you are going to do a job - do it and not half way. They don't have to dictate properly. If they did, voice recognition would already be in place EVERYWHERE! This is the reason MTs are still needed.
Wash well. Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
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My pet peeve as of late
MTs and/or QA who write for assistance, help or support and then point out any item in my reply that they feel is an error. Looking at their own e-mail requests, I could point out the flaws and errors in their writing as well; however, I choose not to as that is not the point.
My point: You mistakes and so do the people who work to support you. It is petty of you to point out everyone's mistakes when you make them, too.
Forgot one pet peeve. lol
I do not like the fact that I have to order my payperview movies online as I do not have a landline hooked up to the receiver. I have not had a landline in a few years and do not wish to get one, it just irks me that I have to do it that way. Normally it doesn't take too long, it depends on the mood of my computer. Some days it doesn't want to cooperate. lol
I have seen noone used "a lot" on this board. It is my pet peeve also.
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pet peeve about posts here
On the grand scale of things, this matters not a bit, but even so, it really bugs me when people don't use regular IDs here but instead finish off their subject line in the name area. To me, posts like that are really hard to read and more often than not, there isn't enough space available to complete the thought so they end mid-word.
I'm tending more and more to just ignore those posts in favor of ones that include a basic identifying name, a brief subject line, and have actual text for their messages.
OK...insignificant vent for the day is over now.
have to vent about a pet peeve... sm
yesterday I spent an hour reading instructions for my new job on how to get into the website to view my pay stub, had to download the human resources manual which took half an hour, then find the instructions. I followed the instructions to the letter several times and just could not get into the website. so I finally broke down and sent an email to HR, and a few hours later got a reply from them... with the very same instructions I had just spent an hour downloading.
I guess it's my fault. from now on when I send them an email I am going to list everything I've tried already so they won't think I just asked because I'm too lazy to try to find the answer on my own. Maybe there are a lot of people who do that, I don't know. It's just frustrating to spend so much time trying to find the answer, then wasting another day or more on emails from them telling me to try everything I've already tried. If I could just TALK to somebody. by the time I get their email I'm long past caring about it, have wasted so much time on it already.
pet peeve, having to justify every second for pay
In other professions like nursing, nurses can just sit around for hours on end and be paid the big bucks while you have to struggle through every line/minute for your pay. We should not tolerate being treated like this. We should be paid by the hour or at least paid a decent wage.
Dog pet peeve, no leashes on dogs sm
My biggest pet peeve is owners who don't leash their pets. I have 2 dogs, 1 very large and one small. Overall, they are pretty good. They are always on a lease or in the house or behind a fence.I walk them nearly every day on the same route. On this route their are a mulitude of other dogs. I go during the day when most of the dogs are inside or in their pens. Sound safe? NOT. Today, I was 1 block from home when another came came out of nowhere, from behind us mind you, and attacked my dogs. Of course my dogs went nuts and there was a fight. The leashes tangled around my wrists and I couldn't let them go. Needless to say, before the owner got his dog under control and away from mine, I got knocked down and dragged about 50 feet from my own 2 dogs. I managed to get up and get mine under control and managed to get back home. I went to file a complaint with the police and he said it was iffy because the owner was outside with his dog and trying to call him back. So, I'm all banged up and sore and this guy is probably laughing at me. It just burns me up now that I can't even walk my dogs in town because people don't believe in restraining their animals. I told the officer I would think about it filing a formal complaint after I spoke with my husband. He said it would probably get thrown out but we could try. I'll probably get flamed to death on this issue but what would you do? My dogs were properly restrained and the other dog was not. Well, now that I have vented, I think I will be able to work. I'll check back later. Thanks for the ears.
LOL. I told you, it's a pet peeve. It was constructive
Personally, I don't like to have errors in any of my writing, personal MB or not, and I would rather have someone tell me on a MB than make a fool of myself elsewhere. To each his/her own.
FWIW, I was not proofreading, just reading. After seeing it the incorrect way umpteen times, I felt compelled to mention it.
another pet peeve for me is the snot sucker.
Today I got stuck with him again for more than a few reports. Grossed me out.
Runs and fragments, my pet peeve with testing sm
I will be honest, I am not that well versed in which is which, but I know an incomplete sentence when I see one. The thing that tickles me is that the companies who make the most of knowing the difference will hand you a VERBATIM account. If you are an experienced MT, you tell me...verbatim means you type out all the sentences as you hear them...run ons, fragments and complete, regardless.
It is nice to have someone on board who really knows their stuff and I understand this. I think it is appropriate to test for things you know that an MT is going to encounter, rather than whether or not she can identify when her verbatim account is dictating in incomplete sentences. Appropriate use of a commas versus semicolons, knowing when to chain together disparate thoughts into one sentence and when to break it up, and knowing how to spell seem far more important to me.
I am in the middle of taking a test for a national company. They handed me 6 voice files, all over 3 minutes long, to transcribe as a test. Yes, they are going to take me over an hour because I have bronchitis right now (ugh I feel awful), but I consider this about the best way to assess my skills. It will give my perspective supervisor a valid way of seeing how I do things on the job.
Funny! Mine is almost as large, and I don't mind cleaning mine!
It's no problem at all. Besides, I'll take lots of oodles of square footage any day of the week over living in a sardine can!
Mine isn't like that. Mine is 2. All are programmed different.
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Mine are 10, 7, and 4.....sm
I get up early and get my work done by noon. If I have more that needs done I do it late at night after they go to bed. I have a very flexible schedule, so as long as the work is back in 24 hours it doesnt matter when I do it. Mine are all girls, so they play really nice together. My 10-year-old is pretty good at keeping the 4-year-old playing. When the two older ones are is school, my 4-year-old is pretty good at playing with her toys, computer or books until I am done. I stop occasionally to read to her or play with her, but I am usually done everyday at noon. For me personally, I would never use daycare. I would try to make it work with the little ones at home. I used to work in a very demanding hospital job doing insurance and billing. When I started work at home I knew I would never see another day care again! Good luck to you and hope you can find a way to get the little ones to stay at home with you!
not mine
I did not make that post
Yep, that's what mine is...
That "azul" thingy - think I'll take my computer, desk and chair to that island and sip a cold drink while I type....
should see mine!
Ours this time was 441!!!
mine is for $96 - but what for??? nm
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You can have mine.
What a slap in the face! I will be returning mine with a nice little letter. They obviously think we are just a bunch of idiots and are just going to sit back and take their BS. I have had it.
Mine was $27 nm
NM
Mine are up a bit too. NM
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He's mine. Now get out of here.
Do you spend at least 2 hours doing your hair and make up in the hopes that he stops by your house? I didn't think so.
Mine does - up to 14 cpl for certain...
accounts. I'm sure there must be others. Our experience has been that there are still plenty of doctors/healthcare facilities who appreciate quality. Yes, many simply want to save money. Thankfully, some know money is not the most important factor.
Mine did for me
I worked for a company (not MQ) that used DQS and I only have dial-up available to me. I connect at 50.6 Kbps almost all of the time and never had a problem. Once the first dictation loaded, which took less than a minute, the rest would upload in the background while I was working so I never had to wait. Sound quality was always very good, but of course that can depend on your account.
I currently am working on the InScribe platform for a different company and it takes a little over a minute most of the time for my first dictation to load (so it is a little slower than DQS was for me) but after that there is no waiting, just like on DQS.
I have a really reliable ISP so very rarely get disconnects, etc.
HTH. :)
that's how I do mine, too...and they are
mine is
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Also keep in mine...
While it is very true what the other poster said, you also need to take in to account how much you are getting paid per line. I get paid both ways, for two different jobs I work. If I were to make say $.09/gross line (based on 1" margins all around, Courier New 12 pt. font), then I would need to be paid approximately $.12/65 characters per line to be making near the same amount (this is just a rough estimate).
Me too. Mine is really bad in the a.m. - sm
The pain is not really in one area of my arm, but all over and achey, even going to my wrist sometimes. I absolutely cannot lift my arm over my head without excruciating pain. Heating pad helps me too. Mine actually started when I got this crazy idea to add weightlifting to my cardio regimen at the gym. Since I have bad knees from time to time, I am guessing this may be arthritis. I'm 38. Arthritis is very strong in my family.
Wow! Ask for mine too and keep it! :)
Was an original member when you paid by the MINUTE to use AOL in the early 90s. I think it lead to my divorce...
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Mine too
I'm an IC and was fortunate enough to receive Christmas bonuses from three of my accounts this year. I was more excited about being remembered than the money! It is nice when they communicate with you other than in a monotone voice on a tape.
that is what I still use. Mine looks sm
awful but works great. I found a couple on E-bay and bought them for 4 bucks a piece but they are rebuilt and the keys are tighter. Actually I wanted the cords off of them because you can't get the cord anymore and mine had a crack in it. These are the cords the snap in and are not on permanently. I love the clickety clack keyboard and don't want to ever change. I have bought so many adapters, you can't imagine! LOL
mine is this now too:)
Why are you making a big deal about this?
mine too
of course this is my cup of cocoa since I haven't ever touched coffee.
Almost all of mine say thank you, more so than the
American docs.
Anybody like their job? I like mine
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I wish mine had. We'd all have been better off.
Actually I've always wished I was adopted and had nothing genetic in common with those freaks.
Not Mine!!!
Mine is a
He also just quit a high paying, benefit-loaded, pension-loving job in sales for Time Share Sales because of the hours. We have 5 kids and they are growing up WAY too fast for him to work 70 hrs a week. Pray for us...this is scary! I am tying to find a better paying MT job and maybe some benefits to make up the $ difference while he trains and gets used to a change!
Mine is 143. nm
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Mine is 137. It used to be 146. Getting
older ;)
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