lol medical jargon

• I just HAD to post this! Unreal! - Love2BTyping
  • I think that crap is inflated!!!! - tabby
  • Accurate - AMI
  • Pay is right on though the ad is worded unprofessionally. - Multi-MTSO MT
    • wages - Pearl
      • If you work for a national, what difference does it make where you live? - mt
        • If you live somewhere with a high cost of living, like - Calif, then you face alot of discrimination.
  • I've been doing this for 3 years - WAMT
    • Worth?? - Suzanne Sydnor
      • I think you missed it by about - SM
    • You CAN make great money - Erin Williams
      • 70,000 as a second year MTer? - SM
      • what kind of an account do you have. sm - MT forever it seems
    • Ive been doing this for 4 years and made - mt
    • You have been doing for an entire 3 years and - And....
      • I fall into that category - AnnuderMT
        • If I worked full time I would make - SS
        • Last year I made $36,000...... BUT - kath2210
  • MTPay etc. - KRFan
    • I agree with you. - mt
      • can you say which company you work for and if they are hiring? - SDE
  • goes back to what I said before, sm - MT TOO LONG
  • No wonder... - MTinNC
    • Wow. I only WISH I made 31K per year! - -(nm)- Topaz
  • A medical transcriptionist must be able to - we do interpret medical jargon.
    • Obviously you don't have a verbatim account. - AnnuderMT
      • lol medical jargon - Gina
        • I even had one guy - Gina
        • You have no idea how I am agreeing with you - SS
          • Certainly agreeing with you too. - Fingers
            • THIS is what I was talking about.... - Love2BTyping

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I just looked at this site! My gosh--what is that guy on.  So our job is to transcribe medical jargon, huh?  According to Webster's, jargon is incoherent speech, gibberish (okay--that could be true), dialect unknown to one so that it seems incomprehensible (maybe for some of the dictators), a mixed or hybrid language (some dictators could fall into that category).

Ah--here we go--the specialized vocabulary and idioms of those in the same work, professional, etc., sportswriters (if only we got paid THAT well) or social workers (they make less than we do), or a somewhat derogatory term, often implying unintelligibility:  see SLANG, and lastly, speech or writing full of long unfamiliar or roundabout words or phrases.

This could explain the downward trend in pay scales for MTs!!  And very good point on not even having our own tax code--sportswriters do! 

and Tessier's The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition.  Books you could buy used I would say would be Stedman's Pathology and Lab Medicine and Cardiology/Pulmonary word book.  These are all the books I use the most during my day.  You could buy other speciality word books as you need them and could probably go used with those.

I wouldn't bother with buying a drug book, new editions come out every year and I just stick to the FDA website and RXList as my drug references.

Also FYI, not a book, but I use my Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictationary a lot.  It's easier to open the program than it is to pick up a huge 30-pound dictionary.

background and anatomy and physiology knowledge, a transition into coding wouldn't be hard at all.  From what I can tell by looking through my husband's books, an MT would have to learn insurance regulations and legalities.  We've basically got all the medical background down or we should be if we're worth our salt as an MT.

I even contacted AHIMA and found that the qualifications for taking the CCS or CCP coding exams are completion of the a coding program, RHIT program, or RHIA or related work experience.  Transcription is part of HIM, albeit the red-headed stepchild of the HIM department, but a part nonetheless and so satisfies the qualification of having work experience.

The test is tough though.  My husband didn't pass it his first time out and I think I read something like only 20% or so pass it the first time.  So it would probably be best to take some sort of formal coding class, in my opinion.

I worked in a hospital laboratory for 33 years and retired in 2001. I found out about a year later that my husband was losing his medical insurance after he retired on disability and so I had to go back to work. I had dabbled with transcription in the pathology department and so I decided to make it my second career and I just love it. I get to work from home and don't have to deal with the office politics and all the bureaucratic red tape that comes with working at a hospital.

Color me happy!!!! 

Ellen S.

Does anyone know if there is a place to download a free medical dictionary?

I am looking at moving back to working from home, I am currently 'in-house' working for a hospital clinic but I need more flexibility for my children's schedules.

I have a decent lead on an IC position, but I am trying to figure out if I can find/afford health care.  I really only need catastrophic type care and plan to pay for my own routine care.

Does anyone know of a decent insurance company??

Thanks VT_MT

It would depend upon whether or not it could have a negative impact upon my medical care. If the doctor dictated something like, "The patient has diabetes" (when I don't), yeah, I would ask them to correct the record. But for something like what was stated originally ... heck no. Let it stay.

But that's me ... I don't have OCD and I'm not anal retentive about this business like others. Never have been and never will be.

I still think you need to lighten up. There's a lot more to worry about in life than something like that.

January, 2000 - DH tore rotator cuff, needed MRI/arthrogram, followed by rotator cuff repair.

January, 2001 - I had foot surgery in podiatrist's office. 

January, 2002 - DH had cervical MRI/myelogram, followed by anterior cervical diskectomy with fusion, two levels.

January,  2003 - DH had knee MRI, followed by arthroscopy.

January, 2004 - I had LASIK surgery. 

OMYGOSH, it's almost January again! 

Hi all ... yesterday I started a new job - hospital MT, decent pay, great location. But guess what - the program is so old there is no medical spellcheck in it!  And the old lady that works the other shift, who's had the job for light years, does not use the AutoCorrect feature of MSWord!  The boss told me feel free to use it (thank God) - but can you imagine that?????   Any advice ? 

Thanks guys!

Use the link below that I wrote a few months ago.  It is a very honest review of today's coding needs and environment.  Good luck!

http://forum.mtstars.com/company/v/1/13589.html

Hi Guys! Does anyone have any info on what a MEDICAL Editor position should pay in the NY area?  It's requiring 10+ years of MT experience. 

Do these positions usually work from home - or on hospital sites?  I don't know much about editing jobs - and am darn curious about the particulars. I've sent in a resume, but am now playing the waiting game !

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks guys !

Sandy 

I am currently enrolled in the medical transciption course at my local college. For my final project this semester I need to interview a medical transciptionist. Is there any out there that would be interested in answering some questions for me. I would appreciate any feedback I can get. Thanks.