we run out of work every single day at spheris, it is scary. is slow on ya'lls end too?
Posted By: MTgal on 2006-01-18
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we run out of work every single day with Radiology, i type for Spheris, it is so scary, makes you wonder if the account is going to close. anyone having a slow slow production month?
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Are you on a network or single computer at work?
Lots of things can make this happen. It depends on the normal.dot if that's where you are saving them. Some networks won't let you save to the normal.dot.
slow work
I work for a smaller company too, looks like I MIGHT have 4 hours of work today, better than nothing, so praise the Lord!
Yes work seems to be slow all over.
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slow work
Unfortunately it is the nature of the business. From the point-of-view of the MTSO, they need to hire to provide adequate coverage for peak input times and then when there is a lull, there is not enough work to go around. After living through more cycles of this than I care to admit to, I finally learned to save every penny I earned from incentives, bonuses, OT, whatever, to get me through the lean times. In the past when I earned a fat check for OT I would RUN to the mall and treat myself. No more, and it has worked for me. Hang in there!
Work is slow...
We're going through a slow time where I work right now too. I think it's just that time of year. I'm having to do a lot of different accounts to keep work, but at least I have work the majority of my day (there have been a few days where I was out out work for 30 mins to an hour at beginning of shift). One day it will seem like it's picking up and the next day it's down again. Normal for this time of year though.
why? Is it the pay, slow work or EMR? more.
How much longer are you planning on hanging in there? Is there work for newbies even at low pay?
I'm asking because many of us newbies want to do it even if it's only around for a couple more years.
Thanks for your insight!
Christy
My work is SO slow...sm
I do clinic work, and the work has been so slow this week and last week. For instance, last night I only had 5 reports. Short ones too. Tonight I had 15 that totaled 21 minutes of dictation. I asked if they needed help on another account while that one had hardly any work and they said no they didn't. What this clinic tends to do is hold their work because my guess is they hate dictating and then all of a sudden they dump an ungodly amount of work on us. I am irked majorly.
Work for Spheris, I pay for DSL, even though
zzzzzz
Anybody work for Spheris?
Any comments, good or bad on Spheris. What is the avery pay per line.
Anybody work for Spheris
Been there. Done that. They suck. It's not the pay. It is everything else.
You must work for Spheris.
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I have NEVER ran out of work at Spheris.
I've worked for Spheris for a little over a year, first on a large clinic and now on acute care, and I have never ran out of work. Occasionally, I have to go to one of my secondary accounts, but there has never been no work available at all for me.
I work for Spheris too and I appreciate SM
your honestly. I too have had a fairly good experience, (with the exception of horrible health insurance), but I don't know if I would tell another MT to join up. There is too much commotion there now. They are in a hurry to change over to SR; perhaps too quickly. I'm also curious if the whole India thing is working out quite the way they anticipated. No MT company can work efficiently with so many new MT's.
Is this Spheris? I have work, but I don't know how much SM
longer. I believe my account is going totally global. I believe the entire company is going global.
I work for Spheris, but look at it as a day to day, week to week thing. I don't know how much longer it will remain in US to ANY extent.
You must work for Spheris, right? nm
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Never had a slow day, still tons of work.
I work for 2 compaines and both are slow...sm
I haven't had a full paycheck in a month. But with all this time on my hands I sure do have a good tan from being lazy and sitting in the sun!
No work slow down or stoppage is not a plus if
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The platform is slow and they run out of work.
nm
That is what I am thinking...Work is so slow..sm
I can't recommend a company right now.
so what u tellin us we work for SPHERIS?
I couldn't see MQ holding onto transcription. I'm gonna be sick.
No, you are not free to work for Spheris and MQ and
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At Spheris, if the work was running low
I would get an email from my supervisor stating such and telling us we could flex our time or use PTO. She was very much in communication with us at all times.
I personally think that the best communication between employer/supervisor and MT would be an email stating the workload is low, asking if you want to flex your time or use PTO and when do you want to make up your time so they can staff accordingly. Would be nice, huh?! :)
I work for Spheris, and I'm very happy there. sm
Good accounts, steady work (not counting the holiday slow-downs that all companies go thru), good support, and great people. I'm very happy there and would recommend them to anyone.
I work for spheris...cannot load
OP.
Not a slam, but don't you work for Spheris
xx
hospital work going to spheris
We too are in the same situation.. got the announcement, very minimal information, very general.. and now nothing.. we are supposed to transition in July next year.. I am hoping for the best but expecting the worst.. we have a lot of American speaking doctors, heard they like to send those to India, very nervous.. whole hospital system network going to spheris.. I am sure there are many more of us, on the edge, waiting....
Anyone else having an unusually slow work week? (nm)
dd
Slow work and people not going to the doctor
I have been transcribing for about 20 years, but took a break from it for about 1-1/2 years. Now I am working for a service. Here is my first question to you guys:
1. How long has it been slow like this? There does not seem to be that many jobs, and the response is slow when applying. I use to get calls almost the same day with just posting a resume (a few years ago.)
2. Also, this economy is so horrible. I was thinking, people are losing their jobs - losing their health insurance. Do you think that is really cutting into our industry, because people just cannot afford to go the doctor unless it is an emergency?
I work part time for Spheris...(sm)
They will hire you part time for the hours you're looking for; however, they don't hire IC status, which is what I wanted.
Spheris is not working out for me at all, but maybe it'll be what you're looking for.
Good luck!
How can a backup computer be used with Spheris? You work on sm
theirs only.
Has anyone received their W2 from Spheris or Webmedx. Yes, I work for both.
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Spheris Indian MTs are allowed to work
xx
I also work for both Spheris and MQ. If quarterly bonuses are eliminated I too will still be with M
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I work for Spheris, was docked by QA for typing 02/13/08 as a date SM
instead of 2/13/08 (dictator said "two" not " O two", and I read this garbage!!! Holy crap batman...
When work gets slow and you're switched to unfamiliar dictators does anyone besides me find it ha
nm
I was told that Healthscribe outsourced and when acquired, that Spheris would be bringing work
And this is information came to me from the inside, given to me when I was hired and in training.
Slow day for me. Typed two reports in two hours. Anyone else having unusually slow day?
dd
Little snow globe from Spheris with "All around the world, Spheris
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scary
It is scary to think how narrowed minded people can be. Plantation mentality is alive and well in the South....So help us all....
Scary
Your last 2 paragraphs made absolute sense. I always thought, even back "in the day," that dictation to transcription was archaic.
However, I fit into the "over-educated but don't know how to get in out of the rain MT" category, so scary thought because if you thought of it, someone else should as well... and I do need to keep doing this at least until one of my kids strikes it rich!
Good post.
Now that is scary!
That is really scary to me No wonder that sm
these gals hire on places, begin to work and then can't get their pay.
That is scary...
...
How scary to have a dog like that...
as your neighbor. If you have children, PLEASE keep close tabs on them...I just heard on the news a few weeks ago about a pit bull (I think...) snatching a baby out of her mother's arms and malling her head badly. The baby survived, thankfully, but was very badly hurt. I agree with you, these dogs are inherently vicious, and no, it's not the dog's fault at all...it's the human's fault for training and breeding for fighting...how very sad for the OP..I am sorry...
What's scary is...
they are treating people. How does the patient understand what he is saying (if they deem to say anything). I know when I see one of these doctors I have a hard time when I'm not ill. My husband is hard of hearing but can understand if clearly spoken to and he understands nothing and refused to go back to a GP we had.
I'm sorry, but its really scary to me that anyone
let alone a spouse, could just go back to sleep and post on a MESSAGE BOARD the next day, asking about a SWOLLEN HARD TONGUE!! You have got to be kidding me. And I presume you're an MT as well??? What is WRONG with you?? Goodness, the blunders never cease to amaze me. GO TO THE HOSPITAL. And don't wait til it happens AGAIN - get him to the hospital NOW to have it checked out, diagnosed, and have yourselves armed with epi-pens, etc. A BENADRYL??? That's just insane.
Very scary
Makes me paranoid about every "normal" person I meet. I hate being that way, but when it comes to my kids I am happy to be labeled *over protective*
this is really scary -
Okay, is there any chance that anything in our medical records is going to be correct, either done overseas, dictated by someone who has little grip of the language, perhaps transcribed by someone with even less of a grip, maybe corrected, but in the money crunching, I doubt that, probably never read by the physician and now you are telling me that the doc himself is typing this info directly. I frankly cannot imagine this. I cannot imagine they would want to type it. They can't keep on track half the time just reading.
That's scary sm
I'm sure it happens - as Patti says - but personally I would have a very hard time putting something like that on a report I typed. It is the doctor's responsibility to review the report. If he/she chooses not to do that, that is also his/her responsibility. But if I type it on the report, that means I am aware that the doctor is not reviewing it, and I would be concerned that I could be drawn into a lawsuit if there was ever a problem with a report.
It's quite possible that would never happen, but it's also possible that Patti has just been lucky...............
Something Scary!
Let me tell you something very scary that happened to me! I posted a comment in support of one of the companies on the Jobs Board and the CEO wrote me back an e-mail to my personal e-mail address thanking me for my comments. I was shocked as heck! I thought our identities were protected here. Guess again. They tracked me down to my personal e-mail address. Be very, very cautious of anything yo post here.
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