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      • Do not work for Amherst if you can work for any other office in MQ. It is terrible. They overload - MQ2
        • TOO TOO MANY ON ACCOUNTS - AMHERSTMT
          • I called HR and I did not know you had to follow up with a written complaint. Is there an email - MQMT
            • Go to the QNet site and - Busy MT'ing
          • Has anyone been able to speak with Corporate to see if they plan to look into Amherst. Did anyone - MQ2
        • i got transferred too - in the same boat
          • No work - it's horrible sm - Me too
            • what is their points review - haven't heard of this one yet
              • REVIEWS FOR FAILURE - AMHERSTMT
                • Well, now if it is a verbatim account and - Busy MT'ing
              • Yes, part of the rewards plan sm - Me again
                • thx - this helps
          • Wasnt that a rip. They must have called every person on every account to work. I cant possibly - MQ2
            • emails for action plan - what's next
              • They expect committment but give nothing in return - No money to be made working for Amherst
              • Yep and then everyone works and again NO WORK. - MQ2
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I think it should depend upon your experience and possibly the difficulty of the dictation.  I have been working at the same place for a VERY long time, so I rarely have to listen to dictation twice.  However, I have found that if I am doing a difficult doctor or cannot understand something, I will mark the spot, so that at the end of the report, I can go back and maybe after finishing the rest of the report, I may hear that portion now!  Miraculously, sometimes if I go back, I have familiarized myself with that doctor's dictation and TA-DA, I get it!

If you were a newbie, and were maybe in training, etc., I think it could be a great idea.  It just seems sometimes that between trying to obtain a reasonable production, it is just impossible to listen to every single report twice!  Hope I helped!

Hi everyone,

I have a question that I hope you can help me with. In short, I graduated in 1997 from college with a certificate in medical transcription. (I took a 1 year program) Even though I never worked in transcription, I have recently been offered a chance to work and do transcription from home. I was required to take a test and actually made 88% on it with no review at all. I needed to make a 90% though and am wanting to find a way to review and boost my score. I was wondering if any of you could give me the name of a good book or program that might help me out. I have seen one book called "The Do's and Don't's of Medical Transcription" but would like to have some opinions on it and other books out there. I would appreciate any and all help on this as I'm really looking forward to getting into the medical transcription field for the first time.

Many thanks,

RT

from Stedman's. The title is "The CMT Reveiw Guide."  This book was just released last year (2005) and was developed for the current version of the CMT exam.  You might also want to consider a CMT Study Group.  Contact the nearest chapter of AAMT as they do have CMT Study Groups.  I know that the Online Chapter of AAMT is about to start a study group that will complete in time to take the CMT in the end of July/begining of August.   Oak Horizons also offers and online CMT Prep Course which I have heard is really good.  You can get more info on the Oak Horizons class on www.aamt.org and do a search for CMT prep course.  For more info on the OCAAMT Study Group contact certconnector@aamtonline.org.

I'm thinking about investing in SmarType.  I have heard good things about it.  Can some of you how use it give a review?  Does it take long to get used to? 

TIA

According to the BOS:

1.  You are supposed to substitute mL for cc.

2.  When quanity and unit of measure immediately follow a heading such as estimated blood loss, use numerals.

Okay...here goes...

So, currently I work in-house at my local hospital.  (Probably shouldn't mention this cuz it's rude, but just trying to give accurate information)..I make 16.47 an hour, plus benefits.  I love my job and it is supporting me and my husband (who is in college at the time...graduating in JUNE!!!)...So, it's worth it.  However, I have to deal with a LOT of crap from the other MTs in-house.  Lots of bitterness, competitiveness, bi*chiness, etc.  I am dealing with it because I know I am not going to do this forever.  Which brings me to my next point:

Don't stay in this job for a long time!!!  You won't go anywhere with it, if anything you will probably get laid off due to outsourcing.  I, myself, am starting school for medical coding.  I will be done with school ($2000) in June and then get started in my new career.  If have been a medical Transcriptionist for 6 years and have done everything from psychiatric to internal medicine to sleep studies as an IC (and it's not worth being and IC in my opinion because of all the taxes you have to pay...big bucks) and my best job yet has been working in-house at my current job.  However, like I said, MTing is not going to get you anywhere fast.  If you want a job that takes you to the next level, go into coding.  There are a lot more career opportunities out there and you can eventually work from home being a coder as well. 

If I had to do it over I would have gone straight into coding (except for the fact that I got a lot of medical experience working as an MT).  Good luck to all of you who decide to stick with MTing, but I don't think it will reward you in the future.  I believe it is a dying profession and we all need to move on while the opportunity is here. 

I pray for all of us to be able to support ourselves and our family!  I know it's tough out there and we all are struggling to make end's meat.  Just keep on keepin on and we'll all make it through some how. 

That is, if you have a reputable daycare that is organized with caring people educated in childhood development. My neice was recently changed from a nursery (2 yrs old) because she was found lying on the floor in a corner at the nursery by her mother who came to pick her up at 5:15 p.m.. She had a 103 degree fever, and no one had bothered to call my sister about it. Anyone knowing that child would know she would have to be sick to be lying around when other kids are present. The new nursery is the different in night and day. She gets a report every day from what the child eats to even how many times a day she poops. It's wonderful and the child's attitude when she gets home... a world of difference. My sister thought she had a caring daycare, until she moved. Now she knows what one is really like. To all who have to put children in daycare, KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOURS!

Also, you second point, the shyness... I was also raised at home by my mother and never put in daycare and I was "painfully" shy when I got to school. I had a hard time throughout my school years because of it. Now as an adult, I don't think there is anything holding me back, but I had to work hard to get out of the shyness. I think because I was at home, I didn't know other kids but they knew each other and I never seemed to fit in.

1.  You can go ahead and cash the checks you received and it 's guaranteed money.

2.  You can wait and join the class action suit if you haven't and not cash the check; however, remember that in class action lawsuits the only true winners are the lawyers.  They end up getting most of the money in the end and generally the plaintiffs end up with a very small amount.  It irks me to see things like class action suits that results in the attorneys receiving millions of dollars in legal fees and the plaintiffs end up with less than  $100 because the legal fees ate the money available up.   Look at people who sue insurance companies over automobile accidents for example.  Say an attorney gets them $500,000 - well the attorney gets $250,000 for legal fees and the injured party receives $250,000 - and in situations where they receive large monies it's generally because the person is going to have permanent health problems related to the accident that future insurance companies will exclude paying for.   $250,000 isn't a lot of money if you have an injury that will cause chronic problems throughout your life.

3.  Remember that if you do join the suit that this will probably be tied up in court for years so don't expect a quick settlement if they do decide to settle.  Agreeing to settle a case outside of court doesn't mean the defendant is guilty - sometimes it's cheaper to settle out than to continue racking up costs associated with the lawsuit.  

As a note I don't work for MQ - I've just been out there in the legal world to see very commonly that what people think will happen isn't what happens in the long run.  The best you'll get is checks for any amount you weren't paid properly and possibly some interest, but don't expect to get a truckload of cash because they messed up your paychecks.  Instead if you wait on the lawsuit then you may end up having to share the back wages with the attorneys. 

Both points were addressed and specific solutions to both problems were given. Obviously, there are those readers, such as yourself, who only want to focus on one of the problems. I don't feel a need to lecture anyone on financial planning. I am simply offering a solution to helping this person overcome her problem for the future. Please trying offering a suggestion yourself instead of pointing a finger at those who do.

I did some research on HIPAA compliance with companies who offshore to India.  From the looks of it, the American-owned companies can be prosecuted for violations.  Also, it appears that India has similar laws and can prosecute their own citizens who violate confidentiality.  I definitely think there is more to the story than just people typing from cafes with no rules or laws.  Being that offshored work is big business in foreign countries, it would be to their own advantage to prosecute anyone who violates confidentiality.  I imagine there are laws in place already.

This statement was my favorite, and I do hope a lot of companies read this survey and learn from it!