when I post a job, I get literally hundreds of responses
Posted By: MTSO on 2006-07-28
In Reply to: anyone hiring?-sm - Unemployed
- that's without offshore-- and people with good skills and experience are willing to work anywhere from 18 cpl to 12 cpl to 6 cpl. So I would say yes, the field is becoming increasingly more competitive
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- when I post a job, I get literally hundreds of responses - MTSO
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Because there are so many responses to this post,
I am not going to remove it. But, please make this type of post on the Ask the Dr. board in the future.
If you aren't wanting responses, do not post. (SM)
Certainly, you won't make friends here by lashing out at them because they did respond to you.
Perhaps you should seek your medical advice from a medical professional, i.e., 9-1-1, a hospital emergency room, physician, etc.
Hundreds of thousands
Told to us by this lying administration that has been discredited, this administration who has lied to us many times in the past five years..Yes, Saddams administration did kill but so have we..We are worse than Saddam..We have killed tens of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis, we have invaded a soverign state which caused no harm to us, we also due to our immoral illegal war have caused over 1,700+ Americans to die, also thousands more maimed and emotionally destroyed..We are the monster we removed..Bush equals Saddam..They are equal..They are in essence brothers..
Hundreds of docs
Me, too! I just want to cry when people talk about being able to set up templates because I may not get the same doc again for weeks, if not months, let alone skipping from immunology to hepatology to dermatology to cardiology to neurology (pant pant pant, too much skipping) and then to several other specialities as well. Jack of all specialities, master of none. Sigh.
I am on only 2 accounts, I have hundreds
of expanders, and create templates for the doctors that say the same things (physicals, op notes, etc) and I try to work for 2 hours at a time without taking a break. Plus, my MTSO has an excellent platform to work with.
Nope, me and hundreds of other MTs. You obviously no not what you're
posting about! Compare me to Clinton, fine with me! I'm not sticking my neck out for hanging by explaining anything in detail to you! If I did, I would be "nutz"! Again, nuff said. You are STILL alone out here! Bye!
I do hundreds of different docs. Not a problem.
Maybe because I've always had a knack for understanding foreign accents since I was a kid. Why I don't know. Maybe because I was an "Army brat" until I was about 6 years old and my dad would always tell stories and jokes in different accents and I have relatives in Canada, both French and Scottish.
Whatever it is that makes me understand, I still have a problem with the docs that sound as if they're halfway through a bottle of scotch and then get to ROS and turn into Speedy Gonzales and do the whole ROS in one breath.
If you've been an MT as long as I have (going on 20 years, ugh) you can pretty much figure out what they're going to say anyway and know enough to leave the "S" of "Patient(s) is a 20-year(s) old male.
Oh really? I did it twice AND got employee of the month out of hundreds of MTs. nm
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Hundreds - all acute care too! nm
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You literally have nothing better to do????
How can you call yourself a professional and say those things then if you are not jealous? You are really showing some style here, let me tell ya'? You sound so classy! NOT!
That was hundreds of thousands of WELL-WRITTEN and WELL EDITED letters
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MQ Rules, literally! Go MQ!
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NO! NO! That is so weird. I literally just got off the
phone calling Frontline with the SAME THING and asking details on cat treatment then after I went out and bought some. I got a really nice girl! NO - dog flea products are often fatal to cats. I have 2 adorable rescue kittens who are loaded with fleas. We have been waiting til they were old enough for Frontline, and I'm short of cash too, so was thinking of fudging with the dogs' Frontline that I have extra of!! Good luck! Meow!
The type where you literally (sm)
can't tell if they are saying black or white?? How do they do that? Working in an office, we could have 4 different MTs listen, and 2 would think the dictator said the patient was black and 2 would think he said white. Grrrrr.
I knew because I could literally hear it
I could hear the explosion(s) from where I lived, plus the hubby called me because he was on the bridge and he could see one of the Towers burst into flames. But I totally understand feeling kept in the dark. I don't remember anyone from my account calling me or discussing it with me. The first attack (when a truck exploded in the garage, I think, of the World Trade Center years before), I didn't find out about til I turned on the TV that night. I totally understand the isolation factor.
I had literally thousands of viruses using that.
It broke a record for what my computer guys had seen. I use TrendMicro now.
4000+ lines a day is literally not possible.
The MT companies are ripping MTs off with VR. It takes nearly as long, and in some cases longer, to edit and correct VR reports as it does to straight type them, and to pay half (or some horrible companies pay only a third!) of the line rate is completely unfair and unethical.
You seem to forget the HUNDREDS of thousands Saddam killed, execution style.
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She may be an MTSO, but I knew an MT who literally typed 18 hrs a day.
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"It's all about me" - nature of the beast - literally
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You are taking it literally, which is not what I meant. I would rather not pay the highest price
out there, as I'm on a budget.
I have actually loaded it from the testing the company sent and have literally gone in and deleted i
the pedal just works terribly. I will wait until the tech guy calls me today and see if he can figure it out. If not, well then I am not sure what I can do.
Yeah! After 11 years of it, I'm so sick of it I could literally scream, and that's no joke!
And these docs who dictate faster than the speed of sound, like they could give a rat's butt because they're in too big of a hurry to get out on the golf course, I like to strangle with my own bare hands. I'd like to tell them all what I really think about them. Truly, I have zip respect for 99.9% of the doctors out there today, who seem completely incompetent. How they manage to get out of med school I'll never know! 
oops....cant spell today, supposed to be literally, not litterally. I added a T too many. hehe. nm
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UNBELIEVABLE!!! I am speechless. I literally have no words! A $5000 trip to China to teach
them how to steal our jobs?
Yes, I'm sure an any problem always involves hundreds of ants, but it's still an ant problem.
How funny.
It would help--an you may get more responses--sm
if you indicate what the med is used for. check out this site--
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/Uses/0,3915,6355%7CTeargen,00.html
also a Google search could lead you in the right direction, rather than sit and wait for a response here.
Thanks for your responses (sm)
I will probably go ahead and get Shorthand. I know DQS has a built in Expander but it's empty when you first start and that cuts into production time. Today is the first day I'm doing live work (3 jobs only thank goodness) just to keep up on what we were taught in training until the hospitals I do are switched. Wish me luck. I think DQS will be better in the long run as it has some really nice features, it's just I've become spoiled with using the same system for years and years. Change can be very scarry, but if it stimulates my brain and keeps me from getting Alzheimers sooner, hey, I'm all for it. Thanks again. 
Thanks so much for your responses
This has really helped me make my decision. I guess I just needed a little shove.
Thanks to all for your responses! nm
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I would like to see more responses (SM)
I would like to see more responses and more specifics to this excellent poll. This is a very good idea. I have always wanted to know this information. There are only a few responses here. I see no reason why the responders cannot be more specific about the MTSO company through which they contract. Please let us continue this thread for awhile longer.
Thank you all very much for your responses. sm
And thank you for your condolences as well. She, at this point, has decided not to attend the church ceremony but feels she can deal with a period of time at the visiting hours. This is agreeable to everyone.
Thank you all again.
No, nothing else. I think the responses have said it all.
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RE QA responses
If that's the tone they use when they give you feedback, IMHO, that's VERY unprofessional. I'd certainly go to whoever heads up the QA department to get answers, and also perhaps to resolve the way you're being communicated with.
thanks for the responses
My contract has agreed upon hours not lines per se. I agreed to work a split schedule between mornings and afternoons in my time zone, no weekends. I have no minimum production or maximum production. I just wanted to be sure that I could say "No" once in awhile without being terminated on the spot. I have years of in hospital experience and also over 6 at home as an employee so I am definitely an asset I don't think they would let go lightly. Its not the owners sending out messages to work the weekends but the girl in charge of managing the daily workload who is sending mass emails to all the MTs asking for more help. I think I'll just start ignoring these when I want to and volunteer when I need the extra cash!
Thanks for all the responses...
Thank you for responding. It is nice to get feedback from other's point of view.
I agree with the poster that said that some large families have entitlement issues, and I think this is what is going on with this mom. My kids don't usually have a problem sharing, but the amount of requests coming from this family is completely out of control.
Just as an update on this, I decided not to talk to this mom about it. I discovered a few very alarming things this weekend, and I may need to contact Child Protective Services. For example, on Sunday she locked the kids outside in the late evening while she went grocery shopping because she didn't want the kids to mess up her house. (Their ages are 12, 10, 8, 7, and 5). The oldest was spending the night at a friends, and the youngest 4 were locked outside. She left at 8:30 pm and didn't get back for over an hour.
The 5-year-old is also running the neighborhood by himself a great deal. Last night, I found him outside after midnight and had to walk him home.
I am also discovering that, although she has food in the house, she is not always feeding the kids. For now, I have decided to keep a journal of what is going on for about a month and decide then if I need to report this.
thank you for all the responses...sm
My hubbie has been through the psychology testing, etc. so that insurance would pay for the operation, plus we did the sit down with the dietician, who showed us exactly what was going on. The program also has monthly support meetings and the doctor has extensive experience in this type of surgery, so we feel very confident in his abilities. It is just a big step and we are just trying to make sure we have checked into everything before we proceed. Thank you again everyone.
Thanks for the responses.
I'm very interested to hear anyone's story. Reply by email if you feel it's too personal a subject for the forum. I am interested in hearing the good, the bad, and the ugly of both the foster system and the private agencies.
I've been reading the adoption websites for tips and such, but I feel like people mostly give the sugar-coated versions once the adoption is done, especially if they're endorsing a particular agency.
I do appreciate the comment about being told you're better off going out of the country. I'm sorry that happened to you, and I've heard that story more than once. It's a shame.
Thanks for the responses...
I really appreciate it--it is a "scary" thing to think about changing platforms!
Thank you for the responses. :O) NM
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Thanks for all your responses. sm
It's just that commas, hyphens, paragraphs, etc., are not a matter of choice. There is a right way and a wrong way. I agree with the comment that the doctors don't care. I know that's true or it wouldn't happen so much. I'm certainly no expert, but some of the stuff I proof is just ridiculous. Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for the responses. sm
Thanks for the responses, and thanks for not flaming me. It's a quandary, isn't it? Sadly, I know it is true that for every MT who has had enough and says, "I'm not working for this rate anymore," there's another MT to take her place--and at a cheap rate. I do want to say though that I am a firm believer in the saying, "You get what you pay for." The nationals might be saving money upfront by hiring "cheap" MTs, but in the end they might not be saving as much as they think. An MT with 15 or 20 years (or more!) of experience is worth her weight in gold.
Something tells me that even though the situation may be grim at times in the MT world, it is not as grim as it appears. I think it behooves the large nationals for MTs to always believe that "the end is near." People in situations that appear desperate will do desperate things.
Stick to your guns and keep trying, and I will do the same. You are all worth your weight in gold, and if you keep going for it, you'll get it! You're a great bunch of people!
I appreciate all the responses. We don't
I usually do about 170 to 175 minutes of dictation a day. I work on operative notes, electrophysiology dictation and all the cardiology reports from our heart care center.
Someone else replied about using expanders. I use those a good deal now.
We are being outsourced. I won't have any choice other than apply with a company of my choice.
I believe I'm an excellent producer but without any real experience in the production scene, I'm just trying to get a feel for what I can expect.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for all the responses
It made me feel better to know that lots of others are on the same page.
Thanks all for your responses ... nm
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Thanks for the responses!
I didn't take the job, but I appareciate the input!!
my responses -
My statement of "I know we don't get paid what we are worth" is just that - we should be making more money, but at this point when I have friends that everyday are losing their jobs, getting laid off for weeks at a time, cannot pay their bills, losing their homes, their cars, cannot feed their children properly, I feel very lucky that I am in a job that I can still do all of the above - albeit making less than I feel I should be making.
I know we are heading into uncharted territory with transcription, don't know from day to day what is coming next, but at the same time, I have been doing this now for 18 years and there have been very few of those changes actually occur and I have worked at lots of different places.
I don't know why you are so down on me because I am happy with what I have and wish everybody else would just give up the griping about it all the time. If they are not making the money they want to make, if they are not happy, then they do not have to continue on in this profession - that's my whole point!
Thanks for the responses
I have been jumping around a bit lately trying to find a fit. It seems company has it's pluses but there's one big negative I can't live with. One company paid 9 cents gross lines and mostly templates - sounds like heaven, right? But there was so much red tape you had to go through to get one report done. And an invoice for 2 weeks took 2 hours to complete for a full-time person! That's what I mean about procedural problems.
I'm at a place now that's only 8 cents/65-line but the work is easy. The problem though is very poor sound quality. You just can't seem to win in this field anymore even as an an MTSO because the technological changes keep coming. This is why I left 4.5 years ago - that and burn out. Now I need to make some money but geesh - it's taking me forever each day to make very little. I really think my time in this field has passed but I will continue to work at least through the summer until my kids are back in school so I can go back to school.
I don't mean to be so negative or discouraging - I know this can be an awesome job at certain times in your life. It was for me for a lot of years.
Thank you for the responses.
I may have to bypass this job though. H is against it. He is not telling me what to do, he is just telling me that he is concerned about me being too tired all the time and neglectful to myself. I haven't turned in any paperwork to them yet and they already sent me a computer. I don't know how that is going to sound when I say I changed my mind and I am sending all this back.
Thanks for all your responses-have been IC for 8 yrs and never
paid quarterly taxes, but my refund is getting smaller and smaller and if I don't want to end up paying soon I figure I better start paying quarterly!
We once got 700 responses to an ad for 5 openings. sm
We had three people returning calls (we were small with only 20 MTs at the time).
Sometimes, the only factor is time. Did you try calling again? The squeaky wheel and all that. I think it is a good sign if a company is busy. You probably will have plenty of work!
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