yeah but just barely - sm

• End of year...anybody gonna clear over 50K? - ??
  • Right under $50,000 - Lauryn
  • I would love to know the secret... - MTMomma
  • clearing 50,000?? - Cindy M
  • Those wages posted below seem - excellent to me.
  • Probably just over by year's end (sm) - old decrepit mt
  • $32K/part time 6 months/full time 6 months - sm
  • About $30,000 working 5 hr per day considered full-time - mamawtypes
  • About $80,000 (sm) - MT
  • Already there and above......own account(s). nm - JMR
  • $24K part-time with three months of - I wish...
  • 35K here working not a whole lot of hours. - I have my own accounts though.
  • Any advice for newcomer? - Joan Robinson
    • Starting pay is anywhere from 5-7 cpl - sm -
    • One of the posters tells. - Look at some of the posts
  • $25K part time - Part-Timer
    • Part-timer, too sm - MT2
      • what you make - landroverlady
    • 10K for 12 hour weekends, work privately - All week I work privately....NM
      • sorry, thought I was on MQ board - 10K for ..SM - All week I work privately....SM
  • not this year but close - mg
  • Maybe $16K......took a little time off though from 1 job - nm -
  • Not now - mom2huskies
  • Haha! Not exactly! Should be rephrased to ask, - nm - 'Anyone gonna clear over $18,000?'
    • Agree - mom2huskies
      • Yup, and it'll most likely only go lower, right about - the time gas reaches $4.00/gallon. (nm)
  • I at 1 time did the big $$$$ - Nope
  • Wow, with so many posting here - making a good living.
    • You can "make a living" if you work 16-hr days, 7 days - a week, 52 weeks a year.......
      • Disagree. I work 48 hours a week for $65K. - me
        • I've been at it for 30+ years. 'Back in the day', I too made - Too Late, Now
          • Let's look at that 1 cpl raise closer .. - Devil's Advocate
            • The 1cpl amount was just a 'fer instance'. - In reality it's more like hundredths of a cent
              • I think that is a matter of opinion. - me
                • I realize that I can't 'have it all', but I'd be happy - - if I could just have SOME ! (nm)
          • You could have written my story - mom2huskies
            • Also, don't you think alot of the 'big bux' people say they're - making is just a lot of hooey? ;D
              • I believe them. I know what I make and have - seen others making.
                • Uh - huh. - yeah, RIGHT.
                • makin' the big bucks - annabanana
  • yeah but just barely - sm - fingers
  • I don't make 50K or close sm - Lyndia
  • Yep - Patti
  • I could have - teaser
    • When i was charging - rm
  • $50K - ticked
    • ... and you're still there... why? - (nm)
      • Probably because she needs a job, it's paying, includes benefits. - nm
  • Yes, about 65K and I've given all my tips multiple times. - Just get shot down.
    • well, tell me cuz I wont shoot you down - me
      • Ok - me
        • But do you have a LIFE? Do you get any exercise? - ??
          • Of cours. I only work 48 hours a week. ? - me
        • No shooting, but... - Scribbles
          • Someone's always got to have a comeback. - How many more reasons do you have for not making i
            • Yes it would be a perfect world - Scribbles
        • what i want to know is - me
          • me too - stilltyping
          • I have to work a schedule for each company. - me
            • thanks - me
              • Please be careful - Malki Reed
              • Take breaks, though! You'll regret it if you don't! - me
                • Just wondering if I can be nosy and ask - - truffle
                  • I live on one job and save the earnings from the 2nd. - me
  • None ya! - sm
    • With that being said.... - It's time to get off MTStars and back to work!!

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Doctors today are totally incompetent for the most part.  YOU cannot worry about it when it comes to transcribing their gawd awful reports.  THAT is between the patient and the doc.  Just knock the report out as fast as you can and make sure it's accurate and then after that, forget about it. 

The docs make the big bucks - you don't!  Let THEM worry about things that will eventually catch up with them, one of which is called the Karma bug, and that little bug ALWAYS bites those who don't deal fairly right in the butt!  And big time, too!  

I understand where you're coming from.  The respect is just not there anymore.  Everyone in this business has heard for years about how voice recognition and EMRs are going to replace us all, which I just don't buy.  I work for a national on a difficult account with many ESLs, and it generates lots of work.  Every summer we have problems keeping up with turnaround but the management has yet to come up with a solution that actually works consistently.  I suspect it's a combination of MTs having kids home from school during the day now, vacations being taken, and people not working their schedules,  but most of all I think it's just plain burnout - we deserve to enjoy the summer too.  Last summer I worked so much to the point that I think I did substantial damage, and my body just cannot take it anymore (been at it for about 20 years, the last 10 years of it steady).  The powers that be fail to understand that we are not machines! 

Uh-huh

That makes complete sense (not).

It's called MT stars, as in medical transcription, so post regarding medical transcription - as in the profession......understand that?

You want Regis and whatsername?  Post on that board.

You want Romper Room?  They have their board, too......   Get the message honey bun?

Account instruction#1 says bold and CAPITALIZE allergies, list medications in number form regardless of what dictator says. Do NOT abbreviate in HPI, but you can abbreviate in Assessment if the doc does.  Don't use degree sign unless doctor dictates it.  List assessment in number form, even if there's only one item.

Account instruction #2 says bold headings but never bold or capitalize allergies.  Only expand abbreviations in Assessment but nowhere else in document.  Be sure to use degree sign when typing temperatures.  If there is more than one item in the assessment, use number form in listing them.

Account instruction #3 says never bold or capitalize allergies, don't abbreviate anything.  Never number medications, even if dictated by physician.  Can use the degree symbol if Drs. A, B, and C dictate such.  If Dr. D dictates patient's name in body of report and uses words that don't exist in the English language, be sure to type what he says since it's a verbatim account, and he complains all the  time that he doesn't want his report to sound so *formal* by using *the patient* instead of the name.   For all other reports, use *the patient.*  If Dr. E dictates the patient's sister, Sara, do NOT use the name Sara and just type *the patient's sister," regardless of what he really says. Dr. F might not dictated a numbered assessment list, but that's what he means.  Dr. G prefers to see the text of H&Ps on the same line as the heading, but on his consults, he thinks it looks better if there's a hard return, with the text starting on the next line.

As an Editor for multiple accounts, are you sure that YOU'RE paying attention to all the little idiosyncrasies contained in the sometimes 20-30 PAGES of account instructions for any given account? If so, I doubt you would find it so easy.

live in Bush's world.  Must be nice there! 

I would go for the scrubbing toilets... at least you get more  respect!

Although this is a 2003 article, I'm *amazed* (NOT!) at how the timing of this for June 2006 just *magically* coincided with our problem with Iran, and it mentions *bunker busters* which I've read Bush wants to use with our next war against Iran.

But, yeah, it's all okay and harmless, blah, blah, blah.  Do what you want. 

I sure ain't going near the "City of Sin" any time soon.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-06-nuclear-usat_x.htm