yeah, in today's job market, the

• Boss sent me a nasty email, I replied and proved she was wrong, and yet no apology. sm - Dreaming MT
  • nasty email - nancy
  • Boss Yelled at me - no apology - mt15
  • I know this is MDI-MD. Couldn't take the e-mails - she is NUTS! nm - Ex-MDI-MD
    • She is NOT nuts, she has a business to run. - Very unprofessional of you. nm
      • NASTY EMAIL - jbrown
        • I have never gotten a "nasty" email. - MDI-MD MT
          • I agree. It's a great place to work, - Dee
      • I too think this is very unprofessional. We at MDI-MD may be a littleon edge to be out of work..sm - anon
    • LOL ... you win the kewpie doll. I wouldn't say "nuts," but definitely eccentric. sm - Dreaming MT
      • LOL, I worked for her long ago when she micromanaged a different company. nm - Darlene
        • I worked for Signal as well and Signal and MDI-MD - are the 2 best companies I have ever
          • I am not and was not bashing her and all that. sm - Dreaming MT
            • You most certainly WERE bashing. - sm
              • I wish the same for you - Dreaming MT
                • Well that won't happen. I was with Signal. - I'm with MDI-MD. I am not coming on
      • Posts deleted - Stop with the name-calling. (SM) - Moderator
      • And exactly what are your qualifications that you - feel you can tell an owner how to run her company?
      • You are definitely lucky as you actually have some work to do at MDI-MD!!! nm - no name
  • Sounds like PMC to me... - nm
  • Turn the tables - Misha
  • Is this service in Wisconsin??? - WI MT
    • No, out east ... lots of rude people running the show, it seems ... sigh. nm - Dreaming MT
      • That's not bashing? Coulda fooled me. - I think you need to find another job. nm
    • Must be. Sounds just like them - nm
  • I wonder if you have the same boss lady as me... - Sounds very familiar
    • True ... sometimes I wish I could just tell her to take her ccompany and go jump .... sm - Dreaming MT
      • Funny - I"ve never been yelled at at all. Seems - like you'd be grateful to be working for
  • I used to work for a shrew like that. - sounds familiar
    • wonder if it's the same person? - me
  • yeah, in today's job market, the - holy cow
    • What middle class? No longer exists. sm - anon
      • Hardly. We will always have and need a middle class. - sm
        • Yes, we will always NEED a middle class, - holy cow
      • Use political board for political posts. NM - Moderator
        • How is this political? This is a state of living, not bickering political points. Truth hurts...NM - passing through
          • The posts that were removed were political. (SM) - Goldbird (Moderator)
      • Yeah, you're right...what was I thinking? - holy cow
      • Once was middle class. - I'm a has been

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just the fact that jobs are posted for this pay means people are taking it. You have to remember - we are in a global marketplace now. We are competing against people from India, Thailand, Cambodia for these jobs. If the Mexicans could figure it out, we would be competing against them too. It's like washing dishes. Washing dishes isn't easy. Why does washing dishes only pay $5.50 an hour? Because they can find people to wash dishes for $5.50 an hour. Not only that, but MT work was getting cost prohibitive for a lot of people. That's why some other really, really smart people said, "let's find a way to make computers do this! Then we can sell the programs so docs can buy programs instead of paying MT's." Then some other really really smart people said, "let's not even have docs dictate. Let's have them point and click!" And so MT's are also competing against VR and EMR.

You may say ..."If a company offers me 7 to 9 cpl, I let them know that it is an insult to expect an experienced, highly skilled Transcriptionist to be offered such low pay and I refuse to work for them." But if your current job goes bye-bye, and you're scrambling out in the market and that's all that's out there....well, you get the picture. If you want the job, you take the job for that pay. Otherwise, yes, it's get a job at WallyWorld. Your choice.

I will not buy MS Vista - I hear it's a nightmare. TIA

Hi y'all,

Three weeks ago I began a new job doing acute care at a local hospital (part of CHS). On Friday they told us that our work would be outsourced beginning in April.... Previously I worked at another local hospital for 9 years transcribing Rad and ER notes, echos, etc. I left there because I need expensive orthognathic surgery and their insurance plan has a blanket exclusion against it. Plus I wanted to brush up on my "big four" skills.

Now I am looking for work. Boy have things changed!  I really prefer to work for a hospital or start up my own company again but would work for a service as a last resort. After reading the informative posts here, I have begun compiling a list of "good" and "bad" services so I can avoid certain ones.

Does anyone here have any advice for me? Not general advice about job hunting, but more specific advice about the services -- what to watch out for, etc. I have never done editing/VRT, but apparently that pays less anyway so I don't think I will be doing that.

Thanks.

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

Go by medical offices and talk to them in your native tongue.  They just LOVE hearing it.   When visiting in places like Florida be sure to ask about the last snow storm they had last winter - that's very impressive!   In the northern states talk about the warm sunny 70 degrees in February in their state and ask if they're ready for that this year.  

Be sure to take brochures showing the fabulous quality of work you do.   Be sure you include impressive sentences such as:  "Dr. Jones said he would eat ketchup with the patient to review his lab work."   After all they don't find it cute to type it like it was dictated.... "Dr. Jones said he would catch up with the patient to review his lab work." 

Lastly don't forget to give them laminated card including all 25 digits they will have to use to call your native country.  Be sure they're aware that all of your employees in your native country have new names.... Ben, Mary, Thomas and Amy are of course popular choices.   Potential clients like getting a warm fuzzy feeling by talking to "Mary" who has a very heavy accent to the point that they can't understand her talking.  But hey - she has an American name (woo-hoo!) so all is forgiven!

I don't think I'd make it down south.  We had high 90s with humidity for 16 days straight and that was bad enough.  Glad it is cool again. 

e-mail because of the high prices and this a national boycott. Wondering if anyone else received or heard this.

Just did 1343 lines in 170 minutes but that includes printing, 24 envelopes, looking up names, getting on here three times, doing 3 E-mails to my subcontractor -- at 0.11 per gross line.  So I am happy today.

DOCTOR:  "Please send a CC to her primary care physician.  I do not know who that is, but send him or her a copy anyway."

No other reports exist for this patient.

Yes, in my spare time I'm a psychic! 

Recently I had to do a lot of paperwork to enroll my youngest in kindergarten for the 2007-2008 school year.  They ask all sorts of questions about family history and specifically who has diabetes, heart disease, blindness, etc.  Does this not violate the HIPAA laws?  Do I have permission to disclose my grandmother’s health problems to the school?  Or my mother’s and father’s?  I never really thought about it when I enrolled my older child because I wasn’t a MT at the time and I never really had knowledge about HIPAA in those days.  What do you all think about this? 

Living paycheck to paycheck these days with the cost of living  being so hight and DH being on disability.  Today I get my check in the mail – national company—and it does not have a signature on it!  I called the office – of course the payroll department had left for the day – it was only 3 something in the afternoon.  I was told to physically mail the check back to be signed and they would return it right away.  Why not just cut me a new check and mail overnight?  Really sick of this place lately.  Never did get any resolution of the 60 odd lines I was cheated out of before only weeks ago.  Lost a few days work over the last week because the system crashed.  *Sigh* I just started a new job on the side.  Hope this one has a better track record. 

do want me to start out PT and then after a time, a month or so, would bring me on board full time, if all goes well.  This will be at $15.00/hr.  I'm excited--this is not what a lot of you make, I'm sure, but it's more (consistently) per hour than I've ever made before.  Keeping my fingers crossed it will work out!

Thanks for the replies!