I have the right person and you are too quick to reply to posts. A professional

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  • Let me just go ahead and ask you straight out then... - sm
    • MTSO - Are you going to answer quick on this - one or what? nm
      • THAT IS WHAT I THOUGHT! - nm
        • MTSO - What are you afraid of? - Answer the quesiton.
          • Wow! This is a sign to beware of her start up costs. - We just want to know what they are and
  • You still haven't addressed the issues brought up below . (sm) - anon
  • You have not been transcribing 10 years. Your resume reflects about 4 years tops. I am going to put - it out there, too. You are an MT with (sm)
    • Where will we be able to see the - resume? (nm)
      • You cant put someone's personal information out there like that. nm - Wrong
    • I think you have the wrong person or someone else's resume. I have been working for 10 years. I - MTSO
      • So, MTSO, are you going to address the issues - or not????
      • I have the right person and you are too quick to reply to posts. A professional - MTSO would just ignore. (sm)
        • Professional MT's would be too busy working to - MTSO
          • You still skirted the issue. Please answer the questions so you may have more newbies. Otherwise, - nm
            • I was not the one who wrote that above post signed by MTSO. I said what I had to say. sm - MTSO for Proficient
              • I think what the MTSO has and hasn't said speaks volumes - sm - anon
              • To any newbie considering Profiicient Transcription... sm - Honest Opinion
                • This all sounds nice, but newbies have to choose MTSOs wisely and this one is not a wise choice. - I speak from experience. If anyone wants to email
            • Otherwise you may have a decline in new hires. - sorry. nm
          • Gee, I was under the impression that this board WAS for professional MTs! - Way to put everyone down
            • AND for professional MTSO's! But post above states otherwise. nm - MTSO
            • What would give you that impression? - Certainly not this thread. lol

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I have a name of an excellent at-home MT course.  That is The VLC.  It is an excellent school with all of the latest technology to help you learn all of the things it takes to be an excellent MT.  I know, I graduated from there and got my first job within 2 weeks of graduating, and have been working full time since then.  Do yourself a favor and check it out.

I'm simply trying to save her money and anxiety by suggesting that perhaps in her life situation, MT is not a career she should be pursuing.  I'm not negative in the least, I just think that anyone who thinks this is a easy money-making career is deluding themselves.

This is not tupperware ... this is a professional, mentally challenging career with severe implications to both patients and health providers if the job is not done with the utmost accuracy and attention to detail.

This is not a career that someone should get into just because they want to stay home with their children.  I've seen too many errors because of distracted transcriptionists who were ill equipped for their jobs and trust me, if you were given the wrong medication and/or wrong dosage because the Transcriptionist transcribed mg instead of mcg or couldn't distinguish between Seldane and Feldene due to distractions, you'd probably be screaming bloody murder.

When people stop thinking of MT as a "stay at home, play with my kids and do it on the side" kind of career, them maybe the rest of us professionals who dedicate our time becoming the best MTs we can in spite of lousy pay, foreign outsourcing and the rest of the world thinking we're a bunch of slackers who make easy money for nothing, can finally gain the respect we should have had all along.

Hi,

Could someone please tell me if it matters whether I have Windows XP Home Edition or Professional to do transcription?  If it does not matter, I have been thinking of getting the Professional edition.  A job doing data entry part-time requires that I have the Professional edition.  If I change to the Professional edition, does it matter as long as I have Word to do medical transcription?  Sorry, if this is a dumb question.  I figure that I can't have both installed on my computer at the same time. 

questions and without being viciously attacked the way you were.  There are a lot of very nice, helpful people here and will answer your questions. 

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Marie for understanding what I was talking about.  I am not saying that the school I have decided to go with is the greatest or anything, but I just can't believe that it is the worst. If I turn out to be wrong, then I will just have to get into a program that is a good one. You know what I mean.  Well, again thank you for your support on this issue.  Hope everyone out there that has gotten into a program of this sort has good luck with it all.

Thanks very much for your response.  You really lifted my spirits.  I think working all alone at home causes me to loose perspective and to forget the bigger picture.  In some ways, I miss being in an office each day where I can talk to my coworkers and feel connected through the work that we do.  Being an MT at home can get pretty lonely.

I immediately related to all that you shared.  Yes, I do look up a lot of stuff, and I probably spend more time than I should.  I'm afraid of typing something senseless into the report, so I look up the stuff I have never heard of just to make sure it fits with the context of the sentence.  I ask myself, "Did he really say femoral hernia?  Yes, I think he did say that because I looked it up and it fits with the dictation."  Over time, I suppose I will stop doing that so often.  It will really speed me up when I can confidently type what I am hearing.

I still have trouble with drug names, but I am little better than I was when I started 6 months ago.  I am slowly learning the more common drugs.  Yesterday, I had a doctor rattle off about 20 drugs for his patient, and I was able to spell and type them without looking them up.  For me, that was a milestone, and it made me feel good to accomplish it.

Thanks also for your thoughts about speech recogntition editing.  My employer has not offered to train me, and I have not volunteered.  I feel like I have enough to learn without adding even more.  Maybe I can start editing someday in the future, but for now, I hope they just forget about me and let me learn to transcribe the old way.  I will remember what you said about Clinic work.  I had not thought about the very short dictations consuming just as much time with ADT and lookups.  I see that really would be slower, now that you mentioned it.

In school, all of the talk about jobs and income was rosey, and they had me believing that I could be earning a decent wage in a few short months.  Brother, was that overly optimistic!  Hearing that you struggled so long to get some speed and worked very long hours each day makes me feel a little less alone.

I really like what I am doing, and I really don't want to quit my job.  I was just depressed last night.  I am going to keep plugging along at minimum wage, and hope that things look better a year from now.

You've added some sanity to my thinking.  Your response was just what I needed.

DMK -

I am interested in working with you. I have a wave player and am willing to obtain Word Perfect. Please contact me.

Thank you,

wrc

Which schools are considered the "better schools"?  I've been researching but keep getting conflicting info.

1.  When a job post indicates that a resume is to be pasted directly in the body of the message, why would you attach it? Do you have a specific reason for doing that?

I, personally, wouldn't attach if requested not to do so (as has happened in other responses from me to non-MT companies).  However, I can see the OCCASIONAL error of doing so, but not as a 'norm.'

2.  If the job post states that you must have your own equipment specific to the job (i.e. foot pedal for *wav files, C-phone) or provide your own high-speed ISP), why would you apply for the position if you cannot afford to buy the equipment?

The only possible explanation for this is ...... frankly, I can't think of an explanation.  Personally speaking, I wouldn't apply for an IC position if I didn't have the correct equipment (or I might ask if I'm considered can I have 'x' time to acquire that equipment, if not, its the MTSO's prerogative to say no).

3.  Is there a reason you submit an application with spelling errors, poor punctuation, etc.?

Hmmmm, I check mine, unless we have a conversation going (i.e., exchanging letters, IM's, etc) and I'm not horribly serious about the job (at least in the beginning of the conversation, that might change dependant on the information I've received).

And, now, a statement/question from me ...

4.  ... Do you feel that I have the right to ask you, the newbie, to re-listen to the original dictation and read the “new report” with all the blanks filled in, but not pay you for this time? Would you be willing to do that?

I think this is a perfectly reasonable request, and any newbie (like me) who wouldn't choose this option is short-changing her/himself in learning and expanding their knowledge base and allowing him/herself to grow and become more valuable to the current MTSO (or a future one).

Maybe they don't read all the posts b/c some of them can get pretty long.  They are just trying to help, thats all.  They don't mean any harm as far as I can tell.  I don't think its anything to get anxious about though.