Please excuse the typos
Posted By: AmericanMT on 2008-04-06
In Reply to: AHP - AmericanMT
I've been up all night.
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Well Excuse Me!
I am a student at AHP. I really don't appreciate being called a spammer. I have been posting on here for several months now. I would think somone as perfect as you would remember me.
My sentences were short because I was in a hurry. I am so sorry to have missed a comma in my down time. I am not as perfect as you.
I get plenty of dictation from my course. The extra I buy I listen to in my car just to get used to different voices. Thats my choice.
My doctor has two AHP graduates working for him now. That is why he recommended them. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Excuse me, Jay, but you know nothing of my situation and
what I did or sacrificed, so there's no need to pull the "weren't you a newbie" ***do not use this language***; especially since you have no idea how long I've been working or what school I attended. It's common sense that more companies would up the scale if they didn't have people jumping at the chance to work for 5-6 cpl. I've met many people who have settled for 5-6 cpl and then griped that they can make more at Wal-Mart and work less hours. Solution: Hold out. Also, I'm not going to start "at the bottom" when I don't have to because someone thinks it's my duty.
***Ms. Amanda, I would suggest that you watch your language. It is fine to express your views, but unnecessary to be rude towards others***
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Excuse me, but please could you explain
to me how an Medical Transcriptionist is going to 'train' or 'get schooled' for doing EMR?
Isn't this the doctors' or nurses' job?
I am really waiting for your reply!
Uh...excuse me...those of us with dissenting opinions
we hate being paid so little for it..and that is the fact. Years of training to make no more than 10-11 hour. that is a fact. I am sure there are the few fortunate enough to still make a very good living..but the MOST MTs and definitely NEW MTs will NEVER make a decent living working for an MTSO..UNLESS they get their OWN account.
Typos
Typos are one thing. Not being a good speller and not being proficient in grammar are another. Everyone makes mistakes, but when an e-mail comes through littered with spelling and grammatical errors, those are not mistakes that an MT should be making. That's part of the reason there is so little respect for people in this field. If you don't bring good grammar and spelling skills to the table at the start of your career, you're fighting an uphill battle. Not everyone is cut out for this type of work.
And I don't think I said I was perfect, I'm not. But I do know how to spell and use grammar correctly.
Typos.....
Yes, I do.
But this has nothing to do with 'typos'. This is wrong grammar.
You are still making typos
I hate to burst your bubble, but this is a tough field. Any smart client is going to ask you how much experience you have. In fact, they may not have to ask, they will know by talking to you or by your email or correspondence to them that is filled with typos. You need to get a job first and get some experience behind you first.
I see typos.... see inside
You need to check for spelling errors yourself. See below.
Before you hit the send button, Char, you might want to stop and give some consideration to your audience. Many of the people who read this board are people who hire MTs. If your post is sloppy and full of ignorance, you will be dismissed as a sloppy, ignorant MT, and any potential employer will not give you another thought. If your post is intelligent, well written, and error-free, you just might be contacted by someone willing to give you a chance. I have contacted three newbies who posted intelligent comments in complete, accureately-spelled (accurately)sentences on this board. I hired one of them. I would have been happy to hire the other two, but two other MTSOs had (2 had) had the same idea after seeing their posts and beat me to it. Think about that the next time you want to post something incoherent and badly spelled because "it's just a message board". A sloppy, incoherent post might (be?) hilarious to you, but to someone assessing your suitability for employment, it's just really depressing.
Sorry about the typos ... I'm a CS grad. nm
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and yes I know there are typos in my message (nm)
EVERY single one of these (just) humans ALL make typos.
Welcome to the jungle, and good luck in this field.
Sorry for all the typos! Just wanted to vent and got carried away nm
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Very nicely put. Distractions equate to typos, which lead to poor QA scores. nm
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excuse me, but what you say is crap., crap..sm
Is it mandatory to be able to transcribe an audio with HORRIBLE sound quality to graduate from an MT program? Is that what M-Tec and Andrews are doing? Training MTs to be able to transcribe crappy dictators and crappy audios? This is pathetic and ridiculous!
Technology should make efforts to develp BETTER sound quality or tell the dictators to dictate BETTER or keep their equipment in proper working order.
But, if this cannot be accompished, then maybe EMR is REALLY the better solution!
The skills of a qualified MT are
medical terminology
grammar
spelling
punctuation
typing 60pm,
140 w/expanders and templates!! LOL !
One cannot withold a certificate to an MT on grounds that she cannot transcribe a 'crappy' audio.
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