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help.....worked for hospital as IC and [2008-11-09]
contract was with hospital. Company who owned hospital (not the same as hospital) filed BK, and did not pay last two paychecks. I was just told new owner of hospital will not pay any vendor prior to purchase of hospital. First check bounced, and told next check not even going to be cut. my question is: since I am contracted with the hospital and not the old owner directly, doesn If the old company filed BK, i was not listed as a creditor or served with BK papers.

I used to work at a hospital where we were [2008-10-01]
FT employees, and then took work home with us as an IC when we had overflow. It was not a problem come tax time, and it allowed me to use my office as a tax write off.

Interested in medicolegal work [2008-04-07]
I am also interested in branching out to medicolegal, forensics, investigations work. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Looking for work [2007-09-16]
I have recently completed a Medical Transcription course and I am looking for work. Anyadvice on where to look would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any and all help

Employees like this make work so difficult [2006-11-05]
There was one in the office I left at the hospital. She made speculations about everyone. The worst was probably saying the MT lead was having memory problems and felt she had Alzheimer's. That in itself would be enough for me to bring legal action against someone. But, she only said it like, I am so worried that Sandy has Alzheimer's. She forgets everything. Needless to say, this particular woman wanted very much to be the lead as she needed an increase in pay badly. I have personally listened to her and knew she was doing the same thing to me with the others. The real hypocrisy of it all was she was a devote Christian with pictures of Jesus all around her cubicle. I never met such an evil woman.

I used to work in a hospital sm [2006-08-24]
a couple of years ago and there were a couple of instances of employees discussing private issues of other employees. Those employees were reported to HR by another employee who overhead the conversations,investigated and terminated. You may want to read your employee manual. It might state in there what to do. Manager or not, privacy is still privacy.

Legal question - privacy violation at work [2006-08-23]
I know there are HIPAA laws to protect patients, but what about employee privacy laws? If a manager discusses private issues about other employees while he/she knows another employee is working in the same room and can overhear, is there a law addressing that? Or an agency to report it to?

Medicolegal Work [2006-07-16]
I'm trying to make a career change from MT to medicolegal - - any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

Medicolegal work would be a subspecialty of medical transcription. [2006-07-08]
VERY interesting, and lucrative to boot.Knowledge of this came in handy while I was a juror on a medical malpractice case.

help.....worked for hospital as IC and [2008-11-09]
contract was with hospital. Company who owned hospital (not the same as hospital) filed BK, and did not pay last two paychecks. I was just told new owner of hospital will not pay any vendor prior to purchase of hospital. First check bounced, and told next check not even going to be cut. my question is: since I am contracted with the hospital and not the old owner directly, doesn If the old company filed BK, i was not listed as a creditor or served with BK papers.

liability [2008-10-24]
Hi, I have no idea what the legal requirements are for this, but I would certainly think that if we needed it, we would have it taken from our checks, or be required to buy it up front at every company. The very first company I worked for 13 years ago said one of the requirements wasproof of$500,000 liability insurance to work for them. I never heard another word about it after I was hired on, and I I doubt it Sure hope not, as who could afford yet another deduction/expense?

Perhaps ... sm [2008-10-02]
He may not want anyone to know he sends his work out. I just received a copy of my own op report and there were no initials which really upset me because I wanted to see if any of my cohorts worked on my report. There were numbers and job numbers which I guess they could trace. I saw a couple of errors but shall shut up about it. It is interesting though, I do know of one place that would increase the document size and re-charge for it. It could be a lot of things, and hopefully it will all come out in the wash later on. I would be VERY curious but cautious, a job is a job in today's world, just smile and nod a lot but don't do anything illegal and you'll be okay. Save any documentation.

I used to work at a hospital where we were [2008-10-01]
FT employees, and then took work home with us as an IC when we had overflow. It was not a problem come tax time, and it allowed me to use my office as a tax write off.

no pay [2008-09-28]
I was wondering if there is any recourse that an IC can take against a company/person who has not paid them for transcription work done for that company. This company has disconnected all of their phone lines and email addresses and has not paid what is owed to me (and others) for work done. I am owed about $1400. Thanks for any help. SC

I'm no expert, but the BOS [2008-08-26]
In the format section, under initials, It is common practice to include originator and Transcriptionist initials at the end of the report. When used, enter the initials..... It appears to me because it says when used they don Again, I am no legal expert. As an MT, I'd rather have my initials on my work.

Being employee and IC? [2008-08-25]
I currently work for a facility that has bought another facility. I They would like to hire me as IC at the second. Is this legally possible or would I have to be one or the other seeing that both facilities are owned by one company?

Medical/Legal Transcription [2008-06-24]
I too am interested in finding work as Medical/Legal transcriptionist;in the past I worked for an Ortho who didIMEI have 20+ years experience in transcribing pathology reports. Pathology transcription is my Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

similar here [2008-05-09]
Last hospital job I had, supervisor had relative also working under her. Even though my average line count was double anyone who worked there, and I worked the night shift,I was told that myself and the only other girl I worked with talked too much. Thiswas the girl who helped me train my ear on the ESLs there, became my best friend, had no problem with me talking to her, or talking to me, had an awesome line count and accuracyherself, and left shortly after I did. I left because the super and her SIL(can you saynepitism) ended up setting me up like a bowling pin.Jealousy is an ugly thing. Now I like to imaginethose typesfighting amongst themselves. I spend my days getting the job done, while they spend their days conniving how to make someone who is getting the job done look bad. What is amazing is that the most supposedly educated higher ups dondon BTW, not long after I quit, everyone involved was fired including the super, director of MR, and head of Risk Management who also managed to get involved.The only one left was the SIL, instigator, trouble maker. Looks like she wrecked havoc on everyone around her, not just me. If you have that much time to cause trouble, and complain about nothing, deflect attention from your lack, then you surely candoing your job!! I call them campaigners, probably should have gone into politics. I You couldnIt was as bad as any Survivor episode I

Interested in medicolegal work [2008-04-07]
I am also interested in branching out to medicolegal, forensics, investigations work. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Legal Transcription Job Search? [2007-09-25]
I have been a medical Transcriptionist for 12 years and I am currently taking course towards my Bachelors in paralegal studies. I am interested indoing legal transcription or work in legal field to help me learn more towads my new career. Where do you search for jobs or best to send out a flyer to local legal offices about your services you offer?

Looking for work [2007-09-16]
I have recently completed a Medical Transcription course and I am looking for work. Anyadvice on where to look would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any and all help

scoping [2007-08-15]
I think this one is better http://www.bestscopingtechniques.com/toc.htm There really is a need for this type of work from what I have heard.

Relate to BAD EXPERIENCE!! [2007-06-07]
I work in a hospital and I had a very similar experience, the supervisor ALWAYS siding with the other person. I got written up, told to mind my business, not to look to the right or left. I have reported problems, but unfortunately nothing was done!!! I am now ostrasizied in my office and I am looking for another job. It cat

Ken Petrello [2007-06-02]
Do not do work for Ken Petrello, a paralegal out of Southern California, or any attorneys or law firms associated with him.He will run up the bill and not pay it.

Legal question...sm [2007-06-01]
A friend of mine had a DC after suffering a miscarriage because she had an incomplete miscarriage at 10 weeks. After she did not get her period back with a couple of months she underwent testing by another doctorand ended up finding out that part of her uterus was removed. She talked to a couple of attorneys who only seem to want to try to get a high amount of money out of the doctor and hospital but my friend isn She and her husband are also upset that they were not told at the time of surgery or afterwards that there was a problem encountered. Do you know of a resource to find out what a fair compensation would be for this mistake and the fact that the surgeon and hospital didn I have no idea where to point her to go. Thank you.

MT & court reporting are WORLDS apart [2007-05-23]
Having studied both court reporting and medical transcription, I can tell you that they are worlds apart. Court reporters learn 'machine shorthand' and by using this and their steno machine, they can 'type' 200+ wpm. They type in syllables and entire phrases or sentences, not by single characters as we do in MT. Actually, people who edit for MT and court reporting actually have more closely related jobs. Check out www.scopists.com Some court reporters type in Real-Time, and the people who scope for them just basically clean up their work, fix missed strokes, etc. There are also people who 'translate'/type the machine shorthand, which is much more detailed and takes a lot more studying/schooling. Another site to check out is StenEd for resources and reference materials. You could, of course, always apply to be a legal secretary and type in a law office. :D HTH!

legal transcription [2007-05-04]
http://www.speak-write.com/ is a company that utilizes general and legal typists. I worked for them at one point. It was nice because you could schedule yourself by the hour from week to week so if you wanted to work an hour in the morning and five in the evening you could do that. They were really flexible.

no way will you be sued [2007-03-28]
The documents are proofed and the final responsibility is on the person signing and that signature is notarized. The signer is responsible for the content including mistakes. Where do you work? I'd love to do some legal typing.

Legal Transcription [2007-01-19]
Yeah, that would be great. But I think it's pretty difficult to find legal work from home unless it's contract work only. If you don't need benefits and can exist on contract work only legal is great to do from home. If you don't need to work from home you can make great money working as a law office word processing operator. I'm training for MT just because I want to work from home and have some benefits.

Legal transcription [2006-12-24]
I am a medical Transcriptionist and have done legal work. I am transcribing something now that will be admitted to court. I sure hope Ialter my transcription. Happy holidays and thanks for your input. A little nervous about this one as I'm doing it on a trust basis.

Employees like this make work so difficult [2006-11-05]
There was one in the office I left at the hospital. She made speculations about everyone. The worst was probably saying the MT lead was having memory problems and felt she had Alzheimer's. That in itself would be enough for me to bring legal action against someone. But, she only said it like, I am so worried that Sandy has Alzheimer's. She forgets everything. Needless to say, this particular woman wanted very much to be the lead as she needed an increase in pay badly. I have personally listened to her and knew she was doing the same thing to me with the others. The real hypocrisy of it all was she was a devote Christian with pictures of Jesus all around her cubicle. I never met such an evil woman.

I actually ended up leaving because [2006-11-05]
I couldn't respect that manager enough to work there anymore. It's a shame, because the rest of the job was a great fit for me, I liked the other people, and the doctors were very appreciative of my work. Even the good hourly pay and benefits didn't make up for her deficits. Their loss.

How does one break into legal transcripition? sm [2006-07-17]
I'd like the names of a few decent schools to take courses. Is it hard to work at home like I do in MT? Are their nationals like MT? TIA!

Legal transcriptionist, too [2006-07-16]
I, too, am a legal Transcriptionist and started out in a very similar way. Worked for a law firm for a while and transcribed briefs and correspondence for the attorneys. Once my daughter was born I wanted to find something that I could do at home and started my transcription business. And I agree, it has been a long journey and I'm still trying to build up my client base 10 years later in order to make enough so that our family is not so dependant on my husband's income. My clients are varied and include insurance companies, state agencies, translators, authors, court reporters, attorneys, etc. The problem is that the work is not consistent so I must always be on the lookout for new opportunities. Anyone with any marketing ideas I would love to hear what is working for you. I have long yearned for a legal transcription message board and even toyed with the idea of creating one myself if I had enough techno savvy because the medical field is flooded with message boards but the legal field really has nowhere to go to discuss issues that are unique to our chosen field of work. So THANK YOU for including this board on your website for us!