Medical Transcription Discussion Forums:

• Main Board
• Job Seekers Board
• Company Board
• Word Help Board
• Classifieds
• Medquist
• New MTs / Students

General Discussion Forums:

• Gab Board
• Politics Board

If anyone has a 9-pin foot pedal for sale, let me know.  Thank you!!

How do you handle an account with a doctor who is constantly changing things?  I'm talking about a guy who will give an entire 4-5 sentences then have you go back and delete and change it.    I'm getting really, really tired of typing it all out only to have to go back and delete and retype. 

Do you keep track of how much you deleted and charge for that also?  It is really cutting into production.  This isn't occasional either.  He does this at least once, if not several times, in EVERY single report.  It is like the man can't string together thought.  Not to mention it is frightening how much things change sometimes.  I wonder often if he is talking about two different patient.

I am feeling very down today because my husband, who usually complains that I work too much, said something just the opposite yesterday.  I am taking on a second job while trying to wean off my first because of the horrible treatment they have been give out lately.  I have been working 7 days on the first job, and the second job will require 5 days plus more if I want.  I wanted to get away from working weekends for the first job, and my husband all of a sudden says he does not understand why I'd want to do that. I get the feeling more and more that I have become just a workhorse for him who will always over-extend myself in order to make enough money to pay the bills.  Don't get me wrong, I want to do my part and pay my own way, but I have been carrying more than my load for 26 years now, not spending money on anything frivolous for myself, while he continues with the usual boy toys of real cars and model trains and model cars, all of which can get quite expensive. He does have a job but makes less than I do. I always pretend to not be upset by anything he does and try to be as supportive and non-bitchy as I can, because he is a good man in most ways and I don't want to hurt him.

Does anybody have any words of wisdom for me?  It is so sad that I have to go to a chat board for someone to talk to, I am very isolated where I live and basically have no friends other than my husband.  Thanks.

What are some favorite drug sites?  Thanks in advance.

Some in the office I work in said there are HIPAA rules that apply to transcription, such as font size, etc.  Does anyone know about this and where I can get more information.

Thanks

tomorrow and i only have 2 eggs and recipe on box calls for 3. Does anyone know what will happen if I use the 2? I live in the country and the store is way too far to get eggs. No neighbors either! :)

What would you do? Go ahead and try it or ditch it altogether? I was in the middle of mixing when I saw I needed 3 eggs!!!! Thanks so much!

Okay people, I say we ALL write our local newspapers and get this information out about outsourcing medical records overseas.  People will seriously think about it.  We need someone with GREAT writing skill to make us an email we can copy and forward and sign our name to. We NEED to all vote on the best and do and see what happens. We have an opinion column in our local news paper and many, many people read it. I think some would be surprised at this information and it would catch on greatly. Who is a good writer, please let me know?  This is a scarry situation for our jobs and the SECURITY of our information being let out of the great United States of America.  Lets go people.  Go, write on.  I want a good, short and sweet explanation of what is going on in reality.  Thank you  

SRS

I am a home-based Transcriptionist who worked VERY part time (2 hours a day or less) until my daughter was a little over 1 year old, and then my husband got promoted, I went back to school and quit my job.  Now my degree is almost finished, and I am getting ready to start back at home again on a full-time basis with my old company.  I cringe at the thought of sending my daughter to daycare, especially while I sit at home all day typing, but I am not sure I can get enough production done with a 19-month-old around all hours of the day.  Does anyone have any experience with YOUNG children at home and working full time?  I'm not going to push myself to produce the huge numbers I know I otherwise could, but I would just like to still be in the mix and have full-time status AND be with my daughter...I guess I want it all!

I was offered the opportunity to type for a doctor that is moving in wiht another group of doctors and need a transcriptionist. I have typed for other clinics in the area, but these physicians only paid by the hour.

I am wondering if it would be in my best interest to see if they wont pay by the line or character. I have never done this before. I work full time at a hospital and will be doing this at home in the evenings.

Any information on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I received this from my sister, please pass it on. It is very important. It may not be LEGAL, but it is important... just click on the link, then click on the sign petition...let's make our voices heard on this issue...please also pass it on...

Mastectomy Bill in Congress:
It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important...please take
the time and do it really quick!

Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all
women.

Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there was ever
a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those
times. If you are receiving this it's because I think you will take the
30 seconds to go and vote on this issue and send it on to others you know
who will do the same.

There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which
will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital
stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the
"drive-through mastectomy" where women are forced to go home hours after
surgery against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia
and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a
petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House
signed on.

PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You
need not give more than your name and zip code number.
 http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html

There is no way, none that a person's record could be any more compromised than with the dictators we have to put up with now days. They are unable to speak English to where you can make sense out of it. I get livid anytime I have to put up with this crap every weekend. We even have some PAs now who are non-English speaking. Where does this stop?

they just emailed me for the upteenth time for a stat report that I already sent to them 40 minutes ago.  Wouldn't you think they'd check to see if they had it first!?!  Constantly emailing me questioning what they've sent me and when.  Why can't she keep logs like I do!?!  Doesn't take a rocket scientist!  Can't remember from day to day to send me patient lists.  Don't know what the heck she does with incomplete reports I've sent because doc doesn't give a name of messes up his dictation and cuts half of it off.  I'll get a call a couple of weeks later saying doc insists he dictated on so and so, but they never got the report.  I'm the one who has to go back and search for the nameless reports and match up the the patient they're missing with diagnoses, age etc., then tell her that's the one I sent you on that date that was incomplete.  Why can't she figure that out!!!  If I functioned like they do, I wouldn't last a week!  Sorry, had to vent.....

The doc dictates, "no boogers, fevers or chills"... what would you replace "boogers" with, as I do not seem to be able to find that word in any medical dictionary...I though nasal discharge...

Docs...aaahhhh!!!

Is there a place on-line where I can purchase it and download it?  If not, where can I get a good deal on it?  I need it ASAP!

Thanks

If no one has access to our E-mail address and this is the only place that they could have gotten it, how did they as I just got an E-mail from them about applying for a job?   So somehow our E-mail addresse are not protected as they say that they are on this board?  Did anyone else receive it?   I have never posted my resume, or applied for a job throught his board as I own my own MTSO.   Makes me wonder about how safe our E-mail addresses are.

Do you send Christmas cards or other holiday cards?  About how many do you send out?

College 1:

Medical Transcription Certificate:

Advanced Keyboarding Skills
Beginning Terminology
Keyboarding Skill Development
Structures of English
Transcription and Editing
Word Processing
Advanced Terminology
Intro to Database/Spreadsheets
Medical Transcription 
Pharmacology

College 2:

Medical Transcription Diploma:

-Business Editing
-Computer Business Applications
-Medical Terminology
-Word Processing 2
-Basic Anatomy & Physiology
-Elements of Pharmacology
-Information Processing
-Medical Transcription
-Medical Office Management
-Intro To Pathology
-Professional Practicum

Is it possible that hospitals might have a list of local transcription companies?  I am thinking about trying to find local clients and was wondering if I could call local hospitals to get put in a directory of transcription companies?  Has anyone done this?  If so, what department should I contact? 

TIA!

A high end no minimum volume virtual toll free # is .07/minute. The voice mail goes right to my e-mail in a wav. file. Why can't the tasp do this for less $ with the volume they would get from an MT biz?

I'm just curious why it's so high. :) Is it the security features that cost so much? The file hosting seems reasonable but the phone rates are high.

I have just recently learned I have polycystic kidney disease (my mother died of kidney failure) and the cysts are on my right kidney, adrenal gland and on recent CT, (only two months from my first one), I have now developed cysts on my liver too. The kidney cysts are bleeding. :( I have daily right-sided aching and back pain. My right kidney is deformed and I have reflux on the right as well as kidney damage from childhood.

My whole illness started out about eight months ago as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and it was horrible with nausea, anorexia due to that, and significant weight loss. I had two Epley maneuvers that corrected the vertigo. A CT of the abdomen and pelvis was done and that is when the first cysts on the kidney were discovered which I was told were not concerning in someone in their 50s. In the meantime, I had started eliminating a couple of my Rx meds and the nausea stopped, and so I felt they were the cause of my nausea which in a sense I feel could still be true but perhaps more due to not metabolizing the meds appropriately due to kidney and/or liver problems but I do not know that yet. I do not see a urologist until 09/07 and will find out more then.

It is my understanding that this is a hereditary/genetic disorder and there is no cure and progression to kidney failure is quite high by the time you are 60 and I am 52.

I was just wondering if anyone else has this or knows someone who does and what info they may be willing to share. 

Thanks so very much. :)

Hi.  Please let me know if I should post this on a different board. The hospital I work for is looking to change dictating/transcribing systems.  We have dictaphone extext and are looking at WinScribe, Escription, or really we are wide open. 

Does anyone know of a good internet resource that compares the pros and cons? 

Would any of you be willing to share your experience, good or bad, with any software you have used? 

Is there a forum or a thread that has already covered this you can direct me to to research?

TIA!

Hi Everybody!

I am a new MT and I was just offered a job with intercomindia.  Has anyone heard of this?  Is it a good company.   How can I make sure that its not a scam?     Any advice would help

 Thanx!!

...would you say most MT companies give a new employee to "get up to speed" as far as meeting the minimum line count requirements (i.e. 10,000 lines per pay period for full-time or 5,000 for part-time) ???

I just bought a pack of 5 pairs of these things at Kohls for $10.  They are the exact same foam thingies that go on my headset, and they come in fashion colors!  Just an FYI if anyone has been looking for foam things.