I also had asked about Precyse. Thanks for being so honest and saving me from another headache.
Posted By: Yes thanks for sharing on 2007-06-26
In Reply to: Cant's wait to leave - bye-bye Birdie
I am so disgusted with the way this profession is going down the tubes. I've actually applied at our local hospital today. I dont think I can take another day of fighting for work just to have it sent over to India because our company just doesnt care or think enough of us to provide us with livable wages. I could count on all 10 fingers the jobs which have offered me 2-3 cpl for editing. Then the rare few that offered 4 cpl (which is also a joke) only to find out that they dont pay for spaces, headers or anything else. The only profession I know where we literally work for pennies. Come on..this is American. Why are we paid wages like we're a third world country. It'd be nice just to meet the bills, but between low wages and high costs of having insurance, which we have to have because our antidepressant medications are so flipping high. LOL.. who can survive doing this anymore. I'm outta here too. We all need to take a stand. 
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Which company?? I don't need that headache. nm
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MDIer with a headache
Believe it or not, I woke up with a headache, too! I have been in this profession for four decades and I just have this gut feeling that someone somewhere is trying to pull a fast one. Too much old soft shoe and double talk. MQ was a past master at that old song and dance and my BS detector is going off bigtime.....
If true, it's thankfully someone else's headache now. n/m
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Change your font, gave me a headache
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I had a crushing headache too, sign of anxiety, high BP
Do go to the doc. It is stress, most likely and that is something that is not your fault. They will be able to help you big time. I have had stress and anxiety which are situational for years. For some reason, I guess, I get myself into situations in which I have to deal with high maintenance people and jobs, and I forget about myself, until literally my smoke stack blows. My doc repeatedly says it is not me it is the situation. Yesterday again, (also a Friday) I got the crushing headache. So, since it was my day off (luckily) I took a alprazolam every few hours which the doc gives me for certain times, and buspar and the 2 helped me to see the light by the end of the day of resting. These things force you to rest. I don't believe the doc wants me to avoid situations by resting, but sometimes the pressure is too much in the situation and if you cannot change it at the time, you have to bear it. Believe me Tylenol, Ibuprofen, nothing worked on this headache.
Do check it out. It is the job, and your situation, the doc will be honest with you. And as mine said, look at the big picture not day to day. If in the big picture this situation continues you have to change it for your own sake and make things better in the big picture. If it is just now, you can live through it. Good luck to you. You are not alone. And, take it from me, it will never go away 100%, but stress management through cognitive thinking, the right medicines if you need it and exercise will do the trick.
saving $$$
Can you just imagine the amount of money the company makes by having us work at home? It is a huge amount, and yet paying less and less - sweatshops have made a return.
And that would be an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. LOL.
Typical transcriptionst. :)
Saving face
She saw the boards, was furious, trying to gain some lost ground. If you notice the dates you know it was because of the boards. Hush money.
LOVE IT!!! Saving over $150/mo!
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Same here. I'm only saving $11.54 a pay period
but they almost take it all away with the vision. After all the trouble to get insurance in the first place, now we had to do it all over again. I only got my cards from the old insurance at the end of March!
No way should you be saving reports
You are violating the patient's confidentiality and probably it is a violation of your contract with your former employer. Really that would not reflect your quality of work, for all they know the reports were copied. Only working with a current job's dictators and their system will let them know that for sure. Get rid of all those reports you have saved ASAP.
Saving reports
Is not only unethical and a severe lack of good judgment, it is a breach of the Federal Privacy Act, the HIPAA laws and is actionable in both federal and local courts. I hope that whoever is saving reports has good legal counsel on retainer. If you do not believe me, call your own attorney or ask the legal counsel for any hospital. He or she will be able to confirm this.
Saving reports
Blackswan, not to split hairs but if you have reports with no PHI, they can be saved.
I agree that I'd make sure I was covered, but the key is making sure there's no identifiable information included in the report (birthdate, name, address, phone, etc)
Seeing how you took the saving reports SM
subject, I'm not sure you'll think this is good advice either, but here goes. I hope you plan to present yourself better in your flyer and in person than you do in the posts you made here in this thread. The posts I saw give me the picture of a down-home momma MT, not a professional businesswoman.
I don't think saving reports is
Whipping out saved reports might just show a future employer a good reason NOT to hire you. Aside from the legality of it, IF you were to do this, how representative of your work would this be anyway? This could have been QA'd work, someone elses work, etc.? I'm not saying that's the case, but just look at the logistics from a recruitor or company standpoint who is considering your employment with them. I do think though that when you hold out your saved reports you're raising red flags for any potential employer. Good luck though.
They are saving a fortune on Docuscribe (sm)
Since switching most of us have taken a deep dip in wages. A little perk to keep morale up wouldn't hurt.
Saving records is okay IF required by your
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There is nothing wrong with saving reports
I thought people jumped right on ya' as well.
For example, there was one ad for a job that I remember a few months back asking the applicant to send a few reports that they've transcribed.
These people are all brainwashed.
Look at the post about the cell phone dictation??? There is nothing to say a physician cannot dictate on his cell phone in his/her car, on a plane, etc., as long as they're not using a bullhorn. Most MTSO web sites show physicians dictating on a cell phone or from anywhere;its part of the business.
Just chalk it up to the source of these posters' ignorance of this field and only working for nationals that have brainwashed them.
you could start saving these IM notes -
use them or not - protect yourself.
Thanks for saving me from posting that SAME sentiment!
I agree 100%! I love TT, I love my account (which is VR, by the way), and a greater group of folks I've never worked for. Talk about counterproductive to get on here and bash one of the most respected organizations around, a company with very generous wages who have no doubt put food on their tables and a roof over their heads but switch over to VR and the trash-talking begins in earnest!
So folks, if you're not happy with the switchover to VR and keeping up with the times and are going to proceed to try to trash TT to the nth degree...
I agree with above poster...
BUH-BYE!!! More work for ME and more money in my pocket.
You could be in legal trouble for saving reports.
First, that would be a HIPAA violation. Second, I am positive the entity you worked for did not allow you to keep copies of work for personal use.
Bad idea. Hopefully, any group you show that info to would be scared to work with you.
Please tell me you aren't saving actual reports...?
Please reassure me/us that you aren't saving the actual report with patient demographics, etc., and then showing them to others? That would be such a huge compromise of HIPAA and would bring to light a whole different set of reasons for possible future termination from an employer if it were found out.
When they called me and I asked them if they offshored, they asked me why that was my business!
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i don't know if saving your reports to show quality is a good idea
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This is all part of the cost-saving plan..first, send your American MTs work to India so we sit here
with nothing and then manipulate the way the lines are counted. Sounds like cost cutting at our expense to me.
Sad but true. You're asked to work NOW, then asked to stop NOW, then go again and then stop
If you dont get off the minute the hospital asks, even if you have no idea that they have requested that your to be off, then the hospital MTs steal your work right out of your queue and I mean reports you have already done. I dont understand the concept of having a contract with a hospital and then having to fight for work with the hospital MTs. We should have guaranteed work during our shift and enough of the the hospital wants you to help right now and then a few hours later they want us to stop working as the work is too low. It is crazy and I couldnt work like that so I had to quit.
Thank you for being so honest!
I work for MDI-FL and I know they post on here but I don't say anything on here that I have not said to them or would say to them. Honesty, it's an amazing tool, huh? Again, thank you and good luck to you!
Many honest MTs/not all bad
Yes there are many dishonest owners I am sure, been there as stated above. But rest assured, there are some great MT and owners out there who are very honest and will pay for the hard work we do, I know I work for one!!!! Just beware of the ones who have numerous accounts floating around among all their MTs, being done all times of days at their convenience(as they are working their day job at the same time)and dont always have time for you, and promises of many new accounts to come that you never see. These are the ones to watch for. I think all MT need to look out for this behavior and warn others to run when it comes their way. Make sure you are being mentored on your work and not doing there work that they claim as their own. Get your credit where it is due. keep looking good, honest owners are out there.
honest MT
I know myself of that practice with PJ transcription. She had her pay with her day job while mentoring me and getting my pay for my work also, must be why she gets paid vacation and I did not. Well I learned the hard way.
Yes, and I'm not being mean just honest..
There IS a difference.
Well, to be honest
Most companies don't consult their employees when they decide to sell. Someone either was ready to retire or tired of the business. Face it, it is a high-stress business.
I have a feeling not just the MTs were surprised.
No need to be mean, but do be honest.
In this case, I would tell her that most companies cannot provide the kind of help that you were, and what she needs is to go to school (or back to school). If she presses you and says she just needs something easier, explain firmly but kindly that radiology is mostly anatomy and contrast terms, so it isn't one of the more difficult specialties, but it does require near 100% accuracy, which is why you tried so hard to help her. If she is not willing or able to return to school, she should think about another kind of work. Just say it as kindly as possible IMO.
To be 100% honest
Thank you for your response. I totally agree. Actually, I've already decided not to accept work from them unless it is way over the limits and 300% better than any job I could ever find anywhere else on the earth. What I am wondering now, of course, is just how I can best JERK THEIR CHAIN in each of 2 scenarios---a BAIT and SWITCH where they offer a different account than what was originally advertised, and a we needed you yesterday for this account, but someone better came along and now they have quit? But, I guess I already know the answer to this. It's kind of like letting the telemarketer go on and on with the speech, asking complicated questions, taking up their time, pretending to be interested, and finally saying NO.
Well to be honest....
A lot of times a terminology course is all you need providing it's thorough. There's almost no point in learning the equipment in school because so many places use their own equipment which you may or may not even be trained on. Each place I've worked I've used something different. Tell her to take the term. course and brush up HARD on her English skills and everything else can and will be learned on-the-job. My friend only took a term. course, worked in the Med. records dept as a clerk first, then there was an opening in our MT dept which pays more so she just jumped in the deep end. We were all there to help her which was time consuming but we were happy to do it and she was eager and wanted to do well so she absorbed as much info as she could and now she's been doing this for 4 yrs and is working at home.
Tell your friend to go for it. I wish her luck! :)
okay, then let's be honest here....sm
It is really no skin off my nose whether you care about me or not. That does not negate the fact that MTs should behave as professionals if they wanted to be treated as such.
Bottom line......The levels to which I have read of some MTs stooping to on this board does not belie a professional attitude. Personally, the whole thing makes me pretty nauseous. Backbiting, conniving, and manipulating may get you to the top of some professions but it won't keep you there long because there will be someone somewhere along the line that will pull the rug out from under you.
In the immortal words of Forest Gump.....that's all I have to say about that.
Thanks for being honest! (nm)
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To be honest...
I wouldn't do it unless you really like working twice as hard doing VR for half the pay. I worked for them for a while until I went from 80/20 to about 60/40 or less typing/VR. The VR takes a lot of correcting and on top of not making money, it was pretty boring...much like monkey work to me in my opinion. I also had a few doctors who were accented and I could make great lines typing from who went to VR because they passed the testing but their VR reports were horrid and took me longer to review than to just type it. I would never do VR and especially not for pennies. I hope this helps. They seemed like a nice company but it was just more work than it was worth without any challenge for my brain.
To be honest
It's the wave of the future and even companies such as MDI-MD are making the transition.
My honest advice would be to stop fighting it, join a great MTSO team, and learn it. Make sure you get decent pay for it and just go for it. Unfortunately, I don't think any MT will be able to avoid it for much longer, so it's better to get on with a good company and learn it before it becomes mandatory.
Just my 2 cents...
ANP is not honest
Why did I keep working for them after 3 months? You don't keep working with ANP - you are lucky to get 1 to 2 files A MONTH with them. If you make $100-$150 A MONTH with them, you are lucky! This is not steady by any means. Larry will tell you that it can be hit or miss on the workload when they sign you on, but they absolutely do not have the work that you think. They have a calendar that you put your work days availablility and how many hours of dication a day you want - you will never, ever get that - not even close. I went the entire month of May with ZERO files. They have their favorites and that's where the work goes. I know this because I accidentally was sent a e-mail that definitely wasn't for me to see. It is not medical transcription at all - it is medical seminars and if you haven't done general transcription with multispeakers and poor audio, you will be in for a surprise. You don't just sit there and type - you have PowerPoint presentations and slide presentations you have to look at while you're typing to see where you are at and what they are talking about. It is rather time consuming. Bottom line is they don't pay you for whatever measly pittance you earned!
To be honest
I don't think you're gonna get a straight answer anywhere. I just suggested Transcend direct because they're the only ones who COULD make any type of guarantee, but I'll betcha they don't ;-)
Just be honest and tell the truth.
If the service is one of integrity, they'll appreciate your honesty.
Let's be REAL honest now (sm)
Obviously, you are the Director over the QA Deparment and the QA Manager's boss. Knowing you, I am sure you are totally embarrassed at how things have turned out in that department, but what are ya to do?!!! Sure can't admit that you made a mistake, can ya? That wouldn't look good for you.
You more than anyone should know how bad the QA Manager's quality was. She was on 100% QA for over a month. That doesn't sound like somebody with experience, and on a clinic account none-the-less!
We all know that you kiss butt, because you can't do anything else. We also know that you could care less about the quality of a medical record. AND that is real sad! Let us all know when you and OSi start appreciating MTs.
An honest opinion
I was with them last year for several months. It was personally a bad experience for me and I was not fired. I left on my own because I did not like the way I was treated by the management over me. I was lied to and talked down to, which I do not enjoy one bit. I know to each their own. I have said it before. My best advice from what I learned was if you are unhappy like that and treated badly look elsewhere and run fast. They do pay well for holidays and such so I agree with that. I had an awful account making it hard to do anything with it and no support from them so I could not thrive. I have now been with a different company 13 months and am doing very well. I just was not a fit for TH. I do not want to bad mouth them but I too had a bad experience and stayed way longer than I should have.
Glad they were honest with you. nm
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to be completely honest
Alot of people on this board do not have a life outside of MT'ing, home all the time, not around humans much, antisocial, and that makes for deep seeded anger/cabin fever and frustration that comes out the only way it can...through this board.
would you like an honest opinion? sm
As long as most (not all) companies can hire a few good editors or QA (and only pay them fair to low wages), and hire inexperienced or unqualified MTs at ridiculously low rates, they'll keep things running this way. I can't speak for you, but with having over 20 years of experience, I would not even consider editing or QA at the rates being offered by the majority of the large nationals. Good luck to you.
no, just an honest question.
no, I'm definitely not advertising for Career Step. It's just that psych. transcription is alot different than medical transcription. Right now, I transcribe mostly Dr./Patient appointments. There terminology is completelly different as is the format used to transcribe. I had 4 years of in-house training, and after talking to a few MT companies, they suggested taking a program like CareerStep (that's just the one I have done the most research about and have heard the most about, although I am sure there are many more). They said that although I have experience in psych. transcription, it does not apply towards years of experience in MT transcription.
Need honest opinion
I sent a resume' to SoftScript yesterday to which they replied saying they wanted to continue with the interview process but before sending me their test they wanted to inform me of their requirements. I replied to that email to which they sent an email this morning with a link to follow to take their test. Anyhow, my dilema is this and this is what I would like an honest opinon to: This morning I busted at least two blood vessels in my wrist, and possibly fractured it and typing is almost impossible. I know this test is timed that they want me to take and I just don't feel I would be able to pass it in the amount of time they give with my wrist being the way it is. Should I send an email to them explaining what happened and see if I can take the test later in the week or should I just go ahead and try to take the test and see what happens? What would you think if someone sent you an email stating what happened to me if they had just yesterday sent a resume' applying for a position with your company?
honest schmonest
Known job-hopping, complainers are unpopular with companies. Simple fact, I THINK SO.
Very unprofessional, they are not honest, some of their
accounts are horrendous, they offshore but don't want you to know that.
an honest question for you
Please don't take this the wrong way -- I USED to work for OSi and I never felt things were right there, especially my line counts among many other things. What has been written on these boards about OSi that I knew about is absolutely correct.
When that company newsletter came out about how to avoid your child while you work -- well, if they had substituted the word pet for child they'd had have the animal rights people all over them. That really turned my stomach and I knew I had to leave. That showed their character without a doubt. But since their practices are so questionable, how can we on this board be sure you are telling us the truth and not a spy for them to find out who those are who are posting the negative things about them, especially if those people are still employed there while they job search?
When I worked there I wanted to warn people on here about them but I was afraid of losing my job -- the legal document we had to sign, remember? Readers -- Ask about that document. That was unbelievable. I fear legal consequences if I say more if I can be traced. Maybe you can talk about it if you were in a more powerful position than I was.
Basically, how do those who are still there know who to trust anymore, even if you post here? How can they be sure of not getting into trouble?
I got out. I'll never go back. Wish I had never gone there to begin with.
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