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I always have more than enough work, pay on time, lead is wonderful....very few ESLs....my work is assigned, not pooled, so that helps not having to fight others for work...

Does anyone have any info on Keystrokes ortho accounts?  Have you worked on them or tested with them for an ortho position?  What is the testing like?  Thanks!

Although I have been doing transcription for quite some time, I am relatively new ot ortho. I must admit I do enjoy it; however, my productivity leaves a lot to be desired.

Each report is different. No Lungs are clear. Heart is regular, you get the drift.

Any ortho MTs out there with any suggesions?

Thank you (as always)!

Janie

Thank you to everyone!

I am relativley new to this board.

I have posted several times in the past and am always astounded people  take the time to help with their advice.

(Message n ot even on correct board..........oops)

Thanks again!

Janie

In ortho, there are a lot of two and three word combinations like tenderness to palpation and thoracic spine.  I would abbreviate these things in my shorthand.  Sentences that were repeated often, I would put the first letter of each word and put that sentence in my shorhand.  I used ShortHand just as much in ortho as in HPs and consults.

can't possibly start producing high lines right away, especially when the account is at least 40% ESL if not higher.  

It doesn't matter what company you go to you're going to have a period of adjustment, no matter how simple the platform may be. 

So I've been a Transcriptionist for many, many years, working as an employee and as an IC for my own account.  I've been recruited lately by several places who want to pay 7-8 cpl for ICs.  Now I'm an educated adult, I know darn well that no MTSO in the world would charge a client 7-8 cpl so there have to be doctors willing to pay more than that wouldn't you think?  Why are they so hard to find?

Can someone tell me where I can find a nice doctor that is willing to pay 12-14 cpl and give me the same no benefits I'm being recruited for? 

Am I in an alternate universe?  I just don't see how MTSOs can command and get 14-20 cpl but the rest of us who offer just as much can't seem to get our feet in the door.

You were certainly more tolerant of this so-called doctor than I would have been.  I would never tolerate a doctor telling me I'm the doctor, I'll make the diagnosis.  HE would have been in for a tongue lashing he would not soon have forgotten.  So long as you are paying his fee, IMO you have every right to question his diagnosis and/or treatment.  I've been told by several doctors that they are amazed at how many times a patient who is an MT makes an accurate diagnosis. 

With that being said, I can't help but add what a shame I think it is that we are suppose to be as technically knowledgeable as a physician, most of whom have many more years of education than we do, yet we (or now-a-days you who are still working MTs) are reduced pay-wise to little more, if even as much, as ordinary clerk/typists.  I know that all of you spend years perfecting your skills. Even though I worked in the field for nearly half a century I was still  learning the day I quit.  So....it pains me greatly to see what has become of an occupation that used to command great respect to the point where we (you) are disrespected in so many ways.  It seems that many MTSOs are he!! bent on reducing your pride and self-confidence to a pile of rubble so you will be happy to accept the mere pittance they are willing to pay while expecting that you be even more knowlegeable.  Some have people doing Q.A. who it seems their only purpose is to cut MTs down to groveling pieces of humanity begging for a crumb of work.   Empathy is why I continue to hang out here.   I may be only a party of one but I vow to do all I can to bring the deplorable state of the MT industry to the attention of as many people as I can.  I have talked to several physicians and they are horrified at the situation. Several have told me that they don't know how you girls do it and proceed to tell about some ESL that they can't even understand.  Many of them have also said that they are going to go directly to the hospital administration and address these issues with them and see that their dictation will never be sent off-shore.  Each and every one I have talked to has been absolutely horrified to think their medical records might be going out of this country.  Physicians DO care about their patient records and if enough of them are educated about what is going on, they will confront the bean counters and things WILL change.  So while it is a fact that hospitals will not even take up the matter of their poor dictating habits with physicians lest they offend them, you can also bet that if enough of them demand a change in how their records are handled, they are going to pay attention to them on that too.  It's really up to all of you who are still working.  Do you want to DO something to make changes to your lot in life or do you just want to cry and complain???  VR is not necessarily a BAD thing, perhaps even a good thing as long as there are people qualified to edit and fix things like patient with a fx of the hip due to tripping over a garden horse.

Kudos to cj and friends for taking action.  When MTSOs were mom and pop operations they served a purpose and they appreciated their MTs.  The giants have crushed most of them.  I don't want to work any more but if I did I would not work for these mega-MTSOs at their puny 6-7-8 cpl but I would work to help a small MTSO get off the ground even if it meant (by my volunteering) to work for 5 cpl to help them get up and running.  I hope those of you who are applying to cj et AL will consider giving them a hand up.  Working for a lesser cpl with better things on the horizon and plenty of work would make sense rather than getting 10-11-12 cpl and spending 24/7 staring at a blank screen with no work available.

I am making a lot of noise about this issue because well...there is just something about the situation of people being hired to do work when no work exists that just p**ses me off!!