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So, why don't they just cross train?? NM

Posted By: justme on 2009-06-17
In Reply to: Amphion - wise old woman

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If you find a company to cross-train in
can you please post the name of the company. I have been wanting to get into radiology. I probably know more than I think I do. However, radiology and medical records transcription were done in separate parts of the hospital, so never got to practice what I learned.

thanks
I too love path & can't find it at home & would love to cross-train into rad in the meantime I do
 
cross training
Please call me and I will see what I can do to help you out.
I got one and used it to try out my new cross-cut shredder.

Worked great!


That's a cross to bear with most co's...sm

This demographic BS, looking up Dr's names, addresses, CCs aud nauseum, etc, etc, is just another sample of MT exploitation we have to deal with these MTSOs, and they practically all do it....ironically, it's the demos/unpaid duties that QA gives you the most flack about.  (The client wants it just so ....if he wants it just so...means client is paying for this service, while we get to do it GRATIS.  They really think we're that dumb ,not to know the difference between paid work and voluntary work, our our gift to their stockholders. 


 


Cross-eyed from VR
Okay, here is my spill about VR. The way VR is sold to the MTSO is that it is going to be wonderful and save them money. That may be true, because of course they are now paying the MT less per line which means the MT has to do more lines to make the same amount of money. When an MT used to produce 1000 lines a day, she now has to produce 1300. No matter what they say, VR is entirely different than transcribing. It is like playing a piano when someone has messed up the notes on your sheet music and you have to keep up with the band while transposing the notes and playing the correct ones when the wrong ones are written. It is very hard on the eyes and the brain, and is NOTHING like transcribing. If anything, they should pay us MORE as we never get into any zone, can never close and rest our eyes, and basically it is a miserable brain drain. Sometimes I feel like telling them it is like trying to ride a bike with two flat tires -- and you get paid by the mile. Because we refused to unionize we are sunk. To anyone who will listen: Go back to school, MTing is like being on the Titanic.
Yes, per year and it's Blue Cross also.
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Cross your eyes and your toes too. :-) The only
than I read but once you get used to it and it learns your particular account, you should be able to do OK with it.  It's picking up more and more all the time, less things you have to fix on certain worktypes but I look at it as job insurance, not displacement.  No matter how they tout this thing, it'll never replace us completely.  And it's good for a laugh now and then. 
TransTech has Blue Cross nm

Acusis has Blue Cross.

I'd have to third that motion. In this biz, I never burn bridges I may have to cross later or sta
on. I do my best to work both until I see how it will work. Trust me, I have seen in only a day if there was potential or not at a new job. You get a feel for support, difficulty of work types, and overall general feel of what this new place is like.  Besides that, when I first came home to do transcription and had to give notice, as this is what i had one previously in the outside world. Boy was I shocked when after giving my 2 weeks notice I found out I was locked out of the account. Apparently, my 2 weeks notice ended NOW....so beware and be cautious.  
I'm fine with the coverage - Blue Cross - sm
and somethings are covered w/o going into your deductible. Copays are $20; drug plan; mammos, Paps covered free. However, lab work falls into the out of pocket going to your deductible; ugh.

I love the dental through MetLife.
Mine through them is Blue Cross PPO. Very good coverage.
I don't know if they offer other options or not.
Heck, I don't care what it costs. It's Blue Cross, sm
accepted everywhere in my area.  Only one of my docs was in the preferred tier with the last insurance and I didn't want to switch so I just paid out of my pocket. I only have myself and the rate is cheaper for me.
I have a single plan with Affordablue with Blue Cross for $184/month. sm

Not sure about the pre-existing conditions clause -- might be a 3 or 6 month waiting period.   I have a $25 co-pay for office visits (5 per year), but $1000 deductible.  If you're relatively healthy and just need well visit checks, it is ideal, but not sure about your situation. 


I did find a site:  www.healthinsurancesort.com that might help you.


Good luck! 


Blue Cross medical,Guardian dental, Spectera vision, 10,001 lines per pay period. sm
Cost per pay period for single coverage is $94.36, $1.68 vision, $7.06 dental.  Hope this helps.     
they are willing to train
The training is not so much.... if you can type medical ....... and typing is the MAIN thing with lawyers.... you are IN. If you will show up for work... you are IN. The legalese is based on latin and so knowing the medical terminology, it's a breeze of a transition. They don't have all that much legalese. It is mostly English and stuffy forms of English. They dictate usually on a dictaphone. CHECK IT OUT. I know lawyers are weird, but how do you get weirder than what has happened to this MT business???? This is horrendous. Lawyers aren't going to cut your pay! I had my pay cut in MT two, no THREE different times, for no good reason excpet the owner wants to keep more money. That is not the way to treat a hard worker.
But ... you travel to train to CA ... what's not to like about that/ :-) sm
You can take it as a business expense.  Of course, I have no family to consider and love to travel, so obviously I am not like a lot of people (in many ways! ha).
Don't you have to go to NJ to train? And pay was only 1.75 per page. nm
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I only know that you have to train in their office
in NJ for a few days. I live in NJ, but the other end of the state, and it just is not feasible for me to travel 3 or 4 hours each way for a few days. Too bad, though, as they missed out on an awesome MT!
Any companies that will train...
on radiology until one is up to speed. I have 6 years experience with ER, clinic, discharge summaries, acute care, pathology and podiatry. I was looking to gain radiology experience. Thanks!
Let them train all their new hires on
My problem is that I cannot see why should I be moved to another account when my account is going to the new MT's they keep training?  Problem lies in overhiring and not enough accounts!
Sounds like you may have to train twice

No, they are still using ExText - don't see why you would have to train twice.
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Sorry not interview, train M-F. nm
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TRAIN WRECK!
Let's just move on! Remember emails are often misunderstood as we cannot see or hear those speaking. Who cares anymore about the ridiculousness of this thread! BYE BYE
Been there, done that...The Train Wreck

A couple of weeks ago I posted that the hospital I worked for is outsourcing and dumping their inhouse transcription dept.  I appreciate all the nice things people here said because so many of you have been there, done that.  


I also guess that a lot of you have thought about starting up your own business.  The other people I worked with at the hospital and I were always talking about it in a joking way because, to be honest, the people who ran the business at the hospital know nothing about transcription and they think we are just typing drones.


I stopped back in the office where I used to work and I am pleased to report that it was total chaos.  The administration is trying to dump all the dictation onto an outside company based in India.  They kept on a couple of Transcriptionist to clean up stuff.  The person now in charge of the whole transcription process used to work in the billing office and she is now going to be proofing and overseeing the outside transcription service.  They are pleased with themselves and very smug about all the money they will be saving the doctors.


The doctors are all spoilt.  Most of their dictation for years has been An 88 year old female.  Severe DJD.  Bilateral knees. Referred by the bozo down the street. Yada yada yada.   An we knew what they meant  and would zip out a three page professional sounding report and referral letter.  We corrected their mistakes, made sure they were talking about the right patient (often they weren't) and that they didn't commit any legal boo-boo like saying the patient was a drug addict. (One doctor I used to work for said this.  I told the supervisor that he should not say things like that or he would get sued.  She said the doctor knew what he was doing.  Since she was not a transcriptionist she believed that.  The doctor and the practice got sued and doctor went to work in a little clinic far, far away.)


I have to admit that I am enjoying the vision of the coming trainwreck.  This is the second hospital I have worked for that jumped on the outsourcing train.  The first one fired the service in six months and tried to rehire us transcriptionists, who by then had gone on to greener pastures.  And this current hospital has handled the decision to outsource in such an unethical and nasty manner that I would not work for them again under any circumstances.


So, in short, has anybody thought seriously about starting up their own company?  Of course other transcriptionists have done that and of course it is not as easy as it seems. What is the first step?  I have the skills and I know many transcriptionists and a lot of doctors who are going to be really ticked off when the billing person they put in charge of their dictation goes belly up.  And I have some really neat names in mind: 


Typed In the USA. 


Been There Done That. 


Fingers For Hire. 


Utalk We Type.


Transcribers Anonymous.


WordsRUs.(how do you make a backwards R?)


Anybody want to join me?


       


 


 


Why don't you ask your manager to train you - sm
at least as a backup- on one of the accts they are hiring for? The reason they have ads out is that they have new accounts coming on all the time; current MTs cannot fill all the spots (think midnight shift, weekends, etc) and that's why they still look for other MTs.
I never could figure out why, when the train - sm
whacks someone (who 99% of the time committed suicide), the whole rail system has to come to a halt for an investigation, and hundreds of people on the train are late for work.

Investigate what?
Cause of death = 'Hit by train'! How hard is that to figure out?
Agreed. What you train on is not necessarily what
you'll end up with.  You'll never know what account you'll be on from day to day or hour to hour.  I agree with the 1 to 2 days for support, but that is too long IMHO if you have several similar reports back to back and have to leave blanks in all of them.
Fellow IP train rider here. For why pay was off,
I worked there and had personal friendships with a couple of the acct managers and team leads.  We were not getting paid for spaces. That is what I was told by middle management.
I was supposed to train last week -
I was supposed to train on Thursday and got an email saying that the trainer was going to have to reschedule. I called on Monday and she told me that she had been put on hold for scheduling because they were losing a major part of a big account and that there was no work for new people. The email on Thursday had just made it seem as if she had something going on and could not work us in that day. All this was after they had been calling me and emailing me for weeks about coming to work for them.
They didn't even have enough work to train me
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My STM wont train me on another account!
I have somehow angered my STM and she refuses to train me on a backup account, then threatens to fire me because I don't have enough hours! I keep sending in those stupid requests for help to the Solution Center telling them that I have no work, but she still emails me the next day wondering why I didn't have a full 8 hours! I keep hoping she will be promoted to some other job so that I may get a fair chance to train on another account, but so far it's a no-go. Also, if I get even one more stupid email from her bragging about her new car (I wish I was making enough to afford one!), her dog, her husband, her vacation, her cooking I may scream!!! Just send the account updates and shut up for goodness sake!!! Arrrrrghhhh!!!! I am currently looking for another job where hopefully I can make enough to survive, Webmedx obviously isn't that place.
Anyone told they must come in person to train....
when being hired as a home transcriber?  Silent Type wants me to come to New Jersey for a 2-day training period (I'm in Ohio).  I've being transcribing at home for 14 years.  I'm stunned at this and have declined but just curious if any of you have been told this. 
Pay is lousy and you have to go in-office to train for way too long!
This was a while back so not sure if they have become more with it by now.  Good luck!
Are you in NJ? You have to go therre to train. They used to pay a low per-page rate, don't know
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Any companies out there willing to train people for eScription that have never used it before but
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I only find a site on line that says they train for MT. Is there a job ad up
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I was hired recently & they did not have enough work to train me.
I had never heard of such a thing before.
then you would known recruiters sign on, don't train. Get with your supervisor.
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And just how long did it take you to train it to just your voice? Then multiply that x 300 sm

or so voices/accents such as at a teaching hospital.  I have a friend who uses Dragon Medical and she now can achieve great speed, and it has saved her hands, but it took her TWO YEARS. 


I am kind of on the fence about this whole thing.  No matter what we think/feel/etc., VR is not going away.  I have some some VR, and most of it is not even close to as bad as the post by the OP, which obviously was an exaggeration, but it certainly is not a money maker for me.  I would sit there listening, realizing I could type it myself a lot faster. 


I am glad you have it working for you.  Good luck. 


Where do you get the idea that TT is paying us to train for speech??????

I have seen absolutely no email on this subject of the MT being paid for training nor refresher course.  How are you being paid -- by the hour?


We have had to train for everything on our own time, as we have to do everything else. . . reading emails, filling out timesheets, jotting down every job we do, etc.


There has been no email saying such as you are stating here in your post.


No, the MT will NEVER make as much money as before speech.  NEVER.


The companies will, YES, but not the MT.


TransTech is definitely VR -- pressuring MT's greatly to train on VR

If you can afford a humongous decrease in your paycheck, then TT's VR is a good place for you.  The work has been extremely low for a long time now.  We get weekly emails pressuring us to train on VR.  There is a HUGE push for VR, in order words.  If you can make a decent line rate/count VR and cannot feel that you can take the decrease in your paycheck, you should look elsewhere.


They are a scary OVERHIRE at TT right now, and this has been going on for the past several months.  It is hard to believe that they are still hiring, as you have been offered a job there, when we have no work most every week -- no matter what hours you get on the system.


It didn't take me a week to train. I sped through the classes like
wildfire. As a computer instructor, I thought the classes were very thorough for those MTs with not so great technical skills, not grueling, thorough.
Would it be worth discussing this with them before being hired that you want to train on the account
you will be working on and wont stay if you get put on accounts noone else wants. Would that make a difference to be upfront and tell them that.
I believe I read that Radiologix requires you to train in-house. FYI. nm
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Think you still have to go to NJ to train. Was offered a very low per-page rate several years ago.
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Heard from her last week. You still go to NJ to train and pick up their puter. Still pay by the

Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
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Do you live in NJ? You have to go their to train and pick up their loaded computer. nm
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