Everyone who works for MedQuist should know that a MT can work as much as he/she like. One dosen'

• anyone running low on work at MQ today - ?
  • You go by your schedule and have no work. Everytime I get on to work, there is always work. - the bottom line
    • What are you trying to say? - ?
      • I found out the hard way that first in always have the work. Supervisor sm - the bottom line
  • Not yet, but trickling in. Should run out soon. - getting there
  • End of pay period every other week. - MQ IC's jump on the system and "hog" up t
    • MQ - SE & IC are one in the same - MQ'r
    • Do they have both? (see inside) - G
    • Everyone who works for MedQuist should know that a MT can work as much as he/she like. One dosen' - Well
  • low work MQ - handy
    • unusual for me too, worried too, not Amherst office nor Ohio - hmmm
      • Maybe all of MQ will be like Amherst or maybe so many of us at Amherst have not work they gave us - MQMT2
        • I take it you've also been lied to directly by supervisor? - thought it was just me.
          • Its the MQ way. I have my way of letting them know I know they are lying. I hate being BS around. - MQMT
  • Yep, but its the Dictaphone system... - mqpeep
  • Not me - Happy MQer

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It HAS to be Word from MS Office; Word from MS Works will not work for some reason.  Your best bet would be to tell the company your problem and look on E-bay for MS Office 2000-2003.  It sucks, but I went through the same thing when I worked for a company who had EditScript.

Amanda

I work for a company that uses MP Word.  They have an edition that is made to work with dail-up.  I just get the first dictations downloading, make coffee, clean the kitty litter, read e-mail or whatever.  Then once that initial  batch is downloaded, when I have about 10 minutes of dictation left, I just request more work and keep on typing.  I almost never have to wait for work after that, I just keep downloading as I type.

while Ops offer lot of challenges -- that's a good thing, imho, REALLY ...

I keep my op stored in WORD sorted by

(1) client

(2) specialty (general surgeon, ortho, plastic, podiatrics, ENT, GYN, GI , urology, neurosurgery etc) .... and then in word folders

(3) within speciality, within client I name individual reports like this:

470 hernia vental simple

470 hernia umbilical

470 small bowel resection 

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470 would be that doctor's id number -- the file holding 470's reports would be named with doctor's last name 

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works for me, although I do usually do big time "indexing" until I've gota bunch of copied reports.

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It's really important to NOT consider these NORMALS until you are more familiar with the dictator ... however... this is worthwhile ANYWAY because the joy of OPs is that most doctors say pretty much the same thing in 80% of their reports ... sometimes more. Gastroenterology and GYN  are excellent "easy money" most of the time but you MUST pay attention and change every difference ...

All these saved reports need to be updated when you review your QA ... those phrases that doctor mumbled yesterday are probably mumbled 24/7/365 ... follow up and record this information.

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I use Emedicine for my go-to for a lot of things... while they don't have op reports they are stellar at terminology and spelling, hyphens, and capitalization as far as I can tell.

One of the fabulous things about op reports is usually NO MEDICATION LOOKUPS!!!! (although you will spend time finding out the latest heart stents, hip replacemetn component marketing  names, etc. ) Most medical device manufacturers have "pretty good" web sites -- use them, rather than relative Google popularity wrt spelling, caps, etc.

Good luck -- there is a learning curve but imho it is more than worth it -- Surgeons understand that their dictation is in essence their "BILL" when it comes to Medicare and insurance -- they have a vested interest in it being intelligible and complete ... they may talk really fast but most of the time, if you have samples, you will find they are saying variations of the "same thing" using the same words/terminology. 

Oh, and OP pay better.

Sincerely, good luck.!

Would appreciate specifics about why people say to stay away from the northeast offices of MedQuist.  What region is a good one?

Quit last job and would appreciate any info about a good company.

Thank you

It was enlightening to read your Imail - Email??  I'm just as confused as you are.  - and I was ready to throw in the towel(or something).  I have been doing this almost 12 years also.  The changes being made are baffling - but since it has been a great 12 years so far, maybe a few more months will be best at this point.  I am old enough to know that change can be painful at times.  Since I love this work and feel as though I accomplish something in the process I am going to stay with it, thanks to you.  To make things worse, I have been on vacation for a while.  Who knows what's going on since I left.  May need to take a course in transcription.  Oh, oh I started the sentence wrong, didn't I. - Is that 1 point off or 2 (or is it two?)  Good grief!!

RSVP and have a good day.

I am considering becoming a QA for MedQuist instead of a transcriptionist for them.  does anybody have any experience doing this for MedQuist and, if so, any advice?  Should I do it?  Is it profitable?

thanks,

Dear Duck, Dear MQMT, and Dear MQ Slave:

I would like you to collectively pull your heads out of the 14 feet of sand that they are in and do a search on this MTStars website about the r-e-a-l-i-t-i-e-s of MedQuist.   Your comments are would be hilarious if they were not so sad and profoundly ignorant.   Do the search.  Then, gosh, you might know what the fuss is all about, goobers. 

I have been with Medquist 5 years as a subcontactor.  Times they are a changin....I would like to know what some of the other girls are doing and is this change for the better?  I am very confused about the whole deal.  I have always enjoyed working for MedQuist and would like to stay on, but I am a bit concerned.  Is this standard in the way of the way transcription companies work.  MedQuist is the only large company I have worked for other than the hospital of course and for myself.

I heard something about Medquist going to 1 office.  Does anyone know more?

What's the deal with changing the way we get our e-mail?? I got the memo about opening a browser and typing

mail.medquistmail.com

but I can't get that to work any way, shape, or form.  My helpful CSC said "Call Atlanta."  I have been on hold for over 1/2 hour, listening to their hideous Muzak.   Can anyone tell me how to access my e-mail???