Guess I was lucky then. I recently left MQ...sm
Posted By: GLF on 2007-11-09
In Reply to: you *dictate for a pediatric neurologist*?? - pediatric offices are ALWAYS loud...sm
After 9 years with them. The entire time (until the recent 'cesspool' changes - the reason I left) I worked on a large children's hospital and all their clinics.
There would be the occasional crying/screaming, etc. in the background (s/l off in the distance though, not in the same room as the doc), but other than that, I really didn't hear much noise from the patients or their parents.
Not that it was an easy account by any means, and there were those docs who seemed to just love to dictate from the NICU, right next to the loudly beeping machines, or in the cafeteria, next to clattering dishes. But overall, not as much noise as I expected. (Thank goodness. My tolerance for screaming kids is pretty low! LOL) I actually miss that account... *sniff*
BTW, my account now has a lot of elderly people, which I find a lot more depressing. Seems I've gone from one extreme to the other.
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I recently left a company (sm)
and lost mine, but this company is notorious for doing this. Worst company I ever worked for. One regret I have is not leaving sooner when the writing was clear on the wall. Good luck.
I recently started having in left ear
only - getting used to it, not really affecting hearing but worries me. I associated it beginning with turning the volume up because of really poor dictation quality/dictators and forgetting to turn it down and the end of line/error tones nearly killed me. Could be totally unrelated.
Recently left a job paying that hourly
Fool! I'm nowhere near that and work harder for less $. Can you tell me Kyraddmt how it works out for you at MQ. Are you out of Denver? Are you glued to the monitor and working whenever jobs come in? (My experience with other nationals which did not have enough work during my shift). Are you on multiple accounts? and finally, line rate or page? Please let me know. TIA
To those who recently left MDI-MD...are you happy with your new company...sm
and if so would you care to share the name? I have stuck with them this far, but the work load is just no better and I am going to have to leave. I just do not know where to go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Well, I was lucky that he only left it on...
and did not dictate the whole time, but it does drive me crazy to have to listen to over three hours of "dictation" and not get a penny for it.
Guess I am lucky
I guess I lucked out. I just informed my accounts of an upcoming increase on June 1st due to cost of gas, supplies, etc. First one in almost three years but going up 1 cent per line and they were all acceptable of it. No questions and only said, "thanks, keep up the good service, appreciate all you do." I was a little squeemish to do it and would have gone down 1/2 cent a line if necesssary but doesn't look like I will have to. Wish it were better for the rest of you.
Patti
Guess I am lucky..
My docs for an Ortho clinic always say thank you. It is really nice to hear. I did have one of them once say something along the lines of "apparently I said something different in another report", and it made me wonder if I had screwed up somewhere, but I let it roll off my back.
I guess I got lucky...sm
I didn't really have to do anything. I was working in-house and asked if I could do medical records because I knew we were going to VR in radiology and didn't want to find myself without a job. It wasn't a big deal to them. But I ended up without a job anyway because as soon as they went to VR, they outsourced everything else. Sigh. I got hired doing acute care mainly ER and DS after I lost my hospital job, but now Im back in Rad and actually prefer it.
I got started in MT working for an Ob-Gyn practice. From there I went to clinic (the practice merged with the hospital and I got put into a pool). Then I moved into Rad and finally acute care. I think you can probably do better with Clinic or ER because it is very repetitive and between normals and making your own IT macros, you can really jam. Good luck with whatever you decide.
We never have to change. I guess we are lucky..sm
I can't believe it gets dark in Maine at 4. That is amazing. In December in Arizona it gets dark about 6. At 4 some kids are coming home from school. Wow.
I guess I am lucky, but I only pay my accoutant
a little over $100 to do my taxes and he is great. He's been doing my family's taxes for a long time now, and I recently started using him 2 years ago. I wouldn't do them any other way now.
I guess I will count myself lucky too then.
NM
Guess I'm pretty lucky
The company I work for actually does stand up for us and has worked with difficulty dictators on improving their dictation, which of course is a win-win for everyone. I have been in this field for 25+ years although and this is the first time I have ever experienced anyone actually helping us out. Usually, we get "do the best you can", like they are afraid to approach the doctor.
They recently got rid of all their Canadian MTs, guess to make room for more Indians. nm
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That really stinks! Guess I should feel lucky.
Now I feel foolish for complaining without thinking there were others worse off. Sorry.
I'm left handed, guess that makes me dyslectic, so I used to type "patient was raped and prepp
also....wayyyyy back in the late 60's and early 70's when I actually worked in a doctor's office or hospital, if patient's name was Norman, 75% of the time I typed Normal. What is really funny....my father's name was Norman Hassell...can you imagine anyone being a "normal hassell"? Even funnier still, my mother named me Joy....so guess you can say I'm a "happy hassell"!! and a lefty at the same time; people tend to steer clear of me!!! Have a good day. Big huge storm moving across our little island right now; got to shut down and unplug everything. 
Just hit Alt+Shift+left arrow on line 1 and it will go to the left margin. Otherwise,
you need to use a numbered list style to do it every time. Each version is different, but you may already have a numbered list style in yours that stays at the left margin. Just assign a keyboard shortcut to that style.
If it's different for each report, my guess (only a guess)
would be no. I think the macro would work if it was the same each time, but not sure if it will if the documents are different each time.
NO... Just recently.....
my sister came home to a real disaster. She left for work at the beginning of a thunderstorm and came home to find everything blown out in her house and scorched burnt wallpaper in places on the walls. Apparently the lightening hit the Invisible Fence wire around the perimeter of her property, traveled into the garage where the power box for the fence was, and breached her circuit box and traveled up into the sockets in the house. She lost TVs, her computer, all sorts of items which were destroyed. I'd unplug and wait it out.
i just recently became SE
and all i can tell you is that when i talked with my accountant about what to do with the 401k that i already have, knowing my situation, she gave no indication of there being a problem maintaining this as an SE.
I recently got one because I could not
adjust to the earphones my company sent. I got mine from the Dictation Store and they were $9, but shipping is about $8. I just got standard shipping and I think it took 2 days to get it, though I'm on the same coast.
I had one of those recently.
Foot pedals wouldn't work (I tried several). Keyboard keys (F1, etc.) wouldn't work. I ended up using the mouse on media player to stop, start, and back up the dictations. Obviously it takes much longer to transcribe anything that way because it's a pain in the neck to use the mouse to operate the player, and you're much more prone to make mistakes because of the clumsiness and hassle involved.
The test I took was very easy (radiology). They graded it the same as if I had had full use of a foot pedal and no technical difficulties. There were a few simple errors that were obviously the result of not being able to quickly back up and re-listen to things. They also counted off for minor stylistic "errors" even though they did not make it known anywhere that they required the use of a specific set of style guidelines on the test (presumably the BOS). I now regret taking that test at all under those ridiculous circumstances.
In the end I concluded that they either didn't know how to administer a test or it was all designed to be an ambush to stifle the MTs they had decided they didn't like and weren't about to sign a contract with. Or both. In any case, I would never choose to work with a place that incompetent or that nasty anyway.
I have done several recently and
every single one of them required you to type it into Word 2003 and email it in so that they can read it.
Maybe you were testing with bigger companies than I was, though and they have some other way to test.
Why does it seem that VR/SR has just recently taken off
it just really seems like in the last few months everyone on here has been forced to go VR (I know not ALL of you), but the majority. My work had one account on VR last year and now ALL accounts are within the just the past months. Why all of a sudden are we getting bombarded with it. It doesn't seem to matter what company or what platform, but it is taking us by storm. I happen to like VR myself, but WOW its exploding!! Want your opinion as to why "all of a sudden"?
From what I have seen recently,
they are hiring people with little or no experience and getting rid of the ones who have tons of experience and can learn quickly and can start producing at the get go. They advertise for experienced MTs with acute care experience but they are not keeping them. They even laugh and joke about it.
I have investigated recently-
checking up the corporate ladder and with tech people, all of us in MQ get paid for spaces within a section/paragraph, naturally not the blank line between sections/paragraphs. That was one of the motives for insisting we stop double spaces after periods and colons(:). It adds up.
I've seen the same recently...
"work pools were changed recently" was what I was told and now finding myself with the accents....luckily since I work on 85% during my full time job during the day the accents on this part time account are a piece of cake. I did have a funny experience last night on my last report...
I pulled in an echo that someone apparently abandoned because they couldn't do it. It was an ESL but not a difficult ESL.....
The doctor dictated....."Normal mitral valve........NO MORE MITRAL VALVE was transcribed ....then pericardial effusion.....THE PATIENT WANTS DIVERSION was typed..... !
I was just recently hired by
Transcend and am receiving the equipment today or tomorrow, will train next week. I would not worry about the interview if I were you. She was very nice and we had a nice talk. I am leaving MQ. Welcome.
I checked it out recently (sm)
If I weren't already in my senior year of college and on a different path, I'd definitely check it out. The average income was something like 45K (salary.com).
I'd not worry about competition. MT is considered hard for newbies to break into, but we did that, didn't we? Where there's a will, there's a way.
I'd definitely consider it if I were you. Frankly, getting out of the house sounds really nice to me.
I think there was something recently posted about this
company.
I recently met someone who has a friend who took a
6-week course, is working at home with all the work she can handle. Of course I don't believe this, but this is what she said.
I found this recently (sm)
See link
Not unless something has changed recently...
I have worked at a job where I had to use both the Lanier and a Dictaphone. They are two very separate things.
anyone recently take the cmt exam?
thank you.
Oh, they did for me! I just recently plugged my
instead of my junky speakers, and what a difference!!! Can't believe I've gone this long thinking that it was DQS that was all the problem with the degradation in sound quality since going from using a C-phone.
I assume that better speakers would have to make a difference, because mine are super cheap. But for now I'm just staying with my headphones through the computer speaker plug (and with a Turtle Beach Audio Device as well now).
Someone asked this recently and several
mentioned the same reasonably priced vacuum (yes, some also loved their Dyson's, but I'm with you on the price). Sorry, I can't remember which one it was (maybe a Eureka something???), but I do remember the same one coming up three or four times in the thread. Search the archives. Good luck to you! (p.s. I'm coming back to search the archives myself when I'm ready to buy again).
this happened to me recently :)
Hold down either the Ctl key or the Alt key and then hit either your right or left arrow depending on which way you want it to move. It only happened to me once, so if that doesn't work, play around with holding Clt+Alt and possibly Shift with the arrow, but that was how I got mine back after my 3 YO granddaughter played with it.
Happy Holiday!
I recently did this and went back to being
IC status. I did not enjoy being an employee, yes the tax thing is a pain in the butt, but being an employee with this particular company was horrible!! I vote for the IC position unless you don't mind being restricted on time off, emergencies etc. Just my opinion though, good luck with your decision.
just recently transitioned myself
from decades of being an 'employee' to a SE. I just wish i would have done it many many years ago. The freedom from time clocks, schedules etc is well worth the bene's i gave up. If one puts it all together (add bene's to gross pay), i don't make as much money, but that's really my fault, because now many days i work 6 or 6-1/2 hr instead of 8. But my quality of life is so much more. You sure want to set aside money for taxes though, and i made a savings acct for just that. Hope you make the right decision for you!!
Recently started using
Meditech for a new hospital account (acute care and rad) Compared to WP and/or Word,(or even DocQscribe) it's like pushing a truck up hill with one hand. Easy to use but very cluncky and requires more Keystrokes for any function than any other platform that I've used. No doubt it (or you) gets faster with use, but I'm not impressed.
PS It has an awkward spell check - not case sensitive, does not pick up transpositions, takes 3 keystrokes to make a correction instead of 1 as in WP or Word.
At my age plus the fact recently
paid off every debt I have, could get social security - I am glad I do not have to worry about will it be this way or that- much too unnerving for a person supporting family, bills, etc. I work part by my own desires and if that is the way it goes, that is that. I hated the first time I was ever outsourced but after the 2nd time used to it. Times change.
I knew anyone could look at it but I did not know until recently (sm)
that it would come up in search engines. I accidentally found something I posted months ago when doing a search for something else!
I saw saw one recently; I think it was Nicholas
Transcription, but can't remember for sure.
Anyone take the CMT test recently?
I was just thinking about taking it and wondered if anyone had any advise.
I have been on both sides and recently sm
I had a team and their QA to oversee. The "recruiter" would hire anyone she knew who could type. This was a teaching hospital, very large, very difficult and a challenge to those of us with plenty of experience. I could not fire an MT and if I told the MT manager that this so and so could not do the job, I was told to TEACH HER to do it and in the mean time, fix her reports.
I did have some MTs who wanted to learn, had had a bit of experience, and were anxious to progress. I spent a lot of time on them because they took to suggestions and they worked hard. The ones who not MTs, hadn't studied and were clueless, I had the option of assigning them very little work, which is what I did and I did out of self-preservation. There are only 24 hrs in a day and I was working 20 of them!
I have two jobs right now and QA at one I know very well, having worked with her for years. She only sends back a corrected a report in its entirety. The blanks she filled in are changed to a red font. I can see it, I can learn and I keep every one of her reports in a special folder in my email. I am trying to learn 3 doctors who chased away several other MTs on this account. One has a speech impediment and talks very very fast, one has an accent and talks too fast in the face of it and the third is a speed dictator who doesn't think that words need to be pronounced to be understood. The rest of the physicians don't present a problem. It has been difficult because I have had these 3 doctors about twice each and not enough to tackle the learning curve YET. In any case, this QA is patient and she never ever offers personal comments of a derogatory nature.
The other company I work for, I think that QA is nonexistent, other than when they are throwing their weight around. I had one particular report, an I&D of a sebaceous cyst. The doctor followed with this "cheesy material" which is what I transcribed. They called me on the phone to tell me that the doctor "never would have said that" and I said I'd stake my reputation as an MT that he did! She said, well...you're still wrong. Ummm no, I am not. That is lack of experience, knowledge or even a decent ear. No wonder we are on the verge of losing the account, yet again.
Now, I worked for a company where the QA person treated everyone like they were about 2 yrs old. I had her call me names like $toopid, moronic, an imbecile and whenever she used a word of 3 syllables, told me to look it up since I was not bright enough to understand what she was talking about. The owner, when I complained, said that is just how she is, but that she is so good at what she does... I said look, she represents your company and what you stand for. If this is all you have to offer, I am leaving, and I did.
SOME QA gals seem to have a chip on their shoulders. I am of the opinion that those who can do this job, do it and those who are knowledgeable, but can't do the job, do QA. I know several QA people who have CTS and can't type anymore, so they QA and I think that is a bit different.
It is widely understood that the very best MTs are not QA people, they are still MTs. I could not, would not take a 50% or better pay cut to be a QA person. I am far too fast and too capable for that. Neither company I work for presently would ever put me on QA because I am extremely valuable as an MT. Transcribing is my stock and trade and I can't see giving that up for anyone.
Remember as well, there are reasons that we work at home, and I am talking psychological reasons. I can't stand office politics and I don't like people. I am told I don't play well with others, and this is a correct assessment. Others have their issues too, and some of these issues creep up with QAs who seem to need some therapy and help dealing with people. This seems to attract people with a decided need to be the biggest fish in the smallest pond and throw their fins about to get attention.
When I did my resume recently (sm)
I listed the companies and underneath put a brief summary of my duties. One company I had worked for a very long time and held multiple positions in the company based on my "life needs" at the time, you know, MT, supervisor, part time at home with little ones, etc. I just kind of briefly stated that I had held multiple positions within that company.
Seems like resumes used to also contain a "position sought" or "goal" line and in that line I would clearly state that I was looking for supplemental income and to maintain my active transcription skills. Perhaps that will be enough of a "continuing ed" spin that any recruiter worth their salt would surely understand.
I recently asked the same
question (about a week ago) with little reply. Only one other person replied and suggested Bose noise reducing earphones. I just purchased a pair of Glimmer Insight from transcriptiongear.com. They also do not have a seperate volume control, which would be nice. I also purchased a pair of earmuff style headphones just in case the others hurt my ears, Skullcandy lowriders. I don't care for the "urban" design of them, but the sound is very crisp and clear. Again, no volume control on those.
I've seen a few recently that are sm
upgraded to work with Vista, but not many. I think there are too many quirks with Vista (my opinion) and not everyone is ready to upgrade their systems to be compatible. If you work IC, buy a computer with XP and write it off on taxes.
Wasn't there a gal recently who was getting out of MT and going to
I wonder how that's going. That's what I REALLY want to do. I have just about reached the camel's last straw with this job.
My clinic has gone to this recently...sm
Our clinic went to this in October. The doctors started using it for their clinic notes in November. Right now my dictation has been cut down to less than half of what it was and they still don't have all the appropriate templates set up yet, so I am expecting in the next 3-6 months there will be no more dictation at all. Right now I am having to find other things to do because the dictation is so sporadic. I don't have any experience doing anything other than medical transcription my entire adult working life (30+ years), so needless to say this is very difficult for me to adapt to.
My MTSO has recently been
emphazing this. As I understand it from what I was told, 99.9% of the time there is a comma before "which." An example of now to use one is "The patient has a cold for which she is being treated with ....."
When used as "the patient had a chest x-ray, which showed ..." you use a comma. I really don't understand what difference it makes, but we hvae been told to use it. In fact, they gave us a way to enter it in our autocorrect so it automatically puts one in, which can be irritating at times when you don't need it.
I recently typed an EGD....sm.
The patient had choked on a piece of meat and had it lodged in his throat. The whole report for some reason by hands did not want to type food...always foot. I felt pretty confident that I did a good job correcting all of them and sent the report on.
Two days later the doctor sends it back and asks me to change it. No big deal, must have made a different mistake....NO I was so mad at myself that I sent this report that stated "foot was removed from the esophagus". It was embarassing then but now it is pretty funny to me.
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