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I concur....MTs are treated with respect at MDI-MD....

Posted By: and QA is great too - HAPPY MDI-MT on 2009-01-29
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Best MTSO out there, in my opinion.


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    Like customer service everywhere - people don't care, no self-respect, no respect for.
    nm
    I respect YOUR opinion. Please respect mine!
    I don't think there is any need for mud-slinging. The ONLY thing I contribute to AHDI is the recertification fee. The rest are expenses that are deductible to keep me recertified. Again, that's MY choice.
    right - so you concur?.......

    but rarely an MD says non-Hodgkin-*type*


    mostly they say *non-Hodgkin's lymphoma* and that's what I give them....like non-CMT...like you typed


    I concur. Let's leave it with what's been said.
    nm
    I completely concur.
    .
    I concur wholeheartedly
    with you, dnh. I also work for a great company at 8 cpl. We are required to commit to a certain amount of lines per day and our dictators are average to great. I work very hard to send in as few blanks as possible to QA and proofreading is a must, as far as I am concerned. I see so many disgruntled and dissatisfied MTs on this board. I wonder why they bother to continue in this profession if they are so miserable. All jobs come with pros and cons and you make the best of it or move on. In some cases, they may beg you stay. ;-)
    I concur. Good point...
    The entertainment value is what I question. Who is being entertained? I'm mildly amused by the ridiculous nature of the shows and the strange ideas they come up with, but I don't live for them. I will admit, I do like Survivor. Don't they lose their punch when the people come back and tell what "really" happened? I hate that.
    I concur. Good point. (nm)
    x
    I concur with lolabug. Cost of CD is:
    $99.95, then there's S&H, taxes, et cetera; totaling: $121.77. However, in somes eyes, it is priceless. Well Worth the time lost looking things up. It's all right there.

    I concur!! 33 years and i still enjoy
    my job and have been the sole money-earner and raised a family on it; am working from home, the envy of many. it may not be as lucrative as it once was, but still can be a good 'career'. Even with changes to the industry, yes i would recommend it to anyone with the right talents and inclinations.
    You may actually be treated better too
    in working in that environment, Burger King. It's shameful for the level of difficulty this job is, that the pay is this lousy and the treatment by supervisors/management is disrespectful and horrendous.
    Not sure...I HAVE been treated in...

    I have been treated several times in France and in the U.K. and found the care excellent and their pricing for everything medically-related far better than in this country.  I know about their waiting lists and Canada's too.  I'm not sure what the answer is nor is SiCKO giving an answer.  I do know that trying to get an appointment in a VA Hospital in this country also has 3-6 month waiting lists. 


    I wish we all had an answer.....


    Some people at SS are treated
    better than others.  The special ones get paid for their spaces, while some others do NOT.
    Wow, that's really awkward that you are being treated
    Are you sure they aren't getting these kinds of emails even tho their work shows the same errors on final copy?

    This is a tough one.

    Can you actually COMMUNICATE with her, instead of emailing? That seems to clear some kinds of things up, when emails just feel too awful.

    Good luck. This must be an awful feeling.
    ICs -- are you being treated like employees? (sm)
    I filed IRS form SS-8, and boy did I get results!!

    It took months. I had to fill out the very detailed form describing my work situation. The IRS then notified the MTSO and had them fill out the form. I just received the ruling that I was in fact an employee, so the MTSO now has to pay back taxes and penalties!!

    It feels so good when something works the way it should, doesn't it?
    You may well have been treated unfairly
    There are so many different situations.  I'm not saying you weren't treated badly.  What I deal with sometimes  is ridiculous.  Totally made up words, no effort to digest feedback,  no effort to look drug spellings up.  AND an attitude toward me!
    If we were treated like professionals, we might be
    Management IS the devil. By the way, what's it like up there in mananagement, with your 6-figure income, your executive healthcare, and salary-not-hourly status? Especially when you sit in your office all day surfing Amazon & eBay? Must be nice, Beelzebub. But I'll never sell my soul for it.
    So true!!. You can only be treated bad if you
    x
    You have to be psychic to be treated.

    "Instructed the patient to take Benadryl the day before she feels like she is getting the hives." 



    Never been treated so badly in my life

    Just signed on with a company, had 1 week of work, now I am on my second week with no work.  I am a single mother with children to feed...it's just not right. Searching for a new job and have 3 offers on the table already......


    How many jobs do we take until we might be treated decent


    I am on my third in a year


    Which companies were you at where you were not treated very well. I am job hunting and would like
    to know.
    It's just one more reason why MTs are treated like dirt. (nm)
    :/
    i've been very well treated by my state's
    BC/BS -- and have had several expensive accidents...but maybe it depends on your state too.
    For what it's worth, I don't think that you were treated dirty...sm
    They decided to go to EMR, which is their choice.  It sounds as if you financially made out extremely well (very, very well) doing their transcription. How about charging a nominal fee to assist them in setting this up? In the end how do you know that the EMR will work out for them, and 3 or 4 months later they decide to go back to using a MT? It sounds like you made out like a bandit doing their work, and for what it's worth I would be quite reasonable fee-wise with this one in the hope that they may retain your services in the future. I don't think that you are going to run into too many gravy situations making $100.00 dollars an hour doing MT, and acyually they are not treating you dirty by deciding to try EMR.
    You LET self be treated bad. Hard to feel sorry
    x
    treated badly and pentalized
    Has anybody here had a company treat you badly because you want to work?  I was offered a full-time employee position.  I took it and then I was barely getting 200 lines a day.  I was also told I would have a back up account.  When I questioned what was going on, I was given the cold shoulder.  What's the deal? I want to work!  I am use to getting at least 1500 lines a day.
    He was my least favorite on that show and after how he treated Brenda,
    aa
    Mine started doing this as well. I have high BP which I'm being treated for (sm)
    but the doctor told me it is the position of where the back of my thigh rests against the edge of the chair, puts pressure on it and makes the leg swell. Now that I'm more aware of this I try to position myself differently and it seems to work.
    I don't understand your question at all. She was being treated in Mexico
    so what does that have to say about the US? Makes no sense.
    not true. Crux is, she is being treated differently than others

    Tell that to my friend. They had a dog they treated as a member of their family. That is, until it a
    Dogs need to be trained and need to know they're lowest in the pack. I tried telling my friend this, but she wouldn't listen and she continued to treat the dog as a member of the family instead of as a dog. And eventually that "member of their family" decided it didn't want any more competition for affection, and attacked their son. Thank God he survived, 92 stitches and some nasty scars tho. If you love your family and you love your dog, then TRAIN your dog. Don't treat him like an extra child.
    A lot of women are treated badly in general sm

    not just in the Amish community.  How many women are abused daily, behind closed doors and in public.  I remember an incident when I was visiting Atlantic City.  Had just walked into the casino and there was this man, wife, and child in a stroller along with some other friends.  Don't know what their argument was about, but the man hauled off and smacked his wife across her face like it was nothing and the friends seemed so embarrassed.  The poor lady just shielded her face and cried.  The man acted as if he had done nothing wrong.  If this is the treatment he gives her in public, imagine what goes on behind closed doors.  I told my husband if you ever even think about it I will put your poor soul to rest.


    We cannot generalize by culture because it is the world we live in.  To the Amish community I am sure they receive "normal treatment." 


    The gist of it all is no one should have to suffer the pain these children nor their families have endured with these school shootings, molestations, and abuse.  If you are that miserable (they end up killing themselves anyway most of the time), why not just go ahead and take your own life and leave others alone. I pray for them all and hope that they can find peace in the midst of all this tragedy.


    Oh really? That's why it's a fact that Zarqawi was treated in Baghdad for injuries.
    x
    It is gratifying to see an MT who refuses to be treated as a second class employee. Way to go!!
    :)
    At our base the civilian employees are treated worse
    than the prisoners from the nearby federal prisoner. Military thinks civilians are the scum of the earth. You will never get a promotion or recognition unless you are married to an active duty person.
    I would be proud if my records, with my name erased, could be used to help an MT be treated fairly.
    :P
    Coretta Scott King died in Mexico, while being treated. ---what does that say about

    With all due respect..

    Situations are different for everyone. My kids are practically grown now, but I did stay home with them for the first years of their lives and then went back to work, your way is not the only way and you really should not be so judgmental. 


    Yep, I used to listen to Dr. Laura also. Thing is, Dr. Laura sometimes preaches one thing and does the other.. divorce... taking her kids to work with her and using "hired help" when SHE needed to, to WORK.  In other words:  Dr. Laura is not a saint. (I do understand her child advocacy stances though..) it's just that things are different for everyone, not so black and white, cut and dry.  It really isnt nice to "preach" to others about how they should live their lives.


    Women have a lot on their plate these days.  Live and let live for goodness sake, intead of trying to make people feel guilty about their choices.


     


     


     


    It gets about as much respect as being an MT!
    I wonder what computer crash course they had to take to be "professionals!"

    LOL!
    Now I know why MT's will never get the respect...sm

    they deserve. Reviewing a job description at work for a transcriptionist, not medical but still a position that requires "extensive knowledge of procedures and complicated data". The job is basically considered a data entry clerk and the pay level is the lowest-graded job I have seen out of the 5000 jobs here. Exactly why I left MT, truth is the government, as well as many/most industries, consider the work nothing more than data entry.


    Sorry, just ranting, but it ticked me off when I saw that.


    With all due respect...
    going to one of "the AAMT-approved schools" won't get you more money. As far as I'm concerned, it's how you do on the screening tests and your first few samples. You could have gone to school in an outhouse for all I care but if you can do well on the screening transcriptions, I'll hire.
    no respect
    DIL,neighbors,etc. think this is NOT WORK - pffffft to them!

    LOL - home + $$$ = good job!
    You have my respect
    Thank you for making us aware of this situation. You have a lot of integrity, obviously. We wish all companies felt this way. Good luck to you in your search for USA-based employees. We value companies like you as well!
    Huh? With all due respect, I think you are... sm
    Confused/mistaken. I've never heard anything like that before. Sounds a little bizarre. You might want to look it up on a grammer site. Here's one:

    http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

    Note the first sentence:
    *Rule 1 - Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.*

    Maybe you're confusing quotation mark use with commas and periods vs. their use with question marks, exclamation points, etc. where it depends on the material being quoted. That's where most people get confused. But with commas and periods, they always go *inside* the quotation marks. Always.

    I've heard that the British quotation mark rules are the opposite of ours (meaning they put commas and periods *outside* of the ending quotation marks), but that's not the English rule, and I don't *think* it ever has been. So unless you went to school in England... ;o)
    respect yourself, and GO
    Your job sounds like prison, or the military. There are good jobs out there. I've worked jobs that have a 12-hour frame to get 8 hr in; currently i have 24 hours to get 8 in. You deserve better mom!!
    We MTs get NO respect.
    We're a dime a dozen.  We're not paid what we're worth, we're expected to sit and wait for work, and we're expected to adjust our schedules according to the work.  What about our families?  What about any semblance of a social life that we (used to!) have?  I'm looking to get out of this field altogether.  Those of you who still love it, I envy you.  I've fallen out of love with this industry long ago, but kept chugging along because I thought there was nothing else I was qualified to do that would make me any money.  Well, I'm at the point that I'll work 2 jobs if I have to, as long as I enjoy them and they pay well.  I need benefits, so 1 job will have to provide health insurance....other than that, I'm open to new horizons. 
    With all due respect - I go to several web boards, SMT, and SM

    the AOL boards. This is the only one where I read so much about dissatisfied MTs. Oh, once in a week or so you'll hear something about VR or EMR, but mostly, the people in other places are still excited about being MTs, proud of what they do, certainly not talking about working fast food.


    There's lively discussion about home stuff, hobbies, and kids, but I don't hear many people at all saying they can't make a living at this.


    I wonder why that is? Serious question.


    Maybe if they shows some respect
    There are plenty of good MTs out there who are constantly getting robbed by the poor pitful management people you are defending. They ship our work overseas, leaving me without work which takes money out of my hands. They force us to take on bad accounts that they committed to and have to lie about because they are so bad (bait and switch) and I can't get my lines strictly because of poor management, unsympathetic management, unprofessional management. I would love to stay with the same company, but I'm forced to leave because I have bills to pay and management does not give a xxxxx about that.
    Upmost respect for MTs...

    After being a nurse for 13 years, I thought being an MT would be easy.  I thought I would just listen and type what was being said.  Ha!  Well, I was sooo wrong.  Even though I loved it, I found out that being a good MT is extremely difficult.  The words, grammar, procedures, accents, mumbling, yawning, instruments, tests, meds, etc... It's like being a specialist in every field.  Please, please don't ever sell yourself short.  Even though the field is changing, and I understand your fear and desire to go into another field, at least give yourself the respect that you deserve.  Your family has probably never actually attempted to do your job.  I admire anyone who can make a good living in this field.  I sure was not one of them..... (I do make a pretty good living at being a nurse, however).


    Best wishes....


    Lynn


     


     


    In all due respect, not really a good
    comparison. Dogs are certainly not the only carriers of rabies - unless my memory fails me, all mammals would be potential carriers. Definitely different butchering peoples' domestic pets, seizing them all against their will, and taken from their homes as compared to poultry and cows being raised for food consumption. If you don't see the difference, well, I feel sorry for you and yours.