I love what you say about not caring since 1988

• Re QA, has anyone stopped - MT****
  • Thank you, thank you, thank you! - Colleen
  • Ready to quit, too...sm - Tanya
    • Your post sounds like I could have sm - 3 decade and more MT
  • Especially when most are anal QA...sm - stopped a long time ago
    • I especially love it - Colleen
    • All that punctuation nit-pickiness was brought about by - AHDI in their quest to offshore virtually EVERYTHI
      • there was a book being used before BOS - a different career
        • The 'Holy One' speaks........ - nm
          • not Holy, just forgiven :) - NM - a different career
  • When you stop caring, it is time to find - a different career
    • How dare you speak to a colleague in this manner. - Right on Sister
      • calling it like it is does not make me a bully - a different career
        • Not disagreeing with everybody but QA is a necessity! - Fingers
        • Yes it does. - *
    • I haven't cared since about 1988. And I still - have all the work I can handle. (sm)
      • Isn't it in 1988 when we were paid well? - I remember there was a time but
      • I love what you say about not caring since 1988 - Funny
    • In reality, I think most of us DO care - a lot - (sm) - Mushroom
    • Career? this thing is not a career anymore...sm - nn
  • I don't look at edited reports anymore. Not only do - the QA people mess up - (S/M)
    • Why are you generalizing? - Not everyone is created equal.
      • I generalize about QA because they're - Anonymous and Untouchable.
        • So, you blame this on QA? How do you know - that every single QA want to be
          • QA people - KATHY
          • you are the type QA that sm - 3 decade and more MT
            • Not to mention, QA does not get pain to argue with MTs - Fingers
              • Sorry, do not get PAID (see, I need QA) - Fingers
          • FYI - this is a medical transcription board, - not a QA board..................
            • I am an MT and QA. I do both. - I am an MT. I will preach. Thank you.
            • QA is a part of MT like it or not. nm - 3 decade and more MT
  • I feel your pain (sm) - Mushroom
    • RE QA - spitfire
      • Then it's definitely time for you to get out - Anon
        • totally disagree - just me
        • A hyphen never killed anyone but a left and right error did and I catch plenty of those as the MT. - 1mg 1-mg 1 mg po p.o. blahblah
        • Except that when QA screws up originally correct - reports, pt. records ARE impacted.
    • Thank you, for letting me know I am not the only one... - MTex
    • Same boat - AAHANTIAM
      • QA - Zippymt
        • They want us to look bad and feel non- - confident so they can get away with - (sm)
          • Just wanted to say - cjhutch

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

Started out doing autopsy reports, then went to "the typing pool" (acute MT) as we used to be called, came home in 1995, been here since.

Maybe a few months to get himself feeling better (antidepressants?) and you keeping him up in his studies will be enough to get him back on his feet and feeling better about school.  I bet the school would be willing to help you with this (maybe even have a tutor come to the house a few times a week) if you speak to the right people.

Good luck to you, mom! 

recently I have experienced both sides of this aspect.  In January I was hospitalized for asthma by my then family physician.  I had been to him 3 times in the month before that with problems but he made no effort to adjust meds, etc.  About a month later, he walks into his office and tells his staff today is your last day. I'm closing the office. 

I got strep throat and went to a different doctor.  She was absolutely the best.  She looked at ME while she was in the room, not at the chart or her PDA in her hand (like the first doctor used to do).  She talked to ME.  Asked ME questions and answered any I had.  asked about allergies (which I have many). The first doctor tried to give me medicine I was allergic to (and he had been told multiple times).  Two weeks ago I was hospitalized through the emergency room with another asthma attack (brought on by the flu).  My new doctor sat down beside me in the room. Talked to me.  Got a very detailed history.  Explained what tests she was going to do.  Explained the results of what tests had already been done.  Told me she was going to refer me to a pulmonologist to evaluate if my meds need tweaking.  Even asked me which one I preferred based on how my insurance would pay.   I have only seen her in the office twice and then while hospitalized and I already feel more at ease and reassured that 2 years of using the other doctor. 

Also, at work this past week a patient was admitted after lunch.  Because the patient had missed the noon meal, the PHYSICIAN went to the cafeteria and bought lunch for the patient and took it to him.  Now THAT is a physician that cares about the welbeing of their patient!

I wish all doctors could be like these two - both of them female!  Maybe it has something to do with our nurturing instincts! 

It does not matter if you do QA or greet people at Wal-Mart, if you don't care it is time to find something else to do.

It isn't just about you that QA makes these changes.  QA is doing their job to their employer's expectations.  Either take it as constructive criticism or leave, but don't make someone else pay for your lack of concern.  Having done everything in a medical office from scheduling appointments to transcription to bill collection, I can honestly say that quality matters - it matters to someone, somewhere - and if you are not in that loop, please for the rest of us that still care even after close to 30 years of this business, please, please take yourself to someplace you can be happy.

I do not agree with every nick-picking change QA makes, but I don't dwell on it or stop caring.  I keep plugging away at doing the best job I can.  I am doing something where I make good money and feel like I have an impact on patient care without having face-to-face patient contact or co-employee issues that come with working on-site.

So, go, shoo, get, go on now.  Let me have your work.

Love NOT getting paid while sitting doing my nails too.  It's a real turn on.

I tell all my friends to try it -- sit in front of your computer while you have no money to pay your rent and instead do your nails, you get a real buzz down in the pit of your stomach.

I got into medical transcription for many reasons.  Yes, one was that I wanted to be home with my children, another was that I wanted to be in the medical field, and yet another was this just fits me.  Medical terminology and grammar are two things that have always come easily to me.  So, this fits.  I can work early, early mornings and late nights when they are asleep.  Also during afternoon naps.  Yeah, doesn't leave a heck of a lot of time for myself, but THAT is a sacrifice I am willing to make, leaving my kids for someone else to raise/care for all day wasn't. 

I work for a great company, always have work, make a good line rate ... and it's all done from home.

As the song goes, "who can ask for anything more." 

The "Poor transcriptionist" got me going     and the "operator" kept it going....I will be smiling the rest of the day.  Thanks for sharing!!!