Oh yeah, you all have to read about this one (sm)

Who said ER reports were boring?  I typed this one myself.  A young female was standing in her tub shaving her legs, you know with one leg propped up on the side of the tub.  She fainted/fell and somehow lodged the star-shaped faucet handle in the tissues of her vagina.  When EMS got there she was bleeding profusely and they could not free her from it.  They ended up having to cut the faucet out of the wall and bring her in with it still lodged in her vagina.  She hemorrhaged and ended up coding in the ER.  They resuscitated her and had to take her to surgery to get the faucet out.  She was fine after that. 

• Considering a company with lots of ER reports... - anon
  • I love ER, easy for the most part, though - sm - Laura E.
  • ER reports - queenofkeyboards
    • ER reports are my fave - ER MT
    • I do all ER and only a small percentage are gruesome. sm - R
    • another weird one.. - sm
      • gerbil - starrtpo
      • this has been told everywhere sm - supposed to be fiction
    • I love ER notes and of course I never get them. sm - mlstoo
      • AA batteries ....sm - hmm...maybe I should give that a try, LOL
        • How about a bowling pin?? - Becky
          • weird x-rays - rad transcriptionist
          • Oh yeah, you all have to read about this one (sm) - Becky
    • Hmm...that's food for thought. I don't do op notes - anon
  • They are boring but easy, and you can make a lot of money. nm - ditto
    • Sounds great, thanks! - anon

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it's really not fair to tell people to get into this business when it's obvious there's big trouble and the S--- is just starting to hit the fan...

you've forgotten your own words! Your post above is 100% different "flavor" to it, now all positive and cheery! Your first post was 100% doom and gloom every which way, including "raining on your parade", and "if you want to go forward"...God, sounds like she's talking about jumping into oncoming traffic! Here is your quote:

My first boss (the one who hired me as a new grad) gave me some words of wisdom that I haven't forgotten. She said that transcribing at home with small children NEVER works under any circumstance. Either the work will suffer or the parenting will suffer.

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How can the word "NEVER" in caps be interpreted in any positive way? You took about 8 paragraphs to cover every aspect and completely dash this poor woman's dream.  I'm not blind, I'm not talking about day care at all, I'm talking about the total negativity of your original post! You know exactly what I'm talking about, cause you added some sugar to your second version! And that's much nicer than the first!

I understand where you're coming from.  The respect is just not there anymore.  Everyone in this business has heard for years about how voice recognition and EMRs are going to replace us all, which I just don't buy.  I work for a national on a difficult account with many ESLs, and it generates lots of work.  Every summer we have problems keeping up with turnaround but the management has yet to come up with a solution that actually works consistently.  I suspect it's a combination of MTs having kids home from school during the day now, vacations being taken, and people not working their schedules,  but most of all I think it's just plain burnout - we deserve to enjoy the summer too.  Last summer I worked so much to the point that I think I did substantial damage, and my body just cannot take it anymore (been at it for about 20 years, the last 10 years of it steady).  The powers that be fail to understand that we are not machines! 

Uh-huh

That makes complete sense (not).

It's called MT stars, as in medical transcription, so post regarding medical transcription - as in the profession......understand that?

You want Regis and whatsername?  Post on that board.

You want Romper Room?  They have their board, too......   Get the message honey bun?

Account instruction#1 says bold and CAPITALIZE allergies, list medications in number form regardless of what dictator says. Do NOT abbreviate in HPI, but you can abbreviate in Assessment if the doc does.  Don't use degree sign unless doctor dictates it.  List assessment in number form, even if there's only one item.

Account instruction #2 says bold headings but never bold or capitalize allergies.  Only expand abbreviations in Assessment but nowhere else in document.  Be sure to use degree sign when typing temperatures.  If there is more than one item in the assessment, use number form in listing them.

Account instruction #3 says never bold or capitalize allergies, don't abbreviate anything.  Never number medications, even if dictated by physician.  Can use the degree symbol if Drs. A, B, and C dictate such.  If Dr. D dictates patient's name in body of report and uses words that don't exist in the English language, be sure to type what he says since it's a verbatim account, and he complains all the  time that he doesn't want his report to sound so *formal* by using *the patient* instead of the name.   For all other reports, use *the patient.*  If Dr. E dictates the patient's sister, Sara, do NOT use the name Sara and just type *the patient's sister," regardless of what he really says. Dr. F might not dictated a numbered assessment list, but that's what he means.  Dr. G prefers to see the text of H&Ps on the same line as the heading, but on his consults, he thinks it looks better if there's a hard return, with the text starting on the next line.

As an Editor for multiple accounts, are you sure that YOU'RE paying attention to all the little idiosyncrasies contained in the sometimes 20-30 PAGES of account instructions for any given account? If so, I doubt you would find it so easy.

live in Bush's world.  Must be nice there! 

I would go for the scrubbing toilets... at least you get more  respect!

Although this is a 2003 article, I'm *amazed* (NOT!) at how the timing of this for June 2006 just *magically* coincided with our problem with Iran, and it mentions *bunker busters* which I've read Bush wants to use with our next war against Iran.

But, yeah, it's all okay and harmless, blah, blah, blah.  Do what you want. 

I sure ain't going near the "City of Sin" any time soon.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-06-nuclear-usat_x.htm