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Posted By: joan on 2006-05-19
In Reply to: Want to keep winning? Having fun yet? Got tons more neat stuff! - Administrator sm

If you have won something already, you cannot enter any others, is that correct?


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Try just entering part of the last name sm
and the first letter of the first name.

Some accounts do have glitches and yours might be one.
New MTs entering this profession
I don't think it is so much about MTs being all for themselves.

Virtually every newbie needs a great deal of QA support. It is costly. The first urgency of this field is turn-around-time. Slowing down TAT because all of your reports have to be QA'd costs. Having to stop and give you feedback so you don't continue in the same path slows QA down ... again, TAT suffers and this costs. Newbie work needs the QA because quality is the 2nd urgency of this business.

So, it's not your coworkers fault. Not really the MT service companies' fault either. This is the nature of this very competitive business.

It's always better for newbies to go to work inhouse in a hospital and get their experience before working from home. You have to be really self-sufficient to work from home and make it profitable for both yourself and your employer.

Re-entering the MT Field

After being out of MT for 4.5 years I have recently returned.  I'm having a hard time finding the right fit.  The biggest problem I'm seeing is everybody seems to be requiring headers for reports and then each report put in a separate document, due to the new electronic record.  I find that this slows me way, way down.  Maybe I'll eventually get used to it, but I sure do miss the days of one document for doctor's day's work.  There are so many procedural details that I can't just sit and transcribe.  I've also run into very poor voice file sound quality.  


I worked in the field for 14 years and never had major problems adjusting to new accounts.  Maybe my time is just over for this type of work. 


I know technology has definitely made MT easier in some ways, but in others, it seems like such hassle.  Does anyone else have problems with headers and all these separate documents?  Does the field seem to be worse now than 5 years ago? 


If doctors are entering into it, SM
I suspect maybe you really should get out and take a calm undemanding 9-5 type job. Perhaps you could come back later when things in this industry stabilize.

For now, though, this field is in technology- and economics-driven flux, with uncertainty the norm. What is certain is that this is going to continue for some time, during which some people will end up leaving the field altogether even as others adjust to what's thrown at them, retraining or continuing their education as needed.

If you took a second job, I'm afraid the problems you're having with this sistuation with one company would just become the same problems doubled. And let's face it, part-timers are not usually more valued employees than full-timers. Best wishes.
Of course, it is only as good as the people entering the data...
Also, when computers make mistakes, or are hit with malicious worms or viruses, etc., it could be devastating, could it not?

Also, more and more lately we are noticing actually a lot more mistakes with things that are automated, and once there is an error, it has been extremely difficult to get it corrected. Such as - errors at the DMV (?), errors in our car computer (? - again, it is always a mystery when trying to get things fixed), lets see, then there is the mixup with our phone number that belongs to about three other people (still not fixed because we are told it is all done on computer (?)...

Also, who takes responsiblity when there is an error, because with everything automated, there seems to be little or no accountability - you can hardly get through to real people in a lot of businesses today.

The idea of technology is awesome; however human error will always have an affect...

my humble opinion and just an observation. most information still has to be entered by humans. perhaps we will be obsolete.
suggest entering word in google-got 30 hits-nm
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Yes, the page is clear about entering. If you make a donation,

you are entered to potentially win the prize that you chose in the drop down list.  You can enter as many times as you wish for any of the prizes listed, but there is only one winner per prize giveaway. 


Finally steady money. whew. Applied and got job at Dept of Law Enforcement entering

They started me way above minimum because of my experience.  I was shocked and happy all at the same time. 


And of course I'm esctatic to not be wondering how much money I would be getting each pay check.  Working on production in transcription now is like playing Russian Roulette.


There's good benes where I going, retirement, sick days, no games with my health insurance.  I should have done this long ago.


Scarry!!! Docs and nurses entering drugs and dosages into online charts. (sm)

Most of my docs cannot spell medical terms.  They can't pronounce or spell drugs.  The nurses are for the most part useless - no ARNP I ever asked could help me with a medical term.


I just spoke to my HMO.  They are now offering personal Online-charts showing


visits, tests, immunizations, etc. of what you personally had done.


I asked EXACTLY HOW DOES THIS INFO GET INTO THE SYSTEM, at what point?


The woman said:  It is input by the doc and the nurses.


I shuttered!


There goes the end of quality health care as we used to know it!


 


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