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Hands-On Transcription - any info

Posted: Dec 27, 2010

I found some old posts in the Archives but was wondering if anyone had any recent experience with this company. Their website is a one-pager with not a whole lot of information but looks legit enough. Also, is Bayscribe easy to learn and utilize? Will it interfere with any player I currently use for voice files? I have never used any kind of platform - always just digital voice files and Word. Any information or input on either question is appreciated. Thanks!

Avoid Them - Especially if you mean the one in Yardley, PA - anon

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The owner is nasty - her goal is to keep you broke and earning pennies. Once you earn over $200 a week, they find a way to get rid of you.

What does a MTSO gain when they get rid of you for making - over $200 a week/

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They don't make money unless you make money. That kind of answer you gave doesn't make a bit of sense. If you only earned $200 a week, you probably weren't worth having around.

Agree. Couldnt be cost effective to have to interview/hire/train - new MT to replace a $200/wk MT. nm

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Sometimes, it's simply about being spiteful - anon

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Sometimes a small company becomes resentful and simply cannot stand to see an employee earn a good salary. BTW, I was earning WAAAAAY over $250 weekly. It's that simple. Call it what you want - that's the way it works at the MTSO in question. I'm not the only one that had to quit.

I really doubt MTSO has time or inclination to play - little games just for spite. NM

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Think she would just fire someone claiming inadequte work - rather than play silly games. JMHO. NM

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Oh, but when there are only 20 employees.... - anon

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When there are only 20 employees, most earning peanuts, someone earning a good salary is going to stand out. The owner likes to "spread it around" and have MTs hopping from one dictator to the next - never time to build any consistency. Hop, hop, hop. Frick how it affects the MTs' livelihood.

Hands on? - shadow

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Bayscribe? only $200/week? This sounds good for me, as I am experienced on Bayscribe and am currently looking for only a little bit of work to keep my hand in transcription while I work on starting my new business (I see the way this industry is going). So....if this is a good match, do you still think I should stay away? Am not signing on for aggravation and grief.

$200 a week - no problem - anon

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When I left, they were still using Word - no platform (a couple of years back). You should earn $200 without a problem there.

Hands-On - Ortho Queen

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This post cannot possibly be true. I have worked for Hands-On for years and have made a good weekly paycheck, sometimes close to $1,000 a week. Yes, it does get a little slow around the holidays because patients are not having surgeries or going for office visits, but the owner of Hands-On always tries to be fair in distributing the work. Working at Hands-On has allowed me so much more freedom than other MT companies. There is the normal 24-hour TAT, but as long as you get your work done in the time alloted, there is no problem. You always get the same doctors which also allows you to build auto-corrects and templates, making it all the easier to earn a nice paycheck. Sounds like sour grapes to me... maybe you just don't have the orthopedic background you claimed to have when hired on by Hands-On, as this is almost entirely an ortho account.

Don't know about Hands-On, but can tell you about Bayscribe - sm

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In some ways, typing in Bayscribe is a little like typing in Word, except that Bayscribe doesn't have the bells and whistles that Word has (like no automatic numbering, auto indent, etc.)

Also, if you want to bold or underline something in Bayscribe, you have to use HTML. For example, if you want to type a heading "REVIEW OF SYSTEMS:" and it needs to be bolded, you'll have to type:

< B >REVIEW OF SYSTEMS:< /B >

(except without the spaces--I had to add those extra spaces so the HTML code would show up for you). And it's the same thing if you want to underline something, except you would use a "U" instead of the "B".

You can't use the "Tab" key for transcribing in Bayscribe, so if you need to indent something, you have to do it by using spaces...either one space or two spaces.

Using tables in Bayscribe is not easy though and is very confusing, so hopefully you won't have any reports where you need to add information into a table format.

But other than that, I didn't really have too much trouble learning Bayscribe or transcribing in it. The hardest part was that what you see on your screen in Bayscribe is NOT how the report will actually look. You have to go into the "Preview Report" feature in order to see how the report is actually going to look without all of the HTML code and spaces for indents, etc.

And lastly, I never had any trouble with the Bayscribe player interfering with any of the other programs that I use to play voice files.

Hope that helps a little bit.

Thanks! - Shadow

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Thanks! I am experienced in using Bayscribe, have been using it at a different company. Didn't know that anybody else used it. But I did not use the Bayscribe player, just used Bayscribe for the typing of the report.

Great Company - clm

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I have worked for Hands-On for over 2 years and have never had any problems. In fact, this company has been my best moneymaker by far. I have had several IC positions and this one has easily been the best I've had.

The pay is always on time. As for the owner, as long as you do what you were contracted to do, you will not have a problem. My toddler son was hospitalized and I ended up having to spend 2 weeks away without any kind of notice. Throughout the whole ordeal, she was there with well wishes and reassurance that I had a position to return to when I was ready.

Bayscribe is a VERY easy platform to learn and use. I use express scribe for other files and the player with bayscribe doesn't interfere at all.

As with any position, to each is own but honestly, this has been a great company to work for.

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