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What is Wrong With Offshoring Transcription? (Views: 11102, 2010-10-06)
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Just lost our jobs - Jen (Views: 323, 2013-05-20, 6:00 pm)
- Jen - Anna (Views: 176, 2013-05-20, 6:25 pm)
  - Anna - Jen (Views: 137, 2013-05-20, 6:58 pm)
    - Jen - MT (Views: 37, 2013-05-20, 11:08 pm)
- I can definitely sympathize...... - Mom22dogs (Views: 123, 2013-05-20, 6:27 pm)
  - Mom22dogs - Jen (Views: 99, 2013-05-20, 7:03 pm)
- Just Lost Our Jobs - Vera (Views: 127, 2013-05-20, 8:02 pm)
  - Oh Vera! - Jen (Views: 83, 2013-05-20, 8:10 pm)
  - Jen - Been there (Views: 61, 2013-05-20, 9:37 pm)
- Jen - Marg (Views: 78, 2013-05-20, 9:02 pm)
  - Obviously they are going to need some of - you for editing. As an SM (Views: 34, 2013-05-21, 12:03 am)
Would a switchboard job be very good pay? - GrateMT (Views: 61, 2013-05-20, 5:53 pm)
- Never mind - GrateMT (Views: 64, 2013-05-20, 6:23 pm)
Last Day - MTSearching (Views: 307, 2013-05-20, 12:29 pm)
- Last Day - JC (Views: 130, 2013-05-20, 1:41 pm)
- I left too - Best of luck (Views: 128, 2013-05-20, 1:59 pm)
Just want to wish everybody a happy MT week.... - Mom22dogs (Views: 100, 2013-05-20, 11:31 am)
- Back atcha. - nm (Views: 22, 2013-05-20, 12:42 pm)
- Ditto! - nm (Views: 17, 2013-05-20, 2:43 pm)
Dermatology-Podiatry - Lisa (Views: 61, 2013-05-20, 11:29 am)
- Cara-Klenz - nm (Views: 33, 2013-05-20, 11:32 am)
  - Dermatology-Podiatry - Lisa (Views: 49, 2013-05-20, 11:34 am)
Hanging it up - Marg (Views: 251, 2013-05-20, 10:42 am)
- Hanging it up - Tammie (Views: 141, 2013-05-20, 11:01 am)
- Good luck to you! - Leaving too (Views: 98, 2013-05-20, 11:28 am)
- Marg - Old Pro (Views: 107, 2013-05-20, 11:47 am)
- "Bull flatus" is probably the BEST description I've - ever seen of what this job has become. Good luck! (Views: 42, 2013-05-20, 3:44 pm)
Simple transcription system - Marilyn49 (Views: 127, 2013-05-19, 5:25 pm)
- Transcriptiongear.com has Gear Player and a few others - on their website. NM (Views: 46, 2013-05-19, 8:27 pm)
- Dictation system - 2bz2sleep (Views: 19, 2013-05-20, 5:21 pm)
Anonymous Note to Doctors (sm) - Morgan (Views: 429, 2013-05-19, 2:12 pm)
- I would rather have the bad - ones (Views: 152, 2013-05-19, 2:20 pm)
  - There are sites where you can review a doctor. I suggest we review dictators who could care less abo - Morgan (Views: 97, 2013-05-19, 4:05 pm)
    - About accurate records and patient care. - Morgan (Views: 86, 2013-05-19, 4:06 pm)
      - I say we review the ones who - Babs (Views: 58, 2013-05-19, 8:38 pm)
- Let us know - how (Views: 125, 2013-05-19, 2:48 pm)
  - I think the good ones who really care about their patients would appreciate it. - Morgan (Views: 93, 2013-05-19, 2:58 pm)
    - Then by all means - send (Views: 114, 2013-05-19, 3:10 pm)
    - You really think Dr will appreciate being told by an Anon - MT how to do his job? Doubt it. sm (Views: 34, 2013-05-20, 8:48 am)
      - Flags, etc. - anon (Views: 8, 2013-05-20, 10:55 pm)
  - Doctors don't take criticism well? Tuff. - SM (Views: 79, 2013-05-19, 5:37 pm)
    - Yeah, it would help. Help the MTSO lose acct. - What are ppl thinking?? nm (Views: 35, 2013-05-20, 8:59 am)
      - Issues with dictation - 2bz2sleep (Views: 16, 2013-05-20, 5:28 pm)
- And by the way, - doctors, nurses, (Views: 98, 2013-05-19, 6:17 pm)
  - What you think they should do and - should feel and how (Views: 81, 2013-05-19, 6:31 pm)
    - You can't speak for all doctors (sm) - Morgan (Views: 53, 2013-05-19, 11:55 pm)
      - well all righty, then. - Since (Views: 39, 2013-05-20, 8:53 am)
  - Neck is subtle - Are you kidding me? (Views: 98, 2013-05-19, 7:02 pm)
    - But fixing it is what generates your paycheck. Know what I - call those NPs? Job security. nm (Views: 62, 2013-05-19, 7:07 pm)
      - Job security? - I call it the end of MT as we once knew it. Hold o (Views: 80, 2013-05-19, 7:33 pm)
        I apologize, hold on if you can! - nm (Views: 54, 2013-05-19, 7:34 pm)
        Technology goes on. Must change with the times, said the - telephone operator. nm (Views: 38, 2013-05-20, 6:14 am)
        LOL!!! I burst out laughing when I read your subject line. - MTSearching (Views: 28, 2013-05-20, 11:17 am)
- ANONYMOUS NOTE TO DOCTORS - MTQA (Views: 134, 2013-05-19, 7:50 pm)
  - Point Well Taken. (sm) - Morgan (Views: 64, 2013-05-20, 12:12 am)
- Can just imagine the lengths they would go to to find who wrote - letter. They would know it had SM (Views: 63, 2013-05-20, 6:17 am)
- You trying to get facility to switch MTSO, making EVERY - MT lose their job? nm (Views: 42, 2013-05-20, 7:41 am)
- Anonymous note - In the trenches (Views: 80, 2013-05-20, 7:43 am)
- I was fired for contacting a client once - MT (Views: 88, 2013-05-20, 9:13 am)
- Anonymous note to doctors reply - Toni (Views: 71, 2013-05-20, 10:07 am)
- Have written many a letter to a bad dictator, - IAMT (Views: 20, 2013-05-20, 10:04 pm)
Compensation - OldMT (Views: 215, 2013-05-19, 2:06 pm)
- Also never paid by dictated minute, but... sm - Wandering (Views: 156, 2013-05-19, 2:46 pm)
  - That's over $60 for one - hour of (Views: 166, 2013-05-19, 2:50 pm)
    - I think this is correct - just saying (Views: 108, 2013-05-19, 6:03 pm)
      - Compensation - OldMT (Views: 62, 2013-05-19, 11:58 pm)
        Many years ago, I was paid $1.52 a minute - of dictation. It was a SM (Views: 11, 2013-05-21, 1:48 am)
Honest question about those who are happy with their pay. - Starzzz (Views: 330, 2013-05-19, 9:47 am)
- Just too many - variables to (Views: 203, 2013-05-19, 10:19 am)
- pay - honest answer (Views: 208, 2013-05-19, 10:20 am)
- I think in-house coding or MT is the way to go. Doing this - from home has no future. NM (Views: 135, 2013-05-19, 10:43 am)
  - In house MT - Anonymous (Views: 72, 2013-05-19, 10:38 pm)
- Honestly... - see msg (Views: 172, 2013-05-19, 12:07 pm)
- Cutting line counts by over 66% isn't the only cut in income...(sm) - Angie (Views: 151, 2013-05-19, 1:44 pm)
- pay - happy (Views: 131, 2013-05-19, 3:49 pm)
- Wages - ONaDime (Views: 98, 2013-05-19, 6:40 pm)
- Pay - Leaving MT (Views: 66, 2013-05-20, 6:45 am)
fat loss in hands - Mike (Views: 264, 2013-05-18, 5:12 pm)
- Getting fit - sm (Views: 185, 2013-05-18, 5:33 pm)
- close to 40 years transcribing and many hours a day - never happened to me. NM (Views: 94, 2013-05-18, 11:16 pm)
- nope - never (Views: 70, 2013-05-19, 7:26 am)
- I suspect.... - Empirelady (Views: 109, 2013-05-19, 7:57 am)
  - Wish age played a part in taking away some - fat but I just have not seen (Views: 65, 2013-05-19, 8:26 am)
  - Boney hands - Mike (Views: 52, 2013-05-19, 12:40 pm)
  - age? - huh (Views: 38, 2013-05-19, 3:50 pm)
  - age no factor, I'm over 60 - doing this since I was 23 and - never had this problem. NM (Views: 10, 2013-05-20, 12:36 pm)
- That's what you get... - sm (Views: 105, 2013-05-19, 9:00 am)
  - Oops... - hit the dislike (Views: 58, 2013-05-19, 10:23 am)
  - boney fingers - Mike (Views: 64, 2013-05-19, 12:37 pm)
    - Whew, I'm glad. :) - sm (Views: 31, 2013-05-20, 2:38 am)
- nerve entrapment - any other symptoms? (Views: 20, 2013-05-20, 6:52 am)
How do they stay in business? - SassyMT (Views: 320, 2013-05-18, 1:13 pm)
- Ppl post from both companies that they are happy with their - situation. I am. nm (Views: 96, 2013-05-18, 7:20 pm)
  - Sincerely Curious - CuriousMT (Views: 130, 2013-05-18, 9:12 pm)
- Staying in business...? - anon (Views: 110, 2013-05-18, 11:31 pm)
  - And where do you get this info? My acct lets 4 blanks go - through, hardly 99.999%. Geesh. nm (Views: 93, 2013-05-19, 6:18 am)
    - 4 blanks directly to recipient? Who allows this? Not allowed more - than 2 in 20+ yrs of doing this. NM (Views: 81, 2013-05-19, 6:40 am)
      - All on this acct are shocked this is what client wants. But - where did you get info about 99.999%? (Views: 52, 2013-05-19, 11:13 am)
    - 99.99% expected - anon (Views: 10, 2013-05-20, 11:09 pm)
- You must remember - mmodal mt (Views: 116, 2013-05-19, 7:31 am)
  - Honestly - SassyMT (Views: 88, 2013-05-19, 8:23 am)
  - Glad to hear this, but I want to know why... - SincerelyCurious (Views: 71, 2013-05-19, 3:10 pm)
- A pleasant experience? - Yes, years and years ago-nm (Views: 53, 2013-05-19, 1:33 pm)
this ever happened to anyone? - just wondering (Views: 335, 2013-05-18, 12:43 pm)
- Yep - SassyMT (Views: 175, 2013-05-18, 1:17 pm)
  - ulterior motive indeed - just wondering (Views: 155, 2013-05-18, 1:23 pm)
    - They have had years to practice these tactics - Why I got out (Views: 96, 2013-05-18, 5:47 pm)
No MT jobs left anymore - Rhonda (Views: 494, 2013-05-17, 6:38 pm)
- Only in my dreams. :) - nm (Views: 180, 2013-05-17, 6:54 pm)
- They're out there, but they're all in-house and only for - evenings and nights...sigh..NM (Views: 197, 2013-05-17, 7:42 pm)
  - or they're on the job seeker's board... - NM (Views: 46, 2013-05-18, 11:21 pm)
    - You really call those catastrophes "jobs"? - Theyre the dregs. (nm) (Views: 52, 2013-05-18, 11:26 pm)
      - "Dregs" is a good word for it - Sky (Views: 39, 2013-05-19, 2:48 pm)
  - not true - anon (Views: 57, 2013-05-19, 6:06 pm)
- no MT jobs - jane (Views: 15, 2013-05-20, 5:16 pm)
MT week? - Longtimer (Views: 260, 2013-05-17, 6:08 pm)
- It's not until next week - NM (Views: 109, 2013-05-17, 7:52 pm)
  - Thanks for the clarification.... - Longtimer (Views: 104, 2013-05-17, 10:35 pm)
- We should give - THEM (Views: 113, 2013-05-18, 7:30 am)
  - Walk out - Anonymous (Views: 103, 2013-05-18, 8:47 am)
- I think MT week is a silly construct - AM (Views: 104, 2013-05-18, 7:50 am)
  - Other weeks - Anonymous (Views: 91, 2013-05-18, 8:45 am)
    - The last hospitals I worked at - had "weeks" for (Views: 117, 2013-05-18, 9:31 am)
You can anonymously report an MTSO's violations of - labor laws to the DOL (Views: 254, 2013-05-17, 2:02 pm)
- Good for you for posting-everyone should read what you wrote - LegalMT (Views: 80, 2013-05-17, 9:17 pm)
new MT with a ? about pay - newMT (Views: 286, 2013-05-17, 1:36 pm)
- sorry to say, but over the last 20 years I am making half - anon (Views: 186, 2013-05-17, 1:59 pm)
  - over last 20 years making half - kabina (Views: 158, 2013-05-17, 2:32 pm)
    - studying drug rehab/counseling - anon (Views: 123, 2013-05-17, 3:40 pm)
      - re drug rehab counseling - sm (Views: 93, 2013-05-17, 9:39 pm)
        Drug counselors... - anon (Views: 88, 2013-05-17, 9:50 pm)
        drug rehab pay - anon (Views: 63, 2013-05-18, 8:37 am)
        Thanks for the addendum - sm (Views: 40, 2013-05-18, 4:55 pm)
        RN and rehab - Anon (Views: 32, 2013-05-18, 9:15 pm)
- New MT - Old Pro (Views: 123, 2013-05-17, 8:58 pm)
- You'll be lucky to even make the same amount - in the future. Theyll likely keep cutting pay. (Views: 89, 2013-05-18, 12:39 am)
MTSO Bloopers - Prehistoric MT (Views: 310, 2013-05-17, 12:05 pm)
- Jewish high holidays. ( I am not kidding) - nm (Views: 143, 2013-05-17, 12:15 pm)
  - Jewish high holidays is legitimate - (not a blooper) (Views: 121, 2013-05-17, 1:26 pm)
    - Yea, right. Like Easter, May Day, CEO B'day, April Fool - Day, ect. Legitimate like that. SM (Views: 91, 2013-05-17, 1:50 pm)
- Pakistan lost their internet. (Sadly this was true. The - WHOLE country lost internet, lol) nm (Views: 118, 2013-05-17, 12:42 pm)
  - Pakistan - Noivy (Views: 116, 2013-05-17, 1:57 pm)
- you got to be kidding me- - email response from MTSO (Views: 195, 2013-05-17, 1:11 pm)
  - email response from MTSO - Disgusted (Views: 178, 2013-05-17, 1:14 pm)
    - I thought mine must have downsized as I didn't get any answers for a month. - Prehistoric MT (Views: 89, 2013-05-17, 1:17 pm)
    - not robots - robots are polite in their misdirection. - NM (Views: 60, 2013-05-17, 1:18 pm)
  - OMG. That sounds so familiar! - Prehistoric MT (Views: 92, 2013-05-17, 1:16 pm)
    - Email is waste of time- - anymore (Views: 89, 2013-05-17, 1:25 pm)
- MTSO bloopers - Noivy (Views: 139, 2013-05-17, 1:51 pm)
- I love that last one!!! - ZvilleMT (Views: 79, 2013-05-17, 9:15 pm)
Venting about MTSOs - Anony (Views: 249, 2013-05-17, 11:45 am)
- MTSO isnt reason for your problems. You staying - with that MTSO is reason for problems. SM (Views: 154, 2013-05-17, 11:58 am)
  - You haven't the foggiest... (sm) - Anony (Views: 153, 2013-05-17, 12:11 pm)
    - All I say, you the only one that can make yourself victim - & you the only one who can change it. nm (Views: 88, 2013-05-17, 12:18 pm)
      - all I can say - BenThayer (Views: 128, 2013-05-17, 12:22 pm)
  - isn't the reason - BenThayer (Views: 133, 2013-05-17, 12:13 pm)
    - Public message board. If you post you run risk - of getting replies. nm (Views: 63, 2013-05-17, 12:20 pm)
      - If you leave the house you run the risk of being raped - therefore it's your fault. (sm) - Anony (Views: 81, 2013-05-17, 12:32 pm)
        Huh. Yes, if you leave house run risk of rape. But how does - that equate rape is your fault? SM (Views: 74, 2013-05-17, 12:38 pm)
        That analogy is a toss up between - disgusting and ridiculous (Views: 37, 2013-05-18, 1:44 am)
- venting - BenThayer (Views: 140, 2013-05-17, 12:08 pm)
  - If OP stays with this MTSO, getting over the hump wont - be enough. Will keep happening. nm (Views: 68, 2013-05-17, 12:28 pm)
  - Thanks Ben! (sm) - Anony (Views: 91, 2013-05-17, 12:37 pm)
    - anony - BenThayer (Views: 81, 2013-05-17, 1:42 pm)
      - Thanks Ben (see mssg) - Anony (Views: 69, 2013-05-17, 2:16 pm)
Being asked to work "extra" but not paying OT? - NJMT (Views: 211, 2013-05-17, 9:14 am)
- You are right they dont want you to work OT, which impliesq - you will be paid OT. They just want SM (Views: 133, 2013-05-17, 9:20 am)
  - Thanks all for your input - NJMT (Views: 67, 2013-05-17, 11:06 am)
    - ALL MTSO use that line, the client is upset. Yea, right. Is - cleint happy they will not SM (Views: 88, 2013-05-17, 11:23 am)
    - If MTSO sends blanket email about client upset, please, please - PLEASE, reply all - is client happy SM (Views: 91, 2013-05-17, 11:28 am)
  - MTSO will continue to break the law until we sue. - Holly (Views: 61, 2013-05-17, 11:49 am)
    - I tried to report my MTSO for wage violations - sm (Views: 62, 2013-05-17, 6:10 pm)
- If enough MTs refuse to work more with no OT pay, - the MTSOs would HAVE to pay OT. nm (Views: 61, 2013-05-17, 9:43 am)
- My company has been issuing "mandatory OT" - anon (Views: 133, 2013-05-17, 10:04 am)
  - That bill not signed by the House. Not law at - this time. nm (Views: 60, 2013-05-17, 10:09 am)
    - Actually, it did pass in the House, but it hasn't got a snowball's chance - in the Senate. (Views: 59, 2013-05-17, 11:40 am)
  - Mandatory OT - NJMT (Views: 80, 2013-05-17, 11:08 am)
- Maybe tell them will work extra if OT pay okayed. How - could they expect anything else? nm (Views: 50, 2013-05-17, 10:07 am)
  - I asked if they were offering OT pay SM - NJMT (Views: 74, 2013-05-17, 11:11 am)
- No OT pay is against the law. This is 1 reason Transcend is being sued. - sm (Views: 81, 2013-05-17, 12:07 pm)
  - That is what I thought. SM - NJMT (Views: 53, 2013-05-17, 1:03 pm)
  - OT mandated when you are 35 hours/week - anon (Views: 68, 2013-05-17, 1:52 pm)
Windows 8 - nn (Views: 126, 2013-05-16, 8:54 pm)
where to get help/info on IC status (correct board?) - scoutMT (Views: 138, 2013-05-16, 6:20 pm)
- I've worked IC for years now... - anotherMT (Views: 114, 2013-05-16, 7:15 pm)
- IC - ICMT (Views: 77, 2013-05-17, 7:00 am)
- Very helpful, I appreciate the info... - scoutMT (Views: 44, 2013-05-17, 10:59 am)
  - hours - ICMT (Views: 33, 2013-05-17, 6:14 pm)
Any suggestions for transcription software? - Susan (Views: 93, 2013-05-16, 5:39 pm)
- I like this one, but I don't use it regularly for transcription. - Just the odd testing file, etc. (Views: 78, 2013-05-16, 7:00 pm)
  - Thank you - Susan (Views: 40, 2013-05-16, 7:04 pm)
    - You're welcome. I just noticed you said Windows 8 in original post. - sm (Views: 68, 2013-05-16, 7:20 pm)
      - AHA! - Susan (Views: 41, 2013-05-16, 7:33 pm)
Is it just me or is this the new way to dictate dates? - sm (Views: 326, 2013-05-16, 1:07 pm)
- Not just you, I get dates like this too - sm (Views: 82, 2013-05-16, 5:35 pm)
- Not just you... - Susan (Views: 64, 2013-05-16, 5:41 pm)
- ////////////// - NM (Views: 140, 2013-05-16, 6:41 pm)
  - Your post made me laugh. I can't say why but seriously funny. - anon (Views: 102, 2013-05-16, 6:48 pm)
  - It's a phenomenon - AnaPhylaxis (Views: 72, 2013-05-16, 7:41 pm)
    - ah, so it's brian dead AND lazy. - get it. NM (Views: 38, 2013-05-17, 10:01 am)
Irritated today! - Can I rant pretty please? (Views: 403, 2013-05-16, 8:59 am)
- Agree 100% - Alice (Views: 177, 2013-05-16, 9:32 am)
  - Untouchable - MT (Views: 178, 2013-05-16, 10:09 am)
- The client services people at my company - will not approach the practice about this (Views: 119, 2013-05-16, 1:54 pm)
  - Well it is starting to really make me mad - OP (Views: 94, 2013-05-16, 2:12 pm)
  - If an MTSO is paying its MTs on a production basis - it makes perfect sense (Views: 122, 2013-05-16, 2:19 pm)
- borderline (?) disrespectful... - Susan (Views: 97, 2013-05-16, 5:49 pm)
- In case you're changing them by deletion, reinsertion... - sm (Views: 88, 2013-05-16, 7:11 pm)

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