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Thanks (NOT) to whomever threw this 20 minute job - report back in the pool after

Posted: Nov 05, 2010

muddling through part of it with umpteen blanks. Now I can send it to QA because of a zillion blanks because this doctor can't speak loud enough or clear enough and I can run the risk of being docked.

Yeah I get those little gifts too. Always want - to give a special little

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thank you also!!!!

Cherry picking at its finest. - Oy vey

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I refer to that "someone" as "Dumper." I can tell it's the same person because he/she incorrectly formats the text every time. What's worse is that there are mistakes that would be considered critical errors. Why does he/she still have a job here?

Throw Backs - MTLoser

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I don't mind getting the abandoned jobs because I know I can do a better job than the person who abandoned it, I also understand their panic when they don't understand word #1 of what is being dictated, and hopefully they will go back in and read the finished report while re-listening to the dictation and learn something in the process. ...and if not I'm sure they will get theirs when audit time comes around.

re: cherry pickin or DQS problems... - rj

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I LOST several big jobs yesterday with the DQS system being up and down. I work on a couple of accounts where there are consistently large, long reports with cotton mouthed docs, but I've learned the tricks and get through them quickly.

I don't complain about work though. At this point work is work. If I have trouble with a job, I contact my QA for help and get help. I rarely send through work to QA, because we work as a team. There are plenty of samples in the repository and if we request them we generally get them.

I certainly didn't throw any of my work back into the pool! Sorry if it was because the SYSTEM WAS QUIRKY yesterday.

You actually have a QA that will speak to you? - MtLoser

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I didn't think the company had that service any longer!! You are very lucky indeed!

re: MtLoser - rj

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I actually do! My CCM and QA and whole team are GREAT.

I wish they'd run the whole show for all of you in Q-ville.

yup - Bebe LeStrange

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I lost several jobs yesterday also.

PPl on this board complain when there is no work AND when there is work.

I also don't complain or bang my head on the keyboard when a job is put back in the pool. First of all, I have NO IDEA why it was abandoned, and secondly, I HAVE WORK!

I don't know how someone could tell it's the "same person" doing this either. Format or not.

((blast away, I know you're gonna say, poor audio, mush-mouthed dictator, ESL, "i had to submit to QA with a bizillion blanks..." ))

Read it all over and over. I'm getting back to work now while there is work to do, maybe someone has put some jobs back into the pool for me!

How does this happen? I thought if you abandoned - a job, it started back from

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zero -- like it had not been typed at all. How do you throw back a half-typed report and get the dictation to stay on there?

re: wondered that too - dabny

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I wondered that too. I also agree with the above, I don't mind at all. Work is work. Times are lean!

Still there - MtLoser

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Everything you typed including ADT is still there when you abandon a job, you simply don't get monetary credit for it.

Took me over 90 minutes to do this job. - Bad sound,

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mush mouth, accent. I finally got it down to only 4 blanks. It was the end of my shift and I was worn out, and I think I forgot to check the QA box.

We've been told the client has been complaining about blanks, well let them try to do those reports! I'm sure, back in the days when they had it in house, there were just as many blanks even if there were extra ears to listen.

I get tired of our skills being down played, but no matter how frustrated I get about that, intrinsically I can't back off my internal standard of performance. In good conscience, I could never short change the patient's care.

re: bad sound - starr

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Really, 90 minutes? I'd never put that much time into a job when time is money. I'd send it with blanks through to the client and a note that said "inaudible". One job to QA isn't gonna break you. 90 minutes wasted on crud will.

I didn't want to put up with consequences if QA succeeded. - Path of least resistance.

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Because of client complaints, CCM is calling those with a lot of blanks and QA succeeding in getting the blanks (or at least seeming to - they don't always get it right, i.e. at times what they put doesn't make sense.

I get sucked in by "winning" the battle of the blank :) I've heard from QATL before when she was able to fill in a report, but I really doubt what was written since QA had left swiss cheese on that report too. They only thing I could possibly believe is the QATL must have found a report to copy in the patient's record. I'm not too trusting of anybody who can rattle my cage in this company.

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