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Good grief!! Is there a trick to doing clinic work? Or am I just not cut out for it? sm - mta

Posted: Feb 08, 2010

In the last few months I have gone from acute care to clinic work and I cannot live off what I am making!!! Help!! These jobs are short, and getting in and out of them, finding docs names, addresses, dos, etc., are so time consuming, I am feel like I am going backwards!!! HELP!!

it just sounds like you're doing more data entry and less production and not being - paid enough for your time. n/m

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clinic tips - pip

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You'll get more productive as you memorize the doctors' names in the area your clinic is in, but until then I'd recommend making a list of local doctors and printing it out so you can look at it quickly as you are working and then putting their addresses in a macro or an expander so you don't have to look them up. I do this for a clinic I type for and it covers 99% of the addresses they request.

I was in the same boat. I quit after trying it out for a few months, - sm

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not worth my time with all the data entry, and they were paying me pretty good. It still was not enough to cover the looking up schedules and verifying patients on schedules and if not in the system putting those patients into the system, not to mention the physicians that were not in the system that had to be entered in. In my opinion, if you actually want to make some money, you need to get out of clinic work. The best I think I did in a day was a 2100 or 2200 lines and that took me 10 hours to get. I could do that easily in acute care work in 7-8 hours. Not to mention the fact there is never enough work to even get that many lines on a daly basis, having to beg, borrow, and steal from anyone else who couldn't get their work done, which is a drag because now you have new account specs and whatever else that is new that will slow you down.

sounds like the one I tried for a few months ... Amphion account? - n/m

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That's why we should charge by the gross line - to make up for the time we spend

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looking stuff up. As it is, we only get paid by characters and, if we're lucky, spaces. They don't count the endless amount of time we spend for no pay.

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