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Do you have to do letters as an MT? - curious
Posted: Oct 21, 2009
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Occasionally I'll do letters - Kelly
[ In Reply To ..]Sometimes we will transcribe letters. I work for the local hospital.
Letters - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I don't mind doing letters, but the company I currently work for is ridiculous in what they want, as I feel more like a secretary than an MT. We have to assume which doctor they are sending the letter to and which department and building they work in and look up the address and fax number in Google. So for me, I dread getting them where I work because my production goes down the drain.
Do you have to do letters as an MT? - eagles_fan
[ In Reply To ..]In my experience, yes. I have had MT jobs where all I did was type letters. I have had other MT jobs where I mostly did reports and very few letters. I have never had an MT job where I did not type any letters.
The only thing I don't like about typing letters is when you don't have a complete name and address for the recipient and you have to try to find the missing information.
We do. I work for a hospital. - Horski
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Letters - smallfry
[ In Reply To ..]I have to do letters from time to time, but we don't have to cc it or look up addresses; it is usually dictated, and if not, I don't have to worry about it. The letters all pertain to the same thing, so it's not a big deal for me. I would hate it if I had to look up addresses and this and that, though.
letters - 7DayMT
[ In Reply To ..]I have had several accounts for which I had to type letters. Usually letters to other doctors, occasionally to a patient or insurance company. Usually the address was dictated. If it wasn't, we could leave it blank and flag. Currently doing an account with letters, and most of the addresses are listed in the database.
Never. I do remote (from home) acute care. NM - MissIndigo
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letters - 7DayMT
[ In Reply To ..]Boh of the facilities that I used to transcribe letters for were large teaching hospitals with many outpatient clinics. The letters were basically consults in the form of a letter, so some were quite long.
About 50% of my workload is letters - long ones - that are basically H&Ps or consults
[ In Reply To ..]dictated in letter form, with an address at the top. These are often a royal pain-in-the-butt, because the docs don't pronounce or spell the recipient's name, and usually don't give an address, either. I spend more time looking up patient demographic info. and recipient info., than I do actually transcribing. Which is a major reason why I believe MT should be paid hourly, not by the line. They expect us to spend time researching all this crap, but we're not getting paid while we're doing it.
Do you have to do letters as an MT? - eagles_fan
[ In Reply To ..]I have always been paid hourly for doing MT, not by the line. From what I have seen here and on other MT message boards, it seems like a lot of MTs get paid by the line. I would not like getting paid by the line for exactly the reason you describe. Have you looked around for an office that pays hourly?
I'm currently looking, yes. Unfortunately, nobody - within commute distance to me is hiring.
[ In Reply To ..]I sure hope it's just the current economy, and that things change. Where I am now, no matter how hard or fast I work, I can't seem to make more than about $18,000 to $19,000 a year, and that's with over 3 decades of experience, working 6 days a week. I'm pretty sure that since our company was "MDI-ed" by another company, they stopped paying us for headers, footers, addresses, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if they're gypping us in some other line-counting way, as well. It's just not right the way they expect us to have so much knowledge, and to turn out 100% correct documents, even though the dictation is often only about 75% correct! When we do, we get nothing for our efforts, except low pay and being harped on about things being out of turnaround. If we go faster, and leave a few blanks rather than spend hours looking them up, we get dinged for that. Even if the mistake was the doctors', or there was a blank in the tape or they were too garbled to understand, we get points off for not typing something. This in turn leads to lots of paranoia and second-guessing ourselves, and spend more time researching than normal. Of course, research time comes out of OUR pockets, line-count-wise.
And then, of course, there is QA. When QA makes a "correction", even if that correction is wrong, we are dinged. If we point out they are wrong, management takes the side of QA. Always.
I love medical transcription. But I HATE what the MTSOs and Scrooge-like managed care CEOs have turned it into: JUST ANOTHER SWEATSHOP.
hate letters when given as H and P!!!! - chips
[ In Reply To ..]I usually start off the letter as a letter and then about halfway down it is like oh by the way put this under such and such.... ummm okay...
All the time. - Sharon
[ In Reply To ..]I work for one group that dictates a letter for every visit.
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