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Does anyone else have the ability to see reports - sm

Posted: Jul 02, 2014

transcribed by other MTs? I have seen some mistakes that make me shake my head. I have to wonder how these people are still here:(

I see reports transcribed by the service we use. - They are horrible.

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I think a lot of MTs would be shocked to see what other MTs produce.

Every MT I have ever known has thought their work was perfect, though.

This is true. I had a doc all my own who said his previous - sm

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MT would fight tooth and nail to prove she was right, even when he or his receptionist proved her wrong. Made her so mad. I always take it like okay, if that is the way it should be, that is the way I will do it.

Specifics, please. - Val

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What, specifically, are you seeing? Punctuation problems? Wrong words?

More specifics - sm

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Punctuation? That isn't great, but it is inconsequential.

Spelling errors like the ones you see on this board (depindant, dependint) are everywhere, but those aren't a concern, either.

We see things like prostrate exam and prostratitis, entire lines omitted, half an operative procedure name omitted, and just phonetic craziness everywhere. Some of it looks like it was done by students in some kind of dropout job training program.. "We insized the" "was grapped with a tenculam" "history of cyopadee" (COPD) " inserted into the orfus" "urteral" "urthal" "siskoscope"

I have, truthfully, seen "baloney amputation" so many times it no longer seems at all unusual to me.

Some of the above was produced by RHITs, too, and it was NOT VR.

Example - sm

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Here is an example. Over on the Gab Board is a post about "moist cinamin apple" bars. Cinamin? Really?

I know, everyone will say they don't have to worry about spelling here, but that is a plain old word! You should not have to look that up or use a spellchecker. It should be a given that you can write coherent everyday English. If you spell everyday words phonetically, do you think your actual WORK will be any different?

Can see reports, but ... - Rose

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On one account I can see previous reports for the dictator and the patient. On another account I can see only what I have personally transcribed.

I have not seen any horrible reports, but I have seen VR omit the same difficult to find terms repeatedly, so I think some MTs are just leaving things out they can't find like HER-2/neu.

I would bet that if there is increased error rate now it is from MEs being forced to produce enough to live on which no longer allows them to proof read their work, but to just work as fast as you can to feed the kids.

It has not "increased." - Same as it always has been.

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Sorry, you would lose the bet. It is the same as it has always been.

YES - and it makes me wonder

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how these people became employed as MTs.

how did the MTs pass - Icurious

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the employment test? You have to know terminology to get hired. Some of these tests I have taken are not easy, some have you transcribed notes and reports and you have to know this stuff.If these serious mistakes are showing up, you would think QA or clients would be catching this and correcting problems (weeding out the MTs making the errors). If the mistakes the previous poster listed exist looks like someone didn't do the editing on the reports, just submitted as is. I am able to see previous reports and have not seen anything of this magnitude, maybe spelling error, or wrong tense, a left out word here and there, nothing major

Not necessarily VR - sm

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Not all companies have QA. Not all employ tests. Not all at-home MTs take the test themselves. Some may have made a best effort on a test to pass, but then work intoxicated or on medication. When a hospital outsources and the MTSO picks up the MTs, no test may be required.

Some small companies may be so strapped to find qualified MTs that they hire trainees.

I think you would be surprised by the number of MTs who have poor terminology skills and how they deal with it.

I think you would be shocked at the number who don't have or use references, or even know they exist.

Could this be - coffeenut

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The result of what happens when more experienced and/or longtime MTs leave the field because of the downtrend and decreasing wages? I wonder.

References? - Rose

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I use a reference about one time a month for a mispronunciation. Searching references is for the olden days where we were paid a living wage and had the time to research. Now we should be thanked for all the free labor we provide on a daily basis researching to compensate for lousy dictators. We certainly don't make enough money to buy references, nor do we have time to do a ton of free research. You get what you pay for.

Well, that explains it! - Thank you, Rose

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Now I understand! It is a kind of passive-aggressive way to protest a job that you don't feel like doing.

searching references is for the patients safety and pride in a job well done. - OMG Rose - you have the internet, no one pays for

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reference books anymore.

How dare you state, and I quote, "Searching references is for the olden days where we were paid a living wage and had the time to research." It is your responisibility as an MT to get it right no matter how much you are paid, and honey, production was then as it is now. No matter what the pay, looking things up comes with the territory and, yes, takes time away from racking up lines, but not that much - you learn to get good at it, comes automatically.

IF, and that's a big IF, you had any professionalism, IF you had any ethics, or just plain IF you had any self-pride in a job well done, everything you said would not have even come to mind.

I digress, however, to mindsets like yours having taken the professionalism out of this industry single handedly, and giving the rest of us a bad reputation. I will give you that, and job well done, hun.

Did it ever occur to you, the more crap you put out in reports because 'poo-hoo you' it's not your job now (oh, but yes it is)...the more this industry as a whole is justified in replacing us with technology? Albeit good or bad technology - WE are supposed to know better - and technology does in the end pay for itself in time. They'll always call getting rid of us a good thing....thank you, doll, to someone who was obviously never meant to be an MT.

You can post whatever garbage you want in reply to this - it will not be read as these are not debatable points with me.

Good luck to you with that thing on your shoulders and that thing in your chest, and GOD SPEED TO YOUR PATIENTS TYPED.

thanks for the post - it needed to be said - Lucy

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Research is a an investment of time (not just freebie work) with a rich return of knowledge. I came to my present job 8 months ago and I was really "rusty" at doing op reports. I told the HR lady that hired me this and she told me not to worry there weren't many on this account. Well, every day, every shift, every pay period I got practically nothing but ops and a lot of research went into doing them. Yes, research is free work, but I believe it is our responsibility to turn out an accurate piece of work for the doc and the patient. Eight months down the pike that research has paid off. At first I did not make any money, but now on most occasions I can glide right through and be proud when I do a difficult op with no blanks and I know the instruments, etc., they are using. Yes, it is a matter of pride in your work and the satisfaction that you have done your homework and the initial investment returns to you in the form of education. We owe this to the docs and to represent the company we work for and ourselves in taking pride in our work after having done the research so that it is correct and accurate.

OP back to add specifics. I had no idea my thread - sm

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would be so interesting!! The mistakes I see are horrible...things like way exceeded dosages of Coumadin, misspelling med names that are easily found, diagnoses that are wrong. I could go on. I think my company got desperate. That is all I can think of:(

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