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Editing is so incredibly boring. - MyEyes

Posted: Dec 24, 2012

I've been sitting here for only an hour and a half, and I AM SO BORED.

I've never been bored with straight typing. There's something about typing that makes you feel like an active participant in the report. But sitting there and watching that stupid red box bounce around...you get nothing from it. Even when I have to re-type every other word...

I agree! - Very different from typing.

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For me at least this is no longer an option to do full time. After 3 hours I'm shot.

Me, too. - MyEyes

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I do this part-time and work on my IC accounts the rest of the day.

I can't decide whether I lose more money from the crappy line rate or from simply not having the fortitude to sit and do this without googling random crap for an hour.

HAHA! - Me too!

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Work really should not entail this much sheer force of will to stay on task.

I know... - I was just trying to find

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something called a Cashmere coil and ended up looking at cashmere coats for 20 minutes (none of which I will ever be able to afford by the way). ;/

I'm with y'all - radMT

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but think i was getting bored with straight typing too. Here i sit checking this forum, lol. instead of making pennies. Geez, i wonder why. Of all days it is Christmas Eve that I have plenty of work. What I'm not liking lately is the fact working in the evening is the only way i can make any $ at all.
Seasons greetings all.

Not sure about boring - But frustrating and tedious

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I don't get bored--there is so much to edit in the report, but it is certainly not stimulating or interesting like straight transcribing.

Bored to me is when there's nothing to do, as in if I happen to be lucky enough to get clinic so I can speed throught it, and at that, a dictator who actually knows how to use the ASR properly. Then it's boring, but at least it's not tedious and frustrating.

The whole idea is a big, fat mess, putting every dictator on the planet on ASR.

I could not do it. Tried it for six months. - sm

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Not only was I bored to tears but my eyes hurt really bad and I was getting headaches from jumping all around. It's just not natural to do this type of work constantly. Constant start and stop. I'd much rather straight type for sure.

Agree! Editing for me is a total "yawn". sm - VR stinks

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I dislike it intensely. Would much rather transcribe than edit. VR puts me to sleep. Actually, I think VR is more dangerous than tx as far as errors. I didn't work all these years to gain knowledge that I can no longer put to use. Bah.... The dumbing down of medical transcription = VR. Then, VR will suddenly spit out lots of errors to jolt me out of my sleep.

Used to love learning something new every day...actually lots of new stuff every day. My idea of fuomplicate

Tired of correcting the same errors over and over and over and over again.

VR also hurts my wrists. My wrists never bothered me until I started on VR. Have been typing since grammar school without problems.

I hate it and I find that I make more mistakes. - anon

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It is not faster and it leads to more errors.

I get bored, eyes glaze over and I miss things.

However, it isn't going to change so I am going to get retrained and get out.

It takes a different skill set than straight transcription and it is no longer a good fit for me.

I wondered if I was the only one. I was brilliant at this before. - Not so much now. sm

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I suspect this is the new normal and the hospitals and MTSOs and JPMorgan and the 2 largest MT companies and the next 1000 smaller ones have not figure out what we are suspecting. Editing produces more mistakes and that 98% accuracy rate is fictional with software generated text. Its why every company is always hiring and why there are so many long-time MTs having a hard time. What they want and what we need doesn't exist anymore. The got rid of it.

It will implode and evolve into something else. Again. But I'm also sending out hundreds of resumes and updating classes/skills to get out. I didn't sign on to do half of my job description for free (lookups ad nauseum) and the other half for less than minimum wage now.

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