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Is that right?! Oh the miracles of modern medicine! LOL - Dreamer

Posted: Jul 09, 2013

Adding insult to my job injury, yesterday my TM suggested a "voluntary" class on "critical thinking" that was really "mandatory." That just means they require me to do it, but they don't want to have to pay for my time to do it. That made me so angry. You have no idea.

Critical thinking indeed. Grrrhhh. What do they think I use daily to unravel their VR messes like this? My secret decoder ring? Come on Batman get a clue. LOL.

VR: Per eye disease, patient's left eye ptosis was due to acute band mania. He was given intravenous cobra with rapid improvement in Nova Scotia and discharged to sniff Franco.

Should be: Per infectious disease the patient's leukocytosis was due to acute bandemia. He was given intravenous tobramycin with rapid improvement in pneumonia, and discharged to SNF on vancomycin.

Voluntary that's really mandatory, sounds like Social Security! - mtwith6yearstogo

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The VR sounds like mine.

I love this board. LOL - nm

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Low wages mean a lot of low-quality applicants. - I love that they trying to train thinking.nm

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so funny - xxx

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I had a friend in another state. She was very well educated, college degrees, etc. She also was the principle of my daughter's school and a teacher. She took classes for MT to work from home as we all hoped to make good money at it. This was some time ago. The MTSO HR lady told my friend she should go back to school to brush up on her English skills before considering going into MT. We laughed for a while about that one.

Brushing up on English skills - Canadian MT

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I have a 3-year college diploma, a university degree, and a creative writing certificate in addition to my MT training. I have been doing non-medical editing for 25 years and I am a published writer. The day they tell me my English "ain't gooder 'nuff fer dem" is the day I resign.

Every day I have to turn off my proper English skills to be able to transcribe what passes for English because if I make it correct I get dinged for not typing verbatim.

Exactly :) - Brushy

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The biggest mystery to me is - Why do they test our English grammar and punctuation when we are not going to use it for transcription anyway?

Seems to me they should test our ability to hook up two independent clauses with a comma, how to fragment a sentence and how to begin every sentence with a conjunction. If we were to diagram some of these dictated sentences as we used to in grammar school many of them would look like the suture scars of Frankenstein.

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