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Remember when....? - Nostalgic
Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Remember back when you worked for a client of say 20-40 doctors? When when you could kick your feet up and type with your eyes closed, you knew what the doctor was going to say before he said it. Remember when you could type what he meant to say and not what he actually said. Remember them appreciating that? Remember no BOS or auditing scores? Remember always having an abdundance of work and feeling very comfortable about it because you made great pay? Remember when offshoring/outsourcing was not an option and you had job security. Remember the direct contact with the doctor so you were always on the same page? Remember no e mails? You were not bothered with silly and riduculous problems or requests. You did not receive threats from other personnel about your work. Remember when you were out sick or on vacation, and no one "could do it like you do," and it really made a difference? Remember? You may be as old as I am.
Okay, time to wake up and get back to work.
I do remember - those were great days (nm) - Long time MT
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Remb when drs had to improve their dictation and/or help you out? - There was no QA - NM
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yes, job satisfaction, respect, and RAISES. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]sometimes as many as 3 raises at a time, merit, across the board, cost of living.
Oh yes, do I remember - countrygirlMT
[ In Reply To ..]My those were the days. I started this profession in 1984.
Anyone remember the blue belts? And the IBM Selectrics w/ the ball? - I am old.
[ In Reply To ..]I remember using the IBM Selectric. I use to race with the girl sitting beside me, who was still on a MANUAL TYPEWRITER. She would not trade it. We used those blue belts as well as the big tanks that held dictation. That was back in the late 70s. Moved up of course to tapes and word-processors.
Our work was never critized, as that would bring up issues with dictation and they liked to keep that at a minimum. Back then, it was mostly problems with the dictation and it was brought to the dictator's attention. We were paid by the hour so we would type it over numerous times and it didn't matter, but they were reminded of how much money they were wasting. We were never expected to do the dictation for them, ESL or not.
I started with the looped dictation belts that - sm
[ In Reply To ..]slid onto 2 spools or pegs. Also, on Selectric typewriters, and very vividly remember when the sales rep came in to teach us with the new machine how we no longer had to hit the key for carriage returns, but the typewriter would automatically return. Seemed so bizarre!! That was a hard habit to break!! Gosh, I must be really getting some age on me...also the down side to those times, was having multiple carbon copies (true carbon!) and having to stop when we made a mistake and manually go in on each layer of pages and make a correction with an eraser or white out...we've come a long way baby!!
I, too, remember, started in 1978! - 56-y-o MT
[ In Reply To ..]I remember the looped belts but ours were brown, then tank dictation, then microcassettes. Same with correcting Selectric. In one IM office I worked in, we could smoke at our desks! At that office we had our Christmas party at the Country Club.
Remember when - travelinMT
[ In Reply To ..]Now you ladies are really making me feel old. I too started with the old looped dictation belts and a Selectric typewriter. My office was a patient exam room, complete with my own sink, LOL. The carbon copies were all different colors so we had pink, blue, yellow, green and white white-out. We used little ripped up strips of carbon paper to make the corrections on the copies and we used a scapel blade to scrape the carbon off to correct the mistake. My first day on the job I walked into the "exam room" and saw nothing but stacks and stacks of patient's film jackets (Nuc. Med) with these crazy looking dictation belts rubber banded to the charts they went with. The previous MT had quit 6 weeks before and no one had done any transcription since she left. The best part was I knew anatomy and med. term but had never transcribed a day in my life. Luckily there was a notebook with sample reports and the names of all the pharmaceuticals, which quickly became known as my bible. It truly was my saving grace or I would have been out the door before I knew what hit me. I got the job because the Chief of the dept. knew me from working as a ward clerk when he used to do extra duty calls at night. He saw me in the hall one day and said "Hey you can type why don't you come to work for me, my secretary (at that time my title was Medical Secretary) quit. I said "I don't know how to transcribe" and he said "Oh you can do it", and it was alot more money than I was making. That first day I just kept saying "What have I done?" Those were the days!!!!
Those were the days! - old and frustrated
[ In Reply To ..]Those were indeed the days my dear friends! Respect - remember wearing whites to work at the hospital and being treated like a profesional (not like a cog in a money making wheel). Remember when the doctors knew your name and actually asked how you were doing? I do remember Selectrics and carbon paper and those little whire correction papers and Wite-Out. Well as the original poster said - stop daydreaming, back to my ESL doctors, no respect and at the rate we are going soon we will be making what we made in the 1970s!!!
Remember blue belts - ej
[ In Reply To ..]I sure do. Those were the good old days. One of my docs just handed me the charts with his scribbling and I did the H&Ps and DSs. Finally he had me do rounds. He taught me very well and it sure had helped me through the years. I never had any problems with my work. The only one who didn't like it was the head of Medical Records. I got an mag card IBM to do work on and he furnished the IBM Selectric to use at home. I would not want that much responsibility now, but it was a living back then.
maybe we oughta have an old timers convention :) - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I started in 1975. I guess the definition of old timer would be when we start looking back as much as we look forward eh? It would be interesting to me to know how many on these boards have been MTing 25 or more years?
At my first MT job, each MT had their own office! - And docs paid me cash for typing papers, CVs, etc.
[ In Reply To ..]Thoze were the dayz....
Remember when - Dog at my feet
[ In Reply To ..]Remember having to run STATS to the ER and taking reports to doctor boxes. Did not have to sit for 8 hours
I remember actually having WORK to do, and not just - "NJA" all day. - Starving MT
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spending lots of time looking up new meds in the PDR - that I do not miss! nm
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RE: Remember When - nn
[ In Reply To ..]There was no such thing as that STUPID BOS and no such organization as AAMT!!!!
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