To Employers: My Pet Peeves for the Day - MsMagoo

Dear Employer: 

Please make client sheets clear.  I am so tired of reading a client sheet over and over trying to understand how something is supposed to be done.  There's got to be a better way.  Don't put information in one area of the client sheet and then an exception to the rule somewhere else.  I read through the instructions until I find what I need, if there is an exception to the rule it should be where the rule is, not somewhere else in the instructions.

And when I ask a question, please don't reply with "the client sheet clearly states."  It doesn't clearly state or I wouldn't be asking.  I'm busy too, I wouldn't waste my time or yours if I hadn't already exhausted other means of getting my question answered (which, by the way, I am not getting paid for). 

It seems pretty obvious to me that the best productivity for transcriptionists and employers is for transcriptionists to have a few accounts that they become very familiar with.  I don't mind learning an account and all its varied little exceptions to the rules as long as I know I will be putting all that memorizing to good use.  Don't take an account away from me just when I get familiar with it, or add so many accounts to my pool that there is no way I can remember the rules for one particular account.  All that looking things up slows me down. 

Lastly, please keep in mind that different companies have different rules.  I have worked for a company where "verbatim" meant you transcribed exactly what the doctor says, and numbering medications if they were not dictated as numbered meant "padding" and a firing offense.  Please bear with me while I learn your definition of the rules. 

I think for the most part my goal is pretty much the same as yours:  An accurate medical record as fast as possible.  We both win if we work together.  Thanks.