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Just venting.. why does the dictator feel the need to state, "Briefly..." in every one of her reports, as she starts dictating an almost 30-minute report? Just annoys me! ...

Sorry, I just have to vent. This PhD I type evals for uses the phrase, "The form indicates...." The form is filled out by the parents. It would seem to me that the PARENTS indicate -- as the form is an inanimate object and cannot "indicate" anything. OK, getting off my soap box and back to work. P.S. She also ends many sentences in prepositions. ...

It is beginning to drive me CRAZY that these companies never feel like they owe us any explanation whatsoever when we run out of work. On my job, I will have full lines maybe three days and then the fourth day not one drop of work. Sometimes, I will email my supervisor to ask her and don't get a response back. I cannot understand why anyone would feel that we should go to work, not have a single thing to do, and we deserve zero communication as to why! Back when I first s ...

Dictate on your phone and leave it on buzz so I can decipher through that.. ...

More than anything, I hate it when they're eating and dictating. I can't verbalize how upset this makes me. I'm not asking the dictator to kiss my rear end, but right now I've got an ESL with an incomprehensible accent chomping and chewing in my ear. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! ...

Ooooh! This gets me. This is an NP who is dictating acute care - "The patient comes in with a diagnosis of non-insulin dependent diabetes 'myelitis'." Puhleeze! The same dictator pronounces "organomegaly" as "organomeglea." It's like hearing someone scratching their fingernails down a blackboard. Shouldn't these people have had enough schooling to be able to sound out words?! ...

After struggling with names like Siobhan, Ahleksi (concocted to prove a point), and Yvan, I am so happy to have a "normal name" such as what sounds like "John Carter." Whew! Finally! A no-brainer! But I start to look it up-- no such thing in the data base. Well! It just happens to be "John Carter" spelled "Gionn Kharter." This is just a not-real-life illustration. But isn't it irritating when you finally get a regular-sounding name and it's not so regular, and the d ...

I know this is petty, but for some reason, it grates on my nerves to hear: blah, blah Period space space. Or Colon space space enter. I mean, please, are we considered that incompentent? but on the other end of the spectrum we have those that don't say any punctuation, which is absolutely fine, but a pause would be nice. It's not necessary to dictate a whole report in one breath. ...

I have a POSTER pet peeve. When a comment or question is posted about a specific company, why is the original poster likely to never elaborate? Why are they wasting everyone’s time? What is up with these hit-and-run posts? Someone makes an outrageous comment or asks a question implying something negative. Then when you answer and either ask for more information or ask the original poster a question, the original poster is long gone – never to be heard ...

We dont get paid for ADT information,,YET I got back a report I sent through QA and it said I have to fix all the ADT information with ? next to the docs, that is like every report..what the heck? ...

has got to be doctors burping in my ears, so gross! ...

Mine is chewing of any sort -- food, gum, etc. They can't be so busy that they have to dictate while smacking. ...

Unless the CP states otherwise... When the doctor dictates "Dr. Smith," don't pull in his full name with credentials from the database, just type "Dr. Smith." Example: Dictated: " I called Dr. Smith to the ER. " Type: I called Dr. Smith to the ER. NOT: I called Emmett J. Smith, MD, to the ER. If the doctor does dictate a full name or for some other reason you do pull the name in from the database, remember to put a comma after the credentials if it is in the middle of the sentence. ...

How do you keep every profile straight when you have about 60 to follow? And how do you make any money? Honestly would rather be NJA then handle all these different accounts, at least I could accomplish something like maybe housework, or walking the dogs. ...

I've been a transcriptionist for more than 25 years, have worked for 7 different employers, and every one of them has always said that it is required for everyone to work one weekend day, you either work sunday through thursday or tuesday through saturday. Then I see an email to all employees that says, "please consider changing your schedule to work a weekend day." WTF? There are people not already working a weekend day? That makes me feel pretty stupid for all the ...

How can an MTSO which whom an MT has an actual contract suddenly decide to impose new rules, penalties and fines without actually negotiating a new contract? Is this really legal? This is in response to the new HITECH law, but I think that HITECH is just a scapegoat that the company is using to do what they always wanted to do. I don't want to mention the name of the MTSO because I am too scared to do so at this point, and I have not made any HIPAA errors that I am aware of, bu ...

yesterday at the end of a chart, one of my docs starts going off on the general state of the world, the state of healthcare, etc. He said he couldn't wait to get out of this *beepity beep* profession and then apologized to me because he knew my job was on the fast track to nowhere. Also said many of his staff were being sent home due to low census and cutbacks on hours/pay. (Remember that nurses/techs are in BIG DEMAND according too all the gov't w ...

I had such a bad day today and am feeling quite sorry for myself. I cannot believe I have been doing this for so long and am making so little money. I tried to look up things online about the transcription business and came across an article that was pretty interesting. It's pretty much what everyone says on this site all the time, but in case anyone would like to read the article, it is at mttoolsonline.com/2011/01/26. I am really ready to leave this ...

OK....this is what really pisses me off.....we are asked to "know" 75 pages of acct. specificis, 20+ pages of MTS specifics and the BOS, PLUS each individual acct. has their own way they want things, plus being "English Majors" for these reports and you are only paying us 4 cpl!!!? I used to LOVE this job field but am really starting to hate it. Been doing this for 15 years. I hope it all gets outsourced to India so the docs really have something to complain about, then I ...

Gotta vent while awaiting manager response. I do this report yesterday that required a cosigner, who I could not understand the name of. The resident goes on to say the name of the cosigner again at the end of the report, but I still could not understand it (ESL). I pend the report because of lack of knowing who the cosinger was and today I did one of those wonderful CPSE cirtical error emails because I did not put in the cosigner. It gets better, the QA puts in ...

Something else ~ since I have no work during my scheduled shift. I too got an email from my TSM (or whatever they are called now) asking if I could change my Wednesday to Sunday. Thought it was strange just out of the blue, but as I sit here with no work and barely enough to get my time in yesterday, I am starting to wonder something. Do y'all think that India requested more work during the week and that is why they are scrambling around asking for us to ...

No responses needed.. I just have to vent in the middle of this dictation where the dictator, a nurse, whispers the whole way through the dictation (not just this one but all of her dictations) and says "uh" at least 4 or 5 times per sentence in this very long dictation. I am ready to pull my hair out! Thanks for listening!!! ...

ARGH! Doing a LONG report and this doc must've gotten NO sleep last night b/c she is constantly trying to dictate THROUGH HER YAWNING....soooo frustrating. Also, I consistently get outstanding audits and after over 10 yrs with MModal, MedQuist, whoever they were before that (can't remember), I have yet to get employee of the month....WTH?! Soooo over this job and this company! P.S. I really like my current supervisor...even though the working conditions keep getting worse, I feel like ...

This is what this doc says: Certainly if there is any rhythms increase, worsen, blah, you know, whatever (chuckles), we will reevaluate at that time. It doesn't make any sense and I don't even know what to type. I'll probably get dinged on something by trying to make it make sense. He's making me crazy. ...

I actually like the job. The dictators are fine. I'm a month into the job and now in the comfort zone, past the breaking-in period. But this is my first time doing voice recognition, and the pay is too low. I really didn't have any experience in knowing an acceptable rate for VR. It is my fault for accepting the pay, because they told me what the pay was before I accepted the job. I'm not trying to blame my job at all. But I was just too eager to be getting a ...

I have been observing a lot of comments made on this board and have heard many comments from others about the MT profession across the Internet. Sadly, most comments ring loud and clear with the all too familiar vibe, such as: “Times are tough” and “You have to make adjustments” during these tough economic times. Yes I get that part of it. I also work at a MTSO and I know from firsthand experience that it can be tough -- especially when our pa ...

I'm looking for things I can take to a pawn shop to hock today in an effort to pay my electric bill before shut off so I can keep working. I'm forced into bankruptcy and ask risk of losing my home due to the miniscule illegal wages we are paid for editing. The MTSO has not even responded to my last questions about account preferences, and notification of a technical error in the software, yet has the nerve to send me a snarky email bitching about my 100% accurate report for a mistake ...

Verify our pay when we have no idea what the breakdown of the production incentive is?? (Better me, Better we....HAH) At least with Webmedx everything was laid out, tier by tier.... I was able to set goals and achieve them, not now though. This is just stupid. ...

I just finished a day where half it was spent on an ESL dictators doing short progress notes using VR, so had to change almost EVERYTHING. No lines to speak of. Had to pend almost all of them because some of the ESLs just do not enunciate numbers and heaven forbid you make a mistake. EVERYTHING is the transcriptionist's fault. I worked in hospitals for around 20 years. In the hospital you could use your expander for speed and got&nbs ...

I keep seeing responses here saying they have no idea why people are upset over VR coming or EMR showing up, etc. etc. Why people are down on this profession. Does anybody LOVE to earn poverty wages? Do people look forward to losing their homes? DUH........ Who are these people who post these statements? Are they the ones with the husbands who support them and they haven't a worry in the world. I often feel like turning around and saying: "I have no idea why some peopl ...

VENTING - PET PEEVE - AAAARRRRRGGGGH

I think my biggest pet peveve is - Perry Umbilical

One of mine - sm

Someone figure out where the appropriate location is and - we should all send letters.

too funny, but - it should read

Bringing up phlegm - Maxs mom

This drives me crazy - Yawning

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