A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

Worst Doctor Award - xx

Posted: Jun 28, 2013

Now I've heard it all. Patient is 53 yo female, lives alone in a mobile home. Sprained both ankles, unable to bear weight on either ankle. No family/friends to take care of her as they work or in school. Asks if she can go to an assisted living until she is able to bear weight. Doctor tells her to..... get this.... just crawl around her mobile home if she needs to get around.

Fifteen years of doing this and I'm so pissed off right now that I feel like writing him a letter.

What?!?!? - Seriously?

[ In Reply To ..]
My mouth still hasn't come off my desk yet after reading this.

dead serious - xx

[ In Reply To ..]
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I've had a few docs that I thought shouldn't be practicing but this one absolutely stunned me. If he had been my doctor and told me to crawl around I would have seen that his license got suspended. Poor woman. And you know people just go about their business and listen to these kooks because they are "doctors".

But...but...but... - Where to begin

[ In Reply To ..]
But even if the poor woman could "drag" herself around her mobile home, if she can't bear weight, how is she supposed to use the toilet or get into the bathtub or even pull herself up to the stove to cook or even heat something up in the microwave??? Or even get into bed at night? All of those ADLs require at least some weightbearing.

That's probably one of the cruelest things I've ever heard of a clinician dictating. Yet, sadly, I'm not entirely shocked.

Oy.

Where to begin - Oy gevalt, indeed

[ In Reply To ..]
That doc had better hope nothing serious ever happens to him where he needs a little compassion. What a **@$$!!

Put it on YOU tube - just saying

[ In Reply To ..]
In fact, if people could HEAR what and how their docs dictate, they would not be too happy.

I think our job has become a bit cruel actually (not that all docs know this) because we are asked to transcribe at 98% or better accuracy from docs who speak worse than they write ! and then to do so on PRODUCTION based pay with rules that change from client to client, service to service, etc., ad nauseam.

And ppl wonder y i am nuts. rolf.

Similar story from Real Life - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
Acquaintance falls, badly breaks ankle. This person is a hard worker but poor and at the time, out of work and thus indigent. Goes to closest hospital that treats the poor, is sent home with instructions to go to another such hospital 70 miles away, which was the closest orthopedist to set the break (which required surgery).

The person with the broken ankle could not drive and was in terrible pain. Medicaid will take people to a hospital in an ambulance, and to this day I cannot figure out why some such arrangement could not have been made.

In the meantime, the patient can't do yard work and too proud to allow anyone to help. Big mistake. Code Enforcement comes along and slaps on a $200 fine for tall grass, no excuses allowed, then threatens arrest if the person cannot get into the courthouse that has no wheelchair access.

That was straightened out and the fine dropped, but they don't usually do that.

My similar sort of true story - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
I was in Arizona on a trip and my left ankle started to swell. No biggie, I thought, but by day three, it was hanging over the sides of my shoe, almost touching the ground. A paramedic friend saw it and said I had to go to the ER NOW - I had red streaks up the back of my leg. I said I will when I get home. 20 hours later, I get home and go to the ER. By now, ankle and foot so swollen it was struck straight. I have no insurance.

They assess me and take me straight in. Doc comes in and says we think its gout. Stick this giant needle into three spots in my ankle joint. No fluid, no crystals. Hmm. Blood work comes out clean - white cells are completely normal. No bug bites, no scratches/scrapes. As I'm lying on the table, it starts in my right ankle and rules out anything they can come up with other than some sort of blood infection. Won't call infectious disease because I have no insurance.

Start 3 different IV antibiotics and the next morning, discharge me (still in ER). They come in with crutches. Mind you, I can't walk on my feet because they are swollen and stuck straight down. I ask about a wheelchair they said no, you can manage. I said really, how - I can't walk on my feet! They told me I'd figure it out and made me leave like that. I could only touch just the tips of my toes on the ground lightly. I was blown away!!

Because common sense has died - B52

[ In Reply To ..]
We need more logic with ridiculous hypothetical parables to teach common sense and open rational thinking.

Let's suppose a young man got a job working in a place called hellhouse where he was given access to every secret place in the building.

One day as he was touring the building he pulled back the patient privacy curtain to expose the gov't sodomizing an unconscious person.

"Shame!" The media cried, "Shame on the curtain opener!" And the gov't protested, "He has exposed things we have known all along that were to remain secret. He shouldn't have done that, and he is the worst kind of criminal on earth. We shall hunt him down and prosecute him to the fullest."

And there we have the Edward Snowden vs. the NSA story to an extreme.

Incredibly, we proscecuted and jailed those for spying on the Democrats, and forced our then president under pressure to resign . . . but today it's okay if that same gov't spies on us with the premise it is "for our safety."

Similar Messages:

Oct 15, 2012

Hahahahaha ...

Aug 09, 2013

My last check showed that I had a taxable prize of 13.00. I have yet to receive it in the mail. How long does it take to get it, for those of you that have in the past? I guess 10 bucks is 10 bucks. ...

Jun 03, 2015

Got news for you, whoever is running this God forsaken company..Employess respond to decent pay, decent treatment, and fair practices...NOT a bone dangled in front of them..I, for one, find this crap VERY insulting and juvenile at best. ...

Aug 13, 2010

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medquist-receives-distinguished-service-award-at-ahdi-2010-convention-100572549.html ...

Aug 09, 2012

My friend who is attending the AHDI conference in Indianapolis just texted me that the company we are ICs for (New England Medical Transcription) was awarded the Employer of the Year. Now isn't that strange--we're all ICs and the only "employees" are management! They use ICs illegally and get awarded for it! And here we sit on NJA all the time. Must have been hard up for nominees is all I can say. ...

May 18, 2015

puh-lease!!! ...

Mar 18, 2010

for coming up with cutesy names like "First Time Right" for "we'd really like to get rid of QA" and things like that. ...

Sep 17, 2010

This article was from July, I just found it. It may have been addressed back then, and if so I missed it. Here is one part of the article: "Currently in use at several Webmedx customer sites, the ability for physicians to capture documentation using front-end voice recognition and then self-edit their work reduces costs by 60% for every transcribed report." This is the link to the article: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/press-release/webmedx-presents-award-providers-front-end-speech-implem ...

Oct 15, 2010

20 years ago when the DRG's hit the hospitals, one was complaing to the other... "they treat doctors like a bunch of old dogs now". Well, that's how MTs are being treated now. Why on God's green earth do the MT services require all MT's to work at least one weekend day every week (Friday's and Monday's don't count). Every ad I see on the Job Seeker board requires weekends. Are they sadistic or something. Why do we put u ...

Apr 09, 2013

When the dictator: 1. Constantly saying "um" or "ah" or "and" throughout dictation? 2. Sucking his teeth? 3. Sniffing and snorting snot? ALL EQUALLY DISGUSTING TO ME. Take a second and blow your nose. ...

Aug 15, 2013

11 reports in 1-1/2 hours, 246 lines, 24.6% to QA. Just shoot me now. ...

Jan 24, 2015

Today I seem to be getting the worst dictators in the history of mankind. After a while your ears simply give out. Enough already!! ...

Mar 26, 2010

I have been an MT for over 20 years and have worked at a few different companies. I am currently with DSG, and I just have to say, DSG seems to have the WORST dictators of any company that I have worked for. I work on 5 different accounts for them and it is all the same. Any other DSG'ers out there that are experiencing the same thing? I don't recall being told when I was hired that I would be typing 98% ESL. Beware if you are thinking of working here! ...

Apr 29, 2013

My count is in the toilet. 80% retype and I can't F11 ! Hey Amy, spent a day in my shoes. ASR has been worse lately, but this is the absolute worst. ...

Mar 27, 2014

Lately I have not bee doing well, short on line count, a few bad audits, I am in the dog house. I now have a fear that a I too will be let go. It is hard to work like this, wish I could just quit, but cannot right now, maybe in a few months, unless they terminate me. I understand the policy, 150 LPH, but sometimes I just cannot make it, dictators are bad, unfamiliar accounts. When it is good, it is good, but when it is bad, it is bad! I guess I will just keep plugging along until other wise :( ...

Apr 23, 2014

In addition to writing to your representatives, we should all try to get our story in the news. ABC World News or any of the others woulld be a great avenue to try. We just need to get their attention. Most average people don't even know about the MTStars site..we need to change that. They ask to keep it brief, so I would refer them to the site and make brief statements about outsourcing, how our pay has been cut in half, that VR is not all it has been made out to be ...

Apr 27, 2014

I just read an ad for a certified COURT REPORTER (the job training I stupidly turned down in order to become an MT) in San Jose CA. Check out the annual salary: $68,237.73 - $86,700.64 Annually I think I'll go shoot myself now. ...

May 30, 2014

MTs!! No I am not perfect and yes I remember when I started how hard it was to remember a lot of things, but some of these mistakes are just stupid. They do not do research or something. I think what is driving me the most batty is they leave one space only after a period in 1 sentence and go back to 2 in the next. Not uniform at all. OKay, done now. Hiding my OCD now ...

Aug 04, 2014

What if the extremely lower than ever volumes (OOW on 3 accounts at a time) is because some of the acute worktypes are being converted to ambulatory care WT since more and more patients are kept in observation status or "extended recovery" instead of being admitted. W(c)ould not some of those same-day surgery types perhaps be called ambulatory? We would likely be kept in the dark about that just like everything else, don't you reckon? Anyone able to confirm this with anyone? ...

Feb 03, 2015

Hi guys, I have just gradded from an MT course and was looking through the postings here and there are a lot of horror stories. Just wondering what places you would recommend working? I have an interview with assistmed coming up but read some things about nonpayment. Any input in to a good company for a worker in canada would be great. ...

Apr 03, 2015

Remember the Charlie Brown special. Well this dictation sounded like the sound effect used for Charlie's teacher (wawa). Somehow Mmodal still expects 100% accuracy. I spent a good hour on this report, argh. ...

Jun 23, 2015

Don't ever work for this sham of a company, who decides at the drop of a hat to drop wages to minimum wage base and then gives a pay grid to aspire to, all the while tying your hands behind your back with no work and no pooling. They came to the US a few years ago to hire every single MT and QC and manager they could to train their speech engine and their thousands of even more pitifully poor workers in India. That phase is over. You managers reading this will be the next ...

Feb 02, 2010

Nothing but garbled sound files on cell phones, ESLs who don't even speak a semblance of English, THE WORST VR software I have ever encountered, leads who expect us to sit at our computers 24 hours a day to pick up what work straggles in. The good accounts have been axed over the years leaving us with these gems that give me anxiety attacks daily. I have been at this a long time, and tough accounts are not new to me, but this constant garbage just drives me crazy. I HATE t ...

Jul 18, 2010

Does anybody know if there is a place where MTSOs have been ranked, best to work for, worst to work for, happiest customers? ...

Oct 09, 2011

I have worked for Nuance a long time ago. They had e-scription and it was the worst program i have ever been in. I had to check, check, and double check the demographics and God forbid if there was something i had to correct! By the time i got to transcribing, i had already wasted a half-hour. Anyone else with this experience? And do they still have it? ...

Apr 27, 2012

Been with this company for 11, almost 12, years and now we have new QA who have NO clue what they're doing. No report is sent through without their checking it and messing it up first. And no two QA make the same changes. It's so frustrating to love a job and then dread working due to the unprofessional editing. No wonder they're losing accounts left and right. We're normally without work and I think my loyalty showed I was going to be there, at ...

Sep 27, 2012

Nuance or M Modal... And how does a person get fired rather than quit if the bullying is too much to take. Thanks in advance for those who have experienced it and found a way to deal with it. ...

May 07, 2013

We are exploring new platforms. We want to know which ones work most effectively for MTs and which ones to avoid. Thanks for any input. ...

Sep 07, 2013

MModal Nuance Precyse The big 3 to stay away from ...

Feb 10, 2014

Not only do they give is crappy software to deal with struggling to be paid on a production pay, but I get errors CONSTANTLY and can't work. Support is totally uninterested in helping me. I can't leave this company fast enough! The software this company uses is like tying one hand behind my back. Management SUX! ...