Just read the "winning essay"

I hope the winners are happy with their money. Selling out their fellow MTs must come with great satisfaction. To praise a program that takes money from a hard-working MT for not being able to understand some of the worst dictation ever recorded is a form of prostitution, only they are selling their souls instead of their bodies. ...

I made the mistake of choosing to read it while eating my dinner. Blecch. It just sounds SOOO fake, so sickeningly sweet. Notice how all the words are manipulated to make MQ sound so wonderful. And who the heck calls Benchmark "Benchmark KB"? KB? Come on. I have yet to see it even once referenced that way on this board by real MTs. Really smells like a suit to me. Watch them use that winning essay in some publication or MQ adver ...

was it WebMedX or whichever company was on the auction block? Did Medquist or Focus/Nuance win? ...

Seriously who cares? Give me work and pay me a decent wage. I don't ask for too much. ...

Can someone please help me finish my essay for Eye on Quality...here's what I have so far. Why I Love Being an MT for MModal Being an MT is the best job in the world! The job itself is so rewarding, but working for MModal is like Eye-sing (get it!) on the cake! With there hi standards, they can afford to higher the very best people (like me!). I can't weight to get up in the morning to turn on my compuder to start my rewording day! I have no trouble achieving ...

OH MY GOD! The Q is having an essay contest about what is wonderful about FTR. I just picked myself up off the floor because I was and still am laughing hysterically. Nothing surprises me any more at the Q... nothing!!! ...

Before you send in an essay with your name on it. Think long about it. There are a couple of issues: 1. Taxes. Think about how much you will have left after the taxes are taken out. It won't be 1000 dollars. 2. There are those of you on here talking about a union. If any of you are serious about a union -- DO NOT sing praises about ANY MQ POLICIES. It will come back to haunt you. 3. Remember exactly what is going on in MQ r ...

Are they kidding? How stupid is this proposed Essay contest? We are asked to enter a contest and tell why FTR is a good thing and a move forward and will have a positive impact on patient care? Are they nuts? This is beyond stupid! How about asking for an essay on punishing MTs for asking for a second opinion, wanting another trained ear to listen so that patients are not given the incorrect medication or an incorrect diagnosis? How about an es ...

I just got an email in my MQ box "reminding" us about this "friendly" little essay contest that they are trying to shove down our throats. Apparently the response hasn't been overwhelming (gee, I wonder why) if they have to do that. I know it's hard for those of us trapped at MQ to hang on. I am one of them too. No jobs out there right now and I'm taking courses. But I have to make something to somewhat survive so I have to stay. All I say is, make ...

That we are not typists. This is something MTSOs need to realize. There is a skill set required here that goes beyond being a typist and speech recognition technology. That these are LEGAL documents and that the mistakes that go through all the time could be an issue because companies AND transcriptionists are being allowed to be brought to trial over errors in several states now. That we realize as soon as a machine can replace us, we'll be gone. That it makes me laugh that I re ...

I don't write essays very well, but this could get interesting. I'm mostly interested in the "How I Do It" essay. Maybe I could learn how to do this more efficiently...I don't particularly want to be mentored, so reading an essay might give me some better ideas. ...

Is anyone having a problem coming up with words to write up a quality essay? They gave us the outline and everything, but they mention all their great tools, and I think of the report look up with all the errors, and think... Is this the quality you wanted? I wanted to mention that penalizing us for QA use promotes poor quality, that putting us on a gazillion accounts promotes poor quality! I guess I am just feeling to crabby today to write an essay. I just wish they did a ra ...

So to those of you who said don't enter....you were foolish...you could have gotten a $50 gift card... Medquist is doing what it should be doing....providing quality to the facilities and the patients that we transcribe for! My thoughts... Benchmark KB is great....everything is at your fingertips now........ Google isn't always right.....remember that..... ...

I know that many of you need extra money but when you participate in things like company essay contests you demean and degrade MTs and what we do. We are not high school students required to do what the teacher tells us. We are adult employees who should not be asked to grovel for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate. This is a way for this despicable company to get free marketing material without having to pay a copywriter to produce it. ...

MTs flocked to become MMEs? I'm sure they'd ding the essays for grammar too, if anyone on corporate staff could actually write correctly themselves. ...

in pay for not guessing for a blank? What are they thinking?!?! ...

Hey, MQ, Oh I love FRT this week, but after April 2, 2010 all bets are off baby!!!!! I love FTR. I love it. No really. I do. I like it because, um, it is like a bright shiny star in the sky. Or, um, maybe, I like it because it rolls like a bowling ball!! Yeah!! That's the ticket! Rollin along with FTR, like a bowling ball, like a pool ball, like the big blue ball that is earth, like the round ball classic, like the wheels on an 1 ...

Line rates: Why are experienced MTs being paid the same rates as newbies? These MTSOs state that an experienced MT should end up with more money because he/she is able to produce more lines than a newbie. I contest this by stating that experienced MTs are also producing HIGHER QUALITY lines and can do so with less help and less supervision (and, of course, much faster), and even if both the newbie and the experienced MT produced the same number of lines, since the experienced MT's lines ...

Found this in the Letters to Editor in AdvanceWeb.com. : I feel compelled to voice my thoughts on the topic of credentialed MTs; the reason being I work with a fantastic group of MTs under my management. We work at a community hospital in a centralized setting; all departments dictate their patient records and we transcribe them. They are highly skilled, productive and accurate and simply the best staff to manage. Here are my thoughts. * Are Credentialed MTs better? If t ...

Good Morning MQ-ville. I was reading a posting below, started yesterday "Whadayaknow" and there were a couple of responses to the posting that I think are worth you reading. We should all be much more PROACTIVE in the auditing process and ask questions or if we disagree, tell them we do! We should also not take BS sitting down! I agree that too many of us have just accepted being fed crap because we've begun to feel "beaten down". I also am 'MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO ...

Check out this link. http://www.medindia.net/health-press-release/Webmedx-Receives-Best-in-KLAS-Award-for-Outsourced-Transcription-for-2009-56883-1.htm ...

that Softscript doesn't pay for spaces. Is that true or just a rumor? ...

Oh my gosh! Open this article and read what is down below at the VERY BOTTOM LEFT OF THIS ARTICLE! Somebody by the name of Kumar is asking a question about night shifts and the associated illegal activities that comes out of it. Some of us are called the Y generation! http://www.deccanherald.com/content/84978/indian-bpos-facing-huge-churn.html CBaySystems VP - HR Sanjay Shanmugaum believes that, “the average attrition rate in the BPO sector is higher th ...

in the MT Stars archives a post entitled "MT's and Unions, and past mistakes:". This was posted on 11/23/10. I am contacting various union representatives, among other things. The most important thing is to get the word out as much as we can about the unfair policies on MT's by various companies. I know it can seem futile, but I think if enough of us communicate long enough, someone has to listen. Thanks. ...

The older I get, the less able I am to tolerate these mush-mouthed, lip smacking, gum chewing, burping, toilet flushing dictators. And those are the good ones that I've had lately which should give you any idea of how the rest of them are. I so wish I could quit this lousy business altogether, but right now that's just not possible. I will now get off the soap box and let someone else have their turn. ...

So relevant to what we are dealing with here at Nuance. http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/0315p18.shtml ...

I just found out that a mail clerk, working in a mail room at a local company, earned more $$$ than I did last year! QC with 30+ years' experience! My God. Nuance is killing me! Cannot wait to say Goodbye :( ...

This particular board, the New MTs board, is devoted to assisting the newcomers to this profession. It is here as a help, an assistance, a way to advise and mentor newbies. It is NOT a place to slam, discourage, handslap or pick fights between newbies and experienced MTs. We are not going to have an ongoing war or scuffles between the experienced MTs and the newbies or vice versa in regard to who should or should not be in this industry, who does a better job, who knows more, ...

The HITECH Act: Will You Be Fine, or Fined? FRANKLY, OUR GOVERNMENT SUCKS BIG TIME! I AM STILL USING A WORK COMPUTER, IS THAT GOOD OR NOT??? Under the new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) that takes effect this upcoming February, you as a transcriptionist could now be directly liable for any private health information (PHI) that is stolen or somehow reaches the public domain. That could include any transcriptions you produce that are emailed ...

November 23, 2009 Transcription Technology Wars — Navigating the ASP/ASR/ARRA BattlefieldBy Dale Kivi, MBAFor The RecordVol. 21 No. 22 P. 10 Choose an ill-fitting business model and healthcare providers may become economic casualties, according to an industry insider. Why have new equipment sales by previously dominant transcription technology leaders such as Dictaphone and Lanier all but faded off the face of the planet in favor of thin-client application service provider (ASP) and aut ...

Just read the "winning essay" - Badcat

Fake faith - amd

So then - Badcat

first time winners loser - planetspinz

EXACTLY!!! - amd

Even better - I hope the "prize" puts them $1 over - the line into a higher tax-bracket!

Lots of creative writing went on for that gift card - anon

I can't feel my legs. - .

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