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Late night note... - carpe_noctem
Posted: Jan 24, 2013
We seem to have lost our ERs at this large hospital in LA. Place your best on Epic or India.
I'm going to "seize" your moniker for use elsewhere on the 'net. - sm
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Never seen that before. So perfect for me too, being the night owl that I am. You'll probably never see it wherever I'll be using it (not here), but if you do, consider it an homage. :)
You win the bet! all of the above OR scribes - anonymousmt
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Sad. I love ER work. The hospital I work for (directly, no MTSO) has an abundance of acute care. The ER, however, is done by scribes. It is a disgrace what is allowed on the medical record, but hey nobody seems to care anymore.
I wonder if any other late night MTs find things are sometimes really amusing...I know that it helps me to stay awake sometimes.
I just had a medication list, but it seems that this patient got stuck at the beginning of the alphabet.
The patient's seven medications were: Adderall, albuterol, Advair, Ambien, amantadine, Amaryl and Adalat.
Makes me wonder if they going to start on the "B" medications next. lol
What do some of the other late night MTs here do to help themselves ...
After dealing with a potentially terminal medical illness, I was working away on my shift last night when the following email came thru (note that I edited any identifying information out of the email for confidentiality's sake)...
Your line counts have been rapidly getting back to your regular spectacular volume. You have 12577 through Saturday evening, which is wonderful. Your ability to accurately produce well over 2000 a day puts you right up there with the top produce ...
First 3/4, hanging on 150 lph by a thread. Now the usual late-night line-killer doctor a couple of times and a long train of bad audio. Just barely able to get over 110 lph. Oh, and don't forget that 20-minute job during which the doctor had a hard time making up his mind as to what he wanted to say.
Performance management here I am. Got my first nudge today. Let's see if they will let me be on line count performance management as long as they did quality ...
nothing else changed as far as I can tell. Must get 300 lph for 0.1050 a line.
Oh, and if you have any questions, send them to your TSM.
No mention of any future meetings.
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A note below states company is hounding her about equipment that she returned. Before this happens to you, TRACK your equipment online and when it's picked up by your company, print it out. I'm keeping mine for at least a year, maybe forever. It shows the date, time, exact location, person's name who received it, etc. There would be no denying that at all.
Please protect yourself! It happens more than you'd like to think. ...
I need some advice. I am an IC who works for a transcription company and is constantly being paid late. I am currently 4 months behind on pay. My daily emails for pay are not being answered and there is no communication whatsoever at this point. I love the hospital I work for and have stayed with this company a long time because of this. It is very normal for me to be at least a month to 2 months behind on pay at all times, sometimes 3-4 months. As an IC, do I have any recourse? Is there anythin ...
Really???? 3 days late on pay? How are we supposed to take care of our financial responsiblities now? It has been my experience in the past that when this happens, the company is usually a goner. So, Keystrokes, are you a goner? Do we need to look for other jobs, or will you not tell us and will we be out of work and out of pay and on Welfare? ...
So, I have worked for this person since 2007. In the beginning everything was WONDERFUL. Great to work for, plenty of work, fairly decent wage, etc. Now for the last couple of years pay has been increasingly late. I was originally set for pay days on the 1st and the 15th. A couple of years ago it changed to the 5th and the 20th, which is fine, I can handle that. that started being late so I said I would change it in my mind to the 10th and the 25th so I wouldn ...
apparently I was only employed by Nuance thru last December. Starting in January I was employed by Transcend. This is as per the state unemployment benefits office. They were really interested that my check stubs said Transcend/DBA as Nuance out of Mass., and the W2s only had Transcend out of Melbourne, Florida. Asked me questions about it, but told them I had never noticed when Transcend was added to the check stubs, which I didn't. Don't know anything ab ...
Here is what you can and SHOULD do if you don't get your W2 by Feb. 16. -
You’ll have to wait a bit: the IRS does not want to hear from you about missing forms until after February 16. After that date, call IRS at 1.800.829.1040. You’ll need to have your address, phone number and Social Security Number available. It’s also helpful to have your dates of employment, an estimate of your earnings and your federal withholding amounts – you can find most of thi ...
I just need to vent. I am an IC who is supposed to get paid every week by my employer. Her checks were on time at first, then 1 day later, 2 days later, 3 days later, etc. I went on vacation for 1 week. During that time frame, she even emailed me to see if I was providing my usual weekend coverage. She never replies to my IM, e-mail or phone calls. Her cell does not allow me to leave a message, and now she has a new home phone number that I do not even kn ...
I was supposed to have an appointment with IT for an install at 5:30. It is now about 10 of 6 and still no call. Anyone else have a similar experience? ...
I received the email last Thursday that all direct deposits would be in accounts first thing Monday and hard checks for new employees would be in Monday's mail.
Well, Monday was a holiday so I figured that was an oversight; however, our mailman did not have my check today, either.
It's my first paycheck with Oracle and I do not want to look like I'm whining, but was kind of looking forward to getting that check today. It wasn't a lot as it was less than 2 wks bu ...
I'm thinking of switching to 11 pm-7am CST shift from day shift. What is the work like at that time of night, is there work or are you consistently running out of work as well. I don't want to change my whole lifestyle just to be in the same boat I'm in now. ...
I have been a participant of this board for many years. When an enire thread disappears, I realize other boards are more MT friendly. I will not be back. ...
Nothing for Christmas, and it looks like our present is being told at the last minute that our checks will be a day late this week. So much for all of the overtime, working holidays without holiday pay, no sick days, no paid days off...It seems like they could do more for their transcriptionists who keep their company going. ...
He is stating "...otherwise beta blockers will be "coursely" reinstituted. I understand what he means, but trying to figure out how to put it correctly. Would it be "course-like" as in a course-like manner, how the medication is to be taken?
Thanks for your input. As always, it is truly appreciated. ...
Having issues with slow program in MT window as well, voice and transcription both stopping completely, cursor gone, mouse arrow gone, no control while computer thinks its way through. Takes several to 5 minutes to "wake up" and give me control of pedal and screen. Has happened several times, and I have lots of stats in a row. If I keep going may lose my work. Feels like last time....sure hope not. Anyone else? ...
Is anybody else suffering each month because their client is not paying for completed transcription services ? Or do i contract for the only client that does not pay? What do we do? ...