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My new grading system - CA-MT
Posted: May 13, 2010
It's simply unfair that MQ pays me the same same whether I do a normally dictated report, or one that is handicapped. Handicapped reports obviously take much more time to finish. Here's my new grading system for leaving markers. It's how I'm going to grade the documents that are necessary to include blanks in case they are thrown back at me for any reason. It gives me ammunition to fight back. Each subject gets a point (which to me should double or triple what I'm actually getting paid).
-Dictation done from an inappropriate location (other than clinical setting), i.e., in a cafeteria, on the freeway, in the loo, at a birthday party, at a bar.
-Technical issues including background clicking, popping, hissing noises (other than those coming from doctor's mouth).
-Stuttering, lisping, dysarthria, apraxia, or just plain apathy.
-ESL.
-ESL just off the boat (gets 5 points).
Feel free to add your own.
love it - ESL off the boat LOL
[ In Reply To ..]I was thinking of documenting in a similar way as I have had some horrendous audio recently.
What pushed me over the edge - CA-MT
[ In Reply To ..]I just did my first document of the day, taking all the air of my motivation balloon. The dictator was a right-off-the-boat Asian (probably been in the US for 20 years), male who had the same tone as a female. He had a lisp, incorrectly spelled out some words, speeding through the operation for which I had no normals or assisting suppository (repository), was eating something (his tongue), with apraxia substituting R for L and L for R (why do they do that?) with some background technical hissing prompting me to think it was actually my headset. Changing to a new headset did not improve the sound. It should have taken me 5 minutes to do this 80-second report. I spent 30 minutes. I probably made 75 cents.
ESLs right off the boat (ESL-OTB - shipwrecked
[ In Reply To ..]I have more trouble with Asian accents than any others. First you listen to the word, then you gotta convert the Rs to Ls, making sure it's actually a medical word, and when it isn't, you start from scratch.
Yesterday I spent 2 hours solid on a 300 second report. It was a split report for 6 different patients. No patient names spelled, no doctor's names spelled.
Love it! - shipwrecked
[ In Reply To ..]Now all you have to do is figure out how to convert all the points you've saved up into hard cash - or even a hot fudge sundae with pistachio ice cream!
Dictation into Sock - MT Idiot
[ In Reply To ..]The doctor is dictating into his sock instead of into the microphone.
Tear me up, way toooo funny! Thanks - Bunion
[ In Reply To ..]No kidding? hahahahahhahaaaaaa
Technical Issues Enhanced by Acutely Weird Accents - MT Idiot
[ In Reply To ..]The dictation which caused me to QUIT MY JOB with "the company" FINALLY was such a job. The sound was HORRENDOUS and I though for the first 3/4 of the dictation that it was really damaged equipment -- UNTIL -- suddenly, during the "Assessment portion" -- the doctor STOPPED DICTATING INTO HIS SOCK and started dictating into the microphone -- with his incredibly weird accent still quite intact. When the sound was awful, the incredibly weird accent was dipping in and out of the "humans-can-hear-this range." But when the doctor took his mouth out of his sock, the incredibly weird accent (even though he was not an ES) jumped "to the fore." I had 15 blanks in the report and opened a Ticket on the technical issue of the sound; I said, "I will not send this job to QA and have it counted against my percentage." I was then informed that I SHOULD HAVE sent the job to
QA -- and then I received an apology for that "misinformation" after stating that I had quit.
It was quite a little event.
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