Vent: I can't believe how awful these dictators

In a helper pool and doing a certain large chain of hospitals that is spread over many states. Tell me, how is it possible that every dictator in this chain, whether it is on the west coast, east coast, or in between, are the worst I have ever encountered? Does this chain advertise: Can't speak English? Inaudible? Can't feel your tongue? You're hired! What makes it worse is that the reports are all progress notes and take me forever for a tiny ...

To bad we don't get a break with the awful dictators. When you get those your line count goes down, and you are dinged for that. Really sucks when your line count for the week is above the minimum but all there is to do in the que are the hard to hear....now line count is below minimum :( ...

Today I will make less than half of what I normally get because all I've gotten today are crappy, hard to understand dictators, both ESL and English-speaking. Seems like all I get lately are the hard to understand, mush-mouth dictators. Guess Nuance doesn't want their MTs making quota. Sorry. I just had to vent. ...

I have been an MT for many years. I have worked for Nuance for 9 months. I was hired to transcribe an account, then moved to another to edit, then moved to another. I was recently switched from hourly (12.00 an hour, but found out they hired the next group after mine at 15.00 an hour) to production and there IS NO WORK. I feel like I am stalking my supervisor via IM. One of the other supervisors recently told me that the goal of Nuance is to eventually offshore all ...

I've been sending out resumes, and taking tests that must end up in cyberspace, even though I pass them, hear nothing. Then I hear from Superior Global, passed the test, no problem. The recruiter calls me, and her dictation is awful, and her command of the English language equally as poor. I thanked her, and said I'd think about it. However, that first impression left me less than luke warm. The recruiter above all people in the company should excel in communication skills, a ...

Okay, just finished a child abuse report/examination that was edited (ASR) by one of our wonderful ILPs. This was a fill-in-the-blank only report and not a 100% review. However, there was a glaring error that caught my eye, so I decided to do a full review. I found 36!! errors, nearly half were definitely critical, and I'm not the type to get picky about commas and such. At first I thought that they must have sent it by accident without editing it as it was really th ...

Here's a good one for the day. Just got hold of an Asian dictator, who proceeded to whisper and mumble through the whole dictation, with another American dictator standing right next to her dictating. Can you take a guess which doctor I understood more clearly? I'm sooooo sick of this screwed up mess!!!!! ...

I just need to vent. I have worked for this company for 7 years and can't believe how terrible they treat their ICs. I thought they were a decent place to work but they have now shown otherwise. I have worked under 3 other account managers and never had any problems. Then, I get moved to my current manager and instead of getting paid more, I go from 0.07 cpl to 0.06 cpl, and this manager cannot be satisfied. Oh, it doesn't matter if I do good quality work, ...

http://mtherald.com/awful-future-prospects-for-medical-transcription-career-in-india/ Just a tiny little sample of this article. Medical transcription is not for anyone who dreams about good career progression prospects but for any lazy duck who want to make just a living from home, killing time cursing stars, and repeatedly uttering “There is no better opportunity than this for the time being for my credentials at this age!” Come out of the cocoon and look out for a world of ...

I hate Synernet more and more. I know that I have to accept VR, but WHY do I have to be forced to use such a cruddy bunch of software. It doesn't learn anything. I have had to practically re-type the whole report and then get the "honor" of only being paid 4 cpl for it. If the higher ups were forced to endure this, I would bet some changes would be made fast, quick, and in a hurry. ...

A new ESL dictating a DS. Can't speed him up because he's too "new" (to this country?). He is spelling every other word!!!!!! AND then spells it again - extubated, e-x-t-u-b-a-t-e-d, extubated e for elephant, x for crosses, t for tom, u for umbrella, b for .......... get the picture (sigh)? On top of that, the report is 28 minutes long!!! Should never have gotten out of bed this morning. LOL I do feel bad for him that he doesn't realize he doesn't have to spell every other ...

I have an ARNP doing a radiation follow up. She dictates "33 fractions of 5040 GRAY" and then goes on to say "that's small c, capital G, small y." She has done this a number of times over a number of reports. I'm just shaking my head. ...

I just spent the last few hours pretty much completely re-typing garbage VR! I am so sick of this! Especially after we just got our rate cut significantly. Why can't they provide a good VR platform??!! I just worked my butt off for nothing! ...

Someone ought to take these ESL doctors and torture them like they torture us with their unbelievably horrible English speaking skills! We should not be told we're jeopardizing patient care - it's the ESL doctors. I've never had an ESL doctor and I'd refuse to be treated by one who can't speak clearly or speak a complete sentence. Jerks! ...

I've been doing this a long time, and I know how oblivious doctors are to anything approaching being polite when they dictate. I've heard them in the bathroom, I've heard them yelling at their kids, talking on the phone, listening to football games on TV while dictating, etc. We all have. But there's this one foreign female doctor on the account I regularly transcribe who drives me UP the wall. She apparently thinks dictation time is time to eat. ...

I hate being on QA hold. I just started a new job and no matter where I've worked through the years, QA always seem to be the same! It's never consistent. I'm marked off for one thing by one QA and then not for the same thing by another! Am I supposed to do that or not? I'm trying to learn this account and being 2 different things on one subject is confusing to say the least! ...

Wow, if E-scription is such a wonderful ASR platform, I feel sorry for us all becuase I have had to change at least 1-2 words per line on E-scription today, WHENEVER I actually had work, that is. This whole thing is getting worse and worse all the time, and for such horrible cpl rates that I can't even stand this after 36 years. If the doctors and all the big muckity mucks had even the SLIGHTEST clue. Gladly change places for one report with them. Thanks I needed t ...

Ugh, I am getting so frustrated with this ESL doc. He says these doctors' names and I cannot understand him and I don't even know if he's pronouncing them correctly. I search through all the doctors' names that start with the letter that it sounds like he saying to try to find one that might match how he is pronouncing it. It's taking so much time. If I find a name that comes close enough to what he is saying, I will use that. Other times I ...

Just need to vent and complain a little about the annoying way this ESL dictates...it's really getting on my nerves. He constantly says things like: Heart sounds "is" regular. Medications "is" reviewed. Lungs "is" clear. Always combining plurals with singulars. Then there's the: There is "a" pitting edema... And no, he's not saying "ah", it is clearly an "a." There is "a" mitral regurgitation... Finally, I can tell he's re ...

We have a supervisor.. just one. She can also type at home if she chooses to once she gets home from the office. Of course she does because she makes a lot more money. I probably would too. But, here's my peeve..... We can't cherry pick.. of course not. No sending jobs back that are from some of the worst dictators in the world. We just trod through and type and get those horrible lines per hour on those horrible docs . But she assigns all the best dictator ...

I am trying so hard at this new job. I've been there a month, and I've never seen such complicated visit choices, etc. It's just very difficult for me for some reason. I have pages and pages of good notes, but I'm always missing something. So far, no one has been ugly with me, but I'm feeling it's only a matter of time. I'm an experienced MT of over 12 years and am very good, but I'm just about to cry because of these header p ...

I've switched jobs about 4 times this year, searching for the "perfect fit" - even went down to 7 cpl as an IC which everyone on these boards has said NEVER to do, just so I could have no weekends and flexibility during the day. Just when I thought I found a great company, they changed their platform to Emdat/Inscribe. Oh, ah, so much fun - NOT!!! And so much for that 7 cpl. We'll be getting 2 cpl on the QT lines :( I am soooo unhappy. To make ...

This dictator is driving me nuts!!! Even the sound of every deep, gravelly, congested-sounding breath the man takes makes my head and ears hurt. Sounds like he's dictating with his mouth full of spit or some kind of gunk. Ewwwww gross! Plus he's ESL. Plus it's an account I've never done before. Plus it's sounds like he's dictating under water, and he keeps repeating what seems like every other phrase. I'm already irritable, grouchy ...

Dear Doctor: Just to let you in on a little secret, I do not get paid to listen to you to sit and read through your chart, eat, or take phone calls. I'm a real person listening to you, so either dictate or hang up. Thanks so much. ...

I absolutely hate the account I type for....hate it. Is it really THAT difficult to want most of the physicians dictate correctly? I said 'most' too because I do know that to expect all of them to dictate correctly is ridiculous. I can't even average 10 reports an hour on this account because of the errors. They mumble, slur their words, clip their words, rustle every paper around them... and I'm taliking about 80% of them! This is a new account ...

I have a full-time position which I honestly can say I love. However, all things being what they are in this field, I always try to keep my eggs in least 2 baskets "just in case." I accepted an IC position for a little "mad money" a couple of weeks ago from a company with a pretty decent reputation, "IC" being the operative phrase here. The TL to whom I have been assigned is driving me batty. She is constantly wanting to call me with things that could very well be addressed via oth ...

Just got a new account a couple of weeks ago and was super excited because its brand new, straight transcription until VR picks it up.......good deal? Not so much. It seems the QCs are all on a different page. I have sent the 3 "Super" QCs all the same question and got different answers. Sent it to my lead and she told me to ask the "Super" QCs. (I just love that term and wonder if they put sticky stars on a matrix on their refrigerators every time they flush an MT ...

I am about to let loose so stop reading now if you don't feel like hearing it. I am SICK and TIRED of new MTs in this field who say that all is rosy in the MT world. Oh, what bright horizons and exciting times for us here!!! Oh how wonderful for those who roll with the punches because technology is gee whiz wonderful. The stockholders are promised less labor in the future. Well isn't that great, that doesn't affect ME. That means we are looking forward to bright ...

Why oh why can't these companies have just a speck of honesty when they hire us? I was recently hired by a company and was hired for "fulltime" and I get at the most 600 lines daily. I actually love the job and would probably work it part-time, if asked, but why deceive me into thinking they had full-time lines available? I see MTs who are actually looking for part-time and most companies say "We are sorry, but we are only hiring full-time." I am beginning to belie ...

How many times do you see the same mis-spelled words coming up in VR? I can't stand it. How do they get there in the first place? I think they're just trying to set us up for failure. How stupid! ...

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