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What should be normal lph for a new MT? - wannaknow
Posted: Apr 09, 2010
I am a fairly new MT at MQ. With all the checking ADT and getting different facilities/doctors I am very slow. What should my speed be at as a new MT???
Normal lph - Lee
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Speed is subjective. It depends upon for whom you are transcribing. There are very wide ranges. I have done 80 to 300 lines an hour. If you have macros you will look like wonder woman. If you have to do a lot of research and demographics, it will pull you down. Don't worry about speed. Just do your best. If they don't like it, go elsewhere.
PE on neurologist consult. Pt with spinal sarcoma. Doc is a pretty clear dictator. Not sure if "tesseril" is actually "tests for all" or what. How about "effort". Is this customary in a neuro consult?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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When a dictator asked that you insert a normal ROS or PE, then dictates "for the respiratory put ..." I often get dictation that contradicts what remains in the normal template but the dictators do not instruct to delete the rest of that heading. Sometimes this is an easy fix, for example if you know they complain of SOB, then you delete that portion. Other times we can't possibly know how the "normal" differs for this particular patient. It's time consuming to keep flagging these for ...
Mycamine 100 mg in 100 normal saline infused over 60 minutes daily.
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At my company (a smaller one) there are a lot of mistakes in the normal dictations that the doctors request. The way they are created in the first place is the transcriptionist types up the report and sends it to QA saying the doctor would like to use this in the future for his normal, but I don't think they get reviewed by QA. I think they just get created the way they are. So if it was a right eye, the word right is there all the way through it. If a word is misspe ...
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Makes you afraid to go with any of the smaller companies. Who knows who will be eaten up next.
I will say I was an old YOG employee and when ...
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"Rectal tone is normal (s/l) 'oh-tuh-high'. There were no masses palpable."
It sounds like he's saying it as one word. (No accent.) ...
to tell you that they will not pay you until the doctors/accounts pay them? Would you take the job even if you had been reassured that this is never the case?
TIA ...
I am preparing for the RMT exam.
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Do I have to know what test will diagnose for which disease or particular study? For example, do I have to know that white blood cells are involved in the CBC test or that PSA stands for prostrate specific antigen and is a cancer marker?
How much information about the drugs do I need to know?
What kind of lab valu ...
We are inundated with sloppy dictators, perhaps the ones that can't use VR. We know how much they hate to dictate repetitive ROSs and PEs, thus they love using templates, or paragraphs from previous reports. Does anyone else note a lot of doctor errors in using these methods, i.e. racing through and not changing all the template details? I have found that NPs and female doctors are able to multitask and get this right, but the only males that can do this are the older ones who have a lot o ...
Okay pulled in PE and major ARGH!!! I was told that tenses need to match. However, in this particular case whoever entered it was jumping back between past and present. Another time consuming thing I get to do. Interesting how that works.
REALLY???????????????????????????? ...
And I got more of some of the normal accounts..And guess what? Line count almost doubled. So how is this fair to us that are stuck on thes accounts on a day in and day out basis? ...
in each report? My current accounts allow up to 3. I heard there are ZERO blank accounts. If I ever get transferred to one of those that will be the last straw for me...I'll leave because if I couldn't leave blanks (for those inevitable horrible ESLs) I'd ALWAYS have over 10% QC, and I refuse to work for 7 cpl.
For those on zero blank accounts? That is not fair. Are you at least allowed higher than 10% pended? Do these accounts have clear ...