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Yep, counted them. Typed for 9 different facilities. - sick and tired

Posted: Jun 28, 2010

They are all my "regulars." Nothing new. I don't even think I have a primary account any more; seems to be just first in-first out or something.

I am the "9" from down below - we must be on the same accounts

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I agree with you on your theory of first in-first out. I think the whole area is set up so that whatever job is next "time wise" gets passed on to next open transcriptionist. That is why I flip flop from account to account to account all day.

I come to appreciate 2 jobs from the same account in a row. How sad.

First Time Right! - Sludge

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You're supposed to face all that with a smile on your face! We just got an e-mail from our new QTL reminding us about leaving QA markers. She mentioned that in all the reports she went through with 8 or 9 markers, SHE was able to hear all but maybe one blank. Goodie!Goodie! Well maybe WE can't. I'll bet you a million bucks, MQ, that your newbies aren't even as good as I am. So we're supposed to take a cut in pay and just sent all reports to QA that have more than 3 markers or more? She mentioned how First Time Right empowers us by allowing us to use our resources??? Oh, the ones the Q took away? What about that extra set of ears we used to have when they valued paying people to QA?? The cesspool has now become a snake pit where it's do or die.

And one of the resources is - anon

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report look-up. Where others have typed reports on the same patient or by the same dictator - how many mistakes are in those reports?? Sometimes the format is not even anything like the client profile states. So how is that helpful at all??

I've used that - Sludge

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only because they can track to see if you have used the system. When I use it in the myriad of ways possible (time-consuming), 3/4 of the time I find no report, so is a total waste of time to me.

I had to laugh - at the FTR essay contest

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It's like MQ pooped and then asked us to write about how good it smelled.

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