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Seriously, some people do 300 LPH on ASR? Oh yeah sm - ververyoldMQMT

Posted: Mar 24, 2011

I pride myself on using ALL tools given us. I have ALWAYS been diligent in making my reports as perfect as possible. I ALWAYS researched terms new and not known, looking up old reports to help on unfamiliar hospitals and doctors. If I could transcribe (old term type) my reports I could easily do 300-500 lph, but I CANNOT get any of this type of work. I get 98% ASR. Lately it has become more than stupid!!! Entire wrong terms are entered when the doctor is clearly stating and should be "heard" by ASR. Words here and there left out that ARE crucial to the meaning and ARE clearly dictated. Flame me if you want people who say they do 300 lph. I honestly do not see how your reports can be that error free (including punctuation) on an ASR report.

You know what, I have been here 18 years and now am extremely sick with many illnesses too much to talk about. I am close to retirement at 62, but have 2 more years to go. I can't wait for disability, and I WANT and need to do my job. My work is extremely accurate and I have NEVER been dinged for shoddy output.

I will continue to do my job to the utmost of my ability, and I state again, will not compromise on the quality of a report, regardless of whether a doctor reads it or cares about the punctuation or not.

Blessings to us all MQ MT/ME'ers. Just do our jobs. The world is in so much chaos as it is, why sweat the stupidities of MSO's...

To veryveryoldMQMT....smg - Fossil

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I could have written this post myself as I am in the same boat as you.

Have been an MT for over 40 years, am same age as you, have been with the Q for 12 years, so am too old with too many health issues for new career, yet too young for SS.

I also do not understand how some can be doing 300+ lph on a consistent and "accurate" basis.
(accurate being the key word). Then again, when looking up reports in the system to check on something, I am amazed at the gross errors I find. Just this morning someone typed "X-ray of the head showed severe DJD"

I am down to making what I was in 1987. Is that a crime or what?

If you want, email me. Don't think there are too many of us oldies here any more, LOL.

I am doing 300 LPH plus with 99.5% QA or better - lka

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and I don't think I am killing myself doing it. I do mostly speech, hardly any text anymore. On my last 2 paychecks one was 302.93 and the other 333.85 LPH. I am 63 years old and been doing this for a while. Sometimes I can get on a roll and it comes very easy. I do read every single word and there are times I have to re-read and still achieve that. Nonetheless, the pay is certainly not like it was 20 years ago, so I am no further ahead, but certainly better than minimum wage. I think also it helps that I am part-time and so can be more focused. I do receive SS widow benefits so that is why I went part time, because if I make too much than I am penalized and have to pay more into the IRS. Finally after all these years I have more FREE time which is what I always wanted. Just the other day I was checking a particular doc or patient and could not believe the blatant errors I found on reports. I swear they did NOT read word for word or they would never have had those errors. Maybe it depends upon the platform too. I have escription and it is the best, even for the bad ESL docs.

I am doing 300 LPH plus with 99.5% QA or better - Wolfee

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I can hit 300+ LPH as a QA and maintain 99% to 100% accuracy on my monthly audits, but I can only do this with one of my jobs, the one that uses eScription. It absolutely makes all the difference in the world. I have a second part-time job that uses their own platform which is by far the worst, most cumbersome, user-UNfriendly program ever. Having a bad platform and even worse sound will slow down work production considerably, I wholeheartedly agree. If ya can't understand the friggin dictators because the sound is so horrid, then that's gonna kill anyone in this business no matter how good you are. So kudos to eScription - wish everyone would use them!!

My LPH is also helped by the fact that I truly know this business. I was trained by a genius 20+ years ago who used one simple rule in her teaching process... she removed the spellcheck from the computer I was using, which forced me to look everything up manually, not online but in an actual book, which in turn taught me about what I was actually typing and not just how to click on a list of possible correct spellings. Because as we all know, spell check isn't going to catch something like an x-ray of the head showing "DJD." lol

I also do 300+ LPH at 98-100% QA on bad SR, - Pragmatist

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and make an okay living on the SR part, although it is underpaid. I am an ordinary-talent typist. I am the breadwinner for our household.

Whenever someone says she's been doing this for decades and it's impossible to produce good-quality work AND make a livable income, I KNOW she's been doing something terribly dumb for a long time.

OP, don't you go thinking you put out significantly better work than I do with what I suspect is a lot of time-consuming fussing. You don't. I wouldn't say that if you didn't have another couple of years at this, but unfortunately you do, and you still need to smarten up and learn to transform wasted time and effort into money. That could require a new job, BTW. Another 2 years is a lot of exploitation to suffer IF that is also part of what's going on.

If you just can't change, at least don't come here and tell others in trouble that doing good work in good quantities is impossible. It's not.

agree - lll

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Totally agree - I regularly produce over 300 lines per hour. Its kind of like back in high school when you had typing tests - some could type 65+ words a minute with accuracy, some could only to 40 lines a minute with accuracy. If I could only do 100 lines an hour, I'd find anotherh profession, this isn't your thing.

To Pragmatist...smg - Fossil

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First of all, you did not say what VR program you work on. I am sure that it is possible to do 300+ on many VR programs, but I was directing my post specifically to VeryVeryOld MQMT regarding only the VR program (ASR) that Medquist uses. Her post was moved from the MQ board to this board, and I was only replying to her post regarding MQ's VR.

I have been using MQ's VR since its inception (almost 6 years), and it has steadily gotten progressively worse over time, not better. When you have to make 5-6 corrections in each and every line of text throughout a report, there is just no way to hit 300 lines or more.

Over on the MQ board, it is a rarity to see a post by someone who can produce much over 200 lph, let alone exceed 300 or more on MQ's VR.

But thank you for your delightful input and insight.

Yes I am a MedQuist employee, and a long time MT. sm - ververyoldMQMT

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First, I am trying hard to understand why the moderator felt she had to move my post from the MedQuist board to here in the first place. There are mass amounts of posts about our new line count. As a MT I used to transcribe about 400-500 lph. Then went to ASR as one of those asked to for the "trial". I did and spent a lot of time "training" MQ's ASR. Now a year ago we were bombarded by total revamp of the ASR and every stinking thing us oldies did to "fix and teach" it has gone by the wayside. 99% ASR in reports that require every other word to be changed. Priding myself always on looking up old reports, etc. which we DO NOT get recompensed for, and salaries going down ever more ever more. I am a CMT. I did not get it lightly. I used to be the supervisor of transcription at a major Military Base Hospital. Should I leave MQ and go somewhere else? Maybe, but at this stage of my live and the very serious nature of my health it is not practical. It was not my desire to be placed on this VR board. I am, quite frankly, distressed that the moderators chose me out of 50 others on MQ site to move her post. Thank you Fossil for trying to understand. The remainder of you Blessings to you also, as it seems most of you do not use the same MQ platform.

Hi, Fossil, I was also speaking directly to VVOM - regarding her assumption of

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"Flame me if you want people who say they do 300 lph. I honestly do not see how your reports can be that error free (including punctuation) on an ASR report."

A way-too-usual and dishonest rationale that anyone who's still doing well these days must be putting out slop.

I personally don't like that really speedy typists can leave me in the dust production-wise, no matter how hard I work, but I know they're out there and don't call them liars for speaking the truth.

You MQ guys sound like you have a lot to contend with. My platform is Enterprise, quite decent, but my accounts are set to allow very messy stuff through and require a whole lot of cleanup anyway, too often too much. Companies' attempts to hold onto their clients these days are often at our expense. Literally.

Seriously 500 LPH sm - Stop Whining and Concentrate!

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I've been doing 500 LPH on VR for almost 2 years (since I was plunged into it unwillingly). It's not that difficult if you all would just stop whining about it and concentrate on the task at hand. My transcribing LPH was 350-400. It's a pay cut for me as well but there are companies out there that will pay up to 6.5 cents per line for VR, so not that much of a pay cut if you're getting 10 cents transcribing.

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