Re: Any way to figure out typing speed yourself?
- From: "Sandi" <sanditypes@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:40:40 -0500
"Christie" <transcription@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok, here's the long story that I was avoiding...
> I get paid per page. It's templated so it's kind of easier this way, but
> makes the line counter in Word pretty useless. Well, I suppose if I
> figured
> out how many lines are on each type of template and then subtract that
> from
> the total it would work, but that is a lot more work than it's worth and
> I'm
> not sure how useful it would be to me.
> I've been with the doctor for 4 years now and this has worked out great.
> He's given me raises on my rates on his initiative and really treats me
> like
> an employee come holidays and office outings. I also fill in as a medical
> assistant from time to time when they need help.
> Because I'm somewhere between IC doing just their transcription and an
> employee, I do (in my opinion) a little bit more than a big service would
> do. For example, if he needs a letter sent to a doctor but doesn't have
> his
> address, I look for it. If anything is flagged, I follow up with the
> office
> and then retype it. If I notice people on the schedule weren't dictated,
> I
> let them know so they can be dictated if they did indeed show up. Then of
> course there's the typical following up of "cervical MRI showed L3-4 disc"
> and "male, LMP on 1/21/06".
> Lately, it seems like I've been doing a lot more of the
> administrative-type
> stuff, which my rate doesn't include. I haven't really had a day off for
> a
> while - the days I'm not typing, I'm going back taking care of notes that
> needed more information.
> Before I can just blanket "I need a raise," I want to make sure that my
> typing speed hasn't slowed down - I took a typing test for some weird
> reason
> the other night online and it did come up slower, but it always is when
> you're typing something you're reading. If the typing speed is okay, my
> next step is to give the doctor the option of either streamlining what
> this
> procedure has turned into, or pay me more. As wonderful as he is, he's not
> going to pay me an insane amount when he can go to India unless I point
> out
> exactly what extras he's getting.
> Of course, if it turns out that for some reason my typing speed is not
> what
> it used to be then it's all on me. I can't do the typical "time how long
> it
> takes you" because my 3-year-old screws that up each time! lol This
> isn't
> perfect, but it's better than nothing and will at least give me an idea.
>
> --
> Christie
>
In spite of everything you just said, I don't see where your typing speed
has a thing to do with what your work is worth. If anything, the faster you
are, the more you can produce in a given hour, which will make him tend
toward paying you less per piece, not more. All of the things that you list
as extras, such as catching mistakes and so on, are really just part of
medical transcription in my opinion, and not "extras" at all.
Sandi
.
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