

Also, because the arbitrary test conditions, notably the specimen and probe's geometries and the set deformation level significantly affect the TPA parameters' magnitudes, assigning them textural term leads to logical inconsistencies, making their relationship to the food's actual properties even more difficult to establish. But because they are all specimen size-dependent, they cannot be considered intensive material properties. The TPA parameters are supposedly objective measures of the tested food's textural attributes. Their measured and calculated parameters, for example, “hardness,” “brittleness,” and “cohesiveness,” bear only a remote relationship to the same properties as understood in material science and other disciplines. I heard them make inappropriate comments about patients and - more.Although innovative at the time of their inception, all the historic and extant instrumental texture profile analysis (TPA) versions have serious methodological flaws.

Physicians will also try to force you to talk to them and be more "friendly", even if its not your personality, and laugh at their jokes to stroke their ego. They have required monthly "meetings." They make you eat and play games with your co-workers like some kind of forced play date. I took this job because I was desperate for healthcare experience and regret it so much. Promising them time with physicians instead of decent pay. They're taking advantage of people looking for experience in healthcare. Travel time is not included in your hours. After that you're expected to work in Battle Creek occasionally. Not to mention that you get told you'll primarily work in one location, just to get you in the door. It seems suspicious that I got fired out of nowhere. Then you have to do "bedside training" where you're expected to remember all the that someone said to you during the "classroom training." I don't want to pull the "race card" BUT I was the only non-assimilating person of color working for them. It makes it hard to actually learn anything. You're sitting with the "trainer" and a couple new hires and she's just talking at you for hours. The "class room training" is super awkward. They will tell you that you're doing great and you'll even get compliments from the physician on your performance and then you'll get fired out of nowhere. They are extremely fake (especially the people who train you). Overall, I enjoyed my time working with iScribe and I am grateful for the experiences, but I would not recommend it unless you need the clinical experiences.ĭo not work here. There is a lot of room for improvement on management's end here. This company also threatens to write up or fire employees, or throw you under the bus to the physicians if you are unable to make it to a shift to chart for them (which can hurt your ability to get into medical school, many of them are affiliated with the local medical school). Also, the system to receive raises was poor, and it would take excessive amounts of time to recieve any raises (even if you did an excellent job charting, most of it is based on picking up shifts and other random opportunities).

There were many bad parts unfortunately.The pay was not good for the amount of work scribes do, and there was no pay differential for working night shift. I gained considerable amount of experience here that helped me move forward with my desired career in medicine.

The good part of working here was the clinical experiences, opportunity to meet many physicians, and many wonderful other scribes.
