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MTSOs who work with call-in dictating systems. See inside. -
Posted By: MTSO
If you work with a call in system, would you be willing to share if you like it/don't like it, how your transcriptionists acess their work (internet or through the call in system), where did you buy your system and is it efficient, etc. Thanks.
Please help on Gab board!! -
Posted By: TIA (nm)
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Is it customary to count headers/footers in this business when doing line counts? Thanks. nm -
Posted By: nm
Did anyone see the CEP Shay Reddy job listed -
Posted By: on the job board?
They are asking for someone to proof/MT for $9.00 an hour. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
 Quick, how do I sign up?
Lanier Setup Question -
Posted By: boosa
Does the Lanier system connect through your computer somehow or does it just connect to a phone line only for access? Thank you!
Pay Rate -
Posted By: Jenn
Any IC's out there...have you requested a pay increase and been told the company doesn't give pay increases to IC status, just employee status? As if the cost of living increase doesn't affect you if you are an IC?
Question about Spheris -
Posted By: CLS
Is Spheris a reputable company to train with?
TIA
Mysis Platform -
Posted By: I would like some information about the Mysis plat
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How do you add in auto correct? -
Posted By: Word 2007 question
2007 is really different than 2003. I can't seem to find how I do this. Thanks.
What works with what -
Posted By: LouLou
Trying to get out from under these excessive charges. I would like to know what I really need. Was told needed land phone in order to use internet. I have fast DSL and want to keep that, have router, land phone, wireless. I was using the internet for transcription but now am going to Word platform, still want to have the internet fast enough so will not feel like treading molasses. Thanks
Dictaphone and FIOS problems? -
Posted By: Barbara
I don't know if the problem with my Dictaphone system is because of the new FIOS phone line or if that was just a coincidence. We thought it was the foot pedal and that was replaced and arrived today and I'm still having the problem. Whenever I take my foot off the pedal to relisten (not always but quite frequently) I seem to lose the file. Is anyone using Dictaphone with FIOS with or without problems?
Thanks in advanced
Barbara
Happiness is finding a small stash of frozen Snickers bars -
Posted By: chocolate before noon
left over from Halloween. Today is a really bad day for me. Can't I just go back to bed and start all over again tomorrow?
Are there any Nationals that consider vacation pay, holiday pay, and sick pay separately sm -
Posted By: anon
rather than wrapping them all into one so you have to use your crummy 10 days PTO to cover vacation, illness, and times of low work? Doesn't leave any vacation time. 
Need help with invoice... -
Posted By: DG
Does anyone have any samples or know where I can obtain some. I have looked everywhere. I did a fill-in transcription job for the past week and now I need to submit an invoice, but I have never done one. Please help!!!
WESTSIDE TRANSCRIPTION -
Posted By: Suzy
HI,
Has anyone out there ever worked for Westside Transcription or ever heard of them? Been offered a job, but do not know anything about them...Do they pay on time?
Thanks
Question about using a laptop with Escription. sm -
Posted By: searching
I can't use Escription on my desktop. I am thinking about getting a backup laptop. Have been studying the field, but I am not a genius when it comes to computers, just plugging along. Exactly what kind of specs does it take to run Escription? Can I use Office 2007, or do I need the older 2003 Pro version? It wouldn't run with my 2003 Basic. How much memory and hard drive space, what type processor, etc.? I believe I need XP, not Vista. Any info appreciated. TIA.
word help! -
Posted By: Mary
Has anybody heard of something used in echocardiograms called (s/l Olfex, Offex), maybe some kind of contrast?
pedal not working -
Posted By: kims
I purchased a used pedal with the 15-pins. Got an adapter for USB. Downloaded files from Express Scribe. Pedal not working. Went under settings, control, changed ports, moved pedal from one USB to another on back of tower. Nothing working. Tech support told me to do the above. Any ideas would be greatly, greatly appreciated as this is all Greek to me!
Beef about account managers -
Posted By: me
I'll say right off which company I'm talking about, it's DTS out of TN. I'm not mad, just at the point of head banging. I'd really like to know what it is that some account managers do and where they get them. I transcribe on several accounts and without fail, not one of them seems to know anything about the account. One particular one, "GK", I'll email with a question and IF she answers back, it will be somebody else's question, an "I don't know" or "where did you read that" (well DUH I read it in the account instructions). You get doctor lists that came out before modern medicine was invented and after requesting new ones 10-20 times, you just give up (some you can't get online). Then you get emails if you leave a blank for a doctor or feedback from QA that they can't find them either. Two accounts are GONE just this month, wonder if this has anything to do with it?
mt week -
Posted By: donna
is MT week next week?? thanks
How do I set Express Scribe as my default for wav files?? -
Posted By: Sherrie
Need to Vent Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
Posted By: Penny V
I am so mad at these big companies. I know this is has nothing to do with my job as a medical transcriptionist, but I just need to vent a little. My husband works for the government as a meat inspector and this "BIG" meat packing company just decided yesterday that it was going to up and close with no warning to any of the employees. It was just "At the end of the day, you will be out of a job." I cannot even begin to express my feelings for the workers at these plants. At least my husband still has a paycheck coming in from working for the government. Today, he is working in a plant that is a 6 hour drive from our home. We will probably be sent out to the east coast for relocation. We have 2 daughters that are in high school and a 3 year old that do not want to move. We have always lived in a very small community of 125 people in the Midwest. My daughters are so upset and I am just mad. How can a big company do this to its valued workers without caring? I am just missing my husband as I know he will be detailed out to just about every state until they decide where THEY want to put him. I AM SO MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Word 2003 help -
Posted By: Pat
HELP! I've used Word 2003 for years. I bought a new computer with XP, NOT Vista, loaded the program back on and it seems to work fine EXCEPT I always worked in normal view, just like it better. However, now in normal view will NOT display the entire status bar words as before; i.e., Ln does NOT show up. For example, if I wanted to skip to Line 6.75 or whatever, I have no clue where it is. Print view, I know, displays all of this. In normal view, it never shows page breaks either which it did before. My problem is, I really like to work in normal view and have done so for years with the above items showing up on the status bar. The status bar is there at the bottom but won't display Ln at all. I have two reference books and cannot for the life of me figure thisout. Any ideas? Perhaps reinstalling it again???
need a good surgical equipment website, anyone have one -
Posted By: old_MT
Any help would be needed. Learning to do acute care ops - and need some good surgical equipment sites.
Thanks
Which platform do you find the best -
Posted By: Curious
and allows you to get the most lines? Is EXText one of them? Have been offered a job using EXText but have heard differing opinions regarding line count. Thanks. 
Help need ASAP on word board -
Posted By: Nanna23
In the midst of a long radiology/onc report.
IC Questions -
Posted By: Sharon
Hi. I just accepted my first job as an IC and I am nervous! Did I do a stupid thing by going IC instead of employee? They are paying 8.5 for 65-char line including spaces and returns. Does this sound reasonable? How do I pay my taxes? What about social sec? HELP!
Questions about EMRs and transcription integration -
Posted By: Tonya
Hi everyone! I am trying to understand EMR and where transcriptionists fit in, if at all. I see a lot of TASPs that claim they can be integrated with EMR systems. I have no idea what this means. I've even called them and they can't explain it to me. My impression is that EMRs work like big databases with fields that you fill in with information, but I've never actually seen one so I'm not sure. Do any transcriptionists work on an EMR-type systems or know anything about them?
Thanks for the info.
what did you think of the Six Feet Under -
Posted By: season finale? I was disappointed.
It seemed a little rushed at the ending. I was also expecting to cry or get emotional or get shocked like I usually do. It was very mundane and the ending was rushed. Looks like everyone died exactly the same way, except the gay boyfriend.
Instant Text suddenly not working with Editscript -
Posted By: NC
Anyone no why Instant Text V would suddenly stop working with Editscript version 8? It has been doing fine for months since I upgraded to Word 2003 and EditScript 8. Now, today, it decides to poop out. Anyone? Anyone?
Another Shorthand Question. How to Bold -
Posted By: Sunny
I know this has been on the boards before, but would appreciate instructions on how to bold with Shorthand. TIA very much.
Does anyone know of a place for online education or materials I can use at home for my second grader -
Posted By: for summer school education?
My second grader is really struggling through the end of school. I want to work with her over the summer so she is prepared for third grade. Our school district will only provide summer tutoring if the child has actually flunked. I am trying to prevent her from flunking. She is a B-C student and I want to help her maintain or acheive better than that. Her older sister is a straight A student, but I know every child is different. I am not trying to make her a straight A student, I just want her to get as much out of her lessons as possible. Does anyone know of a virtual learning site that will provide me with the correct materials to teach her over the summer? We live in a small town in the country in Ohio and we have no tutoring available unless i driver her about 50 miles one way! Thanks for any help!
How do I bold entries in Shorthand? -
Posted By: Nothing in the Help box about it. nm
nm
Anyone tried these shortcuts? -
Posted By: productive?
Has anyone ever set up a keyboard shortcut system like this one at this website http://medicaltranscriptionexpandproductive.blogspot.com/ ? This person is using each key on the keyboard for commonly used words. Is this productive?
who actually owns MT Stars? how do i know it's not MQ to see your deepest thoughts and renegades -
Posted By: just curious
who are anti-MQ? are the owners names anywhere on this site? i know i can sleep better if it's not anyone affiliated with MQ. if MQ personnel own this site i'm doomed.
The doctor just said ^^ The patient was given a bolus of urine. ^^ -
Posted By: Dictator should be glad this job didn't go to V
Don't we just love our jobs !!
line count -
Posted By: melissa
I know I have seen this posted before, just cannot find it, is there a good line counter out there that is freeware? I have MPcount, but it does not count headers unless you upgrade from the freeware version. Thank you
Anybody here on the board work -
Posted By: Patience
for Proscript?
Okay, I just started SR, but come on! This is ridiculous. SM -
Posted By: RockinMT
First, this is an American, clear as a bell dictator. Dictation does not come more straight forward than this guy:
SR: This is a vaginal lady
Actually dictated: This is a 51-year-old lady
Somebody explain to me how SR is such a wonderful tool?!?!?!
I am doing SR on Dictaphone EXText and it is just awful. Reports are just full of this kind of crap. I was just wondering does the Dictaphone SR server "learn." I know there are some SR programs that learn after the same correction is made consistently. The SR server will then auto correct itself. Is this true with Dictaphone? Because I have been doing SR for a couple of months now and it hasn't gotten any better and I'm making the same corrections over and over! I might as well be transcribing!
LIne count for template -
Posted By: HMS
I might sign up a Physical Rehab account and the physician had an existing template. I have to type in what she dictates into the template and delete the irrelevant data from the template. Any ideas on how line count should be done for this. The Sylvan software I have counts the existing characters from the template as well. Any software out there that counts only the Keystrokes I make?
I guess it is time to make a stand... -
Posted By: AngryMT
I just received my first subscription via E-mail to Advance Health Magazine.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY HAD TWO ADVERTISEMENTS IN IT FOR HIRING INDIA MTs?
These are about 1/4 of a page size. One is from CBAY, which is Spheris, which is their 100% India company. Bragging a 30% decrease in costs to hospitals.
This not only threatens American MTs with losing jobs outright, but it also UNDERCUTS us. This is why we are making less money, less benefits, and needing to work harder.
I sent an E and cancelled immediately. Actually, I had been considering it for a while because of a bit percentage of their Medical Transcription articles are pro- undercutting American MTs, anyway, just like AAMT.
In my opinion, WE ARE BEING SOLD-OUT, AND BEING SOLD-OUT BY AAMT as they push harder and harder to make money any way they can, even by supporting Indian MTs, who are probably being told they "have" to join their organization...
They have been trying to force American MTs to become certified to fill their pockets and position themselves for the future as a monopoly. However, it seems American MTs are not as easily led as in India, so they flip-flopped. If you can't beat them, join them, right?
I am so disgusted. Last month they had an article from someone encouraging companies to hire American MTs and I was so hopeful, but this made me sick, to get it in my E-mail.
Time for me to make a stand. My job is worth fighting for and I need it...
PTSIO Syndrome - Please Read -
Posted By: Oncology/OrthoMT24INPA
 Moms, are you suffering from PTSIO Syndrome?
This is "Post Traumatic School Is Out" Syndrome.
Symptoms include:
* Loss of balance due to tripping over piles of leftover school
supplies, end of year projects, extra gym shoes and paint shirts.
* Headaches due to sudden loss of any personal time during the day
as well as loss of late evening personal time. they are staying up
later than you now that it's summer!
* Feeling of chaos due to house a disaster 24/7 (used to at least be
clean a few hours while kids at school.
* Earaches due to loud begging from children for sleepovers with
friends, as well as pleas for setting up the pool, and/or going to
the pool.
* Dizziness due to increased shuttling to and from friends' houses,
swimming lessons, summer camps, baseball and other sports.
* Ringing in ears due to phone and doorbell constantly ringing with
friends wanting to play.
* Pain in the neck due to husband's annoying: What did you do today honey?
(DUH! The kids are home!)
*Sudden weight gain and bad hair days due to Mom's inability to go
to the gym, get a hair cut/color caused by kids' constant presence.
*Feelings of claustrophobia due to kids hanging on you, causing
inability to accomplish simple tasks like going to grocery store.
Length of PTSIO Syndrome:
Usually about 90 days (June-August)
Remedies include: Locking yourself in the bathroom for the next 90 days
and/or stocking up on beer, wine and other alcoholic consumables as coping
mechanisms. Other possible remedies include taping therapeutic Oprah
episodes and watching late night. (Lord knows you can't watch it during the day - "their shows are on!)
Prognosis: While PTSIO Syndrome is not fatal, some mothers have been driven to
the brink of insanity, but thankfully almost all regain their faculties by early September.
can you take part of the water bill under the home office deduction? (nm) -
Posted By: home-office IC
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Ranch Turkey Meatloaf Recipe -
Posted By: Laura
I don't know about you...but I get sick of the same old thing for dinner...uggghhh Try this...last night my family was the trial and gave the verdict....mmmm..mmmm...good....ENJOY
Ranch Turkey Meatloaf
2 eggs
3/4 c. of ranch flavored tortilla chips (crushed into small pieces)
3 Tbsp. Salsa (I used mild...depends on how spicy you like things)
2 Tbsp. Ranch Salad dressing...(I only use Kraft...but I am sure you can use any other kind of Ranch dressing)
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. poultry seasoning
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 lb. ground turkey
Mix all the ingredients together....until you get a meatloaf consistency. Then put into a baking dish and bake @ 350 degrees for one hour. Serve this with salsa and sour cream (strictly your preference) but dipping in the salsa and sour cream just enhances the turkey loaf... ENJOY!!!
Let me know what you think...
If anyone from California gets a chance - go to the GAB Board sm -
Posted By: mag
my post was moved there, and I'm so afraid that no one will see it.
how do get rid of password protected -sm -
Posted By: Cindy
computer. I had it so a password needed to be entered on my PC but would like to change that now. How do I do that? Thanks.
DocShuttle ease of use -
Posted By: looking again
I am looking for part time work and wonder what good and/or bad anybody has experienced with the DocShuttle Transcriptionist/Client software. I have an IN-BMG foot pedal. I don't want to put out money for software and not have it work with my pedal. Can I keep my macros and expanders, do I need a special adapter? My present pedal is in the 15-pin joystick port on my computer.
Any and all comments good or bad deeply appreciated.
Need some input from MTs who transitioned -
Posted By: from at home to in hospital positions.
I'm thinking about taking a position at the local HUGE teaching hospital. I don't know the pay yet, but the benefits are really good. I'm trying to think about what it would be like to not work at home... and it kind of scares me. But at the same time, it excites me... One of my major concerns is missing my dogs LOL. and them missing me, of course.
Would appreciate any input from any of ya'll about your experience and things I might want to consider when deciding whether or not to leave my comfort zone.
Oh, and it's located within 5 miles of my house, so gas would be a consideration, but not huge.
Thanks!
mt-what to charge? -
Posted By: gina
I work at a mental health clinic as a transcriptionist/records person. A coworker asked if I would be interested in making some extra cash by typing some documents for him and his buddies that are in college. I am interested but have no idea WHAT TO CHARGE? 1 cent per word? i have no idea please help.
-Gina
How much do you.... -
Posted By: Carla
make? Just wondering what most of you make in a week working full time.
Also, do you use a word expander?
Thanks for the info.
Carla
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