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It seems as if my Keystrokes are made but the cursor landing the typed letter on the screen are not in time, if that makes sense.  It does not happen in wordpad just in the Meditech portion of my program.

I went into control panel and adjusted cursor blink but then it was worse, adjusted time to "fast" on the slide scale but that also made it worse.  Am I doomed to the fact that when I hit a key, the character I typet will appear in a nanosecond as opposed to immediately?

Thank you!

I feel bad because I totally shouldn't feel this way but something about men MTs seems off to me. For some reason it bothers me that there is a lot of male dominance at the higher level in the MT field as well, i.e. supervisors and management seem to be largely male while the MT population as a whole isn't.

Any comments or commentary on the idea?  Like I said, I feel bad that I'm not comfortable with it yet but I guess it's because it's so rare to see.

I typed:  CHIEF COMPLAINT:  "I was hallucinating."

I was corrected as:  CHIEF COMPLAINT:  "I was hallucinating".

Am I wrong here?

on the latest updates and changes for MTs as far as style, format, etc.  For example, when I first started working as an MT I was taught to type type II diabetes which has now changed to type 2 diabetes.  Just wondering . . . .  

Hi people :)

When MT gets very boring (which is most days for me), I have a few things I'll do to keep producing. Will you please share any games you play with yourself to crank out some extra lines (something more than "I need to meet the bills, and that keeps me in the chair").

Here's mine. I hope these will help. Please share yours!

• Try to get the % keystrokes saved in Shorthand higher than the last time I worked.


• Keep a timer with me - transcribe 20 minutes, clean home for 10, transcribe 20, clean for 10. Not a very productive way, but I use this when I am truly climbing the walls and nothing else works. Sometimes if I'm on a roll and the 20 minutes are up, I'll just hit the timer again and go for another 20 before the cleaning break. The break gets my house in order (amazing what can be done in 10 minutes - folded laundry and dishes running and so on), gives my wrists a break, gets the blood flowing.


• I find the times I have the worst trouble sitting there and working are the times when it's been a while since I've been out of the house. Getting out regularly helps working go much easier.


• Sometimes set a goal of a specific amount 300 lines or whatever is a slight stretch but can possibly be reached in an hour, and aim for that.


• A walk to the mailbox or other light exercise can help.


• I haven't tried a regular exercise break in the middle of the day (say a 1-hour break to reenergize and really get a good workout in), but if that helps you I hope you'll share.


• Try to get to half of my line count by noon.


• Get done for the day in time to watch Dr. Phil as a reward. :)

Will someone please tell me how to set up a "field" I think it's called in a template and then how to jump from one to the next to fill in what you need?

Example:

The patient is a * seen today for *, etc, etc.

Thanks for any/all help.

I would like some info on this area of VA.  My son may be going to college there and we would move there if he is recruited.  I can take my job with me, but my husband would need to find work.  He is a very skilled carpenter.  I am interested to know about the job market, housing prices, schools (I have a 15 yo). Any info would be appreciated.

Theresa

Would anyone be interested in sharing their opinions or experience with a flexible keyboard.  I saw one in a discount food store, a place called Aldis, and it was about 14, 15 bucks. 

It looked interesting; however, I am so used to punching the keys down (the keys and board look almost wafer-thin!) so wanted to know if anyone has tried it and if they liked it or not. 

Any input would be appreciated, thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving season to everyone. 

on the suggestion to slow down and listen ahead.  Not only do I have trouble doing it, but is seems fruitless, as so many of my dictators change their minds several times and other such nonsense. 

I would love to hear from those who have tried (or continue to make it work) and any suggestions or thoughts on it.

Thanks! 

If you are IC and you live in California and the company you work for is in New York, which state do you claim your taxes with??  The state you live in or the state of the company that you work for?

Thanks!

My son was hit by a car 7 years ago and sustained a traumatic brain injury. He was in a coma and went through over a year of rehabilitation. He was 15 at the time and finished high school, went on to Junior College and has just finished a year at a state university. He has struggled with learning disabilities and short term memory problems since the accident and has barely passed his classes. It looks as though this was his last semester at school because his grade point average isn't high enough to let him continue school. He will be put on academic suspension. He wanted to go away to school so badly and worked so hard to make it and I know he will be so disapointed when he finds out he won't be going back in the fall.

He is definately a miracle and I thank God everyday that he is alive but I don't know what to do to help him anymore. My question is "Is there anyone out there with a similar situation who can give me some advice on where to go from here?"

Over the past months I have been trying to convince superiors at MQ of the need to have the playback speed increased even more than we are able to at the present.  I proofread all reports and when you have a slow dictator, it can take forever.  If you agree, please make a post and maybe that will convince them to do something about it.

This is simply too funny!

http://www.askmen.com/video/current/index.html

I have been doing medical transcription for a year and lately, if I type for more than an hour at a time, my fingers start to tingle and then get stiff and numb.  I am using an ergonomic keyboard and have a beanbag wrist rest.  Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to keep my hands in the correct position while typing?  I have heard there are gloves I can get - does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks

Is anyone familiar with this platform? Is it compatible with MS Word and Instant Text?

Thanks.

website at the link below to be added to the do not call list. 

It is our understanding that many MTs are being solicited at all hours of the day and night by this company.

My husband learned from an associate of a program called Ewido, that is supposed to beat the pants off all other spyware products. I tried it against others on my system:  Spy Sweeper, Spy Bot, and Spy Blaster. Ran all three first and then put Ewido through the paces. Ewido still found 7 more infected areas before it removed them.

You can try the product for free before you purchase it ($30). For anyone who is interested:   http://www.ewido.net/en/

Some of you probably know me but I am small MTSO, 2 part-time IC's.  One of mine does Psych Eval and I pick up tapes once a week usually, 2-3 tapes on Thurs or Friday.  I deliver to her.   Do not need the last one back until Weds a.m.  I usually ask that if there are two, one back on Monday and one on Tues p.m.  So the doc does get them all at once.  They have to be out in the mail by Thurs from him, I send them to him and he prints and mails.   Well this gal has been doing this account for over a year.  She is always rushed and trying to get them done "faster" all the time to make that much more per hour.  (I pay 0.8 per gross line with headers and footers counted).   So there is usually 350 to 400 lines per account which she does in about an hour since I have set up so many templates.  Good money I think.  But she rushes so much that there are minor mistakes being made -- wit instead of with, or instead of on, bear essentials instead of bare essentials,  not big ones but little. I feel that because he gives us so much time tht these reports should be 100% accurate with the typing and grammer -- am I wrong.  I make very little on this account, 25% of the take at maximum.  So I told her that if the reports came back PERFECT I would pay her 0.85 cents per line and she really got upset.  Said that humans make mistakes, etc.  Am I out of line?  She really gets defensive on the corrections I send her and so I stopped sending them to her.  Yea she used to be a friend.   So how to you like to be told that you have errors?   I try not to be too stern but when she attaches the incorrect letter to a psych eval that got me the other night.  Give me some advice. I mainly just E-mail her back the corrections I have made but evidently I am too "harsh" and demanding too much perfection.    Thanks.  Patti