Medical Transcription Discussion Forums:
General Discussion Forums:
Recently Viewed Messages: (An archive of over 1 million messages related to medical transcription industry)
Transcription fairy please bring me sm -
Posted By: mlstoo
good, clear dictators, easy work, good work flow, interesting work (nothing boring now), a good attitude, excellent focus as my mind is wandering tonight, no mistakes, 200 lines per hour, no distractions or interruptions, motivations to reach my goal, etc, etc, etc.
As you can see, finding it hard to work tonight. Feel free to add to the list. I wish the transcrition fairy really existed, don't you?  
Smartype and Scribe? -
Posted By: How to make them work together?
Has anyone gotten Smartype and Scribe to work together? If so, how did you do it? Thanks so much
my kids are driving me crazy... -
Posted By: bd
cant wait til school starts again...
Teach a newbie to fish -
Posted By: Let's be better teachers.
I don't think it helps them. I started looking at the Word Help board after I read a post earlier this evening about the low-level questions newbies are wanting answers for. One was something like "vigomatic...this is somewhere on the head." Are you KIDDING??? I couldn't believe it. I think it would serve this person much better to give him/her some ideas on how to find the answer rather than to just give the answer away. Just giving the answer away is not really helping them learn anything. It's just letting them copy your homework.
What's that saying? Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
In the earlier discussion I mentioned, someone thought posting on the board (in a virtual situation) was the same thing as asking a teacher for an answer in a classroom situation. Well, I think a great teacher in a classroom situation would do the same thing; i.e., point the student toward the dictionary or the encyclopedia or whatever, not just give away the answer.
I really have to wonder how someone can end up as a working transcriber & not know, or at least have been exposed to, the word "zygomatic" at some point. How did this person get a job? Scary, especially considering how protective we are of our field and how much better at it we think we are than anyone else on the planet.
There are no shortcuts. Every great working Transcriptionist has had to look everything up, has had to go through the unbearable period when getting through one report was like swimming through concrete. Are newbies these days under the impression that there is another way? Because there isn't.
Wow, do most of y'all work in your bedrooms? sm -
Posted By: I do, too!
I thought I was in the minority here, working in my bedroom. Figured most MTs had a nice home office. Well, nice to know I'm not alone in my bedroom...
Is Yahoo mail down? nm -
Posted By: can't get in on any computer
nm
Bluetooth headphones -
Posted By: MxS IC
Just wondering if any one uses bluetooth or wireless headphones. My new laptop has bluetooth ability. So wondering if some of these dandy bluetooth headphones will work for transcribing. Motorola has a pair that goes behind the head, into the ears... they advertise mainly for cell phone and ipod use, want to know how well they will work for sound quality transcribing before I spend over 100.00 on a pair.. Thanks!
SoftScript's Software versus Meditech -
Posted By: Kelly
I have heard of possibly using SoftScript's platform/software/interface for Meditech. What can anyone tell me about this interface?
Right now we type in Meditech for each individual report before we type it. It takes FOREVER! Then we have to file the report electronically when we finish typing it. It is a very slow process.
I wanted to know if this interface I am hearing about for Meditech from SoftScript is anything like straight typing or is it a lot of inputting information?
Has anyone typed in Meditech before and now works for SoftScript or used to work for them who can give me an opinion as to how much quicker it might be?
Any relative information would be helpful!
is a platform... -
Posted By: maryann
i using express scribe and have been reading here about platforms, is express scribe considered a platform? I have did MT for over ten years in an office setting but this is my 1st at home position and am unfamiliar with the platform. In the office setting we only used microcassettes and typed verbatim. So please forgive my ignorance in this realm. Would someone be willing to explain or give an example. I would appreciate it. I like to be knowledgable in the aspects of mt and feel you're never too old to be knowledgable. Thanks!!
Broken tape -
Posted By: Shell
HELP! I have had a microcassette tape break. Any ideas on how to fix it (if possible!)? 
Thanks!
I need some ideas on benefits and fundraising. -
Posted By: please help, not MT related
I volunteered (gulp) to help a friend of a friend with a benefit for a child with a potentially terminal illness. Has anyone here ever done anything like this before? Can you help me brainstorm ideas? I've been making phone calls all day since there's no work. We're putting up fliers and I've contacted the media. We're selling raffle tickets and auctioning off gift baskets. We're soliciting donations and food for the event. What else? Any ideas on businesses I should contact? Thank you.
What is your favorite software for -
Posted By: mtstudent
playing dictation? I always used free ES. The other day (my son changed the default player) a file popped in Real Player and it was 200% clearer!
Thank you. :)
Editing 3rd world work -
Posted By: sm
I just edited two jobs that were typed in the Middle East. There is NO WAY anyone can truthfully claim these people will make fair MTs, never mind good ones and to say nothing of great one. And the foreign owned companies think it will be possible to send this type of work straight to the facility without US ED??
Simply leave out the language. Goldbird
Wanting to buy used Word,(is this legal? ) only have works. -
Posted By: SM
.
s/l Seifer stent, Sifer stent, can't reference! -
Posted By: gmg
x
Typing Family/Friend/Own Reports -
Posted By: Allison
How do you handle having to type a report for a close friend, family member or for yourself? If you have independent contractors, do you allow them to type a report on a family member or themselves?
Spheris -
Posted By: Patti
If no one has access to our E-mail address and this is the only place that they could have gotten it, how did they as I just got an E-mail from them about applying for a job? So somehow our E-mail addresse are not protected as they say that they are on this board? Did anyone else receive it? I have never posted my resume, or applied for a job throught his board as I own my own MTSO. Makes me wonder about how safe our E-mail addresses are.
How much support is normal? -
Posted By: LB
The company I am with is pushing hard for MTs to go from clinic and ER notes to acute care. After 4 years, I feel like I am ready for this but this company offers extremely little in the way of samples, maybe 2 or 3 on some of the toughest authors; no way to review reports that have been sent for editing, and no way to communicate with others working in your accounts.
I have the basic format of the work down but the authors can be very tough to learn with no feeback. There also does not seem to be any kind of raise involved, so if I can do 250 LPH doing clinic notes why struggle through that with a company that does not seem real inclined to help? For those who do acute care, do you prefer it or do you do it for more money?
Has anyone seen Shepard Smith from -
Posted By: Just me
fox today? He's looked really worn down the last few days and I can understand why, but haven't seen him at all today. Yesterday he almost lost it a few times on tv and wondering if they brought him home for rest.
Latest Instant Text revision 541 and MS Word -
Posted By: everydayearthling
Has anyone noticed Word save and opening of new documents slow down since upgrading to IT Revision 541 or is it just me? I tried other things, such as clean disc, defrag, ran System File Check for Windows XP, and Registry Cleaner. These things helped speed up everything on my computer except Word, which would still be very slow to save and open a new document.
I uninstalled IT and reinstalled the older version and now Word is back to normal speed. Has anyone else experienced a slow down with the revision or is it just me? I also didn’t like how the new version linked with spelling and grammar check window in Word.
It's probably just me. I'm always having weird problems. I'm using Word 2002 (XP) by the way.
Is there a quick way to get WavPedal software? I have a new computer and the foot pedal, but...sm -
Posted By: AzMT
no software. A company is asking for it to test.
tia
EMDAT question -
Posted By: Nellie
I have read on here that some of the transcriptionists who work on the EMDAT platform actually work in Word and then copy/paste it back to EMDAT. How do you do this? In regard to a foot pedal which one would you use? Are there problems doing this? Thanks for any info.
what is the longest you are willing to wait for check? sm -
Posted By: MDmt
Background - been typing for a Chicagoland MTSO for over seven years now. Invoices are sent 15th and end of month and paid 30 days later. For the most part, invoices are received on a pretty regular basis, but there have been notable delays explained away by the Chicago Post Office is the worst in the nation. Fast forward to today; in the past two months I have received exactly ONE invoice - the rest have been delayed because of the Chicago PO or lost in the mail so stop payment (supposedly) on the oldest check and reissuance. It was supposedly mailed 08/15 and now seven mailing days later I still do not have it. I have sent polite e-mails to the accounting person but I keep being told to wait 10 business days before a new check can be cut. In the meantime, college tuition is due and bank account is dwindling. I am in the process of looking for another MTSO but in the meantime, general consensus on how long you would wait for a check. I have a long history with this MTSO and don't really want to go the labor and wage board route but I am getting kind of fed up...I can't work for free!
MS word help -
Posted By: Tracey
On the toolbar there is an email button and when I accidently push that every Expander abbrev I try to type it won't type in the document it goes into an email as an attachment and wants me to send it to someone. I have tried and cannot seem to cancel this .
ANYBODY HAVE IDEAS?? IT IS A REALL PAIN IN THE _____!!!!
THANKS IN ADVANCE
Express Scribe not playing end of dictation? -
Posted By: Anyone else having this issue?
Every once in a while I get a file that Express Scribe can't play the last 2-4 minutes of. It appears to be playing, but the sound cuts out. When I send the reports to QA, they say they can hear the whole file fine. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there something wrong on my end? I checked the NCH website and others have posted this same problem but have received no responses so I am trying here instead. I also tried to play the file in Windows Media and it stops at the same point, but says it can't play the file. I am just confused why QA can get it to play, but I cannot.
How to balance it all. -
Posted By: Time management
I've been doing MT for 7 looooong years now and have recently gone back to school (pre-med). I've had to find a new job, a child with ADD/depression who takes massive amounts of one on one time to get school work done, etc., and another little one. I'm struggling getting work done and my homework. I took a fairly light load (13 credits) but am just feeling overwhelmed. Any time saving tips would be greatly appreciated!
Recruiters, would you be leery? -
Posted By: sm
If you received an email from someone with a generic, i.e., hotmail address saying they were a recruiter for a company would you wonder? Seems odd to me.
Instant text/Chartscript.NET -
Posted By: Twitters
I have seen several posts on this but have not seen a definitive answer as to whether or not IT will work with Chartscript.NET (not .com).
Female Elmer Fudd dictates! (sm) -
Posted By: tnmt
"She has a known history of uterine leio, leiomy, ly, leio, leiom, la...ugh...uterine, um, fibroids."
This doctor -
Posted By: LOL
likes to go DUBADUBADUBADUBADUBADUBADO while he is thinking of what to say next. It was funny at first, but 5 minutes in it is becoming very annoying!
Anyone use VoIP phone system -
Posted By: cowpatty
and are you having problems with connectivity? We switched to internet-based phone service a few weeks ago and recently I started having problems with downloading the voice. I get the report but without any voice. If you have had this problem, how did you remedy it? I'm about at my wit's end. Thanks!
med help -
Posted By: CathyC
I am not sure if I am on the right board but perhaps someone can redirect me if I am not. I have not transcribed for about a year, but know that there were changes in abbreviations for meds, like q.i.d. and q.d, etc. Can someone remind me of what those changes were or tell me where to look for them. I appreciate the help. Thanks in advance.
word expanders -
Posted By: sue
Has anyone used SmartType as a word expander? How do you find it?
What a shortage of medical transcriptionists -
Posted By: (sm)
Whoever says that needs to take a look at the job board and the posting that has over 1,000 views.
There are no transcriptionists looking for jobs either.
conflict of keyboard commands -
Posted By: stop/start/stop/start
Hi there, I would really appreciate some help here...I am transcribing on a word document, the sound file has been e-mailed to me, I am listening to the dictation in Windows Media Player. I don't have my footpedal working with this---but am just trying to use keyboard commands and when I do, the keyboard commands are being utilized by the word program. In other words, play/pause is CNTL P and when I do that, I get the print window. Is there a way to alleviate this conflict? They sent me a sound file player but Windows Media keeps overriding it and there is too much dumb in me tech wise to figure out how to use the other sound file player. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it. I just get a teeny bit of this guy's work but it's a big pain in my big behind to keep grabbing the mouse and stopping/starting etc.....thanks in advance!!!
My prayers are with those who are dealing -
Posted By: mlstoo
with Hurricane Wilma. I'm catching bits and pieces on TV and, living in the midwest, I can't imagine the fear that must go through those who stay to ride it out. I would be terrified. God bless all of you.
5000 mega enough for air card? -
Posted By: for mt work?
Is 5000 megabytes of data enough to use a wireless air card for MT work? I only have dial up and am considering getting an air card but it says that you only get 5000 megabytes a month. Is that enough for MT work, my husband gaming, and my kids being on the internet too? Will I go over the 5000 megabyte limit?
Anyone else have a slowdown -
Posted By: frustrated
in work due to the upcoming holiday? I'm just curious.
Word Perfect -
Posted By: AH
Does anybody on here use word perfect? I am a new grad, and a company says they will hire a new grad if I have word perfect and and a wave player. Any input would be good.
The pt is layed off or laid off from her job? -
Posted By: yet another brain freeze
gosh. I cant figure out anything today
times 3 or x3? Which is okay? nm -
Posted By: just me
Thanks.
Do not download the Panda titanium software for virus checker and spyware protection. It corrupted -
Posted By: use care
my entire computer, had to have service man fix it to the tune of $150.00.
How many blanks in a day? -
Posted By: Cindy
I am wondering if I am a good MT. I am an IC that worked on the same account for 3-1/2 years and NEVER sent any blanks. The doctors were great! I lost that account and now my company has given me a new account for the past 2 days. I think I have left at least a few blanks in EVERY single report I typed that had to go to editing...is this normal? What are the average number of reports that most good MTs have to send to editing in a day?
Shorthand vs FlashType -
Posted By: Dawn
I downloaded the Shorthand Expander trial for 30 days. I like it a lot and am thinking seriously about buying it, but now I wonder about FlashType. Is it really just like Shorthand? (if so, I could save $30 with FlashType). Can I convert my Autocorrect terms to FlashType like I can in Shorthand? I tried to download FlashType several times to try it out, but I can't open it (something about "proper license not found."
I have about 20 days left on my Shorthand trial, so I'd appreciate your opinions about both programs. Thanks!
Need help re using line count -
Posted By: Daphne
I recently took a job where you do your line count in Word. I am supposed to count with spaces, which is really easy, and then I divide that by 65, but if you are also supposed to count headers, footers, how do you do that. When I put a checkmark in the box to count headers and footers, the count is no different than if I didn't check it. I must be missing a step. Help! Thanks.
Rate for Editing -
Posted By: Rowana Gulley
Hi everyone,
I am trying to get an average rate for a part-time editing position.
Merry Christmas and Happy -
Posted By: tired in OH
New Year to all of you and your families!
In praise of jiggly butts (sm) -
Posted By: IC goddess
Warning: Foamy the Squirrel's language may be offensive to some uptight types.
Sample contract -
Posted By: pj
Can someone please post a link of where I can find a sample contract. Looking to strike out on my own - need a contract to present to docs.
Thanks
production -
Posted By: Alexa Hoover
I have been transcribing for over a year now and I STILL cannot produce 1200 lines a day. Sometimes I have to work 8 hours to do 900. What is my problem? My account manager says most transcriptionists can do 1200 lines in 6 hours. Please tell me how you do it!!! I have developed a good Expander vocabulary...
|
