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Looking for Lillybelle -
Posted By: bye-bye Birdie
Documented a bunch of stuff. First job contact was bizarre. Second one was lukewarm with one really offensive aspect. If you email me I can pass some info to you...it's rather cumbersome for the board.
Need help with this please... -
Posted By: wise1
Where is the setting that will allow more than one window open at a time? When I have something up and start another page it closes the first page, and I don't want that... but can't find where to change the setting... THanks in advance.
Med billing from home -
Posted By: Angela
Does anyone know of any medical billing companies that hire (work from home) billers?
"Old Timey" MT? -
Posted By: RadGuy
Just saw this on MT Jobs:
I don't need an "old timey" transcriptionist, I need "new age" with lots of computer experience as well as transcription experience.
Geez Louise - what is considered "old timey" and what is considered "new age"? These companies R becoming a joke.
BEWARE Andrea Renner is no pay -
Posted By: mt
Andrea Renner from Columbus Grove, Ohio paid me in November but not in December and January. BEWARE of her. She is a crook. I hope no one else had such a bad experience with this criminal.
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Male friend age 73 had some tests done and x-ray -
Posted By: Help with GI problem
and doctor was amazed when he saw a blockage of the intestine. The friend is very "eccentric" and not knowledgeable about his health, so that is all I know as of today. When the doctor saw this blockage, he immediately called an ambulance (hospital just across the street), and he refused to go in an ambulance. Then he drove himself to the ER at the hospital and took all papers and x-rays. The ER was very busy with broken bones, etc., and he got tired of waiting and left, leaving his papers and everything on the desk. He told the doctor he would come back Monday, and he said "you may not live until Monday."
Can you help with what you would think could be this problem with his intestine. He is doing 3-day smear for blood now and to return them. Thank you for any information you may have. I am very worried about him.
WP Program -
Posted By: Advice:
Does anyone know if there is a site to download for free Word Perfect? I googled but was unsuccessful in finding it, yet I've heard there is a free version out there.
If anyone can link me up, TIA!!!
why is AHDI so anti American MT -
Posted By: banshee
they seem completely out of touch with MTs, as evidenced in my personal experience and from reading so many posts on this board alone. I have never seen such misrepresentation of a profession...and they seem to have not even an inkling to bridge the gap; in fact, they seem to go out of their way to make the bridge even wider.
we need some representation on behalf of all MTs from the 'old school,' as we should be grandfathered in to any kind of mandatory certification, if it comes to that; but we definitely need an advocate on OUR side.
I see a lot of condescending remarks (and worse) from CMTs on this site against we "regular MTs" and it proves the point that there is a huge injustice going on with that organization and their disrespect of the 'little' guys here who are losing more and more money every year. I just heard overall American wages have dropped from $7500 a year gained from the 1990s to 2000 lower to date, and dropping, which is over 9000 a year. utilites are sky-rocketing, food prices, (need I go on?)...
now of ALL times to try to enforce any more financial hardship on MTs (while at the same time lowering costs for overseas MTs) not only shows complete lack of knowledge about the realities we face, but extreme disrespect toward us.
WE should be priority, not overseas MTs but US.
this is not a game people...this is serious, and no one should be able to mess with anyone else's livelihood in such ways as I have seen in this profession alone over the last decade especially.
in-stent versus end-stent restenosis -
Posted By: Shari Bac
Do these terms mean the same thing or each means something different? How can you tell if the doc means end or in? Thanks
What do you consider a fair per audio hour rate for MT work? -
Posted By: HS
I am only accustomed to the per word rate in MT, but I know that the GT companies prefer the PAH rate.
I was wondering if any MT companies do use the PAH rate and what would be a fair price if there are indeed any companies using this method.
Bytescribe, Startstop or PowerPlay? -
Posted By: Help please
I need to purchase one of these three for a new account I am on. Any recommendations? Bytescribe, Startstop or PowerPlay? Postive and negative experiences will be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Work Load -
Posted By: Julia
For the past 4 months the work load has been consistently lighter, i.e., less work throughout the day. At first I thought the company overhired, then I blamed the holidays, and now my boss is blaming the Inauguration. I have 4 accounts and all 4 have less work during the day and run out by 7 or 9 pm. EST. Three are based in the Maryland area and 1 is in Florida (so the Inauguration blame game does not work there) I can't even begin to understand how the West Coast girls are dealing with this. Anyone else having this problem? I am trying to decide if it is worthwhile to pick up a part-time job or just hope this gets better? My pay has been steadily decreasing for 4 months now and it has to start picking up or I can't keep up with the bills.
Career Step is on myspace now -
Posted By: AG
Just telling you guys if you were grads or whatever, in case you are interested. A CS student friend of mine told me about it today. I went through CS and I loved it. Anyway, like I said, in case you are a myspacer.
myspace.com/careerstep
wav pedal -
Posted By: MT@home
I am in the process of buying a wav pedal. Do you have to purchase software to go with the pedal? I want to test with a company that requires a wav pedal and when I asked which type their response was any type of wav pedal.
Help -
Posted By: HappyICMT
I have been approached by my employer to help manage a small account, including QA, feedback, as well as transcribing. I am not sure how much to charge for this; an hourly wage plus cpl for lines transcribed? Any help would be much appreciated!
Does anyone have exp with -
Posted By: ginny
 software called Fusion? How about chartnet? Any information would be greatly appreciated!
How many of you transcribe while -
Posted By: Wondering
using your telephone line as in you're 'on the phone' the whole time you work? How does that work out for you both with your phone usage but also with unlimited LD. Could you recommend any unlimited LD plans that are good? Our local one isn't that great as far as a high price, so I'm looking around. Thanks for any help!
Line count changing -
Posted By: NothappyMT
I have noticed lately that mine line count has been dropping on a daily basis. I finally started checking my own lines as opposed to the company line counter and I have realized that I am NO LONGER getting paid for my spaces, without telling me. I have half a mind to start typinglikethisbecauseifyoudonotpayforthemyoudonotgetthem!!!!! Is it me?
Should we be concerned? -
Posted By: Being replaced???
In our log of jobs, "PowerScript Transcription" is listed as having done one job. Does this signal the end of my job? Is this how it happens? ::gulp::
future of medical transcription? -
Posted By: mt
I have been doing transcription now for a while, under five years, for a national. How long do you all think it will be until it is a completely a speech recognition technology? My national is definitely trending towards the speech recognition and I just wonder how long it will be until it is totally that platform, and before hospitals and other nationals as a whole start using it mainstream. Medical editing doesn't seem like it will be very lucrative as transcription has been in the past.
Can the Administrator remove the Christmas tree cursor from the other boards? :) nm -
Posted By: Thanks
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Looking for a machine or something that will convert micro tapes to wave files -
Posted By: Neick
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
help with dinosaur tapes -
Posted By: frustrated
I just got an account who is in the process of switching from the old dinosaur tapes to digital. They want me to help them get caught up - 100+ tape backlog. Trouble is, they are poor quality, scratchy/crackly sounding tapes and I am having mucho trouble with them. I tried playing them into my phone system thinking I would have more control through my c-phone, but that actually made it worse. I wonder if there is any way to somehow transfer them to digital so I can put them in my FTP software??????? Any suggestions out there anywhere?
Thanks so much.......
Meditech Magic Platform -
Posted By: PoorPoorPitifulMT
I am about to start working on a radiology account that uses the Meditech Magic platform. Can any of you tell me the good, the bad and the ugly about this platform?
TIA!
Going rate for typing a CV -
Posted By: dl
Does anyone out there know what would be a good rate for typing a Curriculum Vitae for a doctor. He had his old one printed out for me with some changes and I retyped the whole thing with the changes. Just wondered what a good rate would be. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.
Dictaphone Enterprise Express Speech Rec. SM -
Posted By: RockinMT
I am supposed to do some practice speech rec jobs tonight during my shift. I'm all set to go except that in my Dictaphone manual, I do not have the chapter pertaining to the speech rec function keys, etc. Now, I could wait to start training tomorrow and call my supervisor and asked for the missing chapter or I am hoping one of you wonderful ladies can give me a head start and let me know the important function keys I need to know so I can get going on this. It has taken me weeks to get this far. I had to have a the training Editor installed and a upgrade patch downloaded and if one more thing stalls me, I'm going to lose my ever lovin' mind!
So if you can help me out, I would really appreciate it!
Thanks!
Many People -
Posted By: Katie
on here have said they make around 50K or higher. Are you working 2 jobs, or are you just much faster than those who must do that? Seems both ends of money spectrum here. 
WordPerfect numbered list help please! -
Posted By: sh
Just starting to use WordPerfect, so unfamiliar with it. I can't get numbered list feature set properly. I can get it to number, think I have it set, and then when I save the document, close, and reopen, it has changed. Pulling my hair out here :) Any help is appreciated.
Decisions and Consequences -
Posted By: Busy MT'ing
We each made our own decisions to get us into our current situation - in every aspect of our life...married, single, living together, divorced. Only those who have lost their loved one had no hand in that particular situation. We each made our own decisions to get us into our current job. We each make our own decisions to stay in our jobs or move. We each make our own decisions how to spend our money, how much to make (yes, you can make more with more work or better paying jobs, etc.), how much to save or not. We each decide what kind of personality we want to have, how we want to treat others and sometimes we even learn how we want others to treat us. We know exactly what we are doing when we make decisions on actions ... Let's stop knocking each other's decisions.
Consequences - We each DID in fact choose our consequences by our actions or lack of .. but sometimes we did not know exactly the consequences we would get, for whatever reason. Let's be compassionate toward each others consequences.
Every single one of us makes mistakes -- have, do, and will. Let's be supportive and compassionate and tolerant -- doesn't mean we have to jump for joy or be falsly nice, but be compassionate and show tolerance for opinions and situations that we are not familiar with (and sometimes that we, in fact, ARE familiar with).
There's too much stress in this world for us to be in such a hyperexcitable state, ready to jump to conclusions, willing to inflict insults and wound others.
I, for one, will certainly start by apologizing for anything on these boards that I have personally written that personally insulted anyone. It was never my intention to do that.
Let's be a more refreshing, energizing place to visit instead of what we have been over the last few days and/or posts!!?!?!??!!?! 
Has anyone noticed lately that there has been a lot of people diagnosed with breast cancer? -
Posted By: concerned
or is it just my imagination?
c-phone reprogramming question -
Posted By: tristen
Lost power and my C-phone programming. how do I get my headset to work again as I lost my headset button I always push to turn on my headset, TIA
best product for facial hair removal? -
Posted By: Older MT
What is the best product for removal upper lip hair? I have tried Sally Hansen but not much luck. I have not tried bleaching yet because I really would prefer to have it gone! Before I spend more money, can you tell me what works for you? Thanks much.
Focus Infomatics -
Posted By: Deb Dickson
Has anyone else had trouble collecting their paychecks from this company?
Does anyone know if the newer versions of Escription sm -
Posted By: searching
are compatible with Woord 2007? The requirements I received some time ago stated that Word 2007 was not compatible. Wondered if they had upgraded yet. TIA
Help! M -
Posted By: Dave
You all are a pretty nice bunch of people, you know. -
Posted By: thanks!!!
Donating to the kids of fellow MTs, taking the time to email people and encourage them on how to be better MTs. I'm really touched. This month has been pretty rough but y'all are certainly putting the reason for the season out there. You'll never know how much one email can impact somebody's day.
I just noticed the post doubting someone sm -
Posted By: LTMT
could make 3000 lines a day? WHY? As someone pointed out, just because you cannot do it, does not mean others cannot. My personal best is 3500 (65 ccl), but I could never do it on a regular basis. Does that mean that I should think I'm the fastest human in the universe and doubt if someone says he/she can do 4000? I would simply wonder how someone does that and be in awe.
I used to make a commitment of 2000 lines per day, and even that pushes it anymore. Can I do more? Yes. Will I have a life? No. I'm older now, and cannot just sit and pound away at a keyboard all day long. I type an hour or two ... get up ...play with the doggie ... type some more ... do some laundry ... type some more ... visit some friends .. you get the drift. Otherwise, I probably would have had carpal tunnel surgery 3 times by now (ha).
Can I do 3000 lines in a day if I have to/want to? YES. Can I do it every day? No. I understand that a lot of people have their Expanders built up way more than mine, though, and probably can do quite more than me. I admire them. I have an email buddy who finally has her Dragon Medical trained well enough to do 400 wpm -- THAT line count has to be amazing -- but it also took her 2 years to do it.
Why not just share in each others' triumphs and hug each other when it is not so good. Sure, there are braggarts out there. I personally have a "friend," if I told her I jumped off the Empire State Building, she would have jumped off something higher and twice!! (ha)
Newbie needs experience -
Posted By: Jackie
Anyone know of companies that will give newbies with schooling a chance?
MT salary survey -
Posted By: Janine
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Medical_Transcriptionist/Salary/by_Industry
Anyone have an Aeron chair/ Worth the ?? NM -
Posted By: Need New Chair
NM
Career Step...Regrets? -
Posted By: Ann
Anyone go through the Career Step course and then regret it?
Trying to decide on a drug reference. Help! -
Posted By: clhmt
I need assistance from the great folks on this forum!
I'm about to plunk cash down for an electronic drug reference (I'm into wildcard searches rather than page-flipping) and I'm torn between the Quick Look and the Drake and Drake.
So far, the Drake and Drake looks best...cheaper, updated monthly, already 2007 version out, but I hear many here who seem to be quite fond of the Quick Look.
Which do you like, and why? Or doesn't it really matter? Thanks!
checking resources on computer -
Posted By: lm
Does anyone know how to check resources on Windows-XP, also on Windows 98? Thanks
Pay Per Line -
Posted By: RosieGirl
I have always worked for salary and now am doing contract work from home. How much should I expect to be able to charge per line for transcription services? I'm in the New York City area. What's an average charge per line the hospitals are paying transcription services to do their work? Any ideas?
PULSES -
Posted By: help please!
"sensation is intact." "pulses full"
QUESTION: is it "pulses full" or "pulse is full"??????
What to do about a neighbor's yapping dog? -
Posted By: going nuts!
This thing is driving me CRAZY. Yes I know that there are times during the day that a dog is not considered "disturbing the peace," but these people moved in about a year ago and they now have a Yorkie that they leave outside ALL DAY on a 6 foot leash and all that thing does is "yap, yap, yap, yap, yap!" CONSTANTLY. . . ALL DAY LONG until they finally bring the poor thing in for the night.
We tried to welcome the couple to the neighborhood, but they don't assoiciate with anybody. When anyone comes near their property, they run inside and lock the doors, leaving the "yapper" outside to "yap" even louder if anyone is within 20 feet from their property.
I've actually resorted to yelling out the window, SOMEBODY MAKE THE DOG STOP! PLEASE!!!!"
We have a dog, but I wouldn't even get one until we had fenced in the entire back yard and then trained him from a puppy not to bark. Of course our dog will bark if somebody knocks on thedoor, which is a good thing, but I shake a coffee can with some pennies in it (Hint from Heloise) and he stops.
I feel bad for the poor Yorkie who never gets walked or paid attention to as he sits all day "yapping" on his 6 foot chain. But I don't want to cause any discord in the neighborhood either.
What to do?
Need help -
Posted By: Petra
Hello, I am trying to test for a company and I desperately need a C-phone, is there anyone in the Nashville, Tennessee area that would be willing to let me borrow theirs for a day, I know it is a huge favor, but I am desperate.
Control Your Mouse with Mouse Gestures/Kim Komando sm -
Posted By: Jadie
FYI. This was on Kim's Cool Site of the Day for June 15.
http://www.komando.com/downloads/category.aspx?id=6420
Does anyone successfully work off satelite and which speed do you go with when they offer -
Posted By: three plans? nm
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Does anyone have a phone # for Trans Tech in TN? -
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