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job numbers.  How do you keep record of work completed each day?

Thinking about purchasing a digital recorders to give my doctors the option of using.  Which has the best quality of sound and easiest to use?  Also, need an FTP site information.

Thanks

I just got a letter from a federal court stating I am entitled to part of a $25 million lawsuit againt AOL for fraudulent billing practices, overcharging, not closing account when asked, etc...YES! I LOVE it! I have had sooo many problems with that ridiculous crock of a company over the years - ah, sweet revenge!

New user to Dictaphone ExText. Can someone tell me how to use iChart for my own personal line count?  (I do have my user & password, but not much else).

Hello All,

With my job (non MT), I have the chance to move to either Austin or Dallas. I'd be bringing my girlfriend with me but this means she'd have to leave her current MT job which works directly with a hospital. Does anyone have any pointers on who's hiring for MTs in either Austin or Dallas preferably working out of the home? She currently makes 75k a year since her employeer provides a lot of double overtime. Could this much be made in Austin or Dallas? She'd possibly look at working for an outsourcing company as well (hopefully with benefits). Any pointers on outsouring as well would be nice.

Many Thanks

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

Thanks.

I just went through a divorce last year, so financially I haven't exactly gotten my feet completely on the ground yet, and then in September I started running out of work which made things a lot worse. (I work for MQ).  I just sold my house, and I am moving into an apartment where the rent is half my mortgage.  I plan to go back to school so I can get out of MTing all together.

My problem is this stray cat that I have.  He started hanging around our neighborhood a few years ago.  He is the sweetest thing.  I didn't want a cat at all, but my kids started giving him hot dogs, and he has never left.  He's a great cat, never messes in the house, never scraches the furniture, and loves my kids.  I got him fixed 4 months ago in anticipation of making him a housecat so that we could take him to the apartment with us, but so far it hasn't worked. 

He has his routine:  Every morning he follows all the neighbor kids to whichever car in the carpool on the block is taking them to school and then watches them leave.  He toms around the neighborhood all day, and then when I get home from picking the kids up from school, he is always on my front porch.  Then he spends the entire afternoon going in and out the front door with the kids.

I've tried keeping him in the house and not letting him leave, and he cries and cries.  Then when I get exasperated and finally let him out, he just lays down on the front porch and goes to sleep.

I don't know what to do with him.  It is breaking my heart that I'm probably going to have to find a home for him.  Any ideas on how to make him a housecat?

Hi,

We did more than 2000 lines to IntegrityMedTrans last week.  After that no response in chat and no response for mail ( mail bouncing also)... People who are doing this company plz be aware.

If u have any details, plz mail us or post reply

I have 30 years experience in MT work and for the last few years have been able to do exclusively operative notes which is what I love.  I have been very happy with current company but have to start my work day early in the a.m. and now my account has been overstaffed to the point there is no work in the morning.  While there is plenty of work late in the day, there is nothing in the morning and so I feel I must look for another company for at least part time op work initially and if it works out I could go full time.  I have left my email address so please feel free to contact me.  Thank you very much for any help you can offer. 

How do you connect to the internet? Thanks in advance for the  help.

Can anybody tell me if the Olympus footpedal with serial (COM) port works with escription (EditScript) ?  TIA  

My dog Snoopy is scared of my father. We ahve had her for almost two years now and whenever my father comes into the room, she cowers and runs into my room. She stays in here all day long while my sister and I are at school, and my mother is at work. But the wierd thing is, that at night, she is his best friend. She doesn't show any signs of nervousness or anything. Any suggestions? Does she have some sort of a mental problem?

 HELP.  Has anybody heard of, or used a transcription platform called "Blue".....  (something...don't know what...).   I heard  somewhere(?) about this  "Blue..." system and apparently it's supposed to be super ?!!   Anybody have a clue?  .   TY in advance. 

I sure hope someone can help me here.  I have recently started using Word 2007 and am absolutely lost!  I finally figured out how to create a macro....but now cannot figure how how to call up that macro when I need it.  does this make sense???  example, ddd stands for degenerative disc disease..when I type "ddd"  do I hit a function key, just the tab key, CTL + function key?????  can't figure this out.  please help me!

thanks.  Rita

I'm having trouble getting my pedal to work with Express Scribe.  I need to transcribe in WP5.1 so the hotkeys conflict if I went that route.  I use the same pedal for 2 other companies and it is installed in a game port to work with a VXP player.  I downloaded the hidwatch driver but that apparently only works for USB pedals.  My pedal is not USB.

Any suggestions?

Thanks. 

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I have been a Transcriptionist for 18+ years, the last 12 for a large hospital. About a year ago, "they" changed the definition of a line so that it was much harder to make incentive. They said they had been figuring the line wrong and that they were now going with industry standards. They have never been very specific about how a line is counted, but we did go from a 70 to a 65 space line. We currently get paid hourly plus incentive. We are now waiting to hear if we are getting outsourced, with the possibility of working for that company, or if they will keep us themselves and just pay per line, and you can bet they will pay us as little as possible. I work in-house, and they no longer want to take into consideration downtime, even though we have to answer phones and troubleshoot for doctors!

I completely understand transcription is changing, largely due to voice recognition and other computer advances. If they said they were paying us less because of that, rather than trying to make us produce more for less pay, we would all appreciate the honesty rather than trying to make us look and feel bad. I am good at what I do, but I guess I am becoming obsolete!

This just started happening to me... EXText works fine and at the end of the night, I exit out.  Then when I go to shut down my computer, I get a message saying EXText is not responding and then I have to click "end now."  Then the next day, when I start up EXText I get those messages that say the local normal.dot file is newer than the one on the server and my local ESP file is newer than the one on the server and I have to click yes or no to use the local files.

It just started doing this within the last couple of weeks.  Any ideas?  I really don't want to call the tech people.  I'm not in the mood to be condescended to!

and how about radiology by the report?  I have searched the archives and am just getting more and more confused.  I have worked in house for 15 years and do all the big four and radiology.  I made $15.67 per hour until we were eliminated on Friday.  What is the average?  I am medium fast, about 200 lines an hour or 15 radiology reports an hour.

Can anyone just give me an idea?  It seems that the services are all over the place in terms of rates. 

I work for a very small rural hospital with only two full-time transcriptionists and one part-time transcriptionist.  We have recently been told that the administration of our hospital is entertaining the idea of on-call Transcriptionist for uncovered hours.  We already work alternating Saturdays (day shift only).  I wanted to know if any other hospitals out there do on-call transcription (Not from home and not outsourced).  They want us to physically drive in and be in the office to do this transcription.  Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks. 

This is for all of us poor MTs that are still stuck with dial up as our only option.  Satelite is just too darn expensive for what we get paid  and moving is even more expensive.  So....are there any tips or tricks to making our dial up connections any faster so we can download those dictation files faster and not time out anymore? 

Please do not mention an accelerator.  I have that and it is only good for a webpage pop up faster and for opening email.  It has nothing to do with dictation files. 

Is there something that were can do as far as the kind of phone cord we use, the length of it, or something like that? 

What about our modems?  Is there something we can do to our modems to jack up our speeds?

And whats with software like Escription advertising on their website that dial up will work when it does not.  That info has to be to the dictators who have dial up and not to the MTs with dial up.

There has to be hope for us becaue after 10 years of MT work I will be darned if I give up being home with my kids just because of my internet connection speed!!!!

Thanks letting me vent

Very frustated dial up MT

as a newbie, is that a good place to start out?  

whether the accounts they work for are local to their area, or do you do accounts that are across the country?  The particular account I work on, I trained with all the ladies on it a couple of months ago on DQS (we all worked on it in another office w/o DQS), and so far, we have a lot of work. 

Wondering if the problem with lack of work just depends on which accounts you work on and not necessarily a problem as a whole.