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any recent etrans people with GOOD things to say about this company.  Cannot find anything recent in archives.  Thinking about applying there.

I have been an MT for only 2 years of which time I have been an IC, and I currently work for the company from he!!-- SS.  For these 2 years, I have had no benefits and no insurance, just too expensive for me to get.  I am considering going to full-time status for benefits and hopefully to be more disciplined and be more productive.  However, I just don't know where to start or if this is even a good idea.  I am worried that I will hate sticking to someone elses schedule or end up with a crappy company.  But, if I can stick it out at SS, I think any place would be easier and better than them! 

What to do?

gets me fired up sometimes!  I was just sitting here thinking...how can some people that I don't know, who live far away from me, that don't have anything to do with my life, my family, my personal life get me so fired up sometimes! LOL.

It is good for me though...gets the blood pumping.

He's mad at me because he's off work for a week but I'm not.  He expects me to be available to him whenever he wants me to do something with him or for him.  (No, not that, silly.)  He wants me to work and make money, but not if it interferes with his plans for me.  He's turned into a real jerk lately. 

Our company is currently using Winscribe dictation system, but they did not buy the transcription side of this, which creates a database and templates and saves the work to a file. 

I am looking for productivity program that works the same way that is reasonable.  ADS may be one but I have no feedback on this. 

Any suggestions.

What do you all do when you have to type an expletive?  I am working on an account where this comes up often.  I refuse to type the actual expletive so I usually just put (expletive) and go on.  No one has ever said anything, but I was curious as to what everyone else does.

I was wondering if anyone has a good company they use for their drs to phone-in dictation.   I was contacted by a group with 8 drs and they want to use a phone system. Any suggestions for me? 

TIA

I need to purchase a wav player. What would you recommend as the best?

Thank you!

Did anyone ever work three jobs just to try to make it as an MT?  I have an office job during the day (NOT MT) work and I work as an IC and I just got a job working part time for another national.  Until my speed work catches up with my accuracy what I'm I suppose to do?  I'm so tired and so frustrated and i refuse to quit as I enjoy the MT work but I'm so tired...

Does anyone who has experience have any advice?

One that's not 95% ESLs, steady workload, steady accounts, good communication, office staff who aren't rude buckpassers, decent line rate, no offshoring, direct deposit, flexible schedule, not having to do 50+ 30-second reports per day, and a platform conducive to speed.  I know it's not possible, but a girl can dream, can't she?  This is, after all, my Christmas wish list.  I never get what I want for Christmas.  Why is that too much to ask for?  It doesn't even matter anyways.  After Christmas, I QUIT MT!!!!  Burger King is just down the street, and they give food discounts.

I need help with setting a command for metformin XR so the X-RAY does not expand to x-ray.  Thanks!

I am a new MT, I am in the process of purchasing MT reference books. I have heard that Greggs and Stedmans are good reference books. I wanted to find out the books that are used the most, please let me know which books that you use so I can make a good decision on how I spend this money on books.

Thank you in advance

Angie

angifogg@aol.com

According to the IRS (and I'm going to double check my information on this) there is a fine line between employee, statutory or otherwise, and independent contractor.  I especially love companies/hospitals who want the benefit of not matching social security, paying unemployment taxes, benefits, and adhereing to wage determinations so they hire "independent contractors" THEN, they start dictating how and when the IC is going to perform their work and at what volume in what period of time and mandatory weekends is an especially nice touch. And the evidence of it is all over this site and others like it where jobs are posted.

I had a guy I worked for one time who went so far as to refuse to write my check out to me, had to be to a company name... then proceeded to break all the rules differentiating between employee and IC.  I would ask if these people had a clue but I already know they don't.

How ingenious..I think this is exactly what the "doctor" ordered!  I'm still .  Let me know where to sign up!

On a more serious note, however, it's sad that we have to seemingly resort to these measures just to get some attention.  Hopefully, the people who need this message loud and clear know, when they read this, it's meant exclusively for them!

Bless you!

HI my computer crashed three days ago. I have a new computer and desperately need a spellchecker. spent money on new computer.  Does anyone have Stedmans or Spellex they would be willing to remote to me?

Any good news about American Transcription Solutions, Inc.?

TIA

and I do not see one on the stedmans.com unless podiatry is rolled in with another specialty and I'm just missing it. Any recommendations?

Thanks bunches and happy MT week!

Would you continue MT'ing??

A local lady won $1000 per week for life.  Now I do realize that a lot of MTs make more than that (not me).  I average that every other week.  We do not have a lot bills though and I know that we could live comfortably on that amount.  This lady says she will continue to work, but plans to slow down.  She is married and in her 40s. 

I think I would probably stop MT'ing for awhile, but I like my job, so I would probably eventually miss it and go back.  Just curious what other MTs might do if they were to hit the lottery!

I can get directly back to a certain point in the text instead of having to relisten to the report again and try to find it?  I need to make some corrections in this HUGE report and it's going to take forever unless there's a trick to finding the specific point on the report.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!  

to get out of transcription completely.  Anyone have any good or bad comments for coding and insurance billing?  I have a friend that does this and thinks it's 10 times better than the transcription industry. Makes twice what I make.  I need to find something that doesn't make me feel so bad at the end of the day and a paycheck that doesn't give me a stomach ache.  Any thoughts?

Thanks!

i am very interested in taking courses on mt and would like some help in guiding me in the right direction....can someone help me on that

Maybe something is escaping me and I don't want to be rude to anybody. I'm trying to understand.

You are an employee who signed an 8-4:30 contract, right? Are the people you are mad about employees, or did your MTSO hire additional IC folks? If she/they did, then that's who you should take issue with.

If these are other scheduled employees who are doing this, you have a choice. You can either do what they do, tattle on them (I probably would), or work elsewhere.

If they are extra IC help, what can you do? Can you make them feel bad about team spirit? I don't think so. Do you think McDonald's feels team spirit with Burger King? An IC is a business owner, in competition with others.

Are the other people employees?

I've used it for years and all of a sudden when I go to transcribe the file I have highlighted, the player disappears.  The "player and slider" do not stay "on top" of the WORD document.  I can minimize it and open it that way, but it is a pain.  I want it "on top" of the document so I can see progress of the file. As it is now, I "can't see it" and therefore can't open or close it.   anyone know what happened?  TIA   

I see that you can buy an optional olympus transcription "kit" but I have the pedal, ear phones and express scribe.  Does anyone know if this works with it?

Thanks!

Hiya, 

I've been hypo for about 10 years and have always had a large thyroid gland.  For the past 10 days, I was getting tingling sensations in my face, heads and hands. Finally broke down and went to a doc.  Now, my regular doctor is out of the country, so I went to a doc I am unfamiliar with.  She seemed pretty convinced that the reason for the tingling was the enlargement of my thyroid gland creating pressure on a nerve.

This sounds reasonable, as I had already self-diagnosed (you know how we MTs are about these things!) as some type of nerve issue because it goes away if I lie down for a while, etc. 

Has anyone ever experienced anything similar to this?  Of note, my dose of Levoxyl was cut in half about 3 months ago.  I'm slated to have a thyroid profile done this week.  Thanks for any input!