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some docs voices are hypnotic, does anyone agree? Some of the voices I could listen to all day, they seem almost hypnotic. Does anyone else experience this, or am I just crazy?

My company has been having conference calls on one of my accounts in which they request that you attend (they take roll call) to learn new rules, changed rules, updates, etc. on the account.  This has turned into a real pain because it takes so much time out of your production that day.  They say it will become more "routine" as time goes by because of the volume of the rules, etc. 

I was wondering, do any others have had that situation and, if so, have you been compensated for that time? 

I should note, I am an employee, not an IC, and am paid by the line.

Thanks!  

Hello,

I would like to know if satellite internet is compatible with VPN, specifically with ChartScript.  If anyone has any experience with this, I would appreciate your input.

TIA!

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Looks like I may have an opportunity to do some transcription for a local doctor on the side after all, and I just wondered if there is some kind of website, book, or ?? about how to go about breaking into doing more of this on the side and what steps to follow.  From reading these boards, it sounds like a lot of you have a main company/account you work for and others as backups when the work is low.  Any pointers, information, would be most appreciated.

THX!!

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

Anyone with info on Spheris and/or Mayo Clinic Scottsdale?  I've been an IC with MQ for 10 years and it's time for a change.  Need to convert to employee status.  Want to still work at home.  Mayo may offer that after a while.  Spheris is at home all the time.  Anyone know cost for health insurance with Spheris for employee and spouse and child?  Thanks for any info!

I interviewed at a hospital today.  I wanted to get out of the cpl rat race and I need health insurance.   For my 31 years of experience I was offered $13 an hour.  Since the hospital was an hour's drive for me, I asked would they consider letting me work at home.  They use Meditech.  I have been using this working with the MTSO I currently work for.  I'm basically all set up.  I hardly got the words out of my mouth when she said, "We're not set up for that."  Yet as I was leaving she said she was going to call the MTSO I work for to see if they could do their work.  What's the difference if I do at home or if they get it done through an MTSO?      Wouldn't it be cheaper for them if I did it?  They'd have to set it up anyway for the service to work remotely. 

Anyway, I turned the job down.  Also the head of the department didn't know what ShortHand was.   I feel really demoralized thinking I'm only worth $13 an hour to them, but they're willing to pay an MTSO! Don't get it.

P.S.  Think it would be funny if they did go with the MTSO and I ended up doing the work anyway! 

Hi,

I just got an offer to do transcription for a doctor about 20 miles away.  Only problem is this is a pick up tape deal and I do not want to have to travel especially with winter/snow coming on.   I'm sure this isn't a big money maker account, but I would like to be able to have the voice files come to me encrypted and deliver the work that way too.  I am not very good at things that are overly complicated, so any help as to what to suggest for a recorder and such would be greatly appreciated.   I am hoping they will go along with buying digital, but if need be, I suppose I could provide it just to save driving.  Help please.  Thank you.

I have several hundred typed out, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to turn it into a mailing list.  I have downloaded Avrey Wizard, but when I try to do it, it asks me about field delimiters and no matter what I pick it doesn't work.  Maybe there is a simpler way??

Thanks!

The butterfly type back support?  Can't remember the exact name for it.  Do you think the chairs are worth the money?   Thanks.

Does anyone here use Express Scribe?  If so, did you set it up so that when the report is completed it is automatically sent back to the doctor?  I read where it is capable of setting it up that way.  However, I am curious if it works well or difficult to set up. 

that pays for reports that have been typed and then the doctors decides not to use it?  I just did a 13.41 minute report and did not see it in my line count so I went into another program to look it up.  It is in the 'deleted' folder.  I hate this.

My sup's response is "We give you 28 lines for every addendum report or dictated change so it all evens out".  BALONEY!!!!  If a doc dictates "go back to Joe Blow's report and add/take out we are to get 28 lines to type this and put in Q/A and they will correct the report. Same thing if an addendum to a job needs to be done.  I have had none of these jobs for weeks so not getting paid for the 13.41 job does not even out for me.

How does your company handle these types of deleted jobs?

buck.  I'm thinking we are going to buy a new computer with part of our tax return (our current one is 6+ years old) and am wondering what you all suggest?  I'm hoping to stay around $600.

It would mainly be used for work, cruising the internet, watching DVDs (maybe...not totally necessary).  MAYBE I'll be adventurous this year and try to get a little account of my own :)

So, what do you all recommend I consider buying?

Chickadee

on ebay. I was looking for a standard cassette transcriber with foot pedal and power supply and had no luck except for very expensive ones. I tell you, having patience sure paid off.  I've looked everyday, several times a day for the past week and sure enough, there was a buy it now transcriber just posted several hours ago for....get this, $15.99 plus shipping! WOW. The seller has good feedback selling other transcription supplies and apparently had 5 machines she was trying to unload, all used, and they've all gone (except for one that is on auction). Anyhow, I'm just so pleased, I had to share.

Just wondering if any of you have your own company, how you got it started and what equipment you are using?

Well, I had my doubts about the 3,000 lines a day, but I like to think people are telling me truth most of the time.  There are always going to be those who have a psychological need to boast.  However, I have recently gone back to work inhouse and found there are actually those who can produce 3,000 lines per day, granted that the work is available to them.   I can't, however.  Not yet anyway but I hope to soon after I pick up a few more tips from the 2 I am talking about.  The ladies I am referring to have been with the hospital a long time, their ears are trained to hear these guys, and they have tons of normals and shortcuts.  On top of that, they have these little dainty quick fingers.  They remind me of those guys on the basketball court who don't have a lot of height but they have these super quick short legs and leave you in awe at their speed on the court.  Well these ladies don't have the long piano fingers but they have speed you are just in awe of.  I have long slow fingers but I think I will do okay, once I learn my way around and get through the learning curve. 

Just wanted you to know there are a couple of them out there.  I don't think this is the norm, so it shouldn't be something everybody think he/she should be doing, but it is possible for some.  I think being with one company for a long time has its advantages too, you have time to learn the doctors thoroughly and create shortcuts that work for you.  Plus I watched them and they do not move from that spot, maybe only to go to the bathroom and get their lunch, but then I saw one of them eat the lunch at the desk really really fast.  She was extremely quiet the whole time, minimal talking from her, just speed typing the whole time.  I don't think my bladder will let me just sit there the entire time, Ii can probably do the no talking part, eating my lunch at the desk but if you can do the things I observed and you have tons of shortcuts for the doctors you type for and they have tons of abbreviations in the word expander, and years with the company, then maybe you can produce 3,000 lines too.  Don't know but I will try to incorporate some of this behavior into my work to maybe bring my line count up enough to get the incentives at least.

Please tell me if I am right or not. On a recent dictation a doctor was giving current medicationa and he said "p.r.n. ibuprofen", I typed Ibuprofen p.r.n., because I was taught that this is the correct way. She informed me to type it the way he said it. I looked at another transciptionist work on this same doctor and she typed PRN Ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is not capitalized unless it is in the beginning of the sentence. I do not want to compromise my work or correct transcribing, what do I do? She also informed me that the Book Of Style is not always right. Well, I was taught that it was the final authority. Help!!!!!

This is to the person that posted about Diskriter and why she did not take the job. I am also posting on this board as well.

I do not work for Diskriter, however, I can say with complete accuracy (I have a relative that works as a private criminal investigator for large and small corporations) that the reason that a lot of companies (not necessarily just transcription companies, in particular,) that have at home or offsite employees are requesting a physical and drug screen and background check is because:

a) background check is necessary in some cases because the potential employee will have access to SSN#, credit info, addresses, DOB, etc on many many people.

b) physical and drug screens are necessary because the company may be partly footing the cost for benefits, health insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe they do not want to pay for drug rehabs (think about it)

c) drug screens - let's face it, some of these companies are sending equipment, vital information on people in the US, paying for travel for employment, etc (i.e. carrying drugs on planes, stealing ID for credit card info, stealing and reselling computers and equipment that was shipped to the potential employee, etc)

You would be surprised the things I was told about, including arrests for identity theft!! In the last two years, a TON of arrests have been made by investigators and agencies on people working at home!! Police are making drug arrests at homes and low and behold, some of the arrests are people that work at home doing a "day job" while dealing out of their house. Nice little sideline income, don't ya think.

So think about this - if a company is going to pay for a physical and drug screen for you to be employed with them, don't be offended by it. They are protecting themselves and their clients from potential identity theft, druggies, and thieves.

I'm sure I will be slammed for this post, but I know what I am talking about.

You could easily be the victim of identity theft and guess where the source could potentially come from? Transcriptionists. Think about it - we have access to some hospital databases that require us to put in patient information from the patient database, that means addresses, ID#, etc.

I PERSONALLY knew of a transcriptionist from NYC that could barely function more than 2 hours a day because she spent the rest of her day stoned out of her mind! Did you read the thread about traveling transcriptionists and drug screening? Do you want somebody stoned or high or meth'd up typing your hospital records?  So what's to stop them from taking it a step further and commit identity theft. 

Hello all, I would like your assessment of this scenario, which created a heated discussion with my sister, brother-in-law and I yesterday.   They have a 20 year son, my nephew, who lives with a couple of roomies in a 'den of inequity'.  He is creative, sensitive soul, who goes to the beat of his own drum, which includes being anti-society, anti-politics, and a distain for superficiality, materialism of the majority of people in this great U.S.A.  He spends his time, when not working at a pizza joint, smoking pot, playing music and dreaming of a better world.  He had plans for community college, which he has let fallen by the wayside. 

When he got his H.S. diploma (by way of homeschooling when he dropped out of the traditional high school his Jr. year), his parents bought him a brand spanking new car. They felt that it was fair they do this, as they had done the same for his sister 4 years prior.  (she was working 2 jobs, choreographing for studios as well as attending college). 

She deserved it. He did not.

Well, apparently he has let his female/friend/roommate take his car on a road to trip Canada without him. ( We live int he midwest, so long drive, not talking across the state here!) I was surpised to hear this... when I asked my sister how she felt about it, since THEY are the ones making the car payment, insurance, etc, she completely blew up and her husband accused me of meddling. 

What do you think? Would you feel comfortable about this?  I, for one, think they are in denial about their son, his lack of motivation for his future, etc. 

Does your child's school work well with you on educating them or don't like having to give your child extra attention? 

My 1st grader is having problems staying focused in class with her 24 peers in the room and being asked to stay on task for an hour at a time.  At home she does just fine when things are broken down into 15-20 minute intervals.   The 2 teachers she has don't want to spend extra time with her or eliminate distractions so I've now officially requested an IEP meeting to force this with them.  She had no problems at the same school last year in kindergarten because her teacher had worked with other kids like her in the past and was able to teach her on her level using the techniques recommended.  

We met with her 2 teachers yesterday and they actually had the audacity to suggest that we work extensively with her at home on the areas she's struggling in.  I'm not home schooling this kid just because they don't want to help her stay focused when my taxpayer money is being paid to support the schools and federal laws require they meet her needs.

Interestingly when I had a prior foster child that had ADD this very same school and teachers were very accommodating and worked very well with me on meeting her needs.  Not sure why her current teachers don't want to but we're going to have to work on that.

What about you and your child?  Did you have to go to the extremes of getting an IEP and forcing them to do what they're required to do or did you get immediate cooperation?   I'm not going to put my child on ADD/ADHD medication just because they don't want to deal with it. 

I want to "upgrade" from word97 to word2003.  Is there a way to take my dictionary of words I have established over the years over to 2003?

and is there a way to go in and correct words put in wrong...

thank you for any help