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I tend to agree with you -
Posted By: AnotherOldTimerMT
I agree. When Angelina Jolie first started bringing to the forefront the terrible African situation, I think that changed the entire focus of this country. Unfortunately, with that also came complacency. At least, I give her kudos for bringing up subjects we, as human beings, didn't want to face. But that was then and this is now.
So...I guess, as just a lowly humble human being, I will throw my hat in the ring and see where it falls. For me alone, I will feel better just knowing I tried.
Have a great rest of your day!
Shorthand question -
Posted By: OBXMT
If you want to save an area of text to Shorthand, how do you do this without having to type it directly in the program? In other words, can I highlight the text I want to add from Word and press some sort of shortcut key for this?
Thanks for all your help!!!
EHR -
Posted By: Audrey
I recently went to a presentation about the new EHR and am very worried. Are we going to completely lose our jobs as MTs? And soon? They did talk about transcriptionists becoming "correctionists." but how long will that last? Do I need to find a new carreer?
Keyboard Trays...sm -
Posted By: boosa
Has anyone purchased a keyboard tray to improve ergonomics and did it work? Getting some aches and pains and wanting to improve my workstation....any thoughts in general on this... Many thanks.... :)
comments on platform MTword? -
Posted By: western gal
I think I have heard good things about this platform and would appreciate any and all comments, good and/or bad.
Thanks so much.
Spheris -
Posted By: Spud
Hi, I am just about burned out on the Big "S". I have nearly 20 years experience MT'ing. Have worked for edix/spheris for several. I am finding that although I am leveled high I am consistly stuck with a lower level client. This, by manipulation of the Big "S" reduces my income.
Are there any companies at all who are decent to work for, who pay a flat - good - line rate? I AM SICK OF THE MANIPULATIONS.
Line count runs at 1100/day (it is probably a lot more,not sure because Spheris has a way of making it all their way)
I can go to work immediately. Cable, WinXP.
Stupid question. How do you know if you have Ethernet card? (nm) -
Posted By: NN
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overseas work (Saudi Arabia, Dubai) -
Posted By: bin_swanson
A long long time ago, in a place far away, when I was a CMT, I used to get advertisements contracting for jobs at King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia as well as a hospital in Dubai. I just wondered if this was still going on. Maybe they just contracted everything to India (haha). Does anyone know about this?
Y-CITY STAR video is up -
Posted By: Theresa Asire-MT
www.whiznews.com/ycitystar.php Here's the link. Look for my name and then video. PLEASE VOTE. I AM STILL BEHIND. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!
copy type -
Posted By: tristen
What would you charge to type up sermons from hand written notes, located in Kentucky, I'm thinking by the page, what would be the industry standard?
Operation Christmas Child -
Posted By: cs
Just wanted to say that I commend you, MT STARS, for the efforts put forth in bringing Operation Christmas Child to so many children who, otherwise, might not have a very merry Christmas. We often forget those less fortunate, but you seem to rise to the occasion every time to help those less fortunate. I hope everyone will support this extremely worth cause and help MT Stars in the effort to bless a lot more children at this very special time of the year. KUDOS to you, MT Stars. Merry Christmas to All.
How long do crickets live in the house? -
Posted By: sm
There is one in my basement somewhere that will not shut up!
Scam companies -
Posted By: Lindsay
DO NOT WORK FOR TOTH TRANSCRIPTION. They are a complete scam, and have screwed me out of 2 1/2 months of my life and have paid me less than 20 dollars. Warning to any new grads out there, do not under any circumstance accept a position with TOTH TRANSCRIPTION. The management/ownership is terrible, rude, inappropriate and THEY WILL NOT PAY YOU!
cpl pay vs per minute -
Posted By: MT34+
What is the opinion here on pay by line versus pay by the minute? Pros vs cons and why? I can figure out for myself that, for example if you are paid 10 cents a line for a 65 cpl and they say nothing but one sentence for 10 minutes and you listen to shuffling of papers you would be much better off by the minute. I am just curious here what the opinion is and why which one is better. After all these years of being an MT I know companies are always trying to figure out how to make money for them without passing on the rewards to the MT.
s/l enfalocele - sm -
Posted By: gmg
"CT showed normal changes of s/l enfalocele with a midline shift of the colon." Patient had the s/l enfalocele as an infant. TIA!
See my message, please. -
Posted By: Any Idea?
Any idea what the law allows to charge re: late fees on invoices? I'm so sick of waiting for weeks on end to get paid, and a late fee will get their attention. No, I don't want to add a discount to encourage them to pay on time as I've slashed my rates as low as they can go just to compete with the likes of India. Thanks.
Per Gross Line Pay? -
Posted By: Jamie
Being relatively new to MT, I'm not quite sure what being paid by the gross line is as opposed to being paid by a 65 character line. Can someone clear me up on this. Thanks much.
What do ICs with own accounts do...sm -
Posted By: tia
When they need a day off? I know my hospital has another girl that works when I can't but I am running into times when she can't and I have something where I can't work. Is it the hospital's responsibility or is it mine?
Burn out -
Posted By: NY MT
HOw do you combat burn out from MT. MT is all I can do right now. I do not want to start at the bottom of any job....Maybe a WalMart Greeter for a few days a week would work, but I am not about to go to work in an office where some 20-yo chicky will tell this late 50-yo chicky what to do.....
so how do you deal with burn out?
Worker's Comp Reports -
Posted By: toby
Hi everyone...I just started typing worker's compensation reports (initials, fu,supps) as well as EMG/NCV reports and PI. What is the charge in the industry? I am hearing anywhere from $7.00/page to 1.35 per audio minute. Most reports are from 7 minutes to 15 minutes so per the inute does not seem right. Anyone out there type medical/legal reports??
Thanks :)
? how to play CD-R -
Posted By: Sandy
ok, got a CD-R for Christmas with old family photos/video on it. How do I play it? I put it in my CD player and it said check disk. I put it in my Computer and nothing happened.  I found media play and pressed play but still nothing. What am I missing? Thanks.
Burnt out...what do you do? -
Posted By: Just Cj
What do you do when you just can't take it anymore? I feel so burnt out in this field right now, but Im kind of stuck here at the moment for personal reasons. What has helped you get out of that "rut" when you feel burnt out?
How often is the monitor board -
Posted By: checked? nm
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Transcribing in boonies -
Posted By: zoe
Please share info on successful of connections while living in rural areas. I work for company that uses VPN for voice. TIA!
DRUG ELUDING?DRUG ELUTING? -
Posted By: WA
Okay...sock it to me..when I was even newer than I am now, I wrote "drug alluding stent." QA sent a correction saying "drug eluding stent." NOW, I see on Google, "drug eluting stent." SOoooo, which is it, or are they both correct? Thanks ahead of time.
I passed the RMT exam! sm -
Posted By: Apple Scruff
Sheesh! It took them long enough to give me the results. I was thinking I'd be eligible for the CMT before I received the RMT results. The earth didn't shake for me when I received the results like when I found out I passed my nursing boards, but I'll take it.
Main Board -
Posted By: Bonnie
I'd like to thank the administrator for helping me with my question about the main board. Being new here, I looked around for "instructions" but must have overlooked them. It's nice to see the administrative message at the top of the main board explaining how to use it -- I took the word "main" litearlly, as others new to this board possibly have.
I do have a question. When I signed up at Yahoo-Groups , I signed up to receive daily digests, which are digests of the main board. Is there a way to receive digests of the boards listed on the left?
Entry-level jobs -
Posted By: jessalyn
Does anyone know of any companies that hire new graduates?
Have had stiffness of all of my finger joints.... -
Posted By: Dazey
No pain, just mild stiffness/tingling in the morning that I only feel if I try to make a fist that pretty much lasts all day. Doesn't keep my from transcribing or anything, just wondering if this could be caused by typing all day. I kinda expected to get carpal tunnel syndrome in my wrists, but this is strange. Unless this is the first sign of arthritis! I'm only 40!
Anyone experience anything like this? TIA!
need to order a dell with XP. -
Posted By: is it better to talk to a person...
or should I be able to just order it on-line? Any preferences? Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Does PC ShortHand work on Emdat or Word Client? -
Posted By: MT mom of 3
And if so how do I get it to work when using these platforms?
I don't know what everybody has to complain about. sm -
Posted By: Tracey
Look around you. Is anybody really getting paid what they are worth anymore. My husband went to school and makes around 30/hr. THat used to be a good wage but now people around here can make that doing road construction with no education. So it is not just us. Everybody should just start working and stop complaining.
I have been only doing this for a year part time and I only make 6 cpl but I really have nothing to complain about because when I average out my hrs to my pay I make on average $10-12 and I have hardly any work expenses so I figure where can I go and work pt and make that much money and be at home with my kids??? Think about it.
Shemah, are you the same person who used to work for YOG? sm -
Posted By: Curious MT
I don't know you or anything, just remember the name and a picture of you (if you are the same person) on a camel or something. Nice to see a familiar name. :-)
Beef about account managers -
Posted By: me
I'll say right off which company I'm talking about, it's DTS out of TN. I'm not mad, just at the point of head banging. I'd really like to know what it is that some account managers do and where they get them. I transcribe on several accounts and without fail, not one of them seems to know anything about the account. One particular one, "GK", I'll email with a question and IF she answers back, it will be somebody else's question, an "I don't know" or "where did you read that" (well DUH I read it in the account instructions). You get doctor lists that came out before modern medicine was invented and after requesting new ones 10-20 times, you just give up (some you can't get online). Then you get emails if you leave a blank for a doctor or feedback from QA that they can't find them either. Two accounts are GONE just this month, wonder if this has anything to do with it?
Please see msg. TIA!! -
Posted By: Carole
There is also decreased signal lesion seen adjacent to the left facet joint at T2-T3, which may represent an osteophyte s/l "osteo-mem-in-in-ja-meli-synovium" cyst per the radiologist. (This was an MRI of the cervical spine.) Any ideas?
who to choose??? -
Posted By: Joyce
Any info on Precyse Solutions...Silent Type....Breitner ????
Need to give decisions by Friday...help!
Has anyone ever purchased Jon Knowles' list. ... -
Posted By: tired fingers
of abbreviations for medical transcription that can be downloaded into ShortHand or IT, and if so, is it worth the $45? I have been considering it and think it would be worthwhile but would like opinions. TIA.
Calling all ICs. Just curious. How many lines and reports do you average per day at -
Posted By: Instructor/Mentor
whatever company you are working at currently? I'm wondering because it seems like I work A LOT (I should actually start counting hours, but I don't) and at the end of the evening my line count is so low and it will say 8 or 9 reports, even though it feels like I have done about 20 or so (this is DQS, but you can answer with whatever co. you work for).
Thanks so much! 
For any ICs -
Posted By: Tera
As an IC how much do you end up paying in? I am a new IC have always been an employee. Wondering what I should be prepared for.
Would you work for a co. that docked your paycheck for blanks? -
Posted By: Dixierose
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Has anyone had this problem...sm -
Posted By: curious girl
I am working in Word and everytime I go to type when I click on the page everything highlights and it won't let me type. I don't know what in the world is wrong with it. I have rebooted several times. It keeps doing this, and I can't get any work done.
Word 2003 Question -
Posted By: MT
I currently use Word 2003. When I started Word this morning all of my entries in my custom dictionary (that I use for spellcheck) were gone. Has anybody had this happen to them before. As far as I can tell my medical spellchecker is working ok it is just the custom dictionary.
Any help would be appreciated so this does not happen again.
Thanks.
VMODA headphones? -
Posted By: michelle
Does anyone here use V-MODA headphones? I really need to buy some new headphones, and I just cannot decide on a pair that would be good for listening to voice files for work. Any suggestions and/or opinions on the VMODA headphones? Thanks in advance.
What is the best anti-virus program for Vista? -
Posted By: grasshopper
As you know if you have Vista, it has a pretty good security system built right in, the Windows firewall and Defender antispyware. Is it necessary to go with a antivirus program with this system? Have never had good luck with them. Years back my computer crashed and it slowed it way down and actually brought more bad on board than did any good. What is a good one that is cheap or free and uses very little system reserves? I know this is kind of a technical question but any feedback would be appreciated.
Transferring autocorrect to new computer -
Posted By: Anita
Hi all,
I have a file of my autocorrects that was forwarded to me from the old computer I used. It's file extension is "acl", e.g., MSO1234.acl.
Can anyone coach me on how I can convert the acl to a text file (the format I believe it's supposed to be in) and then load it? I was directed to some file converter programs, but none of them worked.
I saw that someone had previously posted and gotten a reply to this question, but the answer given did not work for me.
TIA
Ic status? -
Posted By: cj
Can someone explain this to me 'cuz I don't get it. I thought IC meant you were independent. How can an employer hire a person as an IC and then dictate what hours/days you work? Our tax advisor, when I was self employed, told me that if I allowed a client to dictate days/hours that I would then be an employee, not independent. They could establish turnaround times but not specific shifts per se. I see this often in MT ads posted here and on MT jobs. Am I totally confused or who do you all see the IC versus employee issue? Thanks for any info.
Need help creating a go-to function in Word... -
Posted By: anotherMT
I would like to set up Word so that I can press tab (or some other) key and it will move to a specific point in the report such as ???, so that I can then insert text at that point. I have had many templates come to me with this function but I would like to be able to set it up for my own templates, only don't know how....after spending 30 minutes in the Help menu I'm just frustrated!! But I bet one of you folks know how to do it! Sure would appreciate the help.
New Job -
Posted By: tynkerbelle
Hi. Where I am working is going to VR with Editscript. Sounds like a bunch of crapola what they are going to do to us, put us off an hourly wage plus incentive pay to only being paid incentive at half of the rate we make now, but the union contract runs out in July 2010, so I have until then to get my financial affairs in order. I cannot believe what the services offer out there. I actually ran into one that paid you for every character you type. So if was a normal or a word Expander you would get paid for the actual keys you typed, not actually was on print on the page. so if you typed "the patient" as "tp" you only got credit for those two key strokes not the whole two words. normals were paid by the Keystrokes actually used too. Needless, to say better to stay put than go there. I am tired of being outsourced and tired of being gyped.
lanier voicewrite ex -
Posted By: chica
Can anybody out there tell me how to unassign a job on a lanier? Also is there a way to find jobs that u have signed off? Like a list of jobs? TIA
A question about typing numbers: - sm -
Posted By: Lowly MT
If the doctor is talking about thousands, and says for example, "Thirty to forty thousand": Which way do you think it should be typed?
1) 30-40,000
2) 30,000-40,000
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