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Also, all the capitalizations I built in for headers get reversed to lower case when I follow them with a colon and I have resigned myself to having to re-enter all of those. Any Bayscribe experts who can shed some light?

How much faster would you say an Expander can make you when transcribing?

Abby

Does anyone out there work for Medquist as QA/Editor (editing transcriptions)?  If so, can you tell me what the per hour line count requirement is for you?

Also, anyone from any other company who works as QA/Editor. Can you tell me what your line count requirement is?

Thanx tons.

I have a wisdom tooth that is coming in. I do NOT do well w/ dentists/anesthesia, etc...well a few months back i had an appointment to have this removed.  long story short even though the dentist knew I was freaked out about the local anesthesia he took so long to do the extraction my mouth was no longer numb when the hygenist tested my gum area.  I freaked out, left crying and vowed to never go back to him.  Well now that the tooth is slowly coming in more and more i have an ulcer that seems to be getting bigger from where i am more or less chewing the inside of my mouth. 

It doesn't really hurt or bother me that much, i would much rather deal with the ulcer than have another panic attack/heart racing event from the local at the dentist's office.  My concern is this:  Can you develop cancer from a chronic mouth ulcer? My aunt died of oral (tongue) cancer last year so i'm paranoid about it.

Any info you can give is welcom.  Thanks!

Whenever I click on Apply Now on any job ad on the job seeker board here, my resume is automatically pasted into the box!!

How did that happen? I don't paste it - it's already there.

Yesterday I was laid off from my MT job due to an account pulling out suddenly.  I live in a different state than my employer, and when I went to file for unemployment, I found out that my employer had not filed the necessary paperwork and reported my earnings to my state.  I was told I would be denied unemployment initially but to appeal the decision while they do a wage investigation into my employer.  Has anyone ever had this happen to them?  I kept all my pay stubs from my employer showing all the taxes being taken out, but was also told I could still be held liable for the taxes.

Is there anyone out there redictating their reports with Dragon Naturally Speaking? I am seriously thinking about trying this but wondering if I need to spend the big bucks to get the medical version or if I can just get the standard or preferred version and teach it the medical words myself. I know that it would probably take some time to get used to it and get all of the words in there, but there is no speech recognition on my employer's end for my accounts and my hands are oh so tired. I would love to be able to get speech recognition working for me so I could even just get a little break for my hands. Thanks for any help you can give!!

It started with a mild sore throat, then went to a REALLY BAD sore throat, tickly throat so I coughed and couldn't sleep, started getting a runny nose, then sinuses stuffy/sinus headache, sore throat got worse - was starting to think it was strep.  Yesterday was the worst; felt like crap.  Last night - started to feel better!  Finally last night I was able to SLEEP.  Today I have felt SO much better.  Not back to normal, but at least I was able to drink a cup of coffee.  Every other day I have poured myself a cup and then it just sat on my desk all day.  My throat is MUCH better and althought I am getting twinges of pain in it from time to time, it's not constant like it has been the last several days.  I don't like this, whatever it is!

I would think it was strep except DD had it too and she got over it.  She said her teacher had it and the teacher said her doctor told her it's a viral thing.

Received job offer from Eight Crossings, Inc.....anyone know anything about them?

I would like some information about the RadNet platform with Keystrokes.  Is it easy to learn?  Is it word-based?  Is it productive?

Thank you!

In view of the increased cost of gasoline, housing, medical care, now heating and electric, when it comes to the tax dollars coming from YOUR income, would you prefer it go to:

A.)  Those on welfare due to bad choices, those on welfare because they refuse to work, those on welfare due to unwed pregnancy, or those receiving governmental aid due to just being elderly and unable to  work, or due to catastrophic illnesses or events such as Katrina.

or

B.) Those elected officials to use for their wives' tummy tucks, their children's daycare, their expensively catered business meetings with other elected officials (including water at $500 a case), their tax-funded trips with their families as "staff", and their million-dollar tax-funded pensions.

Does anyone else find it odd that the very select few of highly paid MTs, (making between 12 - 17 cpl)  are bold enough to write a post stating outright how much they make and how much they are worth.  But when questioned over and over about who these companies are that pay so well, no one volunteers even one name.

This bothers me for two reasons. 

1)  We're in a recession and many of your fellow MTs are struggling to feed their families and would benefit greatly from the same opportunity. 

2)  None of you are making these insane line rates and likely are just bored out of your mind because you are actually unemployed, which would explain why you have so much time to come here and fabricate things to post about.

No offense to anyone, but I find it incredibly frustrating to read your posts just to have my questions to you blatantly ignored.  If you aren't bold enough to answer, just have the common courtesy to say so.   I hope I'm dead wrong, but whether I am or not, the result is the same because none of you have the nads to speak up and give us some names!  If you aren't going to share information and make a difference, why bother?

task bar and also the page that opens a new document and the print preview page.  There are probably more missing.  How do I get them back?

thx so much

With all of the talk about expanders, autocorrect, autotext, and productivity we could use a forum for that on mtstars.

Okay, gang, here is one more.  I see that they are listed as the 2005 and 2002 AAMT Employer of the Year, and I am scheduled to test with them tomorrow. 

Any feedback, good or bad, on Medware?

- so I stayed home, and can see a ton of work listed, yet my job list is EMPTY! 

I hate when this happens!  They cry for backlog to be caught up, yet we can't get to it to do it.  Meanwhile, ANOTHER holiday wasted in front of the PC waiting for work.

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.

Does anyone know of any companies out there hiring for podiatry or orthopedics? Thanks