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S/L Perfifth study per neurology? - Posted By: Michele

I can't seem to find anything. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Is it possible to use .... - Posted By: Victoria

I am currently working for a company that uses a Word-based platform, obtaining the dictation through TransNet and WinScribe. I have a job offer with another company, part-time, that also uses a Word-based platform, using Iscriptor. Does anyone know if this will be possible?

TIA!

Medquist mail - Posted By: *

I accidentally deleted my e-mail telling me how to check my mail under mail.medquistmail.com. When I try that address, I dead-end. Anybody have a step-by-step that works or is the system down?

Any suggestions.... - Posted By: NYMT

I have a friend, who would like to start doing some data entry from home. She is looking for a part-time job. Does anyone know of any reputable companies where she can apply. I am at a loss. Thanks so much!

how do you set boundaries?-sm - Posted By: CS

I am a home-based MT and have always found it difficult to deal with interruptions. For the most part, I do not have a problem with phone calls or e-mails or faxes. I do, however, find it hard to deal with trying to work in my work when I have company. My office is in the corner of the dining room which can be partially closed off but still....I don't have company often but often enough that it affects my overall income so it does concern me. The visitors know what I do for a living but still decide to visit whether its convenient or not. I don't feel like I want to say no every time but I still would like to be able to work a bit on the days when they are here. For example, when hubby's family is here, I would like to be able to get up early and work and when his relatives get up he can handle things for awhile. The last time I tried this everyone got up early. I felt rather resentful. I have had other instances where I was kept from my work too. I have listed the pros and cons of moving my office and have decided to keep it where it is for a variety of reasons. Any suggestions? Thanks.

How to listen to music on CPU - sm - Posted By: sammypot

Am looking for a site that allows you to listen to a track or so on an album/CD without downloading it. Any ideas? Thank you.

?Delete a personal normal from EXText? - Posted By: Esquelito

Does anyone here know how to delete a personal normal from EXText. All my documentation shows is how to create and modify, not delete. TIA.

Anyone have an Aeron chair/ Worth the ?? NM - Posted By: Need New Chair

NM

has anyone had to cut out a toxic relative or best - Posted By: friend because they were affecting your life?

Mine is my mother. She is an extremely angry woman, and I honestly think, her seeing me happy, makes her dislike me even more. When I go to visit, which is not often anymore, she sarcastically says "yay look whos here" and does not have anything nice to say to me. She is usually drunk or on drugs so she falls asleep when I try to talk to her, and she criticizes my every decision and points out the things about myself that I hate. One thing, is that i'm not good with people, and she has to remind me of this on a daily basis, like when I tell her i'm going to start school or take classes she will say "but youre not good with people, I bet youre nervous" or snide remarks to that effect. She criticizes how I look, how I do my hair, what I wear, just about everything. When I leave there, for the next couple of days, I feel very angry, my self esteem feels as low as it did when I was a kid, and i'm just sick. I know she is my "mother" but its affecting me so much that I think I would have a better life if I distanced myself and not let her be so involved where it would affect me. Wondering if anyone had to make this painful decision with someone close to them. I'm changing and she is stuck in this bitter hate the world phase, where she has always been.

EXText - Posted By: BooBoo

Can anyone tell me what companies use the Dictaphone EXText platform? TIA

What's up with the CMT part A and part B exams? - Posted By: MSMT

I thought it was all one test. How can a half a test last 6-1/2 hours? If anyone knows, please share your info! Thanks!

Where O where is my favorite research site? s/m - Posted By: penny

Anyone on here familiar with a website "aamtonline/resources"? It was my most-accessed website where you had the ability to look up partial words by using an "*", you could look up physicians, acronyms, etc. I used it constantly and in my opinion was one of the best out there. It has recently been replaced by another website that evidently has something to do with education or something other than what it used to be. Does ANYONE know anything about what happened here -- has it moved, been renamed? Certainly I am not the only one that used this website? I would love any input on this!!

sick cat - Posted By: sandy54

Help. Our cat stopped eating about 5 days ago. She will eat maybe 1 bite a day, does drink water. No upper respiratory signs, no vomiting/diarrhea, she just sits very still for long periods. Can't get her into vet for a couple more days. She is getting very thin, not grooming herself. Tried fancy food, things she likes, not interested. Any suggestions?

Medical Editor job - Posted By: SandyGIRL

Hi Guys! Does anyone have any info on what a MEDICAL Editor position should pay in the NY area? It's requiring 10+ years of MT experience.

Do these positions usually work from home - or on hospital sites? I don't know much about editing jobs - and am darn curious about the particulars. I've sent in a resume, but am now playing the waiting game !

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks guys !

Sandy

Resume posting - Posted By: HR

I recently tried to post my resume to the resume bank, and it will not show up. Do they update that monthly or something? There are no resumes on there for the month of August. THanks.

Does anyone send cards or anything to the office they work for? (sm) - Posted By: Christmas Coming Up!!

Years ago when I worked for a smaller company a bunch of us made a big box of goodies and mailed it to the office. They were such great people, helpful and cheerful. The company always sent us something and we didn't want to just send to the owner of the company so we felt a card in a box of goodies everyone could share. Smaller places have more of a personal feel .

Now I work for a larger company and home made goodies may not be such a good idea. (The shipping alone would be a killer.) I guess a card addressed to "everyone" will have to do it. Thought about having X-mas cards made up with my family picture on it and sending that to kind of help them also put a face to the name. Too much? Think I would be better off with just a standard card?

Those of you that are doing anything for the office you work out of, what are you doing? Would love to "borrow" a really good idea.

TIA

A Funny about Toiling Away in Isolation - Posted By: Diane in NY

Or, at least I think it's funny. It's on my blog. Hope it makes someone laugh today.

http://thrivingandtranscribing.com/?p=61

Take care,

Diane

MQ offshoring - My response to the President - Posted By: Movin In With The President

Here's MY letter--below--to our President. Our jobs are going people. But our president has other plans. To the poster below--do you think that lovely older woman who asked the question about offshoring--or any of us lovely people sitting comfortably in our home offices right now working--are cut out for jobs such as (taken from the transcript) building solar panels or wind turbines or the new biofuel -- that involve these higher-value, higher-skill, higher-paying jobs ?? Are you ready to climb a friggen wind turbine and service the propellers?

I was so upset with his answer. First, I called the White House. This is our right. You ALL should do that. Second I wrote the following letter to the President. My own little two cents. Then I copied it to every news agency out there that I could think of. Again, just my two cents. You all should do the same. Let him know that his answer just will not do. What are we all supposed to do, in the meantime, to buy food and pay our bills before we get trained to build turbines, solar panels, or go to the lab to create the next biofuel?

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President Obama�

You owe the American displaced workers an apology.

How dare you.

I am shocked at your response to the video question about the offshoring of American jobs. How dare you say to us that we don�t want those jobs that are going offshore anyway. Mr. President, for those of us who have lost or are about to lose our jobs to offshoring, yes we DO want our jobs.

You then went on to blame offshoring on the credit situation. Oh come on! The financial disaster has nothing to do with offshoring. Offshoring is the bastard child of government ineptitude and the corporate greed running rampant in our country. Offshoring means getting the same job done by cheap third-world labor. Offshoring is about not paying decent wages and benefits. Offshoring is about stuffing corporate pockets with more money.

If there was an international symbol for offshoring, it would be a picture of a CEO�s heel grinding into a third-world worker�s back.

These greedy corporations have sold out the American worker and are stepping on the backs of the low-wage third-world workers .

I am outraged. I DID go to school Mr. President. I HAVE a degree. I have invested thousands of dollars into reference materials and equipment to help me perform my job better. I also have invested almost 30 years to my career. My career is very technical. I could rattle off a bunch of words here for you, and I bet you would not know what they mean. But I do. And I have performed my job with pride all these years.

How dare you brush off the offshoring question with such simplicity.

Well, I would rather Americans have jobs, not undereducated or poorly educated third world nations.

A lot of the work from my field goes to India, Phillipines and Pakistan. Didn�t I see a group of Pakistani�s burning the American Flag on TV recently? Do you know that when my company�s work goes offshore, it contains the name, birth date and social security numbers of Americans? This is information, that in the wrong hands, could be used to ruin someone�s life. How can we be sure in countries with unstable governments, with such widespread hatred for America, with the arrogance to burn the American Flag on national TV, that this information will be guarded with care? The sad part is, after the Pakistani�s anti-American demonstration, chances are they all went back to work---doing jobs taken from Americans.

How dare you say we don�t want our jobs. What is your solution? Wait for these �green jobs� to be created some day? Go to school while we are waiting and then hope that we will be hired when we are in our golden years?

How dare you belittle what we all have worked so hard to achieve in our lives. Not all offshored jobs are call center jobs. Many of those jobs are now degreed and highly skilled jobs also.

And�your comment about our children becoming engineers was laughable. With all due respect�get with it sir�those jobs are also being offshored. Also, what are we, the displaced workers, many of us middle age, supposed to do in the meantime before we get trained to build solar panels, wind turbines and create biofuels. How should be pay for our food and our rents and mortgages?

No, Mr. President, you are so very incorrect. We DO want those jobs. They feed us, clothe us, and keep us off the street. Not to mention they help us strengthen the tax base in our own country--America.

Yes, We WANT our jobs, Mr. President.

You owe all the displaced American workers an apology.

You Are Wrong.

how long has MTstars been around? - Posted By: MTStars history

How long has MTSTars been here? I love this board but it can be addictive. Anyone know where the administrators are located? Just curious.

Check out lots of great stuff for sale on the - Posted By: Classifieds board! Administrator nm

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OK, if you'll admit to it. Are you a smoker? sm - Posted By: MTPuffer

................and if you quit, how did you do it?

Going rate - Posted By: HappyICMT

I was just wondering what the going rate is that companies are charging their clients? Any help would be appreciated!

Worked in early 90s for 15 cpl - Posted By: just got offered 9 cpl...they laughed at 15 SM

I work in a clinic and am salaried. I decided to pick up some extra work at home and try out one of these companies. Offered 9 cpl...In early 90s, I worked at home for 15 cpl for the local hospital. Who are these companies kidding? What's up with that? I think I'll call the hospital back. But I've heard they are outsourcing now, so they may not pay that anymore either. I believe all these companies out there have been the cause of the drop in OUR pay. Whatcha think?

Losing faith... - Posted By: TIA

Well every year I think things can't be any worse than the last. This year dealing with disturbing financial woes, working too much and a rebellious daughter. How do people some people go through all this and still keep their faith in God and life in general. Sometimes I just want to throw my hands up in the air and just forget it.

Sorry, just got more bad news and here alone working and needed to vent.

Fair price? - Posted By: anon

I just picked up a new account today but was so unsure of what to tell them in regards to price. It is a psych account, PHP program, and they said they dictate on a total of 150 patients per week at 2 facilities. They said if all goes well, they have 6 more facilities they can add. I was really scared of giving too high of a price and not getting the account, but I also don't want to get ripped off either. I have quoted prices that were too low in the past and really suffered for it. Anyway, I ended up quoting them 0.08 a gross line, which I think is totally fair. They will be using digital recorders and they will be printing the work. What do y'all think?? I want to feel confident about this....

MQ discrepancy... - Posted By: MQ2

Has anyone ever noticed that on "the other" very popular MT site (don't think I can give the name but most know of it) almost ALL the MT's are very positive about MedQuist, while on this site it is completely the opposite? I sometimes feel schizophrenic after visiting both sites - any ideas why this is? It just seems so strange to me...

Looking for a good lab test reference site... - Posted By: New MT

.. can anyone suggest some? I'm looking for something that lists all lab tests and their normal ranges... also a description of what each test is done for would be nice, but not necessary.

TIA!

Update on "Direct Hit to Cherrypickers" - Posted By: MQGuy

Well, U know there HAD to be a flipside - now that all the cherrypickers on my account must type whatever comes down the pike our TAT has gone down the tubes! It seems they are struggling with those darn difficult docs, doncha know. On top of that, our office is now assigning most of these hard docs to us "old-timers" as the cherrypickers just can't seem to get the hang of them. So now I get nothing but the dregs! Oh well, they're not difficult to me as I've been doing 'em for years, but jeez - I feel like I'm being "punished" for being too darn good!

Does anyone live in the Denver, Colorado, area? sm - Posted By: mac

I may possibly be moving there. What can you tell me about it? The school systems do not matter as we no longer have children at home. What areas are nice to live in? I read that when it snows it usually melts the same day....is that true?

Any information from someone who lives there or has lived there would be much appreciated.

TIA

help - Posted By: tiffany

Does anyone hire without so much experience??

For those who started a new job before leaving current job - sm - Posted By: greenie

Any pointers on how you did this? I'm sure the answer is plain as day, but I can't figure it out...do you call in sick on the first day of the new account training and see how it goes? And if you're not sure after that, and keep working at the new account until you are sure, how do you handle both jobs? I don't mean to be dense, but this has always been a puzzle to me how you do it. Any tips? TIA

I have copied and pasted from IRS - Posted By: More IC info

guidelines. If URL does not work, the link is also included so you can paste and copy in your browser.

If you hire an electrician, a painter, or a roofer (as examples of independent contractors), you do not tell them HOW to do their work or WHEN to do their work. Just try doing so and see how many contractors you can obtain.

Today, we have these large companies not only telling us how to do the work for which we have been trained, but when to do the work (specifically, what days of the week and what hours). Certainly, the quality of the end product must meet the client's approval or the contract can be cancelled. It cannot be cancelled on the grounds of not working specific days or hours each day to fulfill that contract. If you sign a contract specifying you will produce 1000 or 1200 or 1600 lines per day and you meet that production, a client (the MTSO) cannot fault you if you produce the agreed upon lines in 4 hours, 6 hours, 3 days, 2 days, etc. When requiring you to work a specified schedule of x number of hours producinig x number of lines, then it becomes employee-employer status, not one of client-independent contractor status.

Also note the evalutation system below. I would saying doing QA in evaluating a contractor's performance is an evaluation system. Would you? What about being put on probation or fined (as some companies are now doing)? Does that point to employee status? Can you put a roofing contractor on probabtion or issue a fine?

And...just read the section on training. An eyeopener for certain.

Below are the guidelines. I say we ICs start filling out the misclassified workers form. If we are treated as employees, then we need tax relief. If MTSOs provide employee status in some states and not others, AS WELL AS hiring ICs, then an IC cannot be required to adhere to the policies and procedures that their employees are required to adhere, and that includes WHEN the work will be performed and HOW it will be performed. The guidelines are clear.

I'm not afraid of broaching this subject for fear jobs will go to a third world country. They are going there at a rate faster than the speed of lightning anyway, and nothing we as ICs or employees can do will stop it. They are going there because it is a cheap, cheap way of doing business.

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http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.html

Independent Contractor

The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if (the person for whom the services are performed) has the right to control or direct only the result of the work, and not what will be done and how it will be done or method of accomplishing the result.

People such as lawyers, contractors, subcontractors, public stenographers, and auctioneers who follow an independent trade, business, or profession in which they offer their services to the public, are generally not employees. However, whether such people are employees or independent contractors depends on the facts in each case. The earnings of a person who is working as an independent contractor are subject to Self-Employment (SE) tax.

Evaluation System

If an evaluation system measures the details of how the work is performed, then these factors would point to an employee.

If the evaluation system measures just the end result, then this can point to either an independent contractor or an employee.

Training

If the business provides the worker with training on how to do the job, this indicates that the business wants the job done in a particular way. This is strong evidence that the worker is an employee. Periodic or on-going training about procedures and methods is even stronger evidence of an employer-employee relationship. However, independent contractors ordinarily use their own methods.

Misclassified Workers Can File Social Security Tax Form
Workers who believe they have been improperly classified as independent contractors by an employer can use Form 8919, Uncollected Social Security and Medicare Tax on Wages to figure and report the employee�s share of uncollected Social Security and Medicare taxes due on their compensation. See the full article Misclassified Workers to File New Social Security Tax Form for more information.

Getting a job back - Posted By: Cindy

I am using a Lanier LX-219. I re-recorded a job but did not get the entire job. How do I go back into the system and recall the job using the job number?

Thanks.

So what do you do to keep motivated to type during the work day? Sometimes I find it so hard to... - Posted By: KYMT

stay focused. When you're working at home it is soooo easy to turn on the TV, take frequent breaks to answer the phone, talk to hubbie, play with the kids, take a hot bath, play solitaire on the PC, surf the net, post on a message board, etc.

I just wondered if anyone had any miracle cure for the wandering mind?

My neice is pregnant....thank you for all the responses. - Posted By: me

I do appreciate all the responses. I don'g believe I'm being self-righteous and am trying to be supportive but I wanted her to quit sleeping around. That's dangerous. Yes, the pregnancy can be changed, removed, deleted. Herpes, HIV and a variety of other things cannot. I was a 15 and pregnant, so I do know a little about it. I had the baby and he died at an early age not by my choice. I still deal with this everyday and maybe that's why my stand on abortion is so tough. The pain from a dead baby is plain and hard no matter what age he/she dies. I've done everything to encourage my neice to live with the choice AND to do everything she has to that will prevent it from happening again. BUT the choice is hers to make. NO NEED TO RESPOND TO THIS NOTE. I just needed to say thanks for all the responses and just say a prayer for us today. Thanks again.

Can anyone help me with Abacus? SM - Posted By: Help!

I'm trying to use it for the first time. I opened the program and see the drives listed at the upper left. However, I need to get into My Documents and go from there, and it's not listed there. I have A, C, D, and E drives. Even if I click on C, I don't get a choice of My Documents. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What am I missing here?

Poll: Is your abbrev expander (any type) mainly (sm) - Posted By: jess wonderen

single words, terms/phrases, or part/full reports? Mine is a little of all, but mainly just single words and terms/phrases.

netbook with air card, has anyone tried this - Posted By: me

Hi,

Has anyone tried using one of the new netbooks with a broadband "air card" which plugs into a USB port, a wireless keyboard and mouse (for ease of typing), and a foot pedal plugged into another USB port? Am thinking about getting rid of the high-speed cable and going this route which costs about 60$ a month so that i could take my work with me or check on work away from home. This has really become an issue lately because my granddaughter is in Children's Hospital with a heart defect. Most of the time there is "sit around and wait for hours" where i could be doing some reports while waiting for news. Verizon gal told me that the broadband is "secure" where WiFi is not. any advice/ideas? I say a netbook because they are so cheap ...about 350$ compared to a laptop.

Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents - Posted By: seminewbiemt

On the GoMDT board, the company proveros was offering an internship. The pay was going to be 4 cpl for straight transcription and 2 cpl for editing. Well I have been working now for about 6 months so I am still a newbie but I do have a little bit of experience under my belt now. I was not interested in the internship but I applied so I could test just to see what the test was going to be like. This is for an internship, MTs fresh out of school with no experience, so they have no idea what it is like to be working for an MTSO. I get the test and it's one of those test voice files from the site that a lot of MTSOs use as their testing site, which IMO all of those tests are horrible and I cringe when I try to start taking one of them. Of course, the file sounds horrible. There are a lot of words that I can't make out. The voice quality is horrible compared to where I work at. I do my best and leave blanks for the words I can't make out. And you know what? I failed the test. lol It just boggles my mind. Why are they making a test so difficult and hard for newbie mts? I could understand if this was for a company that requires exp., but this is for an internship. It just shows how unfair this profession is to people trying to break into it.

My plan to increase my income - Posted By: anon

Real estate. I just took a new MT job during second shift hours. I'm going to real estate school (doesn't take long). My plan is to do the real estate thing during the day.

They even have a program that is certified (Georgia) that I can take online. I know it will take time to start getting listings and closings once I get my license, but at least it's a ray of hope.

what did you think of the Six Feet Under - Posted By: season finale? I was disappointed.

It seemed a little rushed at the ending. I was also expecting to cry or get emotional or get shocked like I usually do. It was very mundane and the ending was rushed. Looks like everyone died exactly the same way, except the gay boyfriend.

Curious, are there any IC MT's from the So. Cal region? - Posted By: MT'ing

I was wondering if there are any IC MT's in the Ventura Country region. I may be looking for some help soon, and I was hoping there might be someone in need of work. The hours would be flexible. It would also require driving locally one day a week.

TIA

Foot pedal - Posted By: Barbara Stephenson

I am working for a company, renting a computer and foot pedal. I discovered I could use my own computer so want to send their equipment back. Their foot pedal is a 15 pin pedal. I have a 15 pin pedal of my own, looks identical to theirs. When I plug my foot pedal into the game port on their computer it does not work. I need to know what I need to do to my own foot pedal to make it work on the game port on my own computer. I am so technologically challenged. Does anyone know what I need to do?

word expander, please help! - Posted By: MTGal

I am going to be working just in microsoft word. How do I get a word exapander? What is a good one? Are there any free word expanders? Thanks

spacing after sentences - Posted By: sb

Does everyone space once after the end of a sentence now? My daughter takes keyboarding in high school and I just realized they are not taught to double space after the end of a sentence. Should I then change to single spacing after the end of a sentence?

MTEC worth the $$ - Posted By: Angela

Husband just took 50% pay cut.. he is gone at least 16 days a month and really want to find job that keeps me at home with kids. Half way done with paralegal certificate but realize now must make major commute into city to find a job. MTec training worth the $3000? Seems high but they quote access to forum where passing grades from them eliminate need for experience....confused and need decent job.

transcribing help - Posted By: Kymbers

Hi! I'm new to this forum and am seeking help. If a Dr dictates "extension -5, flexion 90..." do you leave it like that or do you add the term degrees?? I have been transcribing for a little over a year now but have not come across this yet. I appreciate any help anyone can provide me :) Thanks!

OK...for all you marrieds out there.. - Posted By: a question...sm

Long discussion short...would/do you *allow*, for lack of a better word, your husband to go out on the weekends w/HIS 20-something year old son and hang out at sports bars and the like?

I have a friend whose husband goes to these places at least 2-3 times a week after work to *relax* after a *stressful day at work*!!! Meanwhile, she is at home working (MTing)...with 2 young children...yet she has to stay at home while he's out drinking and who knows what else! This just infuriates me to no end, even though it's not my husband or really even my business...I probably wouldn't even know about it, but for the fact that this guy asks my husband to accompany him when he goes.. (they work together; my husband is his boss)...

I just want to know if this bothers anyone else as much as it does me...and I KNOW IT AINT NONE OF MY BUSINESS, I haven't ever brought it up to the friend...I just get angry when my husband tells me this...

Editscript - Posted By: MI MTt

Has anyone had trouble downloading Editscript because of MS Works being on their PC? I'm getting an error msg and I don't know how to get around this...Thanks

Just when I was about to ..... - Posted By: Patti

Having a bad day with one of my docs, he was changing this, adding this, insert this, mumbling and I was about ready to read the riot act to him, he apologizes on tape and says that he is sorry his dictation is so horrible today but he has something presonal going on and to please be patient with him, he appreciates my good job and if need be, put an extra charge on as he knows that this tape was just horrible. So guess they are human and have problems also. Anyway, not all docs are bad.