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My ShortHand runs great until I use Ctrl+Ctrl+Insert to insert a word or phrase into the dictionary.  After that, any word/phrase will expand and then immediately disappear up to the first letter (almost like someone hit backspace.)  What am I doing wrong????  I have to shut down Shorthand and then start it back up to fix this problem, but I want to be able to fix this for good.  I tried increasing the amount of time it pauses between Keystrokes and that did not work.  I do not want to shut off my caret as I use this all the time!  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance~

 Happy Turkey day!

I was looking at Thawte for a security measure for sending medical reports through email.  Has anyone here used them before or know anyhthing more concerning this company? 

TIA~   

I received my Godiva yesterday....thank you so much!  It arrived beautifully packaged and is sinfully delicious!

Thanks again!

Does anyone else have this condition?  What do you for it?  I've had it for years and of course it comes and goes.  I was on antibiotics for years with a dermatologist but got tired of the side effects of the tetracycline and gave that up 3 years ago. 

Sometimes my face is clear, then 2 mins. later it is all red and blotchy.  About 6 mos. ago I started getting dry patches on  my "T zone."  I'm a mess.   Tried different face cleansers, nothing helps and most make it worse.

Ideas?  TIA

I was shocked (very pleasantly surprised) to get an e-mail from my boss this weekend stating because I've mastered new skills and am always offering to work extra to keep our accounts in TAT, they are giving me a raise that will be effective on my next check for the last 2 weeks.  Wow!  I was trying to work up the courage to ask for a raise in June (1 year anniversary), but they offered me a raise first!  I've NEVER had a national offer me a raise in the past.  Cool, huh? :) 

:) Chickadee

It never fails to amaze me that there are so many MTs out there willing to post nothing but negatives about their current and/or previous employers. No matter what company one works for, there will be positives and negatives. Maybe if we  all take the positives and focus on them, we will find that the negatives are easier to deal with.  

Why is this so hard for some places to understand?  I am an IC and have found very few places who understand this. 

1 - Yes, acute care needs a schedule which is understandable.  I agree to do X lines between X time and X time.  If I get those lines in early, I should not have to stay on unless I choose to work more.  A contractor that comes to your place of business or home to do a job who finishes early is not going to sit there until 4 even though the committed job is done at 3.

2 - If the work is not able to be done because it is not there, again, the contractor is not going to sit there and wait on you without charging a heftly hourly rate. 

Frankly, I feel an IC schedule is a guideline.  If the client needs a schedule, by all means, I try to stick to that as closely as possible, but it is the contactor's responsibility to budget their time.  I am soooo tired of interviewing with companies for an IC position and they freak out as soon as you say, "So, when I finish early..." 

If you want someone who will sit in front of that computer for 8 hours whether there is work or not, and remain there even after making their line committment you better pay their taxes and pay for any down time - that is called an employee people!

Sorry about the rant.  I am just frustrated. 

It seems as if my Keystrokes are made but the cursor landing the typed letter on the screen are not in time, if that makes sense.  It does not happen in wordpad just in the Meditech portion of my program.

I went into control panel and adjusted cursor blink but then it was worse, adjusted time to "fast" on the slide scale but that also made it worse.  Am I doomed to the fact that when I hit a key, the character I typet will appear in a nanosecond as opposed to immediately?

Thank you!

1. I can't make my lines and lose my FT status.

2. My self-employed husband goes for open heart surgery. Thankfully, he's doing good, but the insurance only paid 1/4 of the hospital and doctor bills, even though it states up to $100,000 per event. They refused to pay the ambulance, didn't pay the doctors at all, and only paid the hospital 1/4 of what they charged. Why bother to pay for health insurance if they're going to renege (sic) on their agreement?

3. My credit rating has gone from excellent to fair since I am the only one working. I can't pay all the bills now until my husband goes back to work and then we have to wait 5 weeks for a paycheck from him. In the meantime, his truck payment, 2 mortgages 1st & 2nd, truck insurance, etc. must be paid to the tune of $3500 a month. I don't make that much a month plus I need another $500 for utilities and $1000 for life, health, disability insurance.

4. His brakes failed on his pickup when he was coming down our hill. Thankfully, he has the knowledge as a big truck driver, so he was not injured.

5.  I decided to sell some extra things I have around here to make some money to help. I screwed it up and now am afraid to try again. Yet I have a houseful of "trinkets" to sell.  I'm even thinking about selling some of our antique furniture, but am afraid I'll get ripped off.

This has not been a good year. I am trying not to break down in front of hubby, but I'm having a hard time keeping back the tears today..

Little Johnny says "Daddy, how was I born?"

Daddy says "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway.  You see, your mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN.  Then, I set up a date via e-mail with your mom, and we first met at a cyber cafe.  We sneaked into a secluded room where your mother agreed to download from my hard drive.  As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a blessed little Pop-Up appeared and said You've Got Male!"

will end up being on the new payment plan?  I do clinical and ER reports/discharge summaries.  I've been a Transcriptionist for 8 yrs (worked with them for six).   I currently make 8 CPL as it is.  

I really  need to know what I might make with this new plan.  I NEED THE MONEY.  I SURVIVE ON THIS PAYCHECK.  Nervous as all he** right now. 

and see what they are up to now.  I think Brenda H. is trying to get the doctors to talk more plainly so the off-shore accounts can understand them better.  HA - HA.

Be sure to look at very bottom of the article.  For more information please check out AAMT.........  What a bunch of garbage.  While the context of the article is true, it is the source of the article that is a fake ...... Good Grief.

http://www.local6.com/news/10286256/detail.html

I work for a hospital and I am forced to use Meditech.  There is nothing to help a Transcriptionist except for autocorrect.  The F11 key is diabled as well as macros.  Any one else experience this problem, and how did you get around it. 

Going crazy without my tools.  I can't stand not being able to F11 to my next stop, let alone make templates, etc.  Autocorrect on this computer is terrible as well.  It will only take words in a line, not a paragraph, for example.  Sheesh..  Any advice???

I am a home-based Transcriptionist who worked VERY part time (2 hours a day or less) until my daughter was a little over 1 year old, and then my husband got promoted, I went back to school and quit my job.  Now my degree is almost finished, and I am getting ready to start back at home again on a full-time basis with my old company.  I cringe at the thought of sending my daughter to daycare, especially while I sit at home all day typing, but I am not sure I can get enough production done with a 19-month-old around all hours of the day.  Does anyone have any experience with YOUNG children at home and working full time?  I'm not going to push myself to produce the huge numbers I know I otherwise could, but I would just like to still be in the mix and have full-time status AND be with my daughter...I guess I want it all!

I want to share something my family does in case you're interested in doing something similar.  We live near a military base and every year I call and get the names of a couple of soldiers to invite into our home for Christmas Day.  These are soldiers who are very far from home and not scheduled for leave on Christmas.  We been doing this for several years and it has been such a wonderful experience.  We have made friends that we'll keep in contact with until ... 

We pick up these soldiers up at a set time and set gate on the base.  They have dinner with us and we always give them some small gifts  -- phone cards, note cards, stamps, restaurant gift certificates, etc.  The guys love it when they get a box of all occasion cards with stamps, as most of them say they aren't very good at picking out cards to send back home.  We end the evening by driving around showing them Christmas lights, etc.

Yes, it is generally a bit awkward for them at first, but they always end up getting "comfortable" and enjoying themselves. 

You usually need to call early - they do have to make sure you aren't a serial killer or terrorist.      Often times, they have an office set up where you fill out a form for "adopting a soldier" and that simplifies matters a great deal.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Calcaneo-cuboid Joint and Talof-ibularJoint---also why would joints be capitalized?

Just got put on a new account and QA marked me wrong because I did not use hyphens or a capital "J"

I am trying to figure out which Expander to purchase and I feel so dumb.  I shorthand expander something I download to my PC or is it more like a CD?  Can I use it on more than one computer, i.e. home and work?  I'm actually trying to find something that can sort of travel with me, like bringing my tool box along with me.  Is that possible? 

Thanks.