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I have been offered a job transcribing internal med - I have been doing oncology for six years - Hhow difficult is internal med?

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yesterday by the tropical depression Cindy.  You can see photos of this through the Atlanta Journal-Constitution at:

http://lpe.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/0705/storm/14

Well I'm looking for work .. I have a year experience, my current company is 3 cents a line ... ICK but I needed the experience..

HELP any hints....

Need a decent company...

A few days ago I posted here in response to another MQ person nervous about leaving.  I was a little to forthcoming about my failure on a test and got mostly encouraging replies and a few holier than thou responses.

But anyway!  Good news!  A job offer late this afternoon at 8.5 a line!  I had tested on Monday - my favorite kind of test - basic grammar and terminology and then on to the dictation.  Three dictations (DS, Consult, and SOAP).  No mention on how I did on the test but guess it was good enough.  This is a big raise from what I was making at MQ - 6.5 cents!  Only problem is the time - they need eves - but feel I will take it just because the money is worth my while. 

Just wanted to let everyone know.  I felt so bad the other day, very ready to throw in the towel.  I still think that ours is a dying profession due to voice recognition and jobs outsourced but I am going to hang on for just a while longer.  Thanks for the encouraging words the other day.  I really needed it then.  And to Nervous MT 1, hope you are reading this and that you will keep us posted on how it goes with you.  There is life after MQ. 

Does anyone know some ways I can increase my productivity.  I have many expansions...maybe not enough.  I do a variety of clinics, so there are not many norms or standards (which would help).

Thanks for any info.  Have a great day!

Happy Holidays everyone!

I was wondering if anyone uses the abcz method with Instant Text and if they were pleased with it.

Does anyone know of a place where it can be downloaded? Or any other suggestions?

People have been helpful and my productivity is inceasing but still need more help!

As always, thanks to all for your willingness to help!!

Does anyone know of a website that you can go to and download the Meditech program?  There was a site I went to before, but I cant find it now and need to download Meditech.  Thanx for any help.

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This is for all of us poor MTs that are still stuck with dial up as our only option.  Satelite is just too darn expensive for what we get paid  and moving is even more expensive.  So....are there any tips or tricks to making our dial up connections any faster so we can download those dictation files faster and not time out anymore? 

Please do not mention an accelerator.  I have that and it is only good for a webpage pop up faster and for opening email.  It has nothing to do with dictation files. 

Is there something that were can do as far as the kind of phone cord we use, the length of it, or something like that? 

What about our modems?  Is there something we can do to our modems to jack up our speeds?

And whats with software like Escription advertising on their website that dial up will work when it does not.  That info has to be to the dictators who have dial up and not to the MTs with dial up.

There has to be hope for us becaue after 10 years of MT work I will be darned if I give up being home with my kids just because of my internet connection speed!!!!

Thanks letting me vent

Very frustated dial up MT

At what point does delete that go to far?  It's an op note and I get the pre and post diagnosis, procedure, surgeon, asst, anesthesia, etc. Then she goes on to hpi, ros, fh, sh, meds, allergies, and exam.  After exam she realizes that she's doing an op note and tells me to delete that and start over from preop diagnosis.  Needles to say she was an extremely difficult to understand ESL, wasted about 20 minutes of typing time that I won't get paid for and I had to split my shift. 

Sorry y'all it was vent or scream.  I chose the vent to not wake up the family.

I have been using the PRD short cut program on an old DOS-based computer in WP51.  I have upgraded to Windows XP with WordPerfect X3 and wondered if there is anyway to use the PRD with this program.  I have had to use other short cut programs for Word on my XP computer but have recently had to move all my WordPerfect work to my new computer and need a short cut program for it as well.  I would sure love to be able to use the PRD.  Anyone with any helpful information would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks so much!

My computer geek just scolded me :(  I have my computer set to hibernate after 2 hours to reduce accumulation of cat hair around the fan.  He says hibernate is like an induced coma -- sometimes the patient doesn't wake up.  He instructs NEVER use hibernate and he would take it off the computer if he could. 

I thought that turning on and off was hard on the hardware itself and where most problems originated -- plus the cat hair thing. . .

Opinions?

Just switched to a new computer and put Express Scribe on it and got my foot pedal up and running and just sat down to do some work when I noticed the foot pedal play back is weird.  The timing is okay but when I let my foot up it does not stop until I press it again and then I have to give it another tap to begin playing again.  I am used to letting up and it stops and pushing down and it plays! Simple stuff... until now.

Has anyone had this?  I am getting really frustrated.. may have to contact Express Scribe with this issue but wanted to see if anyone has downloaded the current version of Express Scribe and came across this.  Thanks!

I'm looking for any information I can find out about Sten-Tel based out of Springfield, Massachusetts?  Are ICs obligated to a set schedule, set number of hours/lines, etc.  Do they have a lot of ESL dictators?  How flexible are they?

Thanks tons!!  I'll look forward to hearing from you.

Is there a switch that I can buy in order to one use 1 monitor with 2 HD.  I thought it was called KVM or something to that effect.  Please help me, as I would like to only use 1 monitor, but need two computers. 

Thank you.

Thought I'd share this with y'all. Tried this and it works for sure. Nice resource to help MTs.

I've been an MT for over 20 years; primarily acute care and clinics.  It's been several years since I did any radiology.  I'd really like to "bone up" on radiology terms and familiarize myself again.  Can anyone suggest a good workbook or websites to visit so that I can start studying again.  I have the Stedmans Radiology Word Book but I really want to bookmark websites that Rad MTs find helpful in their day-to-day work.  A friend wants me to help her do some radiology work in about a month.  She primarily does CT, mammograms, MRI.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.