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Does anyone know if you can use Stedman's Spellcheck with Bayscribe? nm -
Posted By: NM
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Macro help...error?! -
Posted By: MTMommy
I have set up several macros with my docs thank yous, closing and signatures. They seemed to work fine whenever I set them up and then tried them out but now everytime I try and use one, it plugs in something that I earlier cut and pasted. For instance, the thank you and closing are there but instead of the docs sig it is something wierd that I cut and pasted earlier. I go into my macros and it looks right. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?? As always, thanks! I don't know what I'd do without this website!!
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I just found my 3 year old son after looking for him for ab -
Posted By: Dancin Shoes
10 minutes! I was working and he escaped into the garage from the kitchen. We live on a little farm with 2 big dogs. He doesn't go out alone, so I knew he wasn't out wandering..
I finally find him by going into the garage and the driver door to my Yukon XL is wide open. I walk up to him putting on my makeup in the mirror! Mary Kay full-coverage liquid makeup all over my leather seat and steering wheel! The mirror was down and lit up, eye shadow on the floorboards! He turned to look at me and there was mascara all of his lips. I wish I could take a pic for ya'll. I was just about to yell at the top of my lungs until I saw those black lips and then I just had to walk away for fear of laughing right in his face
The funny thing is this: I never realized that they would watch me put my make up on in the car like that! He had to go in the security box on the side to get to it in the first place!
I guess he just wants to be like his momma. Well, his daddy won't be happy about that one. He's already upset that my little one is enrolled in gymanastics. Oh no! 
Very strange -
Posted By: Siren
I just began filling out an application to a transcription service advertising on another MT forum. Halfway down the application page it is asking for my social security number. There is no way in (you know where) I am giving that out. I find this a bit shady if you ask me. Why do they need my SS#?
Vonage -
Posted By: me
Any of you out there using Vonage? It seems like a really good deal, 25.00 a month for unlimited (opposed to the 110. we pay for Verizon). Anyone using it to connect to hospitals? and do they say anything if you are using 8 hours solid for work? I see they have a small business plan for around 50. If any of you have it, how is the connection and the sound quality.
C-phone question -
Posted By: ..confused...
Is there is a difference between a C-phone and a DVI. I think that I took a job that requires a C-phone, but I think I have a DVI. If anyone clear this up for me, that would be great. My machine has a phone keypad, but no handset.
Thanks in advance!
just some information for MTs in rural areas where high speed is not available -
Posted By: Jest Lil Ole Me
Hi all,
Was just on the Sprint website a little bit ago and checking out wireless cards for my laptop since I will be moving to an area that doesn't even have landline service available yet. Sprint is now offering a wireless card that is a USB card and apparently will work with both a laptop and a desktop as long as you have an available USB port on your computer. Might be something to think about 
Help please :) -
Posted By: 24/7 MT
This is probably a long shot, but does anyone have the settings to program a PC Dart TTU-200 to work with dictaphone call-in equipment?
Anone MTers use wireless connection for MT work such as Alltel sm -
Posted By: Snowflake
Does it work well - all in can get in my area is dial-up at 26.4 SLOW!
Show of hands, plz: If MQ is getting rid of the quarterly bonus, how many SEs will leave? (sm) -
Posted By: MQ SE
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Just have to share - sm -
Posted By: bjpnc
I have a discharge summary - the guy was in the hospital for a month. It's 42 minutes long. The doctor is dictating every consult that saw the patient every day, their impression, and then just reading the assessment and plan, numbering the recommendations, and then....."Thank you for allowing us to see this patient." Do they even think about what they're dictating???????
what kind of keyboard -
Posted By: dls
Just curious, what type of keyboard do you type on? I use the Microsoft erogonomic. I absolutely love it! I find that if I type on the traditional keyboards my hands hurt. Also, do you wear gloves for carpal tunnel protection? I wear gloves and have found this helps me tremendously. I have been doing transcription for about 15 years.
Which head set to be used with Dictaphone foot pedal?? -
Posted By: Wanda
I know you have to have an adapter to use the Dictaphone foot pedal and software, but do you need a special head set or will any head set work? Thanks!
Convert 9 pin to USB? -
Posted By: MT NW
Help please! Does anyone know where to buy an adapter to convert a 9 pin pedal to usb? Appreciate the help!
What is the going line rate in Houston, TX? -
Posted By: Colorado MT
I have provided transcription services in Colorado for an internal medicine/nephrologist physician for the past five years. He recently moved to Houston and started a new practice there and has asked me to provide him a proposal for doing his transcription there. I was just curious if anyone could give me an idea what the going rate per line is in Houston.
Thanks in advance for any input.
I have made a decision. I am going to drive the school bus. -
Posted By: MSMT
If the best an in-house position can offer is $12 an hour, I might as well make $12 an hour and NOT cripple my hands any further. I will just type part time on the side. Maybe that will pay the bills. This profession has gone down the tubes and I am getting out.
Remembering those lost 4 years ago -
Posted By: Aching Heart
I just wanted to take a moment to remember those lost in the planes, the WTC, and the Pentagon 4 years ago including Laurie Neira, one of our own, who MT'd for YOG.
Grey's Anatomy last week -
Posted By: was it new?
I had set my VCR to tape Grey's Anatomy last Thursday b/c I thought they were starting a new season; however, my tape was full and it didn't tape! I was on the edge of my seat the last episode and didn't want to miss the first one this season. Somebody please tell me it was a rerun. If not, can anyone catch me up on what I missed????? Thanks a million!
IC Questions -
Posted By: Sharon
Hi. I just accepted my first job as an IC and I am nervous! Did I do a stupid thing by going IC instead of employee? They are paying 8.5 for 65-char line including spaces and returns. Does this sound reasonable? How do I pay my taxes? What about social sec? HELP!
At what point do you ask for a change? sm -
Posted By: Curious
Ive been on this account for about a month. The account does have a high ESL ratio. Understanding most of them is not really an issue, but I do think it slows me down as I do often have to pull old reports to decipher their mumblings. I am concerned because I am not consistently maintaining line count on this account. Would you ask to be reassigned or is that asking for trouble?
fax problems -
Posted By: TraboMT
I have been using efax for a while to receive my 2 faxes a month (pay stubs). Recently, they disabled my account demanding that I upgrade to support my "heavy use". I tried to straighten this out but to no luck. Every response I got was to give them money. I can't justify the expense for 2 faxes. I tried faxdigits but everytime they send me a link to confirm, it doesn't work. HELP! Is there anything else out there? I need my paystubs, as there have been mistakes with my paycheck before and I need to double check each time.
Does anyone know what "weighted line count" means? nm -
Posted By: anon
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E-scription platform -
Posted By: debbie
Any working on wireless broadband/satellite for any company on this platform? If so, how well it is working for you?
Cphone questions -
Posted By: MTinAL
I am supposed to be starting an acct that uses a Cphone and am wondering how this works. To those who use a Cphone how does this differ from signing in and transcribing via online? Also I'm wondering about if you are able to reject a dictated job on cphone if it is a dictator you can't transcribe? On the acct I'm on now there is a doctor I simply can not transcribe no matter how hard I try and no matter how long I try so I can just reject his dictation and it goes back into the system for someone else and I'm wondering if the same thing will work with Cphone? Thanks, Wanda
Help with setting new entry in VPN -
Posted By: 55516
I need some expertise... I have VPN for a company on desktop set up, need to create a new entry for another company.. .is that possible? I have the file in the right folder (PCF or something close to that file) and did the wizard, but it says no valid ID when I know it is... what am I doing wrong?
Post about Companys on the Company board, post job ads on the Job Seeker board -
Posted By: Administrator nm
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This is interesting (non-compete clauses) -
Posted By: anon
My contract has a standard non-compete clause. Basically, that any subcontracted Transcriptionist will not contact or contract with any clients of my service. I finally had a transcriptionist ask for this complete list of clients. Makes sense, because how will they know who to avoid if they, well, don't know? But I would much prefer they didn't know to begin with. I don't want to tip my hand by giving someone a list of my entire clientele base. Does this seem fair? I feel I should reword my contract to avoid this in the future, but I am not sure how to do so.
See link inside for questions re: Express Scribe. -
Posted By: Wordy Gertie
After noticing the number of questions being posted about Express Scribe, I thought the link to a discussion board regarding NCH products might be helpful.
Wouldn't it be nice if... -
Posted By: MT in CO
physicians would STOP TALKING when they are yawning? Newsflash - the words "mild" and "moderate" sound alike in the middle of a yawn! Thanks for letting me vent. I know, dictating can be boring, but a little common consideration, please.
Another question.. -
Posted By: Faith
What does it mean when you see a little yellow fire burning next to a post that someone made? I made a poster earlier, and there's that fire next to it, and I didn't put it there. Thanks
Administrator, 'Sam' is still posting on the other boards. Can't those ads be deleted? nm -
Posted By: wanderer
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Can anyone tell me.... -
Posted By: MSWord-challenged
if and how I can delete an entire sentence in Word, without using the mouse? If I have an entire sentence I want to delete, I currently use Ctl and Delete and delete it word by word.
What I want to do is * delete to end of sentence * like I could in Word Perfect.
I have searched for this answer and cannot find it anywhere.
Does anyone here have the answer? TIA - a whole big bunch if I get the answer!
Why on earth would doctors -
Posted By: Dumbfounded
WANT to keep dictating in a lousy, ridiculous manner? Apparently many do, because they continue to do so when QA has to keep leaving blanks or asking for guidance.
I simply cannot understand this. I have one who will literally leave small phrases right out. What does he expect us to do with that?!!? 
pet peeves -
Posted By: clk
end of shift priorities - you give your availability, work more than what you say and after 13 hours of working they ask for priorities. Then get a small (yet there) attitude when you sign off. I don't mind going the extra mile - money is good, but jeez, the priorities were dictated at 1 pm and it is 11 pm now. what was I doing all day?????
thanks -
Posted By: MTme
 I hope you have a great weekend too.
Don't feed the trolls, don't feed the trolls, dont' feed the trolls. . . . 
Whatis the averge line per day for big companies? -
Posted By: tia
What is the AVERAGE line per day for radiology or line per hour for radiology? Average being the key word. I know this has been discussed but after 10 years I finally know what my average is.
Foot Pedal Question -
Posted By: mt
I need a 9-pin serial Infinity foot pedal. However, I just purchased a new computer and do not have 9-pin plug in. I think I can buy an adapter serial-to-USB or transcriptiongear.com shows a compatible USB foot pedal. Anybody gone through this? Thanks for any advice in advance!
Keeping files -
Posted By: sammypot
In the process of cleaning my office, I found at least 600 floppy discs with work that I have done over the years - some as long ago as 10 years ago. Would like to "dump" all of these and more, but am not sure how long one needs to keep files especially for accounts they no longer do. Is there a good "rule of thumb"?
Thank you.
Question -
Posted By: TAD
I have finally figured out Express Scribe, however, it continues to play the same dictation over. I have several days of dictations and when I open the next file it keeps playing the first file that I opened. I am doing something wrong? Please help
Selling body parts in the US sm -
Posted By: Workin fool
There was a brief mention of a recent arrest (I believe it was in New York) of a phony business set-up involving funeral homes, etc., selling bone grafts, etc. from dead bodies (one was supposedly Allistair Cook's body of the PBS fame) and replacing these parts with PVC piping in some cases. These people made "millions" and the patients/families had to be notified. One man was practically crying because he had been told he has to be tested every 6 mos. for HIV, hepatitis, etc., since he had a recent surgery on his neck. They said it may not present itself for years in some cases. They showed some gentlemen being led away in handcuffs but the story was cut short. Anyone else know about this travesty and why so little else has been said about it or is there any web site, etc., that explains it in more detail? Would like to know morel I am very concerned for the recipients as well as the unbeknownst-to-them "donor" families.
statutory vs. IC sm -
Posted By: nemt
So if companies cannot dictate schedules to an IC, what about statutory employees? I haven't discussed any of this with my company in 5-7 years!! Now they suddenly need an update, wherein they want to demand a set schedule....
web site with capped/lower case meds?? -
Posted By: outaworkagain
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Anyone switch from Instant Text to sm -
Posted By: mlstoo
another Expander and what did you choose?
unbelievable -
Posted By: ER MT
In Shanghai because of a rabies scare, 50,000 dogs have been clubbed to death. This is so upsetting to me because I love animals. They even offered dog owners 63 cents to kill their own dogs before they sent out the teams to kill them !! They actually "seized dogs from their owners and beat them to death on the spot." What a bunch of barbarians. Wow. Glad I live in the U.S.
Need tech help, anyone! -
Posted By: Charla
Help! I have my expansions in Word 2003 autoaorrect, called MSO1033.acl file. I wanted to transport this file to another computer using Word 2007. I got it over to the other computer, have installed it in the proper directory, and have renamed the Word 2003 file so it is called MSO.acl, which is what Word 2007 calls it. Yet, when I open Word 2007 on the destination computer, my expansions are not there. The file is showing in the directory, verified by my last date of change before I moved it, and is more than three times the size of a normal .acl file. Can anyone tell me what boat I'm missing here? Thanks, appreciate it.
This is for -
Posted By: MT
the person who was looking for this - cafemt.com
I now know why people become addicted to coffee... -
Posted By: sbMT
Here's a little story for you...
I received a phone call at 7 am this morning from my neighbor. She said that our other neighbor that lives in between us called her and said there were some horses out. Now I have one black horse and she has a dark bay horse and a paint baby. I looked out my window and my horse was in his pen. So I figured it was hers. She is an older lady and her husband is out of town so I got dressed and headed down to her house to see if I could help catch these horses. Well, I get down there, and the horses are in the barn. No horses are out. But, the front gate was open. The other neighbor comes over and says "well some guy stopped by an hour ago and put your horses in the barn because they were out in the other yard". AN HOUR AGO. So why did he wait until now to call and say "the horses ARE out"??? I seriously think he might be losing it. Anyways it was freezing outside so my other neighbor made me a cup of coffee and I don't even drink coffee but I was so cold I drank it anyways. .... and then three more cups....
So now I'm wired! And maybe a little addicted! javascript:editor_insertHTML('text','');
That's my fun story for the day...
Headphones -
Posted By: Kimberly
I have problems with my ears itching. Has anyone had problems with this? Also do you know where I can get the sponge coverings for Lanier headphones or what kind of headphones do you recommend? Thanks!!
Happy Hanukkah to all the Jewish MTs out there! nm -
Posted By: MT
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What are the pros/cons of FlashType, IT, Shorthand -
Posted By: and Shortcut? Thanks! nm
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