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ADMINISTRATOR: Nasty acronyms here...please delete.

Posted By: Busy MT'ing on 2005-08-08
In Reply to: I was not answering MT school post but the one that happened to correct an error - PAY ATTENTION!

This poster cannot refrain from being filthy with her language or acronyms.

STFU is an acronym for "Shut The F*** Up".

PLEASE DELETE THIS.

To Pay Attention: Grow up and clean up.


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    Administrator who is this person that keeps coming on with all these rude and nasty comments.
    :
    FWIW, nasty is in the eye of the beholder and you have given nasty as good as you got.
    Read your posts again very carefully.
    Turn off puter, wait a min, turn on with delete key pressed down, then hit delete key NUMEROUS times
    dd
    Acronyms

    I have some docs who use acronyms and some who prefer not to shorten anything. So I have set up a system so that my shortcut for the phrase is the standard abbreviation - "svc" for "superior vena cava," for example. For SVC, I use "xsvc." It's one extra keystroke, yes, but it helps me save time in the long run, I think.


    For acronyms that almost everyone uses - COPD or CABG, for example - I use the "x" for the full phrase. But there are very few that I do that way.


    Also, I believe I was the person AnnieM was referring to who mentioned setting up shortcuts to capitalize commonly use terms, like all the vertebral levels - C1, C2, L3, T4, etc. Also any exam names, like MRI or CT. Anything that you use often that is always capitalized can be set up to automatically capitalize and avoid having to hit the shift key. You'd be surprised how much time that can save you.


    sorry, right you are... got my acronyms mixed up
    z
    ooh this is fun... my method for acronyms sm
    I'm jumping in; hope you don't mind :-)

    cad = CAD
    cadd = coronary artery disease

    and so forth.


    However, I use Instant Text, so I'm phasing the following in...

    cad (not activated through Instant Text) = CAD (in Word Autocorrect)

    cad (in Instant Text) = coronary artery disease

    I like both ways.

    But I'm an efficiency junkie and probably spend so much time trying to BE efficient that I may very well get less work done LOL.
    I use Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms, and
    Symbols. Works nicely. I also go to www.medilexicon.com quite often. Using that website prevents me from having to stop and look it up in the book.
    What about Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols, new or used?

    after being nasty, now you want to
    know which office? I think not, to tell YOU.
    Nasty, not me!!!
    x
    It got nasty
    Those posts got pretty nasty between a few people.  I have strong convictions about a lot of things but I would not have come across as some do on this board.  I often feel that when someone comes across like that it usually means that there has been a problem in that area  -- he who does protest too much. But we all do have a right to our own opinions and I try to look at everyone's.  I understand where having a glass of wine is not someone's cup of tea but because I do (and maybe not every one can keep it in moderation) does not mean I am unprofessional, irresponsible or not capable of doing my job.  Would be glad to match years of experience, paychecks and longevity of accounts with any of you that called me unprofessional, irresponsible and uncapable of doing my job.    Patti
    who got nasty?

    I certainly didn't, and nobody got nasty with me. In fact, it was one of the better heated discussions I've seen or been involved in. And I've been in the middle of some lulus!!! (but not here)

    You want sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows ... turn on Lesley Gore. 


    Don't let someone with a nasty
    attitude ruin your self-esteem about what you have done with your life. Just consider the source. They sound bitter to me and try to make it everyone else's fault. Keep up your good work and ignore what someone who does not matter has to say. Just be thankful you do not work for her.
    Truly, I did not mean to be nasty, but with the...sm
    problem you reported with your resumes not being responded to, it wasn't clear if you were just more casual here. You could just as easily replied there wasn't anything wrong your grammar. Having worked in human resources before, I know most resumes/correspondence gets 15 seconds to 1 minute of time. I have personally blown a couple job opportunities because I set the wrong tone with my resume, e-mail, and cover letter (jobs I really, really wanted), and I was only trying help. I have certainly been at my wits end in this business, too, and feel for those MTs who feel stuck in a job they're not happy with.
    Not only are you a nasty sm
    BEACH, but you have sand in your nether regions! I have never seen anyone on this board with more nasty bones in their body then you have.

    The reason you aren't making any money is because YOU ARE HANGING OUT HERE SPEWING YOUR BILE.
    Please don't delete - We need you!
    I do not understand why this post continues to be deleted.  I am simply stating what you have already said in your statement to the board.  It IS sad to think that this wonderful board, who has been so supportive of American MTs, seems to have  given up the good fight.  I truly believe if legislation to enforce HIPAA regulations, as well as regulations on financial records, is focused on, rather than simply trying to compete monetarily with offshoring (which, frankly, we cannot do), we will have a real chance of at least stopping the flow of medical and financial personal records from leaving this country.  Just because outsourcing exists does not make it right, and as long as we continue to fight it there is a chance to make a real difference.  There are still many, MANY physicians for whom the "bottom line" is not the most important aspect of transcription, and many others who have experience offshore transcription first hand and realize the quality is not there.  As long as there are people in this industry like Sheri with integrity and the willingness to fight for what they believe, even if it is against the odds, there is hope.  THAT is why I am quite saddened to see this particular forum, one of the staunchest supporters of US-only transcription for US physicians, fall by the wayside.  I don't think I"m bashing anyone.  I'm just hoping you will reconsider.  We need people like you!!
    I just hit DELETE.
    I never say a word to them
    Delete what???

    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.


    delete it
    when i worked in editscript, i typed right through microsoft word.  it was prerequisite that i get rid of all msworks or it would mess everything up.  i would delete msworks.
    delete key
    The reason the delete key is not above the arrow keys is that with this keyboard you will do as much work with your thumbs as possible. This is part of what makes it ergonomic, & I would strongly suggest re-learning "delete" in its current position rather than try to circumvent their system. When I first got my Kinesis keyboard 7 years ago I went through a whole relearning process that was kind of slow & frustrating but worth it in the long run, & now I'm glad I didn't try to do an end-run around their thought process.

    But you program keys this way:

    Hit "Program" (upper right-hand corner) + F11. The 4 keyboard lights will flash quickly. Then hit the key you want to reprogram. The lights will flash slowly. Then keystroke what you want the key to do. When you are finished hit Program + F11 again. The lights will go out. It's programmed.

    d.
    I just had a nasty conversation with a
    telephone rep from India who informed me that all Americans were uneducated, stupid, and "farmers" and that India was getting all the jobs because they were all educated. She shut her fat mouth when I asked if that is why India still practices putting female infants on the hillsides to be eaten by wolves, why so many of their people are starving to death, and why disease is so rampant. They are getting to be the most arrogant bunch of people I have ever seen.
    Nasty women
    You know women should be supportive of each other. Let's face it, men aren't, like the lady said. I worked in offices where some of the women there were so nasty and catty and rude. Seems lots of them are on here too. Thank God for being able to work at home. I don't think anyone is looking for pity on this board, but for crying out loud, doesn't anybody have a warm heart anymore. There are lots of cold-hearted people on here talking, must be from the East Coast.
    Oh, please! Nowhere was I nasty or rude.
    Did I call her names or belittle her like a lot of you do on this board?  No, I merely asked how she knew she was being trained wrong and stated what my experience has been.  MTs need to be adaptable.  That's the best thing a newbie can do is to learn to be flexible according to the rules of the accounts she's put on.  Wouldn't you agree?  Honestly, if you're that hypersensitive to think that I was nasty or rude, you need to toughen up.  All I did was ask a question and state some facts.  I wasn't judgmental or condescending at all, like many others I see here.
    You are nasty!!!! You need to find a better
    maybe, just maybe that would help your attitude. Otherwise, but out and stay off this board. You are not wanted.
    My son just had it 2 weeks ago, very nasty.
    He was so sick that he ended up sleeping on the bathroom floor (worse than a bad hangover) with vomiting and diarrhea. It lasted almost 24 hours and he was horribly weak for the next day as well.
    NASTY EMAIL
    just remember, the door of professionalism swings both ways!
    nasty email
    I worked for a lady who would send me nasty email in all CAPS and in BOLD.  Finally I asked her if was her version of yelling at me and she said "no, I was in bold and caps and forgot to remove"  Yah Right.  She never did it to me again.  I just thought How UNPROFFESIONAL! I don't work for her anymore and I am treated respectfully by my new employer.
    If this is just a nasty rumor,
    then some of the news stations on TV (notably CNN) are in big trouble, because they are reporting it as fact. They report that if you click on Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (and one other that I can't remember), you will be directed to other movies you might like, such as Planet of the Apes, etc., featuring black actors. This is all very derogatory and racially biased and Wal-Mart is falling all over itself apologizing, so it must have some basis in fact.
    If this is just a nasty rumor,
    then some of the news stations on TV (notably CNN) are in big trouble, because they are reporting it as fact. They report that if you click on Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (and one other that I can't remember), you will be directed to other movies you might like, such as Planet of the Apes, etc., featuring black actors. This is all very derogatory and racially biased and Wal-Mart is falling all over itself apologizing, so it must have some basis in fact.
    Nasty QA comment?
    Dear OldQA:

    I am one of the recently laid off Heartland employees. I went to this message board for some job hunting and support in light of this situation, and I was completely baffled by some of the things I read. Here are 2 of many comments from your not-so-nasty colleagues as an example of what I‘m talking about:

    (Posted by MsAnonnie Mouse)
    First of all, I would like to say that I sympathsize wtih those that were laid off at Heartland, however, I believe that that there were probably indications that this was going to happen, I for one, remember seeing a LOT of job ads for Heartland and they suddenly stopped on the 2 major transcription job boards. For me, that was an indication that something was going down the tube.
    I also do not agree wtih offshoring, but when I read the posts on this board, I see one theme over and over; that being laziness in general. I see posts where people gripe and complain about having to work weekends or nights or whatever and wanting to get paid decent money, but they want to only be able to work 8-5 Monday through Friday. I have been in this field for over 20 years and I believe that I have always pulled my fair share. I have seen it in the company that I work for now, and the work load goes up dramatically on the weekends, because NOBODY wants to work and as we all know, medical transcription, for the most part, is a profession that is 24/7.
    Sadly to say, our society has become one, where we expect to have something for nothing. Meaning that we want the nice thinngs, but we don't have to break our necks for it. I hear of friends who are giving their kids brand-new to almost brand-new cars in high school. Heck, when I was growing up, if I wanted contacts, or a car, or clothes, I had to detassel corn or work in a fast food place to get the money to be able to have those things. I don't see that happening now, and in essence, that is why so many of our jobs have been offshored. Its not only a cheaper labor cost, but most of these people in general have a better work ethic.
    My company takes pride in the fact that it doesn't offshore and it will be a cold day in a very warm place before they do.
    My only advice to those that were laid off is to hang in there, send out the resumes and hopefully, you will be able to find a new company that will treat you like an employee and not a number.

    Posted By: OP on 2006-05-10
    In Reply to: Heartland Layoffs - MsAnonnie Mouse
    Some people seem to be missing the point here -- I also do QA as well as medical transcription and I generally am working MANY hours a day and usually 6-7 days a week, because I know budget-wise what it takes for me to surviive.
    As a QA person, I see a quality of work that is totally unacceptable and it is from American medical transcriptionists. I read about people saying they can do X number of lines in an hour, or that they type X number of words a minute and as a QA person, that is usually the persons report that has 10 or more blanks in it, because UNFORTUNATELY they are more concerned about production than they are quality.
    I sometimes wonder how many medical transcriptionists go back and re-listen to a report they have typed and then are able to figure out what the doctors are saying?
    I have worked both inhouse and from home and I really have to agree that if someone TRULY wants to get started in this field, then they should work onsite first to truly get a grasp at what medical transcription entails.
    There ARE people who are medcal transcriptionists who DO work long and hard hours and ARE getting shafted by the companies they work for, but quite frankly, I am tired of the ones who have toddlers and small children at home and whine about how they can do this work and take care of their kids too -- just because you work at home, dosen't mean that your children can be underfoot all the time and it is also learning about priorities as well. If you were working on the outside, you would NOT be allowed to take a huge amount of time off for kid activities or family activities, so the MTSOs do have legitimate gripes when it comes to employees not working when they say they will or keeping to a schedule, and this is where I am coming full circle when I talk about a work ethiic -- it has slowly and steadily been disappearing over the years.

    Real nice show of support huh? There is nothing more disgusting than using the subject of layoffs, or offshoring for that matter, as a platform to complain about your own problems and dissatisfaction with your job. Shame on them!

    Dear Scribevibe: With that being said, you WILL come across nasty, condescending comments such as these (on this message board as well as when you're working). I have been doing this for years, and I still come across them, and they are OBNOXIOUS! You need to let their comments roll off your back or they'll drive you nuts. There are QAs out there who are helpful and even sometimes encouraging, but be prepared for ones who are not and IGNORE THEM (and their nitpicking). Don't let them "snark" you :)
    Oh I think she's VERY nasty, but I LOVE her! lol
    x
    Hm, been my experience that QA's not usually nasty
    Only time I've ever used the exclamation point when communicating with an MT is when they have thoroughly ticked me off by completely ignoring my previous requests....
    Nasty and rude. You can
    direct people to the infor they need in a much more appropriate and decent manner!
    Don't mean to sound nasty but this is a
    are trying to get out. 
    not nasty -- testy, because....

    if you had all the best accounts in your livelihood taken away and were left with the dregs, you'd be a little annoyed at anyone who had benefited from that who then had the audacity to try to then insinuate themselves into this one precious place that is supposed to be just for us.  I know, run-on sentence.


    Read all you like, but don't post. 


    not trying to be nasty, just stating sm
    a fact. Too many MTs out there without sufficent education and they are suppose to mess around until they "realize" that they don't have the education?

    I have seen schools make promises to these people that they can't keep. I have warned people not to put their money into these schools and most don't listen. Have actually had people call after they "finish" school and tell me that they cannot or could not transcribe the tapes given to them on a final examination.

    Sure wish folks would listen. This is not a career for folks to walk into hoping to be a "fast learner." I wonder if your doctor is a "fast learner?" This kind of attitude has brought this profession down to nothing more than a typist.
    Delete resume
    I am trying to delete my resume from the bank and can modify but can't figure out how to delete it.  Help, please.
    why do you want to delete your resume - sm
    are you getting too many calls for work??? If you are, then I want to put my resume on there!!!
    Please delete the below posts

    Thank you.


    Please Delete my Post.
    Now I am Jodi, what do you say?
    Delete them.........esp if you no longer do them...

    For private MDs, I only keep their diskettes 6 months, since ALL the work and an additional diskette has been provided when I returned the work.........


    If you worked for a national, you need to send the diskettes to them I would think.........that is, IF you worked for a national MT company.  If not, I'd just delete them..........keeping the floppies for myself.........for future....(yep, I still use floppy disks...*LOL*).........


     


    You say you can't cancel it - does that mean you can't delete it?

    Have you tried using both the delete button on your keyboard and the delete icon in Outlook Express?


    If your camera came with any kind of software, you should be able to reduce the size of the pictures so that this won't happen again. A lot of times I will do a test email and send the picture to myself to be sure it isn't too large.


    If your camera didn't come with software and you don't have Photoshop (and don't want to spend the bucks for Photoshop), there are lots of freeware/shareware downloads for basic photo editing software. Just Google it and I'm sure you will find something that fits your needs.


    not sure on this, but maybe just delete and replace nm
    nm
    Delete the abbrev and put it in again sm
    You have inadvertently hit the enter key at some point in this process.  If you have added it as a Smart Block, this is just what happens and is why I don't use that facet of it in Word.
    Delete Key question
    Forgive my ignorance, but is there any way I can assign another key to work as a delete key?  - Thanks!   
    Delete manually

    C\:Documents and Settings


    Select the User and there you will find a folder "Favorites" usually with a star icon. Open and delete the links manually in it.


    You are a very angry nasty person.
    x
    How can you people be so cruel and nasty?
    She is obviously trying to do the best for her son, and at this point is trying to figure out what it is.  I'm sure she would discuss this option with the doctor or counselor before she made a decision.  Cruel and selfish, right.  Look in the mirror.
    Like we really needed to hear that. How nasty.
    .
    Don't let some nasty, catty old women get you down. sm
    Remember, there's a reason some of these folks are working at home, and it's not because they had a choice. They simply can't interact well with people. I imagine them as fat, older women in lots of debt and living in dirty homes, probably chain smoking at their computers while they fire off posts that reflect the ugliness and unhappiness inside of them. It's sad, really.
    I did not read all of below but it did not seem to me that anyone got nasty or self-righteous- sm
    I think you were given sound advice below. I am sure it is just hard to hear the harsh truth of the world. It is hard enough to get a job when you are new, but I am sure most employers don't want to deal with felons, regardless of the crime committed. Granted if it had anything to do with trust, i.e. theft, larcency, B&E, etc. from their point of view they probably don't want to worry about the confidentiality of their client's patients. I am sure you are in a touchy position. I have not applied to anyone in a while and do not recall the terms of the felony questions usually on an application. I am sure it is tempting to say "no" in an effort to get a job, which may backfire of you if you ever attempt that. I think it is admirable that you are being honest about it. Keep trying is all I can say, took me 2 months to find the first job, then 2 more landed in my lap (after applying as a newbie). A small local MTSO would probably be your best bet. Good luck.