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Ack!!! Sorry just realized you wanted packs and not years, but still the same method.

Posted By: nm on 2006-07-24
In Reply to: for Shorthand use a semi-colon with yo... ;yo so when you type 50;yo it will become - 50-year-old - same for Autocorrect but type 50 ;yo

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Pack years = packs smoked per day x years of smoking - sm
25 pack-years = 25 years of 1 pack a day, or 12-1/2 years of 2 packs a day.

I don't think pack-years applies to someone who smokes only cigars. But I don't know for sure.
YES. I wanted to ask company name, but then realized it
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Quit after 2 years. If I wanted to work 8 hours a day, I would have stayed in the hospital. Seemed
to be working all day long just to make a decent living.  Although, I wanted to be home with my kids until the baby was at least 5, had to breakdown and return to working outside the home, to make ends meet. Just to stressfull trying to make a good living with the rates they are paying now. 
did he say anything about ice packs?
may have changed since I dealt with any of this, but used to, 10 minutes on and 10 off. Maybe I am overreacting, but this seems worrisome to me. If you start running a temp I would call him immediately.
microwaveable hot packs sm
The kind you buy at the mall kiosks, etc., or craft stores. There are directions on the web how to make them with rice and herbal products in a cotton sack but I buy them. We have about 6 and my husband and I both use them for neck, shoulders. Helps put you to sleep as well. They are part of my wardrobe, takes 1.5 to 2 min., to heat in the microwave; couldn't live without them. One of those, a Benadryl and an acetaminophen, right to sleep.
Yes - smoke 1-1/2 packs per day. Tried and tried to quit to no avail.
I enjoy my nicotine - sad to say.
Yikes! Turn it off - have gone thru 2 power packs by leaving on 24/7 - nm

New. Wanted to put in a better card to support a game my 17yo DD wanted to play.
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I just realized...
When I mentioned I had posted about Sprint's EVDO, I realized I posted that on another forum. LOL Sorry about that. (Didn't want you looking around trying to find that post here.)

I had just asked in that post if anyone knew much about EVDO/Sprint and you pretty much answered my question I had on the other forum. :D It sounds like the way for me to go. Thanks!
Yea I just realized that when I got an
email from someone LOL! Just working at the hospital for 10yrs now I guess outsourcing is the only term I have really heard LOL! I hope & pray our voices get heard on this. I pray I get alot of letters to make an impact!
This is my method
Listen up, Bozo! Don't you have stains you need removed?

Oh that's right, your hemorrhoids bled all over your carpet and now you are mad at us. We didn't do it, your hemorrhoids did!

Get a grip and go stop your bleeding hemorrhoids, and for pitty sakes, clean up your chair - it's full of blood!
After I saw his name, I realized I should have thought of him.
nm
Just realized you are using a waveplayer (sm)
I have a gearplayer. Don't know if there is any difference. Sorry.
After one day, it realized MDI wasn't for me - sm

System seemed nice at first but quickly turned out it wasn't.  Someone else I know told me hers kept locking up on her.  You don't have access to your Word entries and if you don't have a compatible shortcut expander, you have to start all over again in theirs.  That stinks.


I found my QA to be very, very picky, over the top, ridiculous things.  I don't think they want people to work for them because it seems you can't do anything right and I'm one who has been in this business a LONG time and no one ever complained about my work before. 


I was very disappointed as I had heard good things about MDI-MD.  Just goes to show what is right for one MT is not for another.


 


Then I realized that no one ever shared with me, I had to
figure it all out, shared with everyone, then the happy cherrypickers would go in and take everything that I had created shortcuts or "normals" for.  I never even got a thank you for furnishing samples.    I do not get paid to help anyone else out, it is my time and resourcefulness and now everyone can fend for themselves. 
this happened to me once and I realized
the sound had somehow been shut off or volume on mute down on the task bar...

I know that is probably not it, but it did happen to me once and I thought something was wrong with the pedal. turned out it was just the volume control.

good luck
I realized that when I looked at the
She has tons of wigs and I've seen her with those styles through the years! We just don't know how many stars are wearing wigs and hair weaving! 
WOW!! That's great. I never realized
that before...but I understood every single word! Pretty cool.
I was excited until I realized you have to buy this..
nm
A -ha! I should have realized. Thx for responding.
nm
I just realized what I posted above

didn't make a lot of sense if you are going to be working an independent contractor because they don't take out any taxes at all, so changing dependents has no affect at all on your check.


Basically what the IRS is suggesting is just creative bookkeeping and you might come out better today, but come tax time and you reconcile eveything it will probably hurt you. 


It all depends on what method your

potential clients use.  If you solicit someone that still uses tapes you need to be sure you have the equipment for that, etc.    I don't know if maybe someone has a sample of a solicitation letter to give you an idea of what to send out to potential clients. 


 


Your method of proofreading? -- SM
I feel like I'm pretty slow on my lph because I might spend too much time proofing. Sometimes I proof each section before starting the next. Sometimes I just do the whole report and then go back and proofread in one shot.

Is there a best way? I don't dare skip proofing because about once per report I do find that I left out a word or did something similar, and I wouldn't want it to go through like that...so I know I need to invest the time.

What are your tips to speed up???
My method, nothing special...sm
I like to look at the previous line I typed as I go, just to make sure. At the end of the report, I go up to the top of the report, glossing over to catch anything else that might not have caught my eye the first time. I feel better about it when I send it off. My expansions have gotten me in trouble before so want to make sure I don't see anything strange. I think that's what makes us specialists, not just typists:-)
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.
VBC - my new typing method

After a 27.5-minute ESL dictation that took me an hour to type and netted me $12, I'm going to embrace the new visible black character counting method by redefining  "verbatim."  Here's a transcript the way it will look in the future ....


"... I mean, no go back, delete that, okay and the admitting diagnosis was uh ... sepsis, number 2,  ... no, number 1,  no that is number 2 ... change in mental status.  (flip pages flip pages flip pages ... put phone down) Number 4 ... diabetes.  Long pause (... the nurses are talking about a baby shower).  Go back up to the labs and insert a chest x-ray with left lower lobe infiltrate ... no, it's normal.  Now, go back down ..."


Can't wait for that next check! 


Why do you call that a new method?
After all the dictionary definition of verbatim is "word for word" and we should all take that seriously.  If they want verbatim we should give it to them, and see how long that demand continues. 
Or it may be abz method. Really tired. Maybe
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LOL, yea I realized that but not getting paid for typing here and
didn't want to burn dinner. Maybe it's psychological. LOL, anyway I agree it was funny, even though I'm blushing!
Wow! Same thing here. Just now realized tailbone
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Just realized how good I've got it.
The company I work for pays for headers and footers, which total 13 lines per report. Given my line rate, I make the "per report" rate before I ever start typing! So everything I transcribe is gravy above and beyond. Sweeeeet.

I love my job.
One thing I have realized since I left MT....sm

is that part of the problem is that the bar has been raised as far as the skillset employees are expected to have these days. For one, computer skills are a given. It is just expected that every, even entry-level employees are proficient with computers, so the computer knowledge an MT has really isn't specialized. As far as terminology, etc., honestly learning everything I needed to know about the installation and government was harder, or as hard, as learning MT. With all the tools and communications available via computer, we are expected to be diverse and understand not only the intricacies of our own jobs but those of all the organizations that affect our jobs.


I had to learn just as many business & financial related acronyms as I did for MT including those unique to our organization, used in the financial/business industry, government/military, etc. Formatting documents etc. for business/government/military is actually harder than for MT. Learning all the financial, industrial, government, military terms, systems, and hierarchies was also much like learning MT. I started in an entry level job and was expected to pick all this up fairly quickly and pretty much on the job with no formal training because technology gave me access to all this information. This is all for a secretary/administrative support position.


My point is that since the last generation was brought up with computers, communications, and access to information so readily available, it has completely changed what is expected of office workers in larger companies. There are no more simple secretary jobs. I haven't been here two years just yet, and I am lead for an office of 50 people, expected to train 3 other clerks/secretaries under me and know everything about at least 25 different programs internal to my directorate and all the terms, acronyms, hierarchies, formatting, etc., etc., etc., related to it from personnel management to budgeting/financing, industrial production, government entities, private industry, etc.


I work with both government and private industry, as far as I can tell those in lower-level jobs are expected to be extermely diverse and well-rounded to support those in the higher-level jobs.  Those in the higher level jobs in some ways get paid more to be "expert" in their field but don't have to have nearly the skill set of the lower level employees. Most of those in higher-level jobs have been around a while, and the lower-level employees could honestly work circles around them. However, it is obvious, and everyone knows it, that as older workers begin to leave the workforce the younger/newer workers are going to be expected to know and do a lot more in the same positions simply because the base skillset of younger/newer workers is stronger and more diverse.


I don't mean to make light of what it takes to be an MT, but the business world has changed so much in the last 20 years that the bar has been raised in larger companies/industries as far as what is expected of workers. An older worker may have held the same position I am in now for 20 years, and she is not expected to have 1/4 the skillset they expect from a younger worker; yet, we get paid the same. They just expect younger workers to be more proficient in computer skills, technology, and information, and if you are not, you won't last long or go very far.


Just realized ---TIME DIFFERENCE-- that is why - sm
it will be Wednesday there, Tuesday here (plus I had it in my head today was Monday for some odd reason).
Wrong. As soon as I hit send, I realized my
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Geez. It's a method to be more accountable for
a minimum amount of work.
There is a method to their so-called madness JMO
Regarding send back to pool: It's a Band-Aid for now. MTs who can't cut it ESL or otherwise do not have a future with MQ for much longer. I posted this below, but with the progression of VR and MTs who can and will do the hard guys, they might not need the cherrypickers eventually (excluding VR, of course!).

Regarding paying more for ESLs with blank limits: Good ESL MTs most likely are being compensated and the blanks they leave are probably very justified. Therefore, it makes financial and TAT sense that the good MTs do difficult dictators (less QA time) and good dictators go to VR/MEs. So what we are left with is MTs who can do anything and VR MEs (same pool).

Cherrypickers have no future in this company. The old-fashioned MT may not either, but we will be around at least a little longer than they will. :-)
Method of obtaining accounts

Hi all...I currently have a couple accounts of my own but I'm looking for maybe two or three more.  I'm wondering what the best method is to go about finding them.


In the past I have tried just driving around to different clinics and walking in to talk with the staff, but the person at the front always seemed annoyed and not very receptive.  I've also tried calling clinics out of the phone book, but they never want to put you on to the office manager and they usually just say they don't need any transcription.  Once I also tried doing a mailing and I sent out about 100 letters with business cards to offices around town.  I only got one reply back and that account didn't work out for me.  I'm wondering if the office managers even GET the letters or if they just throw them in the trash without reading them thinking it's junk mail.


So...for you all with your own accounts....how do you go about getting them?  What have you found is the best approach?  Thanks in advance


May be the line counting method.
The company I worked for had one client where the MT reported that many lines a day. The company sent the MT inhouse for that department, and it was the way the client counted the lines. This girl made a killing for as long as it lasted.
Easiest digital method

Hello everyone


I currently have one of my own accounts with 2 physicians. They use digital hand-held recorders and we email files back and forth, encrypted of course. Anyway, is there an easier way for their office staff? Something where the doctor could talk right into the computer and it would be sent to me without using the office staff?  I am trying to take some of the burden off of them.


Thanks.
Lynn


Meditech search method help.

Can anyone refresh my memory on  how to search by DOB in  Meditech.  Preferably in RAD module, but I know it can be done in PCI.  For instance, you search by Unit # (i.e. U00012345), account  # (i.e. A00012456) and DOB is something like D/ or D mmddyy or mmddyyyy or mm/dd/yy.


I need to know what goes in the front "D" and the mmddyy layout.  I don't have access to PCI on this account so I can't go in and check.  TIA


 


Google ABCZ method.
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wanted to try it but wanted to make sure
nm
Realized that, knew she was happy, just curious.
Knowing her situation and past employers, hoped to help. However, she usually does post under her Jencan, doesn't she?
There is no piracy going on...they just realized that they can make MORE money.
I threatened them with lawsuit and am still gathering names of people who have been done over by them. I have about 4 so far.
I just realized that my most difficult dictator is Burmese.
nm
Just realized I didn't answer your question. SM
You enter the phone numbers the same way - star-99 (*99), put in the number - if it's long distance don't forget the 1- and then press the number key (#).
Care to share your method and/or company?
Sounds like you might be in Radiology. Appreciate.
cheater method for longer smartwords sm
I used ST for 10 years (recently moved to Instant Text and am much happier).

I had issues with SmartBlocks and fonts; I ended up not using the SmartBlocks too much. Besides, they don't import into another Expander (should you ever need to switch) the way the SmartWords/Phrases do.

So, what I used to do was this. If I had a long paragraph I wanted to insert a SmartBlock for, I'd divide it up into however many SmartPhrases it took and would just name them in sequence.

Far and away I preferred to use Word's AutoText, but if you aren't working in Word, you can't do this ;-)

But, regardless, this is why I moved to Instant Text. Not a problem anymore.
Line Count Method Question
Can anyone help me compare two offers that I have? One is 9.5 cents a line for a 65 character line including spaces and the other is 7.5 cents a gross line. I am trying to figure out which would be better. Thank you very much.
Use a secure method of transferring files.

Encrypted email for delivery of completed documents works, but voice files may be too large for that method. A secure FTP site, either your own or through a commerical provider such as mydoconline.com or ftptogo.com, would work for both documents and voice files. You may need an FTP program, but there are lots of free ones out there, like filezilla.com, which is what I use.


Google xyz method of expansion use. Easy
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