For the person who thinks Codex is no threat. I advise you read
Posted By: all of it on 2005-07-13
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HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 11, 2005 Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary Supplements are Under Attack Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to read "Your dietary supplements: Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, which I am inserting into the record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to American consumers of dietary supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex Alimentarius commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The United Nations created Codex to establish international standards for foods and medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States government agreed to a final version of Codex's standards on dietary supplements which, if implemented in the United States, could drastically reduce Americans' ability to obtain the supplements of their choice. Members of the American bureaucracy may be hoping to achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve through the domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers' access to dietary supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if the World Trade Organization, which considers Codex "guidelines" the standard by which all other regulations are judged, decides that our failure to "harmonize" our regulations of dietary supplements to meet Codex's recommendations violates international trading standards! This could occur despite the fact that American consumers do not want to be subjected to the restrictive regulations common in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. This article is typical of Henry Lamb's work. For almost twenty years, beginning at an age when most Americans are contemplating retirement, Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop threats to American liberty, sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved in the battle for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction company, he founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental Conservation Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is rooted in the truth that there is no better steward of the environment than a private property owner, from those who used the environment as a cover for their radical statist agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and ECO have focused on the threat to economic liberty and self-government posed by the radical global environmental agenda. Henry Lamb works to further the cause of liberty by giving speeches around the country, editing an on-line magazine, making numerous television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly column to inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their freedoms. Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who wish to become involved in the battle for freedom can learn from his example. In conclusion, I once again urge my colleagues to read Mr. Lamb's article to learn about the need to protect American consumers from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his tireless devotion to the cause of freedom. YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK AGAIN (from WorldNetDaily, June 11, 2005) (By Henry Lamb) The Codex Alimentarius Commission sounds like one of those shadowy, sinister organizations conjured up by one-world-government nuts to scare people. Truth: It is! The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization created this commission in the early 1960s to set standards for food safety and to ``harmonize'' the laws of member nations. The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which says: ``When formulating national policies and plans with regard to food, governments should take into account the need of all consumers for food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....'' The Codex Alimentarius Commission consists of delegates from 163 member nations representing 97 percent of the world's population. It meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva. Between meetings, the commission is governed by an executive committee that directs the activities of its many committees. Of immediate concern is the ongoing effort to bring dietary supplements in America under the control of standards set by this commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion industry in the United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers, according to Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures and standards could virtually destroy this market and deprive millions of Americans of the supplements they want to use. The European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements, which becomes law in August, severely restricts the types and quantities of supplements that may be legally sold. Most forms of vitamins C and E, for example, are not available, or are available only in extremely small doses. If current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in for a shock. How can this little-known international commission control what consumers buy in the United States? An even less-known agency, deep within the bowels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for U.S. participation in the Codex Commission and designates delegates to each of the commission's committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses. The effort to regulate dietary supplements has been under way for more than a decade. In 1994, Congress adopted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which kept supplements beyond the reach of the drug police. In the past, Codex recommendations have been non-binding. Now, however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming up with the World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the dietary-supplement battle. Ironically, it was primarily the U.S. that brought the WTO into existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT, the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically requires that the member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet the requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff financial penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want the WTO to enforce Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Pascal Lamy of France was just selected as director general of the WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French Socialist Party's steering committee and was chief of staff and representative of the European Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has served as a member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France) and as a member of the European Commission, responsible for trade. The Codex Commission will be meeting in Rome July 4-9 to adopt the final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr. Carolyn Dean, president of Friends of Freedom International, will attend this meeting and return to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth Annual Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16. The Codex Alimentarius Commission's reach is much broader than dietary supplements. Its committees are also working on standards for pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods, food additives and nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as standards and methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to establish standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those standards through the power of the World Trade Organization. Few people know that there is such a thing as the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was created to promote food safety in international trade. It is on the brink of becoming an Orwellian bureaucracy--far worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world conspiracy theories. The Codex Alimentarius Commission is neither fantasy nor theory; it is real. http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/c...05/cr071105.htm
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The doctor dictacts and the computer types what it thinks he says. You read along sm
with the computer-generated report and corresponding audio from the doctor and correct any errors.
Obviously not, the person says they are new to MT - read the inital post - sm
before blowing a gasket.
Have you heard of Codex? They are trying to take our
Some say the US won't give in on Codex. Since our politicians can be bought for next to nothing, don't be so sure.
Big Pharma's
Attempt To Subjugate
Planet Earth...
Opinion
by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
7-4-5
Last week I went to a "Codex" conference in Washington DC. There a large and, so far, loosely knit coalition was formed to exchange information. We began to coordinate the battle to stop the Big Pharma controlled European Union from inflicting "Codex Alimentarious"health standards on the rest of the world.
It will take me some time to absorb all of the information I heard, and read, but for now, let me make something clear - "Codex Alimentarious" is a plot to inflict "the German Model" of health care on all of Planet Earth. The primary targets are Europe (almost completed), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
The plot was hatched in Germany, I believe, and frankly, reeks more of a "world domination" scheme than a movement towards standardizing health care on Planet Earth.
The group formed in Washington will focus on crushing the attempt to harmonize North American laws with "Codex," thereby preventing "the German Model" of health care from becoming the law of the North American continent.
Did I actually say "World Domination?"
Yes, I did. For good reason.
The current version of what's known as "Western Medicine" has its roots, I'm embarrassed to admit, in Nazi Germany's Death Camps. Let's not forget that Mengele, and the boys, did the so-called "basic research," and established the philosophy "Western Medicine" operates by today...
In order to understand "Codex," and make decisions about what to do about it, we need to understand who we are dealing with.
Now, what we have in "Western Medicine," besides the "Codex" issue, is a serious conflict. One that, I think, carefully shows the morality, or lack of, that Big Pharma operates under.
It goes like this - Drug companies on the one hand, with their "researchers" and their money men, want to keep the Mengele-like testing standards in place (I'm not joking) - and use them when they can, and where they can, to the chagrin, and the distaste, of the organized medical community and the worldwide Health Freedom Movement.
For the most part, I believe, Planet Earth's pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma) is a direct descendant of Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, a company that was forcibly split up into four parts during the "Nuremberg..." trials. Those four companies, not only still exist, but control the significant part of the world's pharmaceutical drug trade.
Scary? You bet it is.
There are those, in the world, like world renowned Matthias Rath MD, that suggest that Big Pharma is, in fact, the rise of the Fourth Reich. He makes a good case for it.
It may surprise some of us in the Health Freedom Movement to find out that conventional Medical Doctors are not in lock-step with Big Pharma on every issue. In fact, the opposite. The World Medical Association (WMA), for years has taken issue with the drug conglomerates. In the US, the American Medical Association (AMA) takes a similar role.
As an example, there is an interesting AMA article called "Historical Postmortem," which talks about the famous "Helsinki Accord,"reached by world governments originally, in1964. As the AMA says "The Declaration of Helsinki emerged in the aftermath of World War II as one of the guidelines of biomedical ethical conduct."
In the AMA article two important paragraphs lay out the huge depth of controversy between Big Pharma and the rest of the world, including conventional MD physicians. It is terribly important to understand the implications of this controversy. Basically, what the AMA is saying, quoting the WMA, is that Big Pharma sees no problem with continuing the Mengele-like drug testing wherever it can (like third world developing countries). The Helsinki Accord, updated in 1975, 1983, 1989, and 1996 is totally against that. But, as the AMA points out:
In October 2000, at the 52nd World Medical Association General Assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Declaration of Helsinki underwent a controversial revision, unleashing a firestorm of criticism from many researchers, drug companies, and bioethicists who claim that the new recommendations unnecessarily restrict and impede biomedical research on human subjects. Proponents of the changes claim that it protects patients by eliminating unethical research where the populations, such as those in developing nations, are most vulnerable.
At the heart of the controversy is paragraph 29 of the Helsinki Declaration, which states that "the benefits, risks, burdens, and effectiveness of a new method should be tested against those of the best current prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic methods. This does not exclude the use of placebo, or no treatment, in studies where no proven prophylactic, diagnostic or therapeutic method exists." In essence, the paragraph forbids the use of placebos as a control treatment in research studies unless no other proven treatment exists."
The argument described above seems to be primarily about drug testing - but really it's about philosophy - the value of human life. Big Pharma, and its stable of murderous minions, like the "quackbuster" operation, for instance, want double-blind studies inflicted on mankind. In fact, the world of medicine can be divided into only two groups - those that insist on double-blind studies and other like-minded cruelties to man, and those that value life.
What it boils down to is that the Helsinki Declaration shows that, worldwide, and continuously, there is an "us" and "them" view of the value of life. In this particular issue there is an alliance between the Health Freedom Movement, the medical doctor establishment, the world's governments, and most Universities - "us". On the other side, with banks full cash, and a few well paid minions, is Big Pharma - "them."
Keep in mind that Big Pharma is no more afraid of "us," in 2005, than Adolph Hitler was in 1939. They have a similar determination, I think.
Which brings us to the "Codex" issue, itself.
A Canadian friend of mine, author Helke Ferrie, has what I think is a clear, concise explanation of the dangers of "Codex." Read this, and get worried:
LIFE UNDER CODEX
In the mid-1990s my mother, then in her 80s, had a stroke. She lived in Germany. When she left hospital, I was ready with a nutritional plan that included high-dose vitamins: C, E, and B - especially Inositol, as well as Co-enzyme Q 10. I went to the pharmacy, whose owner was a family friend for some 25 years, and handed him my list.
He handed me a small packet with a price sticker of DM 200 (then about $200) containing vitamin E capsules manufactured by one of Germany's largest pharmaceutical companies. The source was synthetic, not the "mixed" version from living plant sources I wanted which contains the whole E spectrum. The package contained a total of 10,000 international units of E, the equivalent of a mere 25 capsules of 400 IU each that we are used to buying (I take that many in 3 days). Our bottles contain 90 capsules and cost about $20. If Codex rules in Canada, we will likely pay $800 for a bottle of 90 capsules of low-quality vitamin E - if Health Canada lets us buy that many at once, and if you can find a doctor willing to prescribe it.
He then handed me a tube-shaped metal container with vitamin C effervescent tablets. Each tablet, when dissolved in water, would release 10 mg of vitamin C in a refined sugar solution. Thus, this ridiculously low amount, was to be taken in a toxic medium that would neutralize the vitamin without it doing anything at all. The cost: about $10 for 12 tablets.
Then he asked me, "What's Co-enzyme Q 10? Are you allowed to buy all this in Canada in such dangerous dosages?" When I told him what I take daily, his eyes popped. Then I asked, "Why can't I buy these supplements here?" He replied, "Well, Germany is a Codex country." Oddly, Germany has several government-run hospitals where environmental illness is treated with nutrients only, intravenous vitamin C etc. Life is full of paradoxes and few more follow below.
CODEX AND THE EU
Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical doctor and naturopath well known to Toronto readers, is currently the president of "Friends of Freedom International" in which capacity she attended the Codex meeting in Bonn last November. She describes Codex as "the ultimate Big Brother marching backwards into the future."
Effective 1 August, all vitamin and mineral supplements on the so-called "positive list", including everything from Beta Carotene to Zinc, will only be available in the 25 EU countries if they comply with specific rules set out in the 10 June 2002, EU Directive Relating to Food Supplements. All products must show maximum safe levels "as established by science."
Those nutrients found in the mythic "balanced diet" are to be subtracted from the final values, and Article 6 (2) decrees that labels shall "not attribute to food supplements the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease, or refer to such properties."
So, the Directive's "science" knows nothing of Vitamin C preventing and curing scurvy, Vitamin D preventing and curing rickets and osteoporosis, or vitamin B curing and preventing anemia. It also ignores the mountain of evidence showing our diets are chronically deficient in essential nutrients because of factory-style farming practices.
To "ensure a high level of protection for consumers and facilitate their choice", they even included baking soda and table salt. We must assume they will be unavailable as of 1 August anywhere in Europe - with interesting consequences for the tourist industry in the baked goods paradises Austria, Switzerland and France.
Now, there is also a "negative list" covering essential fatty acids, phytonutrients, all the enzymes and more. Those cannot be marketed at all, until the EU scientific committee in charge has made a final decision. So, forget omega-3 and omega-6 fats, cod liver oil, and much more.
The effect of this directive will be that thousands of products and businesses will be gone this year. In the UK alone some 21 million people will suddenly have no access to any supplement vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fatty acids and more. Since the onus is on businesses to produce the scientific information on safety, they can't produce or sell anything - not even to physicians who have the power to prescribe any toxic drug as well as any essential nutrient. Obviously, there will be ludicrous enforcement issues: Picture basement-concocted vitamins sold in dark alleys alongside crack and Ecstasy.
We're in trouble in the US over the "Codex" problem. Why? Because there is too much conflict among the people who should be working together to solve the problem. We are not ready for big Pharma's assault - and it's coming.
There are those in the Health Freedom Movement that insist that (1) the attack is imminent, (2) others that say that it's not, and (3) those that say that DSHEA laws will protect us completely. (4) Most, like me, are still asking questions.
To those that say that (1) "the attack is imminent" I say "Could be... What form will it take, and what do we do about it?" I'm not hearing the right arguments though. I'm hearing hysteria, not facts. I want a reasonable analysis. Give me that and I'll support it, for I know that the mechanism to achieve the dreaded "harmonization" legislation, making our medical system just like Germany's, is primed, funded, and ready to go - and just waiting.
To those that say that (1) "the attack is NOT imminent" I say "Could be... why do you say that? I want a reasonable analysis. Give me that and I'll support it, for I know that the mechanism to achieve the dreaded "harmonization" legislation, making our medical system just like Germany's, is primed, funded, and ready to go - and just waiting.
To those that say that (1) "the DSHEA laws will protect us" I say "Could be... why do you say that? Still, I want a reasonable analysis. For my last comment is the same - and it is terribly important:
"I know that the mechanism to achieve the dreaded "harmonization" legislation, making our medical system just like Germany's, is primed, funded, and ready to go - and just waiting."
To those that say that are still asking questions, I say "Maybe we'll get a 'Pearl Harbor' before we get everybody together..."
Stay tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate
This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine" go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.
For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to http://www.bolenreport.com.
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"take one line from a post and use it against the person" - read your own quote
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How comes this person wasn't reported to the monitor board? I told someone to read the red note on
I'll probably get banned for writing this, but my comment was much milder than this. I didn't call anyone any names. What's up with this?
Always the same threat
I have kept up with all the gossip on MQ on this board. I have to say that for over a year or so, all I have seen are posts that say basically "just wait until MQ falls, just wait until this or that", when is this gonna happen? So there are some lawsuits against them. They are a huge company, many companies actually. You guys are so funny. Anytime someone has something good to say about them, you guys get on here and bash, bash, bash. Not just the company but the MT. It's old and tired ladies. Let it go. MQ isn't going anywhere. And neither are the whiners that complain about them. They are gonna stay and work for MQ and continue to complain. Why? That's is the kind of people they are. It doesn't matter who they work for, they will never be happy. There are other issues out there that really are important, can we talk about them for a change?
EMR threat
I'm interested in hearing anything and everything on this subject, too. Just found out last Friday my office is going to this. Not sure what my position will be when all the dust settles, but I am the sole support for 2 teenagers looking at college, and I am SCARED! My job up until now has been the dream job - work at home, paid nice hourly wage and full benefits. Pretty sure if I am able to stay with the same office it will NOT be at home and I will have to take a wage cut. Bummer, bummer, bummer!!!
VR real threat
It is my opinion that VR is a huge threat. More and more accounts are being added to VR, as well as more and more MTs are picking up VR either by choice or by force (as in no other account available). It is my experience that the MDs who are good for straight transcribing are also good on VR, but of course the flip side is those who are bad for straight are also bad on VR. VR is a killer for fast keyboarders who are pulling in good hourly wages doing straight transcription. VR does go a little faster, but there is really a lot to correct. Also, you are pretty much losing the advantage of your word Expander as well as any macros you might be able to create for use in straight transcription. If it paid more, it might be more readily accepted by MTs, but the pay is only half or less per line, and it is really hard to double your productive line count with VR and still pass QA requirements (which are the same regardless). I do not see there being less VR in the future as it is the same bottom line. Money. Same amout of work for half or less the money. The hospitals probably get some break in cost to be competitive, the MTSO makes a huge profit, and the MTs make less. If it were not for my age, I would definitely be trying to get into some other line of work. I like what I do and have over the years felt it was important and worthwhile, but it is getting harder and harder to justify the time, skill, study, intelligence, and personal financial overhead of working from home it takes to do this job.
VR a real threat?
I keep noticing people posting that they were laid off or changed jobs because their company switched to VR. Does anyone think this a real threat in the future or is it so under-developed that it isn't really a threat? Opinions?
Not a threat. VR is idiocy, and a way to cut MTs pay.
Every time I do VR, I see how awful it is, and I am supposedly on one of the most intelligent platforms. Every time I edit this stuff, I laugh how awful it is. Being OCD as well I can't help but get annoyed at even the smallest things it cannot do with style, grammar, formatting, aside from the poor mistakes it makes in very important medical matters.
I performed a calculation which I am sure you already know. If you edit 1:2 which is about how fast a fast person can type, then you edit as fast as you type. That is what I do. However, you get paid a little more than half per line editing or less than half. Do the math. It is a way to cut the fastest MT's pay 40 percent. This calculates to the old way of not paying for spaces. This calculates to the old way of not paying for expanders, etc. So, in the end VR is JOB SECURITY for the MT because it cannot do our job. VR NEEDS US. It always will. And of course VR cannot do the difficult ESLs so those like me who do straight typing 2:1 on the ESLs get paid what they should. Top dollar, if paid the correct line rate with benefits.
What do I project? People who are the fastest and best with lots of years' experience will get paid 40% less the most doing VR at 500 lines an hour. And those who are normal doing 4:1, or 3:1 or those learning will be poverty-stricken. But that is a large amount of people. If you REFUSE to take that kind of pay, supply and demand, India or no India, either companies will abandon VR because they NEED US or they will go back to straight typing. I tell you. If my day were more than 25% VR and 75% editing, I could do better at 7.5 c a line straight typing (and I can do prn work for that anywhere) than being fast on VR.
Remember. THEY NEED US. If we take it and take the cut in pay and do great at VR it is still a 40% pay cut for the fastest out there. If you fall into that bunch or less, then it won't work. The hospitals will go back to higher pay for those who can do straight MT. They will come back from India for poor quality, they will come back to straight typing or pay editors the same or MORE and either way we will win. It may take some time but every time you do your VR remember it is JOB SECURITY because it cannot fail. Thanks for reading this long post. I am in the biz over 28 years and I have thought about it a loong loong time. The sick people won't go away and the lawsuits won't either. So, things will turn around. Just be patient and watch.
Yes, and also what did HE do about the growing threat of islamofascism?
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It also reduces threat of a virus infecting
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point-of-care mobile devices - that is a bigger threat...
another excerpt:
It is no longer a question of whether medical transcription will survive. The move away from traditional, free-text medical transcription is inevitable, given the improvements in speech recognition technology and natural language processing; the development of standardized templates through HL7’s CDA (clinical document architecture), ASTM schema, and other similar efforts; XML-based communication; and point-of-care mobile devices that will ultimately facilitate real-time documentation. And it is very clear that real-time, point-of-care documentation by the practitioner will replace transcription! This can already be seen in countries outside the United States that are developing direct entry, interactive, structured text documentation without going through all the evolutionary steps from traditional, free text transcription.
I work for the person. I know. Very excellent person, personally and business-sense.
It is an INSULT to have QA hovering over seasoned MTs who know what they are doing. She trusts her MTs and again if there are questions there is one person, a trainer, who can answer them via phone, e-mail or instant message or you can send the whole report to them if you choose.
Thanks for the advise...
I appreciate the good tips about the company board, but my situation is unique. I currently have more than enough work to keep me busy; however, I may be interested in getting a business license and picking up a few more clients and having my cousin (who just graduated as an MT) work under me where I can supervise her work.
If I were to start my own small business, I would like some sort of website and would need a method for my clients digital files to be sent back and forth which is HIPAA compliant (my MD now insists on using email, which I have told him is not secure).
I emailed sitefever earlier today and they showed me an online demo of this file management system they have under development, which they said should get released before Jan 2006. It seems really easy to use, and it is designed for MT's and their digital files. They said the cost is only $60 per year, which seems like a really good option. And, best of all, it's HIPAA compliant!
So, just sharing with you all some things I learned today just by asking a simple question! 
You should never advise someone
I agree that she should get proof if she can. However, I think it's very irresponsible of you to tell her to "push his buttons". What if he fatally harms her this time? You don't know this woman and neither do I. If she is a person who normally does not instigate things, by her suddenly doing so could possibly REALLY set him off.
I say if he abuses her on a regular basis, the next time it happens, if she doesn't leave before, to call the police and make sure that photos are taken. You really need to calm down.
My advise to you is
I learned the hard way years ago out in my garage with no AC on a Royal typewriter, stacks of black carbon paper, a typewriter eraser, the aid of a good medical dictionary plus a kleenex or two to wipe the sweat off my brow and you know what? I'M STILL TICKING! I have so many accounts and doctors screaming to sign up I can't find girls fast enough but I would say to you to save your money and time about school. Invest in a good computer, a medical dictationary, learn to use google as a backup and for any questions but ..... DO invest in a good AC unit! Hee Hee!
Best of luck to you,
Old timer in Arizona
I would advise this -
Do not change anything right now. Keep working and spending like always. Let it sink in and then make responsible decisions with that money. I am not even sure how many people I would tell at first. The people you hear about who have nothing left a short time after a big windfall are nearly always those who quit their jobs and began spending like they were Bill Gates.
Fed up - Going on my own! Advise please!
Ok, I've had it! I'm going on my own. I need advise about how to find local clients, what to charge, simple dicatation systems, etc. Essentially, I need to know everything about starting my own business. I'm confident in my skills and am tired of being put up down and told when and how much I need to work. I'm dependable to the point that I have been tottally taken advantage of. I know there are better ways to make money doing transcription than what I'm currently doing. Please Help!
Point was is the person willing to make up for the slack of the person who types 1 job when there is
if that is all they WANT to type. Is the person who wants to be a supervisor willing to make up for those people?
You have crap supervisors, editors and mts in the business like you have good ones. Sadly, the really good ones of all of them are few and far between.
best advise is to go to Help on the start
menu, type in copy as the question, and then follow the directions.
Would respectfully advise you to do some SM
serious research before you choose a school. CS may not be the school you need.
I have worked for him and would advise you to look elsewhere. sm
If you are asking because you were approached about a job please feel free to e-mail me for details of reasons not to do it.
advise to atty
To begin with, a GOOD attorney is going to ask another doctor where mistakes are made, not us. The person who takes a deposition is the one who may ask for interpretation of the transcrtiption because most of them are not able to accurately transcribe medical dictation and our opinion is only worth what we interpret from listening to the doctor's tape. We are not medical experts but we are considered experts in interpretation and transciption. Belive me, I know. I've been in court twice relating to transcription and interpretation of a "tape" NOT making a judgment call on something that is only transcribed and has no tape to back it up. We are not allowed to make diagnoses. A good court reporter will ask for assistance in cases where this are problems with an ESL or similar. I have several that I assist with this part and since I am certified and have many years' experience, I am able to hold some weight with the court as an "expert". This is also part of our job and it has nothing to do with a Transcriptionist working against another transcriptionist, so your attitude is way out of line.
I would advise a little caution
First, send your grievances to your employer in writing. Give them a chance to rectify them. (Yes, I know you may already have done this, but there is a procedure for these things.)
Sever people have mentioned starting blogs. That would be a good place to share the answers everyone receives (if any) from the employers. THEN would be the time to talk strike, if the employers' response does not address the issues.
It's easy to get carried away with enthusiasm, but you don't what to shoot yourself in the foot.
Just call me - Gimpy
SPi "strongly advise against"
All the tech folks I've spoken to at SPi (also the Cymed tech people before) strongly DIScourage anyone from installing Vista. Everyone I've spoken to has said that it will cause major problems. (We use Chartnet platform, btw)
Advise needed
I really enjoy reading the posts here. I am getting back into transcription after being in for over 15 yrs and out for about 2. I have a new (1st) grandchild that I love to death and babysit quite a deal for my son. She is 16 months old and loves me to spend all my time with her. Now that I am going to be busy transcribing; how do those of you with small children keep them busy or balance working around them. This is my main concern with coming back to transcription; how to let her know Grandma cannot occupy her every waking moment now.
I can advise her from here. Don't go on television and dog the people who are looking for
your daughter and investigating the people who may have seen her last. Wipe off some of the makeup and go grieve. Hire a private investigator. Let your Aruban attorney versed in the laws and possibly with more knowledge of what is going on in the system speak for you. Go help the searchers from Texas. Be more like your ex-husband. Maintain a low profile and quietly go about your business and don't second guess anyone who has more knowledge than you.
Advise you discuss this with your doctor. Soon.
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Need help, QA says no to type-2 diabetes, please advise????nm
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Guess you NEVER advise your children, do you?
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Yes, i advise my "children" he is an adult now. sm
He accepted the job as it was and can quit or accept the terms. my dh and i run a construction business. he runs around and spends 2 hours a day just picking up help. we do not pay travel time. you either choose to go or you don't. we do, however, buy their lunch when it is a longer than usual travel. when they are ICs as usually with any manual labor field, labor law and travel time doesn't constitute for their positioning. turn the situation. if someone was coming to your house to do some work, would you be willing to pay every person on that crew travel time? probably not because that would significantly raise the price which you probably already think it too high to do the work you need. you have to realize they are ICs as we are and have all the expenses of trucks, tools, gas, taxes, etc. and have to cut their prices because foreigners are taking over the manual labor fields as well and working for pennies just as transcription is doing but manual labor isn't going to overseas, overseas is coming to the US for pennies. i would have him ask the man he works for about it but it the guy accepts either live with it or quit. i doubt he will get it as with 18yo he can't have a lot of experience to constitute the extra pay, etc.
When people put "please advise" at the
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I would advise you to continue teaching! nm
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Wow someone who thinks outside the box
call the media!
Too many are too willing to give up the tiny bit of privacy remaining...
The doc who thinks
every new sentence is a new paragraph and/or the one who says 'period, new line' after every sentence. Is this a really pervasive dictating annoyance? Or is it just me?
As one who does QA and thinks
the quality of US MTs is POOR, POOR, how do you find the offshoring MTs work to be? I mean this seriously.
I read on and India site that it only took weeks to be a MT.
Sometimes when I am working I think there is no way an Indian MT can do this.
So, how do they measure up? What is our competition really like?
Am I the only one who thinks this odd?
Job post stating they are looking for really good QAs and would be willing to hire newbies for this position............ 
Frankly, I don't think I would care for a newbie, who basically is still learning themselves, to be put in charge of QA of my work, especially if THEY have it all wrong, due to lack of experience, and that counts against me!
Advise on important questions to ask on job interview
I have applied at a company and they are to contact me. I'm really not sure even what to ask. This is a new experience for me. Any help would be appreciated. Any warning signs to watch for?
I would just advise to present your situation clearly w/o 'whining' (sm)
as my DH went several years back and there was a lady who worked on her farm picking crops, her husband was disabled, and she sold at market on the weekend - the judge actually bought from her - and judge refused to excuse her and said it was a 3-day trial, was her civic duty and would be over soon.. DH did QA at the time and didn't say anything after that :(
Laptop user question... please advise...
Well, it's time to put the old one out to pasture and get a new one. Computer, that is. I really want a laptop so I may travel with husband to clinics and now follow games and a daughter (cheerleader) going to college. But my primary use will be at home. Do any of you laptop users have any trouble with the monitor going out from over use? I was told it would be best to hook up to another monitor (already going to hook up another keyboard) for everyday use at home.
Any feedback on this would be great! Thanks
Any IC charge late fees? Please advise.
I have been contracted with a hospital for almost 13 years and never had a problem with getting paid every two weeks. I email my invoice on Monday and receive check via mail by Thursday or Friday. Within the last three years I have had a little trouble, not often, but usually critical times for me, with receiving payment during that time. Does anyone charge a late fee and if so, do they pay it? I thought about putting at the bottom of my invoice "Payment is due within 5 days or a late fee of $ will be charged.
No. Someone who thinks they are "cute" is having fun
trying to derail the thread and irritate others.
COokies are done! Pouring the milk!!
Goodnight, the real Laurie and the real Michelle! I've had fun!!!
Curdled milk and burnt cookies to the silly ones trying to upset everyone! LOL
Mig was too pretty for them. Am I the only one who thinks (sm)
that Marty looks like a drug addict? 
Anyway, I think they made a good choice.
Me thinks you have burned one too many..
I'm also in agreement with the movement to legalize marijuana, but come on--do you think this group shares your views? Save your passion for the petitions.
she thinks it is "cute"
Ever know one of those women who thinks it is cute to curse? I feel like she probably has not always been this way. She seems to try to use them for dramatic effect. She only knows 5 of them but every time she says a curse word she says it louder than the rest of her sentence. It is about as cute as Grandma cursing. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Thanks for the advice.
Just wondering what everyone thinks about this...
I work in the office. We are being taken over by a larger hospital. The larger facility is putting their people in the management positions, which is fine. At our smaller hospital, we have not had the opportunity to work from home, but with the merger, the plan is to send us all home to work by the end of the year and I think that is fabulous! What concerns me is this, they watch their at-home people like hawks. They actually print out a daily report on each Transcriptionist (40+) that lists every single job they did that day and how long they spent in each report typing. So, say you have a 5 minute H&P and you took 30 minutes to type it, they basically call you up and want to know why it took you so long to type this report. Their reasoning is they pay us hourly and they don't want to pay us for sitting at home watching television. I completely understand that, but I am a very productive MT and really don't like the idea of having to account for every minute of my day if I am producing at least the minimum. Having said that, they also offer a very nice incentive plan where we get a per line rate for anything above the minimum. So why the need to micromanage like they do?
In my opinion, if your people are producing at least the minimum and if you have a very competitive incentive plan in place, then why not just check productivity on everyone at the end of each pay period and counsel anyone not producing at least the minimum and if necessary, take disciplinary action and just leave it at that? Why check every single report to make sure we aren't taking too long on one report and risk upsetting your productive MTs who maybe got distracted by a phone call or something on that one report, but still produced what they were supposed to produce when the day was done?
I've been looking around at other jobs just to see what is out there and have lined up some very promising prosects, but none that offer an incentive plan comparable to the one at my current job. I just wonder is the incentive money worth the added stress of having someone virtually looking over my shoulder all day long? They are definitely sending the message that we are going to be asked to justify every bathroom break, every sinle distraction throughout our day, no matter if we get the job done or we don't.
Just wondered what insight other MTs might have on this issue.
Just wondering what everyone thinks
Like you said, you are a "very productive MT." I wouldn't worry about it. The ones who should worry are the ones who screw off. This will be a new venture for the hospital and they will watch very carefully for a while to see how it goes. As long as you are meeting the requirements I wouldn't be concerned. Give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks, misha! My DH thinks that
it would help clear up DS's skin if he sat in the sun some every day, or even used a tanning bed as someone below said, although I'd be worried for him to do that because he has light skin, light blue eyes and blond hair - it was so light it was that white-blond when he was a baby/toddler. So obviously he has very fair skin and features so I worry about the risk of skin cancer.
But your link sounds like something different and I will check that out. Thanks for taking the time to research for me!
Finally someone who thinks like I do! sm
I never understood how Bucky even got in the top 12! What drove me nuts the most was was his inability to speak clearly! I really laughed when Ryan said "I have no idea what you just said" and when Kenny Rogers said he needed to enunciate or the song wasn't going to make any sense.
Bucky just really had a skeevy look to me...like I wouldn't leave a child alone with him.
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