I'd say "What normals?" (sm)
Posted By: Lori on 2005-12-03
In Reply to: Boss asking for normals - Boss asking you to share your NORMALS?
I had an OM tell me that he was contemplating not paying for macros. I said, "Oh, I don't have to worry. I don't use macros, I use an expander." That was the end of that. I'm sure he had to run back to his office to try to figure out what an Expander is! LOL
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and "what ever" as well - nm
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You want to know "What you people do"?
Easy job? No. Good pay? Not likely unless you have 20+ years in the business and your own accounts (pleural-more than one account-in other words). Need to fill some time? Join an exercise program, knitting class, scrapbooking club, baby/Mom with nothing to do club, etc. (you get the point). Keep the engineering job. If or when you decide to become a "you people" let us know how you are "doing" it and your progress? Let us know if it fills your "void" at night when your baby is sleeping or on the weekends when the baby is with Daddy.... We'd be interested to know how you like what "us people" do once you've figured it out that is... although you have stated that you "thought" it was an easy job because you can type really fast. Good luck... 
And don't forget Dr. "What the **** did he just say?!?!" nm
Reply to "what you said"
I read your statement and thought I don't remember posting on this thread. That could have been written
verbatium by me! Waste of money and time. Although I did feel that I had something up on everyone else when I earned the CME's, it was often times lectures by doc's on something I knew very little about, so in that respect it was a learning process for me. Most employers who state the want CMT's are unwilling to let you off work to attend a conference let alone pay for it, so it costs you PTO time and you pay for the conference out of your own pocket. My last employer (before I gave up my certification) was EDIX now Spheris. There was national convention I wanted to attend. The only way they would pay anything was if I went I could have 2 days off and only if I agreed to work their booth, so how was I supposed to get CEC's working a recruitment booth to make the company more money. It was an absolute joke.
How about a "What's for Breakfast" Post?
Coffee, gotta have coffee...that's about it lately! B O R I N G !
"What kind of friend" is right... but in many (s/m)
other respects she really can be a lovely person. The only thing we have in common really is our common participation in roller skating. But we are at opposite ends of the scale in terms of control issues. She considers herself to be quite the Queen Bee in our group, but oddly, she's the least proficient skater. Sometimes I think she gets controlling of people in order to make of for that. But she also leads a more ordered & scheduled life than most of us. If we go to events with her, it seems like everything has to be geared around HER schedule, and we always have to watch the clock. She's quite regimented, where as I and my other friend are pretty laid-back, ESPECIALLY on our days off! So more and more often, I've been passing on get-togethers at this friend's house, where everything is planned out to the minute, whereas I just want to put my feet up and chill.
It turns out the Queen Bee doesn't like my other friend because she "ignores" her. Well, that is because last year, when we were all roller skating on a vacation in Venice Beach, once again everything was by-the-clock and according to the Queen Bee's schedule, and my friend just wanted to see the sighs and enjoy the warm climate, etc. We were all going to go for a "leisurely" skate up the bike path and then have lunch. Well, the Bee took off at top speed, leaving my friend (who has the slowest skates) in the dust. So I turned back and skated slower with her. About halfway to our destination, the Bee was already headed back. "Why the big hurry?" I asked, and she said we were supposed to go to lunch with her son (breaking into the movie business) and his producer at 1:15 sharp. Well, I didn't want to hurry my other friend back, and the restaurant the Bee was planning on going to was an expensive one, not something I or my friend could really afford. So when we got back, while the Bee was off looking for her son and the producer, I asked my friend, "Okay, you're on vacation, you've never been to Southern California before, what would YOU like to do?" She wanted to re-skate the bike path again, and go for a burger on the Santa Monica Pier. So, that's what we did, and we had a grand time. I think it kind of put a burr in the Bee's britches.... but I think that served her right for being so rude. So anyway, my friend and I had a great time, rode the carousel, ate burgers & fries, and relaxed. But ever since then she has just steered clear of the Bee because she already knows she doesn't like her. I just hadn't realized the Bee was taking it so SERIOUSLY that someone would actually IGNORE her! Well, I guess she should've thought about that before treating my friend so rudely.
AND... this is actually the time that I got to know this friend... on this trip to Venice. She had been invited by Friend #3, a woman who is a friend of both mine and the Bee's. I just assumed that she would be staying with Friend #3. But instead, the Bee said, "Oh no.... Friend #3 is staying with ME! You and Friend (#2) can stay together. So we shared a room at the hotel, and in the end were glad it worked out that way, 'cause that way we could sleep in 'till 11:00, have a leisurely brunch, and show up at the beach whenever we happened to get around to it. If she'd stayed with the Bee, she'd have had to get up at 7:30, be eating breakfast at a certain time (and place), and doing everything according to the Bee's schedule.
And restaurant selection is another point where we don't see eye to eye. I prefer cheap and fast, preferably junk food! But the Bee not only has to pick the restaurant, before we even sit down, she then has to interrogate the poor waiter intensely as to what, exactly, is in EACH and every food item on the menu that she's interested in. She's so picky. We went to a place that had absolutely KILLER pizzas, and I was standing there in the sun dying of heat and hunger, while she had to know every little detail about its ingredients. I felt like saying, "Just EAT the damn pizza, okay?" But of course I didn't.
But again, in the past she has been a very good friend, but I've discovered that if you don't do everything HER way, she gets a little ticked. That in turn has caused me to lose quite a bit of respect for her. I still love her, but I don't completely RESPECT her.
Whoa! "What makes you think" post was is
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My normals sm.
I had a supervisor accuse me of holding hostage MY normals. I reminded her that they were documents I had brought to the job as I had done this doctor at another national previously. Anyway, don't the ding dongs realize they can just d/l a copy of a finished job and, tada!, there is a copy of a doc for that doctor.
What are normals?
I am new to MT and I keep reading "normals" are these macros?
normals
After creating a normal, ctrl-N to save it. Should be able to retrieve it after.
Normals
We use "normals" too but I change them to fit the dictation. I was always told those are mostly for reference to help us get through the dictations. Not every MD dictates the exact same Normal and even when there's Normals for each particular MD, they don't always dictate it exactly the same. The only time I would leave "as is" is, for instance, a radiologist says "Chest x-ray, #36, end" and I would just pull normal #36 and send off. Of course, if the Normal doesn't fit the title(I.e.#36 is a head CT) I would still pull it but mark for the QA/practice manager to see the error.
Oh and keep the standards/normals for themselves
NO EXPANDERS AND NO NORMALS
You don't believe me? I really don't care...That's my line count.....and I do it without Expanders or normals. I love my job, I'm the best at what I do and I always strive to do better than the day before. Maybe you could do the same if you weren't so negative....
Boss asking for normals
Is anybody working for a company where your boss is asking you to share your NORMALS. Be very careful. My company is asking us to share your normals and come to find out who they want us to share with, overseas. Also asking questions like, who are the best dictators, etc. Also experiencing block of work just disappearing. Several hours just gone. Anybody else.
Abby Normals.
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DocQscribe normals
I will be leaving my company at the end of the week without a job to take its place. It's taken me several years to accumulate all my normals, and I hate to think I will have to start over creating them. Does anyone know how to transfer/move all the normals from DocQScribe to Word or to save them on my hard drive. I hate to think I'll have to start over creating all new normals. Thanks for your help.
do you mean making normals
for same docs?
Yes, I mean making normals. nm :)
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The majority of normals are seen
Normals can also be a repetitive statement that the dictator makes, which you then turn into a normal so you do not have to keep typing the same thing over and over again. Some use shortcut keys or Expander program. I am not an expert on any of these as I do not use them. Some who work in MS Word use autocorrect to expand terms or phrases that are said time and time again by a specific dictator. I use autocorrect in Word and like it. Hope this helps.
Has anyone been able to transfer their normals/standards from
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No way, Jose. My normals are MINE. Don't let them do this! nm
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I never give anyone my normals. I have my own accounts and one
but it was a nice account - a surgery center with 200+ surgeons. I told the surgery center I just couldn't continue doing the account, gave them the names of a couple of other MT companies they might want to contact. They did contact them, elected to go with one of them, and then while I was finishing up with them while they transitioned to the new MT Company, they asked asked me for MY normals to give to the other MT Company. Okay, there were SOME normals that the hospital associated with the surgery center had given me to begin with, but I felt that it was the responsibility of the hospital to give those to the new transcription service, not my responsibility. Besides, I had changed the templates as needed, etc. But most of the normals I had were ones that I spent a couple of years developing. Now I wasn't just going to hand those over to a new MT service to make it easy on them. Those were something I spent a LOT of time on and were, in my opinion, MY property.
Why would you create normals for doctors
 and/or accounts you don't even know? That makes less than no sense. Do you just create your own things that you consider normal? Seriously trying to figure it out - I must be missing something.
Are you still cutting and pasting normals? I can't do
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What aggravates me are normals and samples
full of obvious typos and stylistic issues that we MTs get dinged for. In fact, I remember having a normal op at one place that had a made-up instrument name in it. It kept coming up on the spell check. Took me months to finally find the proper name.
I've come to expect sloppy and/or poorly written emails from managers and admin staff otherwise.
Normals in Expansion File
Just be aware that your company may have set a size limit for individual expansions to prevent transcriptionists from making "normals" that are not really normal, that is, not always exactly what the doctor says.
EXText Question About Normals
Hi,
I've had trouble recently being unable to retrieve normals I've made.
When I make a personal normal and then try to access it during the current work session, it does not show up in the list. This is true even after having been logged out of the system entirely, such as overnight and then returning to work the next day.
If I try to re-do/re-create the normal using the same "Properties" info., I get a ping and message stating that that normal already exists. Any info. on this?
Also:
Could there be a limit to how many normals, personal or shared, can be created on one person's list?
Can personal normals be deleted?
I need more help than I've already gotten, so I'm posting here. (My next step is contacting Dictaphone)
Thanks.
Also have errors in normals I am told to use--sm
Does your platform allow you to have Transcriptionist normals? Mine does and i have corrected the normals and saved them in my set of normals. I also complained for over a year and they were not corrected. One of the most notable is an ultrasound abdomen that has the technique for an MRI. The transcriptionist has to remember to make the correction on every report she transcribes.
Expanders and normals...not mormals
just felt the need to correct your mistakes since you are picking apart others.
yes of course I use tons of expanders. At the most 25% normals though.
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Try putting in the normals by blocking and control Y....
then name it the name you want and then use control R to retrieve it. Works for me.
Will be variable depending on the normals and shortcuts you have and how
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Hi, I've gone the personal normals-only rte., still no luck. NM
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Shutting it on and off doesn't restore normals? Are you
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normals, templates, shorthand programs, etc
I was reading an earlier post that refers to companies making adjustments in our line counts because we are using these word expanders. I have been wondering about that because even using as many as I possibly can, it seems like it does no good. I do about as many lines as I would normally do just typing the darn things out. How are they making these adjustments, does anybody know and is it legal? Seems we have no standard anymore as to how lines are counted and companies are doing whatever the heck they want to us.
Re your normals: keep a list handy, name them with short names..sm
then use Control R after you have typed the normal name; i.e.: Dr. Joe Blow has a ROS that he uses all the time - name it JBROS or something like that, then in the document type JBROS and use the control R to bring it automatically in.
I would never voluntarily give them "my" normals, my work product. SM
The nerve of these people. 
Maybe if it is gross lines, lots of headers and footers and normals......sm
Other than that, I really can't imagine it.
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