No, I mean physically type faster with my hands.
Posted By: Sorry. on 2006-03-16
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They think the faster they talk - the faster you type - LOL EOM
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Why? because I can type faster than you
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I did for a few months. I can type faster.
It wasn't the thing for me.
Don't laugh... Some men type faster (sm)
than some women I know... They grasp the medical concept terms, etc. very quickly... So ladies...Watch out we may get more men in this field!!
Me, too. Can read faster than I can type.
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Clinic tends to type much faster...
so with your word Expander you could easily get up to 175 to 200 lines per hour, probably, a few months after starting work. You may be able to get 2500 lines done in 15 hours or so. Typically if you're working with a clinic you're going to have fewer docs to become familiar with and you're going to be able to create pretty decent templates for each one in your expander to save you lots of time. Hard to say, though, exactly. Good luck!
Do you type faster with music?
I love music (and rocking out!) but never have tried it while working. Does it help you to type faster?
Maybe I will try it!
For me, I felt I could type much faster than
the voice recognition. It does take several weeks/a month for you to train your voice on the software, if you do it religiously, that is speaking and speaking to get it trained. I found typing was much more efficient. And yes, you can listen to files in Express Scribe and then "speak" the words and it will type them, but until it is fully trained, I don't think you will see much benefit. Also, Word has speech tools that I used instead of buying Dragon, and it works just the same without spending all that money. I would say give it a try and see if it works for you. All of us are different and have different preferences. You may end up liking it and it works well for you. You just never know unless you try it out. 
maybe a doctor would try it, but I type 10x faster than I write
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It stinks. You can type it faster, it's tedious, it's tiring, and it's
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You might try wireless keyboard and mouse--mine by Microsoft made it better to type faster. SM
You might try wireless keyboard and mouse--mine by Microsoft made it better and I was typing faster.
Just keep the wireless "thing" that both the mouse and keyboard transmit to (and the part that is connected to the computer) out in the open, not covered up by papers, books, etc.
I tried to go back to my other keyboard, the one that plugs in, and could hardly type on it. The wireless keyboard was a lot faster and so it is less work.
Hope this helps.
I don't have Raynaud's but I always have cold hands when I type even in the summer! I keep a
heating pad under my desk. I turn it on and sit on my lap and use it as kind of a muffler for my hands. Every so often, I stick both hands into the sleeve that covers the pad and let them warm up. It works really well! I also bought a pair of cheap knit gloves, the kind that stretch to fit any hand, and I cut the fingers tips off and wear them when I type. In the colder months when I get cold feet, I have a space heater under my desk blowing directly on my tootsies.
When I first started out as an MT, I used to laugh at all the little quirks the older MTs I worked with had and now here I am with all my different quirks and orthopedic and electrical equipment just to make my work day comfortable. And don't even get me started on my drugs! 
The faster they grow, the faster then fall.....sm
Faster growing trees (soft wood) like pines, Leyland pines, Australian pines and,I would surmise, fast growing poplars -- I have trouble with regular poplars where I live -- are more susceptible to come down during a storm.
You may want to try a bush-like plant such as red tip,which does grow quite tall but stands up better than the above trees.
Too physically demanding
That is the reason I put when I quit a standing all day/heavy lifting job in bank operations after a few months. And it was true, too. I was dog tired and not good for anything after my 4-5 hour shift of standing, walking, bending, and heavy lifting, most of which I didn't know was involved when taking the job.
Avoid the "hostile work environment" excuse. Potential employers will think you are the troublemaker. Sad but true.
Verbally and physically abusive to all of you -- sm
That's the line that jumps out at me in your post. I know you're scared, but you've got a responsibility to your children and yourself to leave if this is true.
Start planning. Contact your YWCA. They have free counseling. If there's no YWCA near you, look in the phone book for other numbers. Women like you leave their abusive spouses all the time, and they have children just like you do. There are resources. Courage, lady. Bolster yourself up and find them. You have to do this for your children and yourself regardless of fear.
Hugs and prayers...
If you physically work at a company in another
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That kind of stuff makes me physically
I have one doctor who always has a piece of hard candy rolling around in his mouth. For some reason, I just feel sick to my stomach whenever he stops talking to roll that around, and he does it often. It's so bad, I've sometimes wondered if I will have to give up that account because of it. It's just a little side thing I do, but it just grates on me so much and makes me feel so ill. Ugh.
Question on training at a company physically?? sm
The few that I have ever trained for were done through conference calls. Never physically going there. I have check about this company called Silent Type on the board, and read several other posts that say you have to physically train there. That is possible, as I am in NY state, but isn't this sort of out dated in this technology. Does anyone who work for them that reads this can you shed some light on this? I have 3 under the age of 12 and not sure how that would work?? Is it worth it?? javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',' ');
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Motel housekeeper when I was 16. That was a physically demanding and disgusting
job. The supervisor was always riding us to clean faster, but we made less money if we got the job done in fewer hours. Why on earth would we work faster to clean a room in 20 minutes or less just so they could pay us less?
Anyway, it was a nasty job. The things people do in motel rooms were often immoral and illegal. I had teenaged boys on a soccer team throwing condoms at me. People used to rent rooms to party, get drunk, do drugs, and other things. They left behind pornography and other things an innocent 16 y.o. had never even seen before.
Then this adult male "guest" was wandering down the hallway in just a pair of shorts. We were supposed to help the "guests" so I asked if he had misplaced his room key. He pulled his shorts off and came after me. I grabbed a bottle of acid to spray him in the eyes and called security, but the cops never found him. He had overturned the bed in his room and set up a pup tent in there. What a weirdo. I quit that same week because the housekeeper supervisor was a shrew. She's still there 20 years later. Never had any motivation to do anything else, I guess. That job taught me how to clean thoroughly and quickly, but also taught me that I would never be anyone's grunt.
Feeling healthy mentally and physically and being grateful for that. nm
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Heck, coding is complex, but definitely FINITE and physically non-demanding. sm
Typing can get to you, physically. And coding has SO many resources, catalogs, books, online resources. Once you understand the concepts and rules, it's kinda like playing a card game, and not that difficult. I think MT is way more demanding, mentally.
Ugly, physically repulsive people with nasty attitudes have that effect on me.
Ugly, ugly, ugly
New one should be faster and okay (sm)
even though the number is lower. Dual processor is faster. You should be fine!
Just trying to get faster
I was given some instruction regarding that, but I don't see how someone can be listening very much ahead of where they are typing. I don't think my brain can do that. Is it just me? It seems that would lead to lots of mistakes.
Also, it seems I take my foot off the pedal a fair amount. Is that normal?
This seems to be one of those things that is hard to get a handle on because there are so many variables. I think it would be helpful to watch (and hear the dictation) someone who is really fast to get a better handle on how it's done, but I have never had that opportunity.
Any more info that can be verbalized will be very much appreciated.
It would be faster and easier to ask
which companies treat their MTs well than to go through the masses that haven't treated people well.
Faster typing
Well, my mother insisted I know how to type, so I took 2 years (yes 2 years) of typing in high school, so my typing speed was pretty fast to begin with (though I graduated high school over 20 years ago!) I have a friend who did the "Mavis Bacon" or whatever it is called typing software and that really helped her pick up speed.
I use Instant Text and try to put in everything. I have been an MT for just under 2 years. I do acute care, and I average 260 lph. On days I'm lucky enough to get a good run of ER reports - I can easily do 350+ plus per hour because most of it is canned, and I have jump codes in my expander, so I can whiz through a lot.
Good luck!
Have shorthand too. ESP is faster as far as (sm)
for example, physical exams for certain doctors, paragraphs, things like that that are pretty much standard. ShortHand you have to wait for it to print out. That's my only experience so far. Have only been on ESP for a short time. Plan to keep my shorthand too, though unless anyone can tell me why that's not a good idea.
CD - so much faster- love them!! nm
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but cable is faster than DSL
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You may be able to edit faster than
transcribe, but you are still doing twice the amount of lines for the same pay. After some time, the VR will start to recognize more terms and require less input. At that time, you may not be needed at all on those accounts, or you will be asked to accept less money. Time will tell!
Same here...internet is faster...
and more updated. I have spent a ton of money over the years on Stedman's electronic word books and you used to need them, but now with google, MT-google, and all of the MT resouce sites, don't think I'll be buying anymore. But I can see perhaps someone just starting out... especially the Medical Phrase Index is a big help to new MT's. Wish that reference was on a CD.
Factoid: Rabbits are faster than even this --- SM
An unspayed female cat, her mate, and all their offspring would produce 11,606,977 kittens in 9 years. LOL
OK. I AM REALLY GOING TO BED NOW. GOODNIGHT.
Because DOS was much faster program to work in
and was easier to do everything. Windows based operations are much slower.
I once was told "type faster"
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Does anyone have tips for typing faster?
 
Faster way to rerecord tapes
Is there a way I can rerecord tapes quicker to computer by playing tape double speed then slowing it down once finished?
Any suggestions on speeding this up will be appreciated. I have a lot of tapes to rerecord. BTW, my doctors do not want to use handheld units or a call-in system (for those of you who may suggest this).
so you have a platform that allows for faster editing but
not all are that way. In fact, I would venture to say most. Overall, most editors I talk to definitely make less money editing but are trying to stay alive in the MT world, i.e. segue into a job with a future?
cause is brain going faster than fingers
I don't think there's anything we can *do* about it - except perhaps proof better as we type and/or not type as fast as we are.....it's our own flaw..I think.....and every time I re-read - I find something omitted - so I'm re-reading it all :) 
Has anyone switched to Verizon isp for faster
I have dial up and that is all I can get. Has anyone switched to Verizon and gotten a faster dial up speed than the ISP they had before switching?
How can I get a faster speed on dial up?
MT NEEDS HELP
How do you make dial up faster?
I have Earthlink ISP and I have their accelerater, but I still need to have faster dial up as an MT for downloading and uploading so what do I do? Is there a way to setup our computers to get a little more speed for our jobs?
INMT
Tips/tricks for getting FASTER
Hi all.... wondering if anyone would like to share some "trade secrets" for have better line counts, etc. I have been a Transcriptionist for 12 years now and know there are ways of being more efficient and being quicker at this that hopefully I could take advantage of. Thanks!
Are some VR/ASR programs easier/faster to
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I have BTDT and I am a spaz who's faster at QA (sm)
I'm kind of a jumpy person whose mind goes in all directions so I do best in situations where I'm either doing QA or doing lots of different and new stuff as opposed to sitting and trying to do repetitive work. Generally hourly QA works out better for me, at least it's steady pay.
Plus like someone else said, if you hate it, you should be able to go back to MT without any problem. I think most management people are aware that not everybody likes doing QA. And like someone else said, it definitely increases your marketability.
Congrats on your offer and good luck whatever you decide.
I agree, faster by half, at least
My Expander has round about 6,000 entries and I add sometimes 20-30 more a day. I think I definitely type twice the amount I could without one.
Not going to make them grow up any faster sm
Sorry, but I have a duty to protect my child until they are an adult. When they are older, if they request that I leave the room during the exam, that is one thing, but no doctor is going to tell me I have to leave the room. My kids know about sex and that no one is to touch them except a doctor and only if necessary during an exam. But they are also still children, and while I don't baby them, I am in no hurry for them to lose their innocence. I absolutely love that my 11-y/o DD still loves her stuffed animals and plays Littlest Pet Shop games on her Nintendo DS. Kids these days are growing up too fast, and while I may be looked at as giving her a sheltered life, I would much rather have that than her trying to act like she is 16 already.
To make any computer run faster
Or invest in some CD-RWs.
Anne
not sure, but I was told that cable was faster sm
than DSL. Again, I am not real computer literate, but that is just what I was told. I did find it to be the truth in my case.
don't type double spaces. Type single. Then no one will be cheated.
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I could have typed it faster and better using my word expanders.
This is the echo heard all over about ASR and companies have the nerve to want to cut salaries by 20% because ASR is supposed to increase production?!?!?
The lighter touch the keyboard the faster
you're likely to type. A stiff keyboard tires your wrists and takes more energy, but it is you that need to learn to type faster/smarter. Set your dictation speed up a little and try to keep up. I have mine on 105 99.9% of the time, except when I get those dictators who are so fast that you hoping slowing down the speed will help. You also need to use macros and get a word Expander and use it as much as possible. As the saying goes you need to work smarter not harder.
The faster person if accurate is justified
The slower people have absolutely nothing to complain about. That's like me saying it's not fair JLo makes money for singing because my voice isn't as good. I want a job with you also. I'm very fast. I would require 10 cents a line, FYI or 18 dollars an hour.
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