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No, as I said both times same context but qa'ed differently.

Posted By: I doubt the docs care one way or other, either. n on 2007-02-06
In Reply to: It would be - sm

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who t-t'ed in YOUR cheerios?
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Thank you! Glad your husband was properly dx'ed.
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What context?

Try Google and take your pick from over 2 million hits.


Medical abbreviation resource link.


http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/


what context?
Do you recall in what context the doctor used this word? I hear doctors swear at the computer when trying to look up labs and stuff. The only time I type and cuss words are when the doctor is quoting the patient like on a psych admit or something.
We've taken this all out of context ...
I emailed them and got a response.

I let this particular post influence me negatively and I apologize to the Admin.

They are not targetting specific companies. It is a new way to link popular keywords, not just company names, for easier research. The links provide access to ALL posts - positive and negative - about the companies and/or keyword subjects. They will be adding more to this list. It is just starting now.

I DO wish they had put a post or statement or banner up first stating they were making this change but it is their site and they can improve it in anyway they want...with or without informing everyone of the progress before, as, or even after it is being made.
u have read that out of context -

versus IC.....whether you have one client or 10 clients....the IRS doesn't care....been doing it this way for a decade....


My post wasn't clear so readers might have taken it out of context. 


Have a nice day!


Numbers in what context??
You don't spell out numbers (0-9) when used to delineate values, i.e., 2 sets of enzymes, 3 sutures, etc.

Spell out when used in sentence as following:

We placed 3 catheters, one in the XXX and two in the XXX; or He was the one who XXX.

Is that what you are referring to??
It depends on the context of the sentence, really. SM
It depends on whether he's saying further bleeding will affect a hysterectomy, or whether Dr. _____ will effect a hysterectomy if there is further bleeding.


It depends upon the context within the sentence. sm
A simple instance would be: The patient had clear-yellow urine. In another sentence: The patient's urine is clear yellow.
I hate no one, don't take my words out of context
I have every right to say what I like and don't like. You are taking up for her because of her posting good things for you yesterday. I responded because frankly you thought I was much younger, probably worked in this longer than you and yes, older than you. I can be anyway I darn well please about not liking to type ESLs. As far as that goes, cannot stand ebonics either. See, prissy, others are not youngsters posting here and know as much as you. I rest my case. If you love the dialect that much, I think others should move to the various countries they like.
I think you need to see it differently ...
FIRST, we do not KNOW for sure the new MQ plan; it may be just be for particular offices at that.

Secondly, IF (big IF here) it is as some suggested based on 98% QA score and less than 15% of your work going to QA ... remember, this:
---that 98% is ONLY on the handful of reports chosen for actual QA'ing of your work;
---15% of your total work going to QA because of blanks is a LOT of your work; something is wrong if you are sending 15% of your work to QA for blanks and you need more training.

IF (again, big IF) the plan is designed the way one poster seems to think it is and everyone now ASSUMES it is ... you will still get paid if you don't meet this criteria -- you just won't qualify for production incentives.

The whole point is to REWARD those who have high skill and production in hand.

Not everyone will qualify. That is NOT just at MQ but at ANY place where there is a standard. Not everyone makes the cut.

Everyone CAN make that cut, though in varying degrees, by making a dedicated effort and commitment to improving their quality, learning ESLs better, learning to use tools/techniques for increasing their production, and mainly by letting go of this attitude that the company is out to get you.


Got 3 from Susan Poe, same context. Please post website here
because the emails are being generated by these looney tunes from this board. If others have not seen it yet, they will.
I see things a little differently

>>>People want me banned because they don't like my point of view. That is childish. They want me banned because they attack me and get upset when I say something back. That is childish. If they don't like what I am saying, don't read my posts and don't respond to me.


If you're writing in a manner which is provoking  in people, then I would say the problem lies with you. Perhaps you are expressing yourself in a confrontational manner?


As far as "don't read my posts and don't respond to me," that's like telling people to stop rubber necking on the highway.


When time permits, I'll look at some of your posts and see what the shindig is all about.  Later.


Sorry - but I think you could have handled it differently
I am assuming you are an IC - which means who you work WITH is your biz and no one else's - and no one's business if you took on a second contract.  An IC works for who she wants when she wants and within reason sets her own deadlines.  A company understands this and does not give you a 2 hour TAT unless you request it or can handle it and you have an understanding with them
I guess I think differently.
If you really want this job, I think I would low ball it with a clause that says when his business picks up and you get more work that you will raise your rates.

If you are getting in on the beginning of this company, there will be room for advancement. You might want to discuss with him that aspect, whether it be an office manager or supervisor, etc. In that case, he might be offering benefits.
Same context each job. "Well-healed surgical scar."
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I handle it differently I guess ...
One thing I have done is designate an amount of money I will spend on me (be it travel, clothes, makeup, cologne, entertainment, etc.). I worked that figure into my budget. It is part of what I earn on a regular basis so I don't have to worry about doing what you described.

I used to do that. It got really old really fast. I felt I was overworked all the time (not that I don't feel really stretched sometimes now but it is a rare occasion and it always has to do with something other than work when I do). Seemed like I was never going to "have enough" to go on vacation without killing myself.
Okay, I'll say this differently this time
flaming face - to me, denoting hostility, then complains essentially that all the people who make less than nice comments should go somewhere else. My point was that the original post seemed to be contradictory, starting off with a hostile style of emoticon, then wanting everyone to just get along.

I hope my point is more clear.
Every company calculates differently.
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those are set by the client but can be set differently per typist.
you can call them and ask them to set it. 0 being no backup, and up.
Stedman's is organized a bit differently sm

and that is probably why I didn't like Tessier's at all.  I have other word books besides Stedman's and I don't like them either!  The only thing I like as well would be the MPI and I hardly ever use mine now.


In all fairness, I probably Google more than I do anything.  If I am looking for a ronguer or scissors or suture or needle, I use the M&S word book to find that.  If I am looking up a new drug-eluting stent, I google, BUT I can make what I am looking for so specific that I find less than 100 sites for most things.  I don't ever file through pages of it because that is useless too. 


I dunno...only ever do OPs, have for a long time and it is to the point where I rarely have to search for anything.  Despite my advanced age, my near photographic memory is still highly functional. I thought that would be the first thing to go, but it wasn't.  In other ways, my brain is a junkyard.  I can remember a piece of equipment I transcribed only once 4 years ago, but I can't remember where I put my purse or keys! 


I'm thinking somewhat differently. But good for you for SM
taking action. Since I don't believe fighting the Information Age is a good strategy (sort of like hunters-and-gatherers laughing at people sticking roots in the ground, to my mind) I'm signing up for classes to broaden my skills. I'm also looking into reactiving my appraiser's license (in case of future need. I appraised lots of foreclosures in the Reagan era and would definitely prefer to pass now).

Back to the healthcare industry, I would ask you, how does having IT performed on this continent fit into improving the delivery of good affordable healthcare to all of us? What has to be done so that this does serve that purpose? How do we fit into it? Best wishes for sure.
I wasn't, honey. I'm not the OP. My point is she didn't include context
to tell which catheter out of 17 pages it might be, and most medical books don't cross-reference to other medical books.
Different types of errors are weighted differently ...
so more serious errors count more, less serious count less. I have 8 reports a month QA'd. My QA person listens to the dictation while reading my transcribed report and marks errors and classifies each error. The total is weighted on a percentage.

Last month on my 8 QA'd reports, I had only 1 error and it was a style format error (I used a "dash" as the physician dictated but the BOS2 says to use 2 dashes if dashes are being used and BOS2 prefers using semi-colons). That was the only error of any kind I had and it was not serious. My monthly QA score (because of how this type of error was weighted) was 99.9%. I have had a few times of 100% but I have never had below 99%. My QA person gives me a full explanation of why it is an error and sometimes marks information that is not counted against me but is given as "information only". Noncritical errors are only counted once in a document and critical errors are counted as often as you have them (ex: if you used perineal instead of peroneal --that is a critical error).
not true. Crux is, she is being treated differently than others

I feel differently about the whole anti-Wal-Mart thing...
If you don't like them, don't shop there.  If enough people don't like them, they'll eventually wither away.  If the little mom and pop stores didn't charge so much, people wouldn't go to the big department stores instead.  It's called competition and capitalism, neither of which are illegal.  At one time there was an uproar over supermarkets?  Are you still shopping for your bread at the bakery, your meat at the butcher, and your fresh produce at the vegetable man store?  No, of course not, you go to the supermarket without any sorrow in your heart for the little grocer who was put out of business decades ago. 
Every version of Word seems to do auto numbering differently. sm
The last two versions have a number list style that will keep numbers at the left margin and do the hanging indent automatically. Alt-Shift-left arrow will take your list back to the left margin if you don't use the style but want to use automatic numbering.
Female heart attacks manifest differently than a man's. Get someone to watch the kids and get che
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hit left Shift key 3 times, then right Shift key 3 times -
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different times
Question to a long timer. I have been transcribing for 15 years. I have been with one hospital for 10 years. I recently added a part time national using the same equipment and same format as my original account. For my original account I average 15-20 minutes an hour. After a month with second account, I am still only at about 8 minutes an hour. They do have a lot of ESL but so does my primary account (just not as bad, even when I first started them). I'm suppose to do a certain amount of minutes for this secondary acount, thinking I could do it in 2-3 hours a day, but I just can't reach my goal and I just do not have the time to work any more hours. Any advice?
Too much, several times a day.....but usually only for a
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End of times?
Does anyone think this unusually hot weather in practically all parts of the U.S. has anything to do with Bible predictions?
Can be done..but at times it can't...(SM)
I am never amazed at people that are in "awe" over the fact I work at home, which of course to them means I can keep my kids there and save tons of money on daycare. I have had countless people that have never touched a keyboard ask "So how do I get started doing that so I can stay at home with my kids?"....sorry..butI can't help but just giggle inside..much in "awe" of their cluelessness.

I did this job for years in house before ever finally being able to work into an at home position. I worked in house with my 1st child and was of course broke...so needless to say he was in daycare as early as they would take him. About a year and a half ago I had my 2nd child and really milked this one for all it was worth. Wanted to keep her home with me as looooong as I possibly could. I made it to 5 months and honestly, should have probably stopped at 4. The age of your child makes all the difference in the world. When she was a very young baby and slept most of the day..yeah it was fine, worked out really well. But the older they get..the more they are aware you are there but not paying them 100% attention...and the harder it starts to get. He's 19 months old now..and even if the daycare is closed for a day that I have to work we end up having to send him to my mother in law's house for the day..it's nearly impossible to get anything done with him here. He sees mommy sitting here staring at this screen and will bang on the keyboard, stand here and scream for the attention he wants to be focused on him instead. At this age..keeping him home is not a good thing. My oldest child now is in grade school..days out of school..he's fine to stay home. He can play and entertain himself and needs nowhere near the attention the baby does. If you have a schedule that you can work a couple hours here and a couple hours there and late evenings after bedtimes, then you might be able to make it work out fine. I'm an employee, not an IC...therefore I'm required to work a set schedule and keep up a required amount of production...cannot be done with a lil one interrupting that on a constant basis. Look at your schedule..look at the age of your child..look at your obligations/requirements to your employer. It can be done in some situations...others it cannot. Be realistic...be fair to your child's needs when considering this as well as yours and those of your employer..it's a whole big picture to consider. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do :)
I can't tell you how many times

feeling a touch or carress on my arm and it turns out to be a stray hair dangling from my head being blown by the fan.  I guess working remotely plays tricks on us once in awhile?


Trying times
I am in the dead center of Mississippi and after I got of church I saw cars with tags from the costal countiescoming through town.    We are in the hills and will receive 75 mph gusts.  This is serious.  New Orleans is under mandatory evacuation.  People without cars are at the superdome.  The casinos locked up Thursday.  Traffic has been one-way on the highways since noon Friday. I-10 and I-49 to get off the coast.  There are no hotel rooms in the state as of Saturday night news 10 PM report, as far as Grenada, MS (that's about 250-300 miles from Biloxi/Gulfport area).  They were good about emailing each other about vacancies.   The President has mandated that MS/LA are under a state of emergency.  Katrina is headed straight to the Big Easy.  If Katrina does not change course, there is going to be unbelievable losses in the New Orleans area.  Let us share our thoughts of faith and reflection with the people in these low lying areas.
Old times?
I am 79 years old and teach my grandchildren that peep is bad and nasty word. I don't like coming to this board only to find your nasty words. Being 79 years old, I know more than you will ever know and I KNOW what peep means. You are just being down right gross and yuck!
times 3 or x3? Which is okay? nm

Thanks.


 


8 times....
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NY Times......sm.......
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January 2, 2006


States Take Lead in Push to Raise Minimum Wages




Despite Congressional refusal for almost a decade to raise the federal minimum wage, nearly half of the civilian labor force lives in states where the pay is higher than the rate set by the federal government.


Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have acted on their own to set minimum wages that exceed the $5.15 an hour rate set by the federal government, and this year lawmakers in dozens of the remaining states will debate raising the minimum wage. Some states that already have a higher minimum wage than the federal rate will be debating further increases and adjustments for inflation.


The last time the federal minimum wage was raised was in 1997 - when it was increased from $4.75 an hour. Since then, efforts in Congress to increase the amount have been stymied largely by Republican lawmakers and business groups who argued that a higher minimum wage would drive away jobs.


Thwarted by Congress, labor unions and community groups have increasingly focused their efforts at raising the minimum wage on the states, where the issue has received more attention than in Republican-dominated Washington, said Bill Samuel, the legislative director of the national A.F.L.-C.I.O.


Opinion polls show wide public support for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which falls far short of the income needed to place a family at the federal poverty level. Even the chairman of Wal-Mart has endorsed an increase, saying that a worker earning the minimum wage cannot afford to shop at his stores.


"The public is way ahead of Washington," Mr. Samuel said. "They see this as a matter of basic fairness, the underpinning of basic labor law in this country, a floor under wages so we're not competing with Bangladesh."


The minimum wage has been the subject of fierce ideological debate since it was first established in 1938 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Business groups and conservative economists have argued that the minimum wage is an unwarranted government intrusion into the employer-employee relationship and a distortion of the marketplace for labor. An increase in the minimum wage, they say, drives up labor costs across the board and freezes unskilled and first-time workers out of the job market.


"Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically," said Marc Freedman, director of labor law policy for the United States Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Freedman said that any minimum wage set by the federal government was completely arbitrary and did not take local labor market costs into account.


According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, about two million American workers, 2.7 percent of the overall work force, earned the minimum hourly wage of $5.15 or less in 2004, the last year for which such statistics were available. Those workers were generally young (half were under 25, and a quarter were teenagers), unmarried and had not earned a high school diploma. About three-fifths of all workers paid at or below the federal minimum wage worked in bars and restaurants, and many received tips to supplement their basic wages.


Advocates of an increase in the minimum wage said that inflation had so eroded the value of the minimum wage in the last nine years that it was worth less today in real terms than at any time since 1955. They also cited studies that found that raising the minimum wage did not cause job loss, as opponents argue. According to these studies, employers can absorb the higher labor costs through efficiencies, less employee turnover and higher productivity.


Tim Nesbitt, the former president of the Oregon A.F.L.-C.I.O., said that despite having one of the highest minimum wages in the country at $7.25 an hour, Oregon had had twice the rate of job growth as the rest of the country.


The 2006 battle over the minimum wage is expected to be particularly intense in Ohio, one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level (the other is Kansas). The minimum wage in Ohio since 1991 has been $4.25 an hour, which applies to small employers, some farms and most restaurants. Workers at larger enterprises are generally covered by the federal minimum wage.


Efforts to get the Republican-run General Assembly to consider raising Ohio's minimum wage have gone nowhere, so labor groups and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as Acorn, an advocacy group for low-income individuals and families, are planning a ballot initiative to put the issue to a popular vote in November.


Tim Burga, legislative director for the Ohio A.F.L.-C.I.O., said that 92,000 workers in the state made less than the federal minimum wage, some as little as $2 an hour. The proposed Ohio Constitutional amendment would set the state minimum wage at $6.85 an hour, indexed to future inflation, bringing an immediate raise to as many as 400,000 workers.


Former Senator John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said in an interview that he planned to help organize the minimum wage campaign in Ohio as part of his national campaign to alleviate poverty. He called the current minimum wage a moral disgrace and a national embarrassment.


"My view is it should be $7.50 an hour, and I can make a great argument for it being a lot higher than that," Mr. Edwards said. "This is a perfect example of the Republican leadership in Congress, combined with the powerful presence of lobbies in Washington, thwarting the will of the people."


Leading the opposition to the initiative will be the Ohio Restaurant Association, which like its parent organization, the National Restaurant Association, closely monitors and vigorously opposes efforts to raise the minimum wage.


"Restaurants are a low-margin business," said Geoff Hetrick, president of the Ohio Restaurant Association. "A number of marginal operations which are more or less on the ragged edge right now might find this to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, especially in northern Ohio where they've had a significant loss in manufacturing employment that's taken a lot of disposable income out of the economy."


One of those who would be affected by the proposed minimum wage increase in Ohio is Rick Cassara, owner of John Q's Steakhouse in downtown Cleveland. He said that while all of his 55 employees currently earn more than the minimum wage, he opposed a mandated increase because it would drive up all of his labor costs. "It exerts upward pressure on all wages and prices," Mr. Cassara said. "If the minimum wage is $7 and I have to pay $8 or $9 to hire a dishwasher, then the cooks are going to say they want more. How much can I charge for that hamburger?"


Another small employer, Dan Young, owner of Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, a working farm and restaurant operation, said that more than half of his 300 workers were high school and college students, many of them in their first jobs. He said he paid many of them $5.25 an hour, just above the federal minimum wage, but most quickly won raises or earned far more than that in tips.


Mr. Young said that if Ohio enacted a Democratic proposal to raise the state's minimum wage by $1 an hour over the federal level, his labor costs would go up by $250,000 a year or more. "When you do all the math," he said, "I'll have to figure out a way to hire fewer workers, or raise prices, or both."


In 2004, voters in Nevada and Florida approved ballot initiatives raising the state minimum wage to $6.15 an hour, in both cases by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Nevada voters must vote on the measure again this year because it is a Constitutional amendment, but proponents are confident they will prevail. Lawmakers in California, which already has one of the highest rates in the nation at $6.75 an hour, approved a bill last year to increase the wage to $7.75 an hour in 2007, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it, the second time he has rejected such legislation.


Mr. Schwarzenegger said then that he believed that low-wage California workers deserved a raise, but said the legislation, which contained automatic increases tied to inflation, would be too costly to employers.


But aides to Mr. Schwarzenegger said late last week that the governor would propose a $1-an-hour increase in the California minimum wage in his State of the State address this week. If approved, the proposal would take effect over the next 18 months and would not have an automatic inflation adjustment, the aides said. The move appears designed in part to pre-empt a ballot initiative that would raise the California hourly rate an additional $1, to $8.75 an hour, and include annual cost-of-living increases.


Inflation indexing is also an issue in Oregon, where the minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour and adjusts every year for inflation under an initiative approved by voters in 2002. Each year since passage of that measure, the Oregon Restaurant Association and other business groups have pushed legislation to cancel the indexing provision or to exempt some workers from the wage law, but have so far failed. Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski, a Democrat and former labor lawyer, has vowed to veto any such measure that reaches his desk.


do you mean how many times you use them? If so sm
go to help, the statistics, and it will tell you how many Keystrokes you are saving
I got through a few times at first (sm)
I got through maybe 5 or 6 times at first but now I can't get through.  I'll keep trying though. 
I think it happens to all of us at times.
The mind can trick you sometimes and you don't even notice and read it correctly. Sort of like this...

Aicordcng to a rescareh at Cambgidre Unsveriity, it dosen't mettar in waht oredr the lteters in a wrod are. The olny imptroant tnihg is taht the frist and lsat letetr be in the rihgt pcale.

The rset can be a ttoal mses and you can stlil raed it withuot porblem. Tihs is beuacse the hmuan mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by itslef, but the wrod as a whloe.

Pretty amazing, huh?
Yes, but how many times...
How many times where we have seen somebody with loads of $$ (and many times the head of a company) in trouble for embezzling or something? I don't hear too much about lowly employees stealing.
most times I just cry lol
There is no way to change them - My local doctor who I transcribe for was that bad - so I sent him a verbatim report and explained to him that I would be billing him for verbatim but would send him the cleaned up version - he saw that I made him look better and how bad he was and he increased my rate - but then again he is my personal doctor as well. for others - I moan and groan and my kids think I am nuts talking to a screen.
Been there, done that many, many and yes, many times.
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At times such as these, I
repeat the Serenity Prayer: God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Not a whole lot because a lot of times
QA has a better connection than the MT.
And you know, he did it several more times plus
a few expletives thrown in whenever he got frustrated with the information he was sifting through in front of him. He must have been distracted or in great GI distress, because he also said "Past Medical History" at the beginning of the each and every paragraph he dictated. I guess he is having a worse day than I am!
How many times sm

have you been asked "how do I get into that? "  "I can't type; does that matter?"   My husband has come home from work I don't know how many times telling me that so and so's wife is going to call me because to find out how to "get into that."


 It doesn't help when the doctors call us "typists."


Often times...
climbing the MT ladder means changing MTSOs and/or accounts.  There is most definitely a ladder to be climbed, but one has to search for it.  And it is not correct to assume that no one in this business gets raises, as there are some who do.  In this business, it is best not to compare yourself with others, as there are too many variables to make sense of it all.
There are times when -
my back up on the foot pedal puts it at exactly the right place to isolate enough of the sound to make you hear the word differently. It's by far not an exact science, but sometimes doing that in conjuction with truffle posted below can be helpful. Not much, I'll admit, but every possibility can help.