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Nope not new at all. Almost 20 years of

Posted By: experience. SM on 2007-05-13
In Reply to: you sound new and simple - time will tell-no message

I just think that forming a club of "oh woe is me" is not going to solve anyone's burned out problems.  Be glad you have a job.  


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    An MS4 is a med student till June graduation. He's "Mister So-and-So" then in June when he graduates, he's "Doctor So-and-So."


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    Nope, I don't feel "LUCKY" to be treated like an imbicile by my company. Nope, No way.
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    nope
    I did that for a while, gave QA, my TC everyone my private email and then I got an email and phone call from my TC, no longer would I receive emails from them unless I did it through Imail..and now this new darn system..I dont need this drama in my life, for pete sake, Im just trying to make a paycheck, ya know??
    Nope...

    not if being paid on production. Questions and blanks go straight to QA. But this could  depend on how much experience you have.


    nope
    nm
    nope! nm

    Did someone ask you what you think????? Nope!!!

    :


     


    nope!

    Nope
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    I would just chalk it up to experience and move on. Actually, that is just what I did, or had to do. If I was counting on them to either pass my tests, or offer me a position, I would have starved to death long ago. I had even found THEM work with a small company that was looking for an MTSO to do some of their accounts. I was promised that since I found the positions for them, that I would be one of them to test for the jobs. NEVER happened. They gave the testing and the positions to three others. When I questioned them about it, they told me that they had not even gotten the accounts, even after I learned they had signed the contracts. Consider it a loss, and take it off next year's taxes. That is the only way you will get any compensation back, and a lesson learned. But frankly, I am still bitter. Even though I found some pretty good positions and am doing now what I love. Good Luck.
    nope
    You would burn them up in no time. I would recommend unlimited services like Vonage or zerocents.com
    nope
    I would do this if not verbatim

    She is a 66-year-old white female, recently transferred to our practive with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, who I refer, blah blah
    Nope, not for you. sm
    Sorry. I must have gotten the Florida thing wrong. I thought she also said she was going to Florida, so I'm sorry for having the wrong destination. And I wasn't trying to pick some sort of fight. I was merely posing another opinion/option. There's nothing wrong with not taking the kids on a BUSINESS trip. BTW, thanks for the all-caps on the BUSINESS thing. It didn't come off at all snotty. So, no, my response wasn't meant for you. Thanks for asking, though.
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    Gave up holidays years ago and have never regretted it.
    nope..
    you are mistaken here. type 0-9 in three lines in NotePad and save it as a file. You will see 30 bytes, not KBs.

    :)))
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    Been there done that. The online classes are a joke and it is almost completely self study. Wish I had saved my money.
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    have to!  That said, while I tried all the usuals, nothing got my kids attention as much as no clothes to wear, no clean glasses and their rooms smelling like something died in them. 


    MOM, where's my jeans?  How should I know, I did'nt wear them, usually led to finding them on the floor under 3 feet of whatever.  They all got the same printed list of how to do's and now they do them well.


     


    nope
    the company I'm involved with puts food on the table and pays my bills........I don't exactly call that "gotten to me".....
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    Sorry, but it's all hype, and potentially dangerous.  If you research it at medical sites, the phrase perforated colon is usually mentioned! 


    http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/dc/caz/canc/colc/alert08162005.jsp


     


     


     


    Nope. You really don't get it, do you? sm
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    nope. www.dol.gov -- they don't have to do that.
    it's in their best interest to do that but not required to


    Nope!

    I surely would not, though there are many things about the job I like; i.e, working at home - making great money.  What I don't like about it is always being tied down to it - can't take days off or vacation - that sort of thing.  But then, there's no job that's perfect, right?


    Nope! I just tell her to go lay down, and she goes. nm
    x
    Nope, I have never
    had any kind of medical terminology course or MT course. I just lucked out. I worked in the billing department for a small hospital and the HIM manager called me up one day out of the blue and offered me a job as a transcriptionist. They trained me and started me out at normal certified salary.
    nope, that's not it (sm)
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    nope, but I think there are
    some sort of mystery fumes filtering through the computer screens today and people have sniffed it a little too long and it gave them a major case of WHINY HINEY.
    nope. not at all
    Yes. I agree with once in a while, but on a weekly or daily basis? Nope! Especially with young children at home. Married folks have to pull together, not apart.
    DH and I have different interests on occasion. He is a runner, I'm a camper. I go camping with our youngest (16 yo DS) fairly often. DH would rather be on the track running in circles. So we often take a few days off and go in different directions -- me to the hiking trails, him to a track meet (and he's a gold medalist in the 1500 m Masters Nationals this year -- had to crow!). But when our kids were little, never, NEVER did he or I go and hang out anywhere on a regular basis. How unfair to whoever is left at home!
    Nope that was the pay I saw for a job
    That is why I asked it seemed funny
    Nope...
    this doesn't work either but thanks for trying.
    Nope.
    But I work on EditScript and it doesn't really interrupt anything. I don't have to worry about TAT either.
    Nope.
    Sometimes documents get "stuck" and will stay checked out to you, but usually if you have to do an emergency shut down, power outage, etc., then you lose whatever you have done and the note will go into someone elses queue.
    Nope, I think she is trying to help. (sm)
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    Where I work currently the work I see is much better, thankfully. This must be due to hiring of good MTs and good QA.
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    Thanks for the help but there weren't any that I put in there. This is absolutely horrible. I use autotext a lot with "canned" dictation.

    Thanks for trying to help me.
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    Well, actually I have an electronic copy on my computer which was provided by the transcription service I worked for but I think I have actually opened it up maybe twice.
    Nope
    My pay cut happened about 4 months ago. You should have put your foot down and refused to take one like me. Stand up for yourself. You are contributing to the demise of this business. Have a nice life.
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    That is a real pain. When I leave a blank, I type the time of the dictation where the blank is, so at least I know where to rewind to. The only thing that helps is using the beginning of dictation arrow if blank is closer to start of dictation and fast forwarding etc.

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    x
    Nope
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    I am not trying to be bossy by telling someone to get out of the profession. Why make yourself miserable and do something that you talk down about? Common sense would tell you to go find something else, wouldn't it? It would for me! If your income is so low, you can get grants to go to college. It just doesn't make sense to me. People are acting like this is McDonald's or some other low-end job "working for peanuts." I don't see how making $15-30 an hour (with the lower end hopefully being an employee) is bad. I don't see how that is bad for a career that doesn't take a four-year degree.

    Anyway, I think I am done. I have work to do. Have fun!
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    Nope, not really better now (sm)
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    Go to mtdaily.com and go to MT companies and go through that long list of companies and start applying. That is how I got in. One of them hired me eventually.
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