One suggestion for those signing the petition - (sm)

• Petition to keep medical records from going overseas! - ConcernedMT
  • I signed it but.... - Dreamweaver
    • Oops! That's "thread", not - "threat" LOL nm
  • my sister is a doctor and I asked her to sign- - mdlfcrs
  • Please use your name, not "Anonymous!" nm - Make your signature COUNT!
  • One suggestion for those signing the petition - (sm) - Make your signature COUNT!
  • Keep all posts/topics about this on Main, please. NM - Goldbird (Moderator)
    • Blog about it on wordpress.com - it will show up in google/search engines. This really works. - mtstudent
      • Great post with VERY useful information. nm - THANK-YOU ! : )
      • Is there someone willing to write a form letter? See blog post - mtstudent
  • This CAN be successful! This is the best way - (sm) - Typingperson
  • I think this is a noble cause/effort but it will - not be effective or successful.
  • I'm ready to sign! But when I cut & paste it to my browser, - Typingperson
    • Never mind .... I changed browsers & it worked. - Typingperson
    • electronically sign - just click the button - no message
  • What an incredibly fruitless effort. People, you need to realize - that it's too late. (sm)
    • Well then just crawl back in your hole and do that. nm - We're not quitters.
    • And we wonder why we've let this happen? It's because of - the "just give up" attitude.
      • But, you've already let it happen, so it's too late now. - Nothing you do is going to (sm)
        • If it's "too late", why do you even bother to post? nm - and what do YOU care?
      • EXACTLY - it'll never affect me mentality. - mdlfcrs
        • Actually, I was ready to do this same thing - (sm) - Typingperson
    • just do it - no message
  • Concerned MT - sm
  • RE: Petition - ML
  • I signed, did not donate - THANK YOU!
  • Petition - ERMT/Oncology MT2
  • I signed and didn't pay. Just arrowed back. - nm
  • I signed and sent the link to everyone I know - mg
  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROTECTING PERSONAL DATA - MTness
  • I would sign....but - SmallMTSO
    • That's optional, NOT mandatory! nm - Typingperson
    • No fee; it is free - MT
    • donation is voluntary...I did not pay either. nm - nn
      • Don't donate! - MT
      • Looked mandatory to me... - SmallMTSO
        • LOL - MT
          • I thought only snail mail letters were noticed? - mtstudent
            • That can come later... this gets the word out to the (sm) - Typingperson
              • The difference: Doctors are not always the - client agreeing to offshoring.
                • But if people let their docs know THEY don't want it - sm - Typingperson
                  • Do you really think people are going to switch - Truly asking here
                    • The result of MTs' efforts to make a living wage are (sm) - ALREADY disappointing.
                      • Haha...well said! - TM

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Some companies will verify that you aren't 10 minutes late connecting to their system and downloading from the pool, etc.

I signed the petition because I know firsthand how outsourcing has affected my job.  I have lost over 5 accounts and losing my last one due to India.  I have just been offered a position to go back in my field of billing that I did 12 years prior to the four I have done in transcription.  I am not at all eager to go back into the office, but I have no choice.  This field was wonderful four years ago with so much work that my head spin, but now there is nothing all because of Nationals and outsourcing because they- DR- saw a cheap way out thinking that this was better.  In fact, from what I hear, it is worse with all the editing.  Such a shame this field has gone to the DOGS!!

her medical info being leaked to gossip papers.  A question was raised about this on the Gab Board under 'Question about med records, privacy and the law"  and explains the issue in a little more detail. 

I received this from my sister, please pass it on. It is very important. It may not be LEGAL, but it is important... just click on the link, then click on the sign petition...let's make our voices heard on this issue...please also pass it on...

Mastectomy Bill in Congress:
It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important...please take
the time and do it really quick!

Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all
women.

Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there was ever
a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those
times. If you are receiving this it's because I think you will take the
30 seconds to go and vote on this issue and send it on to others you know
who will do the same.

There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which
will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital
stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the
"drive-through mastectomy" where women are forced to go home hours after
surgery against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia
and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a
petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House
signed on.

PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You
need not give more than your name and zip code number.
 http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html

I wrote to an official in office, a few days ago, about out-sourcing.  Trust me there are many concerned people who do not know about personal information going off United States soil.  Anyway, here is the response I received back just today.  MTs, we have to stick together and stay strong on this one!  There may be hope yet.

Greetings,  Thanks for taking the time to contact me regarding your concerns about out-sourcing medical records beyond our country's borders.  I appreciate you bringing this important issue to my attention.  I will forward your very valid concerns for consideration. We have a responsibility to protect personal information and medical records.  So many loopholes!!!!!  Thank you again and have a Happy and Holy Easter Season.  Mauree G.

She also sent me a second E-mail asking that we keep this topic alive in our field.  We can do this.  Yes we can!  Write to your state representatives.  Trust me they don't know what is going on, but they do listen.  I pointed out that if we work from home in the U.S. that we also save our earth.  We are not using gas to travel to other jobs, ect.  There are many, many valid issues here.  Just take a few minutes and type out a quick note to your representatives. 

http://www.petitiononline.com/GOKAYSAR/petition.html

Two Border State Governors Declare Illegal Immigration State of Emergency

SIGN THE PETITION!
CLICK HERE!

THANK YOU!

Sign petition and letters to Representatives and President.

http://www.billing-coding.com/forum/read_thread.cfm?ForumID=8&ThreadID=11607&Thread=2506

Anyone know what this means. It comes up every time Istart up computer.  Did a Google on it and cannot find anything  TIA.

you know into signing up.  I felt like a snake oil huckster.  I hated it.  I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money. 

RUN, do not walk away!  I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!)  Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing.  Then make a business out of it.  That's the best way to have a side business.  Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar?  Not so much. 

I wouldn't be surprised if I've worked for the same company you work for.  I refuse to spend hours looking for something that may be near, if not impossible, to find.  The company and the dictator must have some responsibility for names and demographic information. IMHO we are paid to know what goes in between the demographics and the signature.  You have 2 choices here:  1)  Move on to another company that understands the concept of medical transcription or 2) If the problem is difficult dictators, take the time to learn them and become proficient in doing them.  Once you've mastered that, you'll be surprised that your production will actually increase as most of them have a pretty limited vocabular and they are likely to say the same thing over and over.  Save a copy of everything you can like the ROS and PE in a macro or your word expander and each time you do them  you will pick up a word or 2 until pretty soon you'll have the whole thing down pat and can just edit it for any changes.  Of course if you're lucky your QA will send you a copy of the report with the filled in blanks but don't necessarily expect it even if you ask for it.

Hang in there.  You can control your paycheck,  you just have to be willing to do whatever it takes even if it means finding another employer.

Which is not Holy Grail 

ANESTHESIA:  Intravenous sedation in the form of 50 mg of Demerol and 75 mcg of fentanyl

all we have to do is convert our massive growth of corn in this country into fuel.......and then we wouldn't have to tear up the Pacific NW-Alaska territories and then we wouldn't be so DANGED DEPENDENT on the MIDDLE EAST for oil.......

I also think Canada has a ton of oil and they are our friends - we should be doing far more oil business with Canada - where our dollar is better than theirs - and give them more business than we do now.

CORN is a surplus in this country........and can continue to be.

He'll live longer.

It works for me.  There is a time after you hit return and the next job appears, so I use that dead space for pressing my lever. Whatever works for you, works. The only time it really wastes is when I have to stop and reload the money counter, but that only happens about 6 to 7 times per shift.

I don't know about a key board, but I know my ergonomic/split keyboard is a lifesaver in keeping my wrists at a more natural angle. 

When, my arthritis flares, I take 1 cup hot drinkable water and add 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar and 1 tablespoon honey and drink it down 3 times a day.  It honestly helps with arthritis.  Or, I will take 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar and put in grape juice which also helps.