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Posted By: EmmaMT on 2005-11-12
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Somebody posted a couple of weeks ago some Web addresses for other forums and they have a Medquist forum there that is password protected. Wanted to check it out.


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    You left there for whatever reason. You take delight in the
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    reason I left graphic work...
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    All the stuff along the left hand side disappeared. How do I get that back.
    :
    There must be a reason or many why you left your graphic design job after being at it for so long..s
    and why you chose to go into MT. Actually 5 years may not be long enough to have the experience needed to make as much money as you can or maybe the MT company you work for may not be the best fit for you. With all your other variables (gas, comute, disabled husband who likes you to be home) you may want to reconsider where you are with your current MT job and try to find ways to be more productive (like more experience, word expander, different company, different work type, working for a specified period and then taking a break, etc). I have been an MT for 30 years and while it has its pros and cons, for me the pros outweigh the cons. You will just have to decide what works best for you. Good luck in whatever you decide.
    Just hit Alt+Shift+left arrow on line 1 and it will go to the left margin. Otherwise,
    you need to use a numbered list style to do it every time. Each version is different, but you may already have a numbered list style in yours that stays at the left margin. Just assign a keyboard shortcut to that style.
    I think I smell either VR on the easy stuff, or offshoring of the easy stuff.
    d
    stuff
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    QA stuff
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    I'd tell them to stuff it, but that's just me
    Sick of the way the companies refuse to let the facilities or the physicians know when they're just being ridiculous and take it out on us because we're "nobody important."
    Do not buy from the(right)stuff
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    Congratulations! Let us know how you like it after you get a few days under your belt.
    I do all that stuff too. But sometimes you just don't
    Even more often, you don't always get the CORRECT results. Then you end up having to do research on the research. Sort of like looking into a succession of never-ending mirrors.
    There's a way to get around all that stuff -
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    crock pot stuff, one more
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    Maybe some, but I do. However, I have MTs that don't and GUESS at stuff.
    c
    Yesterday and all the other old stuff.
    Not to worry.  No depression here.  I just think it's a beautiful song.
    All the original stuff. nm
    nm
    thank you. This MD always says goofy stuff
    sigh
    especially when there's only bad stuff to show
    I noticed that Shepard Smith on Fox (not considered a liberal news outlet) was not especially impressed with the government response to the disaster. He was desperately begging for help for people stranded for days on a bridge.
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    The funniest stuff????? Please!

    Apparently a schizophrenic patient (frankie boy and my goodness obviously same person talking to self) has escaped the mental institution and wound up on this board!  Can the administrator please delete this nonsense and ban Frankie Boy - my goodness!


    This seriously is the funniest stuff
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    weird stuff
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    Sometimes stuff just happens and you need to move on
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    Shorthand stuff
    I appreciate the hints on SH too; 100 years ago, I took actual Gregg shorthand. When I got PRD+ I never typed numbers and used PRD's suggestions.
    j - shun sound (tion) hosj = hospitalilzation
    s = pleural (fts = feet) singular = ft
    g = ing (ugg = undergoing)
    d= past tense = (presd = presented)
    ly = ally or ly ending (bll = bilaterally).
    os = ostomy
    ec = ectomy
    ot - otomy
    isis = used for words ending is iasis or isis
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    To expand an abbrev. I just double the end letter of the abbreviation and don't use a - as sugesstedin PRD+

    I've always used the first 3 or 4 letters and added whatever the ending was. I was always taught that # required to much fumbling around as well as other characters, so I avoid them

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    Call him. Tell him come on, help you get your stuff.
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    Lots of stuff - sm
    powdered drink mixes (PowerAde, Gatorade, KoolAid if it is presweetened.)

    Gum.
    Hard candies.
    Decks of cards (I also sent a book with about 1000 card games in it.)

    Dental floss.
    Toothbrushes.

    Magazines (nothing
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    Hometown newspapers
    DVDs (most units now have DVD players for R&R)
    Journals and pens/pencils

    The most popular item was Baby Wipes. The dust and sand get into everything.

    Basically you can send just about anything except...
    No glass containers.
    Nothing of a religious nature (bibles, etc...)
    Nothing of a pornographic nature.

    Someone said they sent jerky. We weren't allowed to send even that when my son was there. It was also considered offensive to their "host" country (Iraq.)



    Yes, especially when it's all "nitpicky" stuff. It's almost like they (sm)
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    Yep, they spell out that stuff...
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    Thanks to MTStars and MT-Stuff

    I just received my mouse pad from MT-Stuff.  Thanks to MTStars and MT-Stuff for the great recognition of Medical Transcription Week.  It was great.  I usualy have no luck at all so this is truly amazing.


    What is with this jammie stuff?
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    nm
    Really? I keep getting my stuff from them and so far still AAMT...?
    Just wondering when the BIG change is coming..lol
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    Weird stuff
    Years ago when working at a hospital, I typed a report where the doctor dictated that the gentleman was "entertaining himself" with a Real Lemon bottle. Needless to say, he had to be seen in ER. All of us about died on that one, wondering what SIZE Real Lemon bottle he used?
    Sell my own stuff.
    I had to take my site down for a while because I've been too busy but I make soaps, candles, rice socks, bird houses...lots of stuff.
    I'm talking about the one-on-one stuff. sm
    Where on need someone on-site to set it up, configure it, troublesoot, etc.
    what kind of stuff
    is she saying? Can you give an example?
    Definitely no more of this on call stuff!
    It's not worth the stress and anxiety.  You need to take care of yourself. If they won't accommodate, maybe you should look elsewhere for work.  It's more important to be physically and emotionally healthy than earn a few extra bucks.  Keep us posted on they say after receiving your email.  (hugggsss)
    Expander stuff sm
    I don't care for it, but many others swear by it. Expander programs
    are all a bit different and it is different strokes for different folks,
    literally.

    I have used Smartype for years. I have used the same glossary all of
    that time. It runs ONLY in Word and most of the platforms out there do
    not support it and you can't use it.

    I also have a copy of InstanText and I rather like it. I need to fix
    it to incorporate many of my SmarType bad habits, but I am working on
    it.

    I don't put quite as much store in what program one uses as I do the
    size of the glossary. If you only have several hundred shortcuts, you
    are working entirely too hard. I have close to 20,000 of them, and no I
    don't memorize them and yes I use most of that number or they would not
    be there. I am proficient with the way the shortcuts are formatted.
    Honestly, however, 20,000 shortcuts is probably not enough even yet.

    If you need a glossary or want to look at the way others are formatted,
    email me and I'll send you a copy of mine, and I am happy to explain
    the way they are formatted. What I have can be converted to InstanText
    and ShortHand, and certainly already runs in SmarType.

    Work smart, not hard.
    She apparently knows her stuff
    Not to mention, from the sounds of it, she knows the real Sheri. I'm certainly not one to pick up someone else's baton; however, I would be a fool if I dismissed facts presented by well-respected and knowledgeable veterans of the profession.
    I will NOT type that stuff! sm

    I don't think they hear what they say.  The pt, should they ever see the record, WOULD see it. 


    I don't care what verbatim means, I won't do it.  I'll blank it.  Now, sometimes they do say these things as an aside which I don't type either.


    Isn't that like x-rated stuff?

    Tech stuff- Need FTP help. sm
    I have a client that needs to log on via FTP. She is not able to do so, and so I think it's the firewall.

    Is there any way to log on via FTP without changing firewall settings? Would resetting the firewalls help or her shutting the firewall down and then restarting after she logs in help?

    Even when she uses Internet Explorer to log in via FTP, she gets a message and it doesn't allow her to log in.

    I will probably need some sort of software to get in and fix stuff like that. If anyone has recommendations, it would be appreciated.
    Moving big stuff
    Log onto Craigslist for your area and post a notice - you need someone with a truck who is traveling in your direction to take your furniture. If you are near a college, perhaps a student would keep the rocking chair or whatever til the semester ends in May and transport it then - put up notices around your town. Post a Craigslist notice on your destination town's board - just spread the word and someone will step forward to help you out. I got a refrigerator box from Sears one year when we lived in Hawaii and put my rocking chair in that, filled with sheets and blankets to pad it. I taped it like there was no tomorrow. Shipped from Hawaii to British Columbia without a problem.
    I haven't set up a lot of stuff sm

    in word 2003 but I have a question.


    When you put things in Auto Text like a w hole page document or something......is there a quick way using keyboard commands to bring it up into your document.  Kind of like when you use auto correct (word expander), can you use a couple Keystrokes to bring auto tex up for bringing up bigger documents.


    Never have done this before.


    Thanks


     


    I kept trying to tell the manager this same stuff

    I don't work there any more (thank goodness), but I kept trying question things to get to the same point.  The transcription manager looked me in the eye and told me that she had talked to the people at Aria who told her that it was not a Word-based platform and that anything with Word was not compatible.  I knew that was crap because we would cut and paste from Word all the time.  The other part of our problem was that she had spent $5k on Stedman's without making sure it was compatible first (which in our situation it wasn't) and they were waiting for the new budget year to get another expensive piece of the puzzle.  Win-Rho or something like that.  I got so many different variations on the story I lost track of which line of garbage they were feeding at any one time.


    The transcription manager was way too interested in showing her boobs and flirting with the men in the practice and clearly didn't know what the heck she was doing  regarding the software, and the IT people couldn't help her.  I ended up going back home for more $$ than I was being paid in house and happily washed my hands of both the practice and the software.


     


    All this cherry picking stuff LOL
    Could be that those accusing high producers of "cherry picking" might possibly make a better line count if they 1)  Quit trying to find out how many lines their co-workers have typed and 2)  Stay off the boards until they have reached their goal.  I don't think posting to newsgroups pays all that well.  I don't care which company it is, no typing, no money.