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Posted By: MQx4 on 2005-10-10
In Reply to: I love it too - love doing my nails 5 hours a day and staying awake - Centralized charts, dictation,

DocQscribe went down like that, so get over it. It was a pain, yes, but it is up and running now. Name one other time that this has happened. If it takes you 5 hours to do your nails, then you must have some pretty nasty, funky thick nails.


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