text/IM messages have to be deciphered and analyzed

• You know you're an MT when.... - finish this sentence
  • . - LGT
  • MT when - kh
  • text/IM messages have to be deciphered and analyzed - nee
  • you ask all your friends to email you rather than call. nm - txmt
  • After years of typing, you can no longer read your own handwriting. nm - wmx
  • you get irritated because you can't spell check your handwritten letters - me
  • You teach your 3 y/o daughter abdominal anatomy on the chart in the doc's ofc while waiting...nm - Oh yeah
  • you proofread all business letters you receive in the mail and have fits over the errors! LOL (nm) - Sandi
  • you don't really listen to people because you figure you'll - rewind them and listen later.
    • I actually asked my MD the other day do dictate his corrections instead of handwriting them in. - Yes!
  • You go to other internet boards and think everyone - from Montana is a medical transcriptionist.
    • I don't get it. Are you from Montana or something? - MT
      • LOL. - No.
        • MT is abbreviation for Montana - LOL
  • You talk about medical bloopers at a party - and you're the only one laughing - nm
  • dropping everything you pick up... - when things go flying out of your hands...
  • You know you are a transcriptionist - your keyboard has no letters on it!
  • You charge your kids to proof read their homework. - nm
    • Per line (nm) - Who me?
  • You start a letter to Norman - Dear Normal:
  • you cnanot spell unless you are typing or faking it in the air - dls
    • OMG...yep! Air typing!!! it's like - air guitar
  • When a friend asks how you are today you reply "Oh, I'm feeling within normal limits." - RadGuy
    • Or after a boring weekend when working at a hospital someone asks "How was your weekend?" and - answer "Uhhh, atraumatic." actually did thi
    • In no acute distress (NM) - Who me?
      • Mood and affect are normal - rofl at these
  • You know you're an MT when - sienna
  • this has to be my favorite post ever...keep 'em coming! ROFL...(no message) - MTbuster
  • You know when your 7-year-old can spell (and locate) the pancreas. nm - I knew
  • When you play Balderdash and can fool everyone with your definitions. - LOL
  • When someone says the pie you served is "exquisite" and in my mind - tigger
  • PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - Ask your friends if they can spell this!
    • I can't even spell that! LOL - Sheeeeesh
    • Yikes!!! - LOL
  • When somebody states they got 'novocaine' at the dentist and you know its an archaic term. - Miss Know-It-All
  • Your own physician tells you that you know too much. nm - mlstoo
  • You're typing a recipe to email someone and put... - mix together in a large bowel. nm
  • OMG...these are hilarious...I think it's safe to say we all have - medical transcriptionosis?
  • you never type don't or can't but only do not and cannot etc...lol - silly ol me
  • And how about, "My turbinates are boggy" - omt
  • My favorite, but I'm stealing this one from awhile ago - omt
    • On the same theme, you've done so many ESLs that you can understand (& interpret for family or - Nyuk nyuk
  • When your family calls you wanting medical advice. - If you can spell it, you are as smart as the MD.
  • When you fall down a flight of steps and announce, "I have eccymosis over the lateral malleolus.& - Self diagnosed
    • Me too. - mtathome
  • You proof read signs and get irritated when there are mistakes. - NM
  • You correct others' spelling and get jumped on - nm
  • You spell it "hurricaine"...nm - MT2
    • So that's why I do that!!!! LOL... nm - perfectionist transcriptionist
  • ...your E-mails have to have proper English and punctuation. - I don't feel comfortable using LOL!
    • and you proof read IMs too - Not alone
  • Your son develops a rash and a fever and you swear he has Scarlet Fever! nm - Dancin Shoes
    • Glad I'm not the only one.. My kids have had cystic fibrosis, leukemia, mono, and bone cancer. - All in my imagination of course. nm
      • How about yourself? I type a report on some horrible disease and think "Hey, I think I have that. - Hypochondriacs R Us
        • I typed so many stomach cancer reports that I swore I had it. - tell me about it!
  • When your 5-y/o knows the location of his popliteal and antecubital fossae (nm) - MadamX
  • You ask your know-it-all friend if he can spell esophagogastroduodenoscopy. nm - T
    • Say "I'm having a MedQuist Moment" instead of "Maalox." - RadGuy
    • which your 6yo child can spell (& who loves to hit egdy for you - to see it expand) nm
  • Your emails don't make sense - cause of all the shortcuts!
    • LOL!!!!!!!! - I've nearly done this!
      • I do it contantly on Chat room, IMs - LOL
  • you actually use the word "grossly "in - a sentence
    • You know "prophylactic" doesn't necessarily mean condom. NM - Endiqua
      • You swear to never have another surgery sm - mlstoo
        • and you know the mistakes that happen - I am sworn off
  • You step on someone's foot to get them to repeat what they said if you didn't hear them the - JoH
    • people speak and you see the words spelled out in your mind... - poopie
    • Oh.. I Love that!!! ROTFLM.... lol.. nm - You all are hysterical!!
    • Very funny! (nm) - Who me?
  • typing pleural when you mean plural - How many times has this happened?
    • haven't done that one right in years - me too
  • You sit on the cough. :) - MT
    • The patient was prepped and raped...nm - MTsquared
      • that you do not use an expander when you work. - dead give away

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I really appreciate you all taking the time to give me some insight.  I'm going to hang in there.  The one poster was right--I do have PTSD from my old job who stressed me continously about firing me!  Sigh..that was a horrible experience and I'm still burned from that.  I had never gone through anything like that before.  Every job I've ever had, I excelled with it. Well again, THANK YOU! 

I'm still interested.  Thanks.

I think I'm getting my first contract that I solicited myself, so bear with me.  Does Outlook or Outlook Express have features where I can safely send emails back to the doc with the transcriptions, or do I need a stand-alone product for HIPAA compliance? 

Thanks! 

about ESL. I will not post nasty mesages about ESLs. I will not post nasty messages about ESL.

Okay, done. I did not post a nasty message about ESLs.

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I always thought that was hilarious.  Some of these doctors are so transparent in the tone of voice and when you get their reports over and over, you can almost tell by their choice of words (and the background conversation when flirting with the nurses) that they're chauvinistics going through middle-age crisis.  Can you see it:

HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS:   The patient is an elderly 45-year-old female (I only go for young blondes) who is here complaining (I hate whiners) of a migraine headache that has waxed and waned over the past 2 days (must be that time of the month).

PAST MEDICAL HISTORY:  Hypertension, migraine headaches, fibromyalgia (did I say I hate whiners?).

MEDICATIONS:  None.

ALLERGIES: None.

SOCIAL HISTORY:  The patient is currently employed as a secretary,is married (how does her husband put up with it), and currently lives in ___. 

FAMILY HISTORY:  No history of CVA or TIA.  Positive history for coronary artery disease, migraine headaches, and anxiety (now I see where the whining comes from).

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION:  Vital signs:  Temperature 98.6 degrees, heart rate 72, blood pressure 110/65, respirations 20.  Weight is 140 lbs (whatta cow).  GENERAL APPEARANCE:  This is an obese female, well-nourished (obviously) who appears her stated age (not Jessica Simpson by a long shot). HEENT: Face is symmetric (including both of her chins).  PERLA, EOMI. No nystagmus. NECK: Supple (I hate having to say supple when it's as flabby as this one).  No tenderness.  LUNGS: Clear to auscultation.  BREASTS: Symmetrical.  No masses (Not bad for an old woman). ABDOMEN:  (Ughhhhhhhhhh) Obese, flabby, nontender.

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.  When you hear these dictators over and over with such obvious distaste in their voices you wonder if the patients sense it or if they put on such a good act that the patients don't even realize.

a little hard to follow your message

Once again, it seems that you could ask all 10,000 strong we are supposed to be and probably get 10,000 different answers to what MQ pays/does not pay for, BECAUSE, there just is no consistency across the board and different management give different answers to all of these questions. 

Just like the DQS manual, there SHOULD be a one for all/all for one manual with rules, etc set in stone..just not the multiple language instructions like we see in any manual these days....enough of that going through my brain right now

one of your My Documents files in your PC just plain VANISH?  I had a spelling reference file I'd built over many months just plain disappear, except for just a couple of lines.  It's so WEIRD!  I've done a search of the hard drive, checked the Recycle Bin, etc.  But it's nowhere to be found. I hadn't backed it up because it was still a relatively new file for me, and there was more I wanted to add to it first.

So my question is this:  Is there a way to retrieve or restore an apparently "lost" file? 

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