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Okay: I have a problem with my cat and his litter box. Someone please help! - Posted By: sm

He's a good kitty. He's a big kitty. Actually, he's a 27-pound kitty and he's not but about 2 pounds overweight! BIGGGG KITTY!

He's always been great about his litter box. Lately, however, he seems to be missing it (it has a lid or housing on it). So, I've been watching. Doggone it! He is leaving his whole back 2 legs OUT!!! He crawls in head first, and then DOES HIS BUSINESS RIGHT THERE ON THE MAT!!!

He crawls out after scratching around a bit in the litter and then sniffs on his business on the matt and scratches the mat and the floor!!!

WHAT?!?! HOW do I get this cat to get his butt into the litter box? Same litter box - no problems before. Just suddenly seems to like leaving his behind out!!!

I'm exhausted!

Seeking accounts (sm) - Posted By: midwestMT

Edited by Moderator.

We do not allow employment/client-seeking posts.

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Is DocQScribe the same thing - sm - Posted By: wondering

as WebCorrect?

Meditech Users - Posted By: pauline

Help!!!! Question for IC MTs who use Meditech currently. I need to get another

"Medical/Pharmacological Spellchecker. What do some of you have and use right now?

I work PT for this hospital but and the only spellchecker they have on Meditech is called this: Proximity Merriam-Webster Database Dictionary. It does not have drugs on it per say.

Bought a Stedmans but now people tell me that will not work and I have not tried it yet. I do have PCShorthand but there are no drugs on it either.

Does anyone know what would work? Thanks

lost my address bar - Posted By: ER MT

I can't seem to get it back! I have windows XP. I've played around with the toolbars but I can't find my address bar!

Any help would be appreciated for this technically challenged MT.

Wasn't there a post on here about letting companies having you banking information - Posted By: should we beware of this?

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Question for Rad MTs.... - Posted By: Emma

In your opinion what is the most popular method in which clinic Radiologists dictate.....handheld recorder, over the phone or through PC.

Thanks!!!

Working for a national, do you ever feel you can't ask for - Posted By: ICMT

an increase in pay because you're concerned you'll price yourself right out of a job?

I make 9 cents a line IC. I get my line count pumped up to where I want by hard work on the accounts I'm working. I get pretty efficient in that account and then I get pushed to different work where I have to start all over again and work really hard to make a decent line count. It's seemed to happen again, so I'm thinking about requesting a pay increase but then I start thinking that I'm already at a "better than most" pay from what I've seen posted here and elsewhere. What do you think? I'm interested in opinions if anyone will share. Thanks.

Need some help sending a Word file by e-mail... - Posted By: MtMom30

We are selling our house and I am trying to send flyers via e-mail...however, I saved the file in Word (2 pictures and basic information, not very big) but it is too big to send via e-mail...is there any other way to save this so I can send the information via e-mail...I tried copying and pasting the document directly into e-mail but the pictures then do not show up..

I usually am able to figure out most things on the computer but I am getting frustrated with this...any help is appreciated...

sigh...another report to add gray to the head - Posted By: critters mom

Doing a psych eval on a patient I really got caught up in, one of those sad cases that can get to you, feelingbad for the family, traumatic brain injury after an MVA, 23 with 1 yr old twins....has not been the same since, hence needed a psych consult on admission. IF I typed this phrase once I typed it 20 times "patient very highly distressed and anxious"....well so was I by the time I spend 45 minutes for 68 lines

...nope, not ESL, but all American good ol boy, must have had a beard, can't figure out what the static & noise was, but noticed when he blew my ear drums out it was there,,,when he strained them, it was'nt..not sure why he felt he had to whisper on parts then break the sound barrier on others

anyway...signed off before another one of HIS reports..geez!

Creating a proposal for services - Posted By: Janell DeMello

I have been asked to submit a proposal for transcription services for a local imaging facility. The dictation is accessed over the internet and the reports are typed directly into their own system. I am a bit sketchy on how to submit a proposal like this. Can anybody provide me with a "sample." I will be hiring additional subcontractors to help me on this account. I have only been employed as an outside contractor on one-site facilities and dont really know all the wording that is needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I need help. Just read this. I need to tell you. - Posted By: NeedSomeone2Listen

I am tired of my life and sometimes get upset that I was ever born. The more I try to do something good for myself the worse I seem to do. The worse and worse I get the more depressed I become. The more depressed I am the more I wish I didn't exist.

I have absolutely no friends, no job and about $8 to my name. I'm hoping to find a buyer for an old paint sprayer I have to pay my electric this month. I have taught myself to eat just one small meal per day to cut back on how much I have to spend on groceries. I live in the dark because I'm afraid of making my electric bill higher. I have wanted to write something like this for a long time because I have nobody to tell it to, but I have been unable to gather the energy to do it until just now.

I made a 1310 on my SAT without studying and forgetting to bring a calculator. I was accepted to one of the state�s most exclusive private universities (I chose not to go) although I never really tried in high school. In working for other people, I was the youngest Customer Service Manager ever at the Wal-Mart I worked at when I was 17. I used to provide telephone tech support for Dell computers and was always one of the top 3 performers week after week out of a total 250 that worked there. I also was an electricians assistant, firefighter/EMT, surgical aide, autopsy assistant, office manager for a 3 physician practice, concrete pumper and flooring installer. On my own, I have owned at 6 businesses and 2 corporations including medical transcription, stock trading and fully organizing, developing, publishing and distributing a classifieds newspaper from offset printers to 12,000 people. I have owned hundreds of domain names and built approximately 100 totally unique websites.

I have visited 3 countries. I have climbed 21,000ft. volcanoes, slept in the Amazon rainforest and learned 3 languages: English, Spanish and American Sign Language. I was married for 5 years and am now awaiting a divorce after my wife and I both cheated on each other because we were both so unhappy with our marriage.

I am 25 years old.

I have always been the "responsible, grown-up young person". When I talk to my family about being depressed, I get told to "lighten up" or told "you're crazy" in a sarcastic way. When I was younger I used to cut my arms just to watch them bleed. I now live in a garage apartment that I have become emotionally attached to. I am afraid of losing it- it's like my best friend. And knowing that each month I don't know how I'm going to pay my $385/month rent really really scares me- not of being homeless, I don't mind that- I'm scared of losing my best friend.

I have never had any close friends on a long term basis. Right now I have none. I always just wanted someone to talk to and because I have nobody, I am left to writing this. I relate better to females and would rather spend time with a female friend than a male friend that I liked equally. I have started drinking every day- not to the point of getting drunk- but every day nonetheless. That makes me scared because my real dad is an alcoholic, his dad was an alcoholic for 20+ years as well as his mother.

I have become so depressed that everything is a chore- typing this is difficult. I used to take 2 showers every day. Now, I only shower if I have to go somewhere which is usually once every 3 days or so. The rest of the time I stay in my apartment with blankets covering all the windows. Taking the trash out has become such a chore that I have 3 weeks of trash piling up but it seems like its only been there for 3 days. I can't go to a doctor to try to get medication because I can't pay for one. I have not been to a doctor in 11 years simply because I can not afford it.

I can't work for people- like a company. I can only work for myself. I get tired quickly and I can't focus on one thing for too long. Besides that, I always seem to learn all there is about a certain "position" and either get bored and have to quit or get pressured to quit because I'm the only one around who wants to do things right and that means more work for the slackers I work with. I think that explains why I've had so many jobs.

I come up with what I think are great ideas for websites. I buy the domain name and usually have the site done in a day to a week. I have multiple websites ranking in first position in Google because I am also excellent with search engine optimization. I am fluent in four different Internet programming languages: HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CGI/PERL and PHP. I designed a fully HIPAA compliant method of uploading and downloading files, so I created a website for me to offer my medical transcription services last year. Because I still have not received my first client (and all I really need is just one), I recently started offering search engine optimization services to people as a means for income. I really enjoy it and I am excellent at it. On the side, I have also designed about 10 "automated" websites that earn commission through affiliate ads and products. In the last three months, I have received 115,000 unique visitors to my websites, received thousands of affiliate ad clicks/referrals and have made a total online income of $12.81. The only way I slip by with my rent money the day before its due is by selling things I own, but I'm running out of things quickly.

I don't know what it is about me. I can't seem to make any money. There are a ton of other people out there who know nothing about building websites, Internet marketing, etc. and make a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month online! I do the same thing and earn nothing. I build websites, try to get them to work for me and don't make a penny. I sell the website for like $25 because I need the money and the new owner starts making money from it. I only have a need to make $900 per month. That pays all of my bills and groceries. Anything over $900 is just extra I can save for a rainy day. I don't know anyone whose needs are so low and I STILL can't seem to get by even though I sit online for literally 18 hours a day 7 days a week.

I'm about to give up on everything because giving up is easier- you don't have to deal with the disappointment of failure. I'm just tired of everything. I don't want to be here. I wish I had some way to pay my bills then I could just sit in my apartment and be left alone- that's all I want. Sometimes I wish I could get professional help but then I would have to find a way to pay for a doctor, which is impossible anyway. I would have to tell someone and it scares me that someone would think I'm a "risk to myself or others" and take me away from here- my apartment, my best friend.

How's your work load going Monday, January 9? - Posted By: Good, bad or UGLY?

Just wondering if we are all in the same boat, sinking because of India oursourcing.

Does anyone have any good ideas for back and hip pain from sitting all day? Anything on the market? - Posted By: Hips-a-bustin'

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

C-Phone Problem - Posted By: Carol

I am trying to set up a c-phone which seems easy enough but -- I hook everything up and I get no dial tone and no display on the phone. The company sent me a new power supply but still nothing. I have checked and rechecked all connections and still nothing. I can only think at this point that it is the c-phone itself but I am not a technical wizard so if anyone has had this issue or has any ideas - please help. I really want to get started working and this is so frustrating. I have read the manual and done all that was suggested but I am open to suggestions. Thanks.

New Rules For The Office - Posted By: Effective Immediately!

New Rules For The Office - Effective Immediately!

SICK DAYS: We will no longer accept a doctor statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

SURGERY: Operations are now banned. As long as you are an employee here, you need all your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed constitutes a breach ofemployment.

DRESS CODE: It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary,if we see you wearing $350 Prada sneakers & carrying a $600 Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore you do not need a raise.

PERSONAL DAYS: Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday & Sunday.

VACATION DAYS: All employees will take their vacation at the same time every year. The vacation days are as follows: Jan. 1, July 4 & Dec. 25

BEREAVEMENT LEAVE: This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives or coworkers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees attend to the arrangements. In rare cases where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hourearly, provided your share of the work is done enough.

OUT FROM YOUR OWN DEATH: This will be accepted as an excuse. However, we require at least two weeks motice as it is your duty to train your own replacement.

RESTROOM USE: Entirely too much time is being spent in the restroom. In the future, we will follow the practice of going in alphabetical order. For instance, all employees whose names begin with 'A will go from8 to 8:20, employees whose names begin with 'B' will go from 8:20to 8:40 and so on. If you're unable to go at your allotted time, it will be necessary to wait until the next day when your turn comes again. In extreme emergencies employees may swap their timewith a coworker. Both employees' supervisors in writing must approve this exchange.

LUNCH BREAK: Skinny people get an hour for lunch as they need to eat more so that they can look healthy, normal size people get 30 minutes for lunch to get a balance meal to maintain their average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes for lunch because that's all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast & take a diet pill.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience.

Have a nice week.

Searching, searching, name of ortho book w/stripe - Posted By: Western gal

I know I wrote it down twice off this site and cannot find it. The ortho/neurology? book with the stripe on the cover?

Thanks in advance!

What if MTSO doesn't send me 1099? - Posted By: NMT

I don't think she will send one any time soon. Last year I had to send her all the invoices I did for her to tally them up for her to send me a 1099. I don't work for her anymore. It's her responsibility to maintain records on her MTs, so I'm not doing that this year.

Is there something I can do to at least account for the money but let IRS know I didn't get a 1099 from her?

Work? - Posted By: EMPTYMT

Anyone working for Allegiant Transcription consistently running out of work? I am assigned to 4 accounts, which are fantastic accounts, the dictators are clear and concise, but I cannot get more than 1000 lines per week.

Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem.

TO: MTinNC sm - Posted By: MT since 1979

I can't remember who I have talked to and who I haven't, but where in NC are you? I have had several people send me e-mails from right around where I live. One girl lives right aorund the corner from me! Too weird. Yes it is high here. I have been here 23 years this week and I cannot believe how high it is and the wages don't match the living costs. I know if it weren't for MT.........back in the day when it was good, we couldn't probably have afforded a decent house! But Asheville is high and getting higher. Can't afford to move now after being in our house 22 1/2 years. All these multimillion dollar Mcmanions and I don't know who is going to be buying them. They are ruining the mountains!

Did they ever give away the 3rd - Posted By: Scavenger hunt or did I miss it? nm

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can't seem to reply to one space or two ... - Posted By: California

I recently made the switch from two spaces to one space after punctuation (periods, colons, question marks). It wasn't forced on me by any means but I just felt the desire to come around in the "computer age." The standard of two spaces after periods came about with the typewriter, but now with the computer, spacing seems to look nicer with one after a period, and that seems to be the trend these days, the one space. I'm glad I made the switch as it is sure saving my thumb from tendinitis!

That being said, I get paid by the gross line, so cutting out a space here and there doesn't hurt my livelihood.

Expander question.... - Posted By: Olive Oyl

I use ShortHand and for the life of me I cannot remember how to bold a heading. I used to do and I know you do it from the Tags but I don't remember how you turn bold on and off. I thought you just chose control B but that sure doesn't work. Anyone out there willing to help a Shorthand idiot out with this prblem? Sure hope so...it's driving me bonkers!

extra money on the side - Posted By: why was this erased?

My hands kill me just about every day now, and looking at my hands i have muscle breakdown and twitching, so i'd like to cut down on typing. Want to find something to do on the side to earn maybe 1000 to 1500 dollars a month. Was thinking about ebay, but i'm doubtful I could make that much, even though they hype up the advertisement by saying you could make 3000 MINIMUM. I'm just desperate and feel like my hands are about to fall off. I've spent close to 1000$ this year alone in keyboards, gloves, splints, doc visits, meds, changed my station around, hot soaks, cold soaks, exercises, stretches, vitamins. still my hands just sing every day esp at night. So any extra money earning ideas you guys? thanks

Long distance and a Dictaphone - Posted By: Carla

Hi everyone,

This past November I started working for a company that uses C-phone Dictaphones instead of internet files. My long distance carrier Embarq canceled my unlimited long distance with them because I was using it to call a dictation line which is against their policies apparently. I am now paying 7 cents a minute to call in for my dictations. My question to everyone is has anyone else had this problem and who would you recommend for unlimited phone service? I live in a very remote area that does not offer cable, etc and there really are no other telephone providers except Embarq. Does VOIP services such as Vonage work for calling a dictation line with a C-phone?

Any suggestions would be great! I am in desperate need of unlimited long distance

would like CMT prep materials - Posted By: joJOgal

Hi everyone... how can I obtain some CMT prep workbooks, CDs, etc? I bought the self-assessment tool of 60 questions ... but I'd like to follow-up on this. Any leads for me ? Thanks ! Jojo

Instant Text override - Posted By: rrecycled

Is there one key on the keyboard that will override ANY pre-programming that was done by me or the setup by IT??

AAMT BOS second edition-sm - Posted By: Lucy

Does anyone have this for sale for a reasonable price or know where I can purchase it for a reasonable price? Thanks in advance.

Just was looking at another MT site and MTs from MQ are talking about getting emails from the - Posted By: MQMT

supervisor threatening them to hire more MTs if the accounts arent kept in TAT and they are sitting there with no work. I think MQ must be so desperate anymore that they are losing their minds. They must work for Amherst also. They keep hiring and hiring and if the weekend has one report out of TAT they hire more people. These companies are losing it I am afraid. I wonder if MQ is losing more accounts that they are doing this.

what keyboard would best help with arthritis in my long fingers and wrists - Posted By: hurting_but_still_going

Doc says I do not have carpal tunnel syndrome or cubital tunnel syndrome, I have osteoarthritis. Most painful in the long fingers and the wrists of both hands. I have tried the ergonomic keyboard and just can't seem to adjust. I do use the A-style keyboard layout and love it. Anyone have one they use that is not as abusive to the arthritis. Thanks in advance.

I have a small C-phone with - Posted By: C-PHONE AUTO BACKUP

just the two dials and keypad. I desperately need to know how to adjust the auto backup to rewind when I hit "play" for 3 seconds. Contact administor was what Executive Communicative Services said but their C-phone looks like a telephone. You know what I mean.

Help - I have a doctor who is so very difficult I am about to go crazy. I am not kidding. Seriously. I am swearing up a storm here.

For anyone who has ever done direct deposit, why does it sometimes come right away in the morning an - Posted By: countryMT

odd but I have never done DD so dont really understand how it is routed through the fed and the bank.

Remote 008Keylogger found constantly on my spyware. - Posted By: ShouldIBECONCERNED

Everytime I log onto the server for the company I work for I run my spyware. Everytime I open a job lately I have re-run my spyware and it seems to me that "008remote keylogger" is constantly on my PC. This spyware enables the "server" to see everything I type, every email, and where I go on my internet. Would anyone else be concerned?

Has anyone ever worked for a temp agency? sm - Posted By: CCRider

I am thinking of working for a temp agency for extra income. I am trying to find out what kind of testing do they do.

Anyone use Cox Communications for unlimited long distance? Just wondering how their service is. - Posted By: sm

There aren't too many reasonable choices here in the Midwest, unless you know of some out there. Thanks for the input!

Good Luck Keeping Your Job at Heartland!!! - Posted By: SickOfHIS

I think I have had enough! Yes, I admit, I currently work for Heartland and truly thought they wanted a domestic team. I didn't think much of the managment changes and truly thought we (domestic MT team) would be okay even if HIS was sold, well think AGAIN!

We are being fed a load of crap from the new President (Dennis Paulik)!! The below was sent to me annoynomously. I think that all US-based MTs for HIS should up and leave! Why wait, obviously, he has "other" intentions that don't include us - the USA TEAM!!!!!!

Heartland Information Services, Toledo, Ohio, which employs 1,400 to 1,500 foreign transcriptionists in three cities of India, may help explain why. Dennis Paulik, Heartland's vice president of sales and marketing, says that HIPAA standards are applied to all transactions, including anything outsourced. The company leases private, transoceanic lines, so all transactions are encrypted from the time the information leaves the hospital, to the moment it is dispatched from Heartland's U.S. offices to a transcription center in India, until processing is complete and the medical transcript goes back to the hospital.

Paulik says he hears time and again that there aren't enough U.S. transcriptionists, and that those who do still work here are an aging population--the average trained American transcriptionist's age, he says, is about 59 years. It's one reason his company was formed, he says.

"You're going to have a growing need, and fewer transcriptionists," Paulik says. "It reinforces that point that people have just got to go overseas."

To Patti - Posted By: nn

I know you are busy and I don't want to interrupt you, but you are so knowledgeable about tax questions and I thought maybe you could help me, somehow. If you could possibly email me, I would really appreciate it, as I do not want to divulge personal tax info on this site. thanks so much. When you have time, of course.

VPEDAL AND GEAR PLAYER - Posted By: Tina

Help plz.. does anyone use the VPedal (from Career Step) and use it with Gear Player? I can get it to work with Express Scribe, but not Gear Player. It it even compatible? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks!

Stuck adding dictionary - Posted By: Jake

I've downloaded Stedmans 6.0 to Word (program files) and am attempting to add the dictionary for spell check. I can locate the file but when I try to add a file name, I get hung up. I'm sure the problem lies in the file name, either the original download or my efforts to add the dic. I would very much appreciate an assist, pulling my hair out. TIA - I have googled extensively and followed the instructions but I am missing something here.

Need to get a new PC monitor, need opinions - Posted By: PA MT

Anyone with flat panels, how do you like them? Any problems with them?

Do your docs talk 2U? - Posted By: kyradmt

I have one doctor who, when she wants to correct something or other always says "This is an aside to the typist." ARGH. I feel like I'm in a Shakespeare play or something - don't those have a lot of "asides"? I always want to scream at her "Don't you know I'm not a TYPIST?? I'M A MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST, DAMN IT!!!!" Of course she's 80 or something so I shall forever be "the typist" to her.

I have a resident who always says "For transcriptionist, would you...." to get my attention - but when he was new I thought he was saying "Poor transcriptionist..." I always nodded my head in sad agreement until I realized what he was actually saying....

And then there's the doc who loves to complain about his job to me, sometimes in great detail - "Here I sit, waiting for some x-rays to come in so I can make a buck" and "I cannot believe this hospital."

They crack me up!

to the transcriptionists who felt that a criminal background check was a violation - sm - Posted By: kg

you will notice that some of the jobs posted on the job seeker's board require a CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK!!! What do you think of that? Still think it's a violation of your privacy?

Opinion on laptops.....sm - Posted By: 2teens

Would anybody mind telling me which type of laptop pc they prefer....Toshiba vs. HP, type of processor etc. that they prefer ex.AMD, core duo etc. Considering getting myself one but there are so many out there with so many different specs it is getting quite confusing. You are welcome to e-mail if you wish. I would appreicate any input that I can get to help sort it all out.

Thank you so much......

How about a "What's for Breakfast" Post? - Posted By: Mmmmmm good

Coffee, gotta have coffee...that's about it lately! B O R I N G !

To Take or Not to Take - Posted By: Tinkerbell

What are your opinions on an MT job where I would likely be learning a lot of new accounts regularly and dealing with numerous dictators on a regluar basis? I am a newbie and need the work but am nervous about being able to make any money that way.

New Logitech Wave Keyboard...anyone have this?? - Posted By: MtMom30

I am interested to see if anyone has used this keyboard yet...thanks...

For all Big Brother tv fans. On Wednesday - Posted By: Just me

night at 8 p.m. the all star show will start. They will be announcing 20 old candidates total, a few contestants from each year. We get to vote on who we want in the house when it starts in July.

Zip drive discs - help with corrupted disc - Posted By: MTSO

Anyone know of any tricks to get into a zip drive disk that desn't want to open up? I put the disc into the zip drive and try to open, but it keeps telling me disc not formatted. I have a lot of files in the disc that I need. I may have over filled it. I'm hoping there is a magic way to get into the disc somehow so I can retrieve the files in it.

Help! Need teen halloween custome ideas?? anyone? nm - Posted By: TXMT

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