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I had a client where I used my regular Word, so I have all my medical shortcuts in there. I no longer have that client but I use Word for other things. I know how to save my custom AutoCorrect, but how do I restore the original AutoCorrect?

If I move my custom one to the C drive for storage, will Word automatically use the default one?

Thanks!

Does anyone have any sources for info on overseas MT jobs?!  I have been Googling but haven't come up with a single MT position in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, or Costa Rica -- only Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Dubai.

Thanks.

Has anyone heard of a trial called Merstamie phonetically spelled for prostatitis, and also a drug called Sinacalsa or Cinacalsa? Thank you

T 1/2 is that how you write it for gastric empyting studies? or T one-half.

Thanks Graham

First, the AAMTOnline site disappears, and now the AMA site is gone.  Does anyone know of another doc finder site where you can search for "sounds like" names?  I know about the WebMD and 411 sites, but I find these very limiting if you don't know the exact spelling of a name.

Hi!  Has anyone heard of this company and have an opinion?  I am looking for a position at home (preferrably Radiology but I can do acute care "kinda") and I am nervous about all the national companies.  I don't know who to trust. I don't know what equipment I must purchase or even  how to set it up!  I worked from home for a local hospital for many years and also 3 years for a service who provided all equipment.  Any advice would be appreciated!

Anyone used the Colorwash on their walls?  What did you think?  I found their website last night and I think I'm going to try it - just wondering if anyone has used the product. 

(It is a color base similar to paint that you mix with water and you apply it with a cloth in a circular fashion.)

TIA

When I need to enter a NEW HEADING, I type it in, then it brings up a new box that says "type in new heading"...I finish typing it, hit OK or whatever, and it puts the new heading in my report.

BUT...it doesn't KEEP The new heading!  ARG!  It stays on the drop down list of headings for THAT REPORT ONLY but then when I do a new report, the new heading never shows up.

What am I doing wrong?  Help!! 

Has this happened to anyone else?  Once you learn an account, get pretty decent lines, making decent money, boom -- your account is switched.  Then, when requesting downtime, oh no, we are not paying downtime, we had to take work from you because of your low QA (up until then QA was 99+ or better) hummmm???  (P.S. I have 22 years experience, not at all new to this game).  I am receiving corrected reports for mistakes in THEIR macros, which I had informed them about and was told to leave them.....???  I was told, "Oh sure, we have LOTS of work, then run out almost daily....

I read a post from an MTSO wondering if there were any good transcriptionsts out there (you bet there are!!), well I am wondering if there are any decent companies left out there.  I have worked for a couple different ones now, seem to me they are all shady characters.  They promise you the moon, then once you are working for them, everything changes.  Nothing is the way they promised!!  Seems like once a Transcriptionist starts making some really good money, they do everyting they can to take it away.  I need to win the lottery!!!  or a new job. 

My 19 yo son can't find his keys and boy, is he upset.  He, dad and I search the house for the keys.  He knows where he put them last night, but they're not there.  I push furniture out, shake all the clothes that he has lying around his room, search and search, along with the others.  Now, 1-1/2 hours later, 1 hour late for work, he finds them.......

in his back pocket behind his wallet.     I'm laughing, of course he's really mad now!

Doc says arthritis in fingers needs a rest from pounding the keys so much.  For those of you that do VR, do you find you have to type as much as when you transcribe all the time.  Too old to change careers and prefer to stay at home, so looking for a different out in the MT vocation. 

Thanks in advance

If you had a choice would you prefer to work hourly or continue to be paid  by the line? What  do you think a skilled (let's say 5 or more years experience) MT is worth by the hour?  

when we work at home. This is *not* a benefit so we can be more comfortable. It's all about the $. They also have a wider labor poor to choose from. They do not have to set up training programs at the community college, hire a trainer, go through MTs in training who quit, with a wider labor pool. I have no idea how much working at home as an IC saves them over working on site and an employee. I'm sure its big $$$ though. Working as a nurse, cna, rt if you give up benefits they usually raise they pay a few dollers per HOUR. 

 Hosptial square footage is usually big $ and they can rent it out to a doctor's office paying rent if MTs are not there!

Many women *need* to work at home. We should not be taken advantage of because of it. We are saving them money, using our own computers, internet, keyboards, paying for our breaks, errands, and office furniture. They should give an incentive to work at home and an even bigger incentive to contract vs work as employee.

I want to buy the Book of Style. That should be simple enough?? I get new editions, old editions, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2nd, 3rd editions, workbook, electronics, unreleased, out of print!!!! AAAH! Could anyone be so kind as to post a link here of the one BOS book I need to get in order to have a good reference as an MT!!! thank you!

Help.     I cannot remember how to change the SPEED (I believe you have to use the keys on the keypad to program in) on the Dictaphone C-phone (the typical gray model 0421).  This dictator is dictating a mile a minute and I can't seem to SLOW HIM DOWN. 

Any help would be MOST APPRECIATED. 

I've been an MT for about 2 years. I started off transcribing for an orthopedic account just doing clinic work at a smaller MT company. I have now been working for Medquist for 2 months and have been put on a multispecialty account that has 12 or more specialties and 3 main accounts, but they keep giving me new accounts. I was under the impression that multispecialty might be 3 specialties for instance. I now know I was wrong about that. You live and you learn, lol. I'm not happy at Medquist, so I plan on going back to a smaller company again. I know to be a well-rounded MT I should know more than one specialty, and I don't have a problem with that, but going from ortho to every specialty under the sun all at once is a bit crazy. Learning ortho and maybe 2 other new ones at the same time sounds more reasonable. I'm just wondering if multispecialty might mean one thing at one company and something entirely different at another company. There is a big difference in my opinion from having to know 3 to 4 and having to know 12 to 15 specialties. Three to four is still multispecialty, but it doesn't seem impossible to a 2-year MT. Just wondering if some companies are open to hearing what your strengths and weaknesses are and putting you on an account according to that.

There is this one company I am thinking of testing for (a smaller company), and I noticed that they have several different sections for their test. They have general medical for MTs with less than 2 years or multispecialty acute care for more than 2 years. A part of me wants to test for the general medical even though I have a little more than 2 years of experience because I'm afraid of getting the type of multispecialty account with this new company that I got at Medquist, but then another part of me knows the general medical would be too easy for me and going with the general medical will put me making less per line. Don't get me wrong, I am a good MT, well good relative to my 2 years of experience. I've transcribed for ESL doctors before. I'm not trying to get out of working hard here, but I just don't want to set myself up for failure either. The company I was originally with for 2 years told me I was welcome back any time, and so far I'm doing good on QA at Medquist, but I'm very slow compared to where I was at the last company I worked at. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Has anyone used Abacus with Word 2003 and does it work?  If not, any other nice line count programs out there that creat patient lists/invoices?

thanx

While working late at night, I had something pop up that I thought was a MS product called Antivirus 2009, and thinking it was an update on their security, without checking it out, I clicked ok, then at the end, it states it costs $59...and I realized that it was not MS, so I backed out of it.  I currently have AVG 8.0 and it has always done a good job for me...but now after several days and asking several different places, plus the Internet, I cannot get rid of this.  It seems to be tied into my Google site, the one I use so much. 

Does anyone know how you get rid of it?  I removed the software (or so I thought) from my program) but it is blocking Google, and just keeps popping up constantly...driving me absolutely nuts.

Does anyone know of a solution to get rid of this?  I hate to pay a techie to come out to my house to get rid of this, but I will if I have to...just thought I would ask here first.

Thank you for your help.

  I hate my computer.

I use Windows XP and type in MS Office Word 2003.  My voice files come through VoiceWave Player by Digital Voice, Inc.  I type for several different facilities and each uses a different font, from courier which shows up thin letters to arial which shows up bolder and larger so it drives my eyes crazy to swap back and forth between accounts.  That said, when I am typing my screen shakes. The words literally shift on the screen, not the screen shaking on the desk (which it also does).  The letters also change while typine from regular to a bolder type and back.  Screen otherwise works fine, it is only about 2 years old.  If I shut down the voice wave it works fine, so it seems to be bewteen word and the waveplayer.

Anyone had this problem or have any solutions.

I had to get on a soapbox this morning.  I am TIRED.  That is spelled:

T-I-R-E-D.

I have had a number of people this week who did not care whether they were saying things right or not.  So here I go on my soapbox, on my blog.  If you care to read, link is below!!! 

http://mtblab.blogspot.com/2006/10/note-to-all-doctors.html

I am using a wired PC with a DSL connection.  Last night I set up a new wireless router and a laptop.  I had to have Linksys help me so I know we did it how they told me.  Both computers can connect to the internet, but now on my wired PC I cannot connect to my clients.  I have one I connect to with VPN and another over the internet through Citrix.  That one I can connect to initially, but it keeps disconnecting itself.  Help anyone?

We are going to have an easy and cool summer dinner tonight.  Making chicken salad sandwiches.  Want a good pasta salad recipe to go with it.  Preferably a creamy (mayonnaise/sour cream) style.  Getting bored with the italian dressing recipe lol 

Thanks!

Anyone else out there looking for a job only to be deluged with requests to take applicant testing at mttest.com? 

After taking this test three times for different companies it occurred to me that why not test once or retest for a higher score, etc and be able to share this info with all potential employers. 

After researching this site, I have found out it's all about the mightly dollar.  Did you know the more applicants a company sends for testing, the bigger discount they get?

Urgh.. I have two more invites to take the test in my inbox. 

There has got to be a better way, any ideas?