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I cannot afford to buy this insurance. Am I jeopradizing my home, etc. 

I keep wondering if this career is worth it.  I seem to put in so many long hours and do not get paid what I really put into it.  On the other hand, I do get that freedom of completing the work when I choose and whether it is in my pj's or not. 

Just wondering. 

Working for acute care it is not often that you'll get the same patient by different docs but when work is slow, it does happen.  I got one today where the first note stated the patient had vomiting blood, coffee ground emesis and severe tarry stools with hemoglobin 15.4.  I thought very odd, but this is clearly what physician dictated.  The second note I got was his admit H&P and a different doc, same patient with hemoglobin 5.4.  It is just by chance I got both notes from the same patient. 

I felt like such a pain calling this out to my team leader but I thought this was something that should be marked for followup by the physicians.  This is just one of those times that working at home for people that you never meet can really make you feel uncomfortable.  Did I do the right thing calling the doctors discrepencies out or should I have kept my mouth shut?  It was just a fluke I got the patients ED note and H&P. 

All I can here is zoom, zooom, zoooom.  He paaaaaaaaaaaaaaauses for long stretches while he watches.  It's driving me crazy.  I keep getting report after report by him.

Hello!! I am a newbie, stay-at-home military wife and my husband is the only one working for now. He is deployed right now and I am managing all the finances, since we have separate accounts, I transferred$1000 in my account which made him mad. It felt like I overspent and use the money for nothing. Money that I didn't even spent shopping!!! He knows where the money goes but he still questions me about every single penny I spent and I really felt so bad.

Thank you guys for reading my post. I just felt like sharing this with you. I just need someone to talk to.

Okay everyone I'm asking for your advice. As of right now I work in a doctor's office doing transcription and filling in for front desk when the girl is off that works there. I love the girls I work with and I love doing transcription. I also have a part-time job at home doing transcription with a great company that I can go full-time with, but I'm scared to make the change. I know in the beginning I'll have to put in more hours to make the same amount of money due to getting paid by the line and get my line counts up, but I would love to work at home again and have a more flexible schedule. What would you do? Help!

Hello to Everyone in MT Land:

I pray that everyone will have a productive and fulfilling day.  Please know that your work is important, and you are helping countless people.  I encourage you to become better and better at what you do.  Have a great day!

I know this isn't MT-related, but it has gotten me so upset that I can't work, so maybe it is MT-related after all.  Anyway, if anyone has been in this situation, can you please tell me how you successfully handled it?  My son wanted to go away for the weekend and asked to use my credit card to secure a hotel room.  We went online to Hotels.com and found a nice place.  I put in my credit card number and was given a room confirmation.  I then received an e-mail from the hotel telling me there were no rooms available.  I called the hotel and they told me I would have to address it with Hotels.com since they were the ones with my credit card information.  I called Hotels.com and they told me that my card had been swept for the entire amount of the stay ($276.00!) but since there were no rooms available, the money would be credited back to my account.  I got my credit card statement yesterday and they only credited back $71.00 of my money, causing me to incur and over-the -limit fee of another $29.00.  I don't know where to turn to get this problem resolved.  Do I call Hotels.com and ask them to reimburse my over the limit fee?  Do I call my credit card company and tell them that it was Hotel.com's fault for hitting my account for the whole amount when they said they weren't going to?  If anyone has been through this kind of thing before, I would really appreciate your input.  Needless to say, I will NEVER use Hotels.com ever again!!  Thanks in advance for your help!

There has been a lot of discussion on this board lately about how rude and impolite some of the posters are. What we are seeing here is also what is going on in our society. It is not something that is happening only in the MT world. This is something that has been taking place in our society for years, slowly and gradually taking hold of a large number of people who find it more convenient to let their frustrations out on others than fix their own lives. Have you ever tried approaching a cashier with a smile on your face and another with a grouchy look on your face? Then you know that the one you approached with a smile on your face was friendly and polite whereas the other one wasn't. Whenever you approach others with a smile on your face you will receive that smile back, even on a message board. I ask myself if those who lash out at others on a message board do so to their family members. If so, what kind of life are you living? Or are you the one on the receiving end and come here to pass that on to the posters on the boards? What kind of life are you living? Don't you all think that living in peace and harmony will contribute to your overall well-being?

What do those who are rude and impolite to others gain? Do you really feel better afterward? Do you want others to treat you the same way? It is like a contagious disease, and it seems to be more common to lash out than to be nice as if it hurts to be nice. You should be grateful that we live in a country in which we still can practice freedom of speech, at least to a certain extent.

Hiding behind anonymity while being rude and impolite is a cowardly thing to do. Take responsibility for your actions. Better yet, think next time before you lash out at someone seeking advice and remember when you started your first job. Did you seek and receive advice? Did someone give you a tip or spend time with you to help you understand the ins and outs of a job? Or have you never received help from anyone in your whole life? We all have received some type of support, help, and/or advice that helped us get back on track or be successful. Why not pass that positive experience tenfold or thousandfold back to others?

It is really very simple - treat others like you want others to treat you! Do this in all areas of your life not just in the MT world, and you will not only be a happier person but you will also make others happy. Give it a try - I promise it will not even hurt!!

Is there is a difference between a C-phone and a DVI.  I think that I took a job that requires a C-phone, but I think I have a DVI.  If anyone clear this up for me, that would be great.  My machine has a phone keypad, but no handset.

Thanks in advance!

I need the command prompts to use to access a Lanier system with non-Lanier equipment. 

I access 2 other Lanier systems with the same equipment with NO problem at all.  But this one is recognizing me as a "dictator" and not a "transcriber".

The prompts I do have, don't work.  They are "call in, wait for beep, enter #6"  I should hear "welcome" then enter my ID and should be good to go. 

I've spent almost 3 hours searching for the solution on the internet and I need help fast.  There are a ton of jobs waiting for me on this new system - so I'm losing $$$

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the Bayscribe Productivity Tool work in Microsoft Word?  Or at the very least, transfer the expansion list into Word's expander?

stay production if the pay per hour was around $15 with no opportunity to make more per hour or as an employee with incentive and all you were making a minimum of 9.5 cents per line?  Is it better to make a little less but know exactly what you are going to make each week or just go for the ability to make more and hope you are able to stay productive.  Thanks. 

could someone give me some tips/inside info on how i can get into this field on a part time basis? i have 9+ years of medical coding/billing experience - 4 yrs. specializing in OB/GYN and over 5 yrs. PT/OT and Orthopaedics. is it possible to get hired on experience alone and no classes or certification?

thanks!

What are some favorite drug sites?  Thanks in advance.

Could anyone tell me the key combination to bring up the autocorrect without having to go to tools and then go down, etc?  Is there just a shortcut way to bring it up?   TIA

Also, in a template, is there a key combination to jump from asterick to asterick to fill in the template?  Again TIA

I have a CRNP who must think MTs are not very intelligent.

So far, she has spelled: passed (not once, but twice!), spleen, and clicks. 

I use templates for my reports and charge by the page, but I have been interested in charging by the line.  Do you include the template lines with your line count or minus that?  I am completely confused with this, still.  Thanks again~  

I have (and contintue to) create lots of expanders.  What I need to know is do you focus on certain types of words/phrases and don't bother to make Expanders for others?

I have so many now, that I have had to deviate from my pattern so many ways, that I too often waste time trying to figure out if I have an expansion (as it could be one of 5 or so patterns).  I'm sure I could have done a bit better job of creating them had I really understood where it would lead when I started; however, if one makes them for all the various phrases, etc., there is no way not to deviate from more than one pattern.

I have many accounts and endless dictators which, I'm sure, adds to the problem, but if you can give me examples of what sort of words/phrases you might simply not bother to make expanders for, it might help me gain some perspective.  I'm quite sure if I let go of it a little and just resign that it's okay to straight type certain things, I would be farther ahead.

I wish I could think of some examples of the complications I run across while working, but you all must know what I am talking about if you have tried to make expanders for "everything."

Thanks for any help you can give me!! 

I do not want to quit medical transcription, but I am interested in a change from straight transcription all the time.  Can someone please tell me what is involved with editing, and how do you get started? TIA 

Does anyone know about EnRight StenTel's reputation?  Any info appreciated!  Thanks!

The creature comforts aren't all they are cracked up to be.  The stress of maintaining them and the repeated and repeated phone calls to keep them in working order or to even get hooked up what you ordered and paid for is mind boggling and frankly I DON'T WANT THE STUPID PHONE ANYMORE, OK!

Or the cable, or the DSL,  I don't want the electricity or the plumber who does half the job and never shows up for the rest of the job------so that the drywall man can come and fix the holes left in the way left by the $19,000 plumber.

The car is due its tune up in order to keep the warranty in place, but I don't have time because I have to type (and there's nothing to type most of the time but I must sit there) and the kids have dental appointments I already have begged off for.

There are teacher conferences I have to HAVE TO mind you take part in and then the after school activities to oooh-ahhh over as a parent or my child won't think I love her.

My husband wants (xxx) and I'm too tired to even care - wake me when it's over.

On PBS today I heard a letter read by a resident woman of New Orleans of the conditions there.  Did you know there were indians living in TEE PEES there?  They had been brought in on the promise of work, but the work never materialized, but they were living in TeePees right here in River City. 

I find it strange that we can totally rebuild countries in 6 montsh hit by hurricanes and storms, and we can't get people a roof on their homes.  Only more plastic - make that half a plastic.  I wonder if our REBUILDING in these other countries is done as horribly as we are doing it here.

But back to me.  I long to live in the woods by the Interstate, under a lean-too and something to keep the snakes away from me when I sleep.  I have a little blue tin cup from the Wal-Mart to make my coffee over the campfire.  I'm ready.  I have already learned to eat COLD FOOD because I never have time to sit down at a cooked meal with my family.

I WANT OUT!

or suggestions.  Here is the scoop.  I was employed fulltime with an in-house transcription department (where I was the supervisor) for 14 years.  I covered the insurance for my husband and I.  In August 2007, the facility decided to outsource all of transcription and four of us lost our jobs.  I have been on COBRA since then to finish out my deductible etc.  My husband got on with Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield.  We are paying over $800.00 a month for insurance for the both of us, whereas I was paying less than $200.00

I have been an IC now since February of 2008 and love it.  Here is the problem.  My COBRA runs out the end of February 2009, and being an IC, I of course do not have benefits.  I have been checking around.  I would like to get on my husband's policy before my COBRA runs out.  However, they say they will not give me health insurance because I need to lose 70 pounds.  I have been working really hard at this and have only lost 20 pounds.  I am worried that I will not have the 70 pounds off by the time my COBRA runs out.  Any ideas as to who would insure me, with my current weight?  Being able to afford it is not an issue.  I just cannot find any insurance company that will insure me due to my weight. 

Here's the kick in the ass$$, my husband is a very heavy smoker (3 packs a day), and he told Anthem this.  He gets insured  I don't get it.  Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Time is running out here.

I have a very old blind and deaf black lab who lays on the floor next to my computer.  She's a love but she has horrific gas constantly.  Does anyone know of something to help this old girl out.  She eats IAMs kibble-style food twice a day and does not eat table scraps.  She gets zero exercise these days.