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Attn: MTSO - re: your earlier post for a reliable MT that was removed - Posted By: sede

I replied to your earlier post, as did a couple of other MTs, however, now I see that your message has been removed.
I just wanted to try to touch base with you again.
If you are still looking for help and would like to contact me you can do so via replying via email to this post.
Thanks....

I wonder why your post was removed before?? Moderator, info?

jumping around in word doc - Posted By: anon

Is there anyway that you can jump around in a word document? Meaning say if i have a template set up with all these headings is there a way just to put a * or something after the heading and be able to hit shortcut keys to jump right to that spot so I could start typing. THANKS FOR THE HELP!

Need feedback on VR (am feeling so inadequate) inside.... - Posted By: moving on

I have not been able to double my lines. Most of the time there is no formatting, having to add a's, an, the, change sentences, add what VR left out even though heard correctly. When I talked to the manager, she say I am not "embracing the software." I feel with so much editing even if the next report is better, I lose so much time on that report and others like it that even having several reports pretty good albeit bad formatting, like not capitalized headings, all clumped together and having to separate out, I lose a lot of valuable time. I don't know how I can embrace anymore, I do use the "tricks and tips" but it doesn't help with the amount of editing. Is it just me, some people aren't cut out for it. When I pointed out at 600 lines I was actually being paid for 300 lines at regular rate but half at 600 lines and she was shocked I felt that way. That with VR it is so much faster. It seems when I compare the two, I am 500 lines a day short of straight dictation from previous. I know it is supposed to take time but how do you do that when your bills are still the same?

Software Question - Help Please - Posted By: Lulz

I have Stedman's Medical Dictionary and QuickLook Drug in my programs, but they apparently haven't been activated (if that's the right word).

Any technically-minded reader that can tell me step by step how to open these files and "launch" them so I can create my short-cuts and start utilizing them?

TIA for any much-appreciated info!!!

I think ASR may be able to read docs' minds! - Posted By: SM

ASR: He will return to see us in 3 weeks unless he has no sense.

Actually dictated: He will return to see us in 3 weeks unless he has any problems.

I think the ASR read my doctor's mind! I would be good money that's what he was thinking!

CMT credentials and AAMT - Posted By: rambling

The post below about AAMT certifying offshore MTs made me wonder. Do you think an offshore CMT is just as good as an American CMT? I ask because I am quite certain most doctors would think so. I remember hearing once about an Indian MT that took the test over 6 times before passing. They just kept giving him money to take it until he passed. Doctors may not know or care what CMT means as far as we are concerned, but if an Indian company telemarkets your doctor with a too-good-to-be-true offer, and oh by the way, did we mention we were certified by the AMERICAN Medical Transcription Association? All of a sudden your doctor and my doctor and all doctors will care what CMT means, and to them it will mean, same quality - but cheap.

So, the CMT definitely benefits someone, though if the transcription service doesn't live up to the doctor's normal quality standards, what does that tell him about the CMT or the AAMT in general?

Am I ranting or rambling? You decide. :)

Has anyone worked as a housecleaner part time? - Posted By: Need supplemental income

I was just hired on for about 15 hours a week to supplement my MT income (or lack thereof). I'll be cleaning residential homes. Anyone ever do this for awhile to help pay bills, and if so, how bad is it?? : )

cpl gripe - Posted By: pdqtrans

I realize I am beating a dead horse here but what is the deal with these companies offering 6 and 7 cents per line starting rate. Particularly one offering 7 cpl for 6000 lines in a 40 our period. Plenty of employees hunting workers but not willing to pay crappola. Or lets change it to 75 characters per line. Or...we'll pay you chicken feed and YOU provide the equipment. Makes you wonder if it is such a good offer why don't they sit down an try it for 6 cent. I work a couple days a week for a facilty I used to work at just to help catch them up. 40 mile drive there. I charge them .15 per line. Revenge is great! Makes me appreciate my current pay. I am certainly not trying undermind anyone currently receiving this pay amount for I may end up getting that myself. Just needed to vent.

funny! - Posted By: D

The doctor meant "sonographic evaluation" but I swear it sounds like she's saying pornographic evaluation! And it's a breast ultrasound! Haha - had my giggle for the day and thought I'd share.

Lines per hour - I just do NOT get these figures. PLEASE tell me how you hit these #s - Posted By: FAILURE

Okay. I have been doing this for 25 years, and am a CMT. I rarely have to reference anything - even meds. If I do, I can find my answer in 30 seconds max. I type on a super platform, have a great expander and spell check, and type really, really fast - averaging 120 wpm last time I tested. I have a great account, though I use NO normals or standards. I simply cannot - accounts are verbatim to the word, and nothing is repeat dictation. Even Op reports, which are my specialty, all MUST be typed from scratch. I average 200 lines per hour - maybe 250 at best. I am great at this except obviously not making 1000 lines in 3 hours. There must be some detail that you guys are leaving out, which, if it makes me feel like mud, must really dash the hopes of those new to the profession. Is it that you all use normals or standards or copy and paste your own stuff to boost up those line counts? Otherwise, how on earth do you hit those numbers? I'm asking sincerely, cause I used to be SO happy hitting 1200 lines after a 6 to 7 hour shift, but now I feel like a total failure. I'd rather do this in 3 hours, or I'd rather hit 2000 in the 6 hours. Is it the macros and standards and normals and all? I think that MUST be the key, in which case I won't feel bad, because my account simply won't allow that! Thanks for any tips!

Has anyone on this board's work slowed down this January. MT work that is. - Posted By: Curious

Got several friends with slow-down of work but they are MQMTs Wondered how the rest of the MT world is doing.

Slow pay? - Posted By: AnotherBrokeMT

I recently worked as an IC for a few weeks for a company, but it did not work out because I could not make any money with their platform, ADT, etc. Sent in an invoice 2 weeks ago, and when I emailed the owner to ask when paycheck would be sent, she replied that she has not billed client yet and when she got paid, I would get paid.

Anybody ever hear of this type of arrangement before? It is not a lot of money so it makes even less sense that I have to wait for her to get paid. I did not know this beforehand. I was just told to invoice twice a month. Stupidly I assumed I would get paid twice a month! I am just glad I quit when I did before I was owed too much money.

Today's my birthday!!! sm - Posted By: happybirthdaytome

just though I'd let ya'll know that! I'm 36!!! WooHoo!

Gonna be wastin' away in Margaritaville tonight! I've earned it!

PCDI training program? - Posted By: nm

We are also looking at this training program, I know a lady who went through this one and she said it was a good one but any other pros and cons you have would be appreciated. TIA

Positions - Posted By: Audrey

Is it 11 o'clock position or 11:00 position? Which is the corrent way to type that?

any companies out there that never run out of work?? - Posted By: cjs

It is too much to ask for work to be available and not have overhiring???

Bytescribe Orator - Posted By: GNMT

Looking for feedback on setting up and using Bytescribe's Orator call-in system. Suggestions on other call-in systems also appreciated.

Company thinking of buying a new --sm - Posted By: DeeDee

transcription system. What features are most important to you?

Group halloween costumes - Posted By: HELP!!!

Need halloween costume for 4 people, group ideas. We don't want anything like sponge bob or cartoony. ANy good ideas??? we have a party to go to.

I am looking for prn ortho work. Can anyone help me? - Posted By: nm

RE: Post below...Let me assure you this "company" - Posted By: Curious

has no ethics either and has been banned from this board because of it. They don't treat this account the way they should and quite frankly the client deserves better.

Want to know what's for dinner tonight girls - Posted By: sm

I am making that 20-garlic recipe from below with mashed taters and salad and some homemade bread. Yum.

New documents on QNet for MQ MTs - Posted By: Busy MT'ing

Go to QNet; look under Policy & Governance; click on Human Resources in the window to the right there are two new documents --- MTME Benefit Policy.

It's all apparently still in the workings but they are starting to post documents as they are readied.

Just thought I would share.

H&A Timeclock - after downloading, how do you get it to work? - Posted By: MTSO

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I found a way to get rid of a doc if you are an IC. sm - Posted By: Me

Present with them a contract that they believe is just not realistic, that's how! Get this.....I get a call last week from local internal med. doc wanting me to do their transcription. I MT'd for them briefly (2 days or so) a few years back and they remembered me, etc. I work FT for a co. at home, so I really wasn't interested. Office manager called me last Thur., Fri., Monday and I finally decided to do it on Tuesday. Went in, picked up tapes and basically said I'd do it until they found someone else. The office isn't that close to me and with the price of gas, the fact that I have 2 little ones at home with me all day, just didn't seem feasible for me to pick up tapes, etc. Okay, fast forward to today.

I decided last night that I would make them sign a 3 month contract b/c I've read horror stories here of unpaid docs and wanted to covery my butt. Here is what I asked for in contract: 10 per 65 character line. Reasonable right? How about 15 cents per 65 characters for stats or 12-hour or less TAT. 2.00 per faxed page. And a few other things. But basically, they would rarely need anything but 24-48 turn around on tapes.

I also included my invoice from the tapes I've done so far and the total came to 589 lines. Nothing big.

Here is what this doc wants me to do: Count the lines manually using less than 1 inch margins on both sides. Use 11 font instead of 12 (thinking he will get more per LINE), come in 4 days a week. HAHA Isn't he funny? He is ESL who apparently had a newbie do his work for the past 2 years who counted her lines manually which I did just for fun. I counted 240 lines when Word counted 589 lines. What a joke.

So, needless to say, I'm not going to do it. Can you believe this guy? He was complaining that "he doesn't make that much money...can you cut down on your rates?" OMG. This guy lives in a gated community for crying out loud! I typed 27 patients in just one day. I doubt he's broke. I wanted to tell him all he is SAVING by hiring an IC. Say he did sign a contract with me and I worked for him, he would pay me approximately 12,000 a year. Does he realize that if he had someone in-house that this same employee would cost him 30-40,000 in insurance, taxes, wages, etc?

I cringe just sitting here thinking about this cheapskate. I feel sorry for the gal he's been 'screwing' for the past few years. She must have wised up!

Just had to vent!!

Does any company use chartnet? - Posted By: Kat

I think Chartnet was the best plateform I've every typed in and I haven't heard of any companies who use it anymore. Does anyone know of a company that uses it? I would love to work in it again.

RE: Drop shoot software - Posted By: Medtyper

Can anyone explain what Drop shoot software is and where to get it? Thanks

Ok, I kid you not - sm - Posted By: stumped

Just looking up something in my Stedman's Radiology Word book, under sign, and there is a DAVID LETTERMAN SIGN - anyone know what this is? Cannot reference this on Google or other med reference sites. Seriously. Fourth Edition, page 841.

Anyone take the CMT test recently? - Posted By: jeannal

I was just thinking about taking it and wondered if anyone had any advise.

Inscribe help... QA marker and fields - Posted By: sm

On my acct I am supposed to put brackets and put the time of the marker inside [1.12] for QA to review.

When I put this in and continue, my typing jumps to that field and erases over and over.

Can someone tell me how to prevent this??? It is driving me insane.

Oracle feedback? - Posted By: GA MT

Any input on working for Oracle, positive or negative, would be appreciated! Thank you!

Speaking of AutoCorrect.... - Posted By: Okie MT

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!

Vegas - Posted By: dm

Hi everyone,

My husband and I are going to Vegas for our anniversary, does anybody know of a good show to catch while there?

Noisebuster headphones ? - Posted By: Noisy Nora

Just got mine delivered and am wondering if any one else has them. I used them and I noticed that between dictations or when I'm not pushing the foot pedal, there is buzzing or humming, I don't know if this is normal. Anyone know?

Anyone know MD-IT's platform? - Posted By: Curious

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How to find new account? - Posted By: anon

Hi Folks,

I'm looking for some advice. I am an IC right now, but the work has been trailing off since September. Now that the holiday slow down is starting I've had a very pitiful 10 hours of work in the last 2 weeks. So... I'm thinking about looking for an account of my own. Any hints on how to get started? I've always worked from home and don't really have any "network" locally. Do you advise finding a local account or going national? How do you do that?

Luckily, we don't rely too much on my pay to survive, but I'm finally starting to panic now with the lack of work and would like to branch out on my own.

I'm posting this anon because I don't want the MTSO I work for to find out.

Thanks in advance!

Lines DocQScribe - Touchworks - Posted By: be

Has anyone had experience with the Touchworks platform? If so, how do the lines compare with DocQScribe? Need to know ASAP. Thx

What actions can I/should I take when contractor will not pay? - Posted By: Trying to be nice!!

I did some IC'ing for a company, and they have not sent my $ yet for the last 2 invoices. They say they are going to send it around the end of the week, but just in case, I want to know what steps I should take because I WILL get my $ one way or the other. They are located in Houston, Texas. Does anyone know about the court system there and what are your opinions on what the next step should be for me before I sue them--which I do plan on doing if I do not receive my $ by early next week. I do not want to waste a lot of time waiting. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.

MT and non-related work - Posted By: Andrea

Hello Fellow Transcriptionist. I was wondering if someone out there could answer a few questions to set me on the right track. I would like to freelance medical and non-medical transcriptions as well and was wondering how to charge for this by the page or by the line count? Also would like to know things to avoid or helpful tips with this adventure?? Thanks a ton.

Offshoring going away too? - Posted By: RLA

Hi all;

Offshoring may not be the problem. All of the local med facilities here are moving to EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and releasing ALL of the transcriptionists, both in-house and contracted. Truth be told, we are more than a little worried over this. Has anyone else seen this move in their area? Is there a way to 'cash in' on this move to EMR? Thanks.

Orion team - Posted By: Lindsay Gullickson

Does anyone know anything about working for the orion team (oriontranscription.com)?

Thanks, Lindsay

question about .dss and digital voice editor 2 - Posted By: justine

I have digital voice Editor 2 and I have no problems using wav files or mp3 files on it. But I do not know how to get .dss files to work on it. Does anyone else use digital voice editor 2 for freelance work and if so, how do you get .dss files to work?

Or maybe just a general question, what program can I get to be able to use .dss files.

Thanks in advance

Question about pre-existing exlusions on new - Posted By: insurance if you have COBRA. nm

I'm leaving my long-time current MT job. The insurance at the new job won't be effective for over 90 days (I"m not sure if it's PPO, POS or HMO). I will be paying COBRA to my old job in the meantime, though I sure am tempted to go a couple of months without it and hope for the best.

I'm hearing that many insurances are not covering pre-existing conditions. Is this true even if I have COBRA? Is there a federal regulation on this or will it vary from company to company?

grammar - Posted By: quite confused

I just got a correction back from the company I work for telling me the following sentence is incorrect: "He stated he would contact me should he wish to pursue more aggressive treatment, specifically, steroid injection or surgical treatment." They are telling me it should be "more aggressively treatment." Would someone please help me out here? Thanks!!

Best way to get clients? sm - Posted By: Cana

I want to market my service in my area. I have gone to offices before in the past, but they sometimes get annoyed. I have also done mailings and get no response. Is there another way to get the OM's attention that maybe I overlooked? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Help please!! - Posted By: sm

Yesterday I was roaming around here and clicked on something - not Job Seekers Board - but some other place that listed jobs - connected to this board somehow as it had blue margin like here - but now I need to get back there and I can't. Any help is appreciated!! Thanks

looking for experience - Posted By: marceiaa

I want to become more proficient in op notes and ESL. Is there a company that would be willing to work with me so that I can learn this? I am not a newbie, with over 6 years hospital/clincial transcription experience, but we have very few ESL and the op notes are covered by others. This is something that I really need and want to exceed in. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!! Marceia

Need advice - Posted By: Trish

I recently was offered jobs with two companies, accepted the one that was almost custom made to the days and hours I requested, but otherwise has turned into an absolute disaster. Has anyone ever done this? Am very disappointed because all I have done for 2 weeks is jump from account to account which I was told would not be the case, even jumping from one platform to another. Any suggestions on how to move on gracefully? I cannot go back to my old job because they filled the position and after I declined to accept the other, I would imagine they would not be interested either.

Lost my account - Posted By: curious girl

I am so upset. I have worked on the same account for 2 years now, ever since I started medical transcription. My computer has been giving me issues now on and off for about a month. This week I have not been able to work because of computer issues. I have spent $800 since December on computers having them upgraded and antivirus and more memory. It is constantly acting up for the last week and they had to reassign my work this week. They just called me and informed me they took my account and gave it to a MT who doesn't have computer issues. Like I chose for my computer to go on the fritz. So now I am a backup MT. I am so hurt that I had the bad luck to have computer issues for the last week and they take my work. How can I help that? I can't. Oh well. I think it is time to get another job.

line counting software - Posted By: me

I am looking for software to count gross lines. I only have one doctor I need it for, so I don't want to spend a lot. Does anyone know of a good product for this?

thank you!