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ANY GOOD IDEAS FOR VALENTINES DAY GIFT FOR HUBBY - BESIDES ME! - Posted By: NOT MT RELATED

I love flowers and he surprised me tonight (since he is working tomorrow) with a beautiful plantar full of different plants and flowers I can keep inside and transplant outside this spring. Would like to surprise him as well but stumped as to what to get? What do you get a man who has everything?

Am doing voice recognition for the first time (sm) - Posted By: nm

and thankfully being paid an hourly rate - but want to be sure I am doing enough work - could someone please give me some kind of an idea of how many of lines I should be doing per hour? It's a pretty tough template - lots of bolding and jumping around and much of it has to be cut and pasted or deleted altogether. I was told between 100 and 200 by someone else - and I'm almost there - is this reasonable? Thanks so much!

Is there any way for the e-mail address to stay - Posted By: permanently in the box on all boards?nm

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ICs, how much notice do you give for vacation - Posted By: MT

If you are an IC for an MTSO, how much notice do you give for personal days, vacation days, etc.? This is not stated in my contract with my MTSO, and I do not think that the owner is extremely particular about these kinds of things, but I do want to be courteous. What is the standard? Thank you.

TAT - Posted By: Me

if it's 24 hour turn around time, does that mean business days? if its friday, does it need to be done on saturday or monday?

How do I get acute care experience? - Posted By: Alani

I've been working as an MT for over two years now for a local MTSO. The MTSO I work for has several PT accounts, some family practice accounts, and a few others. I've grown bored and want to get into hospital accounts (I want the action LOL). Does anyone know of any companies that hire experienced MTs to learn acute care?

VR question - Posted By: latebloomer

For those of you who do VR, how good is your VR program? Do you have to tweak the same things over and over with no relief or do your VR techs seem to get things straightened out quickly once and for all. With the program I use, I find I have to make the same changes to the same doctor's reports consistently even after sending these issues to the techs. Headings can be a nightmare always deleting or adding something to the headings. Our Editor seems to sometimes have problems distinguishing what a number list is. Just wondering, cause I'm about ready to pack my things and move on. Thanks.

Can anyone confirm that JLG outsources overseas? - Posted By: nm

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HIPAA compliant email - Posted By: ali B

Does winzip qualify as hipaa compliant when used with a password? Does anyone out there work directly for a doctor and have experience with this?

Any help would be appreciated!

Multifocal contact lens - Posted By: Aunt bea

Anybody had success with multifocal contact lens? Have been wearing mine a month now and still upclose vision not so clear. I was told they were not having 100 % success with them, so I suppose I am one of those they are not so great for. I love them for my distance, but still have to have readers for up close, which stinks.

Are any eScriptionists using (sm) - Posted By: Anon

laptops for work? What do you recommend? Any particular specs I should be aware of. Thanks.

Religion board/Catholic is full of printed material!!! - Posted By: Oh My Goodness

Whoa

MT week? - Posted By: Horski

Any of your employers out there or customers do anything for you for MT week?

Transcript USA - Posted By: DB

Any information on Transcript USA transcription company? Thinking about taking job.

Please ban rude and offensive MQLover - Posted By: ADMINISTRATOR PLEASE TAKE NOTE

This person intentionally starts threads just to cause turmoil. When people try to answer her back in an intelligent, civilized manner she starts name calling and saying people are stupid, lazy, fat, etc. This type of nonsense should not be tolerated on this board. Some of us are professional and would like the timber of this board to be kept that way. Can you at least ban her until she learns manners and etiquette? No need to be insulted when we come on here looking for help. Thank you

So very sad watching this - Posted By: GaPeach

Sitting here watching Animal Channel and the tribute to Steve Irwin. My heart is still crying. His wife, Terri, looks so grief stricken. What a loss.

Cannot recall password for Windows :( - Posted By: Greetings Comrades

PC crashed so I pulled out the old PC from years ago. But, I cannot recall my password. Can I get around this somehow? I am lost without my puter :(.

Thanks!

Re posts below about IC status being no more(sm) - Posted By: IC status

What will the nationals who currently use ICs do, change everyone to SE or FTE/PTE status or will the ICs have to change to incorporated or some other status? I'd just as soon it fall on the nationals to have to change us to SEs or FTE/PTE. Any thoughts?

Can't post on "word" board, SQL error. Need help on "cuselbock" membrane. - Posted By: Sheryl

Talking about nares - excoriation along the "cuselbock" membrane.

I cannot post on the Word board. Gives me a code to type in to "authenticate", which I do, only to get SQL error returned. ??

Does anybody have program to dle-ck MQ lines? I would like to check every report - Posted By: doubting mama

to see if all my work is being counted on a 65-character line, including spaces EVERY TIME - or are there occasional reports through the day/times during the day that the lines actually go longer than 65 characters.

At this point I would like to take the time to verify each and every report. Sometimes it just feels like a report should have had more lines - or that a report goes on over to page 3 and you know it should have more lines and it is not much lines and you are on such a time crunch you don't what to go and count (of course because the report IS long).

So, is there a program out there that I could use as a double check to verify they aren't turning the knob at certain times during the day to make the lines be i.e. 90 lines or so? I hope I have explained this good enough.

Thanks if anybody knows of one.

It's not personal, it's business. (I always like that line from "You've Got Mail")

just curious--sm - Posted By: nn

as to what you all would think of a company offering .055 cpl per 43 char line with no spaces??? Just asking.

Why is spellcheck acting up on me? Did I mess up the settings? - Posted By: Spellcheck is checking headers and footers all of

If you have any ideas why it is now checking headers/footers when it did not do that before, please advise. It is driving me crazy.

Scalp laceration. GALEAS???? - Posted By: Totally Stumped. HELP!!

Here's the sentence:

The patient was anesthetized with a total of 6 cc of 1% Lidocaine with epinephrine. She tolerated this well. Local irrigation and wound exploration was performed by myself. I explored to the base of the wound, and there was no involvement of the "galeas". She was stapled, closed with 5 staples in the normal fashion.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Drug s/l pronase 5 mcg - Posted By: Jean Petree

Elderly patient is getting s/l pronase 5 mcg as needed. Can't find pronase except in some enzyme studies. Any help appreciated!

Help with an op - Posted By: Heda

I am not an op person, and always gets these jobs in which I tell people ops have never been my strongest, and I get them anyway. What is a Volari flap or Bolari flap for a ureteral procedure?

Invoices. Does anyone have a good invoice software program they use other than MPCount invoice? - Posted By: MTSO

I am looking for something professional and easy to use. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

You all are a pretty nice bunch of people, you know. - Posted By: thanks!!!

Donating to the kids of fellow MTs, taking the time to email people and encourage them on how to be better MTs. I'm really touched. This month has been pretty rough but y'all are certainly putting the reason for the season out there. You'll never know how much one email can impact somebody's day.

Statutory status question....sm - Posted By: minnabird

if you are statutory status they take out federal, but not state taxes, is that correct? What about SS? Thinking of taking a job on statutory status. Thanks.

Got my loan YEA !!!! - Posted By: M-TEC newbie

I did work for a year for a company but actually realized parttime was not for me I want to do this fulltime and have a good education so I signed up with M-TEC. I hope the job placement speaks for itself though I know I have to make the grade. Wish me luck !!!!

Moneymakers tell us your secret?? - Posted By: Leanne

Any of you who are making 17 dollars or more an hour in an 8 hour day at the line rates that are posted - and I have ever see posted is jobs that pay about 8 cents a line or less. Please share with us your secrets. A lot of us have been doing this for 15 years or more, and cannot do that in 8 hours. I have a hard time believing it. When someone says how much they make in an hour, or how many lines they do per day, it is the assumption that that is in an 8 hour period since that is what the general population works on a full time basis. My point being, is that it is misleading to people saying that you can make 20.00 to 30.00 an hour at 8 cents (I am assuming 8 cents a line, maybe I am wrong) if you are working 10 hours or more a day. If there is a way to do this please tell us the secrets, because seriously we would truly like to know. I would also like to know who pays 10 cents a line anymore. How do you find them. I cannot - I have searched and searched. We need to all stick together and be honest, otherwise I say let them send it overseas. There are kids in high school making more than some of us.

Does it bother any of you who work for a service - Posted By: that outsources offshore? (SM)

I accepted a job with a company not knowing that they outsource offshore until today and I have mixed feelings about whether I should continue looking for a different job or stick with this one.

Baffled

California MT's - Posted By: rand_man

Does anyone know why companies are unwilling to hire people who live in the state of California?

Amphion Test - Posted By: Curious

Has anyone taken the on-line test for this company? If so, and you don't mind sharing the info - can you tell me what it consists of? Been with the same company for many, many years and very nervous about taking a test.

My snowflakes are just little falling x's today. Is it just me? nm - Posted By: NYer

Editing doesn't pay - Posted By: JM

I was never able to do 100% more by editing than by straight typing, either. In fact, the best I could do was about 25% more. My paychecks gradually decreased by $200 a a payday take-home pay (or more) twice a month as editing became a greater percentage of the work. The harder I worked, the less I got. I also don't think those companies lower the price to their clients until contract renewal time, when they might have to in order to keep the account. In the meantime, they've cut pay and they are getting all the money. Apparently there are some people who make more money by editing. I think it's the lower producers. If you're a high producer, you'll make less, most of the time, to my way of thinking. Except that, in one issue of Plexus or the other magazine they publish on the other month, they showed this one woman at Transcend who was doing upwards of 4,000 lines a day with editing. I have never been able to figure that one out, unless she was on some kind of an account where all she did was read the reports and edit nothing! Or maybe she was putting in 16 hours a day!

Help!! Shorthand 10 not working...sm - Posted By: slh

My ShortHand is open, but isn't expanding anything. Any ideas? I really need my word expander!!!

Grammar Question: 9 years' ago or 9 years ago? *sm* - Posted By: kittykat

I have a terrible time trying to remember this rule! HELP!

format - Posted By: Suzwyn

I use Wordperfect at work. There are approx. 7 people to have access to my files. Over the past 2 months, I am finding "Word" symbols in some documents and the format is changed, font, etc. No one is supposed to change one iota on those pages. Can anyone tell me what's happening?? I hope I'm on the right message board. This is my first. and thanks!

Clinic work or acute care question....sm - Posted By: passing through

If you were offered a job by two different companies, the benefits were the same, line rate was the same, everything was the same except one was exclusively acute care and the other was clinic, which would you choose and why? I have two offers and everything is even except for the type of work. I would think clinic work you could get more lines, but then it is not as marketable later if I have to switch companies as staying acute care would be. Any input?

Oprah show Monday-have you let yourself go?? sm - Posted By: MT 10 years and then some

I must admit this is me ever since I started working at home 6 years ago. Too easy to do. 6 months since a decent haircut, too many kids to look after and too much work to get done. I thought others might appreciate thesubject matter. Happy watching.

transcribing numbers - Posted By: tootsie

We have a hot topic discussion going at work. What is the correct way by BOS rules for typing numbers 1 through 10? I pretty much know the rules by the BOS vol. 2, but what about vol 3? Did they change the rules and standardize numbers? I don't have volume 3.

MQ not paying for spaces -- just manually counted and it don't add up - Posted By: MadamX

anyone know? Just went from straight line count to DQS...

used to type 500 lph, now barely 150 lph....

AND NO COUNT FOR SPACES....

DAMMIT, THAT'S A KEY STROKE

Fusion...sm - Posted By: passing thru

Anyone familiar with a dictation/transcription program called Fusion? TIA

Having a baby shower for my sister this weekend - Posted By: AL MT

Any ideas on food, games, etc.?

One game that I have decided to play is 'guess what baby had for lunch.' You put baby food in diaper and have everyone guess what flavor. I have already planned my food; however, I want something different.

need a good surgical equipment website, anyone have one - Posted By: old_MT

Any help would be needed. Learning to do acute care ops - and need some good surgical equipment sites.

Thanks

A Prayer for the New Year - Posted By: Happy New Year!

As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends.

Let us release our grudges, our anger and our pains, for these are nothing but binding chains. Let us live each day in the most loving ways, the God-conscious way. Let us serve all who are in need, regardless of race, color or creed.

Let us keep God of our own understanding in our hearts and to chant God�s name each day. Let us lead the world from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from wrong to right.

Let us remember that we are all one, embracing all, discriminating against none.

May your year be filled with peace, prosperity and love. May God's blessings shower upon you and bestow upon each of you a bright, healthy and peaceful new year.

Anyone else along the gulf coast who is watching Rita? - Posted By: TM

good companies to work for - Posted By: Jen

Hi,

I am a recent M-TEC grad who is beginning the job search. Does anyone have any companies that they really like working for or have heard good things about? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jen

Abbreviate program - Posted By: Deborah

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can give me some info on an Abbreviate software program or which is best. Is it feasible to make my own on autotext or should I invest in a program. Or do I have to also make my own on the software program? Thanks so much.

Can someone please tell me how these folks who are posting making $75-$100K working for services ... - Posted By: So Very Tired

are making this kind of money? I've been in this profession for over 20 years and the MOST that I ever made in a given year was $50K working for a service and that was with loads of off-the-clock overtime. Where I work now the majority of decent work is being offshored and the American side MT's are left with terrible work to wade through. A 'good' check for me now would come out to the equivalent of about $10 an hour!

I can see how folks who have their own accounts could make the type of income range above, but working for a service? What is it that the rest of you now that obviously I'm totally missing???