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Hi...

Does anyone know if Vonage phone service is compatible with a USB-1 pedal??

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide...

Rebecca S.

Current pay  0.1122 cpl    $18.54 vacation/holiday pay.

Company bought.  Am now being offered 0.095 cpl and $13.50.  What is the percentage of my loss?  Am so upset about this cannot think.

I have recently moved and can not find my IT disk to load the program into my new laptop!!  I have looked everywhere and can not find the disk!!  I have the book but no disk!!  I am starting a new account today and desperately need to transfer it to my new computer from my old one.  Is there one install file in all of these on there that will do the job or do I have to copy over all of these files?

Thanks!!

Anyone know what this is?  It has an attachment so I am not going to open it unless I am positive it isn't a link to a madman's web page.

Thanks!

Do any of you feel that since you have started working at home that you have become a lot more antisocialible and isolated?  I have always been a shy person but have never been afraid to go out.  Since working at home, which I do love, I never want to leave the house.  The only time I go anywhere is on the weekends and that is because my husband is with me.  If I have someone with me then I am fine, but I do not want to leave the house alone.  I have to force myself to run errands such as going to the bank, post offfice, etc.  When I do go out, I just feel like everyone is looking at me.  I feel very paranoid and self-conscious and I just cannot wait to get back into the safety of my car and get home.  Do I have the early stages of agoraphobia?  I know I also suffer from OCD.  I wash my hands so many times a day it's crazy.  If I cook meat, I have to wash my hands and wipe down my cooking area about a million times.  I have a fear of germs.  I repeat numbers a lot of times and if I do something to one finger/hand, I have to do it to the other.  The OCD does not bother me too bad though because I am so used to it but the not wanting to leave the house thing bugs me.  Do any of you feel the same as I do? 

Is it worth it to purchase one of these?  I was looking at Instant Text.  Anyway, I have always just used the Expander (ESP) that came with Dictaphone Extext, plus ctrl-R (normals).  I came from a hospital that would not allow us to add software to their PC, just what was already built in so I am not familiar to what is out there.  I work for a national now and use my own computer.  I was wondering if it is worth it to purchase Instant Text just stick with what I got.  TIA. 

postings.  there is nothing after January 11, 2008 and I know there were some yesterday.  Does anyone know if there is a problem of some type? 

thanks in advance.

Is this possible?  Compensation for higher production adds a penny more or so.

to be shot!!!! They said "it will be fun, we don't work you too hard." Yeah, right! Fun! Ha! Double ha! The only ones laughing were them. The only thing not hurting right now is my little toe. They work you and work you some more and then work you some more until you just want to drop dead.

Just curious how this works?  If I bought a new computer this last year, do I get to claim all of it on taxes or just a percent of it?  I am an IC. 

Thanks!

on offshoring.  Did anyone see the article on the 15 Kaiser workers who were fired for looking at Nadiya Suleyman's (or however, you spell that) medical records?  I commented in my local paper on how violations of HIPAA are enough of a danger here in the US.  If everyone who is willing would take the time to put in a blurb in the "comments" section of their online newspaper, on offshoring dangers, we will spread the word and the public will become more aware.  Even if only 1 or 2 people read it, it's food for thought...  TIA

Any general rule of thumb for figuring how many lines per minute of dictation? I know it can depend on a number of factors, but just wondered if any of you had an approximate ballpark idea what you would expect for lines at the end of the day on say 125 minutes of dictation. 

I'm so distraught I've been in tears since yesterday morning when I learned a client of mine for eight years will no longer be needing my services as he's going to EMR. 

He's a one-man practice - orthopaedic surgeon - who's VERY busy between seeing back-to-back patients, performing surgeries, head of a hospital, and running around to meetings in his spare time.  I just don't see how he's going to have time to do all of this!

Do you think this point and click EMR thing is REALLY going to work?  Does it do IME's, too?  How can it possibly include all of the patient's info in a transcript??

Can anyone give me advice, words of wisdom or anything?  I'm just plain distraught.  Do you think EMR is really going to take over this profession and make us all dinosaurs or do you think there's a real need still for MTs?

Thank you for any info/comfort you can give me  I'll be checking the board hourly for responses.  Please let me hear from you - the good and the bad and anything else you'd like to throw in.

Signed, a totally distraught MT IC in NC.  

Hi y'all,

Came across this customized search engine for MTs. Thought I'd share it with all of you. I've used it and it does work for sure. Search results are more focused and relevant. Definitely better than the general Google search that throws up all kinds of irrelevant results sometimes. Link below.

I can hardly stand getting up every day and looking for a job in this industry.  Now GM wants to make its cars in China and then sell them back here.  HELLO?! What in heavens name is going on?

I think if our grandparents and their grandparents were faced with what we are now, they never would have immigrated here.  We are going backwards. 

I am tired, getting older by the minute.  Somebody wake me when it's over. 

Has anyone ever been to Saint Simons.  If so, please share the place you enjoyed staying at.  We are going the last week in September and can't figure out where we want to stay. The places on the beach are either too high or one, Sea Gate Inn, has some pretty bad reviews.  We don't know whether we want to try it anyway or stay in the village.  The prob is since we won't actually be getting in the beach that time of year, I would sort of like to stay on the beach so we could walk on it at night, etc.  Thanks.

I started as a MT at MQ 6 years ago and used a C-phone.  99% of all my dictators were crystal clear - just like they were standing in the same room as I was.  I left MQ and have been at 3 different companies that use rerecordings via internet, and at best the dictation is slightly muffled.  Has rerecording ruined transcription quality?  Do C-phones give better quality dictation?  I am really tired of straining to hear my dictators.  I am the only one that feels like this?  Sure would like some input regarding  this.