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wake me up!!! -
Posted By: tired!
I am sitting here about to fall asleep -- not because there is no work, but just ready to fall asleep on my keyboard!! I keep telling myself- GIRL- WAKE UP!!! I know there are several families out there that have no work or their significant other is laid off, which mine is off for two weeks, so I have to be THANKFUL for my job and make myself wake my booty up-- oh, along with my fingers!! Hope you all had a wonderful X-Mas! Santa was good to our family and friends- hope he was to you all also! Now, I have to get back to work!!!!
Opinions please! -
Posted By: Need advice
I am considering filing harassment charges against an MTSO for which I used to work. I left the company 3-1/2 years ago to start my own company with another Transcriptionist (who also worked for the same MTSO). We had both signed a non-compete contract and had no intention of violating that agreement. When we were contacted by three of the MTSO's former clients, we consulted an attorney who advised us that while we could not solicit the work we were free to accept the work being offered (in the contract, the MTSO had not only attempted to prevent us from soliciting its clients, it also attempted to prevent us from accepting work from its clients if offered).
Two years after we had both left the MTSO, we both received a visit from the local authorities who had received a complaint from the MTSO stating that we were operating a business out of our homes without a license. This was proven to be unfounded as we had closed our company the year before (we both went to work for other transcription companies). A couple of months after the complaints were filed, the MTSO then filed a lawsuit against us (as well as three other former transcriptionists who had worked for the same MTSO) for breach of contract. The judge ruled in our favor and the lawsuit was over.
Fast forward to now: I received yet another visit recently from the local authorities stating that another complaint had been filed against me by the MTSO for operating a business out of my home without a license. Again, this was proven to be unfounded as the company no longer exists and I am now considered an employee, not an independent contractor.
If I file harassment charges, would I just be adding fuel to the fire or stamping it out, as is my intent.
Thanks for any and all advice!
What do you think about those... -
Posted By: Eric
ergonomic keyboards? The ones with split keys like Microsoft's Natural 4000. I am considering buying one but have only ever used a standard keyboard all my life. Is it difficult to get used to it, or are they actually easier to use? Thanks.
MAGIC JACK UPDATE....sm -
Posted By: mtmmm
Below posters you are all right. This weekend, the MJ stopped working with the foot pedal across the board. We had 5 MT in our company and same thing happened to everyone. It has not worked since. You can't get an answer from the live tech either. So, anyone thinking of trying this with a C-phone - don't. I have been using mine perfectly - and loved it!!! - for many months now. I'm very disappointed but I wanted to pass this along for others. I guess it was too good to be true for awhile.....
Someone mentioned VOIP below but with limited minutes. Anyone set up with them for unlimited business plan - is is truly unlimited - and did you like it? Appreciate your input.
medical spellchecker -
Posted By: medtran82
how many of you use a medical spellchecker? I was wanting to purchase one. Do you have any suggestions as to what's the best kind to purchase?
erase tape update -
Posted By: Patti
See below, don't want to rewrite the entire thing but it did all work out. Basically I had put the envelope and tape from one day in a different spot due to being in a hurry and the other one the doc did not hand in as he was going on vacation. So when both were gone, I thought I had erased them and handed them back in. When I told the doc that I thought I had erased one and he grinned at me and gave me the tape, he told me to include some extra charge for the time I spent looking for the tape -- so it did all work out. God just threw me a curve to tell me to slow down. I averaged 2500 to 3000 lines per day last week and that was with one doctor on vacation. So just hurried, hurried, hurried. Thank you to all of you for your support, it really helped me in a tme of need. Patti
Patti
maybe...(beautiful thoughts) SM -
Posted By: RJ
Maybe... we are supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
Maybe... when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the new one which opened for us.
Maybe... It is true that we don't know what we have until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives.
Maybe... The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything they have.
Maybe... You should dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you dream of and want to do.
Maybe... There are moments in life when you miss someone – a parent, a spouse, a friend, a child – so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.
Maybe... The best kind of friend is one you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word...but when they walk away you feel as if it was the best conversation you've ever had.
< br> Maybe... You should always try to put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that something could hurt you, it probably will hurt the other person, too.
Maybe... You should do something nice for someone every single day, even if it is simply to leave them alone.
Maybe… Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but, if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours.
Maybe.. You shouldn't go for looks; they can deceive; Don't go for wealth; even that fades. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
is the Donald doing surgery now? -
Posted By: mandy
today while editing voice recognition....
"patient had tube Donald surgeries...."
Pathology Compensation -
Posted By: Tess
Can anyone tell me what the average compensation is for transcribing the gross only for pathology, by report, not lines? Thanks so much for your assistance.
Figuring time for invoicing... -
Posted By: Just_me
I need an easier way to figure time for invoicing.
For example: An audio is 33 minutes and 31 seconds and the rate of pay is 60.00 per hour.
It takes me forever to figure the correct amount to invoice. Any suggestions to make it easier for me? 
Any Cajun out there with a good gumbo recipe? -
Posted By: Sounds yummy!
Outlook express problem solved - sm -
Posted By: sammypot
Had a problem deleting a huge outgoing email. Posted here and many good suggestions came in. However, when I Googled I found www.ITtoolbox, a place to go for technical help.
I was able to finally delete that pesky outgoing email of mine with their help. You may want to keep this site in mind for help if ever you need to.
Thank you all.
Does anyone use MySpace.com? -
Posted By: XtremeMT
I'm just starting out but it seems somewhat involved...is it worth the effort? And why do some people have 8,000 "friends" ? Altho I must say my sister has a very elaborate "space" with music and videos - but I just don't know if its worth it. Anyone meet Mr. Right?
Has anyone ever had appendicitis? -
Posted By: fleming
I hate spending $100 bucks at the doctor's office just for him to tell me nothing is wrong!!.. so I have had right lower quadrant pain for about 3 days. Sometimes it's a sharp pain, sometimes it's constant, and it hurts worse when I walk. Maybe I just have a pulled muscle, or pre-cramps, or my friend who just had an appendectomy said it could be appendicitis?! Yikes! I think it might even be medical transcriptionitis!
Has anyone had experience with both -
Posted By: me
ChartScript and ChartScript.net? I have experience with ChartScript and my account is upgrading to the .net version. I just wondered how one compares to the other, or how user friendly the .net version is.
Chartscript -
Posted By: bpark
I have worked with Chartscript for more than five years for two different companies. I know management sets the character count and what is included/excluded from the count, i.e. demographics, etc. I know companies have had class action suits for "cheating" MTs. There should be "checks and balances" - can anyone recommend a good line count software that works in conjunction with Chartscript to verify line count?
Thanks
MedGarde -
Posted By: Jan_W
Help. I am planning to apply for a job with this company. Any feedback regarding working conditions would be much appreciated.
The perfect desk! No more chasing the keyboard tray or breaking it... -
Posted By: paintyper
After years of going through desks at an unbelievable rate due to flimsy keyboard trays, I have found the perfect desk with adding a slight modification. I purchased a glass and aluminum desk (RTA Home and Office Products CT-009 from Willey Goat). The keyboard tray is actually a glass shelf. However, it did not come out far enough, and I contacted a local glass company to cut a longer piece of glass and RTA for extra parts to support an extended the shelf. Now I have a keyboard tray nice and big that I do not have to chase all day that will not break. I am in love! This desk was so easy to put together, unlike others that come in a million pieces. For anybody tired of those flimsy, ugly desks and extra support to rest your wrists/arms on, this is great!
Drives me crazy -
Posted By: DW
I have a new doc today and he says that he has a ton of reports to read, so to make it easier (I'm not sure for whom) he says NOT to type articles (is, are, of, etc.). It is actually HARDER for me not to type these words in than it would be to add them! It's making me nuts looking at these choppy reports. They should just be doctors and let us do our job!
What is a good line rate for radiology? -
Posted By: RadGuy
Currently being paid by report, 10 years experience. TIA
Our Military People -
Posted By: This holiday season
I want to share something my family does in case you're interested in doing something similar. We live near a military base and every year I call and get the names of a couple of soldiers to invite into our home for Christmas Day. These are soldiers who are very far from home and not scheduled for leave on Christmas. We been doing this for several years and it has been such a wonderful experience. We have made friends that we'll keep in contact with until ... 
We pick up these soldiers up at a set time and set gate on the base. They have dinner with us and we always give them some small gifts -- phone cards, note cards, stamps, restaurant gift certificates, etc. The guys love it when they get a box of all occasion cards with stamps, as most of them say they aren't very good at picking out cards to send back home. We end the evening by driving around showing them Christmas lights, etc.
Yes, it is generally a bit awkward for them at first, but they always end up getting "comfortable" and enjoying themselves.
You usually need to call early - they do have to make sure you aren't a serial killer or terrorist.  Often times, they have an office set up where you fill out a form for "adopting a soldier" and that simplifies matters a great deal.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
just curious -
Posted By: denise
Has anyone sent a resume to alex-med, inc. and heard back from them yet? Thanks
Statuatory Employee -
Posted By: Old MT
As a statuatory employee (not IC), does anyone know approximately how much to set aside for state and federal taxes?
TIA!
Transcription Plus LLC -
Posted By: MTMommy
Do anyone else work for this company? They are out of CT. My last 3 checks have been NSF. I am very upset and discouraged!! Anyone else in this boat??
QA scores vs limits vs less money for MTs and QA -
Posted By: Go figure
In new QA plan, if MQ pays on your QA score and limits the amount of reports you can send to QA (was it 15%?) doesn't that essentially cut down on QA personnel and while looking for an excuse to pay you less and it is contingent on QA and percentage of reports sent to QA, MQ wins again in its master plan to pay MTs less and eliminate jobs.
Then think about this. If you must proofread every report to get required QA and must relisten and reread difficult reports because you have limits as to what you send to QA, how much of a pay cut is that for MTs?
MQ SUCKS!
Difficult dictators given with only 3 wks job experience in anything and everything! -
Posted By: Young One
 Killing some time, had to put last job back into the work pool, because it was a difficult dictator. This is crazy, I am only making about $10. to $18 a day!!!
Your Favorite Medical Spell-Checker? -
Posted By: NightOwl
Does anybody have any suggestions for which medical spell-checker to buy for a Word-based platform? Any suggestions on where to find one cheap that is still thorough? Thanks!
Delete what??? -
Posted By: Wasted time.
At what point does delete that go to far? It's an op note and I get the pre and post diagnosis, procedure, surgeon, asst, anesthesia, etc. Then she goes on to hpi, ros, fh, sh, meds, allergies, and exam. After exam she realizes that she's doing an op note and tells me to delete that and start over from preop diagnosis. Needles to say she was an extremely difficult to understand ESL, wasted about 20 minutes of typing time that I won't get paid for and I had to split my shift.
Sorry y'all it was vent or scream. I chose the vent to not wake up the family.
Mid-afternoon Slump -
Posted By: niki
 Any suggestions on what to do for that mid-afternoon slump? I get so blah about this time of day, it's all I can do to stay awake.
niki
Company thinking of buying a new --sm -
Posted By: DeeDee
transcription system. What features are most important to you?
How does income tax work when you're IC? -
Posted By: Eric
I was offered a position from a company as an IC, and the contract had a clause about being responsible for your own tax deductions, etc. As I have only ever been an employee, I am not entirely sure how this works. If you are IC how do you pay taxes? Thanks!
It is funny how... -
Posted By: anon
It is funny how thankful you can become for a job that you really do not enjoy sometimes when you find out your spouse might be losing his job. It is a nice reminder of how we all need to be thankful of our many blessings we have and be thankful God chose us to live in American and can come blow off some steam on this board. Just a thought. God bless all the MTs out there!
Anybody have any tips for overcoming procrastination? -
Posted By: Any ideas?
I don't do it everyday. It seems to be worse when I'm tired or hormonal. Energy fluctuation. I seem to only be really motivated when I have a looming deadline. I read an article on procrastination somewhere but can't find it again. I'm just tired of kicking myself. I could be hustling through my work early to spend time doing other things. Instead, I'm kicking myself.
The up side to not making enough money is -
Posted By: MSMT
that pretty soon the fridge will be so empty it will be significantly easier to clean. And I do mean soon.
Advice on starting up own accounts.... sm msg -
Posted By: Maggie
I have my biz cards ready to go. I have my letter partially ready to go, with sticky notes that I’ve designed as a promotional giveaway to insert into my packets. I need some advice/suggestions for startup. If I get ‘that’ call and the customer wants digital rather than tapes, who pays for the handhelds? Do you all use an FTP site for return of documents, or some other way? What wav player do you suggest or use that works for you? I’ve tried GearPlayer, the trial download, which is very nice. I have had a lot of trouble with Express Scribe, so that is out. The audio skips and is just overall very bad. I have never had good luck with Express Scribe.
Idea for new reality show -
Posted By: Freaky Friday
I came up with this great idea for a new reality show called American MT:
YOU'LL LAUGH when you see the MT struggling to understand English speaking MDs who can barely put a sentence together, foreigners who can barely speak English, food chewers, side talkers, paper shufflers, sneezers, nose blowers, coughers, chokers and the like.
YOU'LL CRY when the American MT is faced with dire consequences such as eviction and malnutrition from the incredible shrinking paycheck and the amazing dwindling workload.
YOU'LL GASP IN HORROR as vital medical records are outsourced to strange lands to be typed by people who barely comprehend, write or speak the English language.
Coming this fall to a TV near you! American MT! You'll have to see it to believe it!
What do you think? Sometimes I kill me!
Running Voice Files Through Speech Recognition. SM -
Posted By: MaggieAnn
Does anyone run their voice files (DSS and WMA) through a speech recognition program and then edit them? Just wondering if that is any faster than actually typing it myself. The doctor is a very clear dictator, so I'm wondering if the speech recognition would pick it up okay -- but wouldn't be able to teach the software to recognize her voice the way the instructions say to.
Also, does anyone using speech recognition listen to the dictation and then redictate it into speech recognition software themselves? I would be able to train the software to recognize my voice then.
Just trying to think of a few ways to increase my productivity and save my wrists at the same time. Thanks for any suggestions and comments.
Bayscribe productivity..... -
Posted By: good or bad?
For anyone who uses Bayscribe, do you do real well productivity wise on one account and then accomplish absolutely nothing on others? The short notes, the in and out, in and out business; it takes up so much time, I have just spent over 2 hours with just under 200 lines. Is anyone else's experience the same?
VR programs -
Posted By: anon
What VR programs are the best to use for the most productivity?
C-Phones...worth the investment? Any opinions? nm -
Posted By: Jody
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Date format 01/03/2007 or 01/03/07 or -
Posted By: Elderberry
1/3/07 or 1/3/2007? If it's in the AAMT BOS, I can't find it. I looked under dates, months, years. I work on various accounts with varied preferences but curious if there is a recognized standard as to the preceding zeroes in above examples or shortening a year, e.g., /07 from /2007.
Don't you just love it when dictators make up words? ..... -
Posted By: Kiki
This doctor said, loud and clear, "meningismatic" for meningitic. !!! This particular dictator is also constantly making up words. It's actually kind of entertaining at times--only when it's obvious what he really means. If not, and I have to leave a blank, I'm not exactly laughing......
You say it's your birthday....nm -
Posted By: MyBirthday2
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As an MTSO do you expect more from an IC than an employee...(sm) -
Posted By: AzMT
I personally would expect the same quality of work from either. Just curious if others expect better quality from an IC or an employee. For example, should an IC send in less blanks to QA verus an employee and overall have a better quality work?
Thanks for your opinions. I have never thought about this until it was recently brought to my attention.
Trying to figure out how much a line -
Posted By: Question here
I have my line count for the past 2 weeks, 23,433 and how much I actually made. Is the line count divided by the $$ or ? Thanks
Needing to invest in a new Drug reference... what do you recommend? THANKS! nm -
Posted By: NewBMT
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Question on templates -
Posted By: Peeps
Okay, I have a new question. I'm trying to create a form or template that I can insert information on. How do I create the form with lines so that I am able to insert information on these lines? Is this possible?
What's your favorite cleaning product....sm -
Posted By: Cindy
for say the bathrooms and kitchen? I usually use whatever is on sale and that I have a coupon for as they all seem to work about the same to me - and if I see one more advertisement that claims that something will clean without your having to scrub and not see it come true I'm going to have a hissy fit!
I have a quick question - need help ASAP. sm -
Posted By: Static in dictation
The company that I work for uses the iType program. I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and if so how it was taken care of. On some of the docs that I get to transcribe there is lots of static/cutting out (almost sounds as if there is a power shortage - that type of sound) in the dictation. It is mostly when the docs speak close to the recording device or if they speak loudly. I have tried different sound cards, adjusted speaker volume, tried different speakers and I still have this problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Average QA rate? -
Posted By: PMB
What's the average rate for a QA? After 5 years of being an MT, I've been offered a QA position and they are offering $1.85 per report. Obviously it depends on the length of the report, but she says it'll average about $0.03 per line. Is this about average for a QA? What about the per report thing? Is it normal to pay that way? I think I would rather get paid per line....
Thoughts?
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