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? how to play CD-R - Posted By: Sandy

ok, got a CD-R for Christmas with old family photos/video on it. How do I play it? I put it in my CD player and it said check disk. I put it in my Computer and nothing happened. I found media play and pressed play but still nothing. What am I missing? Thanks.

ASR pay - Posted By: Lo

anyone know the average or going line rate for ASR? I'm totally new to this and eager to know the good, bad, etc. of ASR and how MTs are being paid and how much. thanks.

Question about using a laptop with Escription. sm - Posted By: searching

I can't use Escription on my desktop. I am thinking about getting a backup laptop. Have been studying the field, but I am not a genius when it comes to computers, just plugging along. Exactly what kind of specs does it take to run Escription? Can I use Office 2007, or do I need the older 2003 Pro version? It wouldn't run with my 2003 Basic. How much memory and hard drive space, what type processor, etc.? I believe I need XP, not Vista. Any info appreciated. TIA.

Lanier & digital phone line - Posted By: deenibeeni

Does anyone use a Lanier with a digital phone line (not VOIP)? Anything else required to make this work?

thx.

When a company says they don't pay for... - Posted By: ndmt68

headers and footers, what exactly does that mean? Are there portions of that an MT enters in like patient name, date, or carbon copies or is it just all type generated by the computer when the report prints?

Thanks for the help!

How to break in to OPs or orthopedics? - Posted By: Linda

Any companies willing to work with a very experienced radiology MT? TIA

I have a question about Dictaphone ExText - Posted By: sm

I have emailed this question several times to my supe and haven't gotten an answer, so I'm hoping someone here may know.

On Dictaphone ExText how do you go back and re-listen to a dictation after a document has already been submitted to QA?

I can pull up the document and look at it all I want, but I don't know how to get the voice file so I can listen to the dictation. I know there has to be a way to do this because it was suggested that we do this once a document goes through QA so we can see/hear what the error was. I'll keep trying to get an answer from my supe, but I was just wondering if anyone here might know?

TIA!

overseas work (Saudi Arabia, Dubai) - Posted By: bin_swanson

A long long time ago, in a place far away, when I was a CMT, I used to get advertisements contracting for jobs at King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia as well as a hospital in Dubai. I just wondered if this was still going on. Maybe they just contracted everything to India (haha). Does anyone know about this?

Things that dry you looney during dictations, for example. - Posted By: Leesa

I thought after seeing on television so much could get away from this but just had a dictator say, "drowsy and unable to, you know, respond to questions appropriately."

I thought the you know, you know, you know would not come through on here.

Hey everyone, I need the perfect cure.... - Posted By: tired mama

My son has been up since 3 a.m. vomiting and diarrhea, could be a good old battle with the flu. What can I give him to help soothe his stomach? Pepto Bismol didn't help at all, so I need any good ideas on what could stop the churning stomach. Thanks.

Touchworks - Posted By: Momo3Reds

The office I have worked for for the past 14 years will be going to EMR in 3 months using a system called Touchworks. My understanding is they will enter most of the patient's note by touch screen in the room at the time of the visit but still dictate a small amount of the note, such as the Plan, as well as letters of referral, patient letters, etc. They would like the office note transcribed and then placed in the patient's electronic medical record. Can anyone offer me some advice about what equipment I would need to do that?

On-Time Transcription - Posted By: Lynne

Anyone have work experience with On-Time Transcription Company? Thanks.

FTP questions... - Posted By: Penguin

I work for a small doctor�s office and the time has come for us to have outside transcriptionists working as independent contractors. How do I set this up for them to send me their completed work via FTP? Help!! The only thing I understand about the FTP is you can transfer files from computer to computer securely � the rest I am totally lost about. How do I set it up? How/where do I log on to get the work? How/where do they deliver the work?

Can I do just 1 month of COBRA? sm - Posted By: Old Broad

I'm wondering if I can sign up for just 1 month of COBRA health insurance after the fact. I'm nearing my COBRA election cut off. My last day of regular insurance was 10/31. I would just like to pay for COBRA for the month of November, but the paperwork says you must pay all months up to the day of election. I had an ER visit in November, which is why I only want to pay November, but if I made the COBRA election today, I'd have to make 3 months of payments. Has anyone ever done this? I thought maybe I could just send in a payment for the 1 month with a note that I didn't want it after that. TIA. I know I should probably ask the plan administrator, but I'm embarassed.

How many jobs do we take until we might be treated decent - Posted By: Mt venting

I am on my third in a year

I sure do wish there was a board just for DQS questions and tips. nm - Posted By: It's like pulling teeth to get answers from my

nm

Does Dictaphone footpedal work with DocQScribe platform? - Posted By: cmt

If not, know where I can find a reasonable universal footpedal?

$$ - Posted By: Nosey-Rosey

Where were you at the half-way point on the year on earnings and do you work for a National or other? I work for a national and I am at 10,000k as of the end of June. This is taking quite a bit of time off to spend with the kids.

Monday - I will lose an account - Posted By: Upset MT

I just did the stupidest thing. I could cry but it would not help. I will lose this account due to my carelesness and not thinking. I accidentally just erased two "undone" tapes and kept two "finished" tapes. So on Monday I have to tell the doctor and if I were them I would fire me. They have been my account for 4 years but have been patient with me at times through some personal problems -- yucky divorce -- and I do a good job at a very reasonable rate but I would not blame them if they fired me. I just want to take myself out and beat myself silly. But there is nothing I can do right now and so oneward and upward -- I guess. But this will hurt as it is my largest account and I am a small MTSO so I will be out pounding the pavement for something.

Thanks for listening.

I found an India MT site - cbay thread is especially interesting... - Posted By: MTstuff

most of these are old but the CBay post is fairly new...even the MTs in India do not seem to be treated fairly...I imagine there is a lot of abuse over there also.

Too bad we could not unionize them and us together...would that ever be possible you think?

Important - Telemarketing to Cell Phones - Posted By: Bella

Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow

REMINDER....all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls.

....YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:

888-382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time
It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
It take about 20 seconds

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THANKS KRIS AND NM for info on Freedom Type - Posted By: stargazer

That helps!

I interviewed for a job today - Posted By: Me.

Most of it went well. They pay the same cpl as most the other companies I have looked into. They pay for headers if you have to type them in yourself, which is better than what I got elsewhere. The scary part is that all they pay for is the training phone call and then straight production, they really don't give you time to lean the account to build up speed and make money. I asked the interviewer if the account they were putting me on was busy all the time. She said yes. I asked her if it was saturated with ESLs. She said, "it is out of Texas, What do you think?"

Those were the only 2 red flags I saw was the straight production after the 2-hour phone call and I might be stuck on an account that is saturated with ESLs. I did like the fact though that I will be using eScription instead of ExText. I never used eScription before, I have always used ExText so I am excited about learning something new. I do need health insurance and theirs was pretty inexpensive. I am not sure what to think. Am I going to be in over my head?

I applied to 2 more places and have not heard from any of them yet. I did hear from one Friday and they said I needed to fill out another application. I filled one out online and they e-mailed me to fill out another one.

Ok, I'm stumped RE: FTP info. Please SM - Posted By: Chickadee

Hello! I'm feeling a little lost. I thought it would be easy to figure this out, but I think I'm missing a step.

I'll be IC'ing for someone. They've given me my FTP host, login name, and password, but I can't figure out where to go to put in that information!

If I can't find help here, I will write my new boss and ask, but I want to try to figure it out on my own (well, with YOUR help! :)

Thank you for trying to help.

Chickadee

Meezer! May have found THE keyboard - sm - Posted By: JenH

I got the new keyboard today and it was NOT what I ordered. Sure, it looks like the old PC Concepts but... hehehe from the looks of it, it is a Portuguese keyboard. Yeah, not gonna work.

BUT.............. I found the Cirque Smooth Cat and Glidepoint. The only visible difference I can see between these and the old PC Concepts wave is that the 6 is back on the left. Otherwise, the mouse configuration and everything else is the same as the PCC keyboard.

Check it out at the link. I'm going to call tomorrow and see if they have them in stock.

Regarding Integrity MedTrans - Posted By: Satis

Hi,

We did more than 2000 lines to IntegrityMedTrans last week. After that no response in chat and no response for mail ( mail bouncing also)... People who are doing this company plz be aware.

If u have any details, plz mail us or post reply

Congratulations! Lisa I. of California on winning the first dinner! - Posted By: Administrator sm

Email to admin@mtstars.com with your full mailing address and your choice of restaurant and we will send out your gift card immediately.

Thank you for playing MTStars Fall Scavenger Hunt!

Administrator
MTStars

Certified MT, Is it worth getting?? - Posted By: WS

nt

Just a little puzzle. - Posted By: cormac

Here is a kind of a puzzle.

How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But, it is unusual. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. But you must do it without any coaching. I am not going to assist you in any way. No doubt, if you work at it for a bit, it will dawn on you. Who knows until you try? So hop to it, try your skill and pray for luck. Par is about half an hour.

Ergoflex or Ergomagic Keyboards sm - Posted By: Rose

Has anyone used the Comfort Ergomagic or Ergoflex keyboards. Do you like it? What kind of platform in on the keyboards that make it so tall - 2.5 inches.

I just bought Flashtype expander and I want to - Posted By: say thanks to MT stars. It really works great for

What does HIM mean? This is the - Posted By: me

type of work a company is looking to hire for. I'm thinking it is the same as acute care, but haven't a clue what it means.

Our Jobs, Our Country - Posted By: WorthFightingFor

- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery (or offshoring of jobs), I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

- Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

- The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

- Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

- It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Rutherford B. Hayes

- True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt

- There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to ... remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

- It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Ronald Reagan

- The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

Glossitis (sm) - Posted By: dc

Anyone here ever suffered with this; what remedy did you use shy of going to the MD for prescription. TIA

Vonage & C-phone - Posted By: Snow Bunny

I'm passing this tidbit along.

If you have Vonage and are having trouble connecting to the dictation system, here's the solution. Purchase one of those little two-line plastic gizmos from Radio Shack. I don't know what it's called, but you can plug it into a wall jack and then plug two phones into it. It was used in "the old days" before Cable and DSL lines, and your computer modem and telephone shared the same line.

Pop this gizmo into the back of your Vonage router. Plug a regular phone into one socket and your C-phone into the other.

Dial into the transcription station with the regular phone. Punch in all of the codes and once you're fully connected, pick up the headset for the C-phone, put on your headset, hang up the regular phone, and you're set to work!!!

Hello all. I am new here and would like to - Posted By: Jacy

say hello and how good it is to be here. I have been to some other MT sites and, needless to say, you all seem much more mature. So anyway, hi:)

can any answer a couple if Winscribe questions?(sm) - Posted By: newbie Winscribe MT

I'm a fairly new MT and have done all my MT-ing so far with C-phones. I am being switched to a Winscribe system. My question is this: Will the MTSO be able to monitor how fast or slow I'm transcribing? I'm not trying to get away with anything. It's just that I've read horror stories from some MTs on certain platforms where the MTSO can see (and calls) whenever they're "off the system" (bathroom breaks, looking up a word, legitimate coffee-breaks) etc. I work as an IC and have a window in which to get my work done rather than a set number of hours. What I'm wondering is if the MTSO, with this new system, will now be able to "see" if I'm not typing every single minute. TIA

ESL my toosh - Posted By: Escriptionist

Took me 24 minutes to do less than 2 minutes worth of dictation. My head hurts now. I should have sent a note that send "Your guess is as good as mine" and one gigantic blank.

Want to get started! - Posted By: Barbie Siders

I just finished my medical transcription course and got certified. Is it always going to be this hard to find a job. Everyone wants experience. How do I get experience, if noone will give me a chance? Does anyone have suggestions how to get my first job? Please help!

Company with MWord - Posted By: sf

Any good company using MWord? I'm not too great with a new interface!

What's the best electronic drug reference? I need - Posted By: Jerseygurl

quick look ups - mostly just questioning generic versus brand names!! I thought there was a post on this the other day, which peaked my interest, but not can't find!! Wish there was an on-line site, even if I had to pay for it, which constantly updated. I just don't have time for the free online sources, though I have a few good ones! Any suggestions?

homebusiness - Posted By: I need extra income

A friend of mine gave me a link to a homebusiness that involves web hosting services and getting commissions. I am considering it for my MT business website, especially that there is no start-up cost, but I am a bit skeptic...

What do you think?

Still make Drake and Drake drug reference? - Posted By: MT again

I had this in the past and loved it, but now I don't seem to find it. Do they not make this any longer? If not, what seems to be a good replacement that you use? I need to update my reference books.

Thanks.

DocQscribe users sm - Posted By: MT

Does anyone work for more than 1 company that uses DocQscribe. I work for 1 company with DocQScribe and just got a part-time job at another company that uses DocQscribe. Is there any way to use DocQscribe for 2 companies on 1 computer?

Thanks!

Happy Birthday, Webmaster! - Posted By: happy birthday to you......

To those that lease puters from MQ with DQS on them, what brand do they send you? Thx. nm - Posted By: wandering

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voice recognition just got - Posted By: one better

Some people have asked if it was possible to install Dragon on their system and then play the physician's dictation into the microphone. (wouldn't that be nice?) Well, things have moved that much closer to this happening.

There is a product called TranscriptionAID, which is sold by TranscriptionGear (click on link below). It is used in conjunction with DNS. I think the article is fairly self-explanatory.

Not MT related, but pet dog related. See message. - Posted By: Petowner

I have a 5 year old Maltese dog who has always been a great sleeper at night. He has always slept on my bed next to me and never budged all night. Last week he started to wake up shivering and panting in the early morning and could not settle back down and would just jump off the bed and go off somewhere else to sleep. Now he starts this shivering and panting as soon as the light goes off in the bedroom but instead of jumping off and going off on his own, he just stays there next to me and keeps sivering and panting and is unable to fall asleep. He's perfectly normal otherwise during the day and sleeps fine during the day, behaves normally and is eating and drinking normally. I called the vet and she thought he was having nightmares. But I'm not so sure. Last night when I went to bed and the light was on for about 15 minutes he was quiet and comfortable lying next to me. As soon as the light went off he started the shivering and the panting and could not go to sleep. Anywone gone throught this before? Should I be worried about his health?

Jus' Ventin' - Posted By: Now Smarter CMT

Just venting about this --- I am MTSO who took on a special project for one of my long-time accounts, which was basically STAT TAT and we made it well within time frame. It was a $5000 project. Well, to make long story short, after months of trying to collect, they stiffed me !! I'm hearing big stories about marital woes with one of docs, hard times, yada yada. One of gals in office called me and said the practice was circling the drain, a lot of staff had left, and they have re-invented themselves with a new practice name to avoid creditors. She also said they are looking for new transcription provider. I have paid my own girls, which was a huge strain on my cash resources. I've sent doctors demand letter, threatened collection, etc. I'm now at point where I actually am about to hire a collection agent. I sure wish I could tell you the names of these Atlanta doctors to warn you all.

I'm not looking for sympathy -- it's partly my own fault -- I was trusting because of long history with client -- but it sure has taught me a lesson! From now on I'm demanding a deposit on any special project! Thanks for listening.

Anyone else to lazy to take tests..LOL. I applied for a job - Posted By: LazyMT

but I swear when I opened up the testing and it was 6 reports including discharge summaries, right then and there, I just thought to my "NO way." I guess I just don't have the drive or energy to do testing for a job that takes a hour or more. Part of me realizes that they need this information, but the other part, just thinks it's ridiculous to expect people to spend so much time on a test. Trust me, most of the time, when you see one report, it's quite apparent if the person has any skills or not. Sooooo, I guess I'm lazy because I'm NOT doing this test. Anyone else get these feelings...Maybe I'll regret it and maybe not. Time will test because a lot of other people were sent the same test so I'll wait for their report LOL