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Provided by a fellow member,,,,This is great. Thank you so much for sending it to me...Last time I bother you I have to start my shift now...

http://www.ericacodes.com/camio.html

My daughter's Middle School implemented some new safety measures this year. Visitors have to be "buzzed in" and when the kids go from building to building they must use their ID cards to enter the doors.

But one day my daughter forgot her clarinet and my husband took it to her. We are talking about a "country-boy" looking man carrying a small black case. A teacher and her class was exiting the main building and the teacher actually held the door for my husband to enter as they were exiting. She had no idea who he was. Scary.

Anyway, it seems the Amish shooter targeted that school so he could avoid the security measures that have been established in most schools in recent years.

My heart goes out to the families who lost and for those sitting at the bedside of the remaining girls. I hope and pray they will recover.

Thanks for letting me ramble. This has really been on my mind a lot lately

I am trying to come up with something cheap since I am the only one footing the craft bill for 25 kids!! I have all of their handprints and was thinking it would be a nice keepsake craft to have them make a wreath with them. I was going to use foam, but it is way to expensive to buy enough to make a wreath for 25 kids! I was thinking of using tissue paper and just cutting about a zillion handprints of each kid out and putting them together to form a wreath. Any ideas on how to make that work? A few years ago the class made the other kind of tissue paper wreath where you just wrap strips of tissue around the hanger and it turned out pretty nice. This would be nice too, since it would be with the kids' handprints. Any help or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks everyone and Happy holidays!

and to all a goodnight.

HI,

What does it entail to re-record dictation.  I noticed an ad placed that required this.  What do you need and what is the easiest way to go about it.  Thanks.

I am wondering how one knows if different headphones would make a difference (shy of buying and trying them).  I have Sony set which sound really good when listening to professional videos (music and otherwise).  That seems like it would mean all the lousy sounding dictation is beyond the headset's control, but are some headsets so great they can still help?  Thanks. 

I can get directly back to a certain point in the text instead of having to relisten to the report again and try to find it?  I need to make some corrections in this HUGE report and it's going to take forever unless there's a trick to finding the specific point on the report.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!  

Guys, help me with something because obviously I'm missing a crucial piece of the QA puzzle somewhere.  How is it that QA folks who are PAID both more money than us and also sometimes on an hourly basis (and justifiablly so because of their presumed higher skill level) to fill in blanks GRIPE and COMPLAIN when they are called upon to do so?  I simply don't understand, especially when there are obvious issues with the dictation, i.e. bad sound file, low voice volume, ESL's, etc. (I'm not talking about a situation where an MT may not have given his/her best effort to the dictation [which I don't think at all is as prevalant as some of the prima donnas would have us believe]).  What did they think, that they were going to continue to do the same job as the rest of us but get paid a premium just because they are who they are? 

And I'm not at all speaking in reference to those QA folks who are a blessing to the industry in terms of their talent, the nature of their feedback, and their mentoring capacity.  I'm sure, though, that many of you recognize the kind that I am speaking of. 

A clue:  If you don't have the patience to fill in blanks and give constructive feedback, then please ... DO US ALL A FAVOR and stay an MT.  The majority of us give the best that we have to each and every one of our dictations, but sometimes we reach an impasse with a particular chart that requires only a second listen to put together a quality final product and get it back to the facility.  We don't need the stress of your nasty, superior attitude and sometimes not-at-all-helpful feedback. 

Sometimes I want to just sit back and kick and scream.  Work my ____ off and still can't keep up with the stacks of bills or calls calling about the bills.  When my son was born with an illness I could have taken the easy way out like so many do.  He has a life long illness that qualifies him for benefits but my DH and I make too much money.  LOL.  He's a teacher and I'm scraping by with transcribing.  Sometimes I think why should I bust my butt when I can sit back and collect "benefits" and be there for my child when so many people do this.  Taxes and the increase of cost of living expenses are about to do us in.

This morning, she came in my office and brought me a flyer...

HEADING:

Medical Transcription Services at 7.6 cents per line...

Extraordinary Quality Medical transcription at 7.6 cents per line (65 character line)

24-hour Turn Around Time (TAT) compliant

2-4 hour Turnaround available on request

Secure and fully HIPAA complant

HIghly experienced Medical Transcription Staff will ensure that your transcription is completed efficently with the highest level of quality.

yada...yada...yada....on and on with their ad...

How can a company possibly work for this?  Wonder what the transcriptionists get paid? Would this be outsourced??  I wanted to ask these questions, but our manager doesn't care about anything but the dollar. I've been here 17 years and the work load is overwhelming. So am I threatened, YES! Should I be?

Can anyone help me with this?  I am using eScription as well as Inscribe software and it does not appear to be compatible with Instant Text (if it is, please help!) so I was hoping to be able to convert my IT glossary over to autocorrect if at all possible.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Sounds like - Reveals a type II scanned female with a shallow scar over the right eyebrow.

Is this correct?

TIA

what a patient is telling them if they don't know English well enough to dictate an H&P? I have one of the most frustrating dictators right now. He makes no sense when he speaks b/c he doesn't know proper subject/verb agreement. He makes his dictation usually one long sentence. He confuses one English word for another and I'm supposed to sort his mess out. Does he seriously have an MD?

Why don't they send this work overseas and let his own people figure out his language for 3-4 cents per line and let me do the American doctors? The overseas MTs are probably getting our American dictators while we're stuck with these.

What's the general consensus with regards to Medware?  Thanks in advance.

I am trying to find out what are the advantages/disadvantages of Lanier versus other platforms? 

Harder/easier?

Outdated/up-to-date?

Two of my favories: Judging Amy and American Dreams, have both been cancelled. I'm down to ER now - can anybody point me at something that I should be watching? No HBO at our house, just regular satellite programming, broadcast channels. I started to get into Everwood last spring....

Has anyone ever done this...?

I am thinking about making a bunch of copies of my resume and writing a cover letter describing my abilities........then distributing it to different clinics around the area. 

I work from home but want a second job as an in-house Transcriptionist to gain some experience and also because I am not making that much money here at home!

Has anyone ever done this?  If so, have you had success doing it?  How about putting an ad on Craigslist for transcriptionist services?

If anyone uses this program...could you please let me know what text Expander program you can use...If this question has been answered before...sorry...I don't get on here every day, and have been using Inscribe without any text expander because the one I have does not work with it...so I thought I would get some input as to which ones are able to be used with this software.

Thanks!

NM

I have been doing transcription for many years now.  For many of those years I was paid 9 cents/line per 70 character count with the WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) program.  I have now been switched over to Microsoft Word and there is a variation in word/line count and a drop in my pay.  Can anyone explain this please?

I am a new MT, I was wondering if anyone was selling any "AAMT Book of Style-2nd Edition" or the CD Rom version? Also looking for a current Medical Spellchecker?

Please let me know

Angie

angifogg@aol.com

Or, at least I think it's funny. It's on my blog. Hope it makes someone laugh today.

http://thrivingandtranscribing.com/?p=61

Take care,

Diane

job numbers.  How do you keep record of work completed each day?