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Doc said CO2 88.4 - isn't that kinda high? - Posted By: gmg

NM

Question re: I/C - Posted By: Frankie

I am assuming I/C stands for independent contractor, right?

I am new to the I/C concept. I have been an MT for 6+ years, but have always worked at a hospital. Looking at jobs on-line and some of them state I/C only. How do you become an I/C? What steps are required, do you have your own equipment, what type of software, what do you charge, etc. Any information would be great and much appreciated. Please no harsh/bashing comments. Thanks in advance.

word 2007 Help - Posted By: Debra

I am trying to get used to Word 2007. When I try to copy (CTL +C) and paste it will not paste with CTL + V. I have to use the mouse and click on the paste button. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Anyone know if you can use - Posted By: EmptyMT

Vonage for dial-up? Thanks!

Losing expander by switching companies - Posted By: Jeanie

If I decided to switch companies but am using an Expander program that is the company's software, I would have to start from square one with new company. (There is no way around that, correct?)

Not planning on leaving now but was just thinking that if that should become a consideration, my line count would drop big time until I could build all those expansions again. Has anyone ever gone through that? Do you remember how long it took to get back up to speed?

Selling plasma sm - Posted By: anonymouse

Has anyone tried this as a way of making extra money?

I really need to find an additional source of income and the local plasma center is paying out about $200 a month for plasma. Can't work a second job outside the home because of mom with Alzheimer and 2 teenage boys that would likely kill each other before I could get home.

Looking for a tray for my keyboard... - Posted By: sunny

one of those that goes under the desk, slides out, and can be adjusted up and down for height. I had one when I worked at the hospital and would love to have one at home. Do any of you know where I could order one?

Now I've seen it all... - Posted By: MQPerson

Just got a check from corporate for...hold on...1 cent. Yes, thats right - 1 CENT. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Actually I didn't think you could even WRITE a check for a penny. Oh well, I guess a penny saved is a penny earned. Rotten bananas to MQ, I say.

Help with C-phone - Posted By: hepme

Bought a Dictaphone C-phone online and when I got it, none of the buttons at the top (the two rows that run up and down) are marked, so therefore I can't find the headset button to turn it on. Does this have to be programmed to make one and if so, how do you do that?

help with recording off line please...sm - Posted By: DCMT

Okay dating myself, but many eons ago when I worked for YOG we recorded the work off line onto a hand-held microrecorder and then used a regular old transcriber to do the work. I know I had a grey and a black cord and the only other thing I can find is my index card telling me that I dial in on my Dictaphone...black cord is in the ear phone and grey cord is in the microphone...that is it.

I now need to record work off line for a few weeks and can not find my cords (was 8 years ago) or how I did this.

Does anyone else record off line onto a tape to do at a later time or some place else? I really am at a loss and the one guy at Radio Shack was not much help either...

ANY HELP REALLY APPRECIATED

DotMT

About Politics Board (sm) - Posted By: Very Curious

is ForuMatrix part of MTStars? I couldn't quite figure it out. I see Billers/Coders forum is hosted there as well. Please explain?

Have you ever had most of the text in - sm - Posted By: Flibertygibbit

one of your My Documents files in your PC just plain VANISH? I had a spelling reference file I'd built over many months just plain disappear, except for just a couple of lines. It's so WEIRD! I've done a search of the hard drive, checked the Recycle Bin, etc. But it's nowhere to be found. I hadn't backed it up because it was still a relatively new file for me, and there was more I wanted to add to it first.

So my question is this: Is there a way to retrieve or restore an apparently "lost" file?

Anyone know of MTSO's using Vianeta platform? - Posted By: Terry

Anyone know of MTSO's using Vianeta platform? Could you let me know who they are?

Thanks

Stumped with MS Word - Posted By: anon

I currently have Word 2000 installed on my computer and "an update for Word 2007" is there anyway that I can install the update and keep it separate from Word 2000? Starting 2 new jobs and one uses one version while the other uses the newer version. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

TIA

Problem with Shorthand in ExText... help! - Posted By: MT1

For some reason I have just recently starting having an issue where my caps are locking while working in ExText, and I was able to isolate it to Shorthand. (When it happens if I bring ShortHand up and then hide it again, the problem clears). It doesn't happen outside of ExText. What is strange is that the first few weeks I was working in ExText it wasn't a problem, but now it is happening with increasing frequency. And toggling caps lock and shift won't clear it, I have to bring up SH to clear it.

Anyone else run into this problem, or maybe just have a thought on why this would be happening? TIA!

Anyone successful with full screen monitor sm - Posted By: Gone from MQ

hooked connected to a laptop and how did you get it to work. I have been trying to get my monitor and laptop to interact with one another, but no such look. Can anyone help me with this? I do not think I can look at this laptop screen all day. Thanks!!

I would appreciate any information about Radnet platform please. sm - Posted By: BML

I would really appreciate it if anybody with Keystrokes who uses a RadNet platform to please e-mail me. I have never worked on this platform, and I have some questions.

Thank you.

I's and O's - Posted By: mt3

I need some clarification on the meaning of I's and O's in the VITAL SIGNS section of a PE. Does anyone know what the numerical ranges might be? I have been an MT for 3 years and I have only come across I's and O's maybe a couple of times. I want to say it stands for "In's and Out's" Is this the measurement in cc of IV medication/saline input and maybe urine output? Thanks for all of your help!

Totally not MT related but lots of smart people here for advice, I hope. - Posted By: just me

My son had a girlfriend some 8 years ago, she ran off with another guy to another state and it really didn't hurt my feelings at all. They had gone through a lot in the less than a year that they were together including my son helping her cope with a rape trauma that she had been through. I wish truly I could remember the number of months between the rape and her leaving, but I felt it was a short time. That really doesn't matter, but 5 years ago this girl sent an e-mail telling us our son was the possible father of her child "you do the math" but she "really thinks the other guy is the father." My son called her and she was going to send paperwork but never did. Now jump forward to yesterday, my son gets notified via phone that she's looking for him, that she has his daughter, and we're really not sure what to do. The girl does not know where we or my son lives but knows the general area. I'm afraid she'll just show up on my doorstep one day but my son doesn't live here anymore, he's a man with a life of his own. What would you do? Does anyone know the legality of all this?

Starting job using Olympus Player/pedal - does this have a good player with slow down speeds - I do - Posted By: not like the express scribe player. see message

Until now I have always used company software with player included. I hate to spend money and find out the player is mickey mouse!!

Thanks- you may e-mail me if you prefer.

Spaces vs no spaces - Posted By: AtHomeMT

What do you think of getting paid 12 cents a line/65 cpl, no hard returns or spaces?

Question for home MTs... - Posted By: feeling isolated at my computer

I have been working from home as an MT for 6 years now. Though I love the work, I am finding myself increasingly isolated and lonely. I get little communication from the company I work for, work alone all day long, and have a dwindling pool of people I know because I used to meet people at work when I worked outside the home. I am also finding myself less flexible. If one minor glitch happens in my day I am ready to just go back to bed or have a panic attack. It is like I have zero tolerance for any deviations from what is �supposed to happen.� I have always been somewhat of a stickler for my routine, but it is ridiculous now. I should also mention that my husband has been working out of the country for 7 months now. Anyone else finding that the longer they work from home the more anal they become? If so, any ideas on how to resolve it??

disappearing cursor...PLEASE HELP - Posted By: tjurs

I am going crazy. I do not know why, but all of a sudden my cursor seems to be disappearing on my. It sure seems that everytime I go into anything via IE I have problems.

At any rate,does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?

thanx

tiffin

Needing advice from others in my situation.... - Posted By: Frustrated

I am needing suggestions and advice from fellow IC transcriptionists who also have subcontractors working for you. I am just a one person typing service and have taken on a couple subcontractors. The one I am having trouble with has been with me for about a month and is always coming up with excuses for why the work has not been sent yet. I received thousands of resumes for this position and there were a lot who were more qualified than she, but I liked her enthusiasm and I am one who is willing to help a new person break into this field if they have had some experience and knowledge in that respect. I am at a point of deciding whether to let her go and find another or keep her on to give her "one more chance". This is more like her third chance I would be giving her. I really like her as a person, but she has never worked from home and I just don't know if it is going to work out or not. How have you all handled situations like this? This is my first experience with something like this and I'm just not sure of how long to give a person before cutting them. Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.

Prevacid/Protonix Reaction. Anyone ever had a reaction to these mediciations? (sm)) - Posted By: Southernbelle

My dad was placed on Prevacid/Protonix for chronic Coumadin anaphylaxis and it makes him very agitated or tearful. Anyone ever experience this?

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.

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

word expanders - Posted By: sue

Has anyone used SmartType as a word expander? How do you find it?

Can anyone tell me the website for US Transcription? - Posted By: Meghan

I would appreciate it. Thanks.

What's your anger management strategy? - Posted By: Hayseed

I'm finishing up a day of the most horrendous ESL I've heard in a long time. I don't leave blanks, even if that means spending 20 minutes on a 1-minute report trying to figure it out. This in turn causes me much distress and I know I'm not alone, as others frequently mention the pitfalls of ESL-hell.

After I finish posting this, I'm going to go outside and do something to release this built-up anger that will probably get me hurt. How do you guys do it without going absolutely insane?!?

Question on moving 1 piece of furniture - Posted By: madhattie

I now live in Florida and have a 75-pound chest of drawers that belonged to my mother in the Midwest. I want to bring it down here, but I don't have a truck and my car is a compact, cannot two anything with it.

Does anyone have experience with this type of a small move? Would it be better to have it packaged and sent via a service like DHL or somebody? I would rather not entrust it to a moving van company.

Thanks for any suggestions.

LX 231 Ovation - Posted By: PTS

Can anyone help me hook up an LX 231 Ovation station? There seems to be an extra cord.

VIRUS!!!! - Posted By: Amanda

Someone please help me. I have a virus obviously that is blocking all access to the internet. Even when I try to pull up my email, it says that is has a problem and it wants me to buy stuff - obviously, my boyfriend did not know that you never click anything when you get those messages and now I have serious trouble. It appears as though it is a windows product (which I am sure it is not). Can somebody give me someway, somehow to get it gone?

Working for a national, do you ever feel you can't ask for - Posted By: ICMT

an increase in pay because you're concerned you'll price yourself right out of a job?

I make 9 cents a line IC. I get my line count pumped up to where I want by hard work on the accounts I'm working. I get pretty efficient in that account and then I get pushed to different work where I have to start all over again and work really hard to make a decent line count. It's seemed to happen again, so I'm thinking about requesting a pay increase but then I start thinking that I'm already at a "better than most" pay from what I've seen posted here and elsewhere. What do you think? I'm interested in opinions if anyone will share. Thanks.

This this good? - Posted By: curious MT

I just accepted an offer of $1.15 a minute for work. Is this good?

Is ExSpeech user friendly? - Posted By: Tilly

Can you make good lines on Dictaphone ExSpeech voice recognition?

Editing Stedman's Spellchecker ?? - Posted By: Getting Older

Can someone tell me how to do this? There are some boo-boos in there and I would like to delete them. I'm using the spellchecker on Word 2003 and XP is my system. TIA.

Jodi, where are you? - Posted By: MTPockets

Hey Jodi, we haven't heard from you since the weekend. We are worried. Is everything okay?

Su from Alltype - Posted By: cathyc

Su,

If you are out there, please send me your email. I moved and lost it. Interested in talking to you about Alltype. Thanks. Hope to hear from you soon.

Cathy

B4U get a job at Wal-Mart, check this out... - Posted By: RadGuy

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/26/news/fortune500/walmart.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

And we thot MQ was the only bad guy!

Good Morning - Posted By: TA

We are soon going to convert to electronic medical records. I am still going to transcribe reports for the doctor. If I work from home and the doctor wants me to type straight in to electronic medical records system- how is that going to work? Will I still be able to do it from my computer or will doctor have to purchase laptop?????

Thanks

Tired of feeling ill - Posted By: Mom-CMT

Anyone ever feel like this - just no energy, headache, and kind of achy for days now. Any ideas what this is caused from - maybe a virus?

I just noticed my right thumb twitching. I tell ya I'm falling apart! Last week my rear end and - Posted By: MissouriMT

left leg were going numb and now my thumb is twitching. Ya know how you have your thumb poised above the space bar, well whenever I pause my typing my thumb twitches slightly and softly taps the space bar. I keep rubbing my hand hoping it will stop. Anybody else have this problem?

Maybe I'm getting to old to be an MT anymore. Been doing this for almost 14 years and never so much as had a headache. Now within the last year, I have head, neck and shoulder problems with muscle spasms and tightness, my rear end problems, and now this! Frustrating to say the least!

Can someone please tell me how to contact IRS... - Posted By: Tired of this mess....

anonymously to report an MTSO who is dictatorial in setting schedule and pay? I'm literally SICK of this and I am going to DO something instead of complaining about it. Maybe if just one individual does something about these cheapo, demanding MTSOs, it will stop after time. Thanks for the info!

Question about glues!! - Posted By: MaryL

I know this should be on the Word Board, but more people check this one.

What is the difference between Tisseal glue and TISSEEL glue?

okay, what's those gloves some MTs wear? - Posted By: no way!! sm

i never paid much attention before, but 2 of my fingers are so cold; and now i want to know!!

I love my doctor, really I do. - Posted By: jus me

"Trichotillomania, gosh that's a long word to spell."

He's the guy who spells out lots of words, even though I've done him for years and always have spelled them the way he does. Thank goodness he didn't spell trichotilomania for me today.

Style - Posted By: confused

I've been working at home as an employee for over a year - using a style that was provided by the employer - now I have received a message that the style is switching to AAMT styleguide which is different from what I have been doing. Has this happened to anyone else? Just wondering why anyone would change midstream. This is an old account and I don't know if there were complaints or if the style is being dictated by the company or the physicians - who don't really use any kind of style - we just try to make it uniform.

WANTED: SUGGESTIONS TO HELP WITH DAY SLEEPING - Posted By: Alice

I like working the graveyard shift, but am having trouble getting consistently good sleep during the day. So far, I have a dark mask, ear plugs, and have tried both diphenhydramine and melatonin as sleep aids. The sleep aids have not really been effective. I also find that playing soft music in the background is helpful in blunting the sound of traffic outside my window, which I can hear despite the ear plugs. Does anyone have any other helpful suggestions, tips, tricks, OTC pharmaceutical remedies of which I'm not yet aware? TIA..

Pay for HIPPA violations - Posted By: babydox

I'm not certain who gets charged where transcription is concerned - but the physician office gets hit with it for their office personnel. I have a standing monthly appointment with a physician and I got so tired of them calling my name with a waiting room full of people that I first complained to the office manager - and then when that didn't work - went to HIPPA. The next month - they were using a numbering system - sort of like at the ice cream store or the court house - you know, now serving #-whatever. They have a piece of tape placed on the floor and you must stand behind it while another person is at the check-in counter, and they do not use your name until you are in a closed examing room. I think that if HIPPA is to be taken seriously, then steps need to be taken to make sure that it is adhered to, even if it does mean making changes in office procedures, etc.