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Anyone have an electronic dictionary intalled on their PC that they love? - Posted By: irwJill

I want to purchase one to install on my computer so I don't always have to drag the big one out. I don't always want to use OneLook or other online dictionaries either, or sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for online. Soooooo, if you own one I would love to hear which one it is, and what you like or dislike about it. TIA!

What is your stance on giving notice? sm - Posted By: Nony for now

I have a job that I have had since about the first of the year. I HATE IT. They run out of work, micro manage and make veiled threats. I feel that I work for them one more day, I am gonna die! The pressure is terrible and it has made me sick.

I went back to work recently for my last IC company. They asked me and I had missed the people and the work. They pay better than the above company and I want to work for them full time. We have all agreed to a very workable schedule and I am anxious to get started.

Do I give the first company notice, and if so, how much do I need to give? Would you walk out on a job? It would be burning my bridges behind me and I know that, but I don't think that first company has a bright future in transcription anyway. I am rearranging my schedule so that I can finish my Master's degree and get out of MT once I have my PhD in another 3-4 years, in any case. Perhaps a burned bridge is not all that important right now.

My health is suffering and I am having anginal pain again because of the job stress. I have not had a full night of sleep in about 4 months because I have been chasing work. I want out, but I want to do the honorable thing too. No, they would not give me notice if they wanted to get rid of me!

Tell me your opinions please.

Off Topic. Does anyone take Lexapro? - Posted By: No Name

I was on it for generalized anxiety disorder and it worked great. I felt like me minus the anxiety. No side effects at all. But I did some research about weight gain and so I stopped taking it. I was only on it for one month and the weight gain supposedly starts to appear after a few months to a year. And we arent just talking 5 pounds or so. People are reported 30-50 pounds.

I would like to go back on it but I have been really good with my exercise routine and am really looking forward to fitting nicely into that bikini this summer. I am torn.

Anyone out there who takes Lexapro and has not gained weight????

Frustrated - Posted By: horselover26

Does anyone make money transcribing/editing???? What If so, how, where do you work. Maybe I have not found my niche. I was hoping this would be it. What companies are good? I spent two years going to school and have been transcribing for 2 years and editing for almost a year. I prefer to be an IC and have had many, many people tell me they want to become a Transcriptionist and work from home. I tell them don't bother it is not worth the time and lack of money. I am probably just too slow. The problem is that I really enjoy doing this and love the freedom and working from home. So, I plug away. I am ready to quit and just scrapbook and quilt. Forget work.

Telephone dictation for your clients - Posted By: Sarah

Anyone interested in offering toll free dial in dictation to their clients? I found a small company that is offering this service for $45/mo. It seems very reliable and they deliver my dictation files via FTP as a .wav file.

If interested reply back and I'll send you their contact info.

Any suggestion for a monitor that - Posted By: Thanks!

does not cause eyestrain. It would be much appreciated.

Someone please give me a swift kick in the - Posted By: Just me

rear end to get me to work. I go on a week long vacation starting Saturday with no kids and today I did about 1/4 of my normal lines and that might be padding it a little bit. I was too busy looking at pictures of where we're going. Did I mention no kids are going with me?

Before I get comments about why'd I have kids if I'm so happy they're not going to be there. I have 3 teens who act 65, two 13yo, 12-year-old and a 2-year-old. Three are hitting puberty and one just hit the terrible 2's. It will be our first vacation w/o kids in a long, long, long time. After only 3 days here my mom is asking why I'm not bald already from pulling my hair out. Now if work could just pay me to sit and look at pictures all day and daydream, I'd have it made.

Adjustable Keyboard question - please see message - Posted By: Kim

I have a desk with a drawer in the very front. I want to get an adjustable keyboard. Will the drawer make this impossible or can the keyboard be mounted to the bottom of the drawer? Thank you.

what are considered ops notes? - Posted By: anon

I currently type clinic reports but I would like a change. I was considering ops notes. I am not sure what it means when a company indicates Ops notes experience.

New Job - Posted By: MTMommy

I start a new job today. Wish me luck.

Check this out... - Posted By: nm

http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__SR281

AZ - Posted By: AZMT

Any AZ MTs out there? I have a quick question.

Moderator...what happened to the Cheney posts? - Posted By: can't find them anywhere...nm

DQS short-cuts to Word 2003? HELP! - Posted By: Imback

Does anyone know how to do this. I have been searching and searching for info and cannot find anything. Please help! Thanks.

Anyone have pets that pester more than sm - Posted By: mlstoo

the family, phone or doorbells? I swear my 2 dogs have it in for me today. I didn't take them for their 1/2 hour walk this morning and now they are being absolutely horrible. Won't leave me alone for anything. Yikes, what a mistake. Yep, this is the absolute worst they have ever been. One at the door staring at me and the other under the desk pawing my leg. I've skipped the walk for 2 days now. Tomorrow I won't and I bet they leave me alone! Shame on me. Full moon maybe?

OMG! Just finished listening to a doc with the - - Posted By: gmg

next thing to laryngitis! What a treat that was!

Attn-Managment - Either use BOS or don't, one or the other! - Posted By: Fingers

I was told on a new account to buy the AHDI-III BOS and to strictly adhere to it on all accounts for the company. Okay, no problem, did so. Now I am starting to get reports back from QA: March 14, 2009, should be 3/14/09 in the body of a report, and 1-3 times a day should be one to three times a day (spelling out numbers under ten), and on and on. When I pull in text from previous reports, I see abbreviations in the Impression or Plan, etc. Sooo, where does the BOS come in? This is driving me frickin crazy. Why don't you either use it or not use it, one or the other!!!!

MP Word - Posted By: alsuz

Hi,

Has anyone tried MP word? se

Goldbird Moderator maybe you can help (sm) - Posted By: quietmoods

I've emailed the administrator twice now and received no response (even gave her a few of the passwords that I know I've used on the internet).

I used to go into chat once in a while to see if anyone was there, but in the past few months I haven't been able to. I tried every password I know I've used and even tried to re-add myself, but it says I'm already in the system (I know that because I used to be able to get into chat). I've asked to have the password sent to me but it's never showed up. How can I get my password sent to me again?

Glossary conversion question...would appreciate ANY help! sm - Posted By: KyMT

I have been using Instant Text for quite a few years, but wanted to switch to Stedman's Smart Type. My co-worker uses it on the same account and is doing on average 50 lines per hour more than me. She and I type about the same speed so I'd at least like to give it a try.

Does anyone know if it is possible to convert my IT glossary into Smart Type? I guess I'm an old dog, but I just can't bring myself to start from scratch with a new glossary. Thank you!

Turbo Tax Home Business Edition! Tax Q's!! - Posted By: Procrastinator

OK, I know you probably are sick of taxes, but here I am just getting started, as usual. I always owe so much $$ that it makes me sick, and so I procrasinate. At any rate, I had used Turbo Tax Home Business for several years and it was GREAT until last year. Then they changed the program and it tanked for me, but I have high hopes that maybe this year its better and improved??? My problem is that I work for a company - that big one who shall remain nameless, and am an employee, but I always take the home office deduction -- have done so for 20 years, as my home is taken over by my office. At any rate, last year on Turbo Tax Home Business you could NOT enter your rent or mortgage or any utilities off of a W2 form - you had to be an IC. I also am a per diem IC, so I have a few hundred dollars in W9 forms. But Turbo Tax last year would NOT let me use this home office deduction - it couldn't recognize it from a technical aspect with the W2 form. I'm just about to blow $100+ on the online version, and thought maybe I'd ask here first. Has anybody used Home Business edition TT this year? Is it great like it used to be? Any snags? I know I was not alone last year with this business office deduction as April 14th this board and all other MT boards were jammed up with hundreds of us trying to figure out how to manually override this snag! With no luck.... Anybody have any experiences with TT this year? Those are my only deductions, by the way - just home office and utilities, no other itemizations. So it should be easy.... LOL! LOL!

Outsourcing sm - Posted By: SmartyPanty

Our jobs are going overseas and I had an idea! Lets outsource the US Government to India.

I'd bet it would cost a lot less. When candidates are running for office, they can use those Indian phone banks to explain their platforms. The accents are thick, but what does it matter? Politicians are not outstanding speakers and when it comes to listening to the people their skills are nil. Employ an Indian to run your rhetoric...raise funds...and sit in a caucus.

Let Indians do the accounting for the feds. I am willing to bet that for 3 cents a line a "highly educated" Indian could find all the wastage of $100 hammers and $1000 toilet seats. Let them type up bills to be put before congress, they type cheap and we all know that. I can't speak for the accuracy, but it is CHEAP.

Better yet, buy American! Shun the goods from China, India, and all those third world countries. Keep it at home.

And um, Mr. President? Exporting democracy doesn't mean you export American jobs...

Need Help receiving encrypted files through Express Scribe! - Posted By: Bon

Is there anyone out there who could tell me how I could listen to encrypted files in my Express Scribe which I receive through email??? I am able to receive and listen to them just fine when not encrypted, but cannot figure out how to set ES up to use a password. When I click on the voice file in my inbox, it now takes me to ES, but displays an ERROR box stating - unable to open DSS file, this means the file might not be a true DSS file or the file is corrupt.

Yesterday, I posted this on the wrong board, but did receive some response anyway and thanks! Still now working though. Someone told me that I needed to get the User Id # from the clinic's software program they are using. The person I subcontract for thought that the User Id from her Olympus DSS software would work, but I am not so sure since the files originally come from the clinic.

I would rather not have to purchase the Olympus program if not necessary. I would think there would be some way to receive these encrypted files with their password. I have also tried to leave the User ID area blank or enter 0, but this does not work either. Keep getting the ERROR message as above.

The files are coming from a dss program called Olympus if that matters. Any insight would be greaaaatly appreciated!!!

Value of SUM program...What would you pay???>>> - Posted By: MTwannaB

I asked this on the equipment board, but I think maybe I'll get a better response here, so I hope its okay to post it here, too.

Does anyone know what the SUM CDs are worth? There are some on ebay. The beginning one is 2005, and usually they are the older ones on ebay. I looked on the HPI website, but they come with books and are VERY expensive.

Anyway, does anyone have an idea of what they are worth without any extra books? I want to bid on them, but don't know how much. They are at $9.99 each now. There is a beginning one, an advanced one and a surgery one. Shoot. I want them, but don't want to pay too much, you know?

Thanks for any input.

Coding and VR - Posted By: MTSOO

It occurs to me that since coding is the up and coming field in which to go, why isn't that already automated? Since VR is coming at us at warp speed and entails much more than coding, why is that coding is not the first to be peopleless? Any ideas?

C-phone and phone plans.... - Posted By: MT4Life

I have a company that I have recently hired on with that uses c-phones. At home I have an unlimited long distance plan, but I'm wondering if while traveling there is a plan that you can get in order to use a c-phone in a motel, relative's homes, etc. I like to be able to still work while traveling and I feel this is going to limit me. Any suggestions or ideas?

What is the minimum lines per week required by employers for part-time for transcription? - Posted By: Curious

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Is anyone else having this problem - Posted By: with the MTStars site? (sm)

When I click on posts I have not read they normally change from blue to purple to indicate that they have been read, but since last night this is not happening. Just curious if others are experiencing the same trouble.

Need an IC Contract example... - Posted By: Help...

Anyone have or know a website with IC Contract examples. I need to type one up by tomorrow, and I am at a complete loss.

Thanks again! This forum is awesome!

Does anyone work for a company-sm - Posted By: Dee

that pays for reports that have been typed and then the doctors decides not to use it? I just did a 13.41 minute report and did not see it in my line count so I went into another program to look it up. It is in the 'deleted' folder. I hate this.

My sup's response is "We give you 28 lines for every addendum report or dictated change so it all evens out". BALONEY!!!! If a doc dictates "go back to Joe Blow's report and add/take out we are to get 28 lines to type this and put in Q/A and they will correct the report. Same thing if an addendum to a job needs to be done. I have had none of these jobs for weeks so not getting paid for the 13.41 job does not even out for me.

How does your company handle these types of deleted jobs?

Converting Instant Text to SpeedType - Posted By: Anna

A friend loaned me an trial version of SpeedType. I have tried to get my Instant Text glossaries to convert over and it will not separate the keyword from the entry. The SpeedType then assigned the entries keywords of 5001, 5002, etc. Is there anyway I can fix this?

Advance magazine? Anyone notice the letter to the editor? - Posted By: SDGal

It's on page 5 entitled Does Walmart or Home Depot pay better?......Gee, I wonder what company this person is talking about? Okay, which one of you sent this in? hahaha!

Well, while everything the writer of this letter says is true about the company, I think we all know most of us make a bit more than 8 to 10 bux an hour. For myself, it's about twice that. If I really were only making that for what I'm doing, I WOULD head over the the Walmart or Target. I would NOT do this for 10 bux an hour NO WAY in HE double toothpicks!

Spider bite? - Posted By: tia

Has anyone every been bit by a spider? Isn't an ER doctor suppose to be able to identify a poison spider. I got bit yesterday on the left thumb. I would not have worried about it if was anywhere else or the fact that I was alone with no wheels. My husband had just left to go to a ball game.I called him to tell him that I had just been bitten (He hates spiders, he had been bitten by one and spent two weeks on crutches). He comes home to take me to the emergency room along with the dazed spider. The doctor could not tell what kind of spider it was. My husband had looked it up on the net and it seemed to be a brown recluse. The ER doctor said there was really nothing to do except give me a Benadryl (I never take medicine or go to the doctor) and antibiotics to take if I see an infection starting and kept me for 30 minutes in case of a reaction. In the meantime, my husband (a science teacher) goes to his classroom (school is next to the hospital) to put the spider under the microscope and do more research on the spider. As it turns out, the spider was not a brown recluse but a brown house spider often mistaken for one. The only way to tell the difference is the number of eyes. LOL. Anyway, I felt so foolish and because taking the Benadryl was out like a light the rest of the afternoon and evening. Wasted the rest of my day.

Word vs WP - Posted By: Pokey

I "retired" from MTing two years ago. Alas, I now find I retired too early ($).

I've been looking at all the ads and note that so many companies require "Word". I have Windows XP with WordPerfect 10. I am just wondering if I need to spend $200+ to buy "Word" in order to apply to most of these companies. I hope someone can advise me on whether to buy the Word software or not. Thanks.

radiology - Posted By: Sandy

Could some of you who type only radiology tell me approximately how many reports you transcribe per 8-hour shift? Thanks.

What would you be doing today if you didn't have to work? - Posted By: pollsterama

I'd be sitting outside in the sunshine reading a book and watching the kids play in the kiddie pool. Hmm, sounds good to me. I wonder how fast I can get this work done. oi!

Why is it doctors cannot count? sm - Posted By: ChuckM

I realize this is perhaps somewhat of a rhetorical question, but why is it doctors seem to get so lost when numbering things (and most of mine crap out after 2, or maybe 3 on a good day).

And, on a related note, when they realize they are numerically challenged, why can they not simply say "next number" instead of the usual, "Number 4 ... no, 2 ... no 3 ... No, I guess 2...."?

Softflex Computer Gloves - Posted By: MTBlab

Has anyone tried the Softflex Computer Gloves lately? I am thinking of ordering some. I have some computer gloves bought locally, but they have Latex in them, and I think the Softflex might be Latex free...?

Happy Saturday!

What was the Microsoft keyboard someone was talking about the other day - Posted By: tried to find old post -

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Hey, you tech MT's, help please. - Posted By: Router question

I got a LinkSys router at Wal-Mart and with tech help, I got my Vista computer and other computer going at the same time; however, I unplugged the cable from the phone jack one night, as it was storming, and could not get both computers back on line after that. I actually have returned the router and doing without for now.

I would like your experiences and any help that you could give me. I have used cable router before, but not for phone line -- DSL. Thanks.

Where is a good place to - Posted By: buy MS Word? sm

I am looking at IC jobs and most require Word 2000 or above. I have a Dell computer and it came with WP. I need the full version, not an upgrade. Does anyone know of any deals online? or is it best to go somewhere like Staples?

TIA

Radiology pay report vs line? - Posted By: Indiana

Any opinions on which pays better, 9 Cents a line or $1.10 a report. I have always been paid by the hours, and unsure of which way is better. I am a fairly fast producer.

s/l enfalocele - sm - Posted By: gmg

"CT showed normal changes of s/l enfalocele with a midline shift of the colon." Patient had the s/l enfalocele as an infant. TIA!

Crazy question for this board, but - Posted By: does anyone wear wigs? SM

I've really been considering one. Just to wear on occasions, but same as my hair color. I have no idea about wearing wigs, but went to a wig store yesterday and felt really silly trying on wigs. I tried on some Raquel Welch wigs (she has some gorgeous ones). I know many people (ex, cancer patients) wear them all the time, but would just like to hear about someone's personal experience. My hair just never seems to do what I want it to, and it would be great, especially on weekends, just to pull on a wig and go!! Talk about bad hair days, I have them!

Dial-In Dictation Suggestions - Posted By: John

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best, cheapest method of providing toll free dial-in dictation for physicians?

I need from 1-3 simultaneous lines for physicians to dial in and dictate, recorded digitally (not on tapes).

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Speaking of information... - Posted By: don't mind a background check but....

I just called the phone company to move some old lines off my property from when I used to have three phone lines here to work. The lines really hang down low, so it's a safety issue. The guy gives me the third degree saying that I have to answer his "CI information". He asks me if I'm married, if I'm employed, where I work, for a relative's phone number, and all sorts of stuff. I asked him what he needed to know this for since I pay my account in full every month, so he tells me it's for the 9-1-1 system. Why would they need to know all of this? He never did set up the service call or tell me if there would be a charge. Most companies only update information if they think they're going to need to put legal action against someone for not paying a bill. Mine's paid!

Sound card recommendations? - Posted By: Sue

Does anyone have recommendations for a good sound card? I currently have a Creative Audigy LS sound card and would like to replace it with a sound card that might provide stronger and more crisp sound for transcription. Thanks

Instant Text # of advisory lines - Posted By: I can't change them?

For some reason when I try to change my advisory lines from 10 to 5 they keep linking to things with 10 or more lines. Why is it doing this? I just want 5 lines to show in my advisory phrases and lines. Thanks for any help

I am sorry about posting this here, but - Posted By: sm

I need help asap. I asked on the tech board about a couple of things: 1. Since I installed VWPlayer on my PC, it has been running a lot slower and my screen has been freezing causing me to lose jobs. Also, everywhere I look for directions on backing up autocorrect, it says something about look in C:ProgramFilesMicrosoftOffice and then it says office10, but my only option is to look in Office and when I do, it does not say macros. I have MS Word 2000 if that helps. Also, I just recently added some memory (going from 128 to 384 after addng 256) Are there any techies around? Thanks for all your help!!

AI - Posted By: EmptyMT

Elliott should NOT have gone home!!!