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I'm graduating to a USB foot pedal and have question.  Are all USB foot pedals created equal or do you need certain ones for certain platforms?  I need to know what to use with Chartnet.  Thanks to anybody who knows!

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a local college has a job posted for an ESL instructor. Any takers?

can i stack one on top the other on their sides? and/or put a printer on top this way, to save more desk space? 

another thought was whether i might put one sideways under my monitor -- but it seems like i remember your monitor should be positioned not too high so that your eyes are looking slightly downward -- do you know?

thanks!

Is there a switch that I can buy in order to one use 1 monitor with 2 HD.  I thought it was called KVM or something to that effect.  Please help me, as I would like to only use 1 monitor, but need two computers. 

Thank you.

I worked for MQ for over 2 decades, from back when they were Transcriptions Limited.  Have nearly 34 years experience in EVERYTHING except pathology. 

I was offered a job with a company where I would do urgent care from an FTP site using my Word 2003.  That is fine.  My question is, how do you count lines?  They said something about counting lines using Word 2003 as everything on the page is paid for.  I don't even know how to do that.  That is what happens when you work for one company for so long, you get use to their program and never think about it.

Is there a way to count lines for every single document all at once or do you have to count lines for each document?  Haven't started this yet, but sure would like to know what I am doing before I get hooked up into this.

Thanks ahead of time!

Anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to replace using the mouse to scroll down the scroll bar line by line?  I have a neck problem, and would like the text to stay towards the top of the screen.  It would be easier for me to do this with a shortcut rather than reaching for the mouse each time.

The "page down" key scrolls down, but not a line at a time.

Would appreciate any tips on this, thanks.

I have a Voice Solutions dictation system that will happily convert DS4000 voice files to digital when they are downloaded (wave files). However, it will not recognize any other files for conversion. I had a physician download .WAM files from his DS-30 and my dictation system would not convert it. Anyone have any suggestions?  I would greatly appreciate any input.

Thanks!!!

I just had to post this as it reminds me so much of a lady who posted about her family, saying that they were ungrateful.

I was going to take the Amtrak train to visit my family on Thanksgiving, it's only about an hour on the Amtrak, and about $80.00 for the ticket!  My stepmother says to me that it would be way to much trouble for them to drive the 15 minutes to the station to pick me up, they are having company that day.  My father would spend his whole Thanksgiving day going back and forth to the train station.  But I was welcome to come the day before Thanksgiving and stay until the day after Thanksgiving, that way they could drop me off at the train station when they didn't have company.  Company meaning her children, who have always come first.  So I am supposed to go to their house at an alloted time?  I'll be darned if I'm going to do that.

Now I'll be darned if I am going to pay $80.00 for a train ticket to spend a day with a family with this attitude.  I told them I won't be coming, I haven't had the time to spend 3 days there and have to work, and they said it would be too much trouble to pick me up at the train station on Thanksgiving.  Am I right or wrong in not going on Thanksgiving?  Any opinions?

this one about new pay plan............ "Pay rates based upon experience, skill, and work difficulty" is the first 'highlight'....... I have been asking for a raise since MAY and I am level 3 typist, highest level MQ has....  Supposed to be contacted personaly by someone in the future.  Hmmmmm, wonder what they will offer. 

I have a Lanier LX219 that I just hooked up. I have it all programmed (I believe) correctly. I am having a problem with the pedal though. I can play the dictation but I cannot for the life of me figure out the rewind or fast forward on the pedal. It just beeps at me. Do I have something programmed wrong? Does anyone know what I have done wrong? Thanks for any advice.

~Laura

MedRemote wants 4 cpl, and as it usually takes a while to be paid for new work, I need to start out with a lower cost.  Their web site says they start out at 1.7 cpl and it goes down from there depending on how many lines you do.  Just wondering if anybody could share their experience, good or bad.  I do not have money to buy equipment outright at this time so am looking into this alternative.

Any responses greatly appreciated! 

My my my, am i out of touch of my surroundings or my pay just got a bit smaller than last year... cause i could have sworn that i more in my grocery cart last year. am i crazy to get into a contract for only 6 cents per line? Cause everybody is having their trans done by indians at 4 cents per line? I would just to take this moment to reflect on my grocery cart and see the reality setting in. I may even to get back to making burgers as a second income to make my grocery cart at least a bit heavier to push. Just my two cents.... i hope those outsourcing firms dont go that low.

or what is a straight line???

When I am doing ASR, I am wondering if I over-edit?  For example, in the lab section, if the doc says: Hemaglobin is 10.  Hematocrit is 36.  Platlets are 220,000.  If I was striaght typing, I would have those in one sentence without the "is" in there... so in ASR I edit this out. This is just one example. The client has stated no preferences at all.  I am feeling frustrated by not being able to pick up more speed with the ASR and I think this is the reason, my over-editing?

So I am looking for some opinions. When doing ASR, do you just let stuff stand as is, whatever they say goes, or do you edit to make it look pretty .

Hi All - If you are using ChartScript, could you tell me how many lines per hour you average on that platform?  You can either respond to this post or email me.

Thank you!!

Not sure what I do in order to pay taxes or whatever needs to be done.  I'm new to all of this.  Any tips would be appreciated.

My record is around 45.  Right now i'm on a report that is up to about 23.  Talk about toxic!

about MTs who earn $50,000 or more.  A lot of the MTs are saying they have really honed their abbreviation Expanders and I was wondering if anyone would care to share exactly what they do with their expanding programs that increases their lines so drastically. 

In all honesty, I can type around 200 lph without using any kind of Expander and that's with me sitting and typing nonstop for 8 full hours (and we all know with kids, 8 uninterrupted hours is merely a dream).  With my abbreviation expander, I've increased my production drastically, but since I never really type 8 full hours a day, I'll never really know just how drastically.  I know that I can do 1700 to 2000 lines a day and only be "timed in" for eight hours.  How much of the eight hours I actually type, I really can't say.

I was just wondering what kind of secrets others have to tweak their expanding programs.  I mean, instead of doubting those ladies who are making the big bucks, we should be picking their brains.  I've been doing this a long time too and I started out transcribing standard size cassettes on a typewriter (yes, a typewriter!).  My first abbreviation expander was PRD+ that I used with Word Perfect 5.1 on a DOS based system.  I thought I was in heaven! 

So I say KUDOS to those ladies who are successful at what they do and I want to know just how you do it so I can do it too.  Oh, my paychecks are pretty okay, but who couldn't use more money?

a footrest when typing?  I just got mine, still getting use to it, but seems to be helping with the backache and feet swelling.  Anyone else use one?

Why is it that the doctors you know can speak perfectly perfect English...don't?  This guy is slurring entire sentences and when I slow him down, he sounds drunk.  And he doesn't even sound as if he is old enough to drink!

Thank you.  Venting over.  Have a good evening.

I am so burnt out that I am seriously contemplating just taking the summer off.  Does anyone have any opinions on how this would hurt me come fall and job searching.  I have a job at the present time working IC that I absolutely am not enjoying.  I have tried to give it some time but it has been since November and I have not fallen in love with the job yet. 

I am wondering how will look on a resume in the fall to have a 3- or 4-month gap in my resume.  I have 8 years experience and I am sure I would have no trouble getting back in to it, perhaps with a refreshed attitude?  Has anyone done this, and how was the job search afterwards?

Thanks for any advice. 

This is a job listing for PT MT....50K-60K ????LOL

Have you owned a degree on Medical transcription? (owned a degree?)
Do you have some idle times to be spared? (idle times to be spared?)

Give me a break............

http://www.jobvertise.com/job?jobid=6111666&referer=simplyhired

The beta testing for MPLite has been going well.  Phase 3 of the beta testing will begin on Wed or Thurs of this week.

We are soliciting 2 or 3 additional volunteers for this final phase of beta testing, and anticipate this phase to last no longer than a week.  Volunteers should be experienced working transcriptionists, but not so busy that they don't have time to read the help file, and set things up in MPLite.  We need the testers to actually work in the program, and not just look at it.

Testers will receive MPLite free of charge, and all subsequent releases of MPLite free of charge.  If you have the interest and the time to assist us, please send an email to support@mpword.com

Most likely, MPLite will be a the most popular program we have ever produced.  For a preview of it, see our website:

http://www.mpword.com/7mplite.htm

Best wishes,

Vann Joe