Sure, go to Tools, Options, Save, and then look on the bottom....sm
Posted By: LMT on 2008-06-20
In Reply to: Would you mind to give instructions on doing that? - Oh yes it's a full moon for sure
There at the bottom you have options of using a password to modify, password to open, and read-only recommended. You can also do the same thing under File, Save As, on the border of the Save As box on the far right there is the Tools option and brings up the same options, tools, then general options. I would recommend just adding the password to it. Then when you open it, it will ask you for the password to modify or open as a read only.
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Bottom line is administrators trying to save a buck. Many drs. don't want records going offshore.
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I work for the MQ, and they save reports. I don't save them.
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Set your preferences in Word (tools)
to do this. Shorthand does not have this option. If this does not work, you can write a macro to do it, but it would be a very complex macro to write
It's like saying that you don't need the proper tools to be a carpenter. You can't use on
screwdriver with a different type of screw.
It does not sound like you are out of a job. How about going to them instead of complaining to a group of people who cannot help you get started? Call Becky at ext 301. She helps everyone with everything.
MTSOs like you are total tools.
Try treating your MTs like valuable employees, and not expendable machinery, why dontcha?
Here's the productivity tools site
https://secure.bayscribe.com/expander/
I wish I could help you with transferring the expander, but I can't. MIne doesn't work in Bayscribe (I use Stedman's Smartype) so I type it in Word and then cut and paste into Bayscribe.
Good luck with your expander!
My husband is a carpenter and has his own tools. sm
There are a lot of professions, employees, who have to have their own tools including plumbers, mechanics, cement finishers and hairdressers. I am sure there are more, but those I can think of off the top of my head right now.
Short answer - about a month. There are a lot of tools that sm
you can use. Talk to your lead about SH and other ways to increase your speed on there. Once you are used to it, you will actually like it!
Then provide samples and learning tools.
We are all only human. The doctor is supposed to be reviewing and signing these reports they dictate. Are they not? If they sign off a report that has an error, that then makes the dictating physician liable, not the MT. This docking for errors sounds like another scheme to make money off of hard-working MTs. tsk tsk
ditto to anon. Love my software tools that make
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go to Tools -> Word Count in open document and values will show. nm
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I wish I had those options.
I wasn't exactly fired, just let go from the account. The lady who said two other people used Vista now says she never suggested I buy Vista (?) There's no arguing with her. But she knew I had Vista, and never notified me to take it back before I tried to start work. In fact, I was put in touch with a computer tech to work with my Vista. She may be under pressure to keep her name clean. They didn't offer to loan me a computer, only that I buy XP to install, but I'm honestly leery about working with that computer team now.
Your options
1. Stop working for free immediately. DIT still has to make good on your checks, but giving them hours they are not paying for is useless.
2. Find another job. If someone has bounced multiple checks, they are not someone you want to work for.
3. You have to contact authorities in their state, have you?
4. Contact the hospital/client for whom you typed and tell them you want to know where to send the bill for services you have rendered. (They don't have to pay you but this will put more pressure on DIT to come up with monies owed.)
Be VOCAL. Be a VOCAL as you can. STAY FACTUAL. Don't editorialize. On every MT site post the FACTS.
Take an ad out in their local newspaper.
Contact the local news media in their town and share your story.
Three weeks of being screwed on your pay isn't a mistake. It's theft.
There are options
....other than MQ. I was having a hard time finding a company that paid equal to TT, but at this point I'll take a penny less a line to get a full days work.
keep your options open
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As a mentee, you may not have many options, but check out some other
companies to see if they have a mentor program in the works. I would try to avoid OSi if at all possible. Very unstable at the moment.
Legal options when shorted on pay?
I am an employee of an MT company and was not paid according to what I was told I would be paid. I am wondering if anyone can tell me what legal options I have. Thanks for any help.
They are going to work with everyone to move them to FT. There will be other options. sm
Keystrokes treats their employees very well, and would never just eliminate someone. PT positions will be redefined and changed, not eliminated completely.
Why does every post on here have to be negative? If you don't know what's what, you should not comment or read more into it.
I was just letting the OP know if they did not like Meditech there were options - nm
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Point taken, but for some options are limited
That's one of the reasons I hate how judgmental some posts are (not you, per se, but in general). Above is the post telling the non-working TT'ers to go get 2 or 3 jobs, whatever it takes to make ends meet. And that's what I'm doing. I live rural- the Walmart is 34 miles/45 minutes away. There are a couple of jobs in town (15 miles away). In addition, depending on the work, even at slave wages for transcription, I would still make more than the town jobs pay, not to mention the added expense for gas, work attire, etc.
So I understand your point and it's valid, but there is a divide between what some people say (with your knowledge of the wage of a Walmart greeter, perhaps you?) about working 2-3 jobs if necessary and holding out for the wage that MT is truly worth.
Frankly, there are some that would look at one's decision to work for Walmart as a bad moral choice, too, considering what they've done to local wages and small mom-n-pop enterprises.
Working and not getting paid?? What are the options?
Hi,
I have a friend who is a newer MT and has been working very hard for a particular company. This company has not paid her and they owe her over $1000.00 at this point. She is a newer MT and would probably have a harder time finding something else so she is caught between a rock and a hard place. The owners of the company will NOT return her calls or emails but yet they still have her work. She does not know a lawyer and does not have the money to hire one. Does anyone have any advice for her on what she should do? I have been in a similar situation but I was finally paid and I did not work much. My family kept telling me to quit but yet I needed the experience. Any help would be appreciated. I really feel for her.
Thanks!!!
Working and not getting paid?? What are the options?
THANK YOU to all that applied. I have let my friend know to read your messages. Great suggestions!! Thanks again everyone!!!!
I switched to flexible to keep my options open. (sm)
So far I am finding the platforms others have out there are not allowing me to make as much money as I did with MQ even with the cess pool. I work for a great company now, truly fantastic people, but their platform is slow and often down for one reason or another.
I am going to give it a little longer, but may be calling to crawl back to FT with MQ when I am eligible to change classifications again. I switched from FT to PT and then flex so I am sure I will have to wait a year before I can swap around again.
I would think now is an extremely good time to at least call them and check it out. What have you got to lose?
Keep your options open, keep your ears to the ground
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Mind if I ask what you're going to school for? I'm looking at my options and
am thinking about going back to school. Trying to decide what might be a good career change that would still utilize my skills or at least be an interesting line of work.
So you believe offering 2 options to clients is impossible? It's pretty cut and
dried to me. You offer Option 1 as a money-saving low rate with offshore transcription and editing. Sorry, we can't guarantee quality, but hey, you save big bucks. You then offer Option 2, quality-minded American MTs and editors, the gold standard. The rate is higher, but so is the quality of the work. Of course, you then have to make sure you hire only those who can actually maintain high quality.
You are probably right though. It wouldn't work as there no doubt are far too many companies already offshoring without the client's knowledge reaping the benefits of using low-paid foreign workers with nondiscounted line rates. Silly me.
I like Sylcount Gold. Has tons of counting options.
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Shapin - PT/FT schedule options, min line count??? Thanks! nm
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Who would you choose, Medware, Golden Isles (GIMT) or Mag Mutual? Weighing options and offers etc..
IWho do you think would be the best to work for??
Save it for QA, please.
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Save
Might be a good idea to save a copy of the old manual before it's replaced for comparison purposes. Just a thought.
Thanks for the info--you will save someone
Obviously not soon enough to save the reputation of
the company and possibly some good MTs. If there are more like her around there, no wonder they get such bad comments.
They save millions
by offshoring our work. We may not see the big picture when we think about the penny difference, but pennies make dollars, and dollars make millions. They are saving and pocketing a whole lot more than what they pay editors to fix the junk.
As someone said later in this thread, why not just open up your doors to U.S. newbies who are begging for jobs and ten times better. It is all about mighty greenback, as is everything in this country.
Nobody is stealing our jobs. The U.S. government is allowing MTSOs to hand them over. I don't blame the people who take them at all. They would be crazy not to while living in country that has no jobs if they have a family to clothe and feed. It is all about greed as usual, greedy MTSOs who have no pride and have given in and given up.
The roof will come tumbling down on everybody's heads one day. It's just a matter of time!
My discipline in being able to save
was what I was able to fall back on in order to survive while I worked for them. I had hoped my job with them would work out in spite of the line rate being so low, but it didn't. I found the lines very hard to get. But I'm glad it happened. I'm in a much better place now, having no trouble making my line count and am being paid much more by a company that deducts all taxes.
I didn't realize at first that they weren't taking out my state taxes. I know it was my responsibility to go over my pay stub with a fine tooth comb, but it didn't occur to me that they wouldn't take out my state tax; evey other company I've ever worked for did.
When I discovered it, I requested them to do it, and they refused. That's when I quit.
I just love people who condemn others as having *no discipline* when they don't know the circumstances of the situation or the person involved. 
You have to go out and come back in. Save it as if
you are going out of the shell, but then go right back in. I used to do this after every paragraph. I do not remember actually the exact F keys to use to perform that, but you should know from typing in there currently how to get out once you are finished typing. Just go back into the same document. Hope this helps.
Save the file...
To say they belonged to MQ would be like saying you can't take your phone numbers out of your cell phone if you decide to change services - or save your bookmarks in IE and use them in Firefox.
Save yourself and get out of there ASAP.
NO COMPANY IS WORTH SHEDDING A SINGLE TEAR OVER, ESPECIALLY AN MT COMPANY -- THEY BARK AT US LIKE DOGS AND PAY SLAVE WAGES.
You are welcome. Just trying to save you some headaches.
I know you realize I speak the truth, because if you search the archives to about a year ago, you will see the same wording and rah, rah sounds. Then, take a look through the year at at more recent posts, you will easily get the picture. Truth comes out no matter what. There are a few good companies out there and you can find them if you do your research. Good luck to you.
I save all my reports
I'm required to do so. You wouldn't believe how many times I'm contacted to send them this note or that note because they lost it. I also use previous reports as a form for typing previous reports on the same patient as my doctors tend to use almost the exact same report every time (I only do office notes).
If you don't save them, I would assume one
would be out of a job if required to by employer.
It is all about the pennies they will save.
Let's face it, the bean counters really don't give a crap about quality, just how the finances look on the books. Transcription is a thorn in their side, nothing more, nothing less. However, without transcription, their reimbursements would be gone. I don't get why transcription is not valued they way it should be. It goes hand-in-hand with coding and reimbursements for the hospital.
Some things will never change, no matter how hard we try.
Save Our Jobs!
(Note: OP, please correct me if I'm wrong)
In reading all of these posts, it is apparent that the OP's intent has been lost. This is not about AHDI, it is about we as citizens of the United States of America exercising our rights. The OP meant that we should not just bellyache to one another in case that is all we are doing. The meaning was that we should act. We should contact our representatives. It is stated that the OP does not support AHDI, and that the intent is that we write letters using the convenient contact information provided at the website. I intend to do just that! I hope all of you will also.
No, so save your lecture for someone else sm
I meant to ask the company only allows you to type 1200 lines a day?
My goodness!
This board has quite a reputation across the Internet, and I can see why.
Save those emails and
contact an attorney. What they are doing is false advertising/fraud. If they want to openly state that they will not take work from the American MTs, then I say let them put their money where their mouth is.
Keep those emails and contact an attorney. Show them the numerous press releases where they state their position on offshoring. If an MTSO can sue an MT for posting what they feel is libelousinformation, then the MT should certainly be able to sue in this case and, honestly, should win.
I did save emails
I saved all of the emails that would prove it, HOWEVER, they all have the confidentiality statement at the bottom, so my fear is that if I send them with my appeal letter I could be in violation of confidentiality. What do you think?
I know. I usually save my "extra" typing for when
they call and/or email begging me to work. Virtually every weekend, my PS offers extra incentives on top of what we usually make.
I know what I am NOT going to do...I will NOT say, "Oh, I shouldn't work even though you need me because I read on a forum that some people don't have any work." I will NOT do that.
I work everytime I'm asked to even if it is for just 500 to 1000 lines extra.
It's too bad that when the going gets so tough, the tough don't get going but start pointing at their own coworkers.
I think it is unfair for any MTs to be out of work, period. But I don't see any way to change it. The only thing I know to do is use that information. Still won't change the unfairness but at least I will benefit some from it and my PS will too. I like her. I don't want to disappoint her. She's counting on me and I count on her a lot.
Here is what you save because I work from home
The average cost per square foot of commercial real estate is $6 to $13 per month. A cubbie for my work area would run about $864 a year. You want me to give up taking off any time for the first year except for a couple of days. HOW MANY DAYS DO YOU GET PAID TO TAKE OFF? Oh, that's right. Your job doesn't bring money in, does it? I save you electricity. I save you the resources you should supply me under IRS rules such as books, CDs, etc. You should be paying 100% of my internet expense, provide a computer at no charge if you are an employer meeting IRS regulations and I worked on site. You should contribute to my state unemployment fund regardless of what state I live in when you run out of work and I am left without an income (oh, that doesn't happen to management, does it?) You should provide an email server to keep from cluttering my personal email account and causing me to spend extra money to keep all those informative emails that require server space. You occasionally want me to fax something. Did you provide me with a fax machine? I'm getting further away from the definition of an employee aren't I? You want me to be 100% responsible for my own health insurance. What if it's so crappy I would rather find my own? Do you contribute to my health premium costs, say $35 twice a month NOT to take your insurance (like employers I've had in the past)? If I am hit by a drunk driver, where is my short-term or long-term disability benefits? Oh, that's right, you cut out those expenses because you didn't think we would need them and wouldn't notice what you did.
Lastly, do you think I don't notice that my wages have been going down instead of up over the last 7 years because of forces beyond my control? My knowledge, skill sets, resourcefullness and employment values increases yet I make less money. Is this how it works in management? About that retirement fund, thank you for offering it and contributing to it as I am going to need it when I retire from MT at about the age of 72 because I can't make it on what I'll be pulling from the federal government if I try to retire in my 60s.
Gee, I'm glad you cleared up what you offer me. I honest hope you can see my point too.
I hope this point does not get pulled because I think these are valid issues that ALL MTSOs should be aware that MTs think about.
Did I leave out anything?
Very interesting. I am going to copy this and save it. nm
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I'll save you the trouble - sm
I have over 20 years of experience and got offered 8.5 cents per line, the same as someone I know worked for them who had 3 years of experience and also got 8.5 cents a line. I mean, why do these places even test when they pay everyone the same anyway??
Who cares? Save the trees!!
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