I was just thinking.  If I spent 10 minutes per hour rechecking what I have already typed, 10 x 8 hours = 80 MINUTES.  That's a lot of time.  And I know sometimes I check more than that.

I need to learn to just trust and let go.  What is your rule?  Do it right the first time, trust yourself, and just move on, or do you pore back over and worry too much? 

I have got to speed up a bit.  Seems I have always had this problem! 

Hello,

Can anyone recommend a good company that will take my client's telephone dictation and convert them into WAV or DSS files that I can then access and transcribe?. A company that has good pricing and is reliable.  I probably won't have a huge volume to start.  Thank you.

Dave

Looking to commiserate with their miserable treatment.

Hey, All ~

I was wondering if there was anyone out there was was willing to share their contract verbiage for YOUR contract that your MTSO signed. There was a wonderful lady who emailed me with some great ideas, but understandably she was not willing to share her contract verbiage because she had paid a lawyer to draft it.  I totally understand that!  I was just wondering if there was anyone who had drafted their own who would share with me (identifying info could be removed, of course)

I would have money to pay a lawyer if my rackin' frackin' MTSO would pay me, but I'm still without the paycheck I was due on Monday!  Anyone who has done this themselves and who would be willing to share, PLEEEEEEASE email me with it and I will be beside myself with thankfulness.

 <--- See!  This is me being beside myself with thankfulness!

I will be leaving my company at the end of the week without a job to take its place.  It's taken me several years to accumulate all my normals, and I hate to think I will have to start over creating them.  Does anyone know how to transfer/move all the normals from DocQScribe to Word or to save them on my hard drive.  I hate to think I'll have to start over creating all new normals.  Thanks for your help.

Can anybody tell me anything good or bad about Golden Isles Transcription.  They have an opening for oncology account.  Thinking about jumping out of the Medquist boat.  Anybody? 

i just got a very nice, widescreen laptop for work. I have medical issues and could not withstand working at my desk any longer. People are telling me that it won't last for MT work becuase the keyboard is not durable enough. Well, i still use my ergo keyboard hooked up and i only use the laptop keyboard for work when I am completing my work for about 2 to 3 hours at night. My question is, has any of you ever had a laptop keyboard go bad with MT work?

I hope not, took me years to even afford this one. :)

It was April, 2004 and I had been working for Medquist for two years.  Without warning, after transcribing for 19 years, was fired by this company, ,threatened over the phone that "I will be watching you like a hawk."  Fired over the phone, told I was "termed" and turned out in the cold.  I lost home, car, etc, etc and am really having a major time getting over this.  I would refuse to do MT anymore and hoping to change careers online degree wise.  My pay variated like the change of seasons and of all three companies I worked for, none of them appeared to be able to fight there way out of a papersack.   ANY SUGGESSTIONS???

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I set up a second computer in my home.  I had a router hooked up for this purpose by my telephone technician.  It is a brand new router, Lynxys brand.  Since then I have had problems with staying connected to the Internet. 

I shut off the firewall on my pc and that seems to have taken care of the problem on that computer.  The second computer is from a MT co. that I am starting to work for.  I cannot stay connected to the Internet on their computer.  The phone tech was out and checked everything and the router and phone connection is fine.

I am at a loss since I am not an IT person but an MT.  It is so frustrating.

Any ideas? 

TIA

users.  Can you create a glossary for different doctors, or does this make sense?  I have one doc I transcribe for and then about 5 others if I run out of work so there would be a lot of crossover, e.g. physical exam phrases. 

I'm on the verge of purchasing it and guess just need that one more recommendation to push me over; the one that says I'll produce 2000 percent more, make a bajillion dollars and be able to retire in six months!   

We have a 15-year-old that is limited to 1 hour on the internet when school is not in session, and we have parental controls that allow us to see everything she has done while she was on line.

What about your household?

My mother has a cat that sprays horribly bad. (yes it's fixed and it's a female). It was a stray that adopted my mom. She has a couple other cats, one of which would fight with but that cat has since passed. We hoped that since that stress was gone it would stop. it hasn't.  Been to the vet, no infection. He suggested it could just be a behavioral problem.  How do you figure out if it actually is behavioral? Can't find a direct link between a particular action and her spraying and it's not usually in the same spot. She's not a big 'lover' and when she's through with you, she let's you know so we don't think it's an attention thing. any advice or websites would be greatly appreciated. any web sites I've found haven't told me how to figure out what would be causing this 'behavioral' problem or natural remedies.

HELP

Thanks for your help and advice.  

I have an Infinity foot pedal with USB port, but no software to go with it.  When I bought the thing, did not realize software was not included with the pedal as job I ordered for fell through in the interim.  I now went to use the pedal and realize there is no software to put into my computer so the foot pedal is recognized.

ANY HELP...suggestions...please.

Tiffin

I know I am probably one of the last few, but have had all clients using word97 so never tried any other version.  Now upgrading to 2003, but I can not figure out how to stop that pesky "getting started" menu from opening with it each time I open 2003.  I tried searching but cant seem to find a way to close it off.  Any one know how to make this stop so tht when I open word2003 it is not there?

Thanx..

old dog, new tricks : - )

Wendy

I am fairly new to the business.  I am currently transcribing part-time for a local clinic. I learned that the clinic will be accepting bids for a new contract position.  I have never drawn up a bid.  Do not know the first thing about it.  I have someone who can help me with that.  What I would appreciate any suggestions or advice on are:

1.  What to charge per line?  Will picking up and dropping off tapes at 3 sites.  Will be transcribing outpatient clinic and radiology reports.

2.  Turn around time?  Current contractor has 3 days.  The contract in place states 24 hours but they have been lenient lately.

3.  Would it be accurate to figure 30% for taxes and 20% for benefits? 

I appreciate any and all advice.  Anything I have forgotten, please let me know!

Thank you for suggestions. 

Over the past months I have been trying to convince superiors at MQ of the need to have the playback speed increased even more than we are able to at the present.  I proofread all reports and when you have a slow dictator, it can take forever.  If you agree, please make a post and maybe that will convince them to do something about it.