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I don't want to appear ignorant but I have always worked M-F.  Now am getting ready to look for a new position and am curious if I work third shift Sunday thru Thursday, I guess that means 11 o'clock Saturday night to 7 Sunday morning or does it mean 11 o'clock Sunday night (which would actually be Monday morning)  Thanks

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Could someone offer up some information on aquiring a position Transcribing with little current experience.  I seem to be hitting some walls.

I am SO sorry for reposting this. If I knew how to remove my other post from the pressure valve, I would... I do not want to get in trouble for multiple postings, so PLEASE forgive that mistake. I just don't think that the PV gets as much traffic as this board, and I really need some help right now! 

Can I get an opinion from someone who is experienced in this business?  I am a relatively new MT...  I have only been doing this job since March 2005, so less than a year. 

I work as an independent contractor at .08 per line.  My employer is a really nice person, but she will frequently need help over the weekend.  I have always said sure because I want to make myself valuable to her.  However, I have always done as much as I can do comfortably and still have time with my family over the weekend. 

I did an extra 1000 lines this weekend, which takes me about 6 hours because I am still new and research everything if I am not totally familiar with the terms.  I got an email this morning saying that, basically, I had not done enough to help her and she ended up doing "most of it" herself.

My feeling is that she is the owner of this business.  If she overextends herself as far as taking on work and she has to work all weekend to get it done, that's what she has to do as the owner of this business.  If she wants to pay a weekend differential to me, then sure... I will make plans with my husband to take the kids on his own and I will work all weekend now and then.  But if I am working for the same rate, I am not willing to work all week and then work all weekend too and miss out on my husband and children.  Isn't it customary and expected to offer a differential for working weekends and holidays?

I am a bit miffed because I gave up most of my Saturday and an hour or so on Sunday to help her out, and now I am criticized for not doing more for the same pay. Any input from you experienced MTs?

I am sitting on my email reply, but it does have this in it:

"I am happy to help as much as I can over a weekend without a differential, but I will need to do so around my family's schedule."

I need to reply to her email, but am not sure what to say. Thank you in advance for your help.  

I have Stedman's Medical Dictionary and QuickLook Drug in my programs, but they apparently haven't been activated (if that's the right word). 

Any technically-minded reader that can tell me step by step how to open these files and "launch" them so I can create my short-cuts and start utilizing them?

TIA for any much-appreciated info!!!

1025 lines per day and 0,075per line. Acute care, Benefits, one of the big corps employing foreign labor.  This is after 1,46 per exam in Rad for 4 years. 

0.075 cpl for acute care and shorthand, 1 normal so far (new acct). 

I am in my 50s and would like to be assuresd at 0.075 cpl in 8-hour day will givce me enought to live on for a single woman.  Hired at different rate but considered "new hire" which I feel requires a contract or some type of informativce interview.

What is this?  More "fleecing of America" in the disguise of pilferation?

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Okay.. another strange question.  I'm used to just specifying my typing speed on a wpm basis, how do I convert my wpm over to lph?

Thanks again, everyone's been so helpful.

mom having an allergic/anaphylactic reaction.

Heart can't push the goo through.

Body went into shock.

She couldn't breathe.

Her blood began to clot.

Docs did emergency C-section in 6 minutes.

Then mom went to cardiac arrest.

Then another catastrophic thing happened.

Paula began hemorrhaging massively from every part of her body....from eyes, ears, nose, every incision, every bump and bruise.  All her blood clotting factors had been used up.

Docs poured blood clotting factors into her.

The baby's chances of survival were at 50/50. 

Mom was then noted to have unusual swelling in upper abdomen.

Surgeons reopened c-section.

Astonished to find 1 gal of clot-filled blood.  With the clots removed, her blood quit clotting.

Of the 10% of women who survive, most are brain-damaged. Only 1% survive without any damage.  She turned out to be in the 1% luckily.

A day later she was holding her baby and was OK.

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All this started with her first labor pain of her second child.  It was the leak of the amniotic fluid into her blood stream that caused her to immediately start to feel like her throat was "closing up" and she couldn't breathe (anaphylactic allergic reaction).  She passed out pretty quickly. 

I hope this link works.  I wanted to show you who keeps me company every day while I transcribe--unless she runs off to sleep half the day, which I wish I could do!!!  When she's not around, the birds visit the feeders in the window.

http://mtblab.blogspot.com/2006/08/office-pet.html

Read the following report that a co-worker of mine typed for a company I used to work for.   Our job was read office notes on a patient and summarize their history for the insurance company.  Our MDs would then agree or deny with the request (in this case a motorized scooter) that another MD made.   Is this hysterical or what?  I just ran across this on an old floppy disk from 2 years ago.  I eventually quit this job even though the pay was amazing because I couldn't deal with the incompentance any longer.  It drove me crazy. 

This coworker was my manager's "teacher's pet".  Of course, my manager didn't have a clue what one medical word meant.  LOL  My coworker had this job for over 5 years and didn't have a clue either.  I think if they would have outsourced to India they would have have had more accuracy. LOL

The following report was actually sent to the insurance company with the physican's recommendation.  

 The patient is a ____year old male with an inguinal hernia of the thoracic or lumbar spine.  The date of injury was noted as ______  The case manager noted a history of multiple abdominal surgeries, last being in _____ The physician noted that he had chronic intractable somatic pain and had been certified for a narcotic pump, which gave him some relief.

The ______ office note from Dr. X noted refilled of pain pump under fluoroscopy.  The physician noted that the claimant was having difficulty with different activities with family outside in his abdomen and pain in the legs.  He could not support his weight.  He had been having difficulty going beyond a 15-minute period.  The physician recommended a scooter and stated he was not able to return to work.

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!  

Actually just spell out a name of a random physician that they include in their report?  I mean, for the company I work for, we have to search physician registries and such to FIND physician names.  Now, if the hospital is in Alabama and the doctor just throws it out there and says......"She once saw Dr. XXXXX in Toledo, Ohio", I mean come on now, PUH-LEASE just spell Dr. XXXXX's name for me!  It will take you TWO SECONDS to do so and it takes me way too many minutes to search around and try to find this dude's name! 

Not trying to be Miss Complainey Pants today, LOL, but sometimes you just gotta vent!

Is there a way to insert a backspace when adding a new abbreviation?  For example, so that year-old types out as #-year-old and not #(space)-year-old.

TIA!

How did you get your accounts and what line rate did you start with? Also do you pick up and drop off? Who do you speak with (Doctor or office manager) when you have a question about dictation?  What is your normal TAT?

Thanks in advance for your help with this.

I just noticed when the word Expander box is open, in tiny print underneath the bottom expansion box, it lists your number of entries and also the ratio of Keystrokes to expansions.  wondering how my expansions compare to yours in that ratio part -- mine is 5:1  --- funny how I can have brought up this box to add them so many times and never even noticed it!

The hospital I work for just told us that they are going to switch to the eScription platform.  Many of my fellow transcriptionists are afraid they will lose their jobs.  They think that because it is editing, the hospital won't need as many transcriptionists.  I have been a Transcriptionist for 20 years, doing mostly acute care, and I'm a little concerned as I have only been at this hospital for three years.  If you could please tell me what we might expect in general, I would sure appreciate it. 

Some other questions I have are these:

For those of you who have been in this position before, how was your pay affected by changing to eScription?

Do you like working on this platform and why or why not?  Does it make your job easier or harder?

If you use it at home and get paid by the line (which is one possibility our supervisor suggested might happen), did your line rate go up or down or stay the same?

I guess I'm wondering if I should start looking for a new job and trying to find out all I can about this platform before making that decision.  Any info you can provide is greatly appreciated.  I have read all the posts here about eScription, but many of them are very old, from 2005 or so.  Please help with current info and thanks so much!  I don't want to worry if there is no need to and I want to be prepared just in case there is cause for concern.

I know many of you may not even print at home, but I have to, and I'm running into a big problem with my new laser printer getting jammed up by the sticky paper. It's a Samsung ML-2510. I'm having to feed the paper one page at a time in order to get it to go through.

Are there any good brands/types that work well with the sticky paper?

I was using my inkjet printer, which took the paper fine, but the cartridge was running out in about a week's time, and I couln't afford to buy a new one once a week.

Ideas?

I have started a new job with Landmark but cannot get my two foot pedals to work with Bayscribe.  Could someone please help me!

Thanks in advance!

I'm going from DocQScribe to an Ex-Text platform and I have to reinput the phrases in one-by-one.   Should I do this as the phrases come up?  Is it preferable to just make some time to re-type the whole list at multiple settings? 

I wonder how that's going.  That's what I REALLY want to do.  I have just about reached the camel's last straw with this job.

I am a Transcriptionist at a local hospital.  For the last 6 years, the boss has been promising at-home transcription.  I think we are getting a little closer.  I received an e-mail asking me to participate on the committee for at-home transcription.  Whew!  But, let me fill you in on some background - we have a service that is doing our wound notes, psych notes, and occasionally some backlog.   I have read numerous times about going home and then slowly a service takes over.   We have recently gotten speech recognition and are currently training on that.  Of course, the service we have also has speech recognition, but our account is not - as of yet anyway!  So that makes me a little nervous!

I would like some input on guidelines that some of you may have working for a hospital at home -- if there are "red flags" that I should be aware of, what we are entitled to working at home (if any), and any other little thing that any of you have experienced.  I would like to be "educated" on this matter before I attend the meeting next week.  I don't really know what to ask. Is it a good idea to go home?  Would the hospital require us to work different shifts? All this for the "privilege" of working at home?  I do know she had mentioned that we need a specific line count per day for the ones working at home.  My question, of course, is why just us when we don't have a specific line count now.

Any suggestions and experiences would greatly be appreciated.  Thanks a bunch!!

any one work with BayScribe software.. just wondering how the platform is. thanks

 Hi,

 Has anyone tried MP word?  se

Am I the only one that doesn't like ExpressScribe? The audio always sounds very digitized to me. Are there any other better programs out there?

If you don't mind sharing, what is your skin care regimen like?

I am only asking because my husband and I have been going round and round about the fact that I buy Oil of Olay Total Effects and the Total Effects eye gel, plus the night cream.  He thinks I'm crazy, that they don't work. I say why take the chance that they DO work and miss out on the benefits.

I'm going on 37, but think I look pretty good for my age. Just wondering if anyone else buys into these notions that these products can help us *age gracefully*. I don't want to look like I'm in my 20s cause I'm not...I have a son who's almost 19...so I'm proud of my age, just don't necessarily want to look quite as old as I am....thanks and have a wonderful day!