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Aside from needing more RAM, it seems there is something else going on with the companies system.  It is taking longer and longer for our email to open (have talked with others in the company who say it's happening to them too), to connect in general, to get web pages to open etc.

Does anyone know what else (beside RAM) would be causing this? 

It's hard enough to get faster (and being ragged on for it) without additional slowness of the equipment adding to it.  

Everyone is discussing the pros/cons of a national health program, but no-one is saying the exact reason why it takes a long time to see a doctor or have a procedure in Canada.

I am just curious.  Do they not have enough doctors?  Not enough facilities for operations? 

Just wondering why the long wait times.

Of course even here in the US it take me 6-8 weeks for a GYN visit and the last time I had to sit in an ER it was 9 hours before we got in to see a doctor. 

But I was just wondering what was going on in Canada, I never seem to see an explanation for it all. 

My doc tried to test it today and he said all it did was beep at him. He did use an author ID. Do you ever have problems with it constantly beeping? I tried using a cell phone and land line. I have no trouble. What could be the problem with him?  My attorney also tried to access the system and it did the same thing.

 own the older model that used tapes and never had a problem with it until it died.. I beginning to hate this one and I've only had it since Monday.

I just graduated.....this company wants me to take this test to see if they will hire me or not.  I dont understand some of what the dr. is saying.  I am about to pull my hair out.  I dont know what to do with it because it is a test.  Leave it blank or what?  I have been sending my resume everywhere...and this is the only company that has told me ''YOU DON'T HAVE EXPERIENCE"  So i want to do the best i can!!!  so this is what i have so far "Patient had one sentinel node which strongly colored and had an in situ count of 1486 and a **** count of 1685."  it sounds like she is saying ***exceebo****but i don't get it.....i figured out she was saying "in situ"  that sounded like "sitra".  please help

Has anyone used this service? They are supposed to match you up with a job?

Thanks for any info!

Anybody with comments with regards to TransHealth.  Thanks in advance.

I placed a bid on a local account. I was contacted by the hospital for more information regarding my bid. I was told that they narrowed it down to two and that I was one of the two. The line rate that I had bid was 10 cents a gross line. I know for a fact that some of the girls working on that account are making 10 cents a gross line so I figured if I bid 10 cents a gross line that I would be lower than the current transcription provider. I have not been officially told that I did not get the bid but I heard through the grapevine that the same person who had it was awarded it again. I also know for a fact that some of the people working on this account have no clue what they are typing, that work is turned in late, that some days the girls get 1000 lines of work and other days are expected to do 4000 lines in a day and because they cannot do it, they just don't turn the work in and no one is aware of this because it is so mismanaged. I realize that a clinic/hospital has the right to reject any and all bids but with the cost of healthcare continually rising, doesn't the clinic/hospital owe it to somebody to have accepted a lower bid if it was going to save them thousands of dollars?? If I had underbid by 1 cent, it would have saved them thousands of dollars. I also was going to provide a call-in system at no additional charge to them. They do their transcription the old fashioned way with picking up and dropping off of tapes which means that I could have given them a 24-hour turnaround time. I was also willing to go with picking up and dropping off tapes if that was how they wanted to continue. Anyhow, I am very frustrated and once I know that I officially did not get the bid, then I want to write a letter to someone such as the hospital board. Any input on this is very much appreciated.

This could be a spin off on another post.  I started with a national 3 weeks ago and they sent me a QA score of 95.5%.  I need 98%.  They did make a note there were no major patient care errors mostly minor errors in formatting and some omitted words.  What passes at my regular FT job won't pass at the MTSO though.  One of my errors is I forgot to put a period after q.  I wrote q 4 hours.  At my FT job that would have passed but  MTSO wants q.4 h.  It is stuff like that that brought my score down.      I like a challenge but gosh when I have already typed 1300 lines in-house then I have to come home and type some more at the MTSO.  Not as easy as I thought.

I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any good advice.  I have been working as a Transcriptionist for three years at a dermatologist office.  I am the only transcriptionist that he employs and I can keep the clinic caught up in 1-3 hours each day.  My position is only part-time.  I currently make 12 cpl.  This is a small town and most all of the other doctor's transcription here is handled by one company.  They seem to have a monopoly.  I completed two medical transcription courses and finished at the top of my class.  I currently type around 95 wpm.  I have tested for several sites and seem to have a hard time passing because other than the training courses, I haven't had any hands on experience with the basic 4.  I would love to get my foot in the door somewhere but as you know there are hundreds of people on this site alone that would love to have that opportunity too.  I had a lady on this site offer me some clinic transcription once.  Unfortunately I contacted her numerous times and waited almost six months while she continued to tell me she would be sending me the work "tomorrow".  She finally just stopped answering my emails.  I just feel like I am hanging on but I don't know when the break will come.  It is sooo frustrating.   Any advice that you can give will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance. 

I must've hit something, but I've no idea what.  My upper toolbar is all messed up and my font keeps going from big to small when I scroll!  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I wanted to post because I have had a very eerie feeling lately and wanted to see if anyone has been experiencing a similar thing... I was a home MT working directly for a hospital for many years and a high producer.  Then, the hospital cut our incentive and many of us ended up with a MTSO after that.  Well, after being with the same job for many years, I spent over 2 years with the MTSO and found out that my line counts were very low because the platform was not counting my lines in a well honest (to me) way.  I thought I was losing my talent, but after finding out about this for sure by looking at the minutes versus the lines over a couple of weeks and checking with other MTs (finally) I found out it was not me.  I since have been working for a very reputable MTSO (no hospital jobs around directly that I could find by me) and something is happening. I am struggling to get my line counts again, and I did a study with the minutes and though not as bad as the other MTSO, the same thing is happening AGAIN! (dont mean to yell, just emphasizing).  It is so hard to look for yet another job...My question is this: Is it my imagination, am I just losing my talent and my mind, or are most jobs now counting the lines differently than before say 3 years ago when I left the hospital job. And, if I can't produce that much anymore because they count lines differently now, how does one find at least a job which is moderately easier to get more than minimum? Look, I used to make over 50K a year and now I am eeking out perhaps 27 a year and feeling like I am losing my talent.  Any advice would be appreciated here. I don't want to go through job after job, stress after stress.  BTW: My husband will be able to provide benefits in a couple of months, but until recently I have been the one to have to provide health coverage and this has figured heavily into where I work.  Thanks in advance for your opinions.  I don't want my hand held, just a little reality check.  Thanks in advance.

It was used when I bought it and I want to make sure that I have everything I need to work from home on it.  The PC I'm on now will be going back to the hospital.  It is a Dell Latitude.  It has a Pentium IV processor, 512 mg of RAM, 40 gig hard drive, wireless internet plus ethernet card, Windows 2000.  Will that laptop suffice for working from home?  I assume it will, but I just want to make sure before I starting applying places.

Thanks!   

It would be so so so easy to show how to win malpractice cases with what I know about the medical transcription system as it is operating now.

I have a C-phone that I use to connect into two different systems. One is the Enterprise and the other is a Digital Voice (DVI) system.

I have no trouble with the function keys when I'm connected to the Enterprise system. I can press *2 to slow down, *3 to speed up, etc. However, I am not having the same success when I connect to the DVI system. The instructions I was given was to press #4 to slow down the system, but no matter how many times I press #4 the system won't slow things down. The company owner spoke to their IT person and they said to press ** to be at normal speed and then press #4 to slow things down. Nope, that didn't work either.

Since I have no trouble with Enterprise system, I know it's not my C-phone. However, the company owner said that no one else is having trouble slowing things down. Just me.

Any suggestions?

My son was hit by a car 7 years ago and sustained a traumatic brain injury. He was in a coma and went through over a year of rehabilitation. He was 15 at the time and finished high school, went on to Junior College and has just finished a year at a state university. He has struggled with learning disabilities and short term memory problems since the accident and has barely passed his classes. It looks as though this was his last semester at school because his grade point average isn't high enough to let him continue school. He will be put on academic suspension. He wanted to go away to school so badly and worked so hard to make it and I know he will be so disapointed when he finds out he won't be going back in the fall.

He is definately a miracle and I thank God everyday that he is alive but I don't know what to do to help him anymore. My question is "Is there anyone out there with a similar situation who can give me some advice on where to go from here?"

In the September 2006 Plexus Magazine for AAMT members and Student members, Dee Thomas of Thomas Transcription wrote a letter to the editor. Below is what particularly caught my eye. 

"Last week, I ased my staff a question: "Does anyone care about quality anymore?" You know how strong I am on doing it right the first time and proofing the line above. These days, I'd rather hire an M-Tec student with tech savvy than to hire an MT with 15 years' experience in a hospital environment because that's all she has -- a hospital environment that gave her absolutely no feedback or tech savvy for the future, which is now inevitably upon us. It's sad but true." 

I have a DAC digital workstation and I dial into a DVI system to transcribe.  I have horrible static whenever I transcribe.  The phone line is clear as a bell when I talk on the line, but when I am using my digital station, it is horrible.  I have tried two different DAC models and have the same problems with both.

Any suggestions?

self-proclamed freelance writer for a while low. I have quite a few topics I am working on, Christian-based, geared towards women.  I had to write a letter stating my credentials (I have a few, believe it or not), future topics, experience, etc.  I feel very positive about my letter. It took all day to write.

I just pray this pans out.  I eventually want to write a book. That's been a life-long dream. I love to write. I've avidly kept a journal for over 25 years, keep an on-line blog, read every day, and writing just comes naturally for me.  Also, I outlined my editing experience, so hopefully that will help!

I will let you know what they say! Keep your fingers crossed....I want to get out of the MT business so bad...It's been a blessing, but I would LOVE to get paid by doing what I love doing.....Sharing my shallow thoughts and life's secrets to other women through the use of story telling and faith-based philosophy!

I just signed a contract with a clinic to be one of two or three transcriptionists working from home as an independent contractor.  I can't decide if I need to send them a thank you letter for taking the time to meet with me, discuss the contract and sign or not..  If I am offering a service and they are my client, then Yes, correct? 

Okay, then what do I say?  I'm just kidding, sort of - Just thank them for taking the time to meet with me and that I look forward to serving them???

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Obviously this is my first direct contract with a clinic rather than through another transcriptionist..

Has anyone used the Comfort Ergomagic or Ergoflex keyboards.  Do you like it?  What kind of platform in on the keyboards that make it so tall - 2.5 inches. 

Does anyone have any ideas what could be the culprit for this?  My step daughter is having severe abdominal pain during and after bowel movements, in her upper middle abdomen.  No temperature, no blood in bowel movements.  Thanks for any input!