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A Question regarding pay. -
Posted By: noodle
I posted this last night, but I cannot find it anywhere on this board. It is a serious question for me and I would appreciate any opinions regarding this.
I am an Independent Contractor. One lady who I have been contracting through for several years, who carries the contract with the clinic, had a stroke. She was in the hospital for one week. I immediately stepped up and took over everything that she was doing, including final editing for 3 other transcriptionists, processing to the clinic, bookkeeping/billing. She has not done any type of work for 2 weeks and she will be out for several more weeks to months. She offered to pay me $100 every two weeks for the bookkeeping and such. I don't want to be greedy, but I feel this is low. I spend at least one hour each day doing the extra stuff and more when it comes to billing. I was just wondering if anyone has been in this situation or if anyone has an idea of what would be fair. Of course, I stepped up to be helpful, but I also don't want to lose this contract with the clinic.
I'm looking for a good, easy to follow diet, -
Posted By: not hard on the wallet. sm
Throw me some suggestions. I've tried Weight Watchers but always felt like I was starving, so that's out. I tried counting calories but always went over the limit. Anybody with any good ideas? I need to knock off about 30 pounds. 
Want to Buy Lanier TXC Card. Please see post on Equip. Board -
Posted By: Doctalk
I am in need of a TXC card and peripherals in excellent working condition. I only need one, and it is for my own use, not for resale.
Hope someone with an extra will see my post. Thanks
Hospital is making transition from Lanier to Infusion... -
Posted By: tpmt
Any input? I have looked on their web site and there are different programs and I have yet to understand which program or type of system they have, probably because the person who chose the system for the hospital knows next to nothing about transcription systems and can't tell me anything. One minute she tells me I will have a station like Lanier and the next she tells me I need to have high speed internet for it. (But she is not sure if that is for transcription or the hospital records program) So which is it? I believe we start next week this new system and I have to go to the hospital for training.
I wish I was better with change.
pros and cons for own service? -
Posted By: mn
I was hoping that someone out that has been running their own accounts that they could give me pros and cons for running their own service for local accounts or just doing 1 account, I have been seriously thinking of doing this get kind of worried sometimes of being on my own instead of with a company. Any insight on this would be so greatly appreciated. 
Numbers at beginning of sentence -
Posted By: a style questions (sm)
I know that if a number begins a sentence you spell it out, but I'm not sure about after a colon. We type:
BLOOD LOSS: 50 cc.
but what about
FLUIDS: 500 cc normal saline. (?)
Does the "500" need to be spelled out since there are words after the quantity, or is it considered part of a sentence beginning with "FLUIDS?"
"Agree!!!! Think about it - it should be in OUR contract and in MQ's too." -
Posted By: Self contracting again
It is time to eliminate the middle man. I for one am going back to soliciting doctors for myself again. The benefits of working for a company, no longer out weigh the headaches of being self employed. If and when more of us come to that realization, big companies will realize that they distroyed a great thing with their greed.
Corporate Lessons. -
Posted By: sm.
Lesson 1:
When the human body was first made, all the parts wanted to be " The Boss."
The brain said, " I should be Boss because I control the whole body's responses and functions."
The feet said, " We should be Boss as we carry the brain about and get him to where he wants to go."
The hands said, " We should be the Boss because we do all the work and earn all the money."
And so it went on and on with the heart, the lungs and the eyes until finally the asshole spoke up.
All the parts laughed at the idea of the asshole being the Boss. So the asshole went on strike, blocked itself up and refused to work.
Within a short time the eyes became crossed, the hands clenched, the feet twitched, the heart and lungs began to panic and the brain fevered.
Eventually they all decided that the asshole should be the Boss, so the motion was passed.
All the other parts did all the work while The Boss just sat and passed out the shit!
Moral: You don't need brains to be a Boss - any asshole will do.
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Lesson 2:
A turkey was chatting with a bull.
"I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
Bull : "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings? They're packed with nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree.
The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.
Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.
Moral: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.
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Lesson 3:
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.
A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him,"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered: "Sure, why not."
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Moral: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. !!!
It's cold here this morning!!! I had to turn on my office heater for the first time this year. -
Posted By: WNYmt
 Winter's coming and it's supposed to be incredibly cold the next couple days. YUCK And, with the gas prices the way they are I guess I'll have to suffer with it a little colder this year.
breast biopsy -
Posted By: donna
I had a breast biopsy a month ago (stereotactic), and for what ever reason, I'm still having pains underneath my breast where the incision was made, my question is, should this still be hurting ? Also, can the marker they placed move ? I know it sounds dumb but it just feels weird in the center of my chest. Thanx for any help. 
EMR on yahoo -
Posted By: interesting read
Am I the only person who thinks Obama is absolutely ignorant for making all records electronic? If you go to yahoo and look up the time.com piece, EMR is NOT a smart thing to do. Honestly, is a computer going to fix it when the doctor dictates the wrong dosage of the drug, or during an op note if the doc dictates the wrong appendage, will it fix that? Obama thinks that it will improve the system. I say it is fine as is, and we wouldn't be needing to do this if SO many people weren't outsourcing OUR WORK to India. That sure as heck isn't helping the economy!! But neither are the doctors that dictate with their head in their rear.
My family went to a flea market that is mostly run and -
Posted By: Funny thing about offshoring
attended by Hispanics. There were several vendors selling leather goods, such as wallets, belts, shoes, etc. DH needed a new wallet so he picked one he liked and opened it up only to find a tag that said "MADE IN INDIA." (He didn't buy it.) We didn't look at any of the other leather goods, but found it very ironic that the Hispanics are now importing their "handmade" goods from India.
Ear doc -
Posted By: Audrey
Audiologist or otologist?
Wireless internet connection was being -
Posted By: Nextel?
advertised on T.V. last night. It showed a man using his lap top in a room saying that he was connected to the internet wirelessly. This sounds like the way to go for me who needs a vacation but can't afford to take one. Has anyone investigated this?
I need a car in the worst way -
Posted By: Has anyone bought car on Ebay?
Anyone know the best place to start? My 1995 Bonneville has almost died on me. The car is in great cosmetic shape, but the new tires, fixing a window that won't roll down and putting a new air compressor (I think) is gonna cost me more than I think the are is worth... so I'm car shopping. I'd like a Maxima, Accord or Camry(a couple to three years old) for a good price but not sure where to get the best deal. Anybody have any recommendations?
A question regarding patients' rights -
Posted By: to their test results
I was just wondering this. My mother was recently sent to a "liver specialist" who is local gastrointestinal doctor because of concern over persistently elevated liver function tests. He drew a LOT of blood work on her and only told her that it looks like she might have a fatty liver. He set her up to come back in six weeks to "get the results of her lab tests." SIX WEEKS! With her being very concerned, of course, we immediately searched the net and found out that fatty liver occurs in patients 1). who drink alcohol (she never has), 2). Patients who are overweight (she is not) or 3). Patients with diabetes (she hasn't got that, either). It says that a liver biopsy is how they find this out. He never mentioned doing one of those. My question is.. would a physician want to wait 6 weeks to find out lab results? You know it doesn't take 6 weeks to get the results back, they probably had them back within a day or two. In the meantime, she is stressing big time about what could be wrong.
Dumb things-word of advice -
Posted By: freebie
I'm tired and I just did the dumbeest thing and have to share it - I did a global search and replace to turn ER into emergency room and CAT into computed tomography - there are just tons of words with "er" in the middle and who would think about "cat" being in the middle of the word medications among others! 
You haven't lived until you have -
Posted By: Just me
been woken up at 1:48, 2:37, 3:12 and 5:07 a.m. to windows shaking from Mexican rap music blaring from almost 2 blocks away and then getting yelled at by the 911 dispatcher over and over again saying that 911 is not for noise complaints. Well if they would have taken care of the problem the first time, I would have stopped calling. One 911 dispatcher was really sweet though because she could hear the music when I stood outside talking on my cell phone. Usually the first time the police go out there, they stop the music but they must have new people staying with them as they kept playing the same Tequila song over and over (only word I understood was Tequila). Then when the police went over there these idiots pretended not to speak English, speak Spanish when the officer tries to speak to them in Spanish or read the complaint printed up in Spanish. Tomorrow I'm searching for the owner of the house online and will start complaining to them as will the rest of my neighbors. You also haven't lived until you have seen some of your neighbors out in their pjs at 3 a.m. trying to do a Mexican hat dance. I'm thinking maybe they too were consuming mas tequila.
Shortcut programs? -
Posted By: MTinTX
Which shortcut program is easier to use? Shortcut for Windows, Smartype, or InstanText? I need to start building a good shortcut list so I can build up my line count?
Switching internet service -
Posted By: dm
Cox just informed me that my monthly bill will be going up by $5 starting in October. Does anyone use NetZero or can anyone recommend a reliable internet service at a decent rate? My bill will go up to about $45/month. 
To Sad MT: I've noticed your moniker on a couple of boards. Why are you sad? -
Posted By: Is there anything we can do? / GaMT
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please see word board... -
Posted By: lumbo/lumbar sacral ?
thanks
Don't you just love the DS for a 1 to 2 day -
Posted By: SM
stay dictated by the resident or P.A. that is 16+ minutes long and then there is the 2-1/2 month stay dictated by the attending that is 5 minutes long??? Sometimes, I just don't understand.
Can anyone recommend a good virus/security protection? -
Posted By: sm
I currently use a program called PC cillin. I have used Norton, and with both I still managed to get "worms" on my computer. Also, my internet service is with AOL.
Thanks.
Legal or what? IC help. -
Posted By: anon
OK, I need some IC help please? I just quit my IC position and was told after the fact that I would NOT be paid for my last 30 days of working because I did not give proper notice per contract. Well to make a long story short I didn't sign a contract. So what would you seasoned ICs do?
Faxing and HIPAA concerns -
Posted By: just wondering
I need to know the regulations imposed by HIPAA for MTSOs faxing medical reports to referring doctors. Thanks.
Question: How can someone send me SM -
Posted By: Chickadee
a large file (more than 20 MB) over the internet? They tried to send the file, but their e-mail server wouldn't allow them to send a file this big. He is probably going to have to burn it to a disk and mail it out to me, but I was wondering if there is a way around this.
Thanks,
Chickadee
Anyone else having an unusually slow work week? (nm) -
Posted By: Should I cancel cable?
dd
PIC/PICC line -
Posted By: dls
need help - which is correct
DragonNaturallySpeaking? -
Posted By: LoveHate
I'm looking into getting VR software for some of my projects outside of MT work and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this software? Is it really as good as they say as far as accuracy goes? How long does it really take for it to "learn" a person's dictation style? Can I play recordings in ExpressScribe to be transcribed into Word? The site is not very helpful giving all the specifics as to how it REALLY works with other programs so I'm a bit hesitant.
Again, this is not for MT work so it doesn't need to have a medical vocabulary or be able to work with EMRs or anything like that.
Awhile back on this board someone shared a place where -
Posted By: me
they would tell you what hardware your computer was running. I can't find it and need it again. Can anyone help? Thanks.
It's making me go grrrrrrr. System slower than COLD TAR -
Posted By: me
 this morning.
POLL -
Posted By: most overused word/phrase
I would have to say this week on this board the word "troll". Seeing that word so many times a day is getting on my nerves more than the posts the "trolls" post. At least what the "troll" is posting is something different to read. Of course, then there are a few other overused words/phrases:
- like
- you know what I'm saying?
- IMO
- cool
- actually
- basically
- brangelina
- jen and ben
- awesome
- most curse words
- to be honest......
- git-er-done (hate that one)
- how's that working for you?
Does anyone know of a website, like this one, that deals with Medical Coding/Billing..sm -
Posted By: Husband thinking about doing coding/billing...
My husband is curious and wanting to get into Medical Billing/Coding and work from home like I do with transcription. Does anyone know of a website, like this one, that offers so many jobs from home and information regarding coding and/or billing? Thanks. Also, if anyone has input on this please let us know. Would love to find out which course is the best, etc....thanks!
Software question -
Posted By: MTTOMANY
My computer is almost DOA. I am currently having a new system built and was wondering is there a way to import my Word 2003 autocomplete entries onto my new PC?
EMDAT question -
Posted By: Snow Bunny
Is there a way to import the Word AutoCorrect entries into EMDAT? If so, how?
I need your MT advice -
Posted By: oldgraydog
I was asked to incorporate a different MT's paragraphs into my report - actually 3 paragraphs. Of course when QA caught the errors.....
What would you do if you were asked to incorporate someone else's transcription and sign it off as your own?
HELP! How much to charge for copies? sm -
Posted By: Ga Peach
Just got a new account; however, the doctor wanted me to take half a cent off my rate AND not charge him for his templates (even though it's my ink he's using) AND he wants me to do the cc's and envelopes at no extra charge.....I do not want to do this as I really think that's a lot of extra work with no extra pay....could anyone help me with this? What do yall do?
How much for evelopes??
How much for copies?? Thanks to everyone who replies!!! I realy need help on this one as none of my other accounts have asked for a bunch for nothing.
Suckered in the South
I didn't hear the whole story, just the tease part, but there -
Posted By: sad, sad, sad
are 18 elementary school students pregnant in one school. Let me repeat ELEMENTARY. I didn't even know what *ex was when I was in elementary school, much less having it.
Career Step -
Posted By: cj
Hi. Has anyone used the Career Step program for medical transcription? I am currently working for MQ and received my training while in high school, but my fiance is going to be training with them soon. I was wondering if it was easy to find a job afterward and how you liked the course?
What is the deal with this veterinary ophthalmology IC job offer. I see that one a lot. Is this al -
Posted By: CJ
Has anybody here worked there before?
Follow up is needed. -
Posted By: Cheryl Smith
I responded to a job this morning and at their request sent my resume and did not receive a reply until I saw another posting for the same job on this board. I just dont think this is good business.
Just a Reminder International Spellex Week ends Dec.11 Hurry and Save 10% -
Posted By: spellex
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Please visit http://www.spellex.com all this week and save 10% on any of our popular software products.
What percentage productivity gain do you get with InstanText? -
Posted By: samsa
Am thinking of switching. I currently get 400% productivity with SH8 (it types 3 characters for every 1 I type). Can anyone out there get similar figures with InstanText?
Is there any danger putting bank acct# and routing# on federal tax (sm) -
Posted By: rambling Rose
tax form so as to get your refund by direct deposit? Can someone use this info to their advantage?
Merry Christmas to you all! -
Posted By: Ho, ho, ho
and to all a goodnight. 
Which is better? -
Posted By: just me
I currently use ShortHand and will be moving to a company that uses Instant Text with Medrite. Was told that my Shorthand could be converted somehow to use within Instant Text or I could use the Medrite expander. I really just want to use Shorthand, but if I cannot, does anyone know which way would be better -- to put my Shorthand expansions into the Instant Text or the Medrite system? When they do this, will my Shorthand basically work the same? Any info greatly appreciated.
How do you stop the squeak in a foot pedal?? -
Posted By: At Home MT
I have the Bytescribe foot pedal. It has started squeaking. Is it safe to spray it (unplugged of course) with a silicone lubricating spray or ??? I use it for my daily work and I do not have a back up so I do not want to use anything that may potentially cause it to stop working.
TIA.
Is anyone else having this problem -
Posted By: with the MTStars site? (sm)
When I click on posts I have not read they normally change from blue to purple to indicate that they have been read, but since last night this is not happening. Just curious if others are experiencing the same trouble.
Anyone out there who does Q&A/editing - see message -
Posted By: need to know
Would you be willing to share what your pay rate is? I want to bring someone in to help me with Q&A, but have no clue what the going pay rate is. Thanks.
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