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Does anyone know if Shorthand will work with MedRite-XL?

Thanks

same ole answer- I don't know, not my job.  What is their job?   I can't work, I don't get answers, and it is their software.  First answer when I call the office is call support services.  Call support service and they say it is not their job.  Who it the sam $ell's job is it?  I can't work.

Guess these wonderful techs don't know that without us they have no job and it is possible to work without fancy programs with off the shelf software. 

How long should it take someone to do about 60 minutes of dictation on average.

Thanks you.

Can anyone shed light on this company's line count process.  Can it be set up with the same parameters that one would for Sylcount?  And if so, how does a typist know what the parameters are except for what is told by the MTSO that orders the parameters?  You can PM me if necessary.

Thanks.

Can anyone tell me how to monitor whether making a whole report macro is worthwhile?  I have quite a few, but I cannot decide if it is worth it or not.  I end up having to make changes and delete things.  Often seems like kind of a toss up and wonder if anyone has any guidelines for this or has experiemented with any specific result.

Thanks for any help you can give me! 

I just wanted to send out a very special thank you to all of you who pulled together today with Sheri in order for my children to be able to have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS this year!!  I thank you all from the bottom of my heart!!  Just when you think this world has become so cold, along comes special people who know just how to warm your heart again!!  Once again, THANK YOU ALL!!

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas (I know my children will because of all of you)!! 

Sheri:  You are an angel from above!!  ((HUGS))   

about our MQ accounts.

I work out of the Amherst office and so far, I have enough work.  This weekend we are a bit out of turn-around but the ladies on this account, and I, are working quickly to change that (when I'm not poking my nose on this message board).

I am wondering though, if it's just a few isolated accounts that are running out of work from the Amherst office, and it is illegal to discuss what accounts those are?  It probably is--just think it would make a lot of us feel better (especially those of us out of Amherst that are starting to worry) if we knew that it's the same few accounts that are running out of work all the time, and not ALL of the accounts.

I don't know.  This whole situation makes me sort of sick.  I'm thankful I have work, but very sad that many of you appear not to and wonder when my account is next.

about Dictaphone EXSpeech, my wave volume on my pc's master volume controls kept turning down automatically after each VR job and I couldn't figure out why.  Well, after much research, having both the tech people at the hospital where I work and the Dictaphone/Nuance tech support people telling they had never heard of that problem, I figured it out. 

And since someone on here had told me it was a quirk with Dictaphone, I wanted to share because I thought it my help her out too.  When you are in a document in Word Client Correction Editor, you hit F2 and that is your volume control, make sure you turn it all the way up, click okay and bingo it's fixed.  Apparently, that particular volume setting in Word Client is connected to the master wave volume control on your PC.  If it it is at the lowest setting, then your master volume control will reset after each job.  If it is turned all the way up, that is your master volume control will stay. 

Excuse my excitement, but it was driving me nuts having to manually turn up my volume with each job.  As many MTs know, one little annoyance can wreck a whole day!

I was interested in finding out if there are any IC MT's that use voice recognition and/or if it is even possible with transcribing from a microcassette transcriber.  I remember reading (cannot remember which MT site it was) where one MT used VR with her own accounts and was curious to see if that is something that is a possibility.  Thank you.

I visited their website but had a few question I thought MTs using it could help me with....

How is work distributed?.....Can work be automatically downloaded to certain MTs or is work manually distributed?  Does the MT grab work from via FTP?

What about editing....is editing efficent with MP Lite?

Can MTs upload work directly to the client?

Can the client see the progress of workflow (from recived by the MT to completed)?

Thanks so much for anyone willing to answer my questions!

Hello everyone, I am new to this board and just have a really quick question that I would like someone to answer please. On the MT job openings page when you click on an opening and in the employers description of the job they say to reply to and email address and then they list the address. However each job opening has a "apply now" tab at the bottom. Doesn't it just email your resume when you click that and submit it? You don't also have to copy the employers email address and then sign into your email and send a message to them that way too do you? Thank you,

Travis

1.  First I tried a new skin cream to "firm" up. My face turned cherry red, burned, and itched. Nothing helped. My skin now feels like sandpaper.

2. The water pump went in the car.

3. My son was taken to the hospital and has developed a heart problem. He's only 38.

4. My phone-in dictation machine died today. Can't afford the high prices they're asking for another one. I only have 1 doctor and don't know what to do. Any ideas?

5. My husband is still not back to work.

Wish I could retire today!

It's a 4-mm s/l Schebolamine liposuction cannula.  He says it twice.  I can't find anything like it ANYWHERE.  Can someone please help? 

Thanks,

Sue

No way would I have one in my arm:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/01/earlyshow/contributors/emilysenay/main3124051.shtml

THANK YOU to the person who sent me the instructions on how to turn the ringer off.  It worked!!  :-)

Ludi

The latest posts I can find on Oracle are from a year ago.  They seem all bad.  This makes me nervous, as I have just recently been hired by them, but now Diskriter is calling me.  What do I do, any ideas.  It seems Oracle will be very flexible with my schedule (this is a very big deal to me) and I will be working on an account with hardly any ESLs, acute care hospital (hard to believe).  On the other hand, I do not get supplied a computer (which I am used to) and this is a little inconvenient.  Diskriter seems to be more strict on their scheduling, but supplies bennies and hardware, so now it is up to, who is the best?  Any comments (yes, I know this is a loaded question, but just go for it, K).

I picked up some extra IC work back in May, and since that time have covered for the owner by editing for her while she was on vacation for a week, and then taken extra work as the MT with whom I share dictation from this doc was on vacation for a week, then sick for a week just after return, the next Friday had a family emergency, etc.  This was supposed to be part-time work, and has turned out to be more than I would expect for part-time . . . to the point where when this doc was going on vacation, I was trying to hold out and not say anything about it being too much, thinking that I'd be caught up and fine to take on the work when he returned, but wound up "breaking" with one day left to go, and told the woman it was too much, and she asked if I could just hang in there with her as she was testing another MT, and would reduce the amount she gave me if this girl worked out. 

Well, the doc returned from vacation and I did not get any of his work for about a week, and then the next week (this past week), I was given slightly more work than in the weeks prior to his vacation, although I had already told her it was too much, and it was still the same girl working the account with me.  At the end of the week it seemed that she had hired another girl, but did not reduce my work, just switched from girl 1 to girl 2. 

Sorry so long, but here's the BIGGER problem . . . in the early part of the week, the owner e-mailed with an attached voice file, requesting that I download the voice file and listen to a blank she was trying to fill-in.  I listened (over and over) could not find her sentence, so responded with what I was hearing in and around that area.  She then gave me another location and said that she had two counters on her program and did not know which one my program used, could I listen at xxxx location, so I did, gave her the fill-in, but was a little bewildered as to why she would request my assistance in that way as SHE IS NOT PAYING ME FOR THIS KIND OF HELP. 

Here we go again, yesterday she sends an e-mail with some voice files attached and some sentences with blanks, and she is requesting the same thing, that I listen and fill-in the blanks.  I am just not sure what to do here.  Early on, a couple of weeks after she returned from her vacation, she asked me if I could "proofread" the other girls files for that day as an appointment she had was "screwing her up".  I e-mailed back that, due to my heavy workload, I would not be able to EDIT work for her.  (The girl's work requires editing, not proofreading, which I quickly found out while covering the owner's vacation.)  I thought that I had let her know then that I do not work for free, in a nice way.

I would like to keep the work, but only what I am being paid for, so . . . How would you handle this situation? 

I have been transcribing for 6 years and want to get my own accounts.  What is the best way to do this?  Any info would be great! Thanks

Do you believe that:

A:  Poverty is mostly the result of poor choices in life, either by yourself or by your parents and grandparents before you, thereby setting up the vicious cycle.  Early parenthood, out-of-wedlock births, no father in the home, recycled boyfriends in and out of a home, lack of early childhood stimulation with books/toys, lack of routine and academic expectations, etc. 

OR

B:  Poverty is societal.  Poor people have no choices in America and no real opportunity or ability to raise themselves out of poverty.  The way to end poverty is to increase social programs until people are not living in poverty anymore.  Poverty is societies fault and the government's fault and therefore theirs to fix.