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Posted By: MT stuff on the good computer.nm
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How do I get Word to capitalize a new sentence when it is after a number? TIA. nm -
Posted By: AzMT
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blanks -
Posted By: Irish
Can anyone advise how long an MT should spend researching an item as opposed to letting a blank? The company I work for is very reasonable about 1 blank per document etc. I was just wondering if there is a general rule.
Thanks for the opportunities this board offers to learn, vent and feel less isolated.
Soft Script just called me out of the blue looking for recruits... -
Posted By: i_am_mtheaded
I must have inquired about a position well over a year ago, and thank goodness it did not work out based on the archives. But, with no warning, no provocation, they called asking if I or anyone I knew needed an MT job. Hmmm, weird huh?
Okay, here's a poll. see inside. -
Posted By: MT
Who has the best pipes, Barbra or Celine? Personally, neither is my cup of tea, but I listen to the radio at work a lot and I have to admit, Celine just knocks Barbra out of the water as far as power and range and just about every other way. Let the voting begin! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
I have 2 questions for people who own their own company -
Posted By: Wondering
I started a company up and have a few clients; however, 2 of them insist on using my SS# instead of my EIN. Will I still be able to claim this as income for the business? Also, I have someone working for me and I am wondering if when I pay taxes on my business do I do it on the money before or after I pay her? I'm not sure if you have to pay taxes on EVERYTHING you make or if you can count a salary off and just pay taxes on what is left.
FTP site or other recommendations? -
Posted By: LHMT
I may be a little premature in asking this as I'm not yet sure what the software is that is being used, but I know a psychiatrist who would like me to do some transcription for his private practice. He is currently using a program to digitally put the dictations on the computer and then his wife transcribes it. I am wondering about options that are available to me in order to receive the dictations as well as transmit the typed documents back (preferrably through the computer). I have heard about FTP sites but don't know how they work. I think another option might be telephone dictation but that would not be ideal at this point as he has many dictations already on his computer that his wife is behind on and would like me to help get caught up. I do have a digital foot pedal but don't know yet if it will work with the dictations or what software I might need on my end. I have a limted budget. Are there any sites available that are free and are HIPPA compliant? Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!
I am in need for a weighted QA scale sm -
Posted By: Lyndia
I need to give some feedback and I'd love a weighted QA scale to use. Would someone be kind enough to email me one? I can't find the one I had and I didn't lift it off this site when it has been mentioned.
Many thanks.
asr funny -
Posted By: mini haha
There was lots of scar tissue, and the nurse could not be identified.
(nerves)
testing my avatar -
Posted By: Sunny
testing
Working with preschooler at home -
Posted By: rad
My preschooler son is home in the morning as it is spring break here. I am wondering about how you guys get your lines in during such times.
Help editors.... -
Posted By: mt
I'm in the midst of an editing test. How do you make the correction above the word that needs correcting in MS Word 2000?
Two jobs? -
Posted By: mom-CMT
I am wondering if it is possible to work for another company part time (approximately 15 hours a week) and still have a regular 40 hour a week job. I am on the verge of splitting up with my husband of 13 years. I know he will carry the kids on his insurance, but I don't know how the child support thing will work. I want to give the kids a few "extras" and I was hoping maybe this might be an option. The problem is the computer I have belongs to the company I work for. Any suggestions appreciated.
I need to find a legitimate mentoring program! pls. help? -
Posted By: Veronica
Can anyone recommend one?
How would you handle this situation? -
Posted By: (sm)
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?
Could someone help on word board please? Thank you! -
Posted By: nm
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MTC--Providence -
Posted By: Lois
Hi,
I've just been offered a job with Medical Transcription Corp. in Providence. Wiil be PT. Any comments on this outfit?
Thanks.
Trying -
Posted By: losinit
to get out of transcription completely. Anyone have any good or bad comments for coding and insurance billing? I have a friend that does this and thinks it's 10 times better than the transcription industry. Makes twice what I make. I need to find something that doesn't make me feel so bad at the end of the day and a paycheck that doesn't give me a stomach ache. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Need info -
Posted By: Daphne
What software, which has to be HIPAA compliant, do you use for sending completed work to small-sized transcription companies? Thanks
Why transcription? -
Posted By: DM7
Curious to know. What is the main appeal to you?
Not being paid for IC services -
Posted By: Jan
What steps can I take to collect payment for my services as an IC? Company is ignoring me. The only thing I can think of is to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Hiring a lawyer wouldn't be worth it. Thanks.
Reasonable cpl to expect for newbie MT? -
Posted By: New MT
What would be a reasonable cpl to expect as full-time employee (not IC) with a national if you have no experience but do have MT education from one of the AAMT-approved schools?
companies who allow dial up -
Posted By: dial-uper
If anyone has any info on companies who hire us unfortunate dial-up interneters, I would appreciate it. It seems that all the decent companies I look at hire only high-speed. Thanks!
HELP!?! -
Posted By: EmmaMT
Could someone please tell me why all transcription jobs are now requiring cable or DSL connections?!? I'm on dial-up (no cable or DSL available) and I've been using the DocQScribe platform and uploading and downloading my work with no problems at all.
Why on earth are they requiring this?
And does anyone know of any companies that DO NOT require cable or DSL?
Thanks in Advance!
Platform line counter -
Posted By: Rachelle
I check my line counts with the software counter every day at the end of my shift and write it down. At the end of this pay period, if I did a full pay period count on the same counter, my count doesn't add up to the same as when I add each day individually. At first I thought it might have to do with blanks, but it is off by almost a whole shift's worth lines and I don't leave very many blanks. I double checked the dates/times I entered to make sure I didn't miss a day. I did not.
Has anyone else experience this? I'm wondering if my company gets the count they pay me for this way. I normally don't add them all up for the whole pay period, so I never noticed it before.
setting default view in Word 2000 -
Posted By: Cj
My default view has changed to 90% and I have to manually change every report. Is there a way to fix this so it pulls in on the normal view every time?
anyone ever attended a Quinceanera? -
Posted By: overworked MT
my 14yo daughter (and family it says) got invited to one this summer on south padre island. gorgeous invitation in itself. i was thinking of possibly taking her and making a vacation out of it as it is a good 600 miles away from us. but was wondering what do you wear to one of these? a fancy dress similar to what you would a "normal" wedding? not like the one posted below, lol. do you just give them something as a present like you would for a normal b-day party? anyone with ideas or experience?
Any ho t dirt y bitc hes here! -
Posted By: MARIO BOSIO
i am on het wanna fuc k hard and deep so that my 12 inches long black rod reaches the thoroat of all the old MT bitc hes here.
opinions pls - which Bose headphone is best? -
Posted By: free2beme
I am looking at Bose headphones on ebay and am trying to decide between the around the ear regular Bose's, versus the noise canceling around the ear versus noise canceling on the ear. Anyone have these and can help me with my decision??
I have a pair of RCA cheaper (on the ear) phones now that are supposed to be noise canceling, but cannot really tell a big difference when I have it turned on and also notice a buzz in my ear when I do turn on the noise cancel option - any probs like this with the Bose's???? Thanks for your help.
Searching in WP 5.1 documents through Windows XP -
Posted By: Troy
I have changed word processing programs from DOS-based to Windows-based programs, but still need to access the old WP 5.1 documents. I am having trouble searching the documents through Windows, i.e., searching for a person's name, etc. inside the document. Do you have any suggestions?
New system blues -
Posted By: jd
We recently had a computer upgrade at the hospital where I work and we are having multiple issues. We are using Word 2003 in conjunction with Dictaphone Enterprise Express. First, does anyone know how to load the medical dictionary into the spell checker so that it pulls words from that dictionary? The spell check is stopping on almost every medical word and driving us all crazy! Secondly, the command CTRL+shift+spacebar is not keeping words together like it used to on our old system. Anybody have any clues as to why? Also, if you create a macro it will work fine until you sign off of word client, and when you sign back on, its gone. Any help would be appreciated...it has been a long 2 weeks! TIA.
MT jobs in Texas - Dallas or Austin -
Posted By: dating_a_mt
Hello All,
With my job (non MT), I have the chance to move to either Austin or Dallas. I'd be bringing my girlfriend with me but this means she'd have to leave her current MT job which works directly with a hospital. Does anyone have any pointers on who's hiring for MTs in either Austin or Dallas preferably working out of the home? She currently makes 75k a year since her employeer provides a lot of double overtime. Could this much be made in Austin or Dallas? She'd possibly look at working for an outsourcing company as well (hopefully with benefits). Any pointers on outsouring as well would be nice.
Many Thanks
We have such gorgeous weather here today, Easter Sunday! -
Posted By: Little warm, 82 degrees, but breezy and beautiful!
What about where you are?!
I'm helping a local MTSO out who is in a bind. -
Posted By: I need WORD help
He uses Word and my company uses WP5.1. He sent me some templates and I can pull those up, but there is some header information with patient name, etc. that is shaded gray and I can't get to that to enter the information and I don't know enough about Word to know what to do at this point. The MTSO knows even less about Word than I do and the MT that did the account is out for surgery.
I hope I'm making sense and someone can tell me what to do or what to go to look for the information. I've done straight typing in Word using templates previously and I have not had to do any formatting, so this is all new to me.
Quick vent!! -
Posted By: penny
I am so aggravated right now. My shift was supposed to start at 6 - and now it is 8:15 and DEP still down and, unable to go back to sleep. First it was 7, and then 7:30 and now 9. Why can't they figure it out? And it's my birthday, so now I will have to work that much later to make up time lost this morning, which will mean less time to spend with my family today. Why today of all days?
new job woes... :( -
Posted By: luvescription
UGH! I just started a new job with a great company. The people are wonderful. The training is great...but... I am so frustrated! I have typed for 6 years and thought I was ready to take on bigger and better challenges. At my previous job, on eScription, my production was great! I could edit about 1500 lines in 4 hours. I have not typed in years. Now, I am typing again, and it took me 8 hours to type 51 minutes of ESL op notes. My brain is fried and my body hurts. How do ladies do this? I am no where near 1000 lines for the day and I don't even know if that is doable with these docs and my fat fingers. Is it going to get easier or am I in way over my head here? What do I do? Just venting... thanks for reading.
Question for QA people who are paid by the line. -
Posted By: Tracy
I recently accepted a QA position that pays 3.5 cpl. I will be a full time employee with this company. What is the average amount of lines per pay period - that you are able to QA?
I know that this varies per person, but I'm trying to get a better idea of what I can expect to earn.
Thanks
Help -
Posted By: kathy patitsas
I need major help! I bought a Dell computer about two years ago when I started the DocQScribe program, and since that time, my line count dropped by about a third. I am now working for a different company on the same computer on a Word-based program, and I am having the same problem. I can transcribe at a rate of 300 lines an hour, sometimes more, but I rarely can get above 1,200 lines in a six hour period. The Word line counter shows that I do about 40 to 50 more lines than shown on my invoice line counter. It makes no sense to me and I can't figure it out - I transcribe just as fast as I ever did and in the same way. Could it be my computer? Please, as many opinions as possible, and thanks!
What does DH stand for? -
Posted By: b
I'm assuming it's _______husband, but is it dumb, dear or ________?
TRS Test -
Posted By: Testing
Do you have to have a foot pedal to test with TRS? Several years ago I took a test for a couple of companies that did not require a foot pedal to test. I think I used the arrow keys and it was a pain; however, it did work.
Thanks.
had to share -
Posted By: makes you wonder
ESL dictates, "MRS. So-and-so is a 10-year-old female." Might be able to be a MRS. in your country but not in the USA.
rephrasing my question about 3000 lines per day (sm) -
Posted By: JLS
What I really like to know is if it's possible to type that many lines on a CONSISTENT basis everyday and approximately how many hours it takes. I'm trying to calculate how many lines a pay period I need to make to pay my bills.
Thanks so much
MQMT's view from her throne (sm) -
Posted By: MQoldtimer
It must be nice way up there in the clouds where you sit. I don't check out these boards often, but in reading today's posts and your comments, I felt compelled to make a few statements.
Your replies to several posts 7/12 and 7/13/05 made me cringe. There was a cartoon strip a few years back, Charlie Brown and friends, with a little dog named Snoopy who would sit up in a tree like a vulture and peer down on the rest of the pee-ons down below him. You come across as Holier-than-thou as my late grandmother.
Do you enjoy calling people lazy (or worse)? I bet there would be several who would like to take your inventory.
I've transcribed for MQ since they were TLF and have been with them throughout all the changes that have come down the pike. Some I have been frustrated with, but bottom line is I like what I do and it hasn't been bad enough (yet) for me to look elsewhere.
Go ahead and flame - I've got my hose ready, too.
Traveling MT- I need you! -
Posted By: countrymt
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CORTMEDICAL -
Posted By: nicole
Have any of you had any trouble with CORTMEDICAL or heard anything about them?
we run out of work every single day at spheris, it is scary. is slow on ya'lls end too? -
Posted By: MTgal
we run out of work every single day with Radiology, i type for Spheris, it is so scary, makes you wonder if the account is going to close. anyone having a slow slow production month?
EditScript loading difficulties -
Posted By: MT cowgirl
I am supposed to be starting on the EditScript software today, but I can't seem to get a report loaded. I installed it using the password I was given by my vendor, but I seem to be stuck on the 'Initializing Your Dictation List.." window. I can't seem to access anything from the blue open folder. I have never used this software before, and this is the second time I have had problems getting in. Any idea what I did wrong? I get a "Microsoft Visual Basic Runtime error '424': Object Required" message every time I load it. What does that mean? I have tried to reboot, but I get a red box that warns me that if I exit the system this way, I will either not get paid or other people won't be able to access the queque. My vender is unavailable for comment.
P.S. This is my first job!
Do the MT schools lie to their students? -
Posted By: Curious
On another unrelated board someone asked about medical transcription. I mentioned that pay goes down instead of up because of offshoring reports and isn't the most secure job. She came back and said she asked her teacher about offshoring and she said: "They used to do that but they are sending it back to us now because what the clinics would have to do, is hire someone to edit them and then redo them so it wasn't working out. They talk about it at every advisory board meeting apparently." Hmmmm, okay.
Just wondering.
I need inspiration! -
Posted By: Backwoods typist
I have been looking, looking, and looking for another part-time job and have had it. Most positions are full time and they will not even give you a chance to show them what you are about. Or they do not take your kind of internet. I tell you what should happen. We should have job wanted ads that state the requirements of an employer and then let them make their decisions from there. I am so tired of looking. Can someone please give me some inspiration?
med help -
Posted By: CathyC
I am not sure if I am on the right board but perhaps someone can redirect me if I am not. I have not transcribed for about a year, but know that there were changes in abbreviations for meds, like q.i.d. and q.d, etc. Can someone remind me of what those changes were or tell me where to look for them. I appreciate the help. Thanks in advance.
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