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Free Software Offer for Spellex - Happy MT Week! - Posted By: Spellex Corporation

Dear Medical Transcriptionists,

In honor of National Medical Transcription Week (May 14 - 20), Spellex Corporation has started another contest in addition to our Spelling Quiz.

Spellex Corporation will give away two free copies of Spellex AccuCount, our new line count program to two lucky MTs. Other participants will receive a 30% discount on selected Spellex products.

To win your free copy of Spellex AccuCount, simply be the 5^th or 10^th MT to download Spellex AccuCount and send us a review.

Please visit www.spellex.com/downloads/select.asp?Version=accucount to download a trial version of Spellex AccuCount.

Once you have reviewed the program, please send your review to mtweek@spellex.com. Please make specific references to the program in your review.

If you�re not the 5^th or 10^th reviewer, you can still save! All medical transcriptionists who send us a review are eligible for a 30% discount on any Spellex single user product during National MT week.

Once again, congratulations to all Medical Transcriptionists for the important work you do!

Spellex Corporation
www.spellex.com

Can is use Vianeta and Bayscribe on same PC? - Posted By: double trouble

I'm going to be working for 2 separate MT companies very soon. One company uses Vianeta and the other uses Bayscribe. Does anyone know if there will be a conflict on my computer with 2 programs running at the same time? Each program uses a different foot pedal.

Happy 4th of July! - Posted By: Hope you have a safe and happy Holiday! (nm)

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This is a wierd question, but I need help. - Posted By: Faith

I took on a group of dermatologists three weeks ago, and I just hate transcribing for them because of the sloppy way they dictate. Also, I realized I am charging way too little. Further, the OM calls me multiple times daily for this and for that, and she's really getting to be an annoyance. All issues combined, I want to drop this account but I just don't have the heart to tell them the true reason why. What excuse can I use to get rid of them. They're making my life miserable!

Thanks!

Bayscribe - Posted By: Julia

I am looking into buying a laptop and working while on vacation/visiting family. However, I was hoping not to have to drag my foot pedal along with me everywhere I go. Is it possible to use hot keys to start and stop the dictation instead of using the foot pedal? I work with Bayscribe.

Do any of you who continuously get the reports that cherry-pickers pass over ever - Posted By: send them back, too?

This entire morning I have gotten nothing but leftovers from yesterday that no one else wanted to do. I am at the point where I am going to start sending them back, too, so I can make a decent line count. Whatcha think? Then no one will be doing them and maybe the MTSO do something about it (ha ha ha ha ha).

Satellite Question (sm) - Posted By: Dixiegirl

I thought I was set up to get satellite internet but the Wildblue office called back an hour after I had talked with them and said they were sorry but the satellite I would be using will be "down" until November and they could not provide service to me.

Do all satellite internet companies use the same satellites? In other words if Wildblue in a town 35 miles from me cannot provide me service, can Hughesnet in a town 10 miles from me give me service or do they both use the same satellites? Would appreciate any info. I don't know too much about satellite internet or how it works!

philips 9750 vs philips 9850 transcribing equipment - Posted By: glenn

Has anyone had any experience with either the Philips 9750 or Philips 9850? My existing system is proving un-reliable; it has been down all day. Considering the Philips systems.

Non-MT Work? - Posted By: Rose

Does anyone have any ideas for work that can be done on the side of a part-time MT job? I'm interested in hearing different ideas! Thanks.

Inquiries about companies, jobs, etc. (PLEASE READ) - Posted By: Goldbird (Moderator)

Please ask about specific companies. If you are looking for a job, see the Job Seekers board. There are literally hundreds of job advertisements. Each one is very descriptive and each one has contact information. Please research for yourself. Ask about companies by name but research for yourself.

If you wish, we have a free resume bank for you to post your resume on.

Please do not post asking for good companies or companies that only do certain types of work: Look at the job ads on the Job Seekers board. This information is all provided there. If you have problems or issues, please let me know via email.

Goldbird

need help on word board - Posted By: Monie

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what has happened to work ethic - Posted By: msbeanctr

When one speaks of using macros, trying to type faster, using reference materials online/electronically, or just having a secluded, uncluttered area in which to type without distractions, why do the claws come out...We want more money and flexible hours, but we are not willing to invest....Whassup widat! (aka IWUVMEJOB)

Sorry I missed all the excitement - Posted By: Patti

Sorry I missed all the excitement --went sailing with my neighbor for a couple of hours and just got home. I do have other things to do than sit on this board. You can all say what you want about me, I have no reason to lie about what I make, where I live or how great my accounts are. Life is too short and this is one battle I chose NOT to engage in. Believe me, don't believe me that is your choice and I have too much in my life for which I am grateful to let it bother me. With what is going on in the world right now, I think we have more pressing things to think about than whether one is lying about their income or where they live or if their life is empty. Prayers for peace would be more effective right now. Take care, going to eat dinner right now. Would you tell you what it is but that would just cause a couple of you to challenge me right now. Patti

Thinking about finally getting an expander - Posted By: mtagain

The two jumping out at me are Instant Text and Smartype. Any insight would be helpful from anyone who has used either/or. I think using an Expander is the only way I am going to make enough money nowadays.

Is your state taking any evacuees? - Posted By: cramped

Or are they all here in Texas? I've heard people who are volunteering at the Astrodome say that they throw trash on the floor, drop food, etc.etc. and expect the volunteers (I guess) to pick it up for them. If your state isn't taking any in, why not?

I have a curious question - would like some input or opinions - sm - Posted By: sandy

I'm on Guru and Elance for freelance work, and I have been a Transcriptionist for 17 years. Now, if you're not familiar with Guru or Elance, it's a site where potential employers can post projects for anything and you bid on them, BUT YOU have to pay Guru if you are awarded the project. And a lot of times, the projects posted will state what the project pays IN TOTAL, and a lot of times it is $40, $30 - EVEN $10 for something like 2-3 hours of transcription. $10!!! For what could be up to 10 hours of time of transcribing, plus, I believe, you have to pay Guru a portion of that.

Well, I've never been awarded anything because quite frankly, I can't compete with the $40 and $25 per audio hour people. I mean, really, I don't think I can transcribe an hour of multiple voice transcription that for every hour of transcribing, I'm only making $10 and then have to give a portion of that to Guru.

Here is my curious question - the people bidding on these projects have just as many years, if not more, of transcription experience and they are bidding $40, $30 or $25 for the WHOLE project. Why would experienced transcriptionists sell themselves so cheap! It baffles my mind. It actually frustrates me because I can't help but think there are transcriptionists out there with 5-10+ years experience working for $7/hour and sometimes less, especially when the whole project pays $10 or $20. Yet, it seems that the projects are always awarded.

Just curious as to the thoughts some of you may have. Oh, and by the way, these are being awarded to US transcriptionists most of the time.

Help with ExText - Posted By: NYMT

My AutoCorrect seems to be disabled. I looked up some of the words that are in it and tried them out and nothing happens. Am I not seeing something? I do have ESP word expander, but I can't see if there is a conflict. I tried pausing the ESP but it didn't help. Anybody have any ideas?

Any reks for a quiet keyboard that has NO - Posted By: number pad? My drawer is small. Thx! NM

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resume - Posted By: denise

where can i post my resume on the board?

Question ... How would you handle this? - Posted By: sm

I have 44 clients for my business. I charge 18 cpl. I pay 7 and 8 cpl for my MTs (ICs). With the 10-11 cpl left over, I have to pay all my overhead. Sometimes, I have no money left over to even pay myself, and have even put in my personal savings to make sure the MTs get paid. Now, I have a company that has offered me to do work for 5 cpl but it is offshore. I have to say, tho, that the extra 3 cpl would allow me to sometimes even pay myself something. My contractors are complaining about wanting more money but I will go under and close down if I do that. Also, this company will do the work overnight and return it in the mornings when I have to constantly juggle with my current contractors because they only want to work days. I don't want to cut my contractors but I don't see any other way around it. What should I do?

See the dilemma? It's not as easy as you think.

working while vacationing. sm - Posted By: bunny

Has anybody had luck setting up a system to work on DQS while camping, etc.? Thinking of doing this but not sure how to get the internet connection speed and such that is needed?

Thanks

Son's advice to make more $$ - Posted By: LMBO

Ok - my son is 21 - and he wants to know why I don't make as much money as I used to - he knows that I work part-time - but anyway - I asked him what he would recommend that I do in order to make more money? He said to go and get a job at a hospital like where I used to work. I just about fell out laughing - I had to tell him that those jobs didn't exist in our area any longer - man I wonder where he has been while I've been talking about the outsourcing and all? I guess kids really don't listen to their parents.

To the Mods - Posted By: Ed D

Exactly what will happen when a poster , acting as moderator , hits the "vote/moderate" button? Will this alert the board mods that there is a complaint being registered about the post and generate a request for removal?

Saving autocorrects and macros...... - Posted By: just me

Does anyone remember how to save autocorrects and macros to exchange from one computer to another, or one version of Word to another?

TIA for any/all help.

Word expander for Linux? - Posted By: Wally Bugg

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.

Proper way to write - Posted By: 10 to the 5th E.coli in the urine

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Free Internet Spell Check - Posted By: At Home MT

I have used ieSpell for over a year now for spell checking my posts (as I need it-lol!). I thought others might be interested in this free program as well and so I thought I would share it with you all. :) (I am actually just now downloading it to my new laptop.)

Help on the word board please - Posted By: romey

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Thinking about changing worktypes - Posted By: jlo

I think I'm in the minority here, but I'd much rather do long reports than quick short ones. Right now I'm doing prog notes/fups/etc but I also get a few psych notes here and there. I'd much rather do 4-5 30min psych notes than 50 2-min clinic notes a day but I found out that that clinic is leaving so I won't be getting those any longer. Should I just my manager that I want the longer reports and hope she'll find me something else? Or just keep my mouth shut and keep chugging along?

stressed out - Posted By: reality check

I'm stressing and fretting over a whole bunch of little things. I'm so tired and feel like I just need to hibernate for a month.

But as I "watch" the news as I work and see the devastation and how thousands of lives have just been turned upside-down, my little stressors and problems seem so insignificant.

Last year I was affected by 2 of the 4 hurricanes that hit Florida, going without power for about 2 days in each of them. It was pretty miserable. At least I had a house. These poor people who evacuated don't even know if they have a place to call home anymore, nor do they even know when they might find out.

...just feeling guilty about my insignificant pity party and figured writing about it would help. Thanks for listening.

Real Player - Posted By: justcurious

Does anyone know what Real Player is, or how it it used?

Military Overseas - Posted By: Marcey

When companies state no overseas applications or solicitations does that include Overseas Military?? I have DSL and we have a US Post office here on base. Curious cause i'm about to start school and want to know it wont be wasted while we are stationed overseas.

Thanks!

how many of you work - Posted By: more than one job? nm

Docs and punctuation - Posted By: Cali

Regarding the posts down the list about the docs who dictate run-on sentences or add bunches of periods, etc. I am wondering why they are not instructed to not include punctuation at all. Our company has us disregard what they say anyway (since it is usually way off), and it seems they are making it extra rough on themselves.

I have one who says comma practically every other word. It really threw me off at first, but now I hardly even hear it (so used to ignoring it). But think how much easier it would be for them to not even think about it. What works the best is when they just use their voice inflection to signal the end of one thought/subject and the beginning of another. Being someone without a whole lot of medical background, it gets confusing when they don't.

Why is it no one seems to communicate with the dictators about such things?

keyboard skipping keys - Posted By: Judy

Does anyone else have problems with some of the keys on the keyboard skips intermittently, not all the time, just sometimes? My keyboard is brand new. Not the most expensive, but it is new. What can I do? Please help.

Is there a way to show caps locked on the monitor screen? - Posted By: Thanks!

Or does it depend on the keyboard? If it depends on keyboard, how can I program it to show up on my monitor in the bold green letters I have seen that some can do? Anyone know?

Help on Word Board. Thansks! nm - Posted By: funsize

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IMAC compatibility - Posted By: Tired of being stuck on a PC

I would really LOVE to work on a Mac, but there have always been compatibility issues in the past. Anyone out there using a MAC and if so with what platforms?

RE question about felony below... - Posted By: and what the MTSO manager replied...

Do insurance companies have any stipulations on sending the work overseas? Are background checks done on these they are outsourcing to? I'm just curious..

C-PHONE - Posted By: MTAdvocate

Can anyone tell me if I can obtain a C-phone model 0421 manual on line? I saw a couple of posts for free manuals, but they were old posts that did not give any results.

Any help is appreciated.

What happened to Stedman's At Work? - Posted By: Lexi99

You know, the Stedman's online that you had to subscribe to? I just signed on, and the site said it was being discontinued, and they were no longer accepting subscriptions? I use this so much! Does anyone know why it is being discontinued? Does anyone know of a similar option?

Has anyone had court reporter training or looked into court reporting? - Posted By: Kat

I am thinking about taking a distance learning course in court reporting and I was just wondering if anyone has tried it, done it, looked into it and what they have found out. If you have gone to school for it or are going to school for it or know anything about court reporting could you share what you know with me? I have been in the transcription field for 15 years and I thought that might be something that I could bridge over to pretty easily, but not sure. Any comments on this idea? Thanks everyone for your help!

Anyone else really disappointed with the 2006 QLDB? - Posted By: mandy

This latest version seems like a beta version. Could it be more time consuming with all the clicking, scrolling, and tabs required to click on? Even the new search feature stinks as it does not bring what you typed in to the top, it just leaves it on the bottom and you must scroll to bring it up. This one is definitely NOT built for production. Has anyone figured out how to import things from previous versions of their drug book into this one? I cannot figure it out with this version and my e-mails to them for help have gone unanswered thus far.

Is it faster than paging through a book? Yes. Is it up to the standards of their previous QLDBs? Not in my opinion and I have been very happy with the electronic version since 1999.

Losing account to EMR - Posted By: Kathy Stryk

So I am losing 2 accounts to EMR December 1. Anyone know exactly HOW the EMR works. I'm wondering is there still a way for the MT to be involved without losing the account? I'm sure there are different EMR programs, but has anyone had experience with EMR??

cover with thiamine and (s/l) serafellon for alcohol abuse - Posted By: Drug Help

Got no help on word board. Running out of time.

Thanks in advance

that post was not mine..screwed up posting. - Posted By: boop

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Great tool for creating shortcuts - Posted By: for phrases

I just found this really great site with a tool on it for counting the repeated phrases in documents which we as MTs can use to make shortcuts!

here it is: http://medicaltranscriptionexpandproductive.blogspot.com/

BOS help installing CD sm - Posted By: Speed Queen

I am trying to get used to a new ISP, new computer, never installed my CD Rom for BOS 2, it asks which language it was written in, also where do I install it? Just on C or in my documents or "Word", I feel really illiterate, but I'm very, very tired, having a lot of trouble with new ISP. Is the CD rom more helpful than the book and if so, why? Sorry for so many questions, time is flying and I'm getting nothing done, it's disgusting, feel helpless. Thanks.

Business Cards - Posted By: lm

I am interested in picking up some new accounts and really want to design a nice business card --besides the usual info what else can I put on there to make a good impression?

Thanks for your feedback -