I live 3 hours from Houston and our weathermen are

• Rita now a category 4 and taking same path as Katrina. - MI-MT
  • I live in Houston and am debating whether to leave or not. Even being a - TM
    • I live 3 hours from Houston and our weathermen are - cowgirl
    • probably heavy rains and strong winds - to your area
      • What kind of damage that far in? I am not really worried about - TM
        • mostly trees limbs causing damage by falling on wires and rooftops - there was some flooding from local creek from heav
          • They are predicting 3-5 days with no power. SM - TM
          • and I forgot to add, of course, the - power outages for hours in some areas nm
            • and.. this was with 45-60 mph wind gusts - for much of night nm
  • Same cycle as in the 1960s - Saw this on Fox News
    • The earth is a dynamic thing, and to think that WE can influence it all that much is IMO - rather silly of us. History is full of disasters.
      • Actually it is the height of human - arrogance to think we can't....sm
        • The trouble is, everything is politicized... - SM
          • Yeah...let's not try to do anything constructive because everybody is contributing to the problem - No ostrich here.
          • We are 4.65% of the world's population - and consume 25% of its energy.sm
            • And we have the largest economy on earth, and lots of good comes - from our wealth and ability to help others around
              • And create enormous amounts of trash and pollution. Human overbreeding is doing us in. nm - population control
                • American's don't overbreed. We use birth control - talk to the third world countries
              • We are the largest consumer of goods. nm. - Passing through
                • Apologize for the mistake...meant sm, not nm. - Passing through
              • Or New Orleans! or Mississippi! - so much help and so timely!! nm
              • Yeah, like in Iraq....lots of help there - OMG! no message
              • So in the meantime, consume, - consume, consume like there's.sm
                • Like you don't consume? - nm
                  • Duh, everybody does, but you'd be - surprised at how wasteful.....sm
                    • What, like most people don't do those things? - most people DO
  • yep, global warming? But projected path is Galveston due to high pressure & - they are in the process of evac'ing. NM
    • Global warming my Aunt Fannie... Check history, there have been numerous cycles like this - with high hurricaine activity. nm
      • Not this many, this frequently, - this intense....NM
        • The truth is.... - SM
          • More truth - see link.
            • You proved my point.. Most active ON RECORD, which is but a blip in - the earth's existence. nm
              • A man hears what he wants to - hear and disregards the rest...sm
                • Just give up...no point in reasoning with an individual who does not want to understand. nm. - No ostrich here.
                  • Oh gawd, you MUST be a liberal... You all think you're so enlightened. - and couldn't possibly be wrong about anything.
                    • Being educated about the environment and caring about what is left for the next generation does not - No ostrich here.
                      • I care and I do educate myself, but the jury is still out on global warming. - The facts ma'am
                        • According to who...Faux News? - LOL - no message
                          • As opposed to Commie News Network? - nm
                      • ...does not make me a liberal. nm. - No ostrich here.
  • I just hope some of the rain comes up to VA, it has not rained - in ~ 6 weeks or more here - sm
    • We had some storms with heavy rain yesterday but did not make a dent - Richmonder

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The same thing happened here in Houston.  They found an elderly lady dead and her car stolen.  She had opened up her home to the New Orleans evacuees and after living with her for several months, they strangled her and stole her car. 

How do you explain this to children?  My children were so disappointed that we did not open our home up to the Katrina evacuees, but this was exactly the type of thing I was afraid of.  So we did other things to help out, but open my home?  No way! 

I feel sorry for the old guy in your town and hope that he has a full recovery.  He is the one who deserves our prayers and good wishes.

I have provided transcription services in Colorado for an internal medicine/nephrologist physician for the past five years.  He recently moved to Houston and started a new practice there and has asked me to provide him a proposal for doing his transcription there.  I was just curious if anyone could give me an idea what the going rate per line is in Houston. 

Thanks in advance for any input.

I'm looking for a real good MT school or some sort of MT on the job training or willing to train a person to work out of home. Have been LVN since 1984 but now disable, need something to do out of home. Please reply, disability not enough income. Thanks!

Lon

I know how high she can go and often times, the Idol judges don't like when the contestants sing her stuff, because they just aren't her. 

Best of luck to your daughter!

you slice it, both companies will still get 8 hours worth of work out of you.

That is the problem I've been having lately being an MT.  Companies want to pay us on production and they set minimum productivity standards, but want us timed in for 8 hours a day.  My thinking is, if they want 8 hours of work out of me, pay me hourly with production incentive.  If they want to pay me on production and tell how much I have to produce in an 8 hour period, then when I hit that mark, I should be able to call it a day even if I've only worked 4 hours.

Seems these companies want it both ways and it is simply not fair to us MTs.  JMO, tho.

but 14 hours to get a decent line count.

If you are an employee and have a schedule to work, then you should work all of your hours. Generally services don't hire you to do so many lines per day (although you will always have a minimum goal), but to work 40 hours/week as a full time employee. One of the biggest problems is those who agree to a schedule and then just decide they don't have to work it. If you can get your "quota" in 6 hours, what will be expected is that you simply are able to do more work on that day.

And BTW, never any such thing as a dumb question! :)

That broke down to 1881 lines in my usual overnight shift (I've done 1950 before but usually average more like 1200-1400/shift), then far less productive the rest of the day as I had both children home (daughter homeschools; son was sick).

Thank you all for being so very encouraging.    I didn't expect that . . . I've seen other posts about production where the OP got hammered for bragging.

My method is normals; I save a copy of practically every report I transcribe (no patient info, just the body).  Even if I only do the same dictator twice, I save a lot of lines on headings, especially since my primary account has highly formatted headings.  While I love Instant Text and have been using Expanders for 12 years, I believe the combination of normals and expanders produces far greater productivity.

Think the service will notice?  I love them dearly, but they've been in a sparse-communication mode of late.

1600 lines/day is great!  The service I work for says their top MTs average 1300-1400/day.

Never takes me more than two to three but then I have everything gathered and ready to put in.  Even the first time I used TT it only took 3 hours or so.  And now shorter since it downloads last years info.   But give yourself 4-5 hours on a Sunday afternoon.   I usually do it, let it sit, and then recheck it before sending it in.