Actually, It starts there, then carries on will all the company links and ads.
Posted By: same here on 2005-08-13
In Reply to: Can someone please tell me if it's - Computer bonkers or me?
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Well, if your company starts with a T.. the reason you see work but none in your job list is because
to the Indians for their shift..It's always feast for famine with these companies.
I'd like to know what company too....sm for onc links...
I'm also looking for oncology work and would love to find out where you two are working.
Here are some links for you:
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/ Dictionary of Cancer Terms
http://www.chemocare.com/bio/index.asp Chemo Drugs
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/cancerdatabase National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/search/clinical_trials/ NCI Clinical Trial Search
http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/tumpath/staging/llist.htm Tumor Staging
Hope this helps!
Read between the lines. When a company starts saying work more to make more
and you have to work in assembly-line fashion like an automaton, they are having a cash crunch. They held out one salary to you to get you to do the job, then they turn around and cut your pay because you make too much. They don't sound financially stable. If you've only been on the job 2 months, start looking elsewhere for a more financially stable company. Send out your resume and see what other companies have to offer and check out references for those companies. I and a friend in the past have gone part-time with a new company before resigning from the old one in order to make sure the new company is going to be compatible with us. It's hard to do, but it's short-term for only 1 or 2 weeks.
The company which starts with a laundry detergent and ends with water? Gonna delete that too admin?
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Radio Shack carries them. nm
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NOrdstrom's carries Bare Minerals
That is what I am told and keep thinking about checking it out but haven't yet. I also love it and to be sure as I felt like I could not see a difference, I did one side of my face with it and one with my "old" Clinique make-up and there was a HUGE difference. So that sold me. It lasts longer and I think it does work out to be about as much as Clinique or the other ones and it is worth it to me as I get older. But I did hear it was being sold at Nordstrom's and so that might help with the shipping as that is what adds to it.
Patti
transcriptiongear.com carries all kinds of phones/accessories, too. nm
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Working at home carries special challenges sm
I take exception to the person who said you must never have worked outside of your home. Phooey!
When you work outside the house...you have a babysitter, you put on decent clothing, you leave the house. You spend your day primarily with other adults. You have to limit your personal calls. Someone else provides your workspace, your desk, your pencils for goodness sake. Your coworkers have their own supplies too. Someone else outlines the course of your day and what you will do in it. You probably have a steady task assigned to you and you know what it is. Yes, you go home to housework, but it is what you left that morning, it didn't breed while you were gone.
When you work at home, your "office space" may be a loose term. Your coworkers are children, grandchildren and anyone else who feels entitled to be there. Your "coworkers" help themselves to your office supplies. Because you are an MT, no one assigns you tasks that are consistent. No one can know from day to day how much work will be there to be done, who will be dictating it, how long it will be, nor how long it will take to complete. You will do this in a vacuum to a great extent and not have any other adults to interact with. Because you are at home, dishes and laundry breed and multiply during your work day.
Now add to this that no one, other than your fellow MTs, have the slightest idea what you do or what it takes to get it done. They have seen those incredibly imbecilic ads on TV and, as they have no other frame of reference, expect this to be YOU. They don't seem to connect that when your hands are not on the keyboard, you are not making any money. They don't get that you can't talk AND listen AND type all at the same time. Your average human can't talk, listen and type at the same time, and goodness knows that they usually can't walk and chew gum at the same time...but you are an MT and they A$$ume you can because working at home has imbued you with superhuman powers.
Remember that old old Geritol commercial? You do so much for so many...and while your problem probably isn't constipation, you are suffering. We are women and somehow we expect a lot from ourselves, but I am telling you, others expect even more. In the end, what really gets juggled out of the equation is time for oneself to do as one pleases...bubble bath, coffee out of the house and ALONE, time for a friend, for a walk, for a bit of relaxation that really would add to quality of lives and make us feel more adequate for the tasks of life and work.
I know that when my kids were growing up I had to set limits about their mess, their noise and their pestering of the mama while she was working. In exasperation one afternoon I shouted at them: Clean the house!!!! See these hands? They feed you, they clothe you, and they do it at the keyboard. I make $20 an hour (it has been a while) and every time you interrupt me, it means I don't make the money for something YOU WANT. If I clean the house, every hour I spend costs YOU $20 AND something you think you need or want. By helping out, you literally put money in all our pockets. By giving me the time and the space and the quiet and the lack of interruptions to work, you are literally putting more money in our pockets. So, kiddos, what will it be?
You know, after that I rarely loaded the dishwasher, never had to clean a floor again, vacuum...all sorts of stuff. My chore was the laundry and I could do that on my MT breaks. If they started to fall off a bit, I would show them my hands and say something like "my time is your money" and they were back on task. I was a single parent for years and MT supported us, and more handsomely when they got the picture.
Sally's? Wow, I would never have guessed. JCPenny carries some at their jewelry counter as well
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Radio Shack carries all kinds of adapters and gizmos, too. nm
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half.com carries used Sted's books and new ones thru Amazon. Good luck! nm
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I am 31 too and maybe it starts in your 30s. Who knows
I hate it when I have just uploaded a report and I freak out thinking I left something off or forgot to check something. I feel so dumb!
I think have children robs you of brain cells too!
Do you know when it starts? TIA.
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well thats' where it starts...
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Just because someone first starts
out as an MT does not make them unqualified for QA. In fact, an experienced MT chosen for QA at their present company is better, because they know the particulars of the company and the accounts.
The one that starts at 5 cpl?
See recent posts on the Company board, threads starting with ''DIT Pay from horses mouth via email'' and ''Ditt Transcrition SM.''
Their attitude usually starts it!...sm
I've dealt with some really helpful techs, but mostly alot of real winners (not):
One experience I had at MQ (no longer work for them), but I told the tech that the modem they just sent to me was fried. He told me that was impossible; they check everything before shipping. He made me do this and that for about an hour! When none of that worked, he said, "you don't know anything about transcription equipment do you?". I told him I knew enough to know when a modem is fried, and probably said something else! He told the supervisors that I was rude and whatever else he wanted. The next day the supervisor called and alluded that we had a "personal problem"! UGH!
After two supervisors had me do this and that with the modem and computer, they decided the modem was unusable and would ship me a new one (24 hours later with me losing work time while paying them to rent the equipment, not to mention getting stressed and frustrated wasting time with the tech with an attitude).
Your being frustrated and sarcastic is perfectly understandable! But, yeah, they "tell" your supervisor!
I don't believe it starts as a disease. I
fully believe it starts as something to pass the time or forget problems, but then the body becomes dependent and then it causes disease.
Actually, when it starts a sentence
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She starts her post with a
flaming FACE...look again.
The post starts out as she has never
been pregnant.
that's where WHAT starts? Communism? LOL
you missed my point if you say YES. FASCISM yes, communism hardly.
Everyone starts somewhere - ?s are good - nm
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just be careful when a doctor starts doing that - sm
I had a doctor in Miami contact me to fill in while his Transcriptionist is out for three weeks. I told him that I wanted 8 cents/gross line. I went that low because he was giving me 48 hours to turn it around. He told me that was ridiculously high and that he could never pay that amount. I talked to his office manager and asked her "just exactly how much transcription are we talking about here?" She said he fills a 60 minute tape every day. I did the math based on ALL the information I was given, and it came out to $60/day at 8/gross line. This MIAMI CARDIOLOGIST felt that paying $60/day was TOO HIGH - and he did not want to pay the fed ex to boot! He was looking to pay 4 cents/line. He did find someone for that rate.
It sounds like this is a doctor who will break you down to work for practically nothing - but beware, this also sounds like a doc that is shopping around behind your back to look for a transcriptionist that will do the work for less $$.
who starts these polls - the administrator
LOL mine starts around the end of July
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A group of people starts with one.
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before slamming starts..pay is good..work is there..sm
before the naysayers (or the ones cycling through the system) start, we pay top money, always have AND the work is there...have never had complaints of not enough work. I have had people claiming to do 100+ reports a day that do 20 a week...I have had MTs claiming that they have never had reports returned and yet every report they produce is full of errors or blanks. So either there are clients out there that take anything produced and have editors they pay to fix everything or these people are in LALALALALAL land.
I have had seasoned MTs apply that can not produce quality work...so while I have "been there and done that" as to working for national companies that give you 3 or more accounts because they over hire...worked for national companies that get you up and running then switch you to ESL only accounts so you never make bonus or even lines for the day...I have also been on the end of hiring and setting up people that have stolen equipment, programs and clients. I have hired people after good screening that have never started work, or worked one day and then never worked again.
It is a two way street...there are good MTs (all of which must be working because I sure have not found any lately) and there are bad..the same bad ones that slam newbies on the boards or give snippy answers for everything posted. AND htere are bad MTSOs out there too. Not everyone is a perfect match for each other, but as someone that has been on both sides, it gets old to constantly hear about the bad MTSO or even national companies, but we never hear ANYTHING about the bad MTs that are out there...and there are...ask any MTSO :-)
I'm not in QA, but I've always typed it P.r.n. if it starts a sentence, sm
as in 1. P.r.n. ibuproben. If you were typing out the Latin for pro re nata, that's how you'd do it (or at least I would), i.e. 1. Pro re nata.
However, I agree with "fixing" it when allowed. Some accounts are strict verbatim, others are what I call "smart verbatim," where they let you fix things to make sense, be grammatically correct, etc.
Get a good word expander for starts - sm
I started with ShortHand but then bought Stedmans Smartype which I love; and also a good spellchecker (again I use Stedmans). I don't know how I did it before w/o these. It is like night and day. They help out tremendously do save lots of time. So if you don't already have either of these, I'd highly advise getting them; very necessary to help speed up production, etc.
It counts the lines it ends up with, not what it starts with. nm
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Yes, those. They look "heavy", and even when a post starts out "another perspective"
Big red flag!! Grab the BP pills, and read at your own risk! Sort of like the way my heart twists along with my stomach when my husbands says, "Now, there's something we need to talk about"...I know that is NEVER good, cause men never talk about stuff first!
I go through this every year when the school district starts hiring.
And I have cabin fever really, really bad from being home with the kids almost 24/7. Plus, I don't get much adult interaction in the summer because all of my friends are busy with their own families, vacations, work, etc. We don't get together as often as during the school year.
The work part of it is OK. I have good accounts, but it can be boring or frustrating with interruptions. Like the other poster, I have to play music in the background and buckle down to be productive. However, there is something to be said for the flexibility that I have in working at home. I'm here for the kids. I can take a break whenever I want to. I don't have to get dressed up or drive anywhere. No office politics. No supervisor screaming at me. No out-of-town travel. I have my own office now. I have total control over the thermostat. I can eat whatever I want to whenever I want to. I'm saving money by not using daycare. I make as much or more working part-time than if I worked fulltime, paid daycare, and had to drive to and from a job. Best of all, I have time during the day to exercise, clean the house, or do my hobbies. I'm not so exhausted by the end of the day that I just slap food on the table and veg out in front of the TV. I don't watch TV at all any more! For me, the benefits are still good enough to keep doing this for at least a few more years. I can always go back into the workforce when the kids are older.
I think you are right. I am seeing the same things. I hope it starts soon..I love it. Will visit
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I use ASS for Assessment, and wimp for Impression for one hosp that starts with a "w".
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I use ASS for Assessment, and WIMP for Impression for one hosp that starts with a "w".
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I have a PA-C that starts every sentence with.."The pateint will...." ARGH!!. nm
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LOVE my job....Counting down hours til my shift starts
I love my job and my part-time IC jobs, too. I'm a workaholic, granted, but I've been a workaholic and not necessarily liked the job(s) I was working. At this point in my life, I love my jobs, especially my primary job.
Life is quite good at the moment :-)
I am just wondering since MQ ASR rate reduction starts the 1st of October how many have opted out
of ASR and how many are just going to continue to do the ASR. I wonder how much work they will push on ASR now with the rate reduction. Watch the accounts fly on ASR.
I have a niece studing to be a PA. I told her to call me when she starts dictating sm
I told her to be sure to ENUNCIATE, spell difficult names. I hope that will give us one PA that will be clear. LOL
In North Alabama, school starts back August 4th. We get out the end of May.
:O)
I think it's the temporary files because when it starts acting like this, there are TONS of temp
Even closing Word doesn't make the files go away--I have to delete them manually.
As far as plug-ins, I have tried disabling them before but no luck. I can go months without a problem, plug-ins and all, and then, BAM, it starts happening all the time. I usually start holding my breath when I have a string of "crash-less" days (even more than I usually do to hold my gut in).
I'm beginning to think it's those automatic updates from Microsoft that are adding gremlins...can't say that I'm not beyond thinking that Mr. Gates would have his reasons for doing that, although I can't say for sure what they might be right now.
I'm open to any more ideas you might have.
ob-gyn links
http://umed.med.utah.edu/rotations/year3/ob-gyn/objectives.html
http://www.obgyn.net/women/conditions/conditions.asp
you come up with the best links!
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Here are some links for you
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/handwreath/ You can use any paper, but if you use tissue paper it may not even make it home.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/3dstar/
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/reindeer.html
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10496
Don't have time to look for more, but one time in school we had cheap glass bulb ornaments and we wrote our name and year on them with glue and then sprinkled with glitter. You could probably get bulbs/glitter at dollar store.
You might also want to go the dollar store and look for craft kits. I buy kits every year from a craft store and they usually make 6-12. If the tables in the room were in groups you could just take a paper plate and pour 1 kit out on each and they could share, or you could divide up the items into a baggie and make copies of the instructions.
You could take bagels (from the bakery outlet stores and cheap) and smear with peanut butter and then press in bird seed, attach some thread and hang on a tree near their classroom - unless you are wanting them to have something to take home. Can also use pine cones for this.
Buy some plain gingerbread man cookies and tubes of frosting and sprinkles and let them decorate them.
Do you have any links?
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Here are two links
Meditec.com Free Trial Offer, MT Mini Course
http://www.meditec.com/free-medical-transcription-course.pdf (pages 9-27)
Candidate Guide for the AAMT Certified Medical Transcription (CMT) Exam
http://www.aamt.org/scriptcontent/Downloads/CMTCandidateGuide.pdf
(has sample questions, page 11)
If you’re going to test people through actual dictation, I recommend that you make sure they all transcribe one report by the hardest dictator you have. If they can do that, then they’ll have no problem doing anyone else you have.
i did not get all the links until i (sm)
until i upgraded my antivirus software. strange as it seems.
had nothing to do with my browser.
Links
I like these sites...
TheGreatDictator.com All kinds of links!
OneLook.com Awesome if you want to do a fuzzy search (part of a term)
TheAGAPECenter.com Hospitals and clinics by state
Of course, Google.
Good luck!
Where do I buy one... links?
Can you save me some time and give me a link. Thanks a bunch!!!!
you also need to fix the links
Starting from mtstars.com, clicking Forums, clicking Main Board leads you to page not found.
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