Agree! Board is like chatting. Work requires more brain cells.
Posted By: Brains need rest once in a while (awhile?) ; ) (NM on 2008-01-19
In Reply to: Hazard of the job to edit EVERYTHING we read. - Need to turn off working eyes unless working.
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Nope, I'm losing brain cells here
I don't waste my time arguing with illiterates so I'm out of this thread.
You have a good time polluting it with your unintelligible posts, though.
Laterzzzz.....
Yeah, I used to years ago but no heavy usage, what killed by brain cells
not getting high. Granted if I had done it a lot, maybe so, but I have 1 good friend who got high every day, she has a Master's degree and is a respected Speech Therapist, though we tease her about her specialty, "swallowing".
I am only 40---starting to early....I found that pregnancy kills brain cells - nm
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Heck, having kids deletes brain cells, year after hear!
Any CAL GALS want to post on the state board for chatting?
Thought we could find out what town each from and the goings-on there. Good Idea? Retta the Rascal
Only if your city requires it. I work as an IC
and my city does not require a business license for this.
PA requires you to charge sales tax on your work...
if you send your completed work to a MT company or doctor within PA. However, I send my work out of state, so I don't have to charge sales tax and I don't need a license. I had asked someone at one of the companies I IC for and she said that she had heard of that before from one of the other girls. When I lived in WA state, I had a business license from the state and had to file every year. The sales tax thing was a real shock to hear at first!
Where I work requires average of 1200
lines per day for a 2-week period.
I won't work for a company that requires me to pay long distance
After getting reamed over by one MTSO who verbally promised to pay my unlimited long distance bill and didn't. I have no use for long distance because I use an inexpensive calling card or the Internet.
Company requires a C-phone. Will a Lanier Lx-219 work as well? sm
What is the difference in a Dictaphone, C-phone, Lanier LX-219 and Lanier Expresswriter or Voicewriter?
Thanks!
What is "O" work? I'm racking my brain trying to
think of what it would be..???
Thx.
My brain doesn't work that fast
I'd have to use 'hyperpatm' and 'hypopatm'. Sometimes I make macros and can't remember what my train of thought was when I made them.
To help save time while working, sometimes I just make a list of macros I want to add and then add them in all at once when I'm on a break/lunch/or things when things are slow.
Editing is the higher skill since it's more brain work,, AND SM
the computers are taking over the finger work. That and practitioners entering directly into the electronic medical record mean that most traditional transcription jobs before too long will be a thing of the past.
So I'd recommend you go directly to editing since you'll end up doing that anyway. If there's a future in this, it's going to be with a higher level of medical knowledge and a more expanded involvement in medical records beyond merely editing dictation, but likely including that.
Plus, with editing you'll be in at least twice as many reports as if you were transcribing them, which means you'll get much more experience more quickly. Whether you'll lose some benefit from not typing every word out I don't know, but you will spend a lot less time getting verbage you don't need to learn on paper. I.e., instead of typing some version of, "The patient presented to the emergency room by private automobile with a complaint of" a few hundred times a week,...you don't.
Do commit to developing an expansion base that will cut the Keystrokes it takes to do your work to the very minimum. As long as anyone's paid on a production basis, and as long as we're using keyboards, someone using 5 keystrokes to make 2 edits will BOTH make a lot more money than someone who takes 9 keystrokes to make one correction AND be a much more valuable productive worker--i.e., worth keeping on and developing as most traditional jobs disappear.
And do sign up for more medical classes, the ones people preparing for nursing and medical school take.
Whether you'll make more or less money one way or the other right now probably depends more than anything on the particular talents you bring to the job and the particular skills you choose to develop. Unlike the previous poster who does better transcribing, I make more editing, but I'm a fast reader and a slow keyboarder, so the less my income depends on what my fingers are capable of the better. Best wishes!
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Wondering why no one uses this??
I have tried countless times too many to mention and nothing is done about the cells phone, trains,
buses, dictating in the nursing stations with phone laughing and talking, same thing right in the OR rooms, so I give up. It is ridiculous. I think it is time for me to find another hospital or a company that will address these concerns because MQ will not do it. Mark my words. I think they are afraid of antagonizing the account. My opinion.
Be aware that as you age and lose skin cells, that will affect appearance of tatoo.
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Mass affect on brain or mass effect on brain?
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Has anyone on this board's work slowed down this January. MT work that is.
Got several friends with slow-down of work but they are MQMTs Wondered how the rest of the MT world is doing.
I agree, this board does not belong to her,
after all it is a 'world help board!'H
Had she really in mind to help the newbies, she would have formulated it in a different way.
It is always the tone that makes the music.
Okay Sandra! We all agree you need to be removed from the board.
Hurting peoples feelings are uncalled for and just plain rude. You are a troll. You are very sad sad person who has no social graces whatsoever.
I agree, getting ready to search out another transcription board
as this one has completely gone to the dogs, rarely does anyone go to the other boards that we are constantly being directed to, that is why the main board was so much fun, now it seems there is a place for everything but not here, I will probably be mosing on too. See ya
I agree, you need to a lot of research. I would start with the job seeker's board and see who S
is advertising and research the companies that seem to have the best to offer and find out if they truly are the ones with the best to offer. In this business, there are a lot more considerations when looking for a job than just cents per line.
Good Luck!
I agree. And as someone posted on another board here, it's hard to care about it when the dictat
Being these are pretty darn important documents, it's equally as important for us to get it right as it is for them to slow down so we can truly actually hear what they're trying to say. It's a joint effort that often falls short on their end for whatever reason.
It was for a job, which requires me to ....sm
download ExpressScribe. I am trying to get this on there and it won't let me. To take the test, I have to have this ExpressScibe. So that is why I was trying to do it.
I work for LTS--they have an ad on the job board - sm
have no idea if they have hired anyone or not though, looking for a few people. Though we have plenty of work many won't for them for several reasons....no pay for spaces (they don't charge for them so they get a local market edge that way), no QA so you have to phone in your blanks every day to the owner, no weekend differential, and it is WP DOS 5.1 (though they do plan to switch over to WP12 in the future)---but on the plus side, great people, plenty of work, pay on time via check. The work is generally not difficult, it is hospital clinics of all sorts, Trauma ER, electrophysiology. Some ESL but once you get used them them they are not bad at all. They rotate the bad dictators around so everyone gets a piece of whoever it is now and then....though I get a bit more because I am pretty good at most of them though I really hate this 1 doc in particular. They work with you when you are sick, emergencies etc. When Jenny got diagnosed with her Wilm's tumor they stood by me and helped me out a lot...one of the doc's I type for actually did her surgery...kind of weird. Another plus is no daily minimums....they divvy out the work in minutes so you advise them how many minutes a day you want, you get it via FTP and you have anywhere from 16-24 hours to get it back depending of which account you are doing that day (they have some work that goes out via courier so it has to be in first and early...by 9 or so). I think that covers it all. Their website is www.lts-inc.com --- interesting test and NO you don't have to buy anything....don't let the question on the test through you, they supply everything in terms of software.
Anybody here on the board work
for Proscript?
If it requires that much knowledge
above the normal they might consider paying a wage for it - starting .07 cpl doesn't exactly scream you're valued for your knowledge.
Editing requires a somewhat different set of SM
talents and skills, Carole. Some make more, some less, depending on that. Also, very important, depending on how the lines edited are being counted compared to the amount of work required--this can vary widely, even within a company depending on which account being worked on.
Excuse me, but VR requires the same
skill as a QA also. It would be exactly like reviewing a report sent to QA as it has to often times be corrected for grammar, punctuation, spelling, words, etc.; just as if an MT had sent it in for a question.
I am not allowed to say where I work on this board.
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That doesn't even matter if the DOJ only requires your
SSN and address. The criminal background checks aren't coming from the DOJ. The MTSO or national is requiring a criminal background check. That's their prerogative. You either submit to the criminal background check, or you look for work elsewhere. It's that simple. There is NO law requiring background checks. It's not a violation of privacy because you agree to it before it's done. As the other poster said, what's wrong with it if you've got nothing to hide? Many times, you're getting a computer and access to people's private health records. I don't want a criminal having access to my medical records.
Co. requires outdated version...
Trying to get started with Focus and they require Microsoft Office Professional 2003. I cannot get this from a reputable company. They tell me that 2007 is not compatible with their system, but the people from microsoft doesn't see how it couldn't be. Does anyone know a legal and reputable way to get this?
I have 1 year of experience. Does anyone know of another good company that willh hire PT with this experience. Thanks.
But QAing requires much more knowledge
and experience than VR editing. They can hire newbies to do VR editing, but not QA.
If the law requires that a patient's record be
protected by HIPAA, and HIPAA laws have no effect overseas, wouldn't it logically be a violation to send the record overseas?
You have to scour every post on every board. No thanks! I have to work.
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My question is why do you want that kind of pressure in a job that requires you to
work 80 hours a week? If working 80 hours is part of the job at any given time, why would you want it?
Becoming a nurse requires education and certification.
MT does NOT. A flying monkey could become an MT with a little training. Some people make it sound as if we're doing brain surgery here. Honestly, we are glorified typists. Anyone who thinks it's more than that is just trying to feel better about being a medical typist. I get slammed all the time for this opinion, but the harsh reality of it is that this is NOT a difficult field to get into IF you have the proper skills. Don't slam someone for being a nurse and wanting to transition to MT. She has more education and certification in the medical field than we do. As long as she has good grammar, spelling, research, and typing skills, SHE WILL DO GREAT!!!! Why do people have to be so egotistical and negative on these boards? We ought to encourage newbies getting into the field instead of telling them it's too difficult or they aren't qualified. Hey, let's just alienate all the newbies and send the work overseas to people who don't have EFL skills.
You need Microsoft's Word. It is a program that requires
installation. The account sounds good at 13/cent a line. Better invest in Word (costs a bit) unless you have a kind friend who will share theirs with you.
Thanks for all the info. I will check and see what my State requires(nm)
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This is a very serious situation that requires medical attention
Believe me, it will be worth it. You need a slow steady six month wean off that powerful medication or your body could possibly seize up with an abrupt withdrawal - and that needs to be monitored by people who can help you.
I took Klonopin rx'ed for a year to help me sleep. When stress factor was removed, I tried to stop it and nearly went crazy literally. It sends you into a state that is highly agitated and your thought process is also going to be useless (you need to be with people whom you are safe with, people who know you). Tinnitus is one symptom that I experienced which was at a high decibel. Had I the ability to get away from work, I'd have gone into detox but instead, i cut pills up over six month period and weaned - even with the wean, you see, it is nearly unbearable. Oxycontin is being considered to be pulled off the shelf because of its highly addictive nature. When prescribed for over a two week period, providers should tell a patient what to expect when they want to stop the med; had I known, I would never have taken it. In the end, I appeared to be a drug-seeking individual when I was only in a state of anxiety due to the state my body and mind was in and could not tolerate it - leading me to beg for just one more prscription to get me off that monster of a drug.
Please, find another physician, possibly a psychiatrist as they are familiar with this, and get a regimen that will cause the least symptoms if you cannot go into a 30 day detox program.
I need help in MS Word. I have a new doc that requires almost every page to have different margins.
I used to have an account that we could type Control and L and that would make a page break with the margins for a letter. I don't know how to create this. I looked into macros in Word and am totally confused and have no idea what to do.
Can anyone help me figuer out a way I can assign Control and L for the letter margins and control P for progress note margins. I'd really appreciate any help
The plural minutes requires "were". If he had said....sm
A period of 45 minutes (the singular period would be the subject thus requiring was). Also, it would be the possessive Dr. Smith's
This won't keep records in the US. It only requires "written notice" - sm
I support this law, but only because it's the only game in town on this issue. It does not prevent private information from going offshore.
The "written notice" will be buried in the legal gibberish of patient privacy notification forms that they're required to sign - in Section 18, subsection 49, paragraph M, subparagraph 27. And, it will be expressed in terms that sound a lot better than sending your information to Bangladesh.
Ditto, credit cards. This notice will come in one of those gosh-awful "notice of changes to your account" things that we get from time to time and that no one can comprehend.
As a matter of fact, this law might actually cause more records to go offshore because it presumably provides "cover" for any company that complies with this extremely weak requirement ("notice"). All they gotta do is sling some of legalese past you, buried in pages and pages of other legalese, and they're home free.
Does anyone work for Diskriter - if so, can you help me out with my question on the Company board
thanks
Vonages requires high speed internet...
so you would need either DSL/cable or broadband. I have broadband and hooked up to Vonage for 2 months for C-phone use. The audio quality was frequently poor and I would have to reboot. Some days I would just hook up to my home phone line to avoid the hassle. The kicker was when I went to disconnect this month, they charged me $97 TO CANCEL! Its all in the fine print, apparently.
My audio problems may well have had to do with broadband/satellite service more than anything. If you have cable/DSL it may be worth a shot, but know that if you cancel after their 30-day trial you are going to pay! 
A macro shortcut requires that you strike 2 or more keys. nm
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Does anyone find the search feature on this board doesn't work right?
I can't ever seem to find the old posts that I know are there by using the search feature. Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?
Might need to mail her a letter from a lawyer that requires a signature and take some action. nm
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It's a one-trick pony that requires us to sit on our butts on auto-pilot all day
Yeah, we do need to know terminology and how to use a computer to locate information, but every job has specifics that are required. How extensive is the knowledge we need if you think about it? We do the same thing every day, every month, every year like a hamster running in a wheel to nowhere.
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