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Any more lily pads in your pond?

Posted By: (are they hiring?) on 2005-07-29
In Reply to: Very well said. SM - Dano




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Pete's Pond
I like that site too, but don't think it is *live* yet and is still a taped video. Here is another one you may like that is live...

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamgrizzlies/wildcam.html
I think Pete's Pond is up and running again...can anyone..sm
tell me how to have this play so I can watch it while working?  I did it last year but can't remember how I did it!  Thanks.
All I've seen about OSI over there is that they're pond scum
Must be another cheerleader. I find it hard to believe, but I'm going to check it out. Kind of like a train wreck.
Also have two catfish in the pond, Brenda and Eddie. nm


Daughter's friend drove her car into a pond the first week she had her license! Let him prove him
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Lilly pads. sm
Yep, not surprising that they have several lilly pads because they're growing.  Matter-of-fact, they have an ad posted on MT Stars.  They do have posted EXACTLY what qualifications they're looking for and the available schedules.  Good luck and I hope to see you happily perched  in my lilly pond.
sponge ear pads
Where do you buy these?  I have looked everywhere including Radio Shack and Walmart and can't find them. 
You can buy USB touch pads on E-Bay, usually cheap.
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I can't testify to the steno pads

But when I started I used tapes and a selectric typewriter with 3 carbon copies.  We used to use a scapel blade to correct the carbon copies and then slide a little piece of carbon paper in to re-type the correction. 


I think it started going downhill when the  MTSO's started showing up more and more.  Only because, they cut the wages because after all, you got to stay at home, didn't have to pay for work clothes, transportation, meals, etc.  And you could write off part of your house mortgate, utilities, etc. as long as you had a room that used only as an office.  Everyone bought into it saying they wanted to work at home and thus they bought into the little less in wages that they offered.  I still think there is a distinct advantage to knowing the doc's you are transcribing for.  Working in a clinic or a hospital and getting to know the doc's make it alot easier to look at them and tell them they sound like they are gargling with peanut butter, they acutally laugh, and listen and I found they would make a bigger effort to be a better dictator because of it.  Better dictators = easier to type = faster TAT = less errors = less need for as much editing.  We used to transcribe all day and our work never went to QA (what was QA) QA was the doc complaining about our work which = counseling from your supervisor = getting written up = out the door if you didn't fix the problem.  That was what it was like when I first started 30 years ago.  I didn't have google, I had little notes taped all over  my workstation for those words I had never heard before until they came naturally to me, then that piece of paper was replaced by another one.  I had what I called my "bible" of phrases, etc. certain doctor's always said, no short cuts or expanders, we typed it all out.  That was real transcription.


I put one of those pads they use for dogs size large (M)

under the cat box.  If he misses the pad absorbs the urine, it does not go through the plastic on the other side, and then I just throw away and replace with a new one. 


the service that works on our hospital account definitely pads
Many of us inhouse have tried to point it out to the supervisors, i.e. tons of spaces after a header, three or four spaces after a period, using spaces instead of tab button, for god sakes, spelling out milligrams and computerized axial tomography and every single abbreviated term that you can imagine and stuff like that. they even make their blanks verrrrryyyyy long!

Thank goodness the contract with them is going to be coming to an end by March. It just burns us that we get monitored for it, and the outside service does not. They also do not get penalized for mistakes either.
Hillbilly site even tells you how to make your own sanitary pads! (sm)
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I keep alcohol pads at my desk to clean the sponges on the earphones.
That takes away the itching and keeps the bacteria away!!


I just love it when our cat plops down on my note pads with my work notes....have to pull it all out
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It's basically a phone w/o the handle. Has number pads. A headset plugs into it sm
so you can listen to the dictation via a phone line. So, if you use one you will need 2 seperate phone lines unless you want your phone to be tied up all day.

Docs love it because they can just pick up the phone and talk their dictation right into the phone.

You would access those files by dialing a 1-800 number and then putting in your codes, etc., and then the voice file will be there; kind of like dialing into a voice message box to retrieve your messages except you are retrieving dictation instead. Very simple to use. GREAT quality. Excellent quality.

I am 99% sure I am taking a job I was just offered yesterday that requires the use of one. Right now I am on Doc-Q-U-Suck and can't wait to change.