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Can someone explain how a call-in site works, sm

Posted By: not a geek on 2008-06-05
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for example I work for XXX and call into their web site and type directly from that site after logging it.  How does that work? Thanks.


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Can someone explain how bitwise pay works?

I'm interviewing for a company that uses WordPerfect in their transcribing and they said that they pay bitwise, not cpl.


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Call them and make them explain...
Your husband has a valid point, but for me, I'd want to put them on the spot and ask them why...

should tell us the name (is this allowed?)
Would someone please explain to me how a c phone system works?
I have been an MT for 15 years....started with typewriter! LOL  Anyway, am now up to digital dictation with local hospital but am looking for other employment.  I'm trying to understand the c-phone system and how cost effective it would be to work using one.  I have been offered a job but need a c-phone and unlimited long distance.  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the help.
you can get your password reset, just call them and explain what you did.
I did this and they will just reset your password and you can download it again.

Also if you have a burner, you could try burning it onto a disc.
call 1st company, explain situation, see what happens.
nm
might consider going to an ftp site rather than a call in
if your docs are amenable to using handhelds.
IT works with eScription. Call their tech support.
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This is the best site I've found about treating fibromyalgia. It works for me, maybe it will for

You realize you are posting this on the main board, right? Not everyone at this site works for MQ.

Full Word is in the Works "Suite," not plain Works.
Works saves files in a different format, but you can open them in Word if you have the correct filter installed.
got the "phone call" -- get this, MQ has hired a bunch of telemarketers to call all of us to

we received our "incentive packet."  They don't even have the wherewithall to contact us personally.   These are temp-agency hired telemarketers sitting around a boiler room making sure we're reading our mail.... told him it don't pertain to me because I've been demoted from FT to SE.... He said, "yes, the letter is vague, but it does pertain to FT as well as SE...." yeah right, we'll see.


RIGHT!!! Someone who works 16 hours and someone who works 60 will have a HUGE difference. NM
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*70 will disable call waiting unless you are expecting a call and want it on (nm)
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Several companies still train on site. In fact, we are piloting an on-site training sm
program, where everyone would come in to the Keystrokes office to train for 1 or 2 weeks. We have a large training room and feel that this may be a way to cover all aspects of an account, be right there to answer questions as they come up and have one-on-one contact.

It will be optional at this point and may not be more effective as remote training, but some people have expressed that they miss the training that you get when you start at a hospital.

We are trying to bridge that gap between working in-house somewhere and working at home.

It may seem out-dated in many ways, but sometimes going back to basics is a good step to take!
I have noticed sometimes I will try to get into a web site and that site will freeze up and I dont

know if I have too many screens opened up and minimized or what. I tried to open a website sent by email and froze up the email screen. Not sure what I am doing.


On-call requires on-call compensation by law
This field gets more disgustingly grotesque daily.
I subscribe to another web site and within the boards on this site they have

Would anybody be interested if adminstrators would allow us to have this type of board or even put it on the main board.  Like on this other board they tell you to go to a certain web site for a coupon for 20% off Barnes and Noble or when Target has reduced prices on seasonal things.  Anybody got ideas or bargains they would like to share to save money?   We could call it the MT Stars penny-pinchers board.


Emdat works with Instant Text Por V - ony version that works with Emdat - nm
nm
Please explain further.
What do you mean by WT? Do you paste report into a Word Document?
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Could you explain please exactly what you mean?
I want to be aware of anything I may not know about.

I just ran a numbers check in Word, using "Tools" "Word Count" for all my work I did yesterday and the numbers were exactly the same - characters with spaces divided by 65 - except it appears the company software does not round up so you may lose a line there. Otherwise, they were exactly the same.

Thanks so much.
That's what I was trying to explain the other day -

I was hired to hold a sign at a construction site.  I was offered more money than I was making at MQ after being with them 6 years.  I have been doing MT for years and years, and my skills are non-marketable.


AT the construction site:  I don't have to know computers, buy one, keep up with one, be responsible for one, have the internet, deal with updating computers to satisfy a company.


All I have to do is show up.


At MQ they wanted more and more and more.  Buy more equipment, know proper English, type fast, no errors, NO RAISES, no work most of the time (their solution was more accounts, what a joke!), offered tech support/make an appointment, offered QA/make an appointment/we will call you within 48 hours.


The way I see it is MQ is covering itself with NUMBERS of transcriptionists.


They don't care if we make a living, only that their dictation is done.


They are going to go through us like water/we can't make a living/ok, they kick that girl to the curb and bring in the next MT/and so on.  IT'S NUMBERS, BABY!


They think because they have some sort of "idiot program" going where you supposedly can hire a warm body to clean up jibberish spit out by a voice recognition machine, they can hire 1000 indians or girls with borderline education (after they have driven any experienced MTs who were making anything near livable wage away), and pay them pennys they have the answer to medical transcription and still charge megabucks to hospitals and they will make the king's ransom in profit because they have little or nothing invested (remember they just got rid of the 1-800 phone numbers saving millions of bucks), and now want to pay pennys for editing.


Well, I am off to hold my sign for $10/hour PLUS BENEFITS AND WORKMAN'S COMP, INSURANCE, RETIREMENT, HOLIDAYS.  And I will look  back in every once in a while at whoever stays in this business while MQ takes it down the tubes.


Hey "bumed" you have it right.  And I'm afraid it's not going to turn around until you see piles of blitzed MTs over in the corner.  It is a non-career and thanks to the suits they have brought the quality of medicine down below putrid.  Get out.  Don't spend any more money to accommodate these profiteers.  Look out for yourself.   Think outside the box.  Right now the world is a little upsidedown because everything for the moment is "bottomline".  It can't go on this way forever or we will all be dead from "bottomline" thinking.  And while it is turning around, look here and there - and don't let MT take you down with it.  Good luck to all of us.


 


That would explain it....
So she is stuck at the age when she was molested, which would be about 6.  Poor Yuck!  I feel sorry for Yuck!
Perhaps you can explain this to

HOUSEHOLD INCOME DOWN, POVERTY UP:
MORE THAN 1 MILLION FELL OF MIDDLE CLASS IN 2004

Before President Bush took office, under Democratic leadership, income was on the rise, jobs were expanding, and the economy was booming. Today, the Census Bureau announced that real household income has decreased in 2004, falling for the fourth consecutive year. Since the beginning of the Bush Administration, household income has declined nearly $1,700. Over 1.1 million people fell out of the middle class into poverty in 2004, an increase of 5.4 million people living in poverty since Bush took office. Despite this, Republicans still have no plan to help struggling middle class families. Democrats are fighting to create jobs and keep good paying jobs here at home.
HOUSEHOLD INCOME DROPPED SINCE BUSH TOOK OFFICE

Household Income Declined by Nearly $1,700 Under Bush. For the second consecutive year, median household income declined: income dropped last year by $93 -- down to $44,389. In real terms, median household income has declined by $1,669 since 2000. [U.S. Census Bureau, 8/30/05; Table A-1]

African Americans And Latino Household Incomes Have Declined by More Than $2,000 Under Bush. Real median household income did not increase between 2003 and 2004 for African Americans and Latinos. African American households had the lowest median income, at $30,134--down by $2,273 since Bush took office. Median income for Hispanic households was $34,241 in 2004--down by $2,141 since Bush took office. [U.S. Census Bureau, 8/30/05; Table A-1]

Average Earnings by Women Declined by About $330 in Real Dollars During the Past Year. The median earnings of women declined over the past year, from $31,550 to $31,223. [U.S. Census Bureau, 8/30/05; Table A-2]
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Disproportionately High Number of African Americans and Latinos Live in Poverty. Nearly 25 percent of all African Americans (9 million) lived in poverty in 2004, an increase of over 250,000 over the past two years. Nearly 22 percent (9.1 million) of Latinos lived in poverty, an increase of almost 500,000 over the past two years. [U.S. Census Bureau, 8/30/05; Table 3]

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Should not have to explain
We are allowed to do things for ourselves once in a while.  It seems ridiculous that we have to "explain" how or why we are doing something because we feel guilty.  I think it is great that you are able to do what you can do living in Florida especially with your hurricaine season being what it has been.   I think it is great and go and have a good time.    
Would you please explain what
you mean by "they/"  Who are they?  Do you mean newbies, anybody choosing to answer your ad, experienced MTs, dogs, cats, what? That is such a generalization.  Explain yourself.
please explain ...
I thought ERs are generally very short reports. Nowadays if we get paid by the line, you can't earn much for a short report. How does that work ?
Can someone please explain the
I can't find anything written in plain english on the internet. Thanks for your help.
Explain, please? I don't get that. What does it mean? nm
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CMT - please explain
You've said this once before. Please explain.
Could you explain why? mn
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I would just ask her and explain why (sm)
you would like to have the jacket, and I'm sure there would be no problem with her giving it to you.  However, if she for any reason becomes resistant to it, then I would say just drop it.  Things like this have a tendency to snowball and can cause resentments for a lifetime. 
Can anyone please explain to me why...
it is sometimes YEARS before a discharge summary gets dicatated?  Within the past few weeks, I had a report dicated 4 years after the patient went home.  This morning, the last 3 I have done by the same dictator are from 2004.  What is up with that? 
Explain please

Explain -- is 12 to 13 cpl low or high?  I am low at 11.5 to 13 cpl with my own accounts and two I/C's.   Most services here in the Oregon area are between 14 to 18 cpl in Oregon/Washington.  So I am curious do you laugh because we are low or laugh because you don't believe anyone could be receiving that much?  What do you think the Nationals charge?


Patti


Seems like you better ask them to explain better; but (sm)
I wouldn't pay them anything for the "privilege" of working for them.
Can you explain how to do this? I was just looking (sm)
at the help screen today on this very thing but I'm getting dense and do not know how to do it.  I tried and it was a disaster. Right now I have everything in AutoText, and sometimes, it loses a normal.  I would appreciate the info. Thanks.
okay to better explain my POV

I have not been on this site in almost a week as I have been busy with other things but visited yesterday and today, only glancing at certain threads casually.  The "I really wish" thread caught my eye and still I did not read it all the way through.  As the moderators here have often said, if you don't like the negative stuff, ignore it and get the good stuff.


When I posted the comment about the emoticon, I actually was thoughtful about the use of an emoticon indicative of a negative emotion leading a message about negativity.  That struck me as curious, not as argumentative, struck me as a contradictory debate.  Perhaps I should have put more in my posting but I tend to cut to the quick and what I said was a synopsis of what I was thinking.  I didn't berate anyone or insult anyone.  I made an observation and thought I was opening a door for the post to go in a different direction.


To put it better, I still have not read all the negative stuff over the last few days, nor am I interested in doing so. As this thread grew and became more, well, less caring towards other posters, I posted what I did to point out maybe, just maybe, some of the negative stuff would go away if it weren't thrown out for fodder.  An emoticon like   or could perhaps been less conducive to feeding negativity that the one posted, if in fact the original poster wanted to breed positivity on the board.  I do find it ironic that name calling came about because of a thread wishing negativity would go away.


I'm throwing this out for discussion, not to   .


Let me explain this to you.
The point here is that he is stating that he has dictated the report but is not reading it when he gets it back to sign off on. That does not necessarily mean that he is NEVER going to read it ever again. Lots of doctors do not read the reports right after they are dictated and they just sign off on them. There could be an error in the report, but they would never know it because they don't read it at the time. Six months later when the patient comes in again, the doctor may read the report then, but he certainly isn't going to remember what he dictated six months ago and if it is all accurate. It is more common than you may think.
Explain

Please explain why you don't say what you are talking about.  I believe in being to the point but these clip sentences are like the nutty doctors. 


Yes, explain that!
nm
explain why you say that please. so we all can know.
nm
You don't have to explain - those who would

not believe you for some twisted reason aren't even worth your breath - finger breath! Ha! As I posted below, there are those who just have a grudge against AAMT, and you won't get a nice response no matter what you post. I actually ended up joining the AAMT about six months ago AFTER reading all the rant postings about them on this board. Never heard of them before!! I also am going to be pursuing my CMT as well, for my own personal goal, not for anyone else. Don't even think for a second that the majority of us out here think you made up your testing results - its just the trolls.


Explain that . . .
if they go national more than likely it will be INTERnational.  Companies will put their best transcriptionists on a new account for a short time, but more than likely will start outsourcing.
Explain

I am not sure I quite understand - I have a doctor that I am going to start with. They gave me a CD. I am trying to figure out how to get it to work with my footpedal so that I can control stop, rewind, etc?


Thanks  


 


Can you explain further? sm
How would each Expander have a hot key? Can you give me an example of one?
Thank you!
Please explain to me about VR
when you say heard need doctors cooperation, do not understand that statement. Have worked on escription now for at least 5 years and I can state emphatically same doctors and they have not and probably would not change the way they dictate- oh if I could only wish and would come true (done the same ones for over 15 years). Give me an idea on this, ok?
explain how you know this.
nm
Huh? Could you explain that?
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