Funny how people are different. I find islands/beaches to be totally boring.
Posted By: nm on 2006-01-11
In Reply to: The beach, anywhere. Warm and sunny and lots of fun! - jus me
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Agree, totally boring! My least favorite for sure.
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I find myself doing it if a particularly boring
long report or when I'm tired. I frequently nod off because I'm so tired and then end up having to relisten to the port at least once more, sometimes up to 4 times because I keep nodding off. My QA score is very high so I'm catching the errors, but my line count sucks. If I'm not tired I'm okay. I've worked 7 days/week the last 5 months and it is just hard to sit day after day and type/transcribe.
If your mind wonders go back and relisten to the entire dictation. If you find lots of errors, even minor ones, maybe that will help you focus more. If you need a nap, get a power nap. If you need to do some physical activity get up and do it. I work split shift as there is no way I could sit for 8 hours straight. I get up every 1-1/2 to 2 hours and do something to break the monotony.
I feel the same and I find them truly boring.
And nowadays you are lucky to get the same MDs twice at most large nationals and most are ESL, so the money maker thing is becoming a thing of the past. I get mostly OPs but would take a good challenging consultation over a boring OP anytime! I don't know how anyone could like doing OPs long term. For me that would get old real fast.
Read a boring book or watch something boring on TV.
Sometimes I go to bed so tired, but by the time I get in bed I'm not sleepy. I do one of the above and 15 minutes later I'm asleep. My DH works third shift so he isn't there for me to bother him, may not be an option for you.
Too funny. I totally agree with you. Miss Hicks? sm
Was she related to Mrs. Smallwood that I took typing from in 1977? The old bitty would tap you on the feet with a yardstick if you were caught with your ankles crossed and rap the table if you were caught looking at the keys.
She'd say (very loudly) CLASS! Look straight ahead!, sit up straight and uncross those ankles!!! Then she'd get the timer ready for a timed typing and shout READY? BEGIN!! It still sends chills up my spine, but I left high school with 75 wpm and a fear of yardsticks. :)
I have very few letters left on my keyboard. That's what the 2 bumps are for.
And the numbers to be included within your text are on the top row of your keyboard(without looking). The numeric keybad is for balancing your checkbook.
I find it funny...
I was banned once for placing a :( in response to a post that was asking how a company was. I simply posted a frown face. Next thing I know, I was banned. Then I bought a new computer and suddenly I could get back on. But now someone can get on here and swear and call admin names and they are all over the board and not getting banned. It really doesnt make much sense to me.
You and me both. MQ is totally sick. They had better find another type of business to get into
because they have failed miserably with this.
Sorry, but I didn't find this funny!
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Funny, I don't find her negative at all!
I find it totally disgusting that benefits are tied in to production.
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it's one of the Hawaiian islands-see link
http://visitmolokai.com/
here's one for Kauai-my other favorite place
http://www.kauai-hawaii.com/
You know, people are totally spoiled now
When I started out we worked on typewriters (do you know what those are?)- some had correcting tapes - you hit the backspace and typed the same mistake, took that off and then you backed spaced again and continued typing. On the first several computers we had no spellchecking at all. Where I learned we had to have less than 3 errors (either medical or English) on a page before we could get production pay. Our work was much, much better than what I see just being posted on here with the misspellings, etc. I use spellcheck now but only because, first of all required and secondly just makes me feel better but not a crutch for me in any way.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, NC beaches and even mountains make great vacations.
and then everybody goes home to work in Charlotte or Raleigh. This beach I went to is only a 2-hour drive from Raleigh.
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I totally agree...how old are we to call other people stupid???
Give me a break...we do not go to school for countless number of years and just because we have to correct a doctor's spelling on certain things, doesn't mean we are smarter than they are...give me a break...if you were expecting to making 75,000 in this field you made the wrong career decision...how about a little bit of respect for a fellow MT...
Funny, but..if you read a lot or know people...sm
The EX-smokers get cancer...AFTER they quit. Never an issue while they smoke...only after stopping for a few years. EVERY person I know who QUIT had cancer. But then again, we are all predisposed to cancer, it is in our genes. They just do not know the exact triggering factor...just ideas on what it is and things you can avoid to reduce your risk, but again, this does not ensure you will not have some type of cancer. Working 12-14 hours a day...gee, one bad habit, better than drinking and not being able to work. LOL
It's funny how people have different experiences (sm)
Three of the best doctors I ever got to transcribe were podiatrists. We did clinic notes for one and did the op notes at a small freestanding surgical center for the other two. They were all great, lots of repetition, clear, lots of lines. Those were the days....
this is too funny when you're probably talking to people
who have a lot more weight to lose than you must have and will probably NEVER see the size 8 that you started at. only a dream for me, that's for sure!
LOLOLOLOL.. you people are a riot... too funny.. nm
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Funny how people call you 'racist when you
Totally not MT related but lots of smart people here for advice, I hope.
My son had a girlfriend some 8 years ago, she ran off with another guy to another state and it really didn't hurt my feelings at all. They had gone through a lot in the less than a year that they were together including my son helping her cope with a rape trauma that she had been through. I wish truly I could remember the number of months between the rape and her leaving, but I felt it was a short time. That really doesn't matter, but 5 years ago this girl sent an e-mail telling us our son was the possible father of her child "you do the math" but she "really thinks the other guy is the father." My son called her and she was going to send paperwork but never did. Now jump forward to yesterday, my son gets notified via phone that she's looking for him, that she has his daughter, and we're really not sure what to do. The girl does not know where we or my son lives but knows the general area. I'm afraid she'll just show up on my doorstep one day but my son doesn't live here anymore, he's a man with a life of his own. What would you do? Does anyone know the legality of all this?
That's exactly what I did - moved on - let them find their own people
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When people find out that I do MT at home,
they tell me that they would like to do MT so they can "work at home." I refer them to MTEC web site, I believe that's the site, which has a "test" and questionnaire to see if they would like it or have the ability to do MT. Always works. A lot less questions to answer! LOL.
No but I wish people would take the time to find this information. sm
Sometimes it just takes the effort to look. I see people wanting information. The information is easy to find, but they want others to do the research and hand it to them. I had to do the research. I now have 20+ docs/clinics BUT key point is I did all of my own research, learned about how digital works, etc. I truly believe, the more you read (research) the more you as an individual will learn and therefore be able to offer your clientm more.
I find a lot of UNPROFESSIONAL people in this profession..
This has happened to me several times. Going so far as to send me programs and such and when contacting them that I am ready to go, never hear from them again.
People always seem to have to find fault in everything anytime there is a change. No, we are not
We have implemented links to various keywords and it will be growing over time. At present, we have about a dozen keywords that you can link to when there is a reference made in a post by a poster. We felt that visitors would WELCOME information that they may be seeking.
Regarding Medquist, it's no secret that the company outsources offshore. That has been made public my MedQuist for some time now.
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I have yet to actually even find a doctor that cares about people! All they are interested in is mon
What I think is so sad is that people may give up good jobs to go there to find out these things all
to late. The newbies can learn and use MQ and move on which they do but of course the clients suffer then with all the people learning on them but this is what MQ causes and when they lose clients with poor quality or people that just throw out work then they caused their own problems. You cant keep good MTs with no work I dont care what incentives you offer because they mean nothing with no work ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I wish people would understand that when MQ hires them.
Me thinks people who change this stuff are trying to find job security
Maybe if they make themselves sound important and knowledgeable every once in awhile with a "revelation" that using q.i.d. might kill someone they will have a job longer than they normally would have.
if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.
As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
BORING!!!
Sand or tan walls, okay, if you want drab and boring go with sand and tan walls
Might be boring but
I'll take boring over nasty any day. I guess to each his/her own.
They are boring -
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It's no more boring than anything else.
MT will always be boring....
because it is a dead end job with no future. Try studying something that will provide a better living.
BORING...
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Not boring!
I have to say that it's not boring! I learn something new every day, even after doing this for 20 years. I think if you look at other professions other folks are griping too. It's all a matter of attitude! Make it work for you! It does pay the bills!
Not a big fan, went there twice & boring.
board might be boring that way though
But the work is boring . . . (sm)
Easy but boring clinic notes. Seems most of the accounts are clinics instead of "real" acute care transcription. Pay is low, too. Seems like really nice people, though -- they did everything they said they would when they said they would. That's rare!
by boring I mean very repetitive...
but easy to normalize. They use these tables for different degrees of muscle movement and stuff. Maybe you could get a sample from one of the other MT websites.
I agree that PT is boring. sm
When I worked in-house, we had to rotate days of doing PT notes, one day a week. Those days of doing PT notes seemed to never end. You may end up enjoying it, but I get bored easily and PT is very repetitive.
When they have bad/boring shows
it seems like there are new bottom 3 people chosen. I thought Mandisa had a good voice, but country was not her best (as the case for many of them). Also, poor song choice. Next week they sing Queen songs. I've been recording the shows because they're just not as good as they have been. I think Paula needs to cut down on her medication. She's beginning to slurrrrrr her words again.
Boring account
I've just been taken off my favorite work type and put on an extremely boring account. Lots of work but it is so dull. How can I keep my productivity up when I am yawning through these reports? I am quickly losing my incentive to stay at the keyboardj! Help! Any ideas? TIA
Boring reports
I did a 45-minute dictation the other day, which mostly consisted of the doctor saying, "Uh, um." LOL He was doing a review of records halfway through, reading them to himself as he went. I had to sit there listening to the silence! It really stinks too, because those pauses translate to less typing, which means a lower check for my aggravation.
Boring Account
When I get a boring account, I try to make as many abbreviations as I can and that helps the account go faster and keeps your mind on what new abbreviations you can make up (for your short cuts)
yawn - your tit-for-tat is more boring than your
<<<<>>>>>> got coffee?
But don't you think editing is boring? I would -- (nm)
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I think clinic notes are boring, you have the same
number of doctors usually and for the most part there isn't a lot of medical terminology and they have lots of normals, which is good because they you can have lots of macros/expanders to help, but I like learning from my dictation. With clinic notes I did know when viruses/illnesses were going around and what the standard treatment was, so I could try some of the same treatments if we got sick without a doctor visit, just after a while they were just boring. I much prefer acute care. I have lots of dictators so I don't get sick of hearing one doctor all day, although occasionally I do get a slew of the same dictator, the terminology is constantly changing, new drugs, new equipment, new procedures, etc.
Rehab is good. Might get a little boring to some
Rehab i
Easy but boring. Only thing I will ask sm
not to do. Also, there is the ---- factor with the doctor wannabes.
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