Goes both ways. I have a hard time with tenses when speaking Spanish. :)
Posted By: Sumara on 2007-01-03
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Working full time at home with small children is hard but part time works great
is almost impossible. You will either have to work when your spouse is home or for only a few hours during the day and then more when they are asleep. I work part time at home and my kids (2&5 now) have done very, very well. They are great kids, very well behaved, don't get into much. I stop working to check on them/give them some attention every hour or so while I work (5 hours each afternoon or so) and they get all my attention in the morning and at night. It has worked out beautifully for us.
Thanks ... guess I'll have to check it out some time ... like I need to find more ways to goof of
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Speaking of down-time, what type of dog does
I am the proud mom of a 6 yr old Sheltand Sheep dog!
Tenses
Yes - but are you in a spanish-speaking country dictating medical reports and earning the salary of a physician? If you are going to a country, taking a high-paid professional position, then you had better know how to communicate in that language.
How many other countries let foreigners who can barely speak their language come in and practice medicine? None. Most countries have laws protecting their citizens' jobs from being taken away from immigrants, but not here.
sorry you are having such a hard time...
but I honestly do not know what you mean. may I ask who are you talking about.
at some point, people have to stand up for themselves, that is, in my opinion, what
"this country is based upon." thank heavens some people felt they were worth more than just working for the government, and left to start a new life here.
if you are upset about the postings regarding MT profession disintegrating, then I disagree with you.
we do perform a very important service, one that helps our 'fellow man' every single day, in the over-50 reports we probably transcribe each and every day while people wait to have surgeries or need emergency care.
we are typing those reports to create a legal document with our names attached to them as well.
this is not "pissing and moaning" but active dialogue with the hopes something good can come out of it. sorry you feel that way, and I am sincerely sorry you are being touched by those problems because of a natural disaster...
I have a hard time understanding if this was so
wrong then why wouldn't anyone not even your own husband be on your side? I don't know about this one. Something doesn't sound right. JMO.
I'm having a hard time understanding why you
That doesn't make sense to me. Just because you transcribe a report, that doesn't make you the only person who knows about it or even a significant person in the whole process.
I have a hard time believing your overhead
I think you should consider selling your clients to an American-based company and go back to MT'ing. It doesn't sound like you can handle the pressure of being a business owner. I am an IC that makes 10 cpl and my MTSO owner does not mind at all that she is only making 3 cpl off of my 10 cpl, but she does not have to QA my work or do really much of anything, and she's clearing 3 cpl on my 10. Now, if you have complaining MT's, then you need to be more strict about TAT and QA. They should not require you to QA once they've become familiar with the dictations. Also, you need to find a way to also provide 24-hour turnaround. The problem here is that you are only willing to pay 7-8 cpl. I'm still baffled as to the cost of your overhead? Most physicians supply paper, their own dictation equipment. FTP sites do not cost that much. Lot of eyebrown raising ???'s here, that I don't think you are being forthcoming. JMO. Good luck!
A little hard and time consuming to figure out
If you do 300 lines per hour of 65 characters with spaces, no bolds, no caps, etc.then that would be at an average of ten words per line, 12 courier font - 1 inch margins, and so that would be 3000 words per hour divided by 60 which is only 50 words per minute. Your speed on transcription is different than regular typing as you have to account for stopping, listening, correcting, etc. For reqular typing speed I would double what your transcription speed is. I would tell them what my average transcribed line count is and tell them to figure out how that turns into words per minute.
The hard time was the past thing.
Hi, I have just joined Spheris Hyderabad. Two months for settling down is what they give you and after that it is your regular type-type-type. There are nooooooooo problems with this new Spheris Clarity (R) platform. With this, things are just moving smooooooooothly.
It's hard so that you'll fail the first time and
Tell your employer that the money you give to AAMT/ADHI for the 'privilege' of taking their test is funding the progressive offshoring of the American MT profession. If you've been an MT for nearly 30 years, you don't need a CMT after your name. You were a professional MT long before that bunch of con artists dreamed up that scheme to make themselves rich by making MTs think they were on their side. Now we all know better. Don't fund their offshoring scam!
I must say, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time
The above "Frank" conversation is a classic.. You guys have made my year with this one. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo FUNNY! You two are in the wrong line of business. Thanks for making my day. I laughed 'til my stomach hurt.
I loved my account with Spheris, but had a hard time
punching in and out. I worked originally for Healthscribe and then they merged with Spheris. Things didn't change for quite a while and then all of a sudden things took a crappy turn for the worse. I ended up with at least 5 accounts that I was in daily. I went from having to punch in and out and being required to work full time hours to stay a full time employee even though I could get my work done in part time hours. I didn't stick around and after 2 years with Healthscribe I left shortly after the merge was starting to take shape. Like I said, the biggest problem was punching in and out. Good luck.
I had a really hard time with a pastor who preached on marriage
when I knew this was not his first marriage. I couldn't stand it. All the things he said applies to us, but what about his first wife? Where does she fit in? Too confusing for me.
Waste of time and hard-earned money
when you can only make may be 1 cpl more if you are a CMT. They should not charge you, they should just let you take the test and send you the certificate.
Wonder if you scrub them too hard. I wear my soft ones for 2 years at a time! nm
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I disagree, first off, I have a heck of a hard time hiring qualified US MTs
client ready work. Then, when I do hire MTs I constantly run into the problem of how they only want to work part time or can only work 2 hrs on this day, an hour here, or an hour there, or the next problem is consistency. Out of the blue, oops, can't work today, or I lost connection to the Internet yet they're too stupid to go offline instant messenger. One MT owes me money because I was nice enough to help her out (yeah I know my fault) and she screwed me over. Such drama. It's a CONSTANT battle to find good US MTs.
ROTFLMAO. STOP!!! I haven't laughed this hard for a long time.
Can you imagine 10,000 MQMTs just wanting to show Frank a personal touch? He will be one tired guy.
I spent about a month in India and they do speak English but sometimes I had a hard time
understanding the way they pronounced the words so I would ask them to spell it.
I meant bought. Hard to type and listen to the music at the same time.
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I would not; most of the time those type files, although not usually hard medical terms, take lots l
to type and are very difficult as it is hard to hear with background noise, different speakers, usually no macros, etc. I think they are worth more pay, not less. I also get paid by the word at 0.008 and had figured mine to be about 0.09/line as well in the past. stick with where you are.
Spanish b@tt doctor
Lovely job working for a Spanish gastroenterologist who's wife was the office manager and enjoyed called office help stupid in Spanish and I was responsible for making sure gloves and lube were stocked---no kidding, this was apparently in the fine print somewhere when I signed on (probably in Spanish).
Spanish accents. sm
I worked on an account out of San Diego once, heavily thick Spanish (Mexican), brilliant docs, but very difficult. I work on an account in FL now, still Spanish but Cuban and very, very different. Those of you who say you don't do accents, try another field. This job is all about dialects and learning and hanging in there. If you are pompous enough to say, "you don't do this or that", bet your pay reflects it.
Spanish accents. smC
Clarification: You probably still make good $$$$ if you are the perpetual cherry picker. I hate cherry pickers, that is cheating, lying and stealing. Most managers even those Rhit sort of people, do not realize how much cherry picking hits those of us in the pocket who do any job assigned. I hope all cherry pickers rot in hello.
One of the Spanish docs says
and "common" for comma.
Spanish - Mexican version
Cubans, no problem, Mexicans, no way. I love Indians and Asians.
Spanish, Slavic, and Greek.
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I grew up in so cal, but the Spanish dictators are the sm
hardest for me. The Japanese and Korean ones are the best. Seems like the enunciate more clearly or something.
I think Spanish and French are the worst, (sm)
and I even took French. But they have an annoying way of dropping out all recordable sound and just doing something with their lips that a recorder can't pick up at the end of some words that is very annoying.
I have enjoyed British, but every newbie should be warned about their "stop" and "full stop" for punctuation, LOL.
I want to learn Spanish so when go to my fave
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I wore a Spanish mantilla - it stayed out of the way and was still fun.
To me they are harder than Indians, Spanish or anything else. Strange.
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We are expected to learn spanish, make
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Spanish, French do celebrate Christmas in USA
Middle Eastern Arabic people do not celebrate Christmas nor the Jewish people (and Chanukah comes early 12/3 this year so they should be working. Russian Christmas is in January. The Hispanic community as well as the French communities here in the USA, as I know it, certainly do celebrate Christmas. Happy Holidays To All....
If it rains hard, the wind blows hard and there are trees
nearby, it snows heavily it will mess up the signal. The speed is not constant, sometimes as slow as dial-up, but at least still connected. Many companies will not allow satellite.
So, you think it is okay for hard-working MTs to earn 7-8 cpl for their hard work?? nm
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I believe there are many ways
we have benefited from others coming to America. We have a specialist at our Children's Hospital, that is world renowned for rebuidling throats and trachea's for kids after haveing had a trach tube...guess he should have stayed in Africa, in your way of thinking?
That goes both ways, though.
I don't know how many times I set aside an entire day because the company told me there would be work only to sit there all day long checking in every 15-30 minutes for nothing. There are days when I make $5 and days when I make $200. If I don't have work within an hour or two of my shift starting, I turn off the computer and leave for the day. I'm not going to be on call for free just because the companies decided to call us ICs for their own tax break purposes. The same goes for the cherry picked leftovers. I'm not working for $7 an hour while someone else is cranking out the lines by taking all the good reports and dictators.
Sometimes you can have it both ways.
I used to work for a Jewish lawyer and received Jewish holidays off (paid), along with all other paid holidays (including Christmas.)
The difference is that Christmas is a FEDERAL holiday, in fact, the ONLY religious FEDERAL holiday where most people are paid regardless of their religious beliefs. So people of other religious beliefs celebrate the *secular* Christmas, which is supposed to mean happiness, charity, gift-giving and especially tolerance. Your post gives me the impression that you want to investigate and judge every American's religious beliefs and deprive them of the holiday if their beliefs don't match yours. This is a pretty scary thought, especially because of the recently discovered practice of the government's illegal wire-tapping and spying of Americans under the guise of terrorism.
So maybe this issue isn't really about Christmas at all. Maybe it's just about personal freedom, and personally, I find what's happening in this country to Americans almost as terrifying as the terrorists themselves.
I don't think we can have it both ways.
I didn't see Frontline but have read and discussed the WalMart issue in depth over the years.
As I understand it, what separates WalMart from other large department and grocery stores is their business practices. WalMart dictates the price they're going to pay manufacturers for the goods going on the WalMart shelf. If the manufacturer doesn't cut his price to meet WalMart's demands, the store will just move on and stock a different company's brand. (So maybe Bounty cut a deal to get their product distributed thru WalMart but Marcal paper towels couldn't, for example.) The manufacturer is then faced with having to trim his margins while producing more to meet the higher distribution of having WalMart's business. Some companies are much more able and willing to do that than others.
But there is a mentality there that I just personally have a problem with.
To me it's like the hospital telling the MTSO that they're only going to pay 10 cents a line, period. The MTSO will have to slash her profits and likely the rates she's giving to her ICs or employees in order to keep the work coming in. OR, the MTSO may decide it makes more sense for her to get ICs that are willing to work at a much lesser rate (like those in India) so she can keep her business profits steady. This forces the MTSO's hand in a way that I feel is unjust, as her options are quite limited. No business owner or worker wants to go backward income-wise as the years pass, but this is the kind of thing that WalMart is doing to business people. It sounds to me like many hospitals and physician practices do business the WalMart way, and I think we need to walk the talk. If you shop at WalMart to save a few cents, do so knowing that you're supporting a company policy in the process. I do shop there on occassion, I admit, but I keep it to a minimum because I don't want to contribute to WalMart's success.
Good opportunity, while I have the soapbox, is to share something that has been on my mind for years as this offshoring issue has snowballed. I think the saddest outcome of all this is the illwill that has been fostered among so many us. Some of us get on a high horse about where we shop and don't shop, others resent that they have to run from to store to store, cutting coupons, just to get by every month and they last thing they want is to be preached at. Often there seems that there's not enough compassion or understanding, and to me, this devisiveness among people is just a horrible outcome as the loss of American jobs.
I also cringe when I read posts that just reek of bigotry toward Indians, Pakistanis, Canadians, etc. who wind up with work because a company thousounds of miles away made a business decision. Everyday working people, whether they're in Bangalore, Ontario, or Erie PA, do what's best for themselves and their families. I hope that no matter where we each stand on this complex issue that we don't allow ourselves to become mean-spirited and bitter people over it.
My DH is nothing like my dad, wish he was in a few ways though - sm
but for the most part I have a pretty good guy, just needs to learn to let the little stuff roll off his back. Both my dad and I are Scorpios and born 1 day apart so we are a bit alike, so I kind of went for the opposite of me which at times can drive you nuts but we have the same fundamental values and goals and that is important.
oh there's ways to get out of it....nm
2 ways
If you can go into Control I, that will show you the number of jobs (not the job numbers), but I don't write mine down with that function, I check frequently and would know if I missed a job.
on the other hand, if you have to go to the Dictaphone site, write down every job #, not that it does you any good because you have a lump dictation #, but if you do 40 reports (that you have written down) you should have at least 1000 lines and if it shows (as commonly does) 700 to 800 lines, then something is wrong, but how you prove it beats me.
Two ways. SM
1. Alt insert to add a shortcut. type in the keyword. Go to the text to type box. Hit Ctrl-K. (The next keys you hit will be assigned the shortcut). Hit Ctrl-B (for bold). Then type the text you want bolded. Do it again to turn off bold - hit Ctrl-K, then Ctrl-B.
2. After you name the macro and go to the text to type box, click on "Record" on the right side of the box. Then type your shortcut exactly like you want it, using Ctrl-B as in Word to start and stop the bold function. When finished, click "stop" on the recorder box. It will close and the shortcut will be saved.
You can do this with any Word function - italics, etc.
There are a few ways to do this. sm
Under Settings, Incoming you can specify the location where you want the files to be loaded from. Hit Add and chose either the folder on your computer or the FTP location. Check the file types you want and how you want them to load (manually or automatically). If you choose automatically, you can specific how often you want the program to check for new files. If you choose manually, you can use the Load Now button in the toolbar. This method will only load file types ES provides for selection(.dct, .wav, .mp3, and .aif file types). This will not work if you're working with .dss files (and is very frustrating to me).
The alternative method is to click on the Load button in the toolbar and go to the folder where you files are located. Hold down the Shift key, click on the first file, then scroll to the last file and click on it, while still holding down the Shift key. This will select all the files. Hit load.
Are you going to be looking for ways
If DH could "claim the income and I could be his "employee"? Really! You just want to type unlimited, have the money go to DH and then he just pay you the limit of $900. And you dont see how this is wrong? I would not want to hire you, would be afraid you would always be looking for way to cheat me, too.
two ways
I work part time and in one of my jobs we use VPN which is easy and fine.
On the other we use DocShuttle which is also very easy. These are both pretty small operations.
There are ways
without having to depend on the employer to give you a raise - we all know that's getting harder, if not impossible. But someone asked about actual salaries below, so here's mine - I get 1.10/report for radiology, employee status, transcribe about 140 reports per day, work Monday-Friday and cover on Sunday afternoons for about 80-100 jobs on the understanding that I get to it when I get to it! (I do this so that they don't have to hire another person to cover this, thus possibly having us run out of work during the week.) So this comes to $3400-3500 a month.
When I first started on the account, though, I despaired of ever producing enough to pay my mortgage and car payment - UNTIL one day I kept careful track of how much was actually nose-to-the-grindstone transcribing and how much was getting up and down for snacks, coffee, water, restroom, laundry, meals, and other countless distractions. I was quite shocked!
So I made it a point to sit down and type for 1 hour. Then I signed off, went and did whatever I needed - a 3 to 5 minute break that could include a quick phone call, restroom, water, etc, etc. Then I sat down for another hour and repeated throughout the day. My productivity zoomed! In addition to the obvious reason of only allowing one distraction an hour, that 3 to 5 minute break also cleared my head, was guilt-free, and made me ready for another hour of productive transcribing.
The other point that I wanted to make was that I make it a point to actively think about what repetitive motions I make, like between every job or shortcuts within the job, that could be done faster or more easily.
For instance, since I work off a C-phone and have to log the job #, physician ID, etc, I have an Excel spreadsheet that I set up with columns for Doctor, Patient ID, Job #, and Time (in the order that the "voice" reads them - those of you who do this know what I mean). At the top is a freeze pane that has today's date, today's job count, today's money made (job count multiplied by rate of pay), and then total made for the pay period (a running total). Then, although it seems so obvious now, I discovered ALT+tab so that I didn't have to lift my hand from the keyboard to go from the job log to the platform - back and forth with minimal motion.
Little time-savers like that really add up when you're talking 140 reports a day.
And there there is your Expander program. I still add to mine on a daily basis. I have 1 or 2 doctors (bless their pea-picking hearts) that say the same thing over and over, and those are the ones I build normals for. The others aren't worth it - too much editing. But I do make shortcuts for their favorite phrases (for instance, *no fracture, dislocation, or subluxation*, and another one for *no fracture, subluxation, or dislocation*). Any words that aren't caught by autocorrect and which I continually misspell gets either an abbreviation or a spelling correction.
So anyway, even if your boss doesn't cooperate and give you a raise, keep an eye out for more productive, faster ways to maximize each keystroke, each hand movement, each report, and you may find your income growing (my own personal estimate is by about 40%).
Two ways
I copied this from the Instant Text MS Word board. The link no longer works there so I think it's okay to copy it here.
Adding "-year-old" and "cc:" in AutoCorrect
The method for adding "-year-old" depends on your version of Word.
In Word 97, enter -year-old in the With box, enter yo (or whatever short form you choose) in the Replace box. Type 4yo to expand to 4-year-old.
In Word 2000/2002/2003, enter -year-old in the With box and precede your short form in the Replace box with a punctuation mark, such as a semicolon. Type 4;yo to expand. The punctuation mark backs up and replaces the default space AutoCorrect inserts in later versions of Word.
To keep Word from capitalizing cc:
Put cc: in the With box and type ;c (semicolon c) in the Replace box as your short form. The punctuation mark backs up and replaces the space (or letter) with the first letter of your expansion. In this case, it also tricks Word into not capitalizing the first letter of a sentence when you have that option turned on.
A punctuation mark after the Replace entry eliminates the space at the end of the expansion.
You can use other punctuation marks, however, the semicolon keeps your fingers on the home row keys.
This method also works for symbols (such as the degree sign).
Sleeping......no two ways about it! NM
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Have heard it both ways! - nm
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