Great ideas! If anyone is too shy to post...smBennies are for employees..?
Posted By: dreamjob on 2006-04-23
In Reply to: Nevermind - I'm giving it to you anyway! lol - Bennies are for employees..?
You can e-mail me your responses. All ideas and requests are welcome. Maybe I cannot deliver on all but you never know if you don't ask. Wouldn't it be great if at least we could get the top 3 or 5 requests? Keep writing your thoughts, I'm listening.
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great post; hope your ideas do catch on.
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Thanks you all! These are really great ideas. sm
I've been taking glucosamine w/chondroitin for years, and have nerve heard of glucosamine MSM. Used to have cubital tunnel and terrible forearm aching, but took several years off and it cured itself. Now finger arthritis is my biggest problem. My doctor also prescribed a ketoprofin cream that I run on my joints at night...I call it the miracle cream. It has to be covered with plastic wrap, but wow does it help the inflammation! It has to be made up at a compounding pharmacy, too, regular stores don't stock it. Silly doctors...I had to suggest it to my doctor, but he didn't object to writing the Rx, since it wasn't systemic.
Thanks for all the great ideas!!
Some great ideas by all of you. Thanks so much for the advice and sorry to the people who are complaining about not interested in pets. Since this is the main board and sort of a pot-pourri of things get posted here, I thought it would be okay to ask for advice, and yes, I'm an MT too! 
These are all great ideas. (sm)
With a 3-year-old child at home who NEVER stops talking, I pretty much have to work on and off all day long to get a decent pay check! I've heard the stop watch thing works pretty well though.
Great ideas..sm
We have been thinking seriously about Hershey Park, PA. I thought that would be a GREAT trip...My son LOVES trains also. So that is a thought. We always, every year since I can remember, go to Myrtle Beach but we have seen everything...and want some place new. My best friend lives in Maryland so that might be another thought - get to enjoy the beach and visit with her. Thanks for the great ideas! I will keep all of those in mind....
Great ideas!! Thanks all. nm
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Thanks everyone!!!! Got some great ideas!!! nm
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Thank you everyone for all the great ideas! nm
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Great ideas...
Thanks for all the great ideas - I have been looking around for groups to join, but most meet when I am working in this area, so makes it difficult to get involved when most people in these groups are retired. I probably sound like I am making excuses, but I am really not - just difficult to explain that there are not a lot of choices around here to get involved unless you create something that works for you and then who knows what response that would get! Yes, there are cafes, but again it is retired people who frequent these places. Yes, there is a garden club and book club, sewing and quilting club (no sewing machine to get involved), garden and book club meets in the day time when I am working, I do knit and have thought of starting a prayer shawl ministry, but would have to ask around of others who do this and get together. I will check out googling groups in my area for chat or such - never thought of that. I am somewhat shy, when I feel comfortable around people then I am more comfortable with socializing, but stepping out cold turkey and getting involved is not my thing. My closest neighbor is a mile or more away, I live in the country - so makes the getting acquainted a little more challenging and again there are many older people who live around here. Don't know of anyone interested in a Bible study, but would enjoy doing that if I knew of anyone interested. Being single in a couples or elderly world is a tough thing!! I have tried things before, but feel there are not a lot of opportunities around here, so that is why I thought of seeing if there was an interest in my area with people who work out of their homes - maybe they have enough friends and don't need somethign like that, but was just an idea of mine. I will take your ideas to heart and see what I can come up with - thanks for your responses - they are appreciated!!
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These are great ideas..thank you so much! :-) (nm)
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Great ideas...
...a couple of which I didn't think of. Thx! I have thought of another IC job with another company, but I am afraid to get tied into another schedule. We all know how it goes...one week, praying for work, the next, praying for a break! Thank you both.
Great ideas
How about a bumper sticker --- "DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS ARE?"
See hgtv.com for ideas, too. Great stuff! nm
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Those are great ideas, but I think the food banks
and churches are probably not going to want to be so eager to help since the OP owns 5 houses. Her best bet is going to be to be extremely frugal at low cost markets.
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES INFORMATION SOLD?
It seems the postal service is selling employee information including information to access the employee's health records? The article stated that they did it because they "needed revenue." I can't believe I saw this.
Link below:
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?id=13890624&ps=1011&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
Thank you everyone!! great ideas. curious though as to why beef jerky wouldn't be allowed?? sm
also, i know i have seen insulated boxes before and was wondering if you sent chocolate goodies, would they survive in an insulated box with ice pack? i know it probably takes a few weeks before they receive them.
Great post. I swear by both Advantage and Frontline Plus-- both work great! - sm
I don't know about "natural" approaches for the house. I have always used flea bombs in the past before the miracle of Advantage and Frontline changed my life. Have not had a flea problem at all since I began using those products about 10 years ago, dose all the dogs religiously once a month with the Frontline Plus except in Dec.-Feb. to save a few bucks and because the ground is generally frozen by then and no fleas are scurring about. -- Hope you get flea free soon.
Great post -great job of wording your answer! (sm)
Original poster - I completely agree with this answer, especially the part about finding yourself and using all that you have learned intellectually and connecting that to something that you will also enjoy with your heart!! You have so many wonderful options for your future - much more than many of us.
What a great post...(nm)
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Great post! nm
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This was a great post, thank you!!!
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GREAT post. Thank you.
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Thank you for the great post
What a nice thought. A happy MT week to everyone!!!
WOW what a GREAT post!!! nm
Great post! LOL
I always always have to follow it up with an explanation as to what it is, exactly. I think I'm going to start saying I'm a *medical* court stenographer ;)
Yours was a GREAT post!...sm
More advice would also be that one has to *put in your time*, especially if you're young, i.e., I worked at a hospital for 8-9 years in 3 diff depts, did MTg along w/other duties, then worked for a svce 7 years, and another one for 1-1/2 yrs, then got my own accts.
But I learned terminology all along the way and at the hospital took a basic med term course and got a certificate, (not CMT though). Learned 3 fields there while working. However, when I got to the first sve, thinking I knew sooooo much, WAKE UP CALL, I felt I knew nothing - as svce had full hospital accts (along w/pvt MD accts). I took on 12 accounts there for 7 years. I learned just about every field there, love working from home.
Just for the record, I ALWAYS get dressed every day and never *stay in my jammies* working, as someone else posted, as if that would be something to aspire to (?). I think getting dressed is great discipline or keeps one disciplined I think, in my opinion.
Hope everyone has a nice profitable week
GREAT post nn.......thanks for that!!!..sm
I, too, believe we are the JEWELS of the industry - us older ones who have been doing this work for 3+ decades or more or less.......We step up to the plate just like we have been for ALL those years.
Thanks for your positive post! You hang tough too!!! *S*
Lottery? We have a better chance of getting hit by lightning, unfortunately, than winning the lottery - which is a 1:14,000,000 chance at that. Hence, I NEVER do play it anymore.
Have a great Sunday!!!
Great post, really. :) NM
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Great post.
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great post!
What a great reply! It's odd that on this MT forum, medical transcription and the qualifications necessary to be a successful MT are often trivialized or maligned (like the nasty poster who said ''It takes intelligence to be an engineer''). Yet when the MT--who knows better-- protests, she gets personally attacked as ''neurotic'' or ''personality disordered''. What MT would take the time to visit, for example, a forum for teachers or nurses, post nasty pot-shots about a profession, and then claim the person responding to the insults is ''neurotic'' or somehow at fault for responding!
Very well said. Great post. Thank you. NM
Great Post!
I love your avatar, by the way.
Yes, stories like yours will inspire the incoming hopefuls to this field. Determination, savvy, and brains do count tremendously, not just the program attended!
Great post, but I'm
I think unions served a purpose at other times in history, when children were working in sweat shops & that sort of thing. Now I think they can be kind of dangerous...& become part of the thing a group was initially struggling against. Too powerful, too money-hungry. I've witnessed things like people being forced to join a union in order to get a job. The job was an on-call position; i.e., no call, no pay. At the end of some pay periods, people would have no income but still owe union dues. That sort of thing. Also they can protect good employees; unfortunately, they also protect terrible employees who deserve to be let go. This can cause the rest of a great staff to have to work around one inept person who sleeps on the job.
What a great post!
I recently quit an in-house job to go back working at home. Hated the politics, the doctors were crazy unorganized and waaaay too much drama. Now I get to work in pajama pants and a t shirt, no more 30 minute drive to work and even as I type this, one of the cats is trying to sit in front of the monitor to get my attention. Right now it's cute, as I'm not on the clock. Later on tonight, however...............
Great post
I agree 100%, we can all sit here and complain and cry in our milk that all our work went overseas or we can try to do something about it by informing the general public in an intelligent and fact-based manner. I just saw the commercial on TV for "watchdog" true it is a company that makes money off of monitoring your credit. I had never paid any attention to that commercial before today. It got my attention "today" when they said "70% of identity theft" is NOT credit based and they were talking about medical records being disposed of improperly, people getting medical care by using someone elses medical information that was obtained in some type of illegal manner. That commercial got my attention because of what we have been talking about right here. So if we informed our neighbors, friends, relatives, doctors, nurses, etc. How many of them would sit up and take notice and say "Wow that is what they have been talking about?" The most we have to lose is a little time...time is going to pass by whether we use it for this purpose or not. If we do nothing the time will still have passed, more of our jobs will be gone and what used to be a good profession will be reduced to "anyone with half a brain can do it because no one pays attention to what the medical records say anymore."
We can't make it change, if no one does anything but sit here and complain about it.
I truly believe that MT's are a well-educated, intelligent group of professionals, let's show them what we stand for as professionals before it is too late.
Great post, eyetype! nm
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this is a great post...professionalism is the way to go (sm)
being sadistic does not accomplish anything, and if people really wanted to help others, there would be different hiring practices to begin with, rather than hiring so-called substandard MTs only to rip them apart every chance they get, and then come on this board and mock them.
Do the overseas MTs get treated this way? Seems to me they are thriving in this business...
Great post, thanks! Wonder what the car man's story is? nm
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GREAT POST and I agree.....nm
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YEAH - GREAT POST....sm
GREAT POST.......
To the first poster - You need to ask him? Tell him!!! All households should be equal....everybody's things being equally important.......
YOU GOT IT, ANON - GREAT POST....nm
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EXACTLY - great post!! not paid enough!! sm
With all that we have to know, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, equipment, physical therapy, OT, rehabilitation therapy, cardiology and all THAT entails, neurology and neurosurgery, physiatry, psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics someone in this thread has the audacity to say we are less than professional?
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Great post by the Admin!! also, know....sm
You can rest assured that it's far better to raise a child in happy divorced home than a miserably married one.
My daughter was only worried that she'd be the only one in her class coming from a divorced family, and I really reassured her that, unfortunately, every other seat in a classroom back then (15 years ago) and today (in my area) is a divorce situation. She came home almost immediately relieved that what I had said was true and that she didn't feel ever like she was a misfit.
Best of luck!!!!! 
That was a great show! Thanks for the post!
I missed about 20 minutes of it, but recorded the rest. Fascinating look at the other side of things. I have always known that the Indian (whatever 3rd world country) workers themselves were not our enemies - its the govts as usual creating all this situation. And now their culture is crumbling and turning into our culture. Poor things! And, while I certainly don't want to lose my job to offshoring, they are right that we as Americans can rebuild our lives and reinvent ourselves. Those people die. They are desperate and that's why I give them 100% respect and anticipate them making leaps and bounds in the industry. They have a great incentive - pure survival. I have also QA'd lots of foreign work. There are occasional bad MTs, but there are some fantastic MTs as well. Sometimes far superior to the quality of USA MTs. So, I'll be looking over my shoulder for sure and keeping my skills current!
Great post! Good to know : )
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Great post, related to all you said....sm
The answer is comfort - some get comfortable where they are at (and for my PT work, it's my situation at the moment....*lol*). But I have lots of irons in fires and when I get fed up, it's onto bigger and better things. 
I thought this was a great post!
Maybe in the wrong spot, but a good post. What a mess, huh? I have to ask - did they charge/bill you for that? I wouldn't be paying!
Great post, Dolores.
I hope she'll take your good advice because her getting so upset and frantic over nothing is not good for her blood pressure or general health.
Great post with VERY useful information. nm
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If this is so great, why not post the link here.
after passing that exam and paying all of that money, people would want that list posted on the highest mountaintop!!!
another GREAT post and with statistics!! T.Y.
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