Here is one somebody suggested. I haven't used it yet. (sm)
Posted By: Misha on 2006-09-09
In Reply to: Need good reference/webiste suggestions - just started transcribing OP notes
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I suggested it before. There should be one
test through that testing site, then they could archive our results. Companies could access the data as needed. It takes quite a bit of time to do each test for each company. 
Not sure where this was, but someone suggested here
that you contact the drug reps and see if they will help you. Most of them travel around to all of the clinics/doctors offices in the area and will know who is looking for workers... Again, not my idea, just thought it was a great one and am sharing it.
Ok, so have done what the first suggested but
how to clean the heads?
ME TOO! ROFL That's why I suggested it!!
Mom's know best, huh?! :)
you are the one who suggested shooting herself --sm
which seems more nit witty to me than asking what kind of flowers you like, in response to that dumb of a question. I have had two relatives take their own lives in the past six months, and one was by shooting themselves. I dont't take those kinds of remarks flippantly. Perhaps a better choice of words on your part would have elicited more empathy and helpfulness. I know computer problems can be stressful, but gees, what a solution that is! and I didn't call YOU any names.
Two different doctors suggested it to me.
I tried it for a while but found myself slouching anyway. It is fun sometimes to sit and bounce or lean while typing. My office is just really small, so I had to put the ball in the living room when I wasn't using it. The kids would play with it. Really annoying because they're teenagers and their version of "playing" involves throwing the ball at each other across the room. I deflated the ball and it's in my closet.
I agree with the other poster who suggested
finding an hourly MT at home job. I worked at home for our local hospital during my first several years. There are still MTSOs and hospitals that hire people at an hourly rate at home. Good luck with it.
To those MTs who suggested the FTP (free) software SM
Thank you so much! DH downloaded it, installed it, and I am transferring files with no problems....something the IT department of this MTSO couldn't do in six weeks of haggling!!! So thanks to those of you who helped out - it was GREATLY appreciated!
I've suggested before that perhaps you all might come up with a day & time
that you could all meet up in chat every week. Why don't you all discuss it and let me know. I will make a post on what you decide.
What would be a late fee or percentage suggested?
I think your idea is excellent. Other companies do this. Why can't ICs? Of course we can. But how do you decide on the late fee amount? Certain percentage after a certain number of days. What is the usual company procedure on this? Does anyone know.
This is quite morbid, but it was suggested by a poster in another forum that
perhaps knowing the great loss of life that will occur among those who were unable to leave the city, the govt believes this is the easiest way to contain the bodies.
It is obvious the local govt and the residents never believed this would happen. Did you see the reporter on Fox interviewing people on Bourbon Street having hurricane parties and joking about being drowned?
My husband is an attorney and suggested the same thing to me once.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos152.htm
It definitely sounds more promising than MT but it does also sound like you'd be back to Square One with training/schooling.
It may be well worth it.
Best of luck whatever you decide!
Try bran flakes - vet suggested - worked for me (and my dog)
sorry. check out PTalk like the other poster suggested. nm
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i'd check into the olympus as the other poster suggested. sm
it comes with the software to upload the dictation to office computer, most come with docking station, etc. then you'd need a program that would encrypt the files like hypersend or cryptext or something to that matter to return the work to them. you can also get efax for free and someone in the office can fax you the pt lists that comes into your email or fax, whichever you choose.
Thanks. I had to change the way I was viewing the site and then tried what you suggested -sm
and it seems to have worked. Now I just need to see if I can get Express Scribe to work for me. It has been a while since I have typed this way. Thanks again for your help.
Friend suggested I type while listening to the news.
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A while back I suggested we all write a letter to the editor about this . sm
I did, and they declined to print it. Evidently it's not a big issue in the minds of some. Individually we can't do anything about it. Perhaps collectively. We need a petition to go to ALL senators and representatives from our respective states, and none of this "anonymous" stuff, either.
You might want to check out Consumer Reports 1/08 magazine, had article about ins and suggested visi
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Your point was? You called me jealous and lazy, and suggested I work an 8 hour shift.
Now you're being "nice". I am NOT worried about others. Why would I want to work an 8 hour shift and produce 1000 lines if I could be missing SOMETHING and increase my production? How mean-spirited you are. I would LOVE to produce more and work less, so that I could spend more time with my loved ones. And to read on this forum the astonishing line counts most MTs are claiming to make regularly - well, I'm either doing some really, really wrong, which I would like to fix, or I'm not doing something that I need to be doing, which I would like to fix! Thus, my sincere question. Truly I believe it is time to leave this board, though I used to LOVE it so much, cause you just can't get an honest thread running anymore about anything - even trivial threads turn ugly by 2 to 3 posts, let alone INFORMATIVE ones like how honestly asking my fellow MTs who are huge producers HOW they do it? As in straight typing or using normals and standards? I try to hang on this board and stay "positive" despite the negatives, cause I really like it here and I really like the admin, etc, but I'm not a glutton for punishment. I know a lot of the old regular MTs who actually carried on intelligent conversations have gone to the board where you have to pay $$$ to post. Apparently, one can still have kind meaningful conversations over there - guess the $$ part weeds out the trolls? Don't know, but its sure sad. Please, don't misinterpret this as me thinking anyone would give a hoot if I left here - cause I know now there will be the normal "good - who gives a crap? good riddance" flames, but really, the MTs who are so trollish are just ruining it for themselves. Thus is their lot in life, though.
Haven't actually done it yet, but...
I have been wanting to do it and had looked it to it several years ago. I do believe that old concrete has to be etched first in order to open up the "pores." I was looking at using a concrete "stain" I believe it was made by Behr brand and was sold at Home Depot. It comes in lots of colors. It was my understanding that the etching and then the stain would basically allow the color to soak into the concrete rather than sit on top like paint and wouldn't have the problems with peeling. However, unfortunately, I haven't tried it yet but just wanted to offer another suggestion for you to look into. Good luck!
I haven't but my son did. sm
If you feel okay, it's probably a muscle or even an intestinal cramp. If you start to feel sick, or even just lousy, or the pain intensifies and you start to feel feverish, you should spend the $100.00.
My son was 16 and he was very, very sick. It came on in the middle of the night very quickly. He finally yelled to me at 5:00 in the morning because he couldn't get out of bed. He said he thought he had food poisoning and had been vomiting all night and his stomach hurt really bad. Just one look at him (greyish/green pallor) and I knew it was bad. We went right to the ER and the nurse came right out and got him as soon as the front desk person took one look at him. Paperwork was done later as he was prepped for surgery.
It wasn't a half hour before he was in surgery to remove his appendix that was about to burst.
He was really sick. I had a friend who just had hers out. She didn't wait as long, but she really felt horrid.
I haven't gone through it or know anyone who has
the best. I hope the lump turns out not to be cancer.
take care.
I haven't gotten anything either.
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NEW HAVEN, CT
NO MESSAGE
still haven't gotten over
yummy, yummy, yummy
Haven't had one but....
I've been with several others who have had, conscious sedation is much less risky and each time the patient recovered extremely quickly, no discomfort or side effects.
I haven't seen anything less than
3-4 cpl and most are only offering 1-2 cpl. Maybe if you are lucky, you can get an hourly gig.
Who knows - you may be right. I haven't - sm
run two operating systems at the same time, but anything is possible these days! I do have duplicate other software that I run because I don't like what came with the PC. For example, my old Photoshop instead of Windows' version; two different spam blockers & firewalls, and I use an old external Iomega drive & Iomega software for burning CDs because the Windows one doesn't work half the time. One thing I've learned about computers over the years is you shouldn't always take "no" for an answer with them. In the PC world, "no" usually means "find another way to do it." ;D
I haven't seen much about them lately, but if you
check the company board you can find info there. Doesn't appear to be very good though.
Your right TMT...those who haven't done it, don't get it..
I have been an MT for 10 years and have been home with both of my children and my work doesn't suffer nor do my children...don't take what others say personally...they don't know your or your situation :)
I haven't taken it yet,
but I did take the RMT back in January. I am scheduled for the CMT at the end of June.
One of my supervisors suggested learning all 12 cranial nerves. I printed them out and stuck them on the wall next to my bathroom to study while teeth-brushing. Now that's what I call multitasking. :)
Other than that, it has been suggested to study the various word parts, prefixes and suffixes and roots, because if you get those down cold, you can muddle your way through words that you don't actually know the meaning of. Medicolegal stuff is also something that gets pointed out as a thing to study.
I have heard several people recommend the CMT study guide. I am working my way through it now.
And know your BOS cold. Second edition; they haven't switched to third edition yet for the exam.
One of my co-workers talked to someone at AHDI who told her you only have to get half of the transcription section correct (and that's supposedly the easier part), and you have to get 62 of the 102 multiple choice questions right. That figure will come in handy when you are actually taking the test, because you can mark questions to come back to, and if you keep track of how many questions you KNOW you have correct (i.e. the real no-brainers), you can actually run a calculation to figure out how many questions you can afford to "throw" and thus not spend TOO much time or energy obsessing on the ones you aren't sure about.
Also, be very careful on the transcription portion, to follow the instructions exactly. For instance, if a particular problem is a "fill in the missing phrase" problem, if there are commas and periods and other punctuation marks already supplied, do NOT repeat them. In other words, your finished sample should look exactly like a normal piece of finished work. For more info about this, visit the CMT page of the AHDI website and take a look at the "candidate guide," starting on page 9.
Above all... remember to BREATHE! It's not so bad. Really. At least the RMT wasn't; I finished the whole thing in slightly under an hour, and walked out of the place muttering that I've done harder work than that in my sleep.
Feel free to e-mail me if you have any other questions. I am crankybeach at yahoo dot com.
I'm very sorry, (), I haven't been around a while.
First, I admit I don't use AutoCorrecct so I can't speak to that. It's far better than nothing, but it's just not a professional-level application adequate to the intensive use we need to put it to. Also, it can crash with overuse and lose everything invested in it.
Shorthand and InstantText are two excellent programs, and I recommend them both to anyone looking for an expander.
IMO, it's not at all true that we need our Expanders very little with editing--just the opposite. I can understand why people think so, though. Very little is being said on this because it's all such new technology and there's not been a lot of experience built up. We're the first wave. But toss that defeatest belief aside. You keystroke all day long. If you could cut your Keystrokes by half you'd double your income. Even cutting them by a third... This is very, very doable.
Editing consists of corrections, many of them very short but done hundreds of times a day. If you can use your Expander to shorten a 6-stroke correction to a smoother and shorter 3-stroke correction, you're doubling your rate of pay every time you use it for those keystrokes. And feeling a whole lot happier about what you're doing--it's a significant upgrade in your skills and you're breezing through reports much faster. I just happen to feel like I'm going backwards when I use my backspace key, so I don't. Every use it's put to is part of a short form, and that key is seldom touched.
Corrections come in various types--
Changing the case of a letter or word. For me, F changes the case of the letter it's in front of, lantus to Lantus, Ampicillin to ampicillin. FF changes the case of the whole word.
Adding a word, words, or phrases not included. Deleting words not dictated and replacing with those that are.
In editing it's typically much less a matter of dropping in whole blocks of text and instead correcting lots of individual words and phrases--make abbreviations for ALL of them. mk abrevjs l AL o uem. (l is my short for FOR, o is OF, u is short for TH in a word but short for HER on its own).
The same for little short phrases--iort is in order to. beo because of. epld is was placed (E is my short for WAS). Store ALL of them.
Correcting punctuation. I have macros for every one that pops up all day long. ,q backs up, deletes a punctuation mark, replaces it with a comma, and repositions the cursor at the next word--without changing the case of that word. ,, does the same thing but changes the case of the next word to combine two sentences into one.
Making these was as simple as recording the keystrokes of the correction into my expander as I did them for the last time.
bb links two words together so they don't split at the end of a line.
Correcting verb tenses and word endings. qd backs up, inserts ed, then repositions at the next word. qdd does the same thing but backs two spaces to deletes a letter (looks to looked).
Correcting headings. /abq moves "abdomen" in the middle of a block of text to the beginning of the next line and changes it to ABDOMEN: //abq does the same but also bolds it.
Correcting gender. R is my abbreviation for he, and rq corrects her to he. kq changes "he" to "she."
kt adds a "The" to the beginning of a sentence and changes the previously-first word to lower case. Same for ka for adding A to the beginning of a sentence, kit for It, kk for She.
;;3 and ;;4 change prednisone, loratidine to
3. Prednisone.
4. Loratidine.
At the very least (ah vr lest) shorten words to phonetic spellings--fonetc spelgs.
Far from not using my expander as I edit all day long, any time I make a correction that doesn't have a short form I feel as if I'm making a mistake. Surely there's SOME way I can save at least one keystroke there?
This may sound like a lot, but it's so FUN and satisfying to make an important short form and start using it. Would any of us ever want to go back to typing out chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by hand again instead of copdd or whatever the short form of choice is? It's the very same thing. Just applied to everything.
Best wishes.
I haven't been there that long so I can't say for sure, mostly because
the account they put me on is extremely low on work so I can't even work my scheduled shift in the first place. If I want to work, I've been having to grab reports right as they come in and work extra at night. They keep saying they are getting me a secondary but it hasn't happened yet; say everything is low right now. I am very pleased with every other aspect of this company, but it seems that they overstaff for fast turn around times. Therefore, you go without work a lot of the time and that doesn't pay the bills. No one seems to understand that we work on production and while I would most enjoy days off, I can't afford them......
..oops! Should be haven't seen one...nm
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I haven't seen any brochures, but if you
look at the Job Seekers board and go to some of the company websites you would probably see what you are asking for.
Haven't gotten the letter yet
 MQ is run by a bunch of jerks.
I haven't gotten my check but did
get Ipay notice, no letter of explanation yet, HOWEVER, my check is for pennies over $25.00 (twenty-five). This is supposed to be for 2 years???? What is wrong with this picture???????????????
You haven't been in banking for a
while and can't remember? You can remember when you're on the board dishing out unsolicited financial advice - can't you?
Haven't heard any more
but if all the MEs would do it, we should refuse to do ASR on October 1st. This is really a disgrace what is going on with the company and with what is going on, on this board at times (which is really sabotaging our professionalism.
I am about to! They haven't paid me from last
pay period and nobody answers my e-mails. Unprofessional!
haven't done that one right in years
excuse me - Have not done that 1 right in years!!!
I haven't found them
What I've seen ranges from 2.5 cpl to 15 per hour.
No! I'm 48 years old and still haven't had a new car!!!!
I don't think kids should be given a new car. That is a good place in life to teach them that they have the ability to work hard, save their money and buy anything they want. It gives them the incentive to want to make more money, which gives them the incentive to take care it (the car they finally buy) and also gives them the incentive to work hard in school/college so that they will get a very good paying job when they are finished with their college, so they can afford the expensive things they desire, like in the "real world" where everything isn't given to them.
You haven't checked around much then.
Spheris' top accounts pay 10.2 cpl base plus incentive and differential for acute care work.
My current national employer pays me 10 cpl base plus incentive and differential for acute care work.
That's 2 that I can personally vouch for.
Hopefully you haven't already bought. nm
Why even go? You haven't said a good
thing about your sister all week, why put yourself through that, especially if your parents aren't live to care if you all get together. Why not stop by for drinks and snacks Christmas Eve and then do your own thing Christmas. It s/l you and other sister are afraid to stand up to big sister, so nothing will ever change.
My family is so dysfunctional now that my parents are gone it is a blessing that we don't have to all get together and I don't have to play nice all day. I don't go to any of the holiday get togethers because the stress is simply not worth it.
Yes. I haven't been able to figure out
who The Carver is. I'm interested to find out. Enjoy the show!
I haven't a clue...
Maybe Casper the Friendly Ghost? 
Haven't you heard?
Ethics are only for the "lower orders" translated - us peons. a mantra for the rest of us
Bosses are to boss - peons are to peon.
Then you haven't worked on the really bad ones. nm
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