How the h@ll can I get this thing to erase!

Sorry!  I have been trying to get this Lanier Vw210 to erase a tape.  I even had medquist email me the directions.  At least I got a good deal on the unit.  Brand new (someone decided they did not want to be an MT).  Got the unit, plug, headset, foot pedal all for 200, which is a steal because its all brand new.

Back to my problem, any help appreciated.

Thanks!!

• How the h@ll can I get this thing to erase! - dawnsun
  • Erasing - Patti
  • Actually, it's probably not overpaid, they probably are - paying you back that month they stole from you!
  • erasing - provolone

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a Lanier transcriber?  Bought it on ebay and do not see an erase function.

TIA,

Dawn!

A lot of people also have disabled the erasing mechanism so that tapes cannot accidentally be erased and have to manually erase them.   I have always done that to prevent it after my first accidental erasure.  Other than allowing the tape to play forward without background noise, to tape over what is there,  no answers here and have been using tapes for 15+ years.   A manual eraser cost is cheap.  

Patti

The company I work for won't be responsible for erasing the tapes.  They send them back to the doctors and have them erase them. The office staff at a lot of the docs offices have those little magnetic tape eraser thingys (Under $10.00) and they just slide the tape through and it's erased.

One suggestion is to buy one. You could offer to give it to them and tell them to erase the tapes.  If they still insist that you erase the tapes yourself, tape a small post it note over the erase button on your machine with a big NO! in red and then make sure you erase all tapes through the magnetic thingy instead of in the machine.  I had to do that myself.  It has happened to me before.

Not to worry, I did NOT get fired.  Everyone knows that things happen sometimes.  As long as you can reassure them that it won't happen again by telling them that you have taken the above measures to prevent it from happening again, you'll be okay.

We all mess up.  Let us know how it went.

See below, don't want to rewrite the entire thing but it did all work out.   Basically I had put the envelope and tape from one day in a different spot due to being in a hurry and the other one the doc did not hand in as he was going on vacation.  So when both were gone, I thought I had erased them and handed them back in.  When I told the doc that I thought I had erased one and he grinned at me and gave me the tape, he told me to include some extra charge for the time I spent looking for the tape -- so it did all work out.  God just threw me a curve to tell me to slow down.   I averaged 2500 to 3000 lines per day last week and that was with one doctor on vacation.  So just hurried, hurried, hurried.   Thank you to all of you for your support, it really helped me in a tme of need.   Patti

Patti

Get a Certron micro/mini cassette eraser.  I've had mine for 10 years - paid like $5 for it then, and I still use it every single day.  I have two docs that insist on micro, bless 'em!  At least I know they won't go to VR!  But make sure you store the eraser somewhere so the magnets on that tiny little thing don't erase something you don't want them to. 

I got mine at Staples, but it is possible they don't carry them any longer.  When I googled it I could only find it at some off-the-wall places... like this link here.

I don't think there's any cause to get upset or defensive here.  Look it up on line...even colleges are offering courses in Ebonics!  ...well of course they are more sociology-type courses, but still, people are PAYING to learn about the why's and how's of this "other" language.

A quote from one of the sites I found:

"UT-Austin's "Introduction to the Study of African American English," teaches students that the sentence, "Nobody didn't leave" is not "mainstream English with mistakes," but rather a legitimate English dialect. "Ebonics: Myth and Facts" and "African-American English" are both offered at Harvard. Penn and UCLA also promote Ebonics as a legitimate dialect in, "Introduction to African American and Latino English" and "Afro-American Sociolinguistics: Black English," respectively."

Here's the link: http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2002/september_2002_2.html

:P

"I was told it was a "MAN" thing and everyone does it (i guess all men)"

whenever anyone takes an action and relates it to a whole gender and then tags on everyone does it....well, I guess there's your answer

I was only referring to the bitter ones here who work for MQ, not all MQrs.  I am one of the MQrs, ya know! Please get your facts straight before you post a response!

He was in football and really did well.  Everyone in the family always talked about how great he was with football.  Then he decided to quit one day.  I was so disappointed because I knew he could have gotten a college scholarship.  It is SO tough to be supportive of someone when you think they're making the wrong choice.  My Dad got on my son's case about being a quitter and an underachiever.  He really came down hard on him, so I had to defend my son.  In defending my son, I changed my own thinking.  I realized that although we give birth to these adorable little babies, they are their own person.  They're going to do things that we would have done differently.  What can you do?  You can't impose your will upon them.  We all have dreams for our children.  However, their dreams are more important than our expectations of them.

to him and we all had to adjust our schedules to accommodate him and he just quit.  This was going to be his senior year on the varsity team.  Unfortunately, he did not participate in anything else for his whole high school career, so now he has no activities resume.  You can't tell him anything though.  He does do extremely well in school and takes several APs as well, but it was disappointing.  He was going to try to get an internship with our local hospital, but of course, that never panned out.  Now he works about 15 hours a week and hangs out the rest of the time.  His attitude is getting really crappy too, but his father won't do a thing about it.  He took his car the other night, but gave it back to him the next morning.  Yeah...that really taught him a good lesson :(!  He has been really frustrating me lately.  He is a great kid and when he is good he is the best, but when he isn't, he is just unbearable.  He's not into drugs or drinking or partying and is a homebody, so I guess I have no real complaints.  Maybe it's me not handling his new "adultness."  pheww....that was a vent and a half! 

happened to me.  I canceled the credit card.  Also recently when I had to find a new physician/medical group, I asked if they outsourced to another Country and if they did I did not choose them.  I wonder how many patients would stay with a physician/medical group if they knew their records were going somewhere else, granted some have no choice. 

I agree wholeheartedly!

It really ticks me off when someone has something positive to say about MQ, and then they get bashed to death!!!

Like so many times before it has been said; If you aint happy, there's plenty other places out there to work.  FIND ANOTHER JOB!

And don't hate on the rest of us who are happy with our jobs, be it withMQ or anywhere else!!!

I didn't find it funny, it was a serious question!!!

I have worked for them for 10 years and have never raised my rates so I don't feel I should need to lower my price! :) I will raise my rate if they do not go digital. I feel they have saved a considerable amount over the years so they have already been compensated in my opinion.

Another thing, I pickup/deliver five days a week and it seems about one day a week when I drive in (which is 44 miles round trip), there is no dictation to pick up and no one notifies me! I asked the OM if someone couldn't please notify me but they haven't thus far. I usually have transcription to deliver but I don't feel with what I am geting paid (which isn't bad) that I should have to deliver the work (since I DO have a 48-hr TAT anyway in my contract) IF there is no dictation to pick up. I receive a schedule in advance for each month BUT I have one doc in particular that does not always have her dictation done/ready the next day and sometimes I don't get it for days. That is one reason why I wanted to go digital.

Thanks for the suggestion of taking in some of the SOAP sheets (and I would write on them made up info and handle them considerably before hand) to try in a few different laser printers at an office store. I may ultimately need to buy a laser printer.

happened to me. I was about 2 months out of community college when I landed a job through the placement office for a group of ten pathologists. Twenty one days later I was fired because of nepotism. The physician owner employed his secretary's 22-year-old daughter to do the transcription, she had no formal training as an MT. I worked more efficiently (used the word expander) and daughter was left with no work. So, her mom and her mom's best friend in the marketing department conspired to get me out of there so the daughter could keep her job. Good riddance to bad garbage. I gladly went to work for a national where I work at home and don't have to put with office politics, just nasty QC folks--which is much easier.

We did this at my daughter's kindergarten Christmas party a few years back and it was very easy and not too messy.  It wasn't too time consuming, either.  This is a great, inexpensive way to keep them happy for a while.  Good luck.  Merry Christmas!