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Posted By: RebornMT on 2006-10-07
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Or after a boring weekend when working at a hospital someone asks "How was your weekend?" and
I am currently working all weekend every weekend.
I get so burnt out although I do have work on the weekends, and then there is nobody home or friends to do things with during the week because they are all working or at school. I really dislike this schedule a lot. Plus I never get to do anything on the weekends or plan for anything while everyone else is off. I wouldn't mind 1 day every weekend but 2 days plus Friday is really doing me in. Good luck to you whatever you decide. Do think long-term, because when I decided to go for this kind of schedule, I did not consider the repercussions of long-term every weekend day and Friday.
Working this weekend?
Anyone else out there trying to eek out a living this weekend? Why do we do this?
working most of the weekend
 Mucho bills to pay off !
Count me in for no working this weekend
Need a break any way!
you another penny or two, as will working only the weekend
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I dont mind working 1 of the weekend days every week.
I just figure people get sick and doctors have to work them..
Nope, but I'm fairly familiar with the scriptures. Thank you anyway. nm
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Upcoming art festival
Hi Everyone,
If you get a chance, check out a friend of mines art website. He does some pretty unique stuff. All of his latest work is posted in his forum under the New Paintings category. He'll be at the ArtFest of 5th Avenue in Scottsdale, Arizona from Oct. 21 through 23. If anyone lives in the vicinity stop by and say hello! I'll be there, too.
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After finally switching my schedule to all weekend, every weekend
Seems like that's the only way I could get work with my MTSO. So, I do it. I am to the point where I will pretty much jump if they say hop,so I can feed my family. I would say it's sad, but I am actually glad to even have work and a decent check again. I am giving up a lot working every single weekend and days at the end and beginning of the week, but its daily work!
I gotta work on Saturday, but on Sunday I'm going to take the kids to a Renaissance Festival.
And Monday, the kids and I are going boating and to a cook out at the lake with family. 
You will, promise!
Know that we ALL were there at one time. I remember at my first acute care job at a hospital being so frustrated about asking the experienced ladies for help, that I just sat and put my face in my hands and cried a little out of sheer frustration. I can't imagine starting out at home as an MT, but it seems some of these schools prepare you new ladies well. Kudos to you! Keep on truckin'.
I promise this will help
if you do it regularly!! ... Pinpoint which muscles/tendons are involved and massage, massage, massage!! Also press and hold the trigger points--can tell those by the high pain level--for a few seconds and then on/off in different rhythms. It works, but you have to do it a lot when once it has gotten out of hand. Don't get your pain level (during massage/pressing) higher than an 8/10 for very long at a time though.
Unfortunately, we should be doing this before we feel real trouble, but it is easy to neglect it.
I have trouble with my right hand getting weak with tight wrist extensors and an almost always upset infraspinatus muscle. I let them go and then have to massage myself while I proof each report. It makes a world of difference but you have to be diligent.
We also should be taking extra care of our midback to occiput areas as well.
Lie on the floor with a tennis ball in your palm and put it under the knobs in the occiput area (at different angles) sometime ... ouch!! Mine hurt like heck on both sides, and when they are extra tight the pain goes all the way around to the front of my head. I can only stand to hold it in one spot for a few seconds.
It really works and if done before it is too late will prevent surgery.
Yes, I think it is a responsibility and I mad a promise...
to mom to not ever put her in a nursing home as a young 20-something. As an only child, I followed and kept that promise.
I cared for her for 6 years. It should have been more but I didn't realize she was going downhill so fast. I was very stressed out in her later years as she started to develop a lot of problems including memory problems, but when I look back, I would NEVER, EVER, change my mind. She was happy here with us and although she was having a lot of problems, the only thing I wished for was for her to be comfortable and happy. (She was in a nursing home temporarily for 2 months after she broke her hip and was very unhappy. This was sort of a test to see if she would like it, but she didn't.) I did everything necessary to make her comfortable in her last years.
It was hard, but I kept my promise even though every doctor told me to put her in a nursing home. Thank heavens, I worked for a great company that understood and allowed me to take as many breaks/days off as I needed to care for her. I would never have changed a thing even though I got very worn out during the end myself because she was almost totally bedridden. Still, I loved my mother with all my heart and still miss her even though she died 6 years ago.
I only hope my children would do the same for me unless i have Alzheimer disease. If a parent is unhappy at a nursing home, by all means do what is necessary to make their last days happy. After all, they raised us, and we should return that love.
You need to be patient, be a nurse, doctor, etc. for an elderly parent and if there is none, it could be very, very "unhealthy" for the parent and the child, but I feel we need to make sacrifices for our parents happiness in their later years as they sacrificed for us in our early years. After all, they are the only parents we had, andI I have NO regrets, knowing I did the best I could for her.
Sorry to ramble. I'm still grieving. I wanted her to live to be 100 if possible.We were really close all our lives.
Nope, I promise you I'm not.
I asked all the right questions before I was hired, so I understood pay and everything. They have been nothing but honest and nice. It's one of the two most often recommended companies on this board, and I'll leave it at that because I doubt you'd go wrong with either. But do make sure you ask about everything that is important to you so you aren't disappointed.
How do these companies get away with this when they promise
nm
Check out MQ - they actually promise you
CRAP and that's what you get! 
I promise I will once the survey is completed....sm
I don't want to influence the results in any way so the information will be unbiased and more meaningful.
Jay
YOU are right! These companies promise the moon so they (sm)
can get the accounts and the MTs are the ones that get the bad deal. To be honest, I too, am not good with heavy ESLs but I sure try. I am also slower than most - but I sure try. There are some ESLs that really try hard and I appreciate their efforts. Then there are ESLs that are so fast and so sloppy I haven't a clue what they are saying. There are also horrible American dictators too. As the above poster said - the lack of decent courtesy is gone. Their excuse - I'm in a hurry, blah, blah, blah. Well sometimes I'm in a hurry so maybe I should stop capitalizing words, quit looking up strange words, forget punctuation. Really! Have dictators forgotten that there is a real human being transcribing his mess?
Last word on this subject, promise!
One other thing I'd like to mention is that I would have almost no problem with transcribing an ESL if I could hear them clearly! That's not to say that the doctor is not speaking loudly enough - it's that the onus is on the people choosing the systems used to record their dictation, be it that it's been re-recorded, crappy system, etc. The radiologist I referenced below would have been bearable if all the extraneous crap was not a factor, as well as the quality of the sound/speakers, etc. If you could hear clearly, you have a fairer chance of transcribing more seamlessly to make your lines per hour, etc.
Now that I'm an IC working at home, my main issue with being productive with ESLs is not hearing them clearly - I have enough experience to be able to decipher a lot just based on context (like a lot here say, have developed an ear for it), but if I can't hear it well, c'est le vie.
If you want to hold out "as long as you can" to not transcribe ESLs, that is, of course, a personal choice. Most do not have that option and have to bite the bullet. If you'll notice, most residents are of a foreign land and will be in the workforce too. Yes, you can get your own accounts with whatever physician you choose and work with them on those issues. But if you're working for an even small to large MTSO, most have ESLs. Thx!
Candidates are always going to promise big things
in the heat of the race; then when they are elected and start to serve, all of a sudden their hands are tied! Truly, though, how is one person, such as the President of the US, going to be able to implement change if he/she is,in fact, up against a hugely influential and strong population, such as the NRA (BTW, I'm neutral about the NRA...just using that group to illustrate my point).
I promise you - I begin work at 7:00 p.m. - I'm only PT, and my day always begins with
stat, H&Ps, consults, etc! I love it!
When they have me working mornings I am getting special procedures, ops, caths, and don't like it one bit! Maybe 2nd shift would work for those who just can't see themselves working from 11 to 7. Good luck!
XX,, I promise you can double that typing speed quickly SM
then triple it, and eventually quadruple it with an Expander used right. You're doing something wrong, but I assure you once you know what it is you can correct it easily and immediately start seeing the benefits having your expander do much of the typing for you.
To begin with, though, most of your increased speed is going to come NOT from inserting blocks of text standard for one dictator but rather abbreviations for the individual words, phrases, and headings you're constantly typing anyway.
For instance, I type RPSV for "reports that." It wasn't hard to remember. Variations of "report" are used constantly, so RP became report, RPS reports, RPG reporting, RPD reported. V is "that." AO is "also" for me, and F is "he", so "he also reported that" becomes FAORPDV and "he also reports that" becomes FAORSV. This is the first time I've seen those on paper; you don't memorize the long forms, just string together the constantly used short ones. Amazingly quickly your fingers remember (muscle memory?) so you don't have think about it.
Smartype is probably not the best expander but fine to start on since you have it. Later on, better programs have conversion programs that will allow you to move your abbreviations to that program.
In the meantime, go to productivitytalk.com and start reading and asking questions. If you wish, you can import a whole ready-made dictionary compiled by an MT abbreviations.
But you could also take another tack for now just as a trial. Instead of trying to use Smartype's abbreviations, if that's what you're doing, enter just a handful of your own that you can get very familiar with. I love these that I use and am happy to pass them on to anyone who wishes to try them:
Make T expand to "the"
F expand to "he"
G expand to "him"
K expand to "she"
J expand to "her"
T expand to "the"
B to "but"
Q to "who"
R to "right"
L to "left"
F to "for"
D for "and"
That's more than enough for now. If you do this, I think in a couple of days you'll be loving how a quick tap of the finger drops in all these little words so much that you'll eventually become addicted to abbreviating everything in sight--and to watching your scores on your speed tests rise and rise and rise... Best wishes.
Need MQ MTS shell help ASAP!!
My dictionary is doing something strange. Before, when I had a misspelled word it would bring up a yellow box with other words (listed a, b, c and so on) and I could choose the correct word. It suddenly stopped doing that one day! Now I have to either figure out how to really spell it (I'm a horrible speller) or look it up rather than have the program drag up similar words.
Any ideas how I fix this? It's really bothering me and slowing me way, way down. I even re-formatted the dictionary.
THANK YOU!!!
Need recipe ASAP!! (sm)
Ok, someone please help me find a recipe for this stuff .. my mother wants it bad and is driving me nuts over it. Cannot believe a web search has not helped..I may not have the correct name it's called. She is wanting to make some of those "cheese rings" this weekend. They look like a cookie, but not sweet. Usually made with a cookie press I believe. Just a strong cheddar cheese taste..made like the regular spritz cookies I think. My great grandmother was the only one we ever knew that made them back in Carolina..can't seem to find anyone here in the central US that knows what it is LOL Thanks!
Need info ASAP
WordZXpressed in Georgia, are they any good, what do they pay, etc.? Any info.Alice
Need Advice ASAP
I was offered 60 minutes of transcription for $40.00. I am new and I do not know if that is good or not. Looking through the samples it seems he says the same thing over and over again so you can macro the physical examinations. Please give me advice. Right now I am in school, pregnant, and work full time. My goal is to stay home but it seems he should pay $60.00 for 60 minutes. Please give some advice I am a new Transcriptionist and I do not want to be used.
HELP (sorry for shouting) but I need help ASAP sm
here's the instructions I have been given with name of company, etc. deleted
Accessing test dictation: Using your internet browser , open our site: (name has been changed to yadayadayada for privacy purposes)
ftp://yadayadayada.com/medical/
This does NOT work as a link; you must type in the address yourself in your browser or copy and paste the address into your browser.
You will either be prompted to log in
User name: yadayadayada Password: yadayadayada
You will see many folders. Double click on the testing folder.
please download "testnotes.zip"
To download, simply double-click on the file in question and it will take it over to your hard drive.` You will first need to "unzip" these files using Winzip.
Okay, I've done all of the above but now how do I get it to play like these instructions in bold say I can.
Once unzipped, these files can be played with any .wav file player. Your computer's sound card will have software which will allow you to play the file.
in hospitals it seems always ASAP - SM
I work rad (employee) in a hospital, and they are always ALWAYS working to improve TAT. From the time the exam is done to complete dictation, they want 3-4 hours. That means if your doc delays the dictation, they want transcription NOW because the doc took so long.
However, in the situation you describe, checking back in 1-2 hours should not matter that much. You should just let them know the deal - they probably know how that radiologist is as much (or better) than you. Maybe they/he could call or email when he is done?
My hospital has a contract with a sister hospital to do their radiology - they have radiologists that do this exact same thing. We told them when our staffing is available. If they do not dictate during that time, then their reports are delayed -- no question. they have to deal with it.
Doing it yourself, your situation is different, of course, but hopefully they would work with you to let you know when the work is available so that you don't have to be "on call" for them.
As far as line rates, I can't say an average. I have another rad account that I do at $.15/line, but this is 3 days a week for a mobile service (TAT is 1-3 DAYS here...) I would charge more if they needed it "now", especially if they wouldn't work with me as to when "now" might be!
Long answer - hope it helps.
Feel free to email with any more questions if you want.
Pls contact me ASAP!
Please send me a personal pm with your contact details, basic information re: client, location, etc. Pending receipt of your mail, I will establish contact with you details.
Need Help ASAP on word board, please!!
The timer is ticking...
Need GYN help on word board ASAP! Thanks!
malvayocism?
NEED HELP ON WORD BOARD ASAP
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ASAP Transcription in TN..any info?
xx
HELP-ASAP Tract or track (sm)
Haven't been doing surgery for a while and cannot remember the rule for tract/track. Couldn't find it in the AAMT BOS either. Thanks!!
EX: I probed this area with a Q-tip and found that she, indeed, has a sinus tract/track leading to a cavity below the healed skin.
Call a lawyer ASAP!!
You can get advice from an attorney free for the first consultation--just make sure attorney specializes in land purchases and sales so you're given good info. You also need to go to your court house or whereever your land deed is recorded and find out what is required by the court for a legal sale of that land, get copies of everything pertaining to it, check on the taxes to make sure they are all paid or not. Lawyers do take payment plans. Don't wait on this one--if you don't want to be homeless. When it comes to greed and some families, they could treat you worse than strangers. You don't pay your house payment to them, do you? What could happen is if this is a majority party contract--meaning only a certain number of owners are required for the sale to go through--that would be on your note, they could then charge you land rent--an exorbitant amount--to make you move, so see a lawyer ASAP and take all documentation with you. Everything.
Good Luck. I am really sorry this is happening to you.
Help need ASAP on word board
In the midst of a long radiology/onc report.
Need help asap - Doctor dictated the following:
a sixteen one-thousandth split-thickness skin graft. How do you type it? Is it 0.0016-inch or 16/1000-inch or something else? HELP
Help with Instant Text ASAP
My Instant Text "unloaded" itself while I was working last night. I immediately tried to call support and e-mailed them, am still waiting to get ahold of them and the clock is ticking. I turned my computer off and on and it stil does the same thing. When I try to load the program, a box pops up saying it is loading glossaries and then the box disappears and Instant Text is not loaded. Should I uninstall and reinstall it? I have made copies of my glossaries to a floppy. Any ideas would be appreciated. I can't get into the program at all to see if I accidentally set something wrong.
HELP ASAP; C-phone programming
I am supposed to take a test using C-phone using following keys: play 4; pause 2; rewind 7 and fast-forward 4.
Anyone know how I can get the dictator to slow down? It would surely help me. TIA!!
I have a quick question - need help ASAP. sm
The company that I work for uses the iType program. I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and if so how it was taken care of. On some of the docs that I get to transcribe there is lots of static/cutting out (almost sounds as if there is a power shortage - that type of sound) in the dictation. It is mostly when the docs speak close to the recording device or if they speak loudly. I have tried different sound cards, adjusted speaker volume, tried different speakers and I still have this problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Even if it is a 2-week break? Need to know ASAP
My husband is switching jobs. Insurance was supposed to be covered through the month and now found it is until the 15th. I have MULTIPLE medical conditions, ones that the insurance we are changing to knows about because I cost them millions in the last few years. Please let me know. Our COBRA payment for 2-week coverage is $1,040 just for me. We are more than financially stapped right now.
Thanks, but I just bought one since I needed it ASAP.
Thanks anyhow ;-)
Bayscribe help needed ASAP! Is there a way
I can get directly back to a certain point in the text instead of having to relisten to the report again and try to find it? I need to make some corrections in this HUGE report and it's going to take forever unless there's a trick to finding the specific point on the report.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! 
PLEASE help ASAP - s/l "lammitails" during urologic surgery!
5x in one report - sounds like "lamby- tails" were placed in the bladder - moistened lamby-tails - looked under sponges, pads, tails, googled galore! Help!
Need help ASAP on drug board s/l olapectic
Dictator says what sounds like olapectic as a medication.
Please help asap.
HELP - Advice needed for my friend ASAP - sm
My friend and her boyfriend of 5 years recently obtained custody of the boyfriend's now 7-year old daughter. You talk about a handful of trouble, that's exactly what has been packaged into this mini sized monster child.
Bear with me because this will be quite lengthy. I will call the girl by her nickname, Tater.
Tater was 5 when my friend (S) and her boyfriend (D) started with the custody proceedings. Every time Tater would come for visitations, she was full of these wild stories that were quite alarming to S and D. She would come and tell them how her mom walks around the house naked all the time with all of these different boyfriends, how one of those boyfriends held a pillow over her (Tater) face one time, and how Tater and her baby brother were often left alone for hours at a time and sometimes overnight while her mom was out "getting drunk" with her boyfriends.
Naturally, S and D were really upset by these stories and so they got an attorney and really pushed for custody. They got custody in March 2005 and their life has been a living hell since she has come to live with them.
Less than a day or so after she moved in, she started telling them how one of her mom's boyfriends "did things to her" so S and D were once again in an emotional fit because they thought someone had molested Tater. They called a psychologist and the police. Had her evaluated, everything. Even had Tater talk to a detective that works child abuse cases. His findings and the psychologist's findings were the same. She had not been abused and, in fact, had a severe problem with delineating fact from fantasy.
Tater now sees the psychologist once per week. The goal of the treatment was originally to get Tater to understand the difference between telling stories and the truth, along with dealing with the fact that her mother now has absolutely no contact with her. It's been rough for S and D as well as Tater.
Things went well for a short time, then school started 3 weeks ago. Since starting school, S and D have been called to the school numerous times because Tater has either said that she couldn't do her homework because her daddy was "all drunk", that when S dropped her off at school she was "drinking wine from a bottle in the car" (it was green tea in a glass bottle,) and that they don't allow her to talk to her mother, which is not true. Her mother has supervised visitation but chooses to opt out.
She has told her aunt and uncle that S killed her cat on purpose when it was actually her aunt who accidentally ran over the cat but Tater didn't know that. She told one of the neighbors that her mommy had her (Tater) picture taken once and was in a naughty magazine because her mom got money for it and Tater would get it when she was old enough. OMG yet? Yeah! This kid is something else.
She also made a little boy cry in class by rudely saying how he was so stupid and slow during outloud reading time.
S and D have tried all of the things the psychologist have recommended, taking her toys, taking her TV, radio, making her write apologies and hand deliver them, and sit directly behind the bus driver (for even more trouble on the bus.)
She also missed the bus home purposely last week because she was going to go to a friend's house. Her grandmother had to come all the way into town (they live about 10 miles out) to get her. When D and S questioned her about what she was doing, she screamed at them that it was "HER LIFE" and she could do what she wanted if she felt like it. Remember folks, this kid turned 7 last month!
Now, a few minutes ago, S called me in tears. She got another call from the school because Tater had told some of the boys that another boy was threatening her and making her scared (which was a lie) so she wanted them to do something about it. These 3 little boys proceeded to gang up on the other boy and he was hurt. Not seriously but that he was hurt is bad enough. These 3 boys and Tater are now suspended. These are first graders and this is a very small town.
S and D are ready to snap. I don't know what else to tell her. The psychologist told S and D that she was afraid that Tater had multiple personality disorder but couldn't make that diagnosis on a definitive basis because, as of yet, there are no clear cut documented cases in children of this age. They usually don't start developing these tendencies until they are in their mid to late teens.
I have looked online for any kind of research or specialists that can deal with this but it's very difficult to find information even on pre-adolescents that are out of control.
I am asking for your help. If anyone knows of a professional or group that can help S and D with Tater, PLEASE post here ASAP. At this point, I'm very concerned about THEIR well being. This kid is a serious danger. There is much more but I think I have told you enough already. We are in Washington State too, just in case anyone has any ideas where to go for help.
Thank you so very much if any of you can help.
Oops. worth OF catch up and wants it ASAP.
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Need help ASAP - websites that are similar to WordPerfect for dummies.
Went from working soley in Word for last 8 years to WordPerfect 8. Last time I worked in WP it was dos. I need quick tips, time savers, keyboard commands, that sort of thing. Need to get my speed up. Thanks.
Help! Need New Method to transfer voice files asap
Voice files are now transferred from clinic I work for via email (unencrypted) and are then sent back via Winzip and email.
We need new method to be compliant, as well as to eliminate "many missing" files it seems when sending through email. Clinic now uses Olympus equipment and does not want to use email any longer. Checked into secure FTP site and will not work well with the Olympus system they have. Any suggestions on what to do here????
Need bridge policy ASAP. Where can I get it? Have SEVERAL pre-existing conditions and meds
Just one medication at full cost is half of the COBRA payment plus I have steroid and Botox injections scheduled. Need insurance. Can anybody tell me where I can obtain "bridge insurance" without going broke?
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