I've noticed that myself - if he said the oceans were blue, you'd all believe him
Posted By: txmt on 2005-11-03
In Reply to: This is what I think..... - Ling Ling
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I've noticed this, as well. sm
I have cats and dogs. Very expensive. Vets have so much more in their arsenal now to help animals with. The supposed reason for doing the twice a year blood tests on cats/dogs over 10 is that their conditions change so quickly at that age. We have discovered thyroid, diabetic, kidney, and arthritic conditions in our older pets that have been controlled or minimized with medications and/or special prescription diets and we have been able to improve the quality and length of our pets' lives. Not to mention heart conditions that can show up and need medication. It all depends on how much you can afford to spend. It is truly amazing all that can be done to help our pets these days. Dental care is important for pets as periodontal disease can lead to serious conditions elsewhere in their bodies, just like people. Twice a year seems a bit much though, unless the pet has a really bad dental condition. One thing I have stopped is vaccinations (other than state-mandated rabies) on a yearly basis for cats over the age of 10 that are indoor pets. They really don't need it after many years of vaccine buildup in their systems and it can be too much for the aging systems to take. Best to consult with vet about that option.
i've noticed it as well - nastiness... nm
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Yes, I've noticed that over the years...sm
With my dogs - how similar vet and human medicine are as far as the terms, meds, etc.
The vet I was talking to didn't seem to think it would be a problem for me to learn. She said, off the top of her head, that one difference is that they tend to call drugs by their generic name rather than brand name, and they use the terms ventral/dorsal rather than anterior/posterier. Just little things like that.
I've noticed the "dumbing down" of MT, myself. We
highest-quality documents possible, not only accurate, but also as grammatically correct as possible (without changing meaning or dictator's personal style), punctuation and ease of reading.
Now, thanks to software that can't import any punctuation other than periods and commas, and which wraps around on its own and makes the document you so carefully typed look like a 3-year-old did it, the reports look like cr@p.
Then QA gets in there and makes 'corrections', and suddenly words you spelled right are now spelled wrong, or in some cases missing altogether.
My line counts are low, too. It seems like lately, all the docs are dictating brief, bare-bones report 'skeletons', and then they say, 'The rest of the report is in the EMR' (which I suppose must be the gibberish, complete with wrong MR numbers, names and dates, that they entered into the record themselves during the office visit, all the while mostly ignoring the patient sitting there in a drafty hospital gown.
'McMEDICINE' at its worst.
I've noticed a lot of business owners
have their own way of doing things - sometimes too extreme for me. They either have done so long their way - they don't realize things have changed since they started - or they go by the BOS down to the letter - each and every single letter - and possibly your accounts have not followed that closely in the past - or they are just picky as all get out and have a huge ego and want to make you feel inferior. There is also the possibility you may be doing some things 'wrong' - but if you have been in the business for 20 years - cannot be that serious - and obviously you know what you are doing!! I have run into absolutely crazy things in the last year with different MTSOs.... you dont' even want to know!!
I've noticed that whenever I start to get dialed-in to a
certain account or specialty, and the line counts and pay start to increase a little so that I don't have to work 11-12 hour days in order to do '8 hours' worth of work, then suddenly the specialty or the doctors change, I'm sent something harder or of poorer quality, and then the pay goes back down again. I think what you feel isn't paranoia, I think it's real.
Your best bet is your local Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield company, depending on where you live
Here in Idaho, we have both companies but a lot of other states have BC/BS combined. Our family has a policy through Regence Blue Shield that is $196 for my husband and three kids. It has a $25 office copay and it is a limited policy, which is 12 office visits a year and lab up to $300. It works great for us because we never got to the doctor, yet we have it if we need it.
I have an individual policy for major medical, $35 office copay, with our local Blue Cross and it is $59 a month for me and it has prescription coverage too. Not a bad deal. I think they are your best bet for decent coverage at a good price.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield or Mutual of Omaha - Which company pays off claims the best w/o hassle?
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To Sad MT: I've noticed your moniker on a couple of boards. Why are you sad?
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Blue ?
 HELP. Has anybody heard of, or used a transcription platform called "Blue"..... (something...don't know what...). I heard somewhere(?) about this "Blue..." system and apparently it's supposed to be super ?!! Anybody have a clue?  . TY in advance.
Yes, I have the blue W and
I have typed a few reports using these steps and it does report, and no one is complaining about format so I guess it works. Thanks a bunch for your help.
I'd give anything for blue!
My carpeting is pink, not rose, but pink. Apparently the previous owners to the person we bought our house from also had a pink stove and pink refrigerator with horrid looking kitchen wallpaper with big pink roses on it.
If that's not bad enough my bathroom is purple. Lilacs on the wallpaper, purple tub, flush and sink. My daughter used to call it the "Barney bathroom."
Great neighborhood though. 
blue smiley
what do the sad looking blue smiley faces mean beside some of the threads?
The blue lines don't mean anything on the (sm)
digital tests. Please visit the site peeonastick.com for more info. That chick knows her pregnancy tests.
Did you try right clicking on the blue bar?
There should be a place to check for an address bar.
I'm planning on getting blue flu that week. nm
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The audience would be the blue states,
aka, the ones who voted for Kerry. I guarantee this movie will flop in the red states. It's just one more attempt to push the gay agenda down our throats, making it more mainstream and palatable. Won't happen in my state, Texas. There is no such thing as a gay cowboy, that's an oxymoron.
blue screen of death
I'm not sure if he went back to myspace a second time, I'll have to ask him. Thanks for all the help. I got it at Best Buy so I think I'll take it back there and see what they have to say also. I just don't want him away at college and have the darn thing crashing all the time. It's not like you can just keep buying new ones at that price!
It still happens, mostly in blue collar jobs,
jobs,too, but not as much. The employer tells them they are IC, but there are still many people out there who don't understand what that exactly means. All they see is the extra money on their paycheck and they figure they'll worry about the taxes later, or don't fully understand the implications of being IC and don't know what a 1099 is. Rack it up to immaturity or being naive, but it still happens. The IRS has cracked down in recent years and has it's criteria for IC status, which doesn't apply to everyone (look at real estate agents, who can only work for one broker, but yet be an IC). It is beneficial to the employer because it saves the employer money on the SS 'match', plus savings on work comp insurance, unemployment taxes, liability insurance. To me, being an IC means I don't have an employer - I have a customer and I must do the work they hired me to do or I will lose that customer to someone else.
And how do you know they weren't cussing up a blue
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I second that, Wild Blue works well (sm)
for me. Tried Hughes a few years back and it was awful but maybe they are improved now. Have had Wildblue for 2 years and it works pretty good.
I don’t think he would just out of the blue suggest the medicine
Probably you made mention of having had the cervical cancer and that is where the dialogue started, right? As far as the x-ray, think that is being overplayed with that and fertility. Loads of children, females included, have x-rays when younger and do not lose their ability to have children. You sound like you are stressed out, mentioning this and that, xrays, miscarriages, sterility, etc., etc.
Possibly Wild Blue?....sm
I don't live in Oregon, but am in rural western Washington. I know a few MTs who use Wild Blue and are happy with it, so that would be my only suggestion.
I did want to say that I have been using satellite for about three years now (a small local company), have been on no less than 4 different MT platforms, and never had any problems. Yes, satellite can be susceptible to extreme weather...but if you're in a rural area you're about as likely to have your power go out anyway in extreme weather!
Best of luck.
I like blue, too. I'd do the walls a light beige or tan.
Our house here was icky when we first moved in. Each room was a different color of pastel. The mottled blue/gray/white/brown carpet was nasty because they had cats and dogs that evidently must have been locked in the bedrooms while the adults went to work. The living room and hallway were blue-gray, the kitchen was yellow, laundry room peach, bathroom pink, and the bedrooms were lavendar, purple, and fuchsia. Of course, the walls matched the carpet that matched the curtains. Blechy. We painted everything just a plain off white before we moved in.
My parents never deviated from plain white walls when I was growing up. I'm just now learning to go wild with decorating. In fact, we just got the funds to do our addition today, so we're adding another bedroom, an office for me, and a second bathroom, and enlarging the kitchen and utility rooms. Fun, fun, fun, more household disruption for the next several months. I just can't wait for the end result.
Wild Blue satellite internet
Anybody currently using Wild Blue satellite internet? Any responses good or bad would be greatly appreciated.
The Forum Subject is missing in the blue box...
don't know what happened with my format. All forum subject is missing. Now, I can't switch from one subject to another without going back to home page 
Blue Cross only pays $25 towards exam. sm
They have coverage for glasses up to $100 (what progressive trifocals cost under $100?) Of course, my doc does not have the frames that come under the $100 program. Natch
In my pink rollers and sky blue jammies
Patch of Blue, Chinatown, Gone With the Wind (nm)
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I also use WIld Blue and have no problems. Both my jobs are FTP, though.
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GRAY TYPE MAKING ME BLUE
A gray type keeps showing up on documents I type in word. If I highlight the whole document the font and style boxes in the toolbar will say the same font and style for the whole document but there is still a gray text here and there. I think it might somehow be in an autotext I use. I even remove all formatting when I am done and then reformat it but it will still show up occasionally after that. It is driving me nuts. Has anyone ever heard of a glitch like this? I could try not using any autotext but I would lose way too much time.
I use EXText with my current job and I've used at a couple of other jobs I've had. I've ne
used DocQscribe, but I have used Meditech, Cerner, Vianeta, the Precyse platform (I can't remember the name), Dolbey, and Lanier platform I think was called Cequence (?).
Out of all the different platforms I have typed on, I have liked EXText the best. In my opinion, it's very user friendly, easy to learn, and I really like ESP which is the built in abbreviation expander. Plus it is very easy to create your own normals which I love. My fingers literally never leave the keyboard because there are macro keys for everything. You can use your mouse if you prefer or learn the function macros. I love it. I think I'm more productive on EXText than with any other platform.
I'd do a neutral sand/bone color because of the blue
Does the hand turn blue? Raynaud's comes to mind.
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I have Blue Cross through Webmedx. Office visits are $20. nm
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Mine are still on the left side in blue and still working. nm
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Links with blue background still on left side for me...
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12 x 10 light yellow walls, blue ceiling
Desk with hutch and pullout drawer and keyboard shelf, on top of desk and in hutch two transcription units, a clock so I can watch time fly (haha), lots of miscellaneous reference books, most outdated but can't give up, plus large filing cabing, small filing cabinet, two printer stands that match wooden desk and hutch, loaded with more important stuff (yeah, right), one of those organizing paper holders (two stacked on top of each other) with 16 slots for different clients' letterhead, a laser printer (HP of course! LOL), the dozen roses DH bought me for Valentines, dried and looking pretty in the vase, DH's desk and hutch, with his two printers, a shelving system with a bunch of candle and soapmaking supplies (mmm, it smells good in here!), and .... of course! .... my TV. Geez, I can't live without it!
How I got my links back (in the left, blue area!)
I went to Tools, Internet Options and deleted Files and Cookies (although I don't know as though this had anything to do with it as I have done this MANY times in the past). I then experimented with my Norton Antivirus. You must do this at YOUR OWN RISK! Down in the right-hand corner of my screen, I chose "Disable Norton Internet Security" which when I reloaded the Main page here (after I had gone and done the above steps in Tools) it didn't make a difference. So, then I went back down to Norton Internet Security and chose "Disable Antivirus Auto-Protect" and reloaded the main page here and BINGO I had the links all back! I then Enabled all my NAV I had disabled, reloaded the page again and everything is still there! So, if this happens again, at least now I know how to get it back.
I thought I would share this info as I know there are others out there that has experienced this same problem and I have done everything the administration has suggested and it did not resolve the issue. So, apparently it has to do with Norton and I am not clear why Norton Antivirus (I would expect it more to be an Norton Internet Security issue) but in any event I am elated it worked! I hope it will work for someone else as well - again at your own risk. :)
I hope this might help administration/moderators to help others as well in the future. :)
This just made my day! :D
Sandi
I see them all, too. Some people seem to be missing headings from the blue bar on the left. nm
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Soft Script just called me out of the blue looking for recruits...
I must have inquired about a position well over a year ago, and thank goodness it did not work out based on the archives. But, with no warning, no provocation, they called asking if I or anyone I knew needed an MT job. Hmmm, weird huh?
The usual green grass and blue sky that looks like the Teletubbies backdrop. :) nm
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Blue on the walls, textured olive green carpet,
hydrangea sculptured border, olive green curtains I designed and made, 2 office chairs to give the ol' back a break, desk placed just so in order to be able to look out 2 different windows, 1-3 cats who come and stay as they please, and 1 little dog who never leaves the office unless I do. There are also the necessary things like a bookcase, printer, backup computer, nik-nacks and paddy wacks.
I am so completely blessed cause I have all this AND get paid! Who wouda thunk??
It's a bus, not a truck load of nuclear waste. It's a blue collar job,
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Is anyone else missing the complete list in the blue box? Pages seem to be smaller, too. nm
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1967 blue metal flake mustang.... for my 16th BD from my dad... nm
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I use light blue - it matches my toolbar in MS Word 2003 nm
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Dilemma! Tomorrow is picture day and my 5 yo just went wild w/a jug of blue food coloring --
both hands and the entire lower half of his face are now bright, royal blue.. Will this wash off by morning???
Click on your Start icon, Programs, and the big blue W w/a box around it for Word will show up IF
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