I have a backwards speaking ESL today.
Posted By: Yoda reincarnate on 2005-07-28
In Reply to: I could be there too, if...sm - aarrghh!!!
He can't form a proper sentence. "Since discharge, for followup, the patient, two weeks ago, was seen yesterday." I wish it was a verbatim account.
Pepsi, desire you not. 
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To me, those posts sound a little pitiful, or as if the poster is too lazy to do any looking. Do you think companies see the ads and say to themselves, "Oh finally, somebody who is willing to work!" If they did, each employer would have to contact you to ask if you were interested in a job with each specific requirement, such as equipment, IC/employee, etc. Not very efficient, right?
sorry, I had that all backwards..lol...sm
Now that I've tried to understand your 2nd post, I believe these questions you have should be addressed with your supervisor over at the company. You will be working from home FOR them, so you need to get clarification about EXACTLY what they EXPECT from you. Hopefully, they will be flexible so that if you make your line count, if a line count is required, you can do the lines in the shortest amount of time. However, you need to know where THEY are coming from. They may want an 8-hour workday from you. Don't guesstimate would be my advice.
Good luck with them!!!
I think you have it backwards
the "laziness" that you describe is more likely due to demoralization with the constant take-aways from companies. I think someone would be foolish to enter this field now and there are those of us who are too old to change careers. I refuse to give the effort I gave when I had quality insurance, good line rate, incentives, etc.
You are backwards
If you use the same margins, gross is more than 65 cpl.
No, I'm not backwards.
When I went from gross to cpl, I checked the math and came out about even. As other posters have mentioned, the font and margins make the difference, which I failed to mention in my first post. I know that there are more than 65 characters in a gross line.
I think you went backwards
If you can do 60 minutes of dictation in 15 to 20 minutes I will crown you Queen of Dictation. If you do 1:1 you are fantastic and I usually do 2:1 and to me it is great and I do clinic and have had the same docs for 10 year. In 60 minutes you would get probably 700 to 900 lines if it was decent dictation and if you can do that in 20 minutes, my hat is off to you. I think you meant 15 to 20 minutes per 10 minute report or something line that which would mean 120 minutes for 60 minute tape. Hvae a good day.
Going about it backwards
I do VR and put my audio speed on the fastest I can go in order to make the salary I want. I never ever go through first and do a read through. You are slowing yourself down by doing this. Why not do as you go? My numbered lists are all out of wack but I change them 1 by 1, never just reading the entire report first. You can get the speed but don’t ambush yourself in the process.
ESL Dictators-I must be backwards
The more I do the same ESL's, the less I CAN do them. I don't mind doing them as it is challenging, but getting the same ones day after day seems to wear me down and I can't think clearly, so it takes longer for me to finish a report. It used to take me 15-20 minutes to finish a report for a certain doctor, but now it may take as long as 45 minutes! I don't make sense to myself. LOL
have no idea - but it is backwards
kind of to offshore.
How about USMTA just backwards from your first one (nm)
nm
Hey you made a typo. Why would you go backwards? Cause you don't like your job.
That's why people don't like editor. Read between the lines. This editor/poster feels it is going "backwards" to be an MT. I rest my case.
you have it backwards, if you don't go to the doc get a high deductible
having a high deductible will really cut down on your premiums. Say you rarely see the doctor and don't have prescriptions. An 80/20 plan with a $5000 deductible can run you as little as $59 a month, and that has a $500 out of pocket. I have Assurant Health (formerly Fortis), for myself and the kids. For $5000 family deductible we pay about $3000. So the most we will pay in a year is $8000. But at my husband's last job, we were supposed to pay all of the premium for family coverage and they would pay for his coverage. Premiums were going to be $9000. Add a $500 deductible to that and 20% which would probably run another $2000, and a catastrophic illness for one person would be $11,500. $11500 is a lot more than $8000, plus with the Assurant Health plan that is our FAMILY deductible. With the group plan, if one more person got sick, it started all over again with their own deductible. So you have to do the math. Individual coverage for all 4 of us will run us $5300/yr, that is, if they agree to insure my husband. If you have ANYTHING at all, individual insurance will not take you. So keep that in mind too. Insurance is the reason why somebody in the family should have a "real" job :)
Typing and backwards, what systems do you use?
NM
Shift - home will do it backwards to the beginning
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I so agree w/you. Look at what Google just did - bent over backwards to
wanting to catch porn sites.
Why does the US always have to be so darn politically correct. We are going to //politically correct//outselves right out of existence one of these days. Kiind of like that song that says you gotta stand for something or you won't mean anything. We need some boundaries here. *They* won't even let us have a common thread running through our nation anymore of having English-spoken-here to have us be a unified country. They have fractured us to the point where we DO STAND FOR NOTHING.
Read the report backwards from end to finish. Works great for me.
Press Ctrl+Shift+8 or click on the pilcrow on the toolbar (looks like a backwards P). nm
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Why would I go backwards? Simple thing is to fire the MTs whose quality is crappy. Weeded out abou
I get paid rather well, but I really should not have to do an MTs job. The point is I DON'T WANT TO TYPE!! Why would I want to be an MT and type ALLL THE TIME?
HELP with Shorthand. Suddenly today when I tried to start work today.sm
my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away! I checked and the Type It button is grayed out! I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies. Can anyone please help me ASAP? I am lost without it! TIA
Perhaps you are right. This one is dated today. The original article was on Yahoo today also with
But this article states it would only affect new customers right now. So I am upset over nothing. I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge. I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me. It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc. It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.
Blasted cold out today. It was 104 degrees last week, but it's 40 degrees today with rain.
However, I do like cozy days like today when I don't have to go anywhere. I'm done working, the house is clean, there's chili on the stove for dinner already, and I'm just putzing around. I think I'll go bake some jalapeno cheese bread to go with the chili.
speaking as the mom of a 15 YOD
 TELL THEM!!! This is way too dangerous...tell them pronto! They will thank you and you will be able to sleep at night!
TELL THEM!
Speaking of which...
Great - not only does this guy have a thick accent, he mumbles, not to mention all the coughing in my ear he is doing. I'm only halfway through and have about 20 blanks. Hopefully the second time through will be a little better. Oh, and it's about 15 minutes long. Looks like a three or four time proof to me :-(
If you are speaking to me...sm
I didn't say I am THE BEST, I believe I said I am quite good, because I am. Happily, there is still room to grow and learn for me. It is not yet as good as it will get.
What makes me the "tops" if you will, is that I am willing to share what I know. I am happy to take the time to help ANY OTHER MT who wants to learn. I know a fair amount about Expanders and I share that. I give away my glossary to anyone who asks me for it. Newer MTs who take me up on my offer of help thank me and tell me that they come to MTStars because they don't know where else to turn. Often they are greeted by nastiness and rudeness!
Speaking of which...
...since settlement of the suit, has anyone been contacted by AHDI to see how they want to receive their pittance in '' benefits'' from the settlement? Or are we supposed to chase them down and demand it? I really have no intention of pursuing this, but wondering how they are supposed to be distributed.
Speaking of Aruba....
You are EXACTLY right. Good post. We're both going to be crucified for this.
Speaking to yourself? Because I'm not leaving here ... :)
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Speaking of Nike/Just do it
 I heard on some news channel doing a flash back thingie, that a young woman athelete is the one who actually created the Nike Swoosh logo...sold her swoosh sketch to Nike years ago for get this..........35.00, period! All rights, etc. Must not have had any advise or she'd be rolling in the $$$ for the rest of her life
Speaking of trailers, what exactly does
Eminem mean when he says, "Two trailer park girls go around the outside." Not even Whitetrash.net had an explanation.
Speaking of information...
I just called the phone company to move some old lines off my property from when I used to have three phone lines here to work. The lines really hang down low, so it's a safety issue. The guy gives me the third degree saying that I have to answer his "CI information". He asks me if I'm married, if I'm employed, where I work, for a relative's phone number, and all sorts of stuff. I asked him what he needed to know this for since I pay my account in full every month, so he tells me it's for the 9-1-1 system. Why would they need to know all of this? He never did set up the service call or tell me if there would be a charge. Most companies only update information if they think they're going to need to put legal action against someone for not paying a bill. Mine's paid!
Speaking of MedQuist
I got a check today for $114.60 and I haven't worked for them in over 2 years. Well, I do appreciate the check. LOL
Maybe it's just the thought of it. Not speaking for
I walked into the lab to have my blood drawn and the phlebotomist set a glass of wine down and said I'll be right with you. I'd even feel the same way if I went into the dry cleaners and the woman at the pressing machine had a glass of wine next to her. It's all in the perception, I guess. My perception is that if there was nothing wrong with it, even if it's just 1 glass of wine...or a half a glass of wine for that matter...if it was a perfectly acceptable standard to drink a glass of wine while working, you'd see it in work places everywhere. The standard shouldn't be any different just because we work at home.
Speaking as MTSO...
As MTSO and having 20+ girls who work for me, here is my slant: I never give out more work to my MTs on a Friday than can actually be DONE on Friday. I would spread it around before I would make someone work a weekend. Now occasionally -- every few months -- there might be some weekend work, but that is unusual, and I always ask who wants it and who does not. Note, none of my clients work weekends either -- all private practices M-F. You did 1000 lines -- at your skill level, that is a full day for you. If she ended up doing "most of it", then she is not fully staffed enough to cover her clients. Not your problem. Unfortunately, they probably scream at her.... so she uses you as excuse and screams at you. Still not your problem. I would much rather have my MTs tell me "I don't do weekends" right up front -- then I can plan around that. You should do same -- then there won't be problems in future. Hang in there!
Speaking of Yeehaw
If you don't think docs think "Yeehaw off to the bank I go!" think again. Consider their three week yearly cruises on the finest ships to Europe, complete with stateroom and balcony, jetting off here and there both personally and professionally, waterfront homes, Lexus, boats, mama's daily shopping trips, junior's tuition to Harvard and juniorette's tuition to Brown. I say the MT should say Yeehaw. She works hard, like the doctor, so they both deserve it.
Speaking as an MTSO
All I can say is the work has to be done some how, some way. Do you realize that there may be a $ penalty involved if the work is late? If the work is not on the medical record it may impact patient care? What gripes me is many complain that we are sending work out of the country. Those out of the country do not complain about the workload and are willing to go the extra mile even if it includes working on the weekend. People are sick on the weekends too. That is the nature of healthcare. Documentation of medical records does not depend on how much time you want to spend with your family on Saturday and Sunday. If your family member came into the emergency room on a Saturday would you not want their medical record to be available for healthcare professionals in a timely fashion? What if the doctors and nurses decided they wanted to be off with their families every weekend instead of taking care of you or a loved one? Please look at the big picture here.
Speaking too fast
Wake up call -- they speak too fast so they can blame you for any mistakes. The same with those who write poorly - "That's not what I said." Another reason is they are too cheap to take the time to speak slowly, have to keep making those $$$. It's all about the money - not the patient. It also gives them a sense of "power" over you. You'll catch on. 
Speaking of bonuses...
We were getting $3 extra per rad report when out of TAT, but now it is 25 cents. Talk about going from filet mignon 2 horse meat! 
Speaking of Survivor.
Anyone every applied before or know someone who has, my Niece is trying to get on and is going for an open audition this coming Friday, any advice?
speaking of carrotts
Instead of steaming them, roast them in the oven:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Spread carrotts in one layer on a baking sheet--make sure it has edges
Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper; coat well
Bake 35-45 minutes until carrotts are tender...they come out sooo very sweet and delicious,much more flavorful than steaming and still healthy! 
Speaking from experience (sm)
Save yourself the headache and heartache by not thinking of getting help from your siblings. We went through this with the illness and death of my mother and if I had it to do over again, I would not have contacted half of the ones I did to try to get help. It was awful. I severely disliked several of them because of it. I would get so angry because they weren't helping a woman who brought them into this world. The excuse I always heard "I have to work. I don't want to take off vacation days. I can't leave so and so at the office by herself if I take off; she'll have to do it all herself." Oh, that list could go on!!!! I finally took wise advice from a friend who said to quit asking them for help and just plan on going it myself. It made a huge difference!! There was no more stress of me worrying about their next excuse or worrying whether this was going to get done or not. All that mattered to me, mom needed care, health care, and if I had to be the one to do it, with a few others in the family, then so be it.
The rest of your family will never get it, so sorry to say. It will save you headache and heartache but not depending on them and trying to figure out WHY they don't get it. You could spend your whole life wondering and still never figure it out.
So sorry you're stressing like this.
Speaking of Elliot.....
Have you heard he was at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel taking pictures and Nicki Hilton had security stop him! Those Hilton girls are just pure white trash who happen to have money - I don't know who they think they are!
Speaking of Nip Tuck, anyone know when
Can't wait!
Speaking from experience...sm
If it doesn't directly concern you or effect YOUR job, stay out of it. Everytime I have ever done what I "felt" was the right thing when it didn't concern me, it backfired. If the policy is that strict and there are only the 4 of you, this MT will be busted eventually. Someone earlier mentioned that "if" you have a good MTSO, they will do or say the client contacted them or handle it to where you won't be effected. No one knows what what your MTSO will do, good or bad. Even if this MT does have a private agreement with the client, the key word is private.
I've been in similar situations and you will end up having someone mad at you no matter what you do. If she does get busted I would plead the 5th as to even having any knowledge of it. Just keep transcribing.
Just curious, do you work at home?
Good luck! Keep us posted.
Speaking from someone who has never had such hardship, huh?
By the way, I do not complain about my line counts. From what I can remember, I've NEVER made a post ever about such. I am complaining loudly because most of what you say stinks, period...and I do get my line counts done, every day. I do have a paycheck I am happy with. Yet, you stated that I proved your point that all of us are not professionals and could not make it in a job outside of the house because I chose this profession to stay home. You assume so much about me and others, yet know nothing...only assume.
Speaking of wireless
Do any of you use a laptop to be able to work while on "vacation". I realize that most people don't work when on vacation - but I am wondering if MTs are doing this. If so - how does this work? I'm thinking of buying a laptop to be more mobile and want to know what I need in order to work this way (what I need to hook up the wavpedal, etc.) Could anyone who does this recommend a particular computer brand and model?
GENERALLY speaking
first shift is 7 AM to 3 PM
second is 3 PM to 11 PM
third is 11 PM to 7 AM
this is general - it may be +/- an hour or two.
shift differential would probably be based on company policy.
naturally speaking 8
If anyone can help me. I am working for a Dr. that uses naturally speaking pro 8. I have downloaded the main disc onto my computer, but it will not let me access his files. If anyone can help with getting this set up, I would really appreciate the help. Supposedly, I am supposed to be able to open his files with my pc. Thanks for any help I can get!!
Sharon
speaking of laptops
how do you sit outside when you need a foot pedal?? laptop knowledge is sort of new to me also. Thanks!!
Dragon Speaking
I am totally baffled at how "you" can use Dragon Speaking when it is the doctor's voice that you are using. How can you do that? How can you edit someone else's voice? I have been wondering how this works for a while, so figured this is a good time to ask. TIA
I think the original was speaking of VR as
she was told to use her function keys instead of the mouse and starting on VR I was also told that but just thought would take more time than worth.
Speaking of AutoCorrect....
I had a client where I used my regular Word, so I have all my medical shortcuts in there. I no longer have that client but I use Word for other things. I know how to save my custom AutoCorrect, but how do I restore the original AutoCorrect?
If I move my custom one to the C drive for storage, will Word automatically use the default one?
Thanks!
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