If you didn't follow the current BOS style "rules" etc. that's where you might have fail

• I'm a failure!!! - Jodi
  • Failiure? - sme
  • Did you learn - Dee
  • I have 20 years' experience. I once took a test for - me
  • You're not a failure! Those tests are brutal! - omt
    • I recently tested for Mxsecure - rough dictations.
    • that is so funny because - sm - me too
      • Sort of like passing your driving test and knowing. . . - omt
  • test - J.R.
  • I just went through a similar experience. - anon
    • I thought spelling out 1-9 has always sm - long time MQr
      • Number 1 through 9 - anon
        • It's the AAMT new BOS rule on numbers. - keeping us on our toes.
          • Good grief, back to the future. nm - Becky
  • If you didn't follow the current BOS style "rules" etc. that's where you might have fail - let 'em get you down! nm
  • What company test did you fail? - sm - MT+10
    • It was the mttest. - Jodi
      • I think it's a good, thorough test, myself. - sm
        • That mttest website is terrible. Companies that use that test in my opinion - Experienced MT
      • The mttest - Dee
      • That is probably what it was - sm - MT+10
        • Thanks Everybody! - Jodi

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I have a Master's in English, work for a major, well-known medical publisher, and I will put out a book that will keep both the dictators and MTs happy by, as the above poster mentioned, following traditional rules of grammar and punctuation...and one that doesn't change just to enable publishing another edition!

How does that sound? 

E-mail me as well, and we'll do this!

if you try to start an MT business right out of school.  Unfortunately, people take the college courses for MT just to find out that most employers do require experience.  There are companies that do hire newbies, but one must have attended an "approved" school.  It's not too late for you though.  I see you as having 3 options:

1. You attend an "approved" MT course/start over with schooling.

2. You apply everywhere, check your newspaper, keep looking.

3. You attempt to start up your own business and learn as you go, although I highly don't recommend this route. 

Good luck!

x

cutsey seeds and lose a job. 

The thing with the suntan lotion is wow.  I saw some of that lotion at the suntanning salon I go to.  What I can't figure out is why put hemp in tanning bed lotions anyway?

the market will pay whatever the market will bear. You say "if all IC's set their pay scale like they should have in the beginning, the MTSO's would have to pay it in order to get their work done and would have to charge their clients enough to cover the costs." What you don't understand is that MTSO's don't set their pay scale either. The physicians decide what they are willing to pay and if you can't bid into that range, you don't get the work. When India came in to the picture, the entire pay scale dropped. Therefore, MTSO's must charge less if they want the work. Therefore IC's must accept less if THEY want the work... and so on down the food chain.

I've been working at home as an employee for over a year - using a style that was provided by the employer - now I have received a message that the style is switching to AAMT styleguide which is different from what I have been doing.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Just wondering why anyone would change midstream.  This is an old account and I don't know if there were complaints or if the style is being dictated by the company or the physicians - who don't really use any kind of style - we just try to make it uniform. 

I've been typing for the same clinic for the past seven years.  Our policy is to make all sentenses as complete as possible to make for better reading.  

I'm going to test tomorrow for a part-time job with another company.  My question is, do I type it like the doctor says it or do i make complete sentenses?

Example:

Doc says "patient has CLL."

I usually would type "The patient has chronic lymphocytic leukemia."

is a pollen allergy treated the same as a drug allergy, caps and bold?

The cardiologists I have worked with over the years preferred Roman Numerals for murmurs, however, all that changed when The Book of Style came out indicating to record murmurs with numbers not Roman Numerals.  I even had a few cardiologists state, put the murmur in Roman Numerals.

My BOS is at home and I'm at work.  If the doctor says 15.6 thousand and then says increased to 18 thousand which way is correct?

15.6 and 18,000?

15.6 thousand and 18,000?

or 15,600 and 18,000?

When she came home from school , bussing it I would not allow her to go to her room and nap.  She was exhausted from the night before. I told her you are not going to stay on the phone until 1:30 and then sleep and then do the same thing over again. I took the cell phone away for a while and told her she can use the house phone and the phone better not ring after 9 p.m and she is off at 10 p.m.   Kids are tricky though.  I am going to take the portable phone to my bed room at night.   In the middle of the night my other daughter use to take the phone in her room.  Her boyfriend has no rules or curfews and this is part of the problem.  He told her that his mom feels bad that they are divorced so she gives into him.  Until now she respected our wishes.  She is a great , smart and talented kid.  This is the first time I really has disrespect from her.   

Thanks again