It looks similar to a telephone. You use it to dial
Posted By: me on 2008-10-17
In Reply to: What's a C-phone? - Looking at Other Jobs
directly into the hospital system (usually, can also dial into MTSO system). You have a foot pedal that controls the dictation. You complete a report, sign it off and then get another one. Unless you have an 800 # to dial into, you will need unlimited long distance and most companies that say they offer ULD have a 5000 minute limit, which may not cover you.
You can Google C-phone and find a picture and get more info.
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I am an ME/MT for MQ and am still on dial up. sm
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I'm on dial up also.
Stuck in the past.
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a Dictaphone system. The function keys will be a little different, if I remember right.
not dial-up
high-speed cable.
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I go after the small offices, not companies and they usually want their stuff delivered and don't care what kind of internet you have. I normally have my docs use a DVR but an office called me who still uses tapes. So, there are those docs who still do it the old fashioned way.
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You have to have somewhere for them to dial into.
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Don't be mad. You are definitey better off in the long run and probably will make up that connection fee and modem cost soon.
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I look but am limited because I only have dial-up - SO I look to see if I can -sm
find something that is a little better than I have now (.09/line without spaces)---would love to find a .09 a line (or .10 of course) that paid spaces had consistent dictators so I could get a good rhythm going. So I look a lot, but cannot apply to many since I don't have high speed internet. I could get satellite of course but many don't want you to have that, so I am kind of limited and always on the lookout for a MTSO that allows/uses dial-up.
I always wondered that as well - how do they know if you do/do not use dial-up?? (nm)
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I have the same problems (only have dial-up too) - sm
as for burn-out, try to take some time off, or cut back for a month if you can. I cut back in the summers generally because it is hard to work with my kids home even though they are pretty good at entertaining themselves. So my salary is in half right now, and I feel much less stressed and burned out. I have been majorly burnt the last few months, but this reprieve is actually helping me recharge and concentrate on typing smarter and faster as I have more time now to enter in shortcuts and macros and save/check addresses for correctness. Try looking locally for a small MTSO and see if they have any openings, etc. You will probably get better work and pay, and not feel so stressed and maybe not have to work as long. Good luck.
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Would you mind sharing names of companies that will take those of us who are doomed to dial up? We'd sure appreciate it. TIA
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Dial-up is my only option too
I'm in the same boat but I refused to go onto DQS/DEP after a disastrous experience trying to move over in 2004 - using dial-up. Some MTs have been able to make it work, I was not. It was a production nightmare. I was told by techs very clearly that DQS/DEP is not designed for dial-up and requires broad band (high speed) to be efficient. The company is keeping some dial-up accounts for those of us who this is our only option. I posted this before not long ago - there are plenty of accounts that ARE going to DEP/DQS and that is company goal (to have all accounts on DEP) but there are accounts being kept for dial-up only MTs. Check with your supervisor. My current dial-up account is moving over to DEP next month. I will have to transfer to another office in order to go to another dial-up account (that will NOT be moving over to DEP). I don't know the office because... I have a PS who does not respond to emails and phone calls, so I'm working on that aspect... Good luck.
I use dial-up at home.
I have an office with DSL 10 miles from here. At first I started loading files there and bringing some home at night. Then one day had had to download a file here and was surprised how well it worked out. Later I moved back home. As the other poster said, I download files when I am working on another, or when I am doing something else. Unless you have to dial into a system to work, I do not see how the MTSO can tell what you have. My MTSO did not know when I started doing my work at home. With dss files, there is really no real problem. A lot of my files are over 60 minutes in length. I do still occasionally work at my other office, and it is wonderful, I admit. The only real problem I have is when I have to Google something for my work, but even with that I will not give up working at home.
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