My calendar says it's repeat the same sentence over-n-over day

• Is this National Mumble Day? - yahoo
  • I'm on rad today, and I did get a bad - Cindy
  • My WORST nightmare is broken English docs mumblingrealfast with food/gum in their mouths - and I do - chrissybaby
  • It was actually "see how far away I can get from the mike... - Yeah, me too
  • Nat'l. Crying-Babies & Leaf-Blowers Outside The Window Day! - San Francisco - nm
  • National Let me helpp you oout and missspelll all the wordds todday! nm - medtype
  • No, No, NO! - AnnieM!AnnieM!
    • thanks:) - JanSetzmt
      • Me, too! What a hoot! nm - Diana
  • oh my - tired MTinOH
  • It's National Doctor Get Up Real Early in the - Morning and Dictate!
  • Nope, it's test the transcriptionist day! - D
  • No, acutally it is have the phone ringing - Lady
  • OMG, this is the funniest post.... - EVER!! nm
  • My calendar says it's repeat the same sentence over-n-over day - Looking
  • I thought it was National Eat While You Dictate Day! - Smack, smack, smack. nm
  • I believe it is Talk As Fast As You Can Day sm - mlstoo
  • National l - o - n - g p - a - u - s - e day and changeyourmindrealfast nm - Okie MT
  • It's National Stutter Day for me! Lots of uh, uh, uh. - nm

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I always give homemade food, chex mix plus cookies or muffins, vary each year.  But I also have friends who publish calendars (local scenic pictures) and I have several made up with my name on it and put in one of those, that way they have my number handy, etc.     All is deductible off your business as expenses and advertising.   They all look forward to it every year.  Did not do the calendar and received some flack about it the year I skipped so went back to it.

Link below. You can make it semi-transparent so that you can have a nice wallpaper background. It is ALWAYS there and you can set it to show as many as 9 weeks at a time.

They have a free 30-day trial and after that it costs $30, but I think it's worth every penny.

I'm looking for something that works similar to the calendar feature in Outlook.  I want to input appointments and reminders and have a little pop box come up to remind the day before. 

Any suggestions for a good program?

It is NOT illegal to collect Social Security OR disability and still work.....I was just trying to find out how I could work and not make over the $900 a month I was allowed to earn. What is WRONG with you people?????

what a few other people have said.  You must prepare yourself in order to be successful in getting an at-home job.  You must have a headset, a pedal and books already.  How are you taking tests with no books?

You must also own a Book of Style if you are trying to get a job at one of the national companies.  You must know it before you test.

You must KNOW that you are going to be able to type at least 1200 lines per day and that DOES NOT include headers/footers and sometimes even spaces.  Do you know whether your current line count includes those?

You must be prepared, if you have this many years of experience, to put out your 1200 lines per day within a week or so.  If you are angry about something and your response is to drop your line count to 600 at a service, their answer to you will be see you later, have a nice life.

To be crying at work and not speaking to your manager is not a good thing, but you also should know that working from home is no cup of tea.  You will receive email with feedback you may not like, calls or email from an account supervisor that contain things that make you upset.  How will you handle that?

The element of control!

You got it, they don't.

The service (or client, if you call directly into it) has just so many lines and connections available. How will a service stay in business if they have 500 MTs and all of them want to work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.? So, they give the element of control to you ... "which time slot would you like to work?" There's nothing that says you can't bargain with them. I know you can, 'cause I have. I've had a problem with insomnia for years, so I'll work 2-3 hours until 5 -6 a.m. and then I go back to sleep for a while. When I get up again, I'll return to work for the rest of "the work day." That's one of the things I bring to the table. If the MTSO wants you badly enough, they'll negotiate on the times. If they won't, you don't work for them. You have the element of control.

As far as not knowing the law ... well, there's a very specific reason why you're told up front if you'll be an IC or not. And if you don't know what an "IC" is, you need to find out. If it applies to working and you get paid, go to the www.irs.gov website. No disrespect intended, but not doing that is as foolhearted (sp?) as taking a medication without knowing the side effects.

My temperament is such that there are some things I'm not willing to do. Work YOUR schedule (not you, personally) is one of them. I also won't work outside the home or learn a platform (i.e. DocScribe) ... no system is telling me how many lines I transcribed. That alone restricts my options of who I can work for. But, it's a risk I'm willing to take. So far, I've been lucky.

The bottom line is ... know what's expected of you BEFORE you apply for a job. But, don't apply for a position and when you're told that XYZ is "required," say "that's illegal by IRS laws." I've already been through it, and I'll tell you what the IRS told me:  "If you have the element of control, you're an IC."

And for the record ... an IC sets the line rate, not the service. They also determine the manner in which lines are counted (i.e. Sylcount, Abacus). People need to keep that in mind the next time they applying for a position.

first time. 

LOL...this IS fun

nm

They have to show something to justify their paycheck.  Remember, for lack of a better way to phrase it right now, they're actually paid to find fault.  If every MT turned in 100% perfect work (and you know they're not going to let that happen)...well, they'd just be out of a job.  So the nitpicking continues.  Turn in exemplary work, and they will find something wrong with it....do it their way, and tomorrow they'll like it better the way you had it the first time.  For that reason, I avoid them like the plague, since I'm off QA.  But recently I had occasion to e-mail QA regarding a STAT report I had sent in (required on the account for all STATs), stating only that it was a STAT report and that I had completed it.  I received a dolled-up e-mail correction of where she thought a hyphen should not have been placed (where it was specifically dictated, no less).  I e-mailed her back that this was not the reason I had contacted her in the first place...just to nitpick my work. 

When they first did this to me, I thought I was imaging things...but as other MTs came forward, I got even more angry.  All the (unpaid and unjustified) time I wasted on the back-and-forth nonsense that they were getting paid for, and all just so they could have something to show..see Ma, I'm earning my oats!

She is a 66year-old white female who recently transferred to our practice with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, who I refer to you at this time for further evaluation of anemia

She is a 66-year-old female who has recently transferred to our practice with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and hyyperlipidemia and is being referred to you at this time for further evaluation of anemia.

This is only what I would do -

1.  use a semicolon to preceded "80%" ... or ...
2.  write out 80%:  Eighty percent

I think either one would be acceptable. But, again, a lot of it has to do with my own personal preference.

I made the switch to 1 space after a sentence more than 15 years ago when I got my first computer and everything was justified. If you can't remember to do, you can make an adjustment in Word to do it automatically for you or just make a macro to do it for you. I have one account who insists on 2 spaces and I cannot remember to do that so I just transcribe as I normally do and then run a macro to change it. You can also do a search and replace. Put in  period space space and then replace with period space.

Barbara

>>>He indicated that at the beginning of the year he complained of health problems recently but has gotten better."  C'mon doc, which one is it?????

Type this:  He indicated that at the beginning of the year he complained of health problems, BUT recently HE has gotten better.

What a difference two little words make.

...when I left MQ. 

This is to let you know that ----- will be my last day of employment with MQ. 

I know my PS also knew why I was leaving and there was no need to elaborate further, like I would have liked to, and possibly blown up a bridge or two.  I got to tell everything to the person that conducted my exit interview, but what they did with that info, I have no idea.

Good luck!