No, there are a bunch of studies out there indicating that

• PA dictates patient drinks "a gallon" of liquor a day. - can this be right?
  • I bet its right, did a report the other day of a guy who drank a case of beer - sm - every day
  • That is truly disgusting. nm - anon
    • What gets me is they do this to themselves then go to the - yep
      • Guess you do not believe that it is a disease, huh? - Hmmm
        • I don't believe it starts as a disease. I - just passing by
          • There isn't a disease that causes someone to take that first drink, first - yep
            • Yes-- I totally agree! - nm
            • Well, unfortunately they do not have a test that you can take prior to the first - Bosco
              • I'm not saying that some innocent people don't - me
              • Apology for the typos and grammar. P.S. There is no "cure" but ways of coping. (sm) - Bosco
              • Well said, and congrats on your 12 years! NM - TM
            • Yea like type 2 diabetes. Do not come crying to me - about gangrene. n/m
          • On another note, it is proven that - TM
            • Yahoo jee kidhar ja rahey ho - Abdul Ghani
              • Okay??? - TM
            • on another note - typnqueenbee
            • Addictions - MTness
              • Well said. Like you said, it doesn't - TM
  • that's a lot of booze in a day. My husband - just passing by
    • My DH drinks 8-12 light beers a day, though he is trying to cut back - sm - XXX
    • One drink a day it too much. I hope he has some - yep
      • I agree. One drink a day is too much because it just - just passing by
      • No, there are a bunch of studies out there indicating that - medical community disagrees
        • My gma is 87 years old and drinks a beer a day... - D
          • My Grandma was 98 years old, smoked like a chimney, drank vodka - I agree
    • My family's not into hard liquor. Beer on one side and wine on the other. - functional
  • Yep, had a distant relative going through some depressed times and did just that - Jack Daniels, I believe
    • Holy Cow, a gallon of Jack Daniels? I had a whole juice glass once sm - justme2
      • gallon a day sm - Mistakes do happen

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I've been wondering, on an average 8 hour day....how many reports do you get done? I'm not really talking very specialized reports, just MRIs, X-rays, US, CTs.

I've been doing rads for a little while now but still can't get a solid idea of how many I should be doing. Every once in a while I'll get a 3-5 min nuke med report but overall most of the reports are about 1-2 min (or less) with great dictators.  When I ask my lead, she just tells me "as many as I can."

I'm the kind of person that can't just trot along....I need to have a goal of some sort and the other MTs on this account don't want to share their stats (greedy, I think, since I know they make more than I do and they don't want me "taking" any work from them even though there's more than enough to go around).

Summa cum laude, thank you very much.

Long, complicated story. Basically, I'm a clinical year short of a Clinical Laboratory Science degree, but I won't go back and pursue it barring losing my husband. Also, if I'd have thought more carefully when I switched out of the CLS program, I was only 3 or 4 classes short of a B.A. in psychology. Oh, well. What I ended up with is essentially a liberal arts degree with lots and lots of science classes and lots of psychology classes and a smattering of language studies.

Like some of the other posters, my ultimate goal is to get into P.A. school once my youngest kiddos are school age. I think I'm too old for med school now, but it raises my hopes to see the post below. Being a transcriptionist pays the bills, but some days I do kinda get upset with myself. Here I am doing the same thing I went to school not to do any more. Sigh...

MTing is not bad, but I just don't get enough people contact, and it certainly doesn't have a lot of money or prestige associated with it. Sigh.. again. Ah, well. It works for my family right now.

So I can make the kind of living I was used to with less headaches and be able to do some traveling with my work.

Also will be able to buy a bigger house!!!

taking place concerning this relatively new medication.  Below is a single example of Fosamax prescribing from the "norm."  If I were typing that report, I would type it verbatim and not flag/question the physician's dictation.

                                            FOSAMAX DOSING

The prevention dose is 5 mg daily, the treatment dose is 10 mg daily. Alendronate should be continued indefinitely. Although discontinuation of the alendronate does not result in the rapid bone loss seen with HRT discontinuation, a gradual decline does occur, so some maintenance therapy should be utilized. The dosing may be modified once optimal bone mass is restored.  One could then consider the 10 mg dose to the 5 mg prevention dose daily, or perhaps to 10 mg every other day.  A once weekly dose of 70 mg or a twice-weekly dose of 35 mg is presently being evaluated as an alternative-dosing regimen but has not yet been approved. (Study results pending).

Source:  Preventing and Managing Osteoporosis

Sarah Hall Gueldner; M. Susan Burke, Helen Smiciklas-Wright – Editors

Springer Publishing Company 536 Broadway New York, NY  10012

Found this excellent resource for ops - sharing with all.

nm

of  paranoid nuts?  Now become someone uses grammar syntax that is a little "out of the norm" we accuse them of being ILPs and try to run them off?

:::FLAME ALERT AHEAD:::

Instead of being paranoid and worrying about how other people spell stuff or don't spell stuff, maybe we could get better at what we do (because the ILPs are not the only ones who turn in crap) and concentrate on that instead of attacking anonymous posters on a message board.

The attitude on this board is so completely disturbing to me it's not even funny.  If someone posts something that others don't like they're pounced like by a pack of rabid wolves.

Flame away.  I have coffee and a session with my elliptical machine in my immediate future.

I'm saying the way things are right now in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would not surprise me that the armed services priorities are to place people there.  This is my opinion.  I also know people that have received a wonderful education in the military and continue to do so. I fully support our troops although they were lured there under "false pretense."  It is this "false pretense" that continues today.  Maybe delusional wasn't the proper word and I apologize.  As far as me being delusional - what is the latest body count? 

Try putting in Rolland, Diana for the author.  I found many just now after reading your post. 

You can also try Googling for it but I like ABE's prices and have never gotten a bad deal from them.

...by those of us that have been members of the competition's board for years now. It was going to be a big vacation meet up, maybe on someone's ranch or at a spa type of place. Very hard to plan details like that when the group is big, though. I don't think that it ever got off the ground. I didn't pay much attention to the details as I didn't plan on going. It may have been successfully done for other sections of the country like the northwest or some of the central states, etc., but I didn't follow up on that.

Local groups of people meeting up for lunch or dinner can be a fun time, though, if you live close enough. Just spread the word for a meet up in your area and see what kind of replies you get. Might want to start an invite like that on the State boards, though. Good luck to those that attempt a face-to-face! NM