Oh yeah, try it on top of eggs...yum.

• How about a "What's for Breakfast" Post? - Mmmmmm good
  • Health shake s/m - bk
  • Slimfast - MTMommy
  • Usually I just have coffee. Sometimes I'll have oatmeal. Today, DH is cooking again! - spoiled DW
  • Apple & cinnamon oatmeal and water 8-) nm - Just a regular girl
  • Coffee and a big cup of ice water so far...nm - Jeri
  • Leftover chili, mango soda and coffe. - breakfest of champeeens! n/m
    • chili!!? lol nm - me
      • I would blame it on too many years of night shift, but I have done it - forever! n/m
      • Oh yeah, try it on top of eggs...yum. - not OP and no message
      • You think that's bad? I had cold - split pea soup YUM! ;-) nm
        • mmmm.. it was cold chili too. - now want cold pizza. n/m
          • Mmmmmmmmmmmm..cold pizza - no message
  • blueberry muffin and juice - memt
  • PB on multigrain toast and a plum after walking the pooch. nm - passing thru
  • Tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwich. - my favorite for winter

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Flexibility is the "key" in this profession, and also you have the type of job that not just anyone can do and be good at it.  Schools promise you the world, but they do in all professions.  Life is what you make of it, and that is the true bottom line!  Have fun, and keep typing!  There are so many doctors that like to have a Transcriptionist they can rely on.  Most offices decide once they send it out, to bring it back actually because they don't want to edit their own work!  We spoil them, not the EMRs, and believe me they like that!

well, my chicken's eggs really.  Although now that I rethink that, perhaps selling various pieces parts would pay a few more bills....hmmm....

Seasonal things make good spare cash too like an honor-system veggie table  parked at the end of the driveway and homemade wreaths and x-mas centerpieces made from local greenery. 

Oh the possibilities are endless if you posess a certain moral flexibility!   I've been thinking of rigging up a pay-per-view "boobie cam" pointed my way to make some extra cash while I type away.  "PayPal Accepted!"   

Hi,

I need help as I don't want to make anyone sick LOL.  Baby shower tomorrow night, my co-host who was making the deviled eggs along with other things broke her wrist this morning...soooo, I am in a time crunch and would like to know if I can make these things tonight (36), just boil them tonight, maybe do the prep just fill them tomorrow??  I usually make them & take them or serve them, but don't know about preparing them this 24 hrs ahead of time.

Thank any of you experts in advance for your opinions..this is so much easier than trying to call Betty Crocker

I understand where you're coming from.  The respect is just not there anymore.  Everyone in this business has heard for years about how voice recognition and EMRs are going to replace us all, which I just don't buy.  I work for a national on a difficult account with many ESLs, and it generates lots of work.  Every summer we have problems keeping up with turnaround but the management has yet to come up with a solution that actually works consistently.  I suspect it's a combination of MTs having kids home from school during the day now, vacations being taken, and people not working their schedules,  but most of all I think it's just plain burnout - we deserve to enjoy the summer too.  Last summer I worked so much to the point that I think I did substantial damage, and my body just cannot take it anymore (been at it for about 20 years, the last 10 years of it steady).  The powers that be fail to understand that we are not machines! 

Uh-huh

That makes complete sense (not).

It's called MT stars, as in medical transcription, so post regarding medical transcription - as in the profession......understand that?

You want Regis and whatsername?  Post on that board.

You want Romper Room?  They have their board, too......   Get the message honey bun?

Account instruction#1 says bold and CAPITALIZE allergies, list medications in number form regardless of what dictator says. Do NOT abbreviate in HPI, but you can abbreviate in Assessment if the doc does.  Don't use degree sign unless doctor dictates it.  List assessment in number form, even if there's only one item.

Account instruction #2 says bold headings but never bold or capitalize allergies.  Only expand abbreviations in Assessment but nowhere else in document.  Be sure to use degree sign when typing temperatures.  If there is more than one item in the assessment, use number form in listing them.

Account instruction #3 says never bold or capitalize allergies, don't abbreviate anything.  Never number medications, even if dictated by physician.  Can use the degree symbol if Drs. A, B, and C dictate such.  If Dr. D dictates patient's name in body of report and uses words that don't exist in the English language, be sure to type what he says since it's a verbatim account, and he complains all the  time that he doesn't want his report to sound so *formal* by using *the patient* instead of the name.   For all other reports, use *the patient.*  If Dr. E dictates the patient's sister, Sara, do NOT use the name Sara and just type *the patient's sister," regardless of what he really says. Dr. F might not dictated a numbered assessment list, but that's what he means.  Dr. G prefers to see the text of H&Ps on the same line as the heading, but on his consults, he thinks it looks better if there's a hard return, with the text starting on the next line.

As an Editor for multiple accounts, are you sure that YOU'RE paying attention to all the little idiosyncrasies contained in the sometimes 20-30 PAGES of account instructions for any given account? If so, I doubt you would find it so easy.

live in Bush's world.  Must be nice there! 

I would go for the scrubbing toilets... at least you get more  respect!