Please, don't "ex-pound," I probably meant expand!. It's late! Thanks
Posted By: Moving on on 2007-08-16
In Reply to: Expounding.... - AnnieM!AnnieM!
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typo-- meant LATE response. nm
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Meant to say you're about a decade late if you thought
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No, but if you expand your memory card, it will expand. nm
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to expand or not to expand?
When you transcribe for your accounts do you generally expand the abbreviation if they dictate an abbreviation like URI? We are getting paid by the line and so I have been expanding it. What are you all doing? I do the opposite on drugs when they dictate two a day I type b.i.d.
I am curious what you all do.
Blessings,
Lynn
I always expand it out to saturation - sm
but I have a lot of leeway in my accounts, no verbatim. But if I had to pick one I'd go with "sating" or "sats". I'd bring it to both QA people and try and find one they will both accept.
You should know if it's autotext because you have do something to expand it.
Redo the entry and make sure you don't pick up anything after the text when you copy it because it will automatically format if you do.
Are you using the spacebar to expand?
As the spacebar is an Expander key, meaning it will expand your entry and insert the key used to expand (in this case a space) then that would be a normal function of IT. The other option would be to expand with the period or the comma, etc when you know you have to insert punctuation at the end of that expansion. As the punctuation keys are also expander keys, IT would expand your entry and then insert the punctuation key and the end of the expansion.
have 18. expand library based on your need,
not on what the 'jones' have going on!!
Should expand when using the period after an expansion - sm
Shorthand should expand when you use the period after an expansion. For example... I have "tpi" as "the patient is" -- and if I type "tpi." I will get the patient is. (including the period)
I do similar format, but I use "X" to expand. sm
Like CHF is chf, but congestive heart failure is chfx, etc.
I put phrases like "The patient will", tpwx
Put your days of the weeks and months, etc. all in there capped so it does those automatically.
On headings I use like HPI I use hpi, to expand it I use hpix for history of present illness, and for capped and bolded I use hpib.
One thing I can NEVER remember is my "She has had" or "He has had". For some reason, I just type those in before I realize I have Expander for that, ARGGHH!!
I am sure you do, you 300 pound MT.
So, get a mirror and take a look at yourself. Get a membership to Curves and lose at least 75 pounds. The people getting attacked are the ones who like MQ, they are the ones who start it and if we respond, you make it worse. You think I am going to sit here and take crap from some lard a** who is ugly and lives in a trailer park? Doubt it. So, go type and don't worry about me, that is, if you can fit in your chair.
Make sure you expand any abbreviations that are allowable. (sm)
I'm sure you have compared being paid on characters now vs. gross lines.
I double the last letters on certain abbrvns to expand them or keep
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Instant Text will expand whole documents
Instant Text will expand whole documents. IT will all so take a bunch of reports and create shortcuts from those reports for you so you do not have to individually create your own. Of course, you can create your own if you like also. The only thing that ITdoes not have that it should is a suggestion box that follows your cursur.
Have you tried calling the pound?
Wonder what they'd do with the goat?
I was visiting my MIL this week, and there were three beagles running around her yard. They kept coming up on her porch, so I led them out to the road. They followed me quite happily. Then somebody drove up in a truck and just observed us. I wandered over to ask if he was missing any beagles, and he was the dog catcher! He had been called about FOUR beagles. I just told him they weren't mine, but they sure were friendly! He asked if they'd come to me when called, and I said SURE! But then I left him to call the dogs himself, LOL. I can't help it if dogs don't like him. :oD
LOL it's POUND sand... nm
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Pound Sterling (GBP It is..(SM)
Pound Sterling is the currency in Channel Islands (Aldernay, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark), Isle of Man, and United Kingdom (England, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK, GB, GBR). Pound Sterling is also known as the British Pound, the United Kingdom Pound, UKP, STG, the English Pound, British Pound Sterling, BPS, and Sterlings. The symbol for GBP can be written £. Pound Sterling is divided into 100 pence. The exchange rate for the Pound Sterling was last updated on June 13, 2008 from The International Monetary Fund. The GBP conversion factor has 6 significant digits.
a. fib. no capital letters. That is a truncated phrase, should expand. nm
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Make your short form dont to expand to do not.
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How's this for a fun fact? A pound of flab is the...
equivalent of four sticks of pure butter. Thought this would make some laugh. I just started running and found this fun fact in one of my fitness magezines. So that means I have 100 sticks of pure butter on my butt and thighs that I want to lose, LOLOLOL!!!
It sounds like if feel you don't want to pound
IC job on-line?
Some rules I follow..for #6, I think the first time an abbreviation is used, you expand and paren th
but no abbreviations in diagnosis at all.
My huge 19-pound cat lies on my footpedal
and I constantly have to chase him off of it. :)
My 75 pound husky likes to "sm"
come and take her ball and toss it on my keyboard! When I have enough and tell her to quit, she will lay it very sweetly beside my keyboard! She knows exactly what she is doing!
get business cards, pound the pavement....sm
go to medical center buildings and sell yourself with your business card, your resume if required, and your own self-confidence!! Good luck!! 
I cook mine low - about 225 or 250, for about 10 minutes per pound
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There are laundries that will wash/dry/fold by the pound sm
I have taken in Laundry Mountain and had it all finished for around $40. Of course it's going to be different wherever you are. It did get me caught up and I was able to keep up with it for quite a while.
Be prepared to pound those keys for a national
and you have to be able to stay focused if you chose a national requiring set hours. Consider your benefits. There are pros and cons to working from home. I would say unless you have a really good reason to type from home, then keep your day job. I do fine myself because I am an IC, but I sometimes feel very isolated from the outside workforce. I do have children, but adult conversation when you are pounding those keys all day is hard to come by. The other duties you speak of on-site keeps you sane! Just my opinion! Good luck whatever you decide. The money is just not there anymore working for these nationals unless you are willing to put on long days and pound out about 300 lph. 
Penny wise and pound foolish
Cheap ones don't save in voice files. They're hard to use so most likely your doc will not bother to pause or rewind for dictation. You may save some money now but you will end up wasting more time to decipher the recording. The best one is Olympus DS5000... every word can be heard clearly with that.
DId NOT work. Had to pound the keys -- took it back in 2 days. nm
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Hyphens are used because 32-year-old and 11-pound are compound modifiers. SM
A compound modifier is two or more words that act as a single modifier for a noun.
For example:
32-year-old male
11-pound weight loss
22-gauge needle
1-cm mass
My cat veterinarian authorized us to use cat Frontline on our 5-pound tiny toy poodle
She said it goes by size and he's the size of a small cat.
Sorry, 'MT way too long,' my post was not meant for you, it was meant for Wow! Sorry!!...nm
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I have an 80-pound, 3-legged husky under my desk--- keeps messing with the foot pedal! - sm
So I have dog now lying down somewhat quietly but breathing his hot breath on my legs, makes it hard not to laugh hysterically ---- certainly hard to work, but it is funny.
Lemon pound cake wtih lemon drizzle. mmmmmmmmm
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Too late now, but what you should have done...
You probably should have deprived yourself of sleep last night and slept today, or better yet a couple nights in a row, just cleaning house or something to keep you "awake" so you can get a jump start on training your sleep cycle.
It is SO hard to do this job sleep deprived because it is so sedentary. I can easily stay up 24 to 35 hours as long as I'm doing something physician and nonbrain-taxing.
If you find yourself nodding off, take a 45-minute nap. I'm sure your employer will understand this is something hard to go into "cold turkey."
Good luck!
Late fee
I do the opposite, I offer a small discount when they pay within five days and in the past five years I have had my checks well within that time frame (usually 2 days) and never have had to ask for my check.
Patti
Late fee
I really don't think a late fee is going to make them pay you any earlier. You really need to sit down with the office manager or whomever processes your invoice and talk with them. They probably won't pay the late fee and still take 3 weeks to pay you. If you stay with the account and this has been a chronic problem you gotta budget to have money to tide you over for the 20 to 30 days or how ever long it takes them to process your check. Talk to them see what they say and then decide if it is worth the frustration to continue with it. If this has been going on for quite a while doesn't sound like it is going to change so you either have to live with it or find another account. In 22 years of doing my own accounts I have never had anyone pay me any later than 10 days after recepit of invoice and that was just a couple of time. I guess I am lucky but it is the truth.
late pay
Well, I feel the same way, I don't want to mention the name of the company at this point. I do know however the company actually goes to pick up the checks from the hospitals and has to get them in the bank before she pays her ICs! I have been in this business over 20 years and it's the first time I have encountered something like this.
Late $
We sound like we are in a similar boat. Very nice people, very appreciative of good work, and it does get paid, just late, which most of us cannot handle because our bills need to be paid on time. How do you manage with your bills?
late pay
It isn't easy! When she does pay I try to get enough ahead to pay bills when she is late which is basically every pay period. And luckily, my husband has a good job, but it is one which slows down in the cold months. I Christmas shopped about 6 months ago! Plus, our work has not been slow and I have been able to make an extra $200 or so each week. How do you manage?
Late pay??
Ok, I've never had a problem getting paid before, so I'm not sure what to do. I worked for this small MT company and they still owe me a month's worth of pay. I've tried emailing the person, but she just keeps blowing me off. What should I do next?? (Of course, I quit.) Thanks.
You will get a 30-day late on your...
credit report. You may also get an "Intention to Foreclose" letter, which will scare the heck out of you. Those letters standardly go out the day after the 30 days passes.
I agree that your best bet would be to ask for one deferred payment. Some lenders will do that, but some are very hard-nosed and NEVER do it.
Will you be able to make your March payment before the end of March? If so, you should try to schedule both February's and March's payment to come out of your account on specific days . . . say, on March 2 (as you mentioned) and even March 31. That will keep you from getting another 30-day late.
Once you start to lag behind, it is soooo hard to catch up again. I'm hoping they let you defer a payment.
153 in my late 20s...however I do believe it is going down.
as I once was, that's for sure.
don't know if too late, but....sm
doesn't your insurance cover such things...mine would have replaced the whole thing.
Definitely late 40s for me
Here I sit, having worked six days in a row with one day off and starting new week facing more OT due to computer down with one MT and death in family with another.
Did it in my 20s and 30s with no problem.
Now, however, I have eye strain and sore hips from sitting so long and really am rum-drummy if that is a good description. Fear making an error.
And, I do not make much more money as I have to proof everything and think before I type which slows me down in long run.
Yes, give me 40 hour week over the age of 40. Long complicated reports is where my expertise is these days.
Late Pay
I recently had to leave a wonderful lady and I mean absolutely wonderful due to late payments. She had paid late several times over the last year. I had even changed my bill dates so that I could accomodate the usually no more than 5 days late that she consistently was with pay. Last month she was 6 days late, which would have been okay with me, except that I had an automatic payment come out the day before the pay was due to be DD (which I signed up for due to promise that pay would be on time this way). Fortunately I was paranoid and called my bank and was made aware of the problem, but I had to borrow from my niece, my 21-year-old niece!! HOW HUMILIATING!!! I told my very extremely wonderful MTSO that I could not work for her if she was late again. I also had it set up that all I needed was my August pay checks on time (meaning within the 5 day "grace period" I gave her) and the September 1st paycheck, then I was set to just put her checks into savings.
Well, that never happened. It did not occur to me that she would dare be late, but come August 21 I went to deposit a refund check from a Church camp as it was canceled due to fires, and the bank tells me that after depositing $220 that I was still short in my account! To make things worse, it was not my money that paid for the camp. I was depositing the refund check and then writing a check to my mom's Church as she had used her tithe money to pay for my girls to go to camp! I still was trying to be calm at this point and asked the MTSO what was going on, well supposedly she had sent me a check on the 7th of August. Funny thing is I did not even bill her until the 9th. First it was a certified check, then it was a money order, then it was sent on a different date.......... I could go on and on, but needless to say I had to quit. I cannot afford to work for free. I cannot afford to be late on my bills.
I stayed with this MTSO for so long despite late payments because I thought I new I would always get paid. We had a GREAT working relationship, except the pay, and I really wanted the long time IC, great reference that this provided me...... you know a real "feather in my cap" for my resume. I plan on going after my own accounts next year after saving a couple of months worth of bills. BUT, in the end I had to threaten legal action to even get what I was owed, and I was sick for several days because of how ......... well sick this made me to have to "burn" that bridge, and how sick it made me because I ended up having to get very, very ugly (which made me even more sick) in order to get more than "I will check into that and get back to you" on when I was going to get paid.
This is a touch situation that you are in and only you can make the final decision. I personally LOVE being an MT. I just have learned to not "put all my eggs into one basket." I work for a couple of companies, one a national and one an MTSO. I can get extra lines at both if desired. It can take a long time to find the right fit, so hang in there if you like being an MT. Of course, teaching is a very honorable and rewarding career choice too.
Please excuse any typos, tired, but felt it very important to respond to this one to let OP know she is not alone and there is hope.
This is probably too late but....
Oncology was my specialty for years, and I felt like you...so difficult. Then one day the codgy old oncologist that was a detailed and strict dictator started dictating a report about his patient and started to cry....me too.
No one is spared this...IMO
Its too late know, but I would not have even said
anything to the first company. If they are sending you such little work you should have been able to juggle both companies for a short while. I don't think they terminated you because of a different job though.
Trying to help but maybe too late
This is the procedure I found for when you want to transfer glossary from one computer to another, I'm assuming you do not have access to the other computer:
You need only send your .glo files to the new computer through an email attachment, through floppy, jump drive or other media, and save to C:InstTextGlossary folder. Then open IT and finally, open the glossaries.
Sure it is SS that is late and not your bank? They have to
build deposit files and it may be the banking system having problems.
Just trying to help.
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