Thanks for the responses. It turned out to be a bad box (the little one). nm
Posted By: Glad it wasn't me :) nm on 2006-05-31
In Reply to: Anyone work with a Lanier VTI unit? - I'm a new user and need help. sm
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when i turned 18,
my mom gave me a necklace that used to be my grandmas, which i still have now 35 yr later...when one of our daughters turned 18 and was going on to college, we bought her a computer. You could ask her what would be meaningful to her too...
I just turned 24 yrs. old. MT x 5 yrs. & QA x 2 yrs.
Used to work in-house, but on my own now. Love working at-home too! :)
Can these be turned off?
I agree, the cursor and snowflakes are really cute, but distracting to me. At the risk of being labeled a Grinch, is there any way to turn them off on one's personal computer? Thank you--
I turned him in ...
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I just turned 40. nm
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LOL I tried to take an hour nap, but it turned into
11 hours of napping. LOL At least I'm refreshed this morning. Time to type quickly so I can go play.
YES! nationals have turned
wife's kind of job......need a second income to live.
It is no longer a career
It is no longer a respectable job.
They have lowered it to _drop in_ make a few bucks_go to bed
But don't expect or receive RESPECT, A LIVING, OR ANYTHING ELSE
from a transcription company. They are there to make the profit
OFF OF YOU.
 Bows sounds real darn good - when do we start - I'll make the
wagon to sell them from - I'm pretty handy with power tools now since
my husband left because I had to type 26 hours a day! Stupidly he thought
we should have a life.
I just turned 30 and have been doing transcription...
since I was 21. I love my job and wouldn't trade it for the world. I also have several friends whom are my age that do this work and though our work changes with the science of medicine, I think you are going to find your job changing in whatever field you are in because everything changes and evolves over time. I do understand where you are coming from though about people my age not being pushed towards this field. I can't tell you how many times when I meet new people and I tell them what I do, they have no clue what transcription is, LOL.
The only people that give this profession a bad name and a bad rap is the people who are unhappy. Sure, I have had my ups and downs in this position, but I have also had other jobs where I have had those same ups and downs in different fields. It is called moving on and finding peace within yourself. If you are unhappy, fix it. Only you can make your own happiness, nobody else can make it for you.
Are you sure the volume is not turned down (sm)
in the "audio" of the gearplayer or that mute is checked in the "audio"?
Just turned on puter
and find all kinds of slander about the x-3. So if you are confident that I have been "bad mouthing" the company give me your facts. If I recall correctly I went off on you and apologized for it. You are the one in the end that said you needed time to lick your wounds. I have not bad mouthed the company to anyone!!!! and to quote someone whom I thought was an excellent friend "venting to friends is okay, that is what friends are for."
I am actively seeking employment, will continue to do so, and keep my opinions of the company to myself. If you feel I have done otherwise share the facts you have, give me a chance to defend myself.......
It tears me apart on a daily basis that we have no friendship........if you truly feel you cannot forgive me that is fine, but please don't bash me on a public board about things that are not true.
I interviewed with them and turned them down
but can't remember all the details. I think they offered 10 cpl for IC and 11 cpl for lines over 12,000 per pay period. You have to "punch the clock" , which I just won't do. Sorry I don't remember other details.
I am glad everything has turned out okay....sm
for you. I am also glad you shared it and I was fortunate enough to read it. I hope I may not have to encounter what you have but some day if I do I will always remember reading this. God bless and I wish you the best....
I just turned 40 and have the same thing going on! nm
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Just turned 29 in June..nm
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mine turned out to be--sm
3025 for today. It started out poorly but ended up good, although it is 9 pm here and I have only been done for a half hour. that was 12 hours worth.
Guess what this s/l turned out to be.
What this probably oriental ESL said when I slowed him way down:
AN dis TIN AL DIZin
With a little research I discovered he meant:
end-stage renal disease
It's typical of him, but I do wonder why he doesn't invest in some speech therapy.
coders turned MT? Any of you out sm
there that went from coding to MT? OR, MTs who went into coding? Love coding, hate coding? Not much talk amongst coders anywhere. I just wonder what it is like and if it is worth considering.
I am tired of being turned down....
I am new to MT but I am not new to hard work and determination. Companies have turned me down just because I don't have experience. I know I don't have years and years of experience but that doesn't mean I am inapt. I have decided to seek out my own accounts because I am tired of waiting from someone else’s approval. It is scary but I am determined to make this work. I really need your input on what type of doctors I should start with. I was thinking family medicine or psychology since I have experience with medical coding in these areas.
Please offer your honest opinion on how I can make this work. If there is anyone else that has started out as a newbie and is transcribing on his or her own, please reply with advice also.
But if you are going to rude or cruel please don't reply.
Tables turned on me....
I had the strangest thing happen to me. I have been contacting some people who had tested for a position I was filling. When I interviewed this one applicant, as soon as she got on the phone she started interviewing ME. I mean she was shooting questions left and right and before I had a chance to really explain how the account worked she was like, "Well I'll let you know about the position in a day or two", like it was hers to decide and I hadn't even offered her the position. She was actually my first choice and I was going to give her the position, but after talking on the phone I have decided against it. I'm afraid she would be trying to run my business instead of me. I had just never had such an experience and thought I would just voice it here. Let me know what you all think.
Have you turned off autocorrect?
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I turned off the little box in Shorthand, SM
feeling it would be important to keep my eyes on the screen, initially with transcribing and now especially so with editing where I'm typically reading and scanning the text ahead of the dictation, dropping Shorthand-abbreviation corrections in as I pass by. I'm coming up on 40,000 entries and definitely don't have them memorized. I do have my various patterns for abbreviating memorized. J for -ation so that hospital + hl and hospitalization = hlj, hospitalized + hld. Adjective + noun = first 3 letters of adjective, first 2 of noun. That sort of thing.
I don't type fast. Since you do, it means you'll always be able to keep up with a speeded up dictation and when editing you can just relax back and rest your wrists as you scan much more than you can now.
And just think--I have many common and hard-to-spell doctor names entered in the form "drng" = Dr. Nguyen, which includes the link to make sure they don't get split at the end of the line. Wouldn't that be nice?
english turned OFF
I for sure am not going to sit and proofread my posts and sometimes fingers go where they go. If people feel the need to proofread others posts they REALLY need to get a life or a friend or something. I had another person do this to me on another board and I cannot tell you how aggravating it is. I have a 99.58% accuracy rating and make plenty of mistakes in my email posts. This is NOT WORK. This is play and the fact that you feel the need to criticize people just tells us all about YOU.
It turned out to be short, so
I typed it without my footpedal. My Gear Player box is no longer open to drag the windows media file into.
Now I'm having trouble formating Word. They want the margins changed to 2.54 cm (not inches), and I type it in like the instructions tell me, and save, but of course Word ignores me. Grr.
It turned out to be short, so
I typed it without my footpedal. My Gear Player box is no longer open to drag the windows media file into.
Thank goodness it was short. It was also not a medical report. Instead it sounded like a radio show with two speakers talking, but it was clear and easy.
you said it! The schools just turned sm
into a money making scheme all their own. It does take 10-15 years and then you find out you are barely experienced. Some of the "newbies" here if not most of them will not work the years it takes to find that out because they really don't want to be in this business anyway. It was just an easy work at home job to some (not all) of them.
When I think about it, I blame some of the large MT companies, especially MQ for some of this. They hired these people right out of school, they have worked several years but not gotten the experience they need. They really are not "experienced" but they think they are and that is sad.
I wish MT would ALL go back in house and these companies were just to pick up the slack in the hospitals and not take over their accounts totally. That way MTs could get their experience before they ever venture out into the MT working at home thing.
I started at 23.
It would help--an you may get more responses--sm
if you indicate what the med is used for. check out this site--
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/Uses/0,3915,6355%7CTeargen,00.html
also a Google search could lead you in the right direction, rather than sit and wait for a response here.
Thanks for your responses (sm)
I will probably go ahead and get Shorthand. I know DQS has a built in Expander but it's empty when you first start and that cuts into production time. Today is the first day I'm doing live work (3 jobs only thank goodness) just to keep up on what we were taught in training until the hospitals I do are switched. Wish me luck. I think DQS will be better in the long run as it has some really nice features, it's just I've become spoiled with using the same system for years and years. Change can be very scarry, but if it stimulates my brain and keeps me from getting Alzheimers sooner, hey, I'm all for it. Thanks again.
Thanks so much for your responses
This has really helped me make my decision. I guess I just needed a little shove.
Thanks to all for your responses! nm
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I would like to see more responses (SM)
I would like to see more responses and more specifics to this excellent poll. This is a very good idea. I have always wanted to know this information. There are only a few responses here. I see no reason why the responders cannot be more specific about the MTSO company through which they contract. Please let us continue this thread for awhile longer.
Thank you all very much for your responses. sm
And thank you for your condolences as well. She, at this point, has decided not to attend the church ceremony but feels she can deal with a period of time at the visiting hours. This is agreeable to everyone.
Thank you all again.
No, nothing else. I think the responses have said it all.
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RE QA responses
If that's the tone they use when they give you feedback, IMHO, that's VERY unprofessional. I'd certainly go to whoever heads up the QA department to get answers, and also perhaps to resolve the way you're being communicated with.
thanks for the responses
My contract has agreed upon hours not lines per se. I agreed to work a split schedule between mornings and afternoons in my time zone, no weekends. I have no minimum production or maximum production. I just wanted to be sure that I could say "No" once in awhile without being terminated on the spot. I have years of in hospital experience and also over 6 at home as an employee so I am definitely an asset I don't think they would let go lightly. Its not the owners sending out messages to work the weekends but the girl in charge of managing the daily workload who is sending mass emails to all the MTs asking for more help. I think I'll just start ignoring these when I want to and volunteer when I need the extra cash!
Thanks for all the responses...
Thank you for responding. It is nice to get feedback from other's point of view.
I agree with the poster that said that some large families have entitlement issues, and I think this is what is going on with this mom. My kids don't usually have a problem sharing, but the amount of requests coming from this family is completely out of control.
Just as an update on this, I decided not to talk to this mom about it. I discovered a few very alarming things this weekend, and I may need to contact Child Protective Services. For example, on Sunday she locked the kids outside in the late evening while she went grocery shopping because she didn't want the kids to mess up her house. (Their ages are 12, 10, 8, 7, and 5). The oldest was spending the night at a friends, and the youngest 4 were locked outside. She left at 8:30 pm and didn't get back for over an hour.
The 5-year-old is also running the neighborhood by himself a great deal. Last night, I found him outside after midnight and had to walk him home.
I am also discovering that, although she has food in the house, she is not always feeding the kids. For now, I have decided to keep a journal of what is going on for about a month and decide then if I need to report this.
thank you for all the responses...sm
My hubbie has been through the psychology testing, etc. so that insurance would pay for the operation, plus we did the sit down with the dietician, who showed us exactly what was going on. The program also has monthly support meetings and the doctor has extensive experience in this type of surgery, so we feel very confident in his abilities. It is just a big step and we are just trying to make sure we have checked into everything before we proceed. Thank you again everyone.
Thanks for the responses.
I'm very interested to hear anyone's story. Reply by email if you feel it's too personal a subject for the forum. I am interested in hearing the good, the bad, and the ugly of both the foster system and the private agencies.
I've been reading the adoption websites for tips and such, but I feel like people mostly give the sugar-coated versions once the adoption is done, especially if they're endorsing a particular agency.
I do appreciate the comment about being told you're better off going out of the country. I'm sorry that happened to you, and I've heard that story more than once. It's a shame.
Thanks for the responses...
I really appreciate it--it is a "scary" thing to think about changing platforms!
Thank you for the responses. :O) NM
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Thanks for all your responses. sm
It's just that commas, hyphens, paragraphs, etc., are not a matter of choice. There is a right way and a wrong way. I agree with the comment that the doctors don't care. I know that's true or it wouldn't happen so much. I'm certainly no expert, but some of the stuff I proof is just ridiculous. Thanks again for your comments.
Thanks for the responses. sm
Thanks for the responses, and thanks for not flaming me. It's a quandary, isn't it? Sadly, I know it is true that for every MT who has had enough and says, "I'm not working for this rate anymore," there's another MT to take her place--and at a cheap rate. I do want to say though that I am a firm believer in the saying, "You get what you pay for." The nationals might be saving money upfront by hiring "cheap" MTs, but in the end they might not be saving as much as they think. An MT with 15 or 20 years (or more!) of experience is worth her weight in gold.
Something tells me that even though the situation may be grim at times in the MT world, it is not as grim as it appears. I think it behooves the large nationals for MTs to always believe that "the end is near." People in situations that appear desperate will do desperate things.
Stick to your guns and keep trying, and I will do the same. You are all worth your weight in gold, and if you keep going for it, you'll get it! You're a great bunch of people!
I appreciate all the responses. We don't
I usually do about 170 to 175 minutes of dictation a day. I work on operative notes, electrophysiology dictation and all the cardiology reports from our heart care center.
Someone else replied about using expanders. I use those a good deal now.
We are being outsourced. I won't have any choice other than apply with a company of my choice.
I believe I'm an excellent producer but without any real experience in the production scene, I'm just trying to get a feel for what I can expect.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for all the responses
It made me feel better to know that lots of others are on the same page.
Thanks all for your responses ... nm
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Thanks for the responses!
I didn't take the job, but I appareciate the input!!
my responses -
My statement of "I know we don't get paid what we are worth" is just that - we should be making more money, but at this point when I have friends that everyday are losing their jobs, getting laid off for weeks at a time, cannot pay their bills, losing their homes, their cars, cannot feed their children properly, I feel very lucky that I am in a job that I can still do all of the above - albeit making less than I feel I should be making.
I know we are heading into uncharted territory with transcription, don't know from day to day what is coming next, but at the same time, I have been doing this now for 18 years and there have been very few of those changes actually occur and I have worked at lots of different places.
I don't know why you are so down on me because I am happy with what I have and wish everybody else would just give up the griping about it all the time. If they are not making the money they want to make, if they are not happy, then they do not have to continue on in this profession - that's my whole point!
Thanks for the responses
I have been jumping around a bit lately trying to find a fit. It seems company has it's pluses but there's one big negative I can't live with. One company paid 9 cents gross lines and mostly templates - sounds like heaven, right? But there was so much red tape you had to go through to get one report done. And an invoice for 2 weeks took 2 hours to complete for a full-time person! That's what I mean about procedural problems.
I'm at a place now that's only 8 cents/65-line but the work is easy. The problem though is very poor sound quality. You just can't seem to win in this field anymore even as an an MTSO because the technological changes keep coming. This is why I left 4.5 years ago - that and burn out. Now I need to make some money but geesh - it's taking me forever each day to make very little. I really think my time in this field has passed but I will continue to work at least through the summer until my kids are back in school so I can go back to school.
I don't mean to be so negative or discouraging - I know this can be an awesome job at certain times in your life. It was for me for a lot of years.
Thank you for the responses.
I may have to bypass this job though. H is against it. He is not telling me what to do, he is just telling me that he is concerned about me being too tired all the time and neglectful to myself. I haven't turned in any paperwork to them yet and they already sent me a computer. I don't know how that is going to sound when I say I changed my mind and I am sending all this back.
Thanks for all your responses-have been IC for 8 yrs and never
paid quarterly taxes, but my refund is getting smaller and smaller and if I don't want to end up paying soon I figure I better start paying quarterly!
Help! Windows turned sideways?
I tried a new 'keyboard shortcut' and miraculously not only did it not work, it turned my desktop on Windows sideways.
Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thanks!
every one will see in the end and so many will be lost because they turned away from the truth.
He is actually quite easy to please. you only have to do one thing. Its the most simple thing in the world that could save you eternally.
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