The Olympus DS-330 has been discontinued-- hard to find now expecially for $99 - sm
Posted By: Laura E. on 2006-03-16
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I just got one for $140 total (with shipping, new off of ebay). They have new models out to replace the DS-330 about $150 and up, you have to shop around to find the best price. I got the unit for myself to check out how they work, etc., also to record my husband sometimes so I can play it back to him when he says "I never said that".....have some fun with it.
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I'm sorry, but I find this hard to believe sm
 You actually expect us to believe that you work part-time and still do 16,000 per pay period at MQ. How? What's your secret? You must be superwoman or something! Cause I work full time and can't do that many lines! Boy, am I jealous!
I still find it really hard to believe.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who will be just throwing their TVs away because they'll refuse to pay for cable or dish. What about all the elderly people? No way are they going to pay for something that's been free since it was invented. I do have basic cable, but it's mostly smut and garbage on there. I only keep it for PBS and Disney channel right now, but we've been seriously considering cutting it off. Every time we try to watch something on TV, the ads for other programs are just not something we like to expose our children to. If we cancel cable, I guess we'll just watch DVDs and not have TV at all any more. (Or watch it through the Internet like we listen to the radio now.)
Trying to find the way out? It's not THAT hard...
get another job! GET ANOTHER JOB! GGGEEETTT ANNOOOTHHHERRR JOOOBB!!!! ROFL
OMG, you really can't be serious with that line, can you?! Trying to figure it out? TRYING?
You apply...you interview...you accept another position...you work both jobs until you're up and running with the 2nd one and then you QUIT MQ!
And since no one at MQ seems to have any work except MY office, then that should be a real breeze for ya!! You're obviously not working anyway! OMG how many brain cells are you actually utilizing to stay where you have no work or they crap all over you like you claim?!
Oh, that is SOOOOOO hilarious!!!!!!! I do appreciate the humor, people! Really, I do!!!!!
Found the original post about the Olympus WS110 - do I need olympus software to convert the files?
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I think it's illegal too. I find it hard to believe
you've earned. Talk to an attorney who specializes in employment law.
I find it hard to believe that the MTs overseas
experienced at MT, but that's just me. These companies are just trying to save money, plain and simple because people in those countries can and will work for peanuts.
Because...I worked so hard to find it. You can to if you try..nm
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Yes, it's hard for me, too. It's such a struggle to find money
to buy gifts for people. I always try to give something I know they collect or a gift certificate to a restaurant or book store. In return, I've gotten Fingerhut freebies, an employee baseball cap, and clearance bath stuff in nasty fragrances like Freesia with the tag left on. I don't see the point in it. I wish our families would agree to stop giving gifts to adults. I seem to be the only one that feels this way. Then again, that's not fair because I've got the most kids.
Sorry, just don’t find the hard workers here you are talking about
Most of us have the good life and would not dream of doing the jobs Hispanics do. I used to work at least 2 jobs to have the kind of money I wanted and had more jobs than that at 1 time- hardly anyone wants to work like that. I think America has gotten soft in a lot of ways whether school systems, work ethics, children and too numerous to count ways. You can bet your bottom dollar if an American is standing out with a sign saying will work for food- ha! Try to get them to come work and see what happens. Your president needs to close the borders- until then I will get the best person I can to work for me, to do a good job and not grip the whole time nor sit down wiht the job half done.
Also, good MTs hard to find. Might be worth
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MTSO knows hard to find good MT,especially 1
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Harder on my eyes than my ears but I find it hard to
believe that listening to dictation could cause hearing loss. Blasting music through headphones maybe, but not dictation. I've been doing this for 20 years and have not noticed any difference in my hearing.
However, my eyes get soooooo tired. I've started zooming in to make the print look bigger and that helps a lot.
When you are really smart like this, it's hard to find anything to hold your attention.
So what do you do to keep motivated to type during the work day? Sometimes I find it so hard to...
stay focused. When you're working at home it is soooo easy to turn on the TV, take frequent breaks to answer the phone, talk to hubbie, play with the kids, take a hot bath, play solitaire on the PC, surf the net, post on a message board, etc.
I just wondered if anyone had any miracle cure for the wandering mind?
I think one reason MTs find it hard to have diverse skills (s/m)
is that for all these years we have been pigeonholed into just one specialty - typing medical reports. When I started MT at my organization, we had a variety of duties. Now we just sit and type. Interestingly, the few who got promotions within or out of the MT department were the ones who weren't too smart, and not very good MTs. The good MTs were kept where they were needed - doing transcription work only. And the smart ones are considered a threat to management, so they have no hope of ever advancing.
I've been to night school to try to broaden my computer skills, and the community college system is totally not on the cutting edge. Everytime I learned something useful, it became obsolete before we could ever implment it in our workplace.
I've looked into changing fields, and one of the big stumbling blocks is all the prerequisites for just about any field of study. Many of them involve the math & science classes I was steered away from due to my gender. (This was the 60s, remember... it was still legal to discriminate back then.) I looked into training as a veterinary technician, and working full-time and going to night school, getting all the classes in that I missed in high school was going to eat up about 4-5 years. It would probably take even longer to get into the vet-tech program. By the time I graduated, I would probably be in my early 70's. What veterinary hospital is going to want to hire a 70 year old newbie who will either retire or die before she's even learned the ropes at the new job?
Meanwhile, what ticks me off is that MT's are expected to have a very broad knowledge of English, medical terminology and computers, and be whiz-bang typists as well. And yet the same people that want speed, accuracy and experience, don't want to pay squat for it.
Even with multiple GOOD dictators, I still find it hard - sm
to do '8 hours' worth of transcription in less than 11-12 hours, mainly due to the lack of ability to make templates, as each doc does his H&P entirely differently. Also they want extraordinary accuracy, grammar clean-up, and proofreading done on each report. So a longish H&P can sometimes take an hour.
Have heard it is hard to find position in coding
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Your MTs will find it hard to make any money with eScription.
Expecially if you can try to impress strangers with a bogus IQ score
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A good MT is hard to find. Check back with those 2 companies
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i have a Geneticist that i type and find it extremely hard with the terms of all the genetic disabli
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If your dictator says DCD for discontinued
i want to put discontinued what would you put
That's because they discontinued it as soon as it happened.
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Depends on account, but discontinued
would be correct (sometimes it means discharged)
This site was discontinued in late May w/no....
plans for further lists for public viewing! I LOVED that site and sure miss it!
I lost major $$ when they discontinued that. nm
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I love white tea and ginger but of course this is now discontinued
 Why does that always happen? I had so many compliments every time I wore that body lotion - from both sexes
If it rains hard, the wind blows hard and there are trees
nearby, it snows heavily it will mess up the signal. The speed is not constant, sometimes as slow as dial-up, but at least still connected. Many companies will not allow satellite.
So, you think it is okay for hard-working MTs to earn 7-8 cpl for their hard work?? nm
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Olympus
The small company I work for uses the Olympus system. The owner told me it costs about $600 per doctor. She provided the software to the transcriptionists and the doctors. We each purchased a wave pedal ($69). The doctors have recorders. The office manager sends the dss files via e-mail to the Transcriptionist as an attachment with a cc to the owner. The transcriptionist does the work and e-mails it back to the doctor with a cc to the owner. The program encrypts the file, so that the transcriptionist and the doctor has to use the same software.
Olympus DS-330. nm
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Olympus
I have an Olympus and it was around 200. I simply love it. The guy at the store said Olympus quality is one of the best in cameras. I was looking at Sony because I like Sony products but he said in cameras they are not tops.
Olympus DS-10
The Olympus DS-10 will not allow the docs to tape over what they record. I had to get this for one my docs who kept taping over everything. They get very upset when the tape over everything.
Lynn 
Olympus
has hand-held units that he can dictate into just like he does with his tapes. He then plugs it into his computer and it uploads. He then sends you the file, like an e-mail. It is pretty simple. My old-time docs handle it pretty well. Good luck.
Olympus
I think the editing capabilities they are referring to means that the doctor can go back into a recording he has already done, like into the middle of it, and insert something he forgot. If I were you, I would NOT get one that allows this. I started out giving my docs the DS330, which has editing capabilites. On several occasions they ended up overwriting their recording completely or inserting things in the wrong place and overwriting portions of the recording. It was a NIGHTMARE. If you have docs who are very careful, it may not be a problem, but my docs are not careful at all with these things. Then they got upset at the recorder and at me! Oh brother.... Anyway, they eventually got used to the recorders and have been using them now for years with no more problems with overwriting. But in the beginning they had a rough time.
Now I give out the Olympus DS2, which does not have editing capabilites and have had none of the above problems. Docs use it with ease and there is no worry of overwriting a file. If I were you, I'd go with the DS2. The DS330 is discontinued anyway. Good luck.
I use Olympus DSS
The client set me up with it, and I only have experience with the transcription units, although I know the dictation units have docking stations that send the voice files to the computer.
I checked and one transcription unit runs around $400, although you can find it a little bit cheaper if you look hard enough.
Hope this helps. 
Yes, it's an Olympus WS-100. sm
Thanks for responding. No software came with it, as it is a USB port that acts like a regular driver. I'm looking for Microsoft Explorer, but come up with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Olympus
I have all my physician's using Olympus recorders also. Not too expensive, great Olympus support and very easy to operate.
I have an Olympus DM-1 and you only need
a cable to upload voice files to the computer. In fact, I lost the original software that came with the unit, but Windows automatically detects the connection and opens an upload window as soon as I connect the USB cable and turn on the unit. The rest I don't know about, but I do know you can upload the voice files with *only* the USB cable that fits the handheld unit...
Olympus
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I don't have Olympus software, just the free download that is call DSS Player Lite. I guess that doesn't have a converter in it, I didn't see one. I have since downloaded other software to try and play this file and nothing will. I guess I may just have to break down and buy some software since the free stuff isn't working??
Olympus
I had purchased the same model and found that you could not tape over anything the physician had already dictated. It is for taping conferences, meetings, etc.
Olympus DDS
I just took a job with a 6-doc neurology practice. They are months behind on dictation as the docs stopped covering the hospital and instead now see patients daily in the office. Dictation is behind 3 months. They have Olympus DDS. All docs have different way of doing their notes. We do new patient notes, office visits, as well as EEG, EMG, transcranial dopplers, carotid ultrasounds, and the docs all want their own way. We are swamped. The former transcriptionists quit. The office is not technologically saavy, and neither am I. But I do know the situation is critical. Should we get a new system that would require docs compromising on a single template for each note, or use the current Olympus DDS system and work with the doctors on templates? There has got to be a better way..We are drowning. Thanks for any suggestions. Office manager is looking to us (3 MTs) for the solution.
Try Olympus WS 110
My docs are using the Olympus WS 110. It is available at the local office supply stores and is no too terribly pricey. This account didn't want to spend any extra money for equipment but this recorder is fantastic compared to the cassettes they were using. I think it runs around $70.
I use Olympus Player every day and like it SM
much better Express Scribe!
Olympus DM-1 recorder
Please email me and I'll send a detailed description.
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Anyone familiar with Olympus DS-30?
I need to find digital recorders for a few doctors. I am looking at the DS 30, but want to make sure its a decent recorder, but don't want to spend too much $$. They want to email me the digital files--so I was wondering if this recorder is pretty easy to use/set up?
Thanks for any info
Olympus DSS system
I have a potential new client that is using an Olympus DSS system they tell me. My question is can I just use Express Scribe to play these or would I need to purchase the something like the Olympus AS-400 system to play their files?
Thanks!
Thanks! Is a DH-10 Olympus? I'll look that one up
as well as the 3000 and see which one might work better for me. Do they both have good sound quality? I just need something basic he can walk around the ofifce with and dictate after each patient and that I can swap cards out to bring the dictation home. I assume they both work with basic files that Express Scribe plays, like .wav, .dss, etc.? I'd be interested in hearing the price on the 3000 if they're offering a deal. I don't know yet if the doc will buy the transcriber or if I'll have to make the investment myself. Thanks so much!
My doc uses Olympus WS110
It was around $70, and the recorder comes apart and it actually IS a memory stick. The sound quality is AWESOME. It sounds like surround sound and it's clear as a bell.
Olympus 2300
Please someone give me some info on the Olympus 2300. I am going to work from home for a doctor who uses this to dictate. Do I need special software to be able to transcribe the voice files? The doctor doesn't know because his previous service set him up. I truly appreciate any help I can get on this board!
anyone use Olympus player?? sm
 I've used it for years and all of a sudden when I go to transcribe the file I have highlighted, the player disappears. The "player and slider" do not stay "on top" of the WORD document. I can minimize it and open it that way, but it is a pain. I want it "on top" of the document so I can see progress of the file. As it is now, I "can't see it" and therefore can't open or close it. anyone know what happened? TIA
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