Visited Idaho a few years back sm
Posted By: CA MT and I know why on 2006-07-09
In Reply to: It's easy to see why we have so many Californians moving here to Idaho. My power bill is $50 - Now I get it..
beautiful, beautiful state. Decided that's where I want to retire.
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Your right..Pocatello, Idaho.. You should really see North Idaho.. that's where I want to retire.
Pine trees, gorgeous views, lakes, mountains.. now that is heaven.. right around Coeur d' Alene.. That's where you'd really want to retire.. trust me..
I worked for Cbay for 3 years. I was also part of their lay off back many years ago. sm
Even though I got stuck in a lay off era, I still love the company. They paid well then. The people were nice (exception of 1 person) and if I had the opportunity I would go back again. Fortunately (or unfortunately - depending on how u look at it), I have a great paying job right now, so I am not looking for a change. I do know that at one time, they asked management to accept late paychecks, but never sure of the reason why. My check was never late.
I know it used to be 5-10 years back, but the laws changed within the last 2 years. They can only g
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When I trained, back years and years ago
We did not have spell checking nor the internet (Google for instantaneous help). OMG, how did we do it? We used Correcting Selectrics with the lift-off tape to correct errors- you only had dictionaries, both English and medical, to look up things so yes we did have to learn to spell all those big longgggggggggg words.
Several years back it was
an 8 or 10 hour shift and your only break is for a meal. Cubicles with no outside world communication. Heaven forbid if you need a potty break.
Hopefully things have changed, but I have my doubts. Huntsville Hospital is more worried about being "the biggest" than employee relations. There was a great letter to the Editor in the newspaper recently about the problems still going on there.
And, I'll state, this is JMO.
Back 25 years ago, the FDA.....sm
Back 25 years ago or so, the FDA refused to allow a cheap drug called Latrielle into this country for the AIDS/HIV patients. So, all the gay people went to Mexico to get the drug. Does anyone remember this?
Our problem is not with *crack-pot* medical systems in other countries. Our problem begins right here with the darned FDA. For those who do not know what the FDA is - it is the Food and Drug Administration....you know those people....much like the USDA (the US Dept of Agriculture) which allows a certain amount of feces and rat hairs into ALL our food. Start reading Consumer Reports!!!
There is better treatment all over the world - so please do not delude yourselves into thinking that the medical care in the USA is THE BEST because it certainly is not....it's merely BIG BUSINESS in the USA as usual.
I was out for 7 years and got back in, so...SM
you seem well within the time frame to do this if you have your heart set on it. I took some time off for raising kids and then worked at a school for 5 years in the meantime, then decided to pursue it again now that all 4 kids are in school (finally!) and I researched what company I thought I wanted to work for and took their test and was amazed to pass. After 7 years, I figured I'd really be out of luck. It worked out just fine. If I can do it after all that time, I don't think you'll have trouble. I only had about 2 years' experience before this, too, where you have much more. Good luck.
I used them some years back and have some feedback...
The service was great, and sitefever.com's FTP servers were very fast. The only thing was that when I got more than one client or if I had a large client I wanted to use FTP for, their free service didn't cut it. But, they have a 300mb plan which is like 45 or 50 dollars for an entire year, and it gave me access for up to 10 different clients and plenty of space for them all.
So, if you're looking at sitefever.com as an FTP provider, you're looking in the right direction. The only thing I would suggest is if you plan on growing, just pay a few bucks for their larger accounts.
P.S.- The free FTP accounts only work when you have the public ID number, which changes monthly. I see whoever started this topic had posted a current ID number.
28 years - OJT. That was the only way to train way back then. nm
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This happened to me a few years back (sm)
when I was working for a national and they had a huge teaching hospital in Southern California. Must have been 500 docs, 500 specialities and 500 subspecialities - never had the same doc more than once......... I was so frustrated!! Sorry - not much help but I do feel your pain!
5 years and still going strong, I have a back up one though- sm
that I use for travel, that is about 4 years old but only gets used about 20 days out of a year if that. That one gets abused a bit and still works fine though.
I just went back to radiology after 12 years
doing another specialty. My biggest problems were the names of MR images complicated by fast talk and different images for different MRs and different language from many different docs. Sometimes 6-8 lines detailing acquisitions, sometimes not. Cardiac MR was the worst for me. I had 8 plus years of rad, but hadn't done it since PET was invented,lol...It helped when I had good dictators.I found a list on line of names of MR images, isn't complete. NM cardiac was another trip. I spent a lot of time going to google,just to make sure I was hearing what I thought I was hearing. I really like the job. You should get sample reports for the different docs for procedures, reading them will help, and you will have them for reference.
I've used it for several years and won't go back.
It's very easy to learn and user friendly. I won't work on anything else.
We did and moved back after 4 years.
For us, we decided the big home and extra spending money wasn't worth it. I was depressed the whole time we were on the mainland. This is our home and this is where we want to raise our child. We are happier here in our little condo than we ever were there.
I have work going back years - sm
others keep it a month or two. I have one doctor who sees patients on a yearly basis, I pull the previous report so I don't have to retype a lot of it, as he basically repeats the old one with a few changes, I'd have a lot more work to do otherwise. I have another account that constantly misplaces their work, I have to retrieve work from months earlier because they cannot find their copy. I can either pull it from my stash, or the MTSO has a FTP where we back up all our work just for this purpose, she keeps it all there going back years. I have no idea how often she cleans it out, but she hasn't in the almost 2 years I have been with her. On another note, I only keep the sound files for a month, then I dump them.
Me, too, I visited sm
I am a fellow New Yorker, although a few miles upstate. My daughter lives in Brooklyn, works in Manhattan, and I visit often. I loved your gargoyle stuff. Isn't Manhattan the most magic place? Please keep blogging. I really enjoyed all of it. Street finds. LOL. Definitely. My kid found the greatest headboard and footboard and bed frame there, just waiting.
Bless your heart. Back several years ago
I worked FT for a large hospital doing MT and ran an MT business full-time but I had 2 partners in my business. I slept every other night. Hahaha I was younger at that time. Made INCREDIBLE money. Still can't believe today what I made then. It was a killer though. And with running my own business, I was not doing actual transcription the whole time, there was a lot of normal business activity/transactions/planning to do. That is why I think I held up to it as long as I did.
Well, I'm very impressed. Congratulations. I couldn't do that today (two FT transcription positions) if I tried!
I've been back in college for 2 years now.
and wish you the best of luck! You can never have too much education. It opens so many more doors!
I've had a bad back for years and nothing works better...sm
for me than heat. I have a chair pad that heats and/or vibrates. I don't use the vibrator much because the noise is distracting, but the heat works wonders. Sometimes if the pain is real high around my shoulders, I just drape a heating pad over the top of my chair.....also keeps me warm and toasty in the winter time.
The REAL credential was the ART a few years back
WE had to have knowledge to get it. Not just show that we could transcribe. We had A&P with the premed students. We HAD to learn the stuff.
I've been fighting back for 30 years.
It hasn't done one bit of good. The AAMT sold us out a long time ago and when the computer came into being, it made it way too easy to ship everything offshore. At least years ago when we used a typewriter, you had to work in house. Now everything is about faster, faster TAT and hiring people as cheap as possible to get the work done. I have always said that if they could get trained monkeys to do this job and pay them in bananas, they would. They don't give a rip about the MTs and they never have. 
I've never even visited OR, but that's where
I told DH I want to live. He works for Target now, and his boss told him it could be arranged!! I do have an in-office job I enjoy here in NC, and houses here are quite affordable, but I just know my real home is somewhere in Oregon. I understand it has the longest ski season of any State. I have Siberian huskies, and there are places I can take them and have them hitched up to a sled with a team! Wouldn't that be cooooool???
I have family here in NC that would not understand. I also finally have a great Baptist church. I heard there are hardly any churches there.
I'm so confused! LOL
I visited that site just now and...
It totally blows! Incredibly hard to navigate and seems totally dead...no way nearly as helpful or informative as this one.
have been using Cirque Glidepoint mouse for years-would NEVER go back! nm
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No way - MQ is the pits, left 6 years ago and never looked back.
There is greener grass, believe me.
One of my instructors referred our class to them a few years back.
I used them for FTP on a paid account (I think it was only like 20 bucks or so a year) and it worked great until a company I signed on with provided their own FTP servers.
TA has been bad news here & on other boards for years! A search will back up what is
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I switched from Shorthand after 6 years to IT and wouldn't go back. nm
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I couldn't see it until I visited the site where you got it from.
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I visited the website you listed and according
to that, it is not an insurance plan. It is a savings plan. You get a membership card that gets you savings on medical care at participating providers, not insurance.
they have visited a couple of churches (sm)
They haven't found one yet that they think they will attend on a long-term basis. I know that will help a lot once they get settled in a church. That is actually a huge part of the problem. She has attended the same church since she was born! Same pastor and everything! I don't think there is going to be a church that will live up to her expectations but I hope she finds one soon that has people her age age. My parents just picked my son up (he's 13) and they are going to visit her a couple of days. They're hoping it will not make it worse though. Hopefully they can help watch the kids so they can get some things done around the house and make it seem more like home. Thanks for the suggestions.
I visited your blog--very nice!
It looks so professional and all fancy-like! Keep it up! 
My SIL visited me in Georgia from California
and she was shocked to see what kind of home we could get here for under $250,000 compared to what they have where she lives. Her thinking was my community was really high in cost when no home goes for over $450,000. The prices are really great here.
I switched from SH to Instant Text a couple of years ago and would never go back.
I increased my productivity another 30 percent pretty quickly. And you can still use your old shortcuts with IT. Browse through the IT Commands forum on Productivity Talk for tricks you never thought you could do with a text expander.
Free rooms? Not when I visited at the Bellagio!
Tell me, where did you find free rooms in Vegas?
looking for people that used to work for small MTSO in Suffield, OH a few years back.
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Idaho
Is there anybody out there that lives in Idaho?
idaho
Where do you live?
Idaho
Where abouts are you. I live in Boise
In Idaho...
The rates are not so great in the hospitals. Our two largest medical centers pay starting at anywhere from $12-13..All you can pray for is to get a rotten shift working weekends so you get shift and weekend differential would could add a dollor or two more, but it was not worth it for me because I did not want to work every night and weekend to get a decent wage..But $8.50..HECK NO.. I'd be a janitor first and not have to deal with the frustrations.
Anyone visited Tweetsie Railroad in NC and surrounding attractions lately?sm
Thinking about taking the family to Tweetsie Railroad next month. My husband went there a long time ago and now he thinks it would be a fun trip. After looking at the website it does look like family fun! We have a 4-year-old son who loves trains. I was looking through websites to find some nice places to stay. It seemed like they had a few. Any information on past experiences would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
I'm horrible with math myself but was told several years back by a pretty reliable source
that w/o spaces is about a 17% reduction in pay - and I would say the figures you gave pretty much leads me to believe this may be true.
Northern Idaho!
It reminded me of TV show "Northern Exposure". Rugged people, rugged landscape, natural beauty! Absolutely fantastic!
New Bedford, MA, now in Idaho
Now in Idaho via CA for 40 years.
Great city; I stayed in Dunlaoghaire (sp?) and visited Dublin. nm
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I thought YOU were the only one that lived in Idaho,,,,,
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darn near 31, female, Idaho
Been doing MT for 10 years off and on, the last six years at home.
They found the missing girl from Idaho, whose
mother and 2 others were killed, and they couldn't find the 2 kids. I'm watching FOX now about it. The little boy was not found but the girl was found alive at a Denny's in the same town she was missing from.
I live in Idaho and maybe I can shed a little light.
It depends on where in Idaho you are moving. If it is a rural area or smaller town, there will not be much if any work for you. If you are moving to Boise or another bigger Idaho town, you may find something fairly quickly. The best thing to do is to use a search engine on the Internet for the town you are moving to and find out all of the medical facilities/hospitals in and around that area and then send them a letter and a resume and let them know you are looking for work. That is how I found my transcriptionist jobs (I work for three different offices). I hope this helps.
the idaho case was botched. so maybe the arubans can fix it. who knows who is involved?
there is NO LIMIT to the Texas searchers and the person in charge of the search said the Aruban government was FULLY COOPERATIVE. As far as the FBI, are those the same crack agents who managed to let 911 slip by without noticing? Yeah right. Our government can do things so much better.
It's easy to see why we have so many Californians moving here to Idaho. My power bill is $50
The cost of housing is outta control in California you. We have so many people from Cali selling their small homes there and coming to Idaho with the money and buying HUGE houses here...
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