Your obvious ignorance is not worth responding to, NM

• Enjoying the slaughter Canada? - Canadian NAWT
  • seals - daMT
  • sorry, you are assigning human logic/emotions to animals... - get real
    • Logically speaking you are wrong - studies have proven
    • Look in your own backyard first before your neighbor's... - I AM CANADIAN
      • To "I am canadian" - desertbloom
    • Please cite to the scientific studies...(nt) - ...on which you base this assertion. It is wrong.
    • Oh, okay then. That's different. - Go ahead and kill as many as you want then, people
    • I feel sorry for you. - Romey
      • oh you guys are so far out of touch with nature... - naturalist
        • Your obvious ignorance is not worth responding to, NM - NN
  • Another link for the babies, sm - nn
  • thanks for this link - nygal
    • link? - curious
      • Link - romey
        • innocent baby seal slaughter - me
  • Already done, sm - Romey

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Even if the system goes electronic, won't MTs still be needed?  Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question! 

as much as the ignorance of people who should know better - like our "supervisors" etc.  The only answer to nurses or anybody else who thinks like them is to give them a test tape and let them "have at it".  That's usually a good eye opener, or mind opener.

find out what type of processor my computer has?  I know it is a Pentium, but I cannot remember if it is a 3 or a 4.  I tried System Tools, but that was of no help at all.  :(

Thanks for your help.

Now I'll explain why I asked:   you said 13 to 15 cpl, so let's go for 14 cpl.

Take somebody overseas. They get, say, 3 cpl. The work needs editing, so they hire someone in this country to edit. What's the going rate for that? Maybe 4 cpl? So, between the two that's 7 cpl for the completed report.

If the person who is an Editor is "top drawer" (old expression for top of the line), the finished product will be of the same quality that you provided, transcribing the report by yourself.

So, if the quality of the report will ultimately be the same, and you were a hospital (or doctor), which would you spend:  14 cpl or 7 cpl?

From a hospital standpoint, with exorbitant costs, that's smart business. They can now use the savings for other things.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's what's going on.

I thought I was the only one...now I know it is just not me who has had this problem.

Hello and thank you.  I have figured out that the F10 opens the shorthand menu but I am trying to figure out what the key would be to get to add a new word and okay it without using a mouse.  I am so used to adding my autocorrect entries easily, alt the a (type word) tab over and enter.  It is so quick to do that probably 3 seconds to create a word.  I am trying to figure out how to not fumble with the mouse to actually create a new entry into shorthand.  Any tips are greatly appreciated.  THANKS

Add new entry to dictionary

it's probably (I'm not there) a harmless garter snake or something....not a boa and not a cobra (reddish/orange/black as I remember from my NC days), and not a rattler I do not think.

Yes - snake is a snake is a snake - but I've know that they are sacred in certain cultures, and we are a multicultural country and so we shouldn't disrespect animals....especially when there are organizations to be called in to help.

Glad he/she is in hiding....if you're still scared, I'd call someone or ask a neighbor (not a scared neighbor) to help. 

Neat little story to share:  Last evening, I helped 2 people try to capture these 2 lttle parrots who had their wings clipped (apparently by someone who wanted to keep them) and who have been flying around my area for weeks to possibly months.  I got a cat carrier and some sheets, and the 2 others, over some time, and with the sheets, got them into the cat carrier...

Now one of them wants to keep them and went and bought a huge cage/food/toys,etc.

It was a nice evening helping capture these 2 birds who really couldn't fly due to their wings were clipped, and only flew low (cars/traffic worry here). 

I have probably posted 4 times in the last 4 years here, but love gleaning information from all of the posts.  ShortHand vs. Instant Text seemed to be a hot topic when I created these posts and I  thought this info would benefit a lot of MTs.

With close to 200 views, I don't understand the lack of responses. 

Again, I really appreciate yours.

Actually I do believe you because unlike some of the other posts that I've seen your words have the ring of truth.  You've presented three elements that I believe that the high income achievers that work for services have that are inherent to their success:

1.  An account that is a good fit;

2.  Hard work; and

3.  Dumb luck. 

Some of the posters try to come off as if they're just so wonderful and have such a strong work ethic, and that makes them differerent from the rest of the pack.  You're presenting a realistic perspective that actually makes sense.

but we don't make posts with our former titles. Get over it..

Doctor dictates:

"The patient takes Doxepin for insomnia.  He has been taking 25 mg four of them at time, but I am prescribing 100 mg tablets which is the same."

This just made me giggle...

 I am pretty sure that she was referring to the manner in which her very unsupportive post was worded, i.e. "a REAL transcriptionist".  How in the world is that helping someone who is coming here for a little bit of help and, dare a person aspire for, a kind word...  anyway, just mho. 

Let's take a moment to put ourselves in her shoes instead of trying to think of a way to boost our own ego.  Perhaps the place in which she worked had a different style, a different format.  I even have done some recent work for a hospital who wants all of their references to the spinal disks spelled disc (even though this is specifically a no-no with AAMT).  I'm not an expert, but if there were a helpful thing that I could think of to say, it would be to buy of borrow a current AAMT Book of Style (3rd Edition) and make sure that you are all up on your format and style.  Anyway, good luck!!

that some of these docs do not have the first idea what they are going to say when they dial in.  They have not bothered to organize their thoughts or mentally outline what they intend to dictate.  They just 'wing it,' go back and add, delete whole paragraphs, then maybe say virtually the same thing as the deleted section somewhere else.  I've learned never to delete but to cut sections just in case they get pasted back in someplace else.

One guy in particular says things like:  'Put temperature was 98.3 degrees and say BP was 130/70 and write respirations were 18 and could you say weight was 225 pounds, and like, he was sort-of short of breath?' 

How  do you verbatim that?  Dude!  I'm not you pal and we're not having a conversation here.  Do you realize I'm supposed to be transcribing EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SAY?