absolutely agree; they needed a good dose of Exlax. where was the local talent.
Posted By: jay on 2006-02-06
In Reply to: Stones? GRAVEL! - Groan
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I also separate with semicolons--allows use of commas where needed within dose instructions. SM
I see the value of stopping each med with a period; but the voice rec programs I've worked with so far have been using commas (or nothing), and breaking the strings up with period+spaces+caps, etc. is much too time consuming. Plus, account instructions typically ask for either numbered lists or comma/semicolons anyway.
Good thing you're the self-appointed talent judge to the stars,
LOL
tosses exlax to Jay who obviously is having...sm
a rotton day to continually pan the halftime show at the SuperBowl......say what you'd like but it was highly entertaining.
Oh and to the poster who asked where the local talent was - Aretha helped with that, along with Aaron Neville, and then Stevie Wonder did an entire Motown medley.
Geesh, some people in the life will NEVER be satisfied. 
*looks around at all the negative posters who are just as miserable MTs too*  *LOL*
I agree-negative comments not needed
I agree as we are MTs at all levels possibly just learning and also have all had those DUH moments where we laugh because we should have known it and just had a "brain fart". Very rude to put someone down (how I took the comment anyways) when I truly believe you have been in their shoes at some point and time. We should help each other and respect each other in this profession.
I agree it is a scam to get your info. I too got one that said they needed to update my account -sm
info. Since I have never ordered or sold on ebay I knew it had to be a scam. I also forwarded it to Ebay at spoof.com. I believe I got another one with a few days and I emailed them back and told them to leave me alone as I knew they were a scam because I don't deal with Ebay. So far I have not received anything else from anyone posing as Ebay. Good Luck. Too bad people can't making a living the old fashioned way - earn it honestly!!!
Thanks. I thought it might be good when you needed to get through quickly. NM
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Well, to be totally outright... QA should not be needed...... if u are good at your job!!!
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absolutely agree
They would never be successful in getting that legislation passed. There are more MTs who could probably pass their exam but won't take it because of the ridiculous cost. Plus, doesn't one lose their "CMT" status if they don't pay their AAMT dues? More ridiculous drek. I know of more former coworkers as MTs who have been in the career for 30+ years and NEVER considered becoming certified. A stupid cliqish group.
Absolutely agree with you....S/M
Hope an entire new crew comes in or they cancel the show as it's gone downhill..........
I absolutely agree with you 110%! sm
My son is applying for PreMed, has 4.0 GPA, passed all AP exams with a 4, but the colleges will take "other than Caucasian" with lower GPA and lower test scores, etc. Discrimination is rampant in USA of White Americans. It is nauseating to say the least!
You tell me - can we help it if we are smarter, work harder, etc? It is not our fault that we were born "white." Can't believe it has come to this in America!
RE: I absolutely agree with you 110%! sm
When did MT Stars become a haven for overt racial overtones? Sad!Sad!Sad!
Absolutely agree!
I have always found it important to take that break, eat, and either read, meditate or do some resting yoga poses to stretch stiff muscles. Makes the afternoon go 10x better.
Agree absolutely! It's
That's correct . . . this process is necessitated by HIPAA. It's related to protecting patient information.
If you think this is some employer control thing, you're dead wrong. It's a security and privacy requirement mandated by federal regulation, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Do you know what the fine is for disclosure of personally-identifiable patient information? If not, you're not keeping up with the industry.
Would you want YOUR name and insurance information leaked out? So someone could use it? Do you know what medical identity theft is? If not, you're not keeping up.
If you do not know about this, then your employers are not providing adequate employee training. If you're self-employed, then you are not providing yourself with enough continuing education.
This is a serious issue. It has nothing to do with trying to hamper productivity, pay you less, or interfere with your life. It is, in fact, one reason the largest user of MT services in the country just banned offshoring and are looking to return to in-house MTs only.
This is a non-problem. If you want to check your email and do research on the net, just do your part to protect your clients' patients and get a laptop.
I agree. Take none of this. Let their behavior be known and even if necessary call the local News
many TV stations have to help. There was a service in our city who never paid her people and the local news On Your Side was contacted and not only was she on the news for not paying but she was also picked up by the police. There is usually at TV station in every major area (even if they are not in a major area, will go to the local surrounding areas) to help folks with problems such as this. Take it to whoever you can. People like this do not respect you.
I never understood why people continue to work for people that are even one day late. Pay should be on time. If it isn't, the MTSO would never get an ounce more of work out of me and believe me he/she WOULD pay me! I am not one to let it go. I too have worked in the legal field and I do know how to proceed.
Just don't give them one more day of your time.
I absolutely agree with the recruiter above - sm
I worked with a woman who claimed to be a medical transcription instructor, 20 years experience, so on and so on. Get this - she could not understand a simple line of "the lungs are clear to auscultation." I AM NOT LYING ON THIS!!
I cannot tell you THE COUNTLESS NUMBER of transcriptionists that get an attitude about needing to take a transcription test when they have X-number of years experience, but you know what?? I would say a little less than half of the "prima donnas" that had this attitude, could not transcribe for beans!! I worked with a company that had travelers that sent out transcriptionists that had the prima donna attitudes, and again, their transcription could KILL A PATIENT!!! They didn't care. They were doing it for the line count to make the money. One woman if made up crap just to get extra lines.
I absolutely agree, Endiqua. sm
I agree. I'm not absolutely convinced that he did it (sm)
And obviously the authorities feel the same. I hope it is, for the family's sake. They don't need any more pain.
Absolutely agree 100% with your post!
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Absolutely agree with Olympus ws-110
My local doctor uses that and he sounds crystal clear. I love it. It comes apart in the middle and has a USB connection. He plugs it into his computer, downloads the dictations, sends them to me. Easy.
I agree, they just played it on our local radio here. Also, General Honore..sm
I heard him being interviewed by CNN today and boy is he The Man In Charge. The authority of this man outstanding, he got the troops, the supplies, the convoys in there. Finally we're getting somewhere. I thikn he's going to be the "Rudy" of this tragedy.
Thanks. It's a local rad company, so it'd probably be a good thing.
IF I can even do it.
Good for you. I love my local at home job.
I have to agree. Absolutely prosper with it and love it! sm
I, like you, produce 2500 to 3000 lines per day and CAN pay my bills on it; however, I do make way above the average cpl on EditScript.
Absolutely everything, and good for you SM
for asking. Abbreviate everything and to the point you feel you're doing something foolish when you type out an uncommon word or phrase in its entirety (and then add that one too!). After all, why would anyone type type "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" when "copdd" earns the same CPL?
But also, shortcuts for any and every other string of Keystrokes one does as an MT. Like a shortcut for the set of strokes that sends a report to QA with a standard message. A single keytap that adds a "The" at the beginning of a sentence and lowercases the next letter. That types a postop diagnosis heading and then copies the preop diagnoses under it. And more complicated ones I've put off learning how to enter because I'm still busy with this stuff.
But ask yourself, if it's something you type, can half the keystrokes be eliminated? A third? Three-fourths? One? My abbreviation for backspacing one space, adding a comma, then jumping back to the next word only saves me one keystroke, but I use it many, many times a day.
Best wishes.
Absolutely agree! Word of mouth and networking are key!! nm
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Your local community college. Just as good and a heckofalot cheaper!
I absolutely agree with you. You've made it grammatically correct
hope this all comes through.
Your change is much better than the one suggested below which totally changes the sentence and would not be correct in my opinion.
2.5 mg to 5 mg Valium, lower dose by 1/2 tab a day until
you are off. You should have no problems. I went through that after major illness and surgery with no problems whatever. If you do this diligently, stick to your guns, last couple of days do same doses for 2 days rather than 1, then go to every other day, then off, you should be fine with no withdrawal
Climara low dose patch
The night sweats or hot flashes as they call them disturbed my sleep to the point I was useless during the day time.
I concluded that I would take these hormones as I simply had to work at top performance at my job and get things done around the house as well.
I'll deal with the "change" when I am retired and can walk around like a zombie. For now, I have to consider quality of life.
I tried several before Climara and though it is not on my formulary (50.00/month), I take it to live normally.
Now I realize why women my age sometimes can look ravaged.
How about your local community college and save a heap of money & get just as good of an education?
I'm going to type an acct at home for local group. What is a good word expander for
things to know on doing tapes from an office? Is it best just to give them a disk and let them print it out at the office like they want to?
Anybody doing an acct like this? Thanks.
I used it but it tended to "junk me up" so I took only a tiny dose...sm
for sleep, trazodone is better. It's an old antidepressant that's not really good for anything other than putting you out. However, if you need to wake up in the middle of the night (small children, etc.) you can pop right out of sleep and it doesn't have the hangover effect like benadryl or Xanax. So maybe ask about trying that. And I know, maybe I spelled trazodone wrong but I don't have my spellchecker on this board LOL!
After 15 years of being treated for depression on and off, and severe anxiety, I finally found a wonderful therapist. He got me out of a chronic low grade depression without any antidepressants AT ALL which I would have bet could not be done. So maybe think of that, too?
6 MV photons with dose specified to Bmax or Dmax?
6 MV photons with dose specified to Bmax or Dmax?
America's Got Talent
Anyone watch last night? Who won? We saw All That at Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach and they were awesome!! Just watched video on internet and they were GREAT last night.
America's Talent
Thanks. I will have to watch tonight. Granny is a HOOT also!! For her age she is a spunky person with a great personality:)
It takes a lot of talent
to be a good MT. You could do their job better than they could but could they put food on the table doing your job? Noooo! They would die on the vine trying. Most management do not want to see MTs making as much or more money than they do.
Seriously, if they got rid of some of them, we'd all be better off. They cause more trouble especially for good MTs because they feel intimidated by the skill and do not understand it and do not go to bat for us when chips are down. Instead, many times they punish hard-working, top perfromers with unreasonable demands and criticism trying to take them down to their level. Let's pray for better times.
Absolutely not! Most editors do not charge by the line. A good editor
knows that line pay is not fair pay, or let's say a quality editor knows that line pay is not fair pay. I have done some VR editing and believe me, the ones I did you literally had to retype the whole report. Figure out an hourly rate that would work for you and don't take anything less. Editors or QA people should not be paid on production. That's the final step to quality and some of these groups, services, will learn that one day! Some of the better ones already know that.
It definately helped me. From the first dose I took I had no urge at all to smoke.
Unfortunately though I had a bad reaction to the medication and had to stop it after only a few days. I should say though that the reaction I had to the Wellbutrin had absolutely nothing to do with a side effect, but rather it exacerbated a prior medical problem I had. It's definately worth a try IMO.
Finals - America's Got Talent
I don't watch the show, but my daughter loves it. I believe that the results are tonight and they all just performed in the finale last night.
She came a long way on her own talent and drive. SM
You have to give her credit for that.
She has also given away millions of dollars in the US and elsewhere. She stated she began her school in Africa, because (her words) young black kids in the US were not as grateful. However bad it is in the US, it is considerably worse in Africa.
Also, as wealthy as she is, she still maintains a vulnarability which makes her relatable to a lot of different people.
However, you are all entitled to your opinions.
It has to be a combination of talent for this work and SM
platform/work count. I have the talent and my production initially was excellent but then my income kept going down, and dowm, without any discernible cause. The difference was in how production was being counted on the other side of the computer screen. Fine, if it's fair and we understand why, but we weren't being told even that the decreases were occurring, much less why. Someone the ability to put out good work but without that initial earnings experience might think it was only him or her.
Are we discussing talent or political persuasion?
In my unbiased opinion, I say Babs has a better singing voice. I also think she's a good actress. I think Celine is wonderful, as well; I just think Streisand's voice is stronger and a little better.
Agree with other poster.. good price..good service
I definitely think they are one of the best out there. We also have been talked through issues over the phone and also had a warranty in which they came out and fixed it right at our home. My only complaint..and I am sorry for saying this.. but... when you call their customer service 9 out of 10 times...you get someone who barely speaks English and I just hate that. I think that is true of a lot of customer support centers these days, ironically they are rarely American anymore. I am not prejudice at all. I just find it frustrating to call in for help and the help you get barely understands you and you do not understand them, thus making the experience very frustrating..
Does hormone replacement (specifically low dose Prempro) cause you to gain weight? nm
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No, but there is some real talent at live theatre productions.
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Buy local. The local stores pay taxes to support your city and state. (SM)
Using online and catalogues does nothing to promote the local economy. We complain about outsourcing and about the big companies gobbling up all the work so the jobs at local hospitals are gone, yet we do the same thing when we buy on ebay, catalog, and these web sites that may be located any place in the world as their primary business location.
I went local. Great local tech support, they know what I do and were able to set it up just for me
:)
Agree! As in "A Few Good Men"
"You can't handle the truth!" Go Kikki, don't let the rightwing shut you up! That's what they count on.
I agree! To be a good MT we must take the good with the bad!
It sometimes takes longer to learn ESL docs and is a pain in the butt, but all that does not kill us makes us stronger!! I don't love doing ESL docs by any means, but if I want a job - I need to do what my employer asks of me. Take the good and bad - or find a new job! I applaud you for working with your MTs, but you really shouldn't have to! I have only been an MT for two years and I cannot imagine telling my boss that I am not willing to learn something. How rude!
Agree, good post!
Good post. I agree.
I didn't care for his last sentence tho! 
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