anybody have good web sites for radiation/oncology
Posted By: rmt on 2005-12-08
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including protocols, drug studies, etc. Thanks a bunch!!
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janet mills
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been doing oncology since 1987
Once you know a field, it becomes a piece of cake. I do not agree that you need ANY books if you are transcribing ONLINE. There are many govt sites belonging to NIH and end in a dot gov which have all the current chemo drugs to date. We also have other rx websites to check out like drugs dot com and rx dot com to find drugs and proper spelling and when all else fails there's always Google dot com search engine.
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I have Oncology experience.
But not for $.065 cpl as has been offered by other companies. Perhaps a few more details in your job ad? Estimated lines per day, pay rate, TAT, company website, full-time or part-time, employee or IC?
Agree with oncology. Glad I don't do it! nm
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