i have a Geneticist that i type and find it extremely hard with the terms of all the genetic disabli
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I would not; most of the time those type files, although not usually hard medical terms, take lots l
to type and are very difficult as it is hard to hear with background noise, different speakers, usually no macros, etc. I think they are worth more pay, not less. I also get paid by the word at 0.008 and had figured mine to be about 0.09/line as well in the past. stick with where you are.
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 have tried one- extremely hard on my knees
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Or ask for samples of the doc's work if they're hard to understand. GI terms are
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I find it is extremely so! sm
THe other thing is, unless you are ultra fast or so wonderful you are in high demand, you won't make a living at it. I know some cake decorators and it is high pressure. I could make and decorate 3 cakes in a day, of the 2 or 3 layer variety, but they wanted 10 or 12 just the decorated part. I found that daunting myself.
I can only make one of my signature cakes a year (heart shaped cake covered with handmade, real buttercreme roses...think about 150 to 200 roses) about once a year and I need to have time off of work to recuperate anymore. My hands ache and ache!
I am extremely curious as to what new hires do when they find out they have not work. Do they quit,
do they get transferred, what happens to them.
I'm not a very "outgoing" person and I find extremely difficult to sell myself. So the ide
going door to door selling myself causes me to have a major anxiety attack! But here is my two cents anyway. I work FT for a local hospital from home, but I have two of my own accounts I do on the side. My biggest piece of advice is always carry a business card, ALWAYS! Wherever you're at, make sure you have them in your purse. I have found that when I go the new doctor's office, like for example recently I was referred to a dermatologist for a mole removal. While there the doctor chit chatted with me and asked me what I did and I said I was a transcriptionist. She asked how long I had been doing that and I told her 15 years, yada, yada. Anyway, long story short, she asked if I was able to take on more work and I said sure. She asked me to leave a business card with her and she would have the OM call me. I left a card and a couple days later sent a followup letter basically thanking her for her time and her wonderful bed side manner and then included another card with the letter with a little friendly and if you ever need any help with your transcription, remember to give me a call...
They did and they are one of my greatest accounts. One other time at an auction at a business school that was going under, my husband (who never meets a stranger) struck up a conversation with this very professional looking woman who was buying up all the good office furniture and equipment. It seemed like she was willing to outbid everybody and so my husband being curious struck of a conversation and found out she was a psychologist opening up a new office and was there to try to get some office supplies. He proceeded to introduce me and tell her that I was a transcriptionist. She asked if I had a card and I did. Gave it to her, wrote down my per line rate on the back with a note that said it was negotiable and to give me call. She did and that is the second account I have.
I mean if you have the personality to sell yourself and go door to door, I say go for it. I'm just one of those stand-offish kind of people that has trouble making the first move, but once the door is opened for me, I'm always prepared.
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!!!!!
Please don't type in all caps, hard
to read and is considered screaming on the net.
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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I can barely type I'm laughing so hard
Yes, you are going to get slammed for saying some of that stuff, but it is Hilarry-ious!!! And, oh so true. Oh, my side hurts!
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.
The Olympus DS-330 has been discontinued-- hard to find now expecially for $99 - sm
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.
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.
I've got my fingers crossed; makes it hard to type!nm
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How hard is it to type a word in a blank space? I'm afraid
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A good MT is hard to find. Check back with those 2 companies
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I meant bought. Hard to type and listen to the music at the same time.
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Believe it or not, nonsmokers get lung cancer too. It's genetic NM
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How do you find a balance in this type of work...
with family, friends, hobbies, etc and still have time to type! Is it possible, if so, how?
A FEW cases are probably genetic. The overwhelming majority are smokers.
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You and me both. MQ is totally sick. They had better find another type of business to get into
because they have failed miserably with this.
I find myself cringing everytime I type a cath
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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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This is one of the terms...sm
...that seems to have changed. I always put "metacarpophalangeal" before, but almost every doc I transcribe for these days says, very clearly "metacarpal phalangeal." I put the hyphen in because the words should be connected and that is the only way I can do it without changing what the doctor says.
Your book may list "carpophalangeal" as a word, but I am a former x-ray tech and I can tell you that none of the carpal bones attach directly to the phalanges. There is a metacarpal between the carpal bones and the phalanges. If you will look at a hand x-ray, there is a good 2-3" or more (filled by the metacarpal) between the carpal bones and the proximal phalanx of each digit.
That's why you can't depend solely on "word books." If they don't have a definition, you cannot be sure they are correct.
There isn't really a need to take med terms now
I'm not sure there is a need to take med terms before starting MT school. It will be part of your course.
If you are thinking that it will help you decide if you'd like MT, it might not. MT isn't med terms. Med terms is something that you need to know to do MT, but taking med terms might not tell you if you'll enjoy MT. Med terms classes at community colleges are often very boring, frustrating, and impossible. Students' grades are often unnecessarily low because a lot of schools use that class to weed out students who want to take nursing and health information management. They might use a book that isn't very good, too. You don't want that making you think you'll hate MT or that you don't have the ability for it.
When we teach it, we LIKE teaching it and we don't try to flunk people out with it. :)
Do you type really well? Without thinking? Or, at least, do you type 45 wpm without hating it?
Do you love to read? Do you consider yourself to be a good reader? Do you like to write? Do you read and/or write for pleasure?
Does medical stuff fascinate you? Do you enjoy watching medical science shows on TV? The ones with the operations? Do you enjoy reading medical websites and books?
Are you very, very detail oriented? Does your work, whatever it is, need to be just so? Have you always wanted to do the very best work for others?
Those things are better indicators of success in MT than a med terms class.
If you'd like to get a feel for MT, try typing up some practice reports. There are sample operative reports over on www.mtdesk.com. Type them over and over, noting the way they seem to be following style rules in the way they're done. You can also go to www.merck.com and type up some material from chapters of the Merck Manual for physicians. There is a manual there for lay people, too. If you enjoy reading it, that's a good sign.
You might have other reasons for wanting to take those classes that I don't know about, but I did want you to know that it's probably not necessary or useful to take med terms in advance!
Radiology terms A-Z
- abduction
- activity
- adduction
- air-fluid level
- airborne radioactivity
- angiocardiogram
- anteroposterior
- arteriogram
- arthrogram
- atom
- atomic mass
- atomic mass unit
- atomic number
- attenuation
- betatron
- Becquerel (Bq)
- binding energy
- Bohler calcaneal angle
- brachytherapy
- build-up
- cardiothymic silhouette (on chest x-ray)
- cholangiogram
- cholecystogram
- cineradiography
- Compton effect
- computed tomography
- contrast studies
- curie
- echocardiography
- electron volt (eV)
- electrostatic field
- element
- eversion
- excited state
- exposure
- extension
- film badge
- flexion
- fluence, particle
- fluorescence
- fluoroscopy
- gamma camera
- genetically significant dose (GSD)
- gray (Gy)
- ground state
- half value layer
- half-life
- hysterosalpingogram
- in vitro
- in vivo
- interstitial therapy
- interventional radiology
- intracavitary therapy
- inversion
- ion
- ionization
- ionization
- ionizing radiation
- irradiation
- isobars
- isomers
- isotones
- isotope
- Kerley('s) [s/l curly] A, B, or C lines
- Kerma
- lateral decubitus
- lethal
- linear accelerator
- linear energy transfer (LET)
- lymphangiogram
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mass attenuation coefficient
- mass effect
- mass energy absorption coefficient
- mass stopping power
- megavoltage
- mucositis
- myelogram
- myelosuppression
- nuclear medicine
- nucleon
- nuclide
- oblique
- pair production
- palliative
- perfusion studies
- photoelectric effect
- positron-emission tomography
- posteroanterior
- prone
- pyelogram
- rad
- radiation
- radioactive contamination
- radioactive decay
- radioactive equilibrium
- radioimmunoassay
- radioisotope
- radiology
- radiolucent
- radionuclide
- radiopaque
- radiopharmaceutical
- radioresistant
- radiosensitive
- radiotherapy
- recumbent
- rem
- roentgen (R)
- roentgenology
- scintillation camera
- sestamibi
- SI
- Sievert (Sv)
- sonogram
- specific activity
- specific ionization
- stopping power
- supine
- teletherapy
- tenth-value layer (or thickness)
- therapeutic
- tomography
- tracer studies
- tram tracking (on chest x-ray)
- ultrasonography
- ultrasound
- uptake
- venogram
- ventilation studies
Links for terms
Try this link...it has almost anything you might need.
http://home.adelphia.net/~ktm58/links.html
surgical terms
Why don't you invest in ref. books? Trying to do this job without them is like trying to build a house without a hammer for goodness sake. I don't understand you people - always looking for top pay and taking the cheap way out to do your job without proper tools.
or in layman's terms
making sense out of nonsense that the doctor's dictate.
Here's one with a lot of terms/glossaries.
http://www.mtdesk.com/frame.php?frame=glossary
Psych terms...thank you!
I have put this on my favorites and will check it out further.....I appreciate your response:)
with what you are getting in terms of payment...
Then outsources like us are getting ripped off...
I barely make $5 for 8 hours.. you think that's fair. .. cause I sure *&%# don't.
You are confusing your terms.
Software is the computer interface that allows you to perform a certain task, in this case, FTP software allows your computer to connect to an FTP site. If you're looking for an FTP site that is secure, you will more than likely have to pay for it. You can try www.ftptogo.com, although it is not free, it is a good site.
Opthamology Terms
I am testing for a company and I need a good website with Opthamology terminology?
Thanks 
MT911 has some terms
and medications for oncology
Depends on the terms (sm)
There is all the world difference in saying your insurance is $500 a month (and therefore $250 a check for every 2-check month) versus saying it is $250 per check (no matter how many checks per month there is).
cancer terms
http://www.onelook.com
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
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