lol--no. I didn't get it either. Thought my brain was fried..

• I don't know what everybody has to complain about. sm - Tracey
  • bless your heart for thinking $10-12/hour is good money - nm - Deb
    • My thoughts exactly... - nm
    • pay - tryinghard
    • did you ever notice - I need to get one of those (husband)
      • I'm the "bread winner" in my family - Not necessarily
  • I just would like sm - CrispyCritterMT
  • How on earth do you make $10-$12 - Tellme
  • To all the whiners, this is sm - Food for thought
    • But we're not paid by bytes anymore..sm - mt
    • about themselves? Help the rest of us - Sombody feels good
      • take Amanda's challenge. it's down a lot of posts with a fire tag.NM - mt2
        • I'd gladly take the challenge if there was any freaking WORK to do..! - Idle MT looking for more work nm
    • I'm sorry, but am I the only one... - MT
      • lol--no. I didn't get it either. Thought my brain was fried.. - mt
        • I thought it might have been - MT
    • do you know how rare 9.3 cpl is? - moon1010
  • I guess if I was married - Jodi
    • You ask anybody in any profession - mtmt
      • couldnt agree with you more - MT55
  • REALLY? - still typing
    • May be so but don't forget they don't work all year - Backwards typist
    • Let's all ditch our keyboards and go pave some roads?..nm - HeidiHo
  • Ask yourself this.... - mt
    • My DH is a programmer and was making $200k in the 90s, now at $85k. sm - NeutralObserver
      • That was my whole point! I was not trying to offend anyone. nm - Tracey
    • I kind of have to agree here. - Love working from home, but there are no
    • Mine is less than it was 10 years ago nm - True
      • ok, I apologize. I do sympathize with and understand with you seansoned MTs but...sm - Tracey
        • You're right, i spend way too much time on this board when should be working, I am just so burned - just chilling
        • The construction workers are not all - uneducated either. Not to be unkind.

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You can actually reset your computer from qwerty to dvorak, then just change out the key locations on the keyboard instead of buying a new keyboard.  I just really don't feel like relearning anything right now.  The fastest typist in the world uses the dvorak keyboard, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. 

when I thing of some of the doctors I've known over the years, we could probably learn brain surgery before they could learn transcription ! 

Life is complicated enough for us guys!

he comes from the ghetto, his family still lives in the ghetto, he's trying to help kids in the ghetto......and you want him in a TIE, TUX, and TAILS?  He is dancing for a charity.  That's all he's there for.  To get $$ toward his charity of helping kids in and around the ghetto.

Perhaps you want him to dress like the late Fred Astaire? 

Get real.................

Eh, those adapters really were ''gender changers'' (or gender *and* type changers).  Maybe something more like this (what I'd do anyway, if needing to frequently plug and unplug any USB device ... an extender would make that much easier, too):

http://www.mptools.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=USBE4

Had to take my son yesterday for a CT of his right ischium, to check for osteomyelitis.  I gave that info to the person on the phone when I made the appointment.  Soooo - get to the imaging place, and get all the myriad forms to fill out; at the top, under 'Test Performed', was 'CT scan of the brain'.  I went back up to the desk to question this of the secretary (who is a retired nurse!!), and she looked at me and actually said 'The ischium is in the brain''!!!!!!!!!!  Told hubbie later, and he said I should have told her, not unless my head was up my ***! 

I'm sure the techs would have caught it when they looked at the script from the doc, but still!!!!

(in Radiology), but Google helps.  Stedman's Radiology book is great, with all the CTs, MRIs and PET scans of the head.  I'm pretty sure it would help with some head-related Neurosurg.

I have always "felt unappreciated, underpaid, misunderstood, disrespected, ignored, or taken advantage of as a medical transcriptionist", AND as a typist or clerical staff.  Its the way the cookie crumbles since I'm not a VIP with a suit on and a bunch of fancy letters after my name.

Oh, yeah, I've also felt all that as a wife or girlfriend, because I didn't have the wonderful appendage that causes one to think they're automatically entitled to the best of everything.

On the other hand, I always felt relieved that I didn't have the stress of being as high profile as the more important folk out there.  Like, I'm not the first one they want to sue or pick a fight with, you see.

I don't mind being one of the powers behind the throne.  When I first got into the medical field, it put me in mind of those birds that get on large animals like hippos and pick off their parasites and eat them.  The hippo probably doesn't like carrying a bird on its back all day, but that bird improves its general situation, so it stays.  I suppose that's how all the doctors and CEOs see us, as a necessary evil.  These days, the hippos want to try electronic flea collars (think VR) and other methods to see if they can get the bird off their back.  Sooner or later they will find that the bird isn't so bad, after all.

Once upon a time I thought there was an advocate for MTs - known as AAMT.  They got greedy and bailed, huh?.  Unions are greedy.  Everyone is greedy.

In another incarnation, I had a high-paying job where I was a unionized clerical worker.  I paid big dues to the UAW.  When I needed them, they pretty much bailed, just like an insurance company or the government will do.  They want to take from the group, but they don't want to give to the individual.  I don't really believe in any organization any more, they've never done diddly for me but made a bunch of empty promises and found loopholes when it was time to make good on them.  I'd rather just be a free bird, flying to the hippo that can feed me best.