someone just told me going up 20 cents today and

• Gas to REALLY go up! - KYradMT
  • Photos in today's NYPost show pumps in Brooklyn up over 3.00 a gallon, way over! nm - native NYorker
  • A lot of the refineries that supply the south are in Louisiana. - everything is connected. n/m
  • someone just told me going up 20 cents today and - 29 cents tomorrow morning.
    • There has been talk on the news about gas rationing in the south - too. nm

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it changes every day -  up, up, and away!

They can stick it because they should be paying 18 cents per line.

There is too much EMR and offshoring around here.

I got tired of the promises...Oh I have gals doing 10,500 lines every 2 weeks in 8 hours a day.  (I think I choked when I heard this.)

It is NOTHING for me to type 8000 lines or BETTER in a week and I get paid way more for my 8000 lines.  I have been looking for another job, either PT to augment the lack of work or FT for the right situation.  First question I ask perspective employer? How do you feel about voice.  I have talked to about 7 or 8 companies in the past 2 weeks.  EVERY ONE OF THEM has said NO WAY, NOT HERE.  It is not very good...you can't expect an MT to edit that crapola for half of what they make typing, unless you don't care the least about quality.  I had two of them tell me it was unmitigated GREED on the part of these company's owners that they even entertain it.

I will say that the cream of the crop of MTs can transcribe so much faster than they edit, it isn't even funny.  Granted, there are plenty of MTs who are stop start, stop start, but when I get into a report, I put the pedal to the floor and TYPE.  I am down to about 1.25:1 or better than that a times.  A 5-minute report will take me under 6 minutes, as a rule, to transcribe.  My accuracy is something above 99.5%. I swear what attracts MTs to editing is the fact that they can't type enough lines to make it work as a career.  Either they can't sit still (that is me most days, but my speed makes up for it), they don't know their stuff all that well, or type slower than a 7-year itch...but they are not the cream of the crop.

Just you all wait...one of these companies who has crappy speech program and crappy "editors" is going to be sued and those extremely substandard reports are going to win the case for the plantiff and the hospital is going to be left high and dry, a couple of doctors with them.  We are here for a reason.  We protect patients and patient care.  We also protect the doctors from litigation.  I used to go through medical records looking for errors, loop holes and other boo boos for a malpractice lawyer.  The better the transcription, the more thorough the dictation, the less I could find proof against a doctor or facility. 

We need a national forum for this...newspaper something.

it because it also uses a lot of memory.  I decided to go with Windows XP instead.  Dell is offering a free upgrade to Windows Vista if you purchase one of their systems.   They still gave me a free upgrade option, but I doubt I will use it.

Good Luck.

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

Well, I think speech recognition is definitely growing, but I think 3 to 5 years is exaggerated.  When I worked in house, quite a few rad MTs got laid off because of VR, but they still had to keep a few for the difficut ESLs.  I work for a hospital at home now.  This is a large teaching hospital and they still hand-write the majority of their reports (H&Ps, consults, etc.).  They are working on dictating these in the future, but I just can't at all see things turning totally to VR in 3 to 5 years.  I think there will always be hospitals who want to have MTs, plus there are a lot of private doctors out there and clinics who need MTs.   Yes, I think the demand for MTs in general may decrease, but in my opinion there will always be some demand.  I suggest to broaden your experiences and don't limit yourself to one work type or specialty.  The more experience and versatility you have, the more marketable you will be in the future.  

I am a hospital coder by day, home MT after hours.  I have my CCS (certified coding specialist) certificate and have been coding in house for 6 years.  I must be honest and say that I make more money transcribing part-time than I do coding full time.  MT pays by the line, you write your own check depending on how hard you work.  In house coding is not only hard to breat into but usually pays by the hour.

In one post you basically itemized partly what you would need to give a lawyer if you were to file for a divorce - division of debts.  The only other issues would be division of any assets and custody.

Next I noticed that you referred twice to _your_ son, not _our_ son (indicating to me you feel more invested in the child and not acknowledging his parentage).

Next you have this offer of a house that is trashed to help out your family and you take the stand that you will fight for your house.  Having been there and done that, if YOU move into that house, it will be held over your head until you die (not just if you were to ever move out even on good terms).  Also his family will become even more intertwined in your marriage than they already shouldn't be.

Others may disagree with what I'm about to say as being underhanded and mean, but I will tell you that if you want to be respected, you have to show you are willing to stand up for yourself.  In your case, you have many people to stand up to.

You are mentally prepared to be separated, well, as I have read your posts.  Go to that house and clean the bathroom, the kitchen and a bedroom.  Find calmness within yourself as you do this.  Then offer your husband the key to the house, a truck to move his belongings and invite him to live in it...alone.  Don't fight.  Load the truck yourself before he wakes up if you have to.  Tell him you love him (if that is a sincere emotion) and that in order for the two of you to work out your problems, sometimes being apart can bring a couple together.  File a notice in your local paper for 7 days that you are no longer responsible for any of his financial responsibilities.  If he won't leave, tell him you will need to call someone to help him.  When he is gone, change all the locks. 

This is an extreme measure and in my case, I got what I wanted - permanent elimination of the man from my life.  Think this over carefully before acting on it because you could lose your family; however, it seems to me - IMHO - that you are already in a place where you are thinking of yourself, your son, and your home  as your priority.  When my family (meaning his and mine) got overly involved in my marriage, it ended any hope of saving it.  Think about how long you can emotionally and financially carry the baggage you currently do.

As I said, just 2 cents...