the prison transcription thing was squashed before it even got started = sm

• regarding physicals and drug screening for at home jobs - no name
  • I just cannot get over what a bunch of self righteous - - god
  • It is amazing to me how self-important US MTs are ... - Busy MT'ing
    • was that supposed to be coherent? nm - huh?
      • Couldn't think of anything intelligent to say, so you edit? - sm
    • That was a good post! Totally agree. - nm
      • me tooooo - daano
    • Don't be so quick to judge others by yourself busy-body MT! - hahaha
      • looks like our preacher busy-mt is back on board. - not so busy huh?
        • You sound a bit jealous that you are too - sm
          • too stupid to post on a board that i have a college degree and am going to be an MD? - Busy MD'ing
            • Seen a psychiatrist for this problem? - what a mixed up mess u r.
              • I AM A PSYCHIATRIST. You are too much in others business and this reflects the inability to tend - Busy MD'ing
                • WOOOW. You are the biggest idiot i have ever heard...GET A LIFE! - sm
        • True, I will have much less time when the semester - Busy MT'ing
  • I don't think fat people should be able to transcribe either. - Me
    • Fat MT - Hope you were being facetious
      • sure i was. i'm making fun of the people who are making a case for background checks, etc - My case
        • Enough with invasion of privacy - ve
          • to VE - NINE HOSPITALS have never drug tested you - they must be out in left field! - x
            • working IN A HOSPITAL is different than working at home. - It is invasion of privacy.
          • I agree with you. What in the world would one want to do with a report, that would require screenin - Enough!
        • WHEW!!! - Fat MT
  • I think they should do a background check also. nm - fg
    • I agree. Physicals, screenings, and background checks. - Busy MT'ing
      • lie detector tests too huh busy. just to see if everyone tells the truth about credentials and goal - to be an MD
        • Medication can help you get past the things you can't accept - Busy MT'ing
          • jokes on you busy-body MT. hahaha. - fraud patrol alert.
    • yes, they definitely do a background check. - sm - no name
      • maybe it's just a pure and simple invasion of privacy the poster feels they want to protect. - get government OUT!
        • the prison transcription thing was squashed before it even got started = sm - squashed
          • I've typed such reports - withheld
          • Celebrity tell-all - no name
      • oops - big mistake - I said the wrong person - apologies apologies apologies - no name
  • Drug Screens - Cece

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she would say I am going to let you go so you can get back to work and then go off on some other topic and several minutes later I am still on the phone.  I finally would start typing so she could hear my fingers on the keyboard so she would finally let me go.  She would also call right before I had to pick up my girls from school and then get huffy when I had to tell her I had to go because they were waiting for me (tell me that I should make them ride the bus so I could stay home and get my work done - this after keeping me on the phone for over 20 minutes or more so she was the reason I wasn't getting my typing done).  I also had to do what you are doing and let the machine pick up (the only reason I answered the phone was just in case it was the school calling about my kids). 

She also told me once that I shoud go camping for the week with them (my husband could take us one weekend and come home and work the week and come back the next weekend).  This after explaining to her many many times that I only get paid when I type and if I take a vacation I not only lose the $$ I would have made that week but end up spending that and then some during the vacation.  Several years later my brother lost his job and worked sales for another company and only got paid a small salary and comission and when they only camped close enough to home so that my brother could still work she acted like that was no big deal (hello, same thing I had been trying to get through her head for several years before that).  Some people just don't get it that we are actually working and that we only get paid by production so with any interruptions we lose $$.  Good luck to you.  I certainly understand where you are coming from.  Not sure there is anything you can do or say to make him understand though.       

Am aware of a state prison hiring MTs.  Wondering what type of pre employment testing is required.

Thanks!

Was he up on state or federal charges, because they are different.   When my ex got out he had to go to a halfway house first for 6 months and was under house arrest for 2 years and parole for 5.  Parole is very serious too.  Good luck on this.

Who would have ever thought in this great country you would not be able to work unless you, well, do not need to work...

Anyway, in my searches for a way to make more money I came across this information. 

http://www.vipdesk.com/info/careers_baopenhouse_faq.asp

This really appealed to me only I would never pass the credit check but I thought I would pass it on...If anyone is interested in still working at home but perhaps getting out of MT, or even supplementing your income this seems like such a great job -

Ever wonder when you call and order a product over the phone and it is some type of a call center how the people get these jobs?  This explains how  you can get those jobs and it sounds like an interesting field to work in...

Unfortunately, the credit check is pretty extensive and you need a very high credit score to qualify for a job but anyone out there with a nice phone voice who likes to work at home but is not making enough money with MT, perhaps you should check this out...

I don't think there's any cause to get upset or defensive here.  Look it up on line...even colleges are offering courses in Ebonics!  ...well of course they are more sociology-type courses, but still, people are PAYING to learn about the why's and how's of this "other" language.

A quote from one of the sites I found:

"UT-Austin's "Introduction to the Study of African American English," teaches students that the sentence, "Nobody didn't leave" is not "mainstream English with mistakes," but rather a legitimate English dialect. "Ebonics: Myth and Facts" and "African-American English" are both offered at Harvard. Penn and UCLA also promote Ebonics as a legitimate dialect in, "Introduction to African American and Latino English" and "Afro-American Sociolinguistics: Black English," respectively."

Here's the link: http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2002/september_2002_2.html

:P

If you live in southern CA, on the job seeker board Chronicle Transcripts is hiring newbies.  I used to be a lead transcriptionist for them when they were located in my town.  Nice people and you will get very good training from them.  What I have found is the smaller trans companies usually are willing to take in trainees or medical trans school graduates.  Also, the federal govt and state govt have medical transcriptionists..You can check about testing with the govt.  Good luck!

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Delivered newspapers, did MT for 4 hours, went out for a few last minute things, went grocery shopping, finished wrapping presents, finished crocheting my new grandson's baby blanket, cleaned the kitchen did the dishes and looked after my 2-year-old terror twin granddaughters for 2 hours before I finally called my daughter at 6:00 p.m. and said, "COME AND GET THEM."

I love them dearly, but they are 175% wired with the whole Christmas thing and I am just getting over the flu.

I know, I know. . . .I'm TYPE A all the way.

I can't believe I've made it this late. I'm going night night.

$450 bucks will get you everything you need to get started. Here is the item:

Transcription Kit.

That transcription kit comes with the digital recorder you can give to your client, and for you-all the software, foot pedal and the headset. That will be enough to get you on your feet on your own.

Get hold of some practice dictations, and then dive in!  If you have the proper references and good skills to begin with, you'll do fine.  Go for it! 

I'm not going to get into it.......that's for sure.  Suffice to say he idolizes his dad who emphatically states in his late 80s that the holocaust never happened.  

Yeah, right.....don't get me started......I'll hush for now!

1568 so far and two tapes left to do before noon. 

Can any one give me advice on how to get started doing medical transcription on-line?  I have been working for a group of local physicians and have decided to change the way the keep their charts.  They are actually going back to hand writting some of their abnormals.  They have a 2 sided form with review of systems, physical exam, assessment/plan and they just check the approrpiate boxes and write in the abnromal findings.  I see a lot of companies offering transcription being done on-line, but I have no idea how to do this since I have always used a micro cassette recorder.

Thank you,

Cheryl

When you say a background in English, are you referring to something more than high school and college english, writing classes?  I always did very well in English.  I also took medical terminology, of course, got an A, and am certified as a nurse's aide.  I worked in surgery for four years as a medical secretary typing surgical reports and entering them into the computer, as well as scheduling and typing the surgical schedule daily.  I've worked in a psychiatrist office as well.  The Medical Transcription agency here tested all of the applicants, and I was the only one with no experience that they hired, because I aced the test.  So I guess that I thought that starting out with an agency that is willing to train me is worth the trade off of the low pay.  I will be an IC, so after a while, can branch out and make more $.  Do you still think I have no business getting started in this business?  I do appreciate your advice!

One of the doctors - American MD - I transcribe for regularly says "tender to palpitation."  I used to have an ARNP who said "libidio."  And I just LOVE it when they do me the favor of spelling something -- I've already typed it, doc, thanks so much -- and then they wildly MISspell it. 

Did one 13-minute (but only 40-line) dictation today from this ESL doc who had the hardest time pronounding "fluoxetine."  Can't tell you how long it took me to figure out that's what he was saying... but I finally did... then on about the 5th or 6th time he's struggling thru this word, he says "just go back and change those all to Prozac, it's easier."