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Question: If you need a fax machine or printer for a job... - does that mean the platform is clunky?

Posted: Oct 14, 2014

Does that suggest you will need daily patient lists faxed to you that are hard to read and you have to stop and glean information from them that you are not being paid to do?

Just wondering. I just assumed all of that from the need of a fax machine.

Anyone else venture a guess?

It would to me, sounds old-fashioned/unpaid clerical work nm - acuteMLS

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I think fax machines are obsolete. I got one - in 1999, used it once, and - sm

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it has sat on my desk gathering dust and cat-fur ever since. I still have a small printer for my own use, mainly printing out rental agreements for my landlord, whom I work for part-time as building manager.

Fax sm - Kindred Spirit

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I know, I feel the same way about it being obsolete. Then, the moment you get rid of that dusty old fax machine, you NEED one! Unbelievable. Happened to me. Bought another (cheap) one. Now it sits. We were paying so much money at Goin' Postal thought we might as well buy another one.

LOL Life is funny that way, huh!

Printer or fax - Beware

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I needed one a few years back, they would fax patient information for mammograms and other exams. I went through a ton of paper and constantly buying cartridges, without reimbursement. It got very expensive. Unless they are going to reimburse you or supply you with ink and paper, I would forget it.

Agree. Unless you are getting paid hourly... - you will be

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doing a lot of unpaid work.

Thanks, all. (nm) - OP

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