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are we playing limbo? - how low can we go?
Posted: Jan 10, 2012
On another site, they are advertising for an IC position at 6.5-7.5 cents a line.
Bleak.
I saw that - sm
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The ad makes it sound like it's a wonderful job and you should be lucky to get 6.5 cents a line. Someone will apply, sadly, and this will go on and on.
I've been reading all the posts on here, I have read the emails from Medquist.
I don't do this job for fun. I do it to get paid. If I have to spend all my time looking up old reports and trying to figure out what this doctor mumbled or that one said when his head was underwater, my line counts will go down...meaning less pay.
And yet if I send blanks to the client that get audited and THEY think I could have found the information, I go back on 100% QA... hence less pay.
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reading the client profile
looking up a word in my stedman's books
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Hello,
Express Scribe Pro won't play until the end of some my files. It cuts it off a few seconds to a minute before it's over. Is there some kind of setting that I need to change to fix this?
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I have been sent a number of .wav files. Express scribe can't play them, and is opening them as multi-channel files.
Windows Media player isn't playing them.
VLC isn't.
Real Player isn't.
I have renamed them, and downloaded updated drivers for my sound card. I have tried multiple computers. Another MT on the account is having the same issue.
Any other thoughts or suggestions on this?
MTSO is able to play them okay on her wave player.
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I am hoping someone might have some quick help for me. I have just started a new account, did a test file last night, downloaded an MP3 file to Express Scribe. This is my first experience with MP3 files. Tonight I am starting actual work for this new company, did all that I did last night in terms of downloading and ES acts as though it is playing but I am getting no sound. A little window is now open on express scribe that I have never seen before and it has two channels listed. Can ...
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I am trying to do a transcription test and the company I used to work for changed my computer setup and I can no longer use Express Scribe to play voice files using my foot pedal. Does anyone know where the settings are to make it play voice files once they are on Express Scribe and where on my computer do I check to see what the foot pedal setting is? I have been trying to fix this so I can get through the transcription test and hopefully MAYBE ACTUALLY GET A JOB?&nbs ...
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Hi,
The patient is a teenager with a displaced Salter II fracture of the index finger. The cast is so he can play football. I'm really coming up empty handed on my google search this time. I found 2 (count em TWO) results for RTV-11 cast, which is something but doesn't really build my confidence.
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