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doctor names - JustMe

Posted: May 01, 2013

my mtso switched to a new system and all the doc names I had in my data base are gone. what a pain to start over. any simple way to do this. all the doc names come up as spelling errors and i am adding them slowly and painfully ty

Oh, ugh....sorry to hear that! - (see message)

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I hope someone can help you out with a suggestion. Just want to say I sympathize. That happened to us when our hospital changed platforms one time....it wiped out YEARS of not only proper names of doctors I had added to spellcheck but also any new drug brand names I had added, etc.....only had the typical spell check/medical spell check words in there.

Even worse, though--one of my coworkers had to take her computer in-house for IT to do something with, and the IT guy somehow accidentally wiped out all of her templates and abbreviation expanders she had put in over the years. She literally cried. What a huge blow to one's productivity that would be!

Good luck...hope you figure something out. When that happened to me, I only knew to keep adding them to spellcheck again as I went along.

As you start over, consider this tip... - Hope it helps...

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At the first MTSO I worked for (years ago), they had a list of the doctors in their system -- what they called the DL. You would type in "DL" and it would produce a list of doctors to choose from.

This was a great time saver, and I learned from that. Ever since, whenever I have a difficult physician or PA name, I add it to my expansion and preface with DL, such as dlsartova would expand to Sartova.

Prefacing with the DL also puts them in a convenient list in your expansion file.

Expanders - GG

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I worked for a company that provided all the equipment and software, including shorthand. If one is trying to become an independent contractor, where would they find such things as expanders, an online Stedman's Dictionary and drug references? I have some book references but find it to be much more time-consuming having to look things up in a book than having it available at my fingertips. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Stedmans, etc.. - Lynn

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I am doing this from ipad, so please forgive typos. As far as books, you can order whatever you need from stedmans. Also look for others who might be selling books. I currently only have quicklook drug book on my computer, but i plan on getting my most used books as electronic versions. As for an expansion program, there are many to choose from. I use the same expansion program i started with. It works similarly to autocorrect. Others prefer something with more bells and whistles. There may be info on the tech board.

Expanders - Sat

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Expanders are not found in stedman's books or any books they are a program like Instant Text or you can set up in Word the autocorrect to act like an expander.
One good thing about using Word autocorrect or having your own expander program is you that you don't have to worry about losing them going from platform to platform. I know my IT has worked with every platform I've used. The problem with autocorrect in Word is if the platform doesn't work in Word then you can't use it.

Expanders - GG

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Okay, thank you so much for your help.

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