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anyone can completely proofread each report without going way down on their line count - tootsie

Posted: Mar 02, 2014

I don't know how anyone can completely proofread each report without going way down on their line count and also running up your idle minutes past 15. Any ideas out there?

I got out of MT completely - Problem solved

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what do you mean by proofread? You mean after you type the report? - dont do it

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i go through once and that's it.

Proofread - tootsie

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Yes after we type the report and go back over it.

Now that's the funniest thing I've heard all day! n/m - Kiki

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me too. Once its typed or edited its gone. Never look back - i couldnt imagine

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I always wondered how people struggle to get 150 lines. I guess that's how. I run about 400

proof as you go - corgi

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Proof as you go if you can, especially the short segments like social history, family history. I do read over all my reports and can keep a line count about 250-280 depending on dictators, sometimes higher, and have low idle time. Good luck! It does take practice, but it is possible to proof as you are editing.

This is how I doubled my line counts (sm) - Rose

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I created a marker in IT that was a P highlighted in lime green so there was no way I could miss it. I used the dictators pauses in dictation to proof and inserted this marker where I left off so I could quickly go back to it on the next pause. I would also proof as I go. I did see a very slight decrease in accuracy doing this but they were just a missed comma, or he vs. a she, minor things which I hate to leave in a report but you have to make a living. It probably decreased my accuracy about a 1/2%. Not proofing at the end of the report doubled my time. I did to a quick look over at the end but only for a few seconds. It is difficult to proof as you go when it comes to editing as SR errors don't jump out at you like transcription errors do, but it is possible. I think it is the only way to make enough money to live on if you are 100$ self-supporting.

Good luck to you.

Yea I proofed as I went till I left a , and the - sm

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and then started failing audits for BS mistakes similar to that. doesnt take much to fail anymore..Line count has dropped by about 50-75 an hour trying to pass the freaking audit

he/she - mt

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I think he/she is a critical error, isn't it?

Apparently not to the doctor - sm

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They mix up he and she all the time and they have actually LOOKED at the patient. Wonder if they did a GU exam, maybe they need to go back to med school.

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