Re: MT questions

From: Laura Gibson (transpec3_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:36:33 -0600

My biggest mistake is, the patient was prepped and raped instead of draped.
I really have to be careful with that one.

Laura

"Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@snappydsl.net> wrote in message
news:k_-dnbxKedl6v5zfRVn-1w@snappydsl.net...
> I used to work for a temp agency. They had a request for their "best"
> typist, and they sent me (I could do about 90 wpm on a pre-electric
manual
> typewriter). The typewriter they gave me to work was an old clunker that
> wouldn't type faster than about 40 wpm!!!
>
> Oh, I remember the days of 8 carbons!!!! Erasing often took more time
than
> typing over! And, doing legal work where you could NOT make a mistake
or
> you had to do the whole thing over. It made me paranoid, and if I made an
> error it would always be at the very end of a page!!!!! My biggest
"error"
> on the computer is reversing letters. Any other mistake is a rarity, but
> when I really get buzzing I can do that. Now that is where the expanders
> really help. I often type
> "th epatient" I have had to correct that so many times. My expander
lets
> "tp" do it right for me every time.
>
> When I started using an expander my mentor gave me some very good advice.
> She said start out using just two or three shortcuts, and as those become
> "automatic" start adding, just one or two at a time. The old PRD with WP
> 5.1 was just great, and I still follow that form, which has specific
> endings. rc is recommend, rcd recommended, rcj recommendation, rcs
> recommends. Once you develop a style of creating the shortcuts it is easy
> to remember them. When I do not have the expander turned on I have
trouble
> typing because the use of them is so ingrained I don't think about them!
I
> think most of us have words that are spelling problems--did it have one
"m"
> or two. I have a few words that no matter how often I type them I have to
> stop and think. With the expander I enter them so if I do type them wrong
> they correct automatically.
>
> Barb C.
> "Brenda C. Nygren" <bcnygren@epix.net> wrote in message
> news:4200E3AB.5040209@epix.net...
> > Oh, Sandi, this could be "Anywhere USA". You'd be surprised at how many
> > places are still in the stone age. Offices are the worst --- it's
called
> > too cheap to improve technology. Of course, they get a free computer
from
> > Blue Cross or Medicare to put their claims in electronically for
payment,
> > so that's different. Some offices still use paper appointment books ---
> > stop laughing! Many doctor's practices are not large enough to be
> > associated with a hospital, so they're way behind on the concept of
> > paperless. And, believe it or not, there are docs all over the country
> > who still love their hand-held tape recorders to dictate into -- it's
> > either a toy thing or something dumb. It usually comes down to thinking
> > this is a cheaper way to get their charts done. Oh, and there are those
> > who still hand write their charts because they are really really
cheap --
> > forgetting that "time is money" and it's a proven fact that they can
talk
> > faster than write legibly.
> >
> > You'd have to live in a rural area to understand these things. It has
> > nothing to do with the age of physicians, either. Some younger docs are
> > much more technically challenged than those close to retirement. Brenda
> >
> > Sandi wrote:
> >
> >> Sure, she may be more accurate with each key she hits on a typewriter,
> >> because she doesn't want to have to start all over. But what's the
> >> point,
> >> if she could just be using a computer and running a spellcheck/proofing
> >> at
> >> the end?
> >>
> >> And Lordy, where's this office - Bedrock? I'll send her an old
computer
> >> myself if they'll let her use it! LOL
> >>
> >> Sandi
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

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