Re: Are you sick and tired of being an MT? (PSA)

From: Griz (DearCounselor_at_comcast.netnet)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:49:21 -0500

Isn't there some sort of cyber bug spray we could spray on you to make you
go away???

<joi.cardinal@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111154181.085101.62950@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> > And, to piggyback on myself, I just went over to another site where
> she
> > elaborates that they will "soon be accepting donations." Okay, now I
> get
> > it.
> >
> > Sandi
>
> Please provide the URL to support that assertion, Sandi.
>
> If you are referring to me, I have never accepted donations except for
> one specific instance -- when I had to change The DocQscribe Users'
> Reference Forum to Tripichik's MT Productivity Forum over the course of
> a weekend (in order to keep MedQuist happy; happily, I no longer need
> to care about keeping them or any other MT service happy).
>
> Approximately 10 people donated between $5 and $25 each, all of which
> went to paying the programmer and an assistant who set up the new forum
> and transferred all the posts in record time; this occurred on a
> weekend where I did not have the time to do the work myself. After
> those start-up costs were paid, I discontinued taking donations and
> have never needed to ask for them again.
>
> All of that is well documented at Tripichik's MT Productivity Forum,
> http://tripiforum.proboards28.com/index.cgi, which remains an excellent
> source for those wanting information about DocQscribe, expanders,
> templates, and other advanced productivity techniques.
>
> Kindly remember, if you find yourself longing to criticize my newest
> websites, that none of you (meaning regular posters on SMT and other MT
> forums) are my audience. I really do not care what any of you think.
> I was clearing out some old email today, though, and found a link to
> this discussion, sent to me by an old friend who thought I would like
> the opportunity to clear up any misconception.
>
> The products and services that will be sold at www.productivemt.org and
> www.21centurymt.org will be of little interest to the average SMT
> reader or indeed to anyone involved in the business of medical
> transcription as it has been practiced for the past 20 years in this
> country.
>
> Those who are interested in moving into the current century are warmly
> invited to visit these developing sites and join in the discussions.
> DocQscribe users and those interested in increasing their productivity
> as MTs and editors, without increasing the physical stress on their
> bodies, will find much to interest them once the sites are complete.
>
> Residents of Lane County, Oregon, interested in helping to start a new
> type of medical transcription and coding service are requested to send
> an email of inquiry to joi (dot) cardinal (at) gmail (dot) com with
> "Lane County Resident" in the subject line. No experience needed as
> this will not be "business as usual."
>
>
> Best wishes to all for a joyous spring equinox and a productive and
> profitable year,
>
>
>
> Joi Cardinal
>
> Publisher, lph ~~ a cyberjournal for at-home medical documentation
> professionals
>
> www.productivemt.org: for MTs/editors looking to change careers, to
> redress wrongs done to themselves and others, to consider the idea of
> joining a union of health service employees, and, in general, to rouse
> apathetic rabble
>
> www.21centurymt.org: for medical transcriptionists, editors, records
> administrators, MTSOs, and coders looking for techniques and tools to
> enable them to compete in the global marketplace and win.
>

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