How often should I pressure my doc?

Fact #1: This is my sole source of income, and I depend on it to save up to
move out of an abusive household. (I currently live with my parents, and my
father is psychologically abusive.)

Fact #2: When I first started working with this doc, he was *all excited*
about going Internet, and told me to research equipment. I did, and he
purchased his equipment, and I purchased mine...and we're still doing tapes
seven months later.

Fact #3: I had bronchitis for a month and was knocked flat on my back and
barely able to produce. He hired a production company to pick up the slack.
They brought in some equipment that required only one step instead of three
to send his dictations to the transcriptionists, so when I was well again,
he fired them and wanted me to get my computer guy over there to figure out
a way to get that company's equipment to send work to me instead of the
method we had originally purchased together. GRRRR....

Fact #4: The production company came last month and took their equipment
back. His office manager's son is "working on setting us up with the
Internet." I have been hearing that line since the equipment was originally
purchased.

Fact #5: The doctor's practice is approximately two hours from where I live
and work. He uses the orthopaedic equipment supplier who travels between
here and there on a weekly basis to deliver the tapes to me. This person is
becoming less and less reliable on both ends. This person also plans to move
to where my doctor is in September.

My question: How often should I bug my doctor (I usually talk to him through
his office manager, of course) to get this Internet thing going?

I mean, last time, they had to send the tapes to me UPS because the
orthopaedic equipment guy didn't show up. They had called and asked me to
*drive* to pick them up, two hours before the end of their business day,
when gas prices had just gone to their highest ever, and I was, like, "Um,
sorry, but, I'm down to less than $100 in both accounts and have health and
auto insurance coming up....Can't do it." I didn't tell them that much, but
these people act like I can drop everything and come running! It's almost
like they're constantly saying to me, "How badly do you want this job? Hm?
Gotta work for it!" Doc said he didn't want to mail the tapes because he was
afraid they'd get lost. That's understandable, but he's sent them Fed-Ex
before, so why couldn't he this time?

Any suggestions for negotiating these points in a non-combative (very
difficult for me for obvious reasons), business-like manner would be greatly
appreciated.

Carol-A



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