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IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF
DARLENE CUNNINGHAM
(see Cancer Support Board, http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/casupport)
>From Louise, happyweezi@aol.com:
Darlene Cunningham was 41 years old. She was married to her loving
husband, Dave, for 21 years, and her son, Shawn, is 20 years old. She was
a hair color specialist for quite some years and then became an MT and
subcontracted for my service as a newbie; she became my best friend. We
started a business together, New Hampshire Institute of Medical
Transcription, and were about to launch our website in October. This will
be delayed but will be pursued in her honor. She was a home-body and
loved hummingbirds. She was a joyful, high-spirited, very positive person
that fought very hard to beat this monster. She will be sadly missed for
many reasons, by many.
>From Debbie:
Darlene was a very gifted person, including being a wonderful artist. She
painted her kitchen with textured bricks by free hand. It is beautiful!
Her husband has a wonderful garden in their backyard which Darlene loved.
Darlene always spoke about how sweet her husband is and showed just how
much she loved him and their son.
Darlene was a beautician, but because of problems with carpal tunnel syndrome, she had to quit. She had numerous surgeries because of this. She went through MT training and began working as an MT in the summer of 1998. Both of us began working for a start-up company. Darlene also worked for a local MT and they were starting work on an on-line project for MTs. She had such dreams!
Darlene always said that she was too young to die. She was a very loving, caring person. If you told her about something that was bothering you, she'd worry about you and try to help you. She was also the ultimate hostess, although when I visited her in August, she wasn't able to do all that she wanted to do, and that really bothered her. It was wonderful just hanging around her house with her family coming and going all day and just talking. She was such a good listener and didn't really want to burden anyone with her problems.
I know a lot of people grew to really respect and appreciate Darlene for her caring ways. It'll be one of the biggest things she'll be remembered for, and she was a fighter until the end! During the spring, Darlene renewed her relationship with God, and grew in her relationship with him. Over the summer, both her husband and son became Christians. Please pray for her entire family. (Please write mmorken@ix.netcom.com if you would like the home address of Darlene's family to share comfort.)
1. New board for mothers with special-needs children:
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/specialmoms
2. 300 jobs listed now on MT Jobs:
http://www.mtjobs.com
3. Is your company looking for new accounts to bid on?
http://www.mtdaily.com/outsource
4. E-mail shower for Judy B. and her family:
http://www.mtdaily.com/wwwboard/messages12/2526.html
5. Tell your story of faith on the religion board:
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/religion
6. MT suing doctor for racist comments:
http://www.mtdaily.com/wwwboard/messages12/2436.html
7. Replacement letters for keyboards:
http://www.mtdaily.com/wwwboard/messages12/2338.html
8. Working for Indian companies:
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/world/messages/607.html
9. $25 medbookstore coupon ends 10/5:
http://www.mtdaily.com/marketplace
10. Sell your extra MT stuff:
http://www.mtdaily.com/ads.html
11. In-house hospital MTs' Board:
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/hospitalmts
12. Should the presidential candidate with the most money win?
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/politics/messages/2135.html
13. Anybody make good pizza?
http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/cooks/messages/2140.html
1. Free newsletter of money-saving tips:
http://www.valulinks.com
2. Free newsletter of new surgical equipment:
http://www.surgery911.com
3. SAMe, natural antidepressant:
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.same.html
4. Excellent grammar guide:
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm
5. Free computer technical support:
http://nospin.com
6. Consumer public service:
http://www.consumerworld.com
7. Pneumonia vaccine for children:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/hl/vac9_1.html
8. Pepcid for autism:
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/132436.htm
9. Agoraphobia triple treatment:
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/131e8e.htm
10. Contaminated blood banks:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/100199/blood_taint_ap.sml
11. Sniffing DNA of bacteria for asthma:
http://www.drkoop.com/news/stories/october/sniffing_asthma.html
12. Babies sleep safer in cribs:
http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?243943
Another opinion:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990930/hl/bed6_1.html
13. Pregnancy networking website:
http://www.thelaboroflove.com
14. Blocking enzyme to fight cancer:
http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?243551
15. Fungus and leukemia, surprise cure:
http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?243825
16. Coffee to prevent liver cancer:
http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?243644
17. New verification of pharmacy websites:
http://www.nabp.net/whatsnew/pressreleases/webPR.asp?idValue=49
18. DHEA for adrenal insufficiency:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/hl/adr8_1.html
19. Deafness carrier gene:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/hl/dea12_1.html
20. Ancure Tube and Bifurcated Endovascular Grafting Systems:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/hl/ane6_1.html
21. Folic acid to prevent birth defects:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990929/hl/fol10_3.html
22. Diltiazem may preserve sight:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990927/hl/bli8_1.html
23. Botox for migraine:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990927/hl/bot11_1.html
24. HeartMate IP "mechanical heart":
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990928/wa_heart_i_1.html
25. New angiogenic blood-vessel-producing agent:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990929/ca_trimedy_1.html
Thanks to MDI, Medical Dictation, Ind., of Maryland, for sponsoring this newsletter. See http://www.med-dictation.com for more information. Thanks also to Joe Weber of Narratek for the special MT Daily Rounds $30 discount on Smartype speedtyping software (which is the leading expander for WordPerfect 5.1, saving 70% of your keystrokes), with a free abbreviation add-on sent via zipped e-mail attachment. Total price including $8 shipping is $173, an $80 savings over the regular price. Email joeweber@alum.mit.edu, call 617-566-1066, fax 617-566-2500, or order at http://www.narratek.com. Mention MT Daily Rounds to qualify for the discount price. At this special price, Narratek can not accept the return of opened software. Thanks for letting others know about the newsletter. And thanks to all who help each other on the boards. Circulation 4,001. -Mary Morken, mmorken@ix.netcom.com.
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CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE RIGHT TO KNOW
This week I've come across several issues dealing with these two principles; some of the links below relate to them. What should we do when two true and valid principles collide in a real situation? Sometimes one principle overrides the other, such as not telling the truth, to save a life. Sometimes two or more principles have equal weight, and another principle may be the solution. Some are puzzles of two bad options. Here are some situations where wisdom is needed for the best strategy, where there is no easy solution:
-Patient histories and diagnoses must be shared by many health care workers in order for them to be treated, but there must be a clear need-to-know limit.
-Patient diagnoses are private information, but diseases that endanger others must be reported to the appropriate parties for their protection.
-Physicians need to be able to confer among themselves without betraying their patient's trust in their ethics.
-We must keep dictation confidential, but what we hear may dump an ethical dilemma on us.
-A friend may confide that they are planning to commit suicide, but they need intervention for their own protection and we are implicated if we don't act.
-We may need to know the details of a company's arrangements before submitting a resume, but companies have a right to privacy for the sake of competition.
-We may want to use public message boards to warn each other about bad companies, but companies have a right to do business without misrepresentation or interference.
-We may want to know if an MT company is sending work overseas, but they may not even know where the work is done, if their subcontractors are subcontracting out and do not tell them where the work is done.
-Public message boards can feel like an identity masquerade and a personal exposure to the world at the same time.
-Sharing secrets can build trust between people, or lead to threats and intimidation; asking about a rumor can bring clarification, or it can do damage.
Researching facts, understanding motives and consequences, courage and patience, and networking can help us think through questions. Thanks to those who have lightened my thinking load this week!
I'm going to post this on the Ethics Board for further discussion at http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/ ethics. All of us are wiser than one of us!
1. New Exercise Board: http://www.mtdaily.com/mentor s/exercise
2. Confidentiality vs. objecting to racism:
http://www.mtdai
ly.com/wwwboard/messages12/2436.html
http://www.mt
daily.com/mentors/ethics/messages/431.html
3. Referral bonuses:
http://www.mtda
ily.com/mtbycompany/messages2/354.html
4. Dictation cherry picking:
http://www.mtdaily.co
m/vent/messages3/9771.html
5. Halloween costumes:
http://www.
mtdaily.com/mentors/mothers/messages/6238.html
6. Head lice: http://www. mtdaily.com/mentors/mothers/messages/6161.html
7. Efficient QA feedback:
http://www.m
tdaily.com/mentors/editors/messages/191.html
8. Approaching a supervisor with production problems:
http://w
ww.mtdaily.com/mentors/supervisors/messages/239.html
9. Change in purpose of MTbycompany board, and limits of anonymity:
http://www.mtda
ily.com/mtbycompany/messages2/266.html
10. MTs recommending national companies:
http://www.mtda
ily.com/mtbycompany/messages/9660.html
11. Active part-time jobs for exercise:
http://www.
mtdaily.com/mentors/winners/messages/1031.html
1. High pain tolerance linked to hypertension:
http://w
ww.drkoop.com/news/stories/october/hypertension.html
2. PSA may fight prostate cancer:
ht
tp://www.drkoop.com/news/stories/october/prostate_indicator.html
3. New bipartisan medical records privacy proposal:
http://web.lexis-
nexis.com/more/ahi/19492/5056091/2
4. Countdown to Y2K: http://web.lexis- nexis.com/more/ahi/19495/5056084/1
5. Should Harry Potter be banned from schools?
6. Physicians fired for racist comments:
7. HIV confidentiality vs. right to know:
8. New private AAMT members online forum: http://www.aamt.org/forum.htm
9. Internet Legal Concerns:
10. Rett's syndrome gene discovered:
11. Glucowatch: http://www.ivanhoe.com/
stream/glucowatch.html
12. Steroids for carpal tunnel:
13. How Ya Doin' survey:
14. New controlled reperfusion for DVT:
15. MT's fatal error: http://www.tampabayon
line.net/news/news100w.htm
16. superoxide dismutase synzyme for inflammation:
17. Another hand transplant planned:
18. Quick diagnosis of stroke needed:
19. Plastic Surgery Chat with Dr. Vander Kolk of JHH on Wednesday:
20. Lose weight to live longer:
21. Febrile seizure gene:
22. Tikosyn, anti-arrhythmic: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/1358
8a.htm
23. New virus caused NY encephalitis:
24. HIMSS Conference in Dallas, 4/2000:
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Joyce Fonville: I am a new MT from Georgia. I am a single mom with three
children, two girls ages 12 and 16, and a son 4 who is autistic. I have
been visiting MT Daily for close to a year now. About four months ago I
finally got up enough courage to go into chat. I met Rosebud and we
became fast friends. Her son Lee is also a "special kid" with Down's
syndrome.
One night Beth joined us in chat. Rosebud and I were talking about our
children and Beth began to ask questions about my son, Logan. We began
e-mailing each other. She was in the process of having her son tested for
developmental delays. I was happy to be her sounding board and support
through this rough process.
A few weeks ago, someone posted on the Motherboard asking if there were
any mothers of children with disabilities. The response was much more
than we anticipated. We came to realize that we needed a board for
support. The new board was set up for us to support one another. Raising
a special-needs child is difficult; sometimes just a few words of
encouragement from someone who has been there can make all the difference
in the world. The response and support on this board has been tremendous!
I feel like God answered my prayers by meeting Beth and Rosebud and all
the other wonderful people that post on MT Daily.
Beth Collins: I am currently learning medical transcription. I decided
to join the chat room one night a few months ago to meet other MTs. I was
hesitant at first because I am a newbie in this and wasn't sure how I
would be accepted. It turned out to be one of the best things I have ever
done. One of the first people I met was Rosebud. She was so kind and
generous with her advice and made me feel so welcome. She is the reason
that I kept coming back to chat. We talked about our families and she
told me about her special son Lee who has Down's syndrome. This opened
the door for me to tell about my son Cory, who was having some testing
done at the time for developmental delays. She understood the things we
were going through because she had been here. She was there anytime I
needed to talk and she's a good friend now.
Eventually I met Joyce in chat. She became my guiding light through this
ordeal with my son. I think God had a hand in bringing Joy to me. I had
no idea what I was in for when my son was first suspected with a learning
disability. As a mother of four boys, I felt I had the experience to
handle anything. But this was all totally new to me and I trusted the
doctors and therapists to tell me what to do and when to do it.
One night I got in on a conversation with Joy and Rosebud in chat and Joy
mentioned her son was autistic. My heart jumped because this is what I
suspected my son to have, but I had never spoken to anyone who knew about
it. I had so many questions and Joy was kind enough to answer them all.
We were soon talking with each other almost daily, sharing ideas. Joy
and Rosebud have become my shoulders to lean on through this. The new
"special moms" board is certainly a blessing to all moms like us who
sometimes need a place to go for advice or just to meet others and not
feel so alone.
Vickie Gosling: I have been a medical transcriptionist for 27 years. Many
of you know me as Rosebud on the boards and chat room at MT Daily. I am
the mother of two wonderful sons and my oldest son is Down's syndrome. He
is 21 years old and his name is Lee. My second son, Matthew, is 19 and is
in college.
I was 25 when Lee was born. Since he was my first, he was "normal" to me.
I knew nothing about Down's syndrome and didn't know anybody else who was
Down's syndrome. I read all I could get my hands on as fast as I could,
trying to prepare myself for what was to come. I didn't have the
Internet; my family and friends were my only support system. They were a
good support system but I longed to talk to someone with a Down's child to
know more about what to expect. Lee was six months old before I ever
talked to someone who was a parent of a Down's syndrome child. Our first
contact was a two-hour long phone conversation!
When I first started coming to the chat room at MT Daily, I met lots of
wonderful people and soon learned that there were some "special moms"
there too. I met Joy and we started talking about our kids. I told her
that she could call on me at any time if she needed advice or just
somebody to listen to her. I kept remembering how lonely I was when I had
Lee and knew no one who could even relate
to what I was going through. Soon after I met Joy, I met Beth. She was
really quiet and shy but soon I learned that she had a "special needs"
child too. We bounce ideas off one another and just enjoy being there for
each other. Oh what I would have given to know them when Lee was little!
Better late than never.
One day another person posted a question on the board about a "special
needs" child and then came the idea of having our own board. It is so
wonderful to go there and read all the posts. There are lots of special
moms out there! We've had a teacher post on our board too. So all of you
come and check it out, and a special invitation to special moms. You'll
find many interesting and informative posts, but most of all you'll find
that we are just moms just like you moms, and our kids are kids just like
your kids! (http://www.mtdaily.com/men
tors/specialmoms)
1. Buying a C-phone:
2. Split keyboards: http://www.mtdai
ly.com/wwwboard/messages12/4463.html
3. Sound distractions:
4. Back and wrist pain:
5. Long- and short-note preferences:
6. Voluntary certification pros and cons:
7. MT Liability for dosage errors:
8. Traffic pet peeves: http://www.mtdaily.c
om/vent/messages3/10012.html
9. New IRC MT Chat: http://www.mtdaily.co
m/vent/messages3/9925.html
10. Forwarding syndrome:
11. Advice for MT students:
12. Best uses for tool bar:
13. Waiving right to sue a physician:
14. Perspectives on MT in India:
15. Getting rid of lice:
16. Tell your story of faith: http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/f
aith
1. 10 Core rules of Netiquette:
2. Premarket approvals for devices, 9/99:
3. Daily changes in websites: http://www.dailydiffs.com
4. Peggy Noonan on taking time:
5. Suicide and social fragmentation:
6. House votes against physician-assisted suicide:
7. Suicide intervention: http://suicidal.com/depres
sionfaq/q16.html
8. Thymus transplants for infants:
9. Nobel Prize in Medicine:
10. Nobel Peace Prize, Doctors Without Borders:
11. Alternative medicine for thyroid diseases:
12. Dudley Moore and Parkinsonism:
13. Online voice mail: http://www.pagoo.com
14. New baby walkers delay development:
15. Six-billionth baby:
16. Better cancer diagnosis via genes:
17. Muscles need nerves:
18. Children's backpacks too heavy:
19. RotaShield vaccine withdrawn:
20. Cystic fibrosis cell function:
21. New brain cells grow throughout life:
22. Customized drugs someday:
23. Obesity denial:
24. Gene mapping progress and individualized vaccines:
25. Sledding helmets:
26. 24-70% of those waiting receive transplants yearly:
27. Intel trying to help doctors with paperwork:
28. Doctor-patient E-mail:
29. More heart attacks in December and January:
30. Nurses discouraged and concerned for patients:
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My name is Pandora Garcia aka PandaBear. I live in Northern California. I
have been an MT for only a couple of years, but I've wanted to do this
since before I had my boys, now ages 10 and 8. After discovering what MT
was all about, I decided that it was my calling. I started learning about
how I could get into it, and voila! I was pregnant. Well, after attending
a few classes, I had to stop pursuing my dream for a while and have my
first baby. Then along came the second, totally unplanned, of course! My
thoughts of becoming an MT were put on the back burner, if only for a
little while.
When my youngest son was a year old, I had been working at a large local
newspaper and decided to place an ad for some part-time work out of my
home. I told my husband that if I didn't get a response from my ad, I
would forget about it. My ad was set to run for 10 days. On the 10th
day, I received a call from a gentleman who was looking for someone to
help him with his nonmedical overflow dictation. I began picking up work
in the evening after my shift at the paper was over. I would go home,
feed and bathe my kids, put them to bed, and type until 12:00-1:00 a.m.,
or whenever I was finished with my work for the night. Bright and early
at 5:30 a.m., I was up with the kids shuffling them off to their sitter.
I would then drop my work off and go to my job at the paper. That
evening, I would start the whole process over.
I did this for six months. Eventually, I was making more working
part-time at home than I was at the paper. Fortunately, my husband's job
provided benefits, so I stopped working at the paper and stayed at home.
Ever confident and scared, I quit the job I had been at for eight years,
left all those benefits and my seniority behind, and set out after my
dream of being an MT.
That was nearly eight years ago. I have done work for vocational
rehabilitation firms, investigation services, attorneys, marketing firms,
occasional odd typing jobs, medical evaluation services, and now, MT work.
As you might have guessed, I am self-taught and I still have a long way to
go to catch up to some of you! I wish I could snap my fingers and know it
all. For now, I guess I'll just have to keep my 10 fingers snapping on
the keyboard!
Finally, I would like to offer my story as a tribute to those people who
are dedicated and who have worked long and hard to achieve their status as
MTs, and to those who are still climbing the ladder to get there. I am
proof that it CAN be done if you want it badly enough and work hard enough
for it. I have had many kind, generous mentors along the way who have
always been willing to answer my questions and guide me down the unknown
path. To them, I would like to say, Thank you.
For all of you MTs out there who know much more than I do, please take a
newbie by the hand and help them climb that ladder of success. In that
spirit, although I'm still learning myself, I'm always glad to answer
questions for those who are trying to get started, and I am full of
encouragement! Please e-mail me if you wish, at PRGBear1@aol.com. Happy
typing everyone!
1. New Pandora's Box for fun surveys:
2. New Military MT Board: http://www.mtdaily.com/mentor
s/military
3. New Comfort Board: http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/t
ears
4. New Thanksgiving Board: http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/
thanks
5. Evaluating Companies from Recommendations:
6. Where are the radiology MTs?
7. Getting acquainted with a 5-year Indian MT:
8. MTs not paid until accounts pay?
9. MTs working for 3-4 companies in last year:
10. Writing a proposal:
11. Thanksgiving recipes:
12. Cures for hiccups:
13. MT private company message boards available. Write mary@mtdaily.com. (new E-mail address)
1. Publish manuscripts free: http://www.fatbrain.com
2. Sleep deprivation harmful:
3. Regrowing brain cells: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=333&st=333&r=EMIHC000&
c=247293
5. Minesse, Protonix, ReFacto, etc.: http://www.ahp.com/pipeline.htm
6. AcuNav, Alamast, Ancure, AneuRx, etc.:
7. Launching into MT:
http://www.hpisum.com/magazine/Heath.html
8. Project Management: http://www.hpisum.com/ma
gazine/Bradwell.html
9. Fruit juice a problem for babies?
10. Plastics and puberty:
11. Increased need for blood donations:
12. Comtan (entacapone) for Parkinson's:
13. Breastfeeding reduces childhood leukemia:
14. Walking prevents diabetes in women:
15. Conscience in the prefrontal cortex?
16. Dangers of Atkin's Diet:
17. Medical patents unethical?
20. Infant education beneficial:
21. Fruits and vegetables good for lungs:
22. Rosie O'Donnell chat, 6 p.m., 10/27:
23. Health statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/
24. Small-business tax planning:
25. Vioxx now for menstrual pain: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/13b6
4a.htm
26. Teveten, antihypertensive: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/13b2
22.htm
27. New three-drug therapy for IBS:
28. Quiet curtains for hospital rooms:
29. Personal Health Records Software: http://www.capmed.com
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APPEARANCES AND DISAPPEARANCES
-President Clinton proposed new rules for privacy of medical records
today. The 632-page report must be finalized by February and is to become
effective in 2002. See
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9910/29/medical.privacy.02/#1. See
summary of proposal at http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp
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