A Benefit For Our Community
Medical transcriptionists have always loved the products from Stedman’s, particularly their word books. We also tend to use the CMT and RMT Prep Guides, and those are recommended books to have with our credentials study course. We also always tend to have those Word Books, as we call them, the “rainbow books” on our shelves, which does indeed make for a pretty rainbow combination.
At the same that that we want and need reference materials for study, books cost money. I remember saving for the next new one all the time as I always wanted to have the latest one on my bookshelf.
I’m always looking for deals for our community, and Stedman’s has been gracious to give us one. Now members of the MT Tools Online community can receive a 15% discount on many Stedman’s products. This includes word books, the prep guides, as well as Laura Bryan’s book on technology for medical transcription! If you are on the mailing list, you will be receiving the link to the MT Tools Online store with Stedman’s products in your email on Thursday. If you’re not on our mailing list, now is a good time to sign up so you have access to that.
Watch for that special email today for your link to savings!
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Awesome! I have been missing my discount that I used to get through school. Thank you so much Kathy! I’m going to make a list now of all the books I want to order.
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Kathy Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Great! Glad we could make it happen for everyone!
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I remember going for a whole year with only the references that I got from CareerStep. Then I went to work for one of the nationals who basically did the same thing for us and it was wonderful! My Stedmans Word Books are now old and out of date, but I have quite a library of them, all purchased in 2005 with a very nice discount or I surely couldn’t have afforded them….and not having a discount for them has definitely put a crimp on the funds I have available to buy updates. Hopefully I will be able to take advantage of this because I have noted that there are a couple specialties I never got the Word Books for and sure could have used!
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Kathy Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 8:03 am
It’s a great opportunity to update things that you might have been putting off.
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A further note: I know that these books aren’t so important to me now that I have Benchmark KB, but this is installed on my desktop computer. If I were to go out of town and want to work using my laptop, it would really be nice to have updated medical abbreviations, drug book, surgery words (a MARVELOUS reference), and surgical equipment words. These have always been my staples. Most of the time, if there’s something I can’t find in these 4, I can find it online….unless I can’t get enough of what the dictator is saying to have some sense of the spelling, especially first letter.
(I know there are a lot of people who aren’t fortunate enough to have Benchmark KB, and I know I wouldn’t have it if I hadn’t been lucky enough to win it free for a year. I am actually setting up a personal “savings jar” in my office so I can afford to renew it when the time comes. I want you to know, Kathy, how I really appreciate having this wonderful tool at my disposal!)
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Kathy Reply:
July 8th, 2010 at 8:04 am
A great “staples” list, Sherry! FYI, with Benchmark KB, it’s not really “installed” as it’s entirely web-based. That means you can access your version of it from ANY computer, anywhere! All you need is your sign in and password info! And I’m so glad you are finding it valuable!
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Really, Kathy? So if I DO go with my hubby on one of his trips, I can still access it from my laptop? Yehawww! But I have to make note of their initial website to access ’cause I will NEVER remember it when I’m under pressure to. LOL Thanks for letting me know. I really had no idea I’d be able to do that!
I can’t tell you how much I am loving this program. I wish I had known about it sooner. Just thinking about how it could have improved my productivity back when I was needing such blasted HIGH daily line counts from some of the nationals I’ve worked for–it could have made my life SOOOOOOOO much nicer! But…I know about it now, and I can’t face my work-life without it anymore. Remember when I had issues that one time? I learned THEN how much I had come to rely on Benchmark KB, and I don’t think I’d even had it 2 weeks at that time! I make use of the reference part probably 50 times a day, and the doctor search probably at least 2 times a day if not more. I just feel terribly blessed to have won this for a year, glad that you introduced me to it, and now that I feel “thoroughly and terminally addicted to it,” I have to keep adding to my savings jar so that I can afford the renewal when the time comes because I truly do not want to remain in this line of work without it. I really feel that it has helped me to increase my productivity, even if just talking about the time saved by being able to access all this information with my mouse and a few keystrokes versus leaving my desk to go to a book shelf, leaf through pages to find what I need, and then return the reference to the shelf (VERY time consuming)! Thanks again for your help, and for letting me know that I don’t have to be on my desktop computer to be able to access this!
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I signed up for the email to get 15% off Stedman’s books, but never got the email. How do I take advantage of the discount? Thanks!
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Kathy Reply:
July 13th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Cindy, you would have received a link to the site to purchase books via email. If you just signed up since the announcement, it would have been in your welcome email. If you did not receive that, please email me and I will be sure you get it.
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This is great! Thank you for making this happen, Kathy! On my first job I received a pretty generous discount on Stedman’s books and really stocked up, but of course once I changed jobs the very few I had not purchased were the very ones I could really use. Time to buy a few again!
Sherry, Are you finding the KB Benchmark to be worth the cost? I work on a computer provided by my company and I cannot download my electronic books (ALL of my Stedman’s) to this computer. Just for that reason I would love to have the KB Benchmark. I wish they offered a trial version of it so I could check it out.
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Benchmark KB that is! A day of trying to unscramble SR transcription of ESL dictators has my brain fried.
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