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AAMT/CMT - fatmt


Posted: Mar 22, 2010

Where is our 'union' and seeing that all these injustices that are going on are addressed?  This profession has been sold to the devil himself.  Talk about Kathy Lee's sweat shops?  I read for no pay.  I type and look up, cross reference, research and no pay.  No breaks, no lunch, just production.  I have to calculate and make out time sheets and do my own time for no money and then when we type, the programs are calculating in a way that we have no idea.  We work in the dark and the companies like it that way.  All lies.  No benefits and the games they play.  Give you no work or all foreign and tell you you are not getting your line count.  Cut you off of work if they want to get rid of you, or they lost the account.  They can tell you you are not getting your linecount and then tell you you have no job.  Don't complain, because you will get either inaudible garbage or nothing.  In order to get these line counts also, you have to type day and night and be perfect. Hopefully somone maybe out there will bring this job to the senate floor!!  Even CNN reported how you can be a transcriptionist and make you own hours and tend to your family and have a huge paycheck!! Shows you how much research they did.  The hospitals have used us like prostitudes.  They have used us while we were young and now closed the departments and use all services to save money.  Here we sit trying to get to the finish line of life where there are so many injustices and have no pension, no benefits.  What do we do?  What is CMT and AAMT doing for all of us?  Do they have someone who will go to Congress in all of our behalf?  We need Ollie North!!!

need to lobby the hospital heads to hire remote MTs direct as employees. - my take on unions...

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while unions were a good indea sometime in history, my guess would be (this day and age) they would only charge us membership and then take favors and you know who has the money for that to get their way...not the MTs.

unions corrupted themselves into history. No one is safe until we are back to in-house employess but working remote. Hospitals have rules and guidelines on how to handle employees PROPERLY, FAIRLY.

Youre right! Im surprised the hospitals havent figured out - that if they direct-hired remote MTs, (sm)

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even though they paid slightly more for the transcription up-front, in the long run it would probably save them time and money when it comes to mistakes, legal risk, etc. Plus they'd have control over who did their work, and WHERE.... something they certainly don't have have right now.

some hospitals have - nan

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It just has not caught on in entirety yet, but I am sure over the next couple years with all the errors of VR and editing of VR that hospitals will be doing exactly that, eliminating the middle man the MTSO, and hiring transcriptionist themselves. A few hospital are doing it now.
my employer did for several years.... - but just recently....
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outsourced all the transcription work because they needed a new platform anyway.

AAMT/AHDI Does not care about Medical Transcriptionists - Only Our Money

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Biggest bunch of hypocrites ever. They have done NOTHING but sell the medical transcription industry down the river. And I am a charter member.

All they care about is their own glory and taking as much money from the MTs as possible.

They have even taken the words "American" and "Medical Transcription" out of their name.

They should be ashamed. They betrayed the very ones who let them come into being.


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