Soap Box - Beentheredonethat

Started in 1973 and my passion has remained steady over the years, a few years not so much. Seeing the change and didn't like it but it was something I couldn't walk away from. Set out to become as proficient as possible; do every worktype, every specialty.  I wanted to be good at all of it..to be wanted, needed, and sought after. Also offered the security I needed when I was younger, single mom;l life not so secure.  Being an MT was my haven, my source of being grounded. 

Then the whole picture changed along with the $$$.

It's like anything else; greed and wanting short-cuts. Like the housing disaster..what built up to it? Had to stop the incline, just like a roller-coaster. Transcription has changed because it was seen as an ez target for people to make money; matchbook ads, "work from home and make thousands" said the headlines.  It became a selling point instead of a career.  More and more MTs going to work to help pay for expensive cars and homes, along with hospitals experiencing crises and having to shut down the transcription depts. 

Transcription is an art form; akin to being an actual stenographer. Like sports or any "talent," some just don't have it but want an easy "lazy" way to make money.  They don't care about the product, just the outcome.  Companies seized on this philosophy and took advantage exploiting it for easy money.  The hospitals were less influential in this; more simple budgetary decisions.

If it is perceived as a means to an end and not a skill or profession on the eyes of the MT, there is no passion. Without passion you have no interest in going out of the realm of curious. Be hungry to keep searching, researching, familiarizing with medicine, cozy-ing up to it.  It's an investment and has to be treated as such.