I have realized the truth of the MT industry situation - Truth Hurts...Really Hurts

I've been coming here for years. For many years it was only the poorly trained MTs who complained about not doing well. Anyone who had good training and good skills, sometimes learned on the job, which isn't practical now, but good skills at any rate, did well.

The times have changed. While I used to categorize the complainers as neer-do-wells because they lacked ambition, accuracy, and training, that just isn't the case anymore.

The employers have beat MTs down so that they can accurately be defined as real victims of abuse, both financial abuse and emotional abuse. Self-esteem has plummeted over the last few years.

Employers never recognized MT credentials and still don't. That's because if they did, it would be similar to a union which protected its members from abuse. They realized that and wisely, for them, didn't really encourage anyone to get their CMT and in many cases laughed at those who did, saying they had 'seen a CMT who did poor work.'

Well, that turned out well for them. Now they get cheap labor and poor quality because of the unreasonable demands, quotas, TAT, etc., that they've loaded the MTs down with and the unrealistic requirements for incentive pay and the fact that you can't get it anyway no matter how hard you work, because they keep you from it by running out of work.

In comparison, look at how medical coders, for an example that is familiar to most of us, are required to have very tough credentials. The employers don't just prefer it, they demand it. They also recognize those credentials and pay those coders with credentials well. Some of the same MTSOs who helped to destroy MT as a viable career will try and are trying to destroy medical coding the same way, by cheapening the labor, discouraging coders from getting a fine education with credentials, because if they do, they won't work cheap. That is the goal of those despicable MTSOs. Not all of them fit in that category, but some do. 

Fortunately, the medical coding industry has been around the block a few times. Their employers include hospitals and insurance companies who recognize that their own livlihood (income) depends on the skills and accuracy of those medical coders doing that work.  They keep requiring more credentials rather than insulting those who have chosen the higher road by getting an excellent education. The bad guys are stil going to be doing their best to cheapen anything they can get their hands on, but organizations such as AHIMA, AAPC, AHA, AMA, etc., actually care about medical reimbusement, so they will try, but they will fail. I'm very happy about that because I love medical coding. It has all that I always loved about medical transcription, dealing with the patient's medical record, the terms, A&P, pathology, pharmacology, but none of the drudgery and contempt from MTSOs who look at us as peons, unworthy of a decent salary.   Thank you for listening to my rant against despicable MTSOs and my victory over them via a successful medical coding career. They can't take that away from me.