I thought a new thread should be started because I wanted you all to read this.
This was concerning the poster who was concerned that she could not make the line counts that she previously used to make.
I don't often post here, but I feel that this needs to be said. There were times back in the good ole days that I could do 6000 lines in one day (not a typo) when I really needed the money and there was one of the great bonuses out. I could regularly do 400 lines an hour with most report types, and 500 lines an hour with ERs. My bonus rate was WELL over $30 an hour, and that was including the time I had to take to send in my reports every hour, etc.
I once again repeat that not only the company devalues our skills, but so do we. A good medical Transcriptionist is WAY MORE than just a typist. To prove this point, I will once again point out that I am now in my third year of medical school, less than 24 months away from my M.D. I am doing this while working two jobs (both as a transcriptionist), which of course leaves very little time to study. I am one of the top 10 students in my class. I have passed the USLME (United States Medical Licensing Exam) essetially without studying (I have friends who have failed 3 times already). And all of this is based upon the knowledge I have gleaned from being a transcriptionist.
If the company is going to insist on making this a minimum-wage job, then I think all of us highly-educated, dedicated professional transcriptionists should move into other fields, such as M.D., P.A., R.N., etc., where our skills are valued, and leave the field to the other minimum-wage earners (burger-flippers., etc.) who generally cannot put a complete sentence together. |
