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The Plight of American Medical Transcriptionists - Please see message.
Posted: Sep 20, 2014
If you thought the plight of the American medical transcriptionists would be heard on a national level, what would you say? Would your biggest complaint be the pay cut? The offshoring of medical records? The emotional abuse we have all endured? All of the above? If we truly thought our voices would be heard, what would we say? Thank you in advance for your responses.
What would we say? - MT
[ In Reply To ..]Offshoring. The loss of this profession from our country.
what would we say - jane
[ In Reply To ..]we would say also that certain computer programs that have replaced some of us ought to be fired.... but this is the wave of the future, if you still have a job you are lucky, but don't count on it remaining. yes. it can happen to you.
saying - me
[ In Reply To ..]The offshoring will kill the business, so that's a huge problem. Another one is the pay. We go to school & learn tons of info. We have to learn enough to understand what the doc, nurse, etc say in dictation so the records will be accurate. We have to be able to figure out what they're talking about when they say it wrong so we can fix it or (in cases of literal verbatim) know where to put a blank so a dictator's serious error doesn't potentially hurt the patient. Some of us barely scape by. We get lots of rules to abide, called out for our errors, some get pats on back for good work... shouldn't the pay reflect the value that is apparently put on the job?
Please explain "emotional abuse" - Curious one
[ In Reply To ..]No message
It's stupid surveys about being an MT. NM - anonMT
[ In Reply To ..]you asked, I answered (in case you were thinking with an answer like that, why did I post).
What My Voice Would Say - Rusty
[ In Reply To ..]NO OFFSHORING! but then I would calm down and just say what a shame it is that I used to be so proud to tell everyone what I did and that I did it from home for 23 years. I used to brag on myself actually. Now I don't talk about it, it is too depressing. What these companies have done to the prestige of being an MT, and the companies that treated us at one time like we were a human beings, is disgusting. I think in the long run, it will be the downfall of the medical industry, the offshore people having our medical records, personal info, and all that can go wrong with it. I pray I am wrong, but I doubt it. In short, anymore everything is wrong about it.
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