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good company with benefits for new MT - tla

Posted: Jul 21, 2013

I am currently working at a hospital as a Lab Assistant in Pathology. My job has many different responsibilities, but majority is transcription – which I love! I am trying to decide if I want to try becoming an at home medical transcriptionist. This is a huge decision/risk for me as I have been in my current position since 1999. I used to love my job, but as the years have passed, I have found myself disgusted to go to work. This is due to changes in personnel and too many people not caring about doing their job properly and an large amount of mistakes. I realize we are all humans and I make mistakes as well, but some people just care more about their cell phones/Facebook, etc. I have tried to address these issues, but it is hard to get issues fixed when some of my superiors are guilty of the same. Anyway, now that you know some of my background, I am hoping someone can assist me in which at home companies are good to work for and I need health benefits. I want to be treated as a person, which I hope is not too much to ask for. This forum is quite confusing for new people and I have only found information from years passed so I am hoping for some updated information. Thanks

Are you paid hourly and more than minimum wage? - Soon to be ex-MT

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If so, I would stay put, especially if you have decent benefits! Please take a little time to read these boards, especially the Nuance and M*Modal Boards over to the left. "At-home MT" has taken a serious nosedive over the past several years. I've been at this for over 25 years and I have finally had enough. I am just about done school and will be leaving MT, along with so many other "seasoned MTs."

If you read the boards, many MTs are barely making minimum wage and every move they make is being monitored/scrutinized. QA seems to have gone crazy at many of these MTSOs, benefits are being cut/eliminated, pay is being decreased, and the list goes on. I would urge you to seriously consider your options before giving up a good thing, meaning an in-house position with benefits and decent pay.

thanks "soon to be ex-MT" - tla

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Thank you so much for your advice. I get a well above minimum wage hourly pay. I guess good employees get walked all over no matter where you go or who you work for. I just need to stay where I am I suppose and just deal with it and do MY best. I supposed this would be too big of a risk until my kids are grown.

You sound like a wonderful person, but in all honesty... - PetesSake

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this job is circling the drain. I've been at it about 12 years and have never had a pay increase and benefits were stripped from us, too. Many are on here profoundly upset because the companies they work for treat them like a machine instead of as a human being. The degree of accuracy editing heavy ESL reports is nearly impossible to achieve, and if the MT slows down to improve accuracy, then he/she receives threatening emails that she must reach a certain production quota. Basically, it's become impossible to ever feel valued or successful for many of us.

I agree with the above poster. Please read through things very carefully before trying this. It's pretty much a miserable job now. By the way, I have an interview tomorrow and am getting out! I never thought I'd be doing this, and certainly not this close to retirement, but I need job security and a decent, steady paycheck. I once really loved my job, and I feel a bit of grief and loss, but it is what it is now. We're being rapidly replaced by voice recognition/editing and foreign workers who work for far less than we can, but who have also pulled down our wages and the overall stability of our jobs.

Please don't do it! - anon

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You sound like you might actually be burnt-out at your current position and might just need a change of scenery/coworkers. Have you tried applying to other hospitals/labs in your area? Or is there perhaps a different position you could take at your current hospital? Don't quit your job to come home and do transcription. I did that, and it was the worst decision I ever made.

Work-at-home transcription - Leaving MT

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I left my job as well because I was commuting 3+ hours a day and the allure of not having to commute in my big metro area was overwhelming. I had a great MT job for a while (work has dropped off, not enough to work full-time), but even since I have been doing this (2008), the field has taken a nosedive, and I am now training for something else. I wish I had your job!

Just ignore those with a poor work ethic, keep your head high, and keep your - hospital job! nm

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The only way this could possibly be a - good idea

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is to try the WAH MT thing as part time or IC. Don't ever, ever, ever give up a hospital job to pursue this. You will live to regret it.

thanks again everyone - tla

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I'm so glad I asked! I was so excited looking at all these companies at first, but getting information from real people with real honesty and meaningful information is much appreciated. I hate to hear all of you are upset and struggling. You have put a perspective on things. I only have one local hospital in my area though and the only jobs are extreme part time or relief with no benefits. There are not too many jobs to advanced yourself. Hopefully I can eventually get on with the State one day. We will see. Good luck to everyone. Thanks again.

keep your in-house job - sm

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if possible. Health benefits will be tied to multiple factors and you may end up without or giving over most of your paycheck to pay for it. I used to work in-house in a lab and wish I would have kept up my cert and kept a hand in it. Even back then, there were always loafers/slackers and sloppy people who didn't care about quality, just did my own job well and sometimes theirs, too. I had awesome benefits and regret leaving now. Unless you work for a very small MTSO, you more than likely will never be known as more than a faceless name/number to them, unless you have an in with them somehow. JMHO

Tla, read. Read about all the directions you might - go. In the Information Age, learning by

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personal experience is...stupid at best. With a decision of this magnitude, though, the years required to learn and admit could literally derail an entire life. A few of the people leaping into this hole didn't have that much in the way of resources to begin with (or they wouldn't have) and will never get back to where they might have been had they taken a different path.

You would never have asked this question if you had educated yourself before you got this far, so you're obviously in danger of hurting yourself badly.

This is a dying field. Even if some jobs continue on, they will be increasingly fewer and always unstable, those who hold them always in danger of finding themselves out in the cold with NO MARKETABLE SKILL.

Move on. Read. The same changes that are bringing the curtain down on this field are creating NEW JOBS with GROWING DEMAND. Find out what those are and start researching them.

Don't do it. Medical transcription as a career - is poised to become nonexistent very soon - sm

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- very likely by 2014, if not sooner.

STOP! Do not quit your job to go home and do MT. - Being the dept secretary for sm

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a pathology department is the only sweet spot left in the industry. I have filled in per diem in a local pathology department and I'm convinced of this. Home transcription is almost gone and if not gone, paying minimum wage. My money is on the whole industry being gone in 5 years. Stay put or find another pathology department. There is no home MT left.

If it were me, I would stay. - sm

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Many of us are actually trying to find a job like yours--I'd gladly take the cons of your job over the cons of transcription.

Please don't become a home transcriptionist. You will eventually regret it.

... - tla

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Thanks. Keep in mind, just because I didn't mention additional cons to my job doesn't mean there are not other issues. I realize every job has ups and downs. I am grateful to have a job that pays well and has benefits. There are a lot of places on the internet that make at home MT sound amazing. I was just trying to see if there is something more beneficial for myself as well as my family. Thanks

good company with benefits for new MT - Nellie

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I worked in-house for years also as an MT and really liked it. Due to changes at my work place, I tried it at home and am much happier now and still work for the same hospital. We can do it in-house or at home for the same benefits and hospital. I still have to work on the clock and do right by the hospital but it is so quiet and I am more productive. Maybe your employer would let you still work for him/her at home doing their transcription. That's what I'm doing. It's one of the best things I've done for myself, but the good thing is, it's just the same as in-house with time clock, same company, just different environment.

... - tla

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It would be great if this were possible at my job. The pathologist are contracted through the hospital and I am a hospital employee. I believe the only department that uses at home MT is Medical Records. I will have to keep a look out. I am hoping things get better where I am at now! Thanks and I am glad to see at home MT is working out for someone here. Congrats!

Jobs like yours have become so RARE, that if you - had mentioned your employer"s name, -(sm)

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it's likely half the MTs on this forum would be breaking their doors down, trying to get in.

Nowadays, most hospitals advertising for on-site MTs only want one or two - to basically help them get their VR trained, or their doctors trained on their new point-n-click EHR, and once things are up and running, the MT gets canned.

I'm sure you know how lucky you are, and must be as grateful as all get-out to be in your position.

One more thing - Nellie

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Transcription is decreasing due to the electronic medical record. You better not quit your daytime job unless they let you do the transcription part at home because it's hard to make good money for an outsource company I heard.

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