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I wouldn't - Old and Tired

Posted: Jul 5th, 2019 - 8:37 pm In Reply to: Re-entering field - Kayley

I don't want to sound mean about this, but if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't. It was an excellent opportunity for learning and pay for a while, but if you re-entered the field now the chances for making good money are not there. You probably made more money 20 years ago, as did I. If you are a newbie or someone with 30+ years experience you will make the same per line and then they will dock you for leaving out a comma, capitalizing a generic drug, putting in a comma and not capitalizing a brand name drug, hyphenating words, not hyphenating words and spelling out numbers 1-10 and not spelling them out. It is all ridiculous and I would not encourage anyone to get into this field. I am looking for other work. I do wish you luck and unfortunately I don't have any company that I would recommend to apply too. They will all find ways to squeeze the life out of an MT.

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Re-entering field - Kayley (Views: 944, 2019-07-05, 5:59 pm)
- Medical Transcription - kab (Views: 1028, 2019-07-05, 6:19 pm)
  - To Kab - How is MT Going for you? (Views: 679, 2019-07-07, 9:25 am)
- I wouldn't - Old and Tired
  - I agree; MT since 1972 and have gone - from 70K/year to 18K/year. (Views: 737, 2019-07-07, 10:00 pm)
    - Wow, just wow - OverIt (Views: 535, 2019-07-08, 6:23 pm)
      - doesn't really matter where, when you go from 9 to 10 cents a line - to 3 or 4 cents, sm (Views: 495, 2019-07-09, 5:50 am)
      - 1995-ish, on site hospital, just an - MT with night shift differential plus (Views: 557, 2019-07-11, 8:43 pm)
- Re-entering the field - 20 years experience (Views: 708, 2019-07-05, 8:49 pm)
- what are your opinions on this? - anon (Views: 1020, 2019-07-06, 3:27 am)
  - IMO - Not going to happen (Views: 648, 2019-07-06, 11:36 am)
  - My opinion on this - MT now, but hanging on (Views: 800, 2019-07-06, 11:40 am)
  - I see lots of ads for scribes now - sm (Views: 538, 2019-07-07, 11:33 am)
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    - The worst part about that is - anon (Views: 595, 2019-07-08, 10:22 am)
- My 2 cents - mf (Views: 648, 2019-07-06, 2:09 pm)
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- Oh, My - :( (Views: 714, 2019-07-06, 3:22 pm)
- Run like heck! - Shel (Views: 563, 2019-07-08, 5:38 pm)