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The advice here is wise. Our profession started its - decline about 12 years ago.

Posted: Sep 13th, 2019 - 9:30 am In Reply to: New Member - Susan

It is not lucrative anymore and there is more wrong with it than right. We were once highly revered in the hospital and then it went downhill when outsourcing to transcription services began, then the major dash to send everything to India to be typed on the cheap, then the trend with voice recognition, then the medical community was forced to use programs that were linked with the government to bill for Medicare, and now making the doctors and their staff edit their own reports using in-house medical records. The demands on the MT now are unreasonable and the pay is embarrassingly low.

Find another line of work.

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New Member - Susan (Views: 848, 2019-09-12, 1:05 pm)
- Good luck! - nn (Views: 557, 2019-09-12, 1:14 pm)
- No work anywhere. Good luck. - sm (Views: 590, 2019-09-12, 2:19 pm)
  - Really?? - Susan (Views: 670, 2019-09-12, 2:25 pm)
    - It's been a terrible industry for at least a decade now - sm (Views: 553, 2019-09-12, 4:07 pm)
- Yikes - see msg (Views: 690, 2019-09-12, 5:04 pm)
  - Give the girl a break here. She's right out of school and - she may not need a lot of $$ (Views: 393, 2019-09-13, 6:32 am)
    - She is in school - see msg (Views: 389, 2019-09-13, 8:11 am)
    - That's not the point - Kimber (Views: 388, 2019-09-16, 12:32 pm)
- Back out while you still can.... - SM (Views: 446, 2019-09-12, 5:08 pm)
  - Exactly - CMT (Views: 516, 2019-09-12, 10:05 pm)
- Good luck to you, Susan. Anatomy will be a useful - skill whatever you pursue. (Views: 353, 2019-09-13, 4:45 am)
- The advice here is wise. Our profession started its - decline about 12 years ago.
- Hi Susan--If you enrolled in MT because you're - W/C Reviewer (Views: 446, 2019-09-13, 2:35 pm)
  - But... - see msg (Views: 336, 2019-09-14, 10:09 am)
    - Since Susan didn't say which school she was - MI MT (Views: 345, 2019-09-14, 1:46 pm)
      - What I Mean Was - see msg (Views: 350, 2019-09-15, 1:44 pm)
        Career Step hasn't closed its MT doors - sm (Views: 340, 2019-09-15, 2:31 pm)
        Clarification - see msg (Views: 383, 2019-09-16, 10:32 am)
        Why wouldn't you mention the closed - schools? (Views: 407, 2019-09-16, 3:11 pm)
        I explained that - see msg (Views: 240, 2019-09-18, 3:38 pm)
- Oh, Lord.... - JT (Views: 499, 2019-09-13, 5:27 pm)
- I wish you would have asked how the field is..... - Former CAMT (Views: 339, 2019-09-14, 5:07 pm)