I was locked out...... - Glad for sure Posted: Jan 18th, 2021 - 4:29 pm In Reply to: Fired by e-mail - Blindsided
I had not received any notification. It was a weekend and I called in and said I wasn't able to log on.....the person in charge kind of stuttered a bit and said he would check into it. Within a couple of hours, I received an email regarding the same thing as the original poster. The email said I had referred too many reports to QA with too many blanks and there were no other accounts available on which to assign me. This was the most difficult account that I had ever encountered in my 15+ years as a Medical Language Specialist (medical transcriptionist. The doctor in question was not even a foreign speaker, just a major mumbler who also ran his words together, and overall unintelligible. I had suggested they give me a bunch of his dictations, so as to get the hang of his voice and dictation style. Of course, they said no because everyone just gets whatever dictation is next. All they had to do was call me before they locked me out without explanation and maybe we could have had ideas on how to maintain accuracy with no need for QA to assist rather than just lock me out. It wasn't worth the effort on their part, so I just let it all go and went on to build my own transcription service. Business was so good that I had to hire 3 part-time independent contractors to keep up with my guaranteed 24 hour turn-around with 2 hour STAT transcripts. Business started to dwindle as several of the doctors began to use their own computers to document their clinic visits. Now with CoVID, work is down to about 30 dictations a month....But being locked out by the MT service agency was the best thing that ever happened to me....was able to establish a very lucrative Transcription service of my own, learn ed a lot about the business aspect of MT and was able to treat and maintain my part-time staff as I would have liked to have been treated. An overall great experience.
Well, thanks for listening and good luck to all MTs still trying to make a living in what has changed drastically over the past several years with the assist of computers making our job much easier, but losing so much work with the doctors becoming their own transcriptionists and inputting their own documentation or using Voice Recognition......
Again, good luck to all MTs still hanging in there.........
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