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Wish I Could Agree - Pipe Dream

Posted: Sep 26th, 2022 - 7:55 pm In Reply to: I don't think MT is dead yet -Devil's Advocate - JM

I must have started as an MT around the same time as you. I remember typewriters, Liquid Paper and carbon copies. Our first computers didn’t work very well, and I remember using Word Perfect software. I’m retired now, but transcription is gone from all our facilities, replaced by Epic and Dragon. My last MT related job was in QA, which lasted until Dragon was “trained.” It isn’t perfect, but they all use disclaimers now that it was voice recognized. The facility where I worked uses medical students and residents as scribes, and I think the program is pretty successful. The reason I don’t ever see MT coming back on site is cost. No one is ever going to go to the expense of bringing staff back on site, the overhead expenses, wages and benefits. Budgets are tight and health care costs are already skyrocketing. You’ve mentioned Superior Global several times and must have issues with them for several reasons. If you have the time to wait things out and hope they improve, that is great, but I think the glory days are over. Time marches on, and technology is too advanced now to reverse what used to be. Good luck to you.

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I don't think MT is dead yet -Devil's Advocate - JM (Views: 1227, 2022-09-26, 6:55 pm)
- Wish I Could Agree - Pipe Dream
- JM is taking over the board - enough already - NM (Views: 707, 2022-09-26, 8:10 pm)
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    - Printed material....news, magazines - JM (Views: 655, 2022-09-27, 1:30 pm)
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    - That's pretty off topic since I don't reply often - JM (Views: 576, 2022-09-27, 1:32 pm)
  - Who is JM - How can you take over this board (Views: 705, 2022-09-27, 12:47 pm)
    - Been a member for about a decade.... - JM (Views: 633, 2022-09-27, 1:35 pm)
  - No one took over the board outside of what - goes on between your ears. GROW UP!! (Views: 579, 2022-09-27, 5:42 pm)
    - Hate for the sake of hating - JM (Views: 364, 2022-09-29, 9:26 am)
      - Exactly. Besides, who is so psychotic they will sit and count - how many times any poster posts (Views: 373, 2022-09-29, 1:53 pm)
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  - Perspective.... - JM (Views: 531, 2022-09-27, 1:43 pm)
    - Again, I agree. Outside of the Covid lockdown, I have never - been without work. I also decided to branch (Views: 507, 2022-09-27, 5:36 pm)
      - Perspective - You are one of the lucky ones (Views: 564, 2022-09-27, 10:06 pm)
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- The problem I have with MT work - KRMT (Views: 553, 2022-09-29, 12:47 pm)
  - Another problem with MT work is companies who hire you as IC - but demand you work employee terms. SM (Views: 547, 2022-10-06, 10:58 am)
    - Actually, that demand for "perfection" came from MTSO's, not the hospitals. - sm (Views: 447, 2022-10-08, 3:57 pm)
- No. MT is over. Forever. - sm (Views: 580, 2022-10-08, 3:28 pm)