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Email me, it's time to band together and get something done here! - bagelmom

Posted: Mar 09, 2012

Please email me privately and let's get the ball rolling here folks. It's time to try and get everyone together, a very hard thing to do in this industry, so that our voices can be heard and let the powers that be know that we're not going to take this shame any longer!

you e-mail me - im not gonna try it, you try it

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Lets get Mikey

go check out the last "email me" brigade - collie

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I think there are 2 posts on FB. Not sure when y'all are going to figure out your outrage is a huge waste of energy. It is what it is. If you don't like that you can make other choices. Hospitals are not going to pay more for services period.

It's not about the hospitals.... - bagelmom

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It's about these big greedy companies and the fact that we're talking about people's lives here and the quality of their medical records.

you kid yourself - collie

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It is always about the money. Who foots the bill for transcription? Hospitals. Hospitals will not pay for premium service when they can get "good enough" service from most MTSOs and still get really good service from the small-to-mid-size services.

Kicking and screaming and threatening not to transcribe for a day or whatever inane idea-of-the-day comes across these pages is not going to change anything. You can't get MTs to agree on anything, never could, never will. The job has changed. You can't unchange it.

(and no I'm not a weak-minded woman willing to work for pennies, or an MTSO, or another other than an MT developing a back-up plan)

Hospitals are constantly looking to find ways to reduce overhead. - see message

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It's not as simple as "greedy companies." Healthcare costs have been steadily skyrocketing over the past decade. If a hospital can reduce their bottom line expenditures - they will. Nurses are overworked, MT departments are outsourced...the list of cost-saving meaures is lengthy.

Ok, you e-mailed me but I cannot respond.... - too afraid

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I have no idea who you are or why you want us to e-mail you. Why not post what your plans are and we can decide if we want to gamble our identities on this, or if it is just like every other "Im tired of this" club!

I think Occupy is going to get started again stronger - sm

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Our best bet might be Occupy as they are going to come back stronger and more powerful for change once the weather warms up. It is an election year and there are no candidates that I want to vote for besides Rosanne Barr.

So how can we get involved? - bagelmom

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Any thoughts?

involved in what - occupy

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Go protest I guess

Occupy has been quiet of late, mainly because - sm - Meerkat

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the winter weather isn't conducive to having large turnouts at outdoor meetings and protest marches. Instead, lots has been going on indoors. Many leaders in the movement have been attending city/state meetings and forums on a local level. Lots of the focus currently is on home foreclosures, and trying to protect people whose homes were foreclosed on illegally. Also lots of discussions about recent new laws that were sneaked by most of the American people that gives the government a lot more leeway when it comes to plucking people off the streets and detaining them indefinitely.

Still, one of the main focuses is on the U.S. banking system, the stock market's shady practices, and big corporations basically running the country by paying off elected officials.

My support of the Occupy movement is mainly focused on separating Big Business from the Government. Until that happens, it'll be difficult to rein them in. Many of the things that would make life better not only for MTs, but for lots of workers, such as slowing offshoring by taxing companies for doing it, (and giving them tax breaks for NOT doing it), or requiring companies to provide a living wage and stop cheating their workers, etc., would be more likely to eventually come about if our elected officials weren't continually getting their palms greased by Big Biz.

Occupy is only in its infancy, and has a long, long way to go. Right now it's pretty much about ideas. LOTS of ideas. One of the most positive aspects of the movement is that lots and lots of progressive-thinking, well-educated, and SMART people are starting to talk to each other, share ideas, compare notes and experiences, and look for ways they can start to make a difference.

Whatever changes come about in the future likely won't start at the top; instead, lots of ideas and movements can begin small and grow on a local level. In some smaller towns, groups of people have blocked foreclosure evictions, and basically forced the lender to come up with a fair, workable solution so that the homeowners weren't thrown out on the street. Other towns have seen a need or an unfairness in their area that needed addressing, and addressed it. It can be done even without being 100% 'pro-Occupy'.

I like the fact that it encourages people to stop being led around by the nose by the Government, and to start grassroots movements to improve things locally, on a small, limited level. If something in particular catches on, whether it's a way to deal with each town's homeless population, or whatever, if one group of people comes up with a good model that's working well, successful and self-sustaining, others will likely jump on the bandwagon.

As for knowing what's going on within the movement in any given area, that's still not always easy to keep up with. I subscribed to Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Together, Occupy Oakland, and Occupy San Francisco, so I get updates on my Facebook page. Those all have websites, some are up-to-date, some are not. Twitter seems to be where a lot of the discussion is, these days, too. Ustream is a good way to eavesdrop on any local government functions that OWS independent journalists might be covering. There are also tutorials available on various websites as to how to start an Occupy group, no matter how small, in your town, and various issues that can be addressed.

Anyway, the movement isn't all protests and arrests. (That's only the fun part.. haha!) All kidding aside, most of the work, brainstorming, idea-sharing, meetings, emailing, Facebooking, Twittering, etc., is about finding immediate issues that need to be addressed, how to go about addressing them, who to talk to, what to do next, etc.

Tomorrow, for example, Occupy is teaming up with various other groups whose interest is women's rights (not just in the US, but globally), for International Women's Day. They plan to have meetings and a short march in San Francisco. Simply by showing up, (and paying through the nose to park somewhere!), and going for a nice walk through a beautiful city on a beautiful Saturday, one's mere presence helps to drive home a point to those watching.

Speaking of meeting needs, and of San Francisco, there's a place in the Hayes
Valley neighborhood of SF where an old, abandoned freeway offramp has been put to a far greater use. The offramp was damaged in the 1989 earthquake, and the route of that freeway has since been changed. Meanwhile, that old hillside offramp has been turned into an urban farm. Wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow, soil was brought in, and farming began. Now it's a very popular mid-town co-op farm that grows fresh food, flowers, etc.

That has nothing to do with OWS, but it's an example of the kind of smaller-scale things that can be done that help pave the way for a better, more cooperative, and stronger community of people.

How can we get involved - pookbina

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Frankly I think we should all sign and send a letter to President Obama, stating the abuses in the industry and what we are dealing with, the lowered line rates, the fudging expected on timesheets, etc. There needs to be some laws against some of this junk and we need to state that medical records accuracy and integrity are being jeopardized in the name of greed.

Occupy is all about cooperate greed. - sm

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Occupy is all about cooperate greed, job market instability, low pay, etc. Lots of Americans are tired of being treated not fairly and this is the group of Americans I hope can make a change. There are many ways to get involved. Google Occupy and find out what demonstrations may be taken place in your part of the woods.

Occupy M*Modal, Occupy TTS, Occupy - - wheres_my_job

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it's not that hard. Make a sign. Stand somewhere. Take a pic. Alert the news media. Post your pics online. It's pretty easy. We can all post our pics of ourselves with our signs online.

Their record is quite impressive, however (sm) - Not an Occupier

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- 9 deaths, 5 found dead in tents, One found dead after 2 days
- 2 murders (Not counting the protester who strangled his parents and stuffed them in a car)
- Tens of millions of dollars in damages, layoffs, vandalism, law breaking
- Multiple Rapes
- Thousands of arrests
- Public masturbation
- Feces
- Child molestation and baby abuse

geez, what do you think happens every day? - wheres_my_job

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I don't think your stats are accurate - but ask yourself, what happens all over the U.S. every single day?

Jus sayin, don't think I'd want to band together with the likes of these. - Not an Occupier

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Ugh

bagelmom, how you gonna fight a system like EPIC?? - anon4

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Do you not comprehend the scope of a system like that? Go google and see for yourself. Hospitals won't need but two or three transcribers in house to handle what little will need transcribing pretty soon now. In my town, all my former coworkers of years gone by have been let go.

Maybe a law should be passed that now hospitals - have to treat all MTs for free.

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treat all MTs for free? - what does that mean?

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free medical - exams, procedures, surgeries etc. - nm

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Sorry, but you're about 7-9 years too late. - sm

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This has been a gradual industry-wide slide for years now. And there's not just one cause. There are about four of them.

You think you're gonna go up against EPIC? It costs $50 million, and hospital administration WILL get their money's worth out of it (off the skin of our backs). You'll be crushed.

The time to organize was years ago. Why we sat meekly by and kept on taking the beatings I'll never understand.

Same lyrics different tune. Have heard this repeatedly on these boards. - nothing comes of it nm

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nm

Get the ball rolling... - wheres_my_job

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you need to document abuses, and then you need to "match them up" with relevant law. Keep track of everything so when you file a complaint, you have the data. Or if not filing complaint, when you go to a news outlet, or what have you...gotta have the data. Just my opinion.

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