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Ready to make a move to a company with medical benefits. SM - Lala

Posted: Sep 04, 2012

I have been a medical transcriptionist for 25 years now. I started young right out of high school and during college, and have been in this profession ever since. I have always had my own physician clients or worked for small or local transcription services. I need to make a move soon to a company who offers decent pay and healthcare benefits, as my husband can retire in a few years and I need my own insurance. I'm younger than my husband, so at age 47 I still have quite a few years to work. I only ask for recommendations because I am "out of the loop" with respect to networking on good companies/bad companies. I know there are good and bad points to every company, but I appreciate any information that can be offered!

I am also a long time MT and wanted employee status for the 401K. - see message

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I went with M*Modal and I have to say I love it so far. I'm not making millions, but I'm averaging about 13.00 an hour doing VR. You might try them benefit wise especially for health.

Give them a whirl, you might enjoy it! I am loving the VR, saves my wrists.

I have absolutely no VR experience...SM - Lala

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I have always done straight transcription, but of course provided all QA when I operated my own small transcription services and had several subcontractors working for me. I need to give VR a try. Thanks for your input.

You Don't Need VR Experience - Old MT

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If you have the transcription experience (in particular acute care), you don't need VR training except for training on the particular software you will be using. It's just fixing an already-populated text document. Not to be taken lightly, but if you can edit your own work, you can edit the VR. Note that it is more of a mess than your own would be, but it doesn't take special training, except for knowing how to use the company's software.

P.S. - Old MT

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Note that we were all "just" transcriptionist before VR, and nobody had to go to special school to use it. It was a 1-hour training course on keystrokes to help expedite the report faster is all.

VR is not saving but killing. - anon

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Yes we were all transcriptionists, but people thinking we can do more work for less money is just not so. This is exactly what sold VR and the Dragon. What other career works for 3-4 cents? Oh, you can just breeze through! Not for me at least. Then they raise the bar even more, 1500 lines a day and every day, and all foreign dictators.

Time off - Linda

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How much PTO does MModal give?

Is this the same LaLa that used baby snot sucker to baste her - turkey? How ya doing? nm

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AAAGH! - LOL

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I'll be thinking of this on Thanksgiving.

If anybody named LaLa invites your for Thanksgiving, - politely decline. nm

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Makes me want to have ham on Thanksgiving. - nm

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Not sure who you are referring to, but you have the wrong person. My grandkids call me this. - LaLa

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msg cut off. This is what my grandkidscall me. - LaLa

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