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10 years and no notice - Lisa

Posted: Mar 22, 2010

Got a call from the insurance girl at the doctor's office today. Seems they've hired an in-house gal and are not needing my services after ten years. I look back on all the missed vacations I never took. Don't make my mistake. No notice and my salary was approximately $36,000 a year. I've been thrown to the sharks. If any one needs a rheumatology gal, let me know. My cable folks are turning me off, plus my phone, plus any other thing I can think of. And there is a lot of talk of an electronic medical record... could be my life is over.

Me too! - Horski

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I was there 11 years in house and they called a meeting and said two weeks and you're done, we are outsourcing!! I feel for you!

Please don't give up - aqharyder

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I have also been in the same boat, although it was working 7 years in-house with a hospital. New CEO and out we went. I was devastated, but I took my resume and new business cards and went cold calling to doctors' offices. I gave my resume to the office managers, and within a month I had two new accounts. I'm happier than I have ever been in my work. I know it could happen again, but I know now that if I have to I can pick myself up again.

Good luck to you and don't give up!

Me as well - Tired

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I had no notice whatsoever when my job went toast. I turned on my computer to start work, sat down, and no work was available. And that was it.

Feel Your Pain - Been There

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I have had this happen to me with multiple accounts. No phone call no nothing. Check my workload everyday hoping this hasn't happened with another account. So tired of having to worry about whether I will have enough lines and work to feed my family every month.

Me too - Anonymous

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My department is being phased out by Epic and VR beginning within the next year, I am thankful to have that much warning. I wanted to ask how things are going for you at Amphion, I recognized your name.

17 plus years - RLee

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I worked in house at a local neurology office for 17 plus years. They hired a new office manager with newer ideas. He talked the docs into outsourcing. We were given a 3-week notice and was offered a job with the outsource company, but we would have to go through the testing process to do the work that, in my case, I had been typing for 17 plus years. Me and my coworker decided not to go with the outsource company. That was 5 years ago. It is heartbreaking when you lose a job that you worked at so long and thought you would be treated righteously after being a dedicated employee for so many years. Money talks - all practices are trying to save the big dollar in order to survive I guess. I feel for anyone that has been employed long term at an in house position and then are forced to deal with these big nationals, as it is like going from a goldfish bowl into an ocean filled with man-eating sharks !!!!

Replacement - Huh?

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If you got the call TODAY why is it your bills are now being turned off?

Hopefully, you'll be able to market your skills in the best way possible and not get into too much of a financial pickle.

Do you only do rheumatology? If so, I would recommend trying to get some experience in other specialties. The book, The Language of Medicine, is a good book for learning other body systems.

I'd be happy give him a call - and tell him what I think

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Unless you'd rather not. But I can't imagine why. He's a low down dirty dog for treating you like that.

You are so not alone - Been there

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10 years in-house acute care making $30 an hour with great benefits and PTO, 3 weeks notice and then having to go with a national at 10 cpl, crappy benefits, and next to nothing for PTO. The outsoucing company my hospital went with was only willing to pay 8 cpl. Not very easy learning all over again with new docs, new rules of transcription (who makes these things up?), account specifics, etc. I now make less than half what I used to, but reading these boards I guess I should be happy with 10 cpl as it seems a lot are making less with even more experience than I. Even the clinics are all outsourcing in my area now. I feel your pain, hang in there.

I can relate - Pat

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It has happened so many times to me in 20 years I have documented them in a "hall of shame." One OB/GYN office even hired MY sub away for less money. I worked for my neighbor two doors away. His little girls brought tape to my house every night. I busted my ass to get them done by next morning. The kids stopped coming with tape. After a few days I called the office and same thing -- they hired someone in house and not even the courtesy to tell me, AND he is still my neighbor. Unreal. I could write a book.

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