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A transcription job - snydemoi48

Posted: Jun 09, 2010

I would love to do medical transcription at home but I don't have very strong ESL experience. I live in Arkansas, for pete's sake! Is there not a transcription company out there that starts you out with dictators you can actually understand until you get used to everything?????

Never a Guarantee - I would say no - nm

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What did they teach you in school about ESL? - nm

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reply - snydemoi48

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Actually, we didn't have any instruction on ESL dictators when I took my medical machine transcription course.

It's not always the ESLs that are hard to understand. - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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One of the worst accents out there is none other than good old Mumblo-American.

It's been my experience that many ESL dictators are very, very careful with their diction and pronunciation. And then there are native English speakers who can't talk their way out of a wet paper bag.

Not this field!!! - FedUpMT

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If I were you I would find another career altogether. Medical transcription is fast becoming a dying field with little regard for the hardworking.

Some are doing well and some are not, depending on many different factors - Skills and the right job make a big difference

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There are plenty of MTs who are doing well. People who are negative about the whole industry will say that they too will feel the same way, and people have been saying that for 30 years.

If someone has good skills, motivation, and enjoys this kind of work, there are still excellent opportunities, even in this awful economy that has hurt so many in all different kinds of jobs, or lack of jobs.

My feeling about it is when an MT begins to feel unappreciated, and under paid and has something better, go for it! Just don't expect the rest of us to go running out the door with you just because you are unhappy. Please let us all be free to make our own choices. It's not helpful to just be all doom and gloom unless your goal is to depress the rest of us to make yourself feel better. I don't think that's the case with everyone, but I know that it is with some who are miserable and looking for company.

In the 'old' days, all MTs did well regardless of their skills or work ethics - The Good Old Days Are Gone

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Ah, the good old days when all MTs prospered, whether they knew what they were doing or not.

Old days? - Anonymous

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Anywhere that I have worked, the MTs who didn't cut it either quit voluntarily or were shown the door. I don't know of any who prospered if they didn't know what they were doing. I don't know why you would make such a statement.

Personal experience. I've seen my own medical reports over the years - See message

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I was shocked when I saw my own medical reports. They were riddled with misspelled words and other errors. Then I saw a friend's work. She had always put herself out there as an expert, but she told me she had realized that she wasn't very good. Another example was when I saw the work of someone who even lectures at meetings and it was bad. That doesn't make them bad people, but I don't think they would make it in today's environment, if they were starting out again.

I agree. Used to be if you had ANY exp, they would SM - another MT

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hire you and keep you no matter how bad you were.

reply - snydemoi48

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I understand what you are telling me. It has been my experience that medical transcriptionists are not regarded as highly as they should be. The last hospital I worked for even said that they don't pay any more than they do because "anybody can just walk in off the street and start doing transcription". Uhhhh, no, they can't. And I am actually taking a medical coding course to change my career path because of it.

Coding - Anonymous

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I'm a coding student too, what school are you attending?

ESL/bad dictators - old mt

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Well I agree with the last post. Get out while you can - the future is bleak. You have to remember that most offices/hospitals that send out work - sound out the worse dictators and I'm afraid they can be bad ESL or English first language. So finding a job without any experience will probably be hard if they want ESL experience.

OOPS-meant to say send out/not sound out! - old MT

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You pretty much... - mtm

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have to learn by doing; that's the only way to gain experience. Plus a lot of companies will provide you with samples of their worst dictators, which can help a lot.

If you're hoping to learn on the job, you're going to be disappointed - See message

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The employers expect that you'll come to them as a new graduate that has experienced transcribing hundreds of actual dictated reports from a variety of specialties, including a huge amount of ESL. The idea that you can learn on the job worked well 30 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, but not now. Back then there were no good MT schools. Now you are expected to have training before arriving on the job.

Dont Be Afraid of ESLs - Patt

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If you can find a company that doesn't have ESL, but I would venture to guess that there are more ESL than not these days. You'll get the ESLs faster than you would think with the proper materials to help you along, like their samples, etc. - you'd be suprised how fast you'd catch on to them with those material and good QA

A transcription job - Allison45

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When I got my first MT job the owner just threw me to the wolves - no sympathy whatsoever. She was the nicest woman but she knew what she was doing and she wasn't going to coddle me. At first I couldn't make it thru once sentence without asking for help but before long there wasn't an ESL doc I couldn't understand.

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