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Becoming an MT #5 on the list of hottest medical careers. What a joke! - check it out


Posted: Jan 17, 2012

Copied and pasted from YAHOO News just now.  01/17 at 10:55 p.m.  just popped up. 

 

Career #5: Medical Transcriptionist

When physicians and medical professionals need to communicate important information, they turn to medical transcriptionists who translate doctor's notes into medical reports and other files.

Why it's hot: A large percentage of medical transcriptionists work in hospitals, but there will be an increased need for their work in editing transcripts taken by speech recognition systems. Close to 12,000 new medical transcriptionists are expected to get hired from 2008 to 2018, according to the BLS.

How to prepare: Want to pursue this career? Consider earning a medical transcription certificate or an associate's degree in medical transcription.

What it pays (on average): The average yearly salary in this field is $33,530, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Average yearly salary of $33? - Zville MT

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That's a good one!

I do believe that there will be close to 12,000 new MTs hired, but they fail to mention most of those jobs will be overseas, not here.

I just put in a 10-hr day - all I made was $56. - Not exactly the American Dream. nm

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consider discussing this with the - Department of Labor

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So sorry for your workday. I would seriously take this to the DOL.
And what can they do? MTSO can pay anything she wants, none - have to work for that. nm
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minimum wage for employees - ...
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If you are an employee mandated to cover a shift, you have to make at least minimum wage in the course of 8 hours.

No jobs available is not the fault of the MT - NJA arises from poor hiring practices. It is against the law for anyone to have to submit a 40-hour timecard when they had to perform 60 hours to accomplish that.

Geez, why do you bother? There are alternatives. - me

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My sister is a customer service rep for a company called Alpine Access. She works at home. She makes $9 an hour and gets health insurance. She loves it.

I'm, sorry,I just don't understand continuing to work in this industry if you're doing that poorly. There are alternatives.

it's an advertisement, not results of a survey or study - nm

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Advertising - Alice

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I think this is an example of sales "puffing", possibly a paid advertisement, which is usually an exaggeration, but apparently, and sadly, is a totally legal technique in the sales world. In other words, it seems that they are allowed to exaggerate the truth.

That's why I appreciate online forums such as mtstars, as we tend to be more honest. We are not paid advertisers.

As with all "purchases", if you ask previous customers (such as us), you always seem to get a more honest report. That is, as long as you can be sure that the "customer" receives no benefit from the sale.

$2400.00 to become a MT - JW

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I could never recommend anyone spending this kind of money to become a MT. I think all his hype about it being a vocation for the future is a joke and made that way so you cannot get financial aid to pay for the classes. I'm sorry, but if our jobs were never sent offshore we might have a fighting chance but once that happened, it was all over for us. Sorry just the way I see it.

$16 per hour average - sm

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http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes319094.htm

Considerations: Report was released in 2010 using average data from when? Back in 2010 there were stilll some MTs bragging about how much they were making. I think the impact from offshoring and EMR was just beginning to be felt in the lost wages.

I think MT IS going to grow due to more people having health care coverage and more baby boomers entering as health care consumers.

Yahoo is 5% search engine and 95% advertising.

The IT industry leaders who sold this sack of crap should have their heads put on sticks - They claimed VR would eliminate MT

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So now that institutions bought into expensive IT systems, they have to hire the very people they wanted to fire because the crappy systems don't exactly work. AND, they want to hire us back at a lower rate of pay to work with these crappy systems when it would have been more efficient to just transcribe it in the first place. What a crock!

Got released due to VR - MT hope

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I was hired as an MT at a local facility and they went to VR. They kept bringing doctors in and did not want to hire more MT's. The VR system was not accurate as some doctors were ESL but they did not seem to care. I was very disheartened by the loss of this job and it made me wonder what the future holds. It was my first job and I only had it 9 months.

I know, the trend was reported by New Dehli Daily. It is a hot trend because - they are stealing American jobs

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I need a job, but I refuse to compromise American workers. I'll let the off-shore set stew in their own sewers.

hahaha - oldMT

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I particularly like the part that says "a large percentage of MTs work in hospitals." I live in a large city and the hospitals here have been outsourcing since I started in this business well over 20 years ago. what a big fat lie. who writes these things and where are they getting their information? the only thing some hospitals around here hire for is pathology transciption and uh, no thanks.


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