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Got last Advance mag today. Another one bites the dust. - Steady Eddie

Posted: Apr 15, 2010

There is an article about the future of MT profession, which I didn't read yet. I am almost afraid to.

Do tell! - mrs.krabs

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NM

If you do finally read it will you please share? - Thank you

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Please let us know the general idea of the article - supportive? Depressing? etc.

Thanks!

Link inside - be sure to zoom for better viewing. - Can be found on line 2

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http://health-information.advanceweb.com/ebook/magazine.aspx?EBK=HI041210#/10/

Thank you! - MTPockets

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A little hard to read as the screen keeps moving around, but it is worth hanging in there for.

Thanks so much for the link. I appreciate it!

it depends - steady eddie

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Of the six-member panel asked questions, two were MTs and 4 were CEOs of MTSOs that get a bad rap here. Who are you going to believe? Generally, the consensus is that VR is inevitable and here to stay. However, it needs the eye of a warm-blooded human to get it all straight. So, we should all think of straight transcription going the way of the horse and buggy and try to embrace VR as the new norm.

Which means the MTs with the best skills have more options - Nothing New or Shocking There

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Nothing we don't already know. If you can do the widest range of work and don't mind changing, you're probably going to be okay. I already know a couple of people I used to think were pretty good MTs, but they are not going to survive in the new MT environment because they know how everything is supposed to be and everybody else is always wrong. Stubborn is not a strong enough word. They've always done it this way and no employer is going to make them put that hyphen in there where it doesn't belong. Really! Plus, the idea of working with VR sends them into orbit. They are losing their jobs, not because they couldn't do them, but they aren't willing to do what it takes to step into the future. As for me, I don't like to do new things either, and I've gone kicking and screaming into some of the changes, but my work is better when I stop griping and just realize that we're all about change. People who can (and will) change are going to have the jobs. I plan to be one of them.

It also means those MTs with the best skills get to choose the best employers - and the worst employers lose

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In the long view of things when those MTs with the best skills, the ones who are willing and able to adapt to the new technology, etc., they are going to get to pick and choose their own jobs. The rotten employers are going to get the ones who won't keep up. Those rotten employers are going down over time. Of course they are going to take down with them those MTs who refuse to keep up with the times, won't they?!

Why didn't the companies invest that money in the MTs? - Instead of machines that WILL fail

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VSR will never work. They are trying everything by hook and by crook to get it to do so, but having worked on it for many years, I can tell you that it will never work. It is a big expensive experiment.

Why did the MTSOs invest in the MTs instead of looking for more ways to take money out of our pockets?

I've stopped wasting my energy on 'what if's' and 'could (should) haves - No Victim Here

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Can't change what has happened. I agree with much of your argument, but it's a wasted argument. What's done is done. The most important thing is, how we get to be part of the future. Not just a few people are doing well as speech recognition editors. I know that it's a different skill and not everybody wants to do it, but might as well embrace the future. I don't intend to be a victim. I hope you won't either.

MT and VR - pip

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At least someone on there acknowledged that paid line rates are going to go down the more we move into VR, but then the usual BS line about how this will help us work more efficiently and actually make more money. Sorry, but 90% of MTs on here disagree from first-hand experience.

I doubt that 90% of the MTs on here agree about anything - Not buying your statistics

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I used to be completely anti-VR, but now I know that it is possible to make more money using it than on straight MT.

Half the time those journal articles are wrong - and a joke the other half

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I don't believe much that I read in those journals, but I read them anyway. I used to get all upset because they obviously know what they're talking about, right? Wrong! They may accidentally get something right occasionally, but there is nothing there I would take to the bank.

We all know technology is changing. We also know that we either upgrade or we'll be obsolete. That's the bottom line. The people who really 'get it' are the ones who are busy making sure they can do all transcription, acute and clinic, the Basic 4, and aren't afraid to become experts at speech recognition editing. Anything more that you read in these articles is pure conjecture.

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