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Here's a reply I posted........ - ....to a CNN article....

Posted: Jan 25, 2015

.....entitled "Tell us about your stressful job." I'm sure it won't help our cause, but BOY DID IT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD!:

Do some research on medical transcription! It used to be a very respected position, and we were paid a decent wage. Nowadays, with pressure from government to cut costs or lose reimbursement, most facilities have dismissed their transcriptionists and have outsourced to transcription companies that pay transcriptionists a fraction of what we made working for facilities directly! A lot of those companies also send work overseas to places like India, the Philipines, etc. where they are willing to work for even less due to a much lower cost of living. Some facilities have gone straight to voice recognition, making the transcriptionists "editors" and paying them even less under the mistaken notion that we can edit at least twice as fast as we can straight type when in reality most VR software makes so many mistakes that most of the time it takes longer to fix the mistakes than to just type it straight in the first place! It is clear that the plan is to eventually (and as quickly as possible) completely do away with medical transcriptionists. And the jobs that DO still exist are paid by PRODUCTION instead of hourly (most of the time by the typed line). In other words, if we are not actually typing, we're not getting paid, which is not right because medical transcription does not involve only typing. It also consists of researching to ensure accuracy, looking in the patient's records to verify you're typing the right medication, etc. We are responsible for accurately documenting medical information, and yet due to wage cuts n the interest of saving money, most of us can no longer support ourselves. We can't pay our bills, and are even losing our homes. Why don't we just get out? Because a lot of us have been doing this for 20, 30, even 40 years and it's been a job that we have loved. Plus, in today's job market, it's not that easy to just "get out".

Actually the article is entitled..... - ....Stressful jobs that pay badly....

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.....and here is the link: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/pf/2014/06/17/stressful-jobs/3.html

Article - anonie

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I went to your link. There were 15 listed but never found medical transcription.

That is my point anonie.... - It is NOT there and it SHOULD be

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Maybe they will consider it for future articles, although I'm not holding my breath about that!

Everyone should go to this site and leave a message/post!!!! - Depressed

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Maybe then someone at CNN will take notice and do an article about how poorly medical transcriptionists are paid (and treated).

CNN stress/low pay - Disappointed

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Yep, just went to the site and posted my own opinion about the job of an MT. It would be wonderful to get some deserved decent pay for this dreadful environment. I love the job of transcription but absolutely despise the pay, hours, responsibility for that pay, etc. Just what everyone else says here !

EXCELLENT post, OP! I couldn't have - anon

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said it better myself! Thanks for taking the time to write to CNN.

I disagree with the statement about now days - with pressure with government

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It is not now days. I was outsourced over 10 years ago from my cushy in house hospital job to a company. Why did you put now days? Wrong statement. I love VR and actually do edit more than what I typed per hour years ago. I might make less but I do VR faster. Your statements might fit you but it is not a 1 size fits all.

I think the federal government needs to get - involved.

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MTSO's have reverted back to the 1920's and 1930's payscale. They also bully and threaten us in order to keep us working for fear of losing our jobs. Some are required to lie on their time cards regarding the amount of time worked so overtime is not paid out. Some of us are required to sit and wait for work that rarely comes, there is not enough to make minimums so that we can get and keep benefits, insurance and PTO. We should not be required to punch in and out, if we are hired for a certain amount of hours during the day, we should be paid for the time sitting and waiting and checking on accounts to see if work is available.

Like Standard Oil, many of these companies should be forced to dismantle into smaller ones, due to them becoming a monopoly and buying and destroying smaller companies and forcing laborers to work under their conditions.

Something needs to be done to stop the MTSO's from cheating the very people making money for them and making peanuts.

The feds ARE imvolved. Heard of EMR?? - Alba

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Doctors hate it but it's required for all kinds of reasons that restrict them.

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