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I am totally done with medical transcription!!!!!! - I give my best, and ........

Posted: Oct 21, 2014

.....what is my reward? Being paid minimum wage then getting fired for not being "productive" enough! Never mind the fact that a huge portion of the docs I typed were difficult ESLs or mushmouthed docs who would not open their mouths for the life of them! Never mind that I that I had to track down doctors that I was unfamiliar with and that the docs did not spell to make sure the correct ones got a copy. Never mind the fact that I actually cared enough to go back and relisten numerous times in order not to leave a blank even though I knew it was going to cost me. Never mind that I had to find the patient's demographics when the doc did not put them in. Never mind the fact that I had actually TOLD my lead that with the quality of dictations I was getting there was no way I was going to meet minimum line requirements. Never mind the fact that you only gave me two and a half months to learn 70+ doctors and their different ways of dictating and saying things.

Somehow the ones who supervise medical transcriptionists have forgotten that medical transcription is not just a typing job. It requires a lot of training.

I am off my soapbox now. There may well be those who dislike this post; that is your prerogative. I am just fed up and raw with emotion right now from just getting fired today.

I'm so sorry - bettymcbricker

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I'm so sorry.

You try so hard to do a good job in an almost impossible situation (especially when you are new) and you just get shat on. I haven't been fired yet, but I feel like I could have written your post word for word. My experience exactly.

At least you can do something different/better now.

Here's hoping for all good things coming your way!

That's terrible. What company was it? Only asking so I - know to steer clear.

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Been there......done that - Peppermint Patti

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Totally agree with you. I had my own company, my girls loved me, my doctors loved me. Did great for 20 years. Then corporate makes the decisions, all about money. They listen to the BS from the salespeople - how much they will "save" by not having to pay for transcription. Along comes voice recognition and editing and getting paid half to fix the horrendous errors. Most of my girls got jobs with the company that got the contract - every one of them got fired trying to deal with the snotty team lead that treated the transcriptionists like idiots. The day before they told the others that were left after working for a year that they lost the contract they fired me. I was just too mouthy for them, not agreeing to research the doctors that needed the CC's sent to them - not taking more than 15 minutes (obviously not getting paid for this time), and if you send to the incorrect doc then it is a HIPAA violation and you get written up! What a lot of crap! Then I worked for the company who got the contract next and I did get written up for a HIPAA violation because I got the incorrect CC which was from a previous report that was in the EMR and signed off by the doctor.

When I had my own company and the doc wanted a CC sent, I called medical records and got the correct one off the patient's chart.

MT is NOT a profession anymore. I was very proud of what a great job my girls did and appreciated everything they did and they appreciated me making their jobs so enjoyable. Now it is torture!!! Not getting paid enough, not appreciated enough, treated like idiots.......

Patty - I agree - Lazysusan

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It's a terrible situation! All we can do is get on the internet and see what we can find.

I would like to become a - newg

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team lead. What are the qualifications for this? Where is this job advertised, or do we just notify the supervisor?

Sorry for your firing - CINDY

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It happened to me also, after 5 years with a company, not going fast enough, but then after they said if I increase my speed nothing will happen, I actually surpassed the speed requirement and they still fired me. You can collect unemployment. I did. Even being fired. No it was not from Nuance, from one of the other big companies.

Good luck to you. Hope you find something better.

wow! that's depressing nm - ssMI2

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Sounds like the experience I just had with a lousy MTSO! - sm

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I got tired of the blame-the-MT mentality years ago!!!

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