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MT Jobs suggestions - Anonymous


Posted: Dec 31, 2012

After reading what was suggested to the last person who asked for advice about going into the MT field, I don't want to get run over by asking about that. I am sure just like with most anything there is both good and bad to the whole industry. I am looking at doing MT part time if possible certainly full time if there is a company who offers those type of hours. At this point I am just being open and flexible to reading all I can find and looking into a few companies that I have seen listed here. Have a Happy New Year Everyone 

MT Jobs - Dinosaur MT

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I don't post very often on the site and I won't be slamming you, but I do definitely have to tell you the truth. I loved this career. Loved loved loved it! I used to train people who wanted to get in. But, I wouldn't tell one person now to do it. I have extensive experience in everything you could possibly do. I set my career up to learn everything I could from every angle I could. I have been doing this 26 years. I can't find a job. If someone like me has trouble, then imagine what you are up against. Not only that, but we make less than we did when I started 26 years ago. Part time jobs are even harder to find. The big services out there are sweat shops. There is no time for family or life. This is not a forgiving career. It demands everything you have to give. The MT schools don't tell you the truth. If you find a company who will hire you, it is because they can get away with paying you less than an experienced person. You can get into editing, which pays little, as that is the way the career is going. It is a dying career. Voice recognition, sending over seas, and EMRs are killing it. It is very sad because it was a great career, but no more. Us oldies who have been in a long time are just trying to hang on until we can retire or find something else to do. I recently lost a job because the entire hospital system and all the doctors associated with it went to voice recognition. There is no job security. It doesn't matter how good you are. Every minute is spent in anxiety over whether or not you will have a job or can make enough to pay the bills. If after this you still want in, then good luck to you. But, what you read here about what has happened to our career is true. I would not recommend it to anyone now.

MT Career - trina

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Would agree to agree with ya, dinosaur. I have been let go twice by the same company, the place is going to total medical voice recognition. I have been through that at Nuance and I don't want to go through it again. thank God I am not the only provider in the home. I get no unemployment as a contractor. They have no compassion and no appreciation. There are a few straight typing jobs but you never know when it's going to voice, when there will be another merger with a big outfit, etc. etc. It's a real racket anymore. It's very sad. I have liked my work very much and I still do, but I know I don't care for voice or the great big pay cut that comes with it. It is just all very sad.

please do not do it - 20+ years MT

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I agree with everything the other poster with 26 years of experience said. I still love being a MT, but I am in school to get out of it. It was wonderful years ago, and I would not trade a day of it. I was able to stay home with my son when he was a infant. He is now a junior in high school, and hopefully I will be starting my new career this year. RUN AWAY. No pay, no security. Even if you could get your foot in the door at a hospital, it is nothing to count on long-term. It's just not what it used to be. I cannot believe school are still teaching this stuff. I am not slamming you, just giving you the brutal truth about the MT BEAST.

agree with dinosaur - anon

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I'm back in school to get out of MT after 10 years in it. Getting out for all the reasons Dinosaur stated which are true, true, true.

I used to recommend this field to people years ago. I wouldn't recommend it now, not to the most intelligent, hard-working, self-starter of a person looking for a career.

And to anyone who is in a financial crunch because of the economy and thinks MT will be a quick fix of a job to make "just a little money," I would not recommend it, either.

This post should be an automated answer - well said

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to any post asking about getting into this field. IMO, it would be better getting into the horse shoe industry.

I've got over 30 years experience (started when I was 6 LOL) and having same experience as you.

I'm with them.... - 11 yrs

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I wouldn't waste money getting in. Everything Dinosaur says is true. I have gone to school TWICE, now, for other occupations. I have dipped my toe back in the water now because I have some bills I need to pay, and don't want a set schedule working retail. But this is NOT my or our primary income.

Dinosaur MT nailed it. - anon

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Not being negative but this truly is a dying industry. There will probably be some work always done in this country but it will be low paying and/or most likely strictly QA'ing off-shore work.

I will say if the MTSOs, hospitals, docs, etc., believe that VR will EVER be good enough on its own, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. It is NOT going to happen.

It should be truly fun watching the lawsuits roll in from the consequences of sending our jobs to ESL MTs typing ESL docs.

second that - me too

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I've done this for 30+ years. Like Dino, if you can dictate it, I can transcribe it. Fortunately, I've been able to find jobs, three of them in fact. And I have to work all three in order to support myself. There's no one paying half the bills (well some months I pay half but that's because I only have half), no one coming to my rescue. It's me. Only me. So I transcribe, and transcribe, and transcribe. I make okay money but I'm too tired to do much more than pay those bills. I made more in 1980 (per line) than I do now.

And sadly, I STILL love the job.

. . . don't forget - anon

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the anxiety you have if you are "lucky" enough to have a job. The anxiety you feel trying to transcribe a dictator who obviously speaks their own specific brand of English that is difficult to understand. The anxiety you have knowing you have worked as hard as you can and still you cannot pay all of your bills. The anxiety of having to get up at 2 or 3 a.m. to go to work so you can get ahead of the other 80 MTs in your work pool just to have some work because the company has overhired and if you wait until 7 a.m. there will be no work!

I've been in it a long time too and every day I am searching for a more lucrative career. If you are not in it - please, run away as fast as you can any job is better than being an MT.

Believe me when I say, "The discomfort you feel getting into this career will only be 1/2 as much aggration and grielf you feel trying to get out of it."

don't forget - Dinosaur MT

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Your last line is a perfect statement of how it is!

I predict that by the end of 2013/beg. of 2014, there - will be no more U.S. MT jobs available.

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Just a strong feeling. Based on what I see my company doing, other companies doing, lack of corrupt U.S. gov't. to rein in offshoring, tax mess, healthcare costs, etc.

It's completely obvious, from the shabby treatment of ALL U.S. MTs by these companies, that they are NOT WANTED. I feel the last couple of years' escalation of pay-decreases, linecount and accuracy increases,
QA ridiculousness, etc. has been with one purpuse in mind: TO DRIVE OUT AMERICAN EMPLOYEES.

There has been an eerie silence at my co. in the past 6 months that gives me a gut feeling that in 2013, they're going to say to heck with unemployment, and just start firing MTs, anyway.

I'm trying to put some kind of a contingency plan in motion right now, so I won't be caught off-guard when it happens.

Okay let's say this was true - ask yourself

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Ask yourself right now, if I got fired tomorrow what would I choose to do? Besides unemployment I mean. I think I want to go into digital scanning. There is a course at my junior college. The job only pays 10-12 an hour but I think it is something I would like.

I've already decided, and it will be FAR from medical, - which appears to be coming - sm

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apart at the seams from all angles. Tomorrow, Jan. 1, 2013, will be a day off for me. (Even though I'm scheduled to work.) Then on Wednesday, Jan. 2, my job applications start to go out in retail. I can't afford to wait any longer to get fired and get UE, and also can no longer afford the time to go back to school. That opportunity passed me by about 15 years ago. Even if all I do is stock shelves or bag groceries, it'll be a humongous step up, both financially and opportunity-wise, from this armpit of a profession.

and I predict.. - sm

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that there are going to be quite a few MTs with a deer-in-the-headlights look when it all happens.

They will be sorry - have seen the work from India

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but maybe it doesn't matter, and I guess they don't care.
No guess needed, clearly they do NOT care. NM - ANON
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I think you're right. Especially the newbies who - were told "$40-60K/year, guaranteed!" Pffft.

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I give it more like 2-3 years but in the end, yeah all of it gone, except for massive need for QA - anon

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that is where some US MTs will land but overall, the time to get out was 5 years ago.

I knew it then but told myself there was plenty of time. Now I am in no position to go back to school. Ugh.

Massive need for QA, but likely at 1 cpl or less. - So likely that will be offshored, too.

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I'm not sticking around to find out if it's true, however. If I can't land a non-MT job in the next few months, will throw in the towel and take early social security.

nah - me 2

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The profession is changing. It won't look like what you're used to, but if you keep up your skills and survive the quake, there will still be jobs.

That's what they told us 10 years ago, and NOW look at - the mess we"re all in. And... (sm)

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judging by the direction the most recent changes in the profession have taken, I don't think most of us can stomach any more. I sure don't want to be here to see the end result. It won't be a "profession" then, either. (It already isn't). Not only will it all be offshored, but likely those doing MT will have to be locked into the building and forced to do it.
i respectfully disagree - ImaPro
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I'm still making a nice salary. I also know that companies are shifting to revise the job. I'm hoping for required credentialing. Any other serious profession has it, we should have it. I just know that from conversations I've had and things I've seen, the profession is once again reshaping but it will survive and those who are able to reshape and excel will survive too.
And, I respectfully disagree - anon
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It is naive to think that because you have crawled to the top of the sinking ship that the water will never reach you.

About 10 years ago I could see the industry going under and I knew I needed to get out, but then I got a fantastic job in-house and was told they had a horrible experience sending the work out and would NEVER do it again. It seemed that a lot of local places were thinking the same thing. Then about 2-3 years ago a funny thing happened, they decided that money was far more important than a silly little thing like quality medical transcription.

I, and others, were tossed aside like nothing after years of service.

I wish you were right but the trend is absolutely going in the direction of the majority of MT going off-shore.

I believed at one point that highly skilled MTs would always have a place but I no longer believe that.

I've been seeing more and more - Alana

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straight transcription jobs (with decent pay and bennies) on job search sites. I sent out resumes to 3 local private practices 2-3 wks ago. The hospital I work for decided to keep MTs in-house for pathology instead of outsourcing to the huge MTSO that does the rest of the hospitals' work. That job was posted on Indeed. And, best of all, I just started contracting directly with the hospital for >$3/page in another dept. They're very unhappy with their current MTSO, which is constantly out of TAT and the quality isn't there either. I worked for them before and kept in touch with their MR managers after they went to MTSOs. I can't say I agree with the OP.

OP here - I'm seeing the opposite. Fewer MT jobs on - Indeed, and what few inhouse jobs - sm

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there are (in the southern half of the state, and I live in the far northern half) are all on-call, $10-12/hour, no bennies. I wouldn't pick up and move downstate for that, and many of these jobs are also listed as temporary. Reading between the lines on their job requirements, it appears that lots of those places just want an MT to train their VR and/or train their $8/hour scribes. Nope, I'm out. Homie don't play dat.
My hosp hasn't transitioned - alana
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to VR yet after 2 yrs, to the dismay of the MTSO, because it stinks. The offices I sent resumes to had VR and/or templates and discontinued using these MT methods. In this region, the doctors tend to follow the most technically savvy docs in the area. One outsources, most follow suit and outsource to the same MTSO. One gets templates, they all get templates. The offices that had MT wanted jobs have 12 docs in one, 20 in the other. There are about 6 hospitals in this region. Not one employs scribes.
Wishful thinking. - anon
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I said all of these things too about 2 years ago. I had a fantastic in-house job. My supervisor assured me over and over that they had NO interest in changing anything. This past March I was told thank you so much for your decade of great service, however, we will no longer be in need of your services.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst or get trapped in the rubble.
I wasn't clear. - Alana
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A large MTSO is in the hospital already, but they were not doing pathology though scheduled to do so in 2013. MTSO IS providing radiology MT services off-platform and transition to the MTSO platform was supposed to happen 2 yrs ago. That has been axed, too. The doctors don't want VR and want in-house back. This is nearly the exact same scenario with the two large practices I sent resumes to. They're ditching MTSOs and VR. The doctors at the two large practices all admit and see patients at my hospital, as well as 3-4 other area hospitals. One of those practices employs all the GI doctors that admit to the same hospital.

Yesterday, my sister told me the endocrinologist she works is adding another MD to their practice and they're looking for an MT to either work in office or from home $4/pg for correspondence and consults, .13/line for progress notes. Perhaps it depends on where you are, but knowing this hospital and being in the field for close to 30 yrs here, this is definitely a trend.
Whatever gets you through the night. - anon
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Been around the block a few times myself.

I'm sorry but the sad and brutal reality is that what you describe is an exception not the trend. The trend is clear and it is not back to in-house. Not to mention EMR and VR and on and on and on.

The old days are over and never to be seen again. That is simply the way the world works. Out with the old and in with the new.

Unless the old is more efficient? - babs
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My local online newspaper classified had a couple in-office MT jobs too last week. Maybe contracts are ending/not being renewed? Not saying old days are coming back but there do seem to be better jobs showing up.
Old is more efficient but also more expensive - anon
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Look, I wish they would all wake up and realize that transcribing a report produces the most accurate result. But, it is expensive and as a rule the people cutting the checks at the hospitals and clinics want cheap.

I am not going to argue the point any longer. I hope your prediction for a rosy future for MTs comes true. It is just all evidence points to the opposite.

I live in a major, major metropolitan area and there are NO in-house MT jobs anywhere. Not in physician's office and absolutely not in the hospital.

I also have friends in my old smaller state and it is the same story there.

If you turn out to be right, fantastic. However, I won't be holding my breath.

Clueless... - me
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I have no idea where you are located, but in my area, there are tons of in-house hospital and physicians' office jobs available as well as local services (both small and national) and clients available. I live in a major suburb close to several hospitals who all have in-house staff, and I went to thousands of clinics in person trying to obtain new clients not to long ago, where 95% of them had in-house transcriptionists. Those few who did not used local services or small independent MTs, so I am clueless as to why I keep reading all these negative posts or why everybody is telling people looking to enter this field that there is no work. There is! All the transcriptionists I know, both from school and networking, are so buried in work that it is coming out of their ears (and mine) and for pay a lot more than what I see as the 3-4 cpl everybody states or 8 cpl, which is just something I do not believe. Hogwash... not buying it.
Calling people liars is unacceptable. - anon
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Go check out the job seeker's board, you will see that 3-4 cpl for VR and 8 cpl for straight is NOT hogwash. It is the norm.

Not everyone lives in a major metropolitan area, however, I actually do and I find that your statements are hogwash. I have applied in-house at all of the area hospitals on the RARE occasion they even have an opening. Most of the hospitals here are moving over to EPIC or some other electronic record. I have also checked out numerous clinics and, again, no dice.

I have 17 years experience and most of that is in acute care and multi-speciality clinics, so I am not a newbie.

I live in the Los Angeles area and I call HOGWASH on you.

Your attitude is very condescending and rude.


This is not the only site for jobs... - anon
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and since I am near your area, I can honestly say there is a lot of work here... I just posted several that are hiring, which took me 1o seconds to locate, and my phone has been ringing off the hook all week--physicians and office managers looking for new transcriptionist... not to mention everybody calling in their dictation, office transcription when I do their acute care.

Honestly, I try help people and just get rude posts, so forget it. I have even hired people off this site with lucrative, super easy work, but they do not even show up after they accepted the job, and then everybody posts there is no work. Go figure.
what decade are you calling from? - not the case where I live
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Very few inhouse MT jobs in the Fort Worth area. I know because I check every day, and apply every time I see one. I think there have been 3 in the last year.
California - me
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You can go on the hospitals' websites and check or in the case of a local hospital here, they list it by the cafeteria. There are also other websites listing jobs available. I know several MTSOs hiring for acute care and clinic work in my area, although I cannot post their names because they will be buried in resumes and get mad. Networking is good in this case. Sometimes it is who you know or meet.

I wish you luck...
I agree with you Alana, just depends where you are and who you are with! - me
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Some of the largest hospitals in our area are strictly in-house and always will be, although I do not work there. Also, some physicians always insist on in-house, and certain physicians and facilities, despite the fact they have transitioned to EMR, are smart enough to realize their valuable time would be better spent practicing medicine instead of documenting....Lost some of my work but gained others... There are still a lot of great paying jobs and still a lot of work available in my area.

I don't think the examples in your post is a trend, sadly. - anon

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I think it is very clear that the huge MTSOs eating up everyone in site, more off-shoring and lower wages are the trend.

I hope I am wrong.

I hope you took the time to read ALL responses. - Des

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Most who come on this board wanting advice or help are only interested in the "secret" to getting that part-time job making $40,000/year with no experience or education.  THAT JOB DOESN'T EXIST.


Take the time to read all current and November posts on the Main Board and the New MTs board.  There IS some good, realistic advice there, but you'll have to read ALL the posts to find it.  If you're not willing to do that kind of research and be that thorough, you're probably not cut out to be an MT.


There are no quick answers, no easy-ins, no easy jobs in MT.  We work very hard and are required to actually comprehend what the dictators are dictating in order to catch their mistakes, VR's mistakes, and prevent our own mistakes, and we have to do it at lightning speed.  MT has always been stressful work, it's just that now we get to do it for half the pay.



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Hi:  I was hired last week but when they did the test on the computer I was 0.5 RAM shy of being able to sign paperwork.  I need to put in 1 more RAM for my computer to fit the profile. I have a friend coming over to help me pick out the RAM stick and put it in next weekend.  Are there any dos and don'ts for this? I do not want to mess this up, because this job means a lot to me and the recruiter is being patient in waiting for me to get my computer up to speed. Thanks in a ...


Opinions And/or Suggestions Please
Jul 18, 2012

I love my job but am running out of work almost on a daily basis....I contemplated getting a 2nd job but my problem is what if I take the 2nd job and then work picks up on my current job, I am afraid I won't be able to handle both and on days I have work I want to work for my current company...I know I'm probably asking for a miracle here but anyone else in this situation and what if anything dd you find helpful? ...


Need Keyboard Suggestions
Sep 26, 2012

I need a new keyboard. I have been through 2 in the past 2 years and the letters mostly wear off of the keys. It wouldn't be a big deal, except I need to still look at certain keys to do certain keyboard functions that I'm not totally used to doing yet, like control/n, etc. Does anyone have a keyboard that stands the test of time as far as the letters being visible on the keys. ...


Looking For Suggestions For A Keyboard
Oct 09, 2012

I am looking for suggestions for a keyboard.  I have the Logitech Illuminated wired keyboard presently with a plastic cover, which I really like, but the cover is pushing over the f, g and h keys.  Is there a keyboard out there that can withstand our hours of typing?  I went with the illuminated keyboard as the letters were laser etched, but wound up rubbing the letters off this keyboard, as well as the standard keyboard.  Thank you for the suggestions in advance. ...


Need Reference Suggestions...
Feb 26, 2013

I've just been hired to transcribe for a new transplant clinic.  I'm not really familar with the terminology and medications that might accompany this field.  Are there any good reference word books (such as Stedman's) that you'd suggest me getting? Thanks in advance for the help!  ...