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Shame on you AHDI - disgusted

Posted: Jul 17, 2012

They try to get you to certify as an MT, join our organization they say, some companies (although not many anymore) want you to be a CMT, yet as I went onto the website to look something up, Indian transcription companies are advertising on the Benchmark website? How is that supporting the American MTs and you want us to pay you money every year? Shame on you. You will never get any of my money or support.

That is also why I refuse to use Benchmark - through MModal!

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Yes, Shame On Them!!!

I believe it's unethical for AHDI to sell and/or promote products - sm

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I believe AHDI has a habit of getting in bed with one group and then another. They are almost always very bad decisions. Benchmark is one of those. It was a temporary fix, bringing in new members. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling undue pressure to use it. Then they have all those seminars and workshops that promote whatever someone dreams up to make money on the newest knowledge you must have to survive. The truth is, none of those things have helped anyone but the people who "sold" them to AHDI and then AHDI gets money for pressuring us to buy them.

They are wrong to think this kind of high-pressure sales is going to save the organization. The organization is only going to save itself when it becomes relevant to us, the MT---not the MTSO---not the vendors who make products and sell services---but the MTs. It may be too late for them to understand that. It may be that those in charge, the people who are on the board at this moment, just don't know what to do. That's understandable. Lots of organizations are folding these days when they become obsolete because of bad decisions made in the past. We can't go back and undo the decisions made by past AHDI and AAMT leaders. We can hope that the new group of leaders will be wiser and make better decisions. I don't have much hope of that happening. Our AAMT/AHDI leaders who looked out for themselves, promoting overseas outsourcing and making money doing it have acted imprudently. They treated their charge as if it didn't matter at all. They were placed in positions of authority and made decisions to their own benefit rather than in the interests of members.

When their actions hurt us as MTs, they excused their behavior in more ways than I can count. "We aren't a union." "We didn't make up that line count measurement." "We are there to protect and represent the patient's medical record, not the medical transcriptionist."

I respected some of those people until they proved that they couldn't be trusted.

I say this, if an officer has ever participated in sending our work overseas, they should either not be eligible for office or should be voted out. Any future leaders should have to verify that they have not acted against us before they are allowed to participate in anything AHDI does or promotes. If they have been part of outsourcing, they shouldn't be allowed to sell things to us, market products to us, write articles advising us, or be speakers at events. It's just wrong to keep rewarding people for hurting us.

Let's don't throw the organization out. Let's throw out the people who have hurt us and are still, to this day, taking money from us, convincing us that they know more than we do. Just pay them the money and they will give us products, teach us, advise us, and if we don't, we will be the losers. It's too late for that. Surely we aren't stupid enough to continue going back for more. Are we?

AHDI - wittyoma

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Maybe that's why the name was changed from "AMERICAN" Association for Medical Transcription. That was a big hint right there. Nothing American about it. They have exploited MTs for years.

That's one that Claudia didn't do. That was the man who followed her as CEO - Very bad idea no matter who did it

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It just seems like these people come in, make money off us by making really stupid, harmful decisions, and then bolting as soon as someone offers them a job. It probably really looks good on a resume that a person has run an organization. They don't realize they've run it alright, run it into the ground.

I saw another example of that today that shocked me - Disgusted

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I ran into another person who always used to run his mouth off about everything under the sun while he was involved with AAMT/AHDI. Now he is promoting something else on the coding section.

Before promoting this new Coding gig he was an MT student and carried on - and on and on

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That guy carried on and on about first one thing, then another. Nobody could shut him up. Then I think he got in with AHDI and now this.

You know what I'm tired of? I'm tired of people putting themselves out there as experts when they aren't. They are promoters. Experts can be good. Promoters are out to get one thing, money, from you and me.

The rules are:

Make it sound easy!
Make it sound fast!

Tell your target audience that they are smarter and better than other people. Appeal to their pride.

Don't get into the details. No facts. Just paint a beautiful picture. MTs will buy it. They will buy anything, right?

When it's all said and done, blame it on the MT when things don't turn out. Offer them a job at reduced pay. They'll take it because they believe they have to. Better still. Make it an "opportunity" they would be stupid to turn down. MTs believe anything.

You know what I'm tired of too: Bloggers and Facebook - Back To The Good Old Days

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I used to think it might be fun to read a blog or two and have friends on Facebook. Now it seems like every time you open your e-mail, somebody on some blog is trying to promote something, sell something, or convince you of something.

I've lost interest in all blogs. I am so bored with Facebook. All of it is just another way for salesmen/sales women to get your money.

Personally, I like a peaceful life talking to people who don't want to sell me anything or promoting anything. I guess I just like the good old days.

line counts - Me too

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I know this has been asked a million times, but what is the standard amount of lines per MT per Hr as stated by AHDI? Not what you personally can do, but what AHDI says... straight typing, no VR, etc... Thanks

AHDI Code of Ethics - number 10.

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"10. Strive to advance the goals and purposes of AHDI and work for the advancement and good of the profession while refraining from any activity detrimental to the profession."

HAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

ADHI Code of Idiocy - wittyoma

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They really mean "strive to fatten the checking accounts of the big suits, hire non-Americans, on whom you will gladly bestow you vast sum of knowledge to help train, who will work for peanuts and thereby turn what used to be a very lucrative and rewarding profession into a minimum-wage job; at the same time comproming patients' medical records and care; and, most importantly, be glad you have a job, sit there and type/wait for work, put your family life on hold indefinitely, make yourself available 7/24, maintain 98.5% to 100% accuracy or you will be written up and/or fired; and FOR GOD'S SAKE, quit your complaining and be glad you have a job!

Sorry if this offends anyone; not directly aimed at any one person. Just an old MT who is fed up and blowing off steam. I'm applying at WalMart tomorrow (really).

ADHI Code of Idiocy - wittyoma

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Yes, I did catch that typo!

Walmart's part of the problem, too. I don't support - them anymore. If I want - sm

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inexpensive clothes and other items, I go to Goodwill. Better quality, and they even have clothing made in America.

OH BUT ACCORDING TO HAPPY MTs on here... - GoodMT

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IF YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCED, QUALIFIED MT suffering slave labor WAGES & ABUSIVE CORPORATE PRACTICES, you must deserve it...for one reason or another!

SO, basically everything described above by Wittyoma in Code of Idiocy ACCORDING TO SUCCESSFUL & HAPPY MT'S on this board...applies ONLY TO THE IDIOT MT's. They said so..in this thread-->TO THE PA THAT'S SLUMMING AS AN MT http://forum.mtstars.com/413176.html

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