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The future of transcription in India? Think we'll get our jobs back? - dreamer

Posted: Jan 29, 2013

Wouldn't it be great if we got our jobs back?? Hey, I can dream....

Great, thanks for posting it. Despite the occasional butchering of English... - sm

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it was very intelligent and well thought out. The greedy 1% suits are ruining it for them there just like they've done here. The comments on that article sound so incredibly similar to what we've been experiencing too; they're just more at the beginning of the crash.

Nah, don't think it's coming back, it will just move on more to the Philippines, and once they're disgusted with being exploited too, then to Kenya and then South America, China.... (see the "medical transcription team" info below)

Very interesting link. - Rainwoman

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What he says about people shouldn't spend money for school in hopes of getting a job in MT would also apply here. The work won't be coming back. It will either be speech wreck or go elsewhere offshore.

The article was dated - october 2012

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so not new, for sure.

Only 3 months ago ... - nm

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Might get them back, but the pay will still suck. - mythought

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They will just say "work harder! There's tons of work now!!!!!"

Even if it came back like gangbusters, it's already - too late for me. Gotta get out NOW, or starve. nm

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DEJA VU, isn't it? A mirror-image of what happened - to US MTs. It will happen again - sm

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in the Philippines, and again in China, if it gets that far before some as-yet-uninvented software renders the entire field of MT/word processing/court reporting/coding/etc. extinct.

Is there really a limitless supply of fluent English speakers? - anon

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Even the guy who wrote that article had pretty dicey English skills.

It doesn't matter - MtMt

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A few years ago, at least a few companies would have cared. I remember when they would ding you for a forgotten comma and how that made quality of patient care suffer. Now, none of it has to make any sense, drug names/doses can be wrong, and patients can die as long as the administrators have a few more cents to shove in their overstuffed pockets.

There's not even an unlimited supply in the US! It's - ludicrous he thinks India has so many! Pffft!

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future of transcription - crittermom

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TBH, I think the MTSOs may be anticipating something to come down the pike, a ban on offshoring health records, catastrophic medical malpractice, something along those lines. In order to not put the squeeze on their Lexus payments it wouldn't surprise me if this were a "how low can we go" phase to see if American MTs will accept what they paid the Indian MTs, and unfortunately, some will . . .

America certainly has sold itself to the lowest - bidders, hasnt it? Pathetic.

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