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medical transcription at home to become a medical scribe? - MTMT

Posted: Jan 20, 2015

Has anybody left medical transcription at home to become a medical scribe? I have an opportunity to do so but there aren't any scribes currently in my area and I don't know anyone who has worked as a scribe before. The scribe position starting pay is almost double what I make as an MT per hour so it is very tempting, I just don't know much about it.

I dont know much about it but this is - what Ive heard

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I've seen ads for it in my area. I also saw on an actual local news channel, that a college course in it has been created for it. I'm in a rural area in the Northeast. They want 'students,' preferably, they've said...I've heard them describe it as "perfect for a gap year" (between high school and college---college/med school?)-- in other words, they want someone young. Now the question is why...my guess is, typically, because it's low-paying, however, you say your proposed pay is good. Second, my guess is they work you to death--you literally follow the doctor or PA everywhere, shadow, going into all the rooms with live patients (presumed live) and enter in data, etc., perhaps what patients are saying to the doctor, too, in 'real-time'--I'm not sure...you're on your feet, I presume, all the time. I have also seen ads for 10-hour days, I guess 4 days a week. I have seen 7:00 AM-5:30 PM (GAG ME)! Also, I suppose there's no real room for 'growth' unless you become a PA or doctor, and that's why they want a 'student'-type as well. Personally, I couldn't do it in a million years at this point at my age. If you're 40 or younger, I'd say check it out, I probably would have at that age, but not 40+10ish, as I am now UGH! LOL! How things change in this dreadful decade...GL-- let us know; I say do it if you're able!

I see the ads, but that job doesn't interest me. - sm - Silly Me

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Not only because of the low pay, and having to be in proximity to colds, flu and worse every single day, but having to do the work of an MT while standing up all the time and chasing after the doctor makes me tired just reading about it.

Really... I would rather work in - fast food or retail

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than this. Just because it's in a hospital doesn't make a low paid job any better, unless maybe you get better benefits.

scribe - reta

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It just doesn't make any sense to me, that our positions as MTs have to be so devalued in order for something like this to come in. They're doing as scribes the very same work we are doing except doing it in an office. Sometimes it's almost like they will do anything to eliminate our jobs, even to the point of renaming it and making it into something like this. Why make it so we can't hardly make minimum wage to create a job like this, which is somewhat higher paying? It just seems like a lot of discrimination against our jobs as MTs.

Pay - MTMT

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It isn't really what I would consider a low-paying job. It is starting out at just under $15/hour. I'm in a very rural area where there are very few jobs that pay more than minimum wage and transcription jobs pay less and less every year (at least mine have). I think I'm gonna check it out and see what they have to say.

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