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one of the reasons a union will never work - mt2long

Posted: Feb 03, 2011

"I am looking for a transcription company that does SOAP notes preferably. I have 15 years of transcription experience and would like to do something part-time and weekends."

I read this today. I considered it could be a bait post since not far under it is one equal eyebrow-raising.

But here's an MT who can say, "I have 15 years experience" and I would venture to guess, couldn't hold a candle to many of the newer and older acute-care MTs.

Years of experience really becomes meaningless, and experience is all too often like the word "happy", totally relative.

Just because an MT wants to work part-time, on a - specialized type of account, - sm

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doesn't mean that the other 95% of hard-working, highly-trained, well-rounded, and UNDER-PAID MTs don't deserve and need an organization that speaks up for them.

When people like you put down another MT, you put us all down, yourself included.

Well said - sm

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And what's wrong with SOAP notes anyway? She said she wanted to do those preferably; she didn't say that was the only thing she wanted to transcribe.

I don't get it - Anonymous

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I didn't understand why this was a put down, although I didn't understand the heading about why a union would not work. My thought was that maybe this is an MT who already has a full-time job and wants something additional for extra income, or maybe a coder trying to maintain their skills. Apparently I'm missing something here.

SOAP lady's okay, but we can't unionize until most of the - slugs fall out. Successful unions work WITH

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employers to arrive at agreements that work for both sides. People who can't/won't work well would undermine what union workers had to offer to the point that we couldn't reach mutually satisfactory agreements.

surely you mean can't unionize until you have the majority - that pipedream not going happen, nm

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Yes, should have said COULDN'T. :) - NM

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ya know, when you post on a board specifically for companies to post their job openings - - you will never get it. NM

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What are you talking about? - MT

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What are you trying to say? This post is really difficult to decipher! What does it have to do with unions?

I still don't get it - No message - Anonymous

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LOL

Clarification - mt2long

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Sorry, guess you guys can't read my mind, huh? What's up with that?

There's been lots of talk about unions (again). One of the factors about unionizing is that there is no real definition of what makes an MT.

So here's a person how just wants to do SOAP notes part-time and weekends, another who really wants to do radiology (both translate to my mind as easy work). This particular one says she has 15 years experience.

We see people on here all the time saying they don't get calls back but they have "15 (20, 30, etc) years experience. So if union comes in and says okay - we're organizing MTs and getting higher wages- how would that even look?

Someone with 15 years experience of SOAP notes (and let's just say for arguments sake that's the case here), is NOT equal (in my mind) to someone with 5 years experience who can do any kind of report you put in front of her/him.

Unions tend to lean towards favoring a seniority trend which would just not work in MT.

20 years in radiology is great, but in the world that MT is becoming, it may become next to useless because it's so specialized.

So my point was, 15 years doing easy work, does not, IMHO, make the same caliber of an MT doing 5 years of ALL the kinds of work.

I agree with you and I am 30 yrs lovin radiology. sm - mtmomma

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I had a few years acute care before tripping over radiology, but the medical field changes so much and so fast....it was too long ago to be considered knowledgable anymore.

mt-ing is a continuing education with every new procedure, instrument, drug, contrast material, computerization and reasearch results you come across in the narriatives.

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