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Backpaddeling with MT industry. - gm

Posted: Jan 19, 2012

Backpaddeling with MT industry.. In no time, it is going to hit deadend or get crashed ...

CONCERNED, IRRITATTED, ANGRY, FRUSTRATED MT.

Sooner or later - Alias

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I've said this before, but sooner or later, there will not be an actual MT industry. I give it 10 years at the most. VR or SR may not be the best thing out there right now, but I've done enough of it to be able to tell there is an improvement in the technology since it first came out, as much as I hate to admit it. As each year goes by, there will be more and more improvements to it, until all one will have to basically do is just sit back and read. It will get to the point that hospitals and clinics will purchase their own VR or SR, and the hospitals will just have to hire someone to read over them, and clinics can just use someone in the office to go over the reports. It's mind-boggling and scary to think that the medical industry could do without us, but folks, there's no way past this.

If you're young enough, now is the time to get out (yes, even if you're in your 50s), go for it, and do something else. I know there are those who are close to retirement, scared of our economy, or have spent a lot of money training to become an MT, and cannot or will not leave the industry. To those MTs, I say good luck. As for me, I now only have a few months left in the industry until I start the journey to fulfil my dream, and I'm not a youngun', but I am still breathing and able to learn, so college here I come. Peace out.

Definitely don't see - sm

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what you're seeing on the improvements. Any report I do needs major overhauling. No, I'm not just badmouthing VR,just stating facts. I actually see just the opposite. When they lose all the experienced MTs and rely on VR and solely on new people to edit the reports and the offshore people, there will be a lot of problems. I have never had VR even close to just reading through it, even on good dictators.

Oh well, I guess we have different views on this subject.

It's coming - Alias

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I hear what you're saying. I've worked on some accounts that were not there yet, and have had to virtually do them over, but I've also worked on accounts that have been around for a while, and I have basically sat there and just read. As I said, it's not quite there yet, but it will be sooner or later. There are too many intelligent people out there for it not to happen. They will work on it and work on it, until they perfect it. The more a person dictates on VR, the more it recognizes what they're saying, not to mention the technology that has come out that picks up on different foreign dialects (actually, sometimes I think it gets ESL better than the English language). Truth hurts, but we do need to take the blinders off. Yes, hospitals may need an experienced in-house MT to make sure the terminology is correct for all the different specialties, but clinics can use the employees they already have, who know their specialities. It's not only MTs who have something to worry about, but MTSOs. Remember how expensive computers used to be when they first came into our homes? VR will become a very useful and inexpensive thing for the medical industry sooner or later. I truly do not understand how people cannot see this. Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

PS - Alias

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Actually, they won't even need off-shoring anymore.

different strokes - sm

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I have accounts that have been around a long time and it still screws them up. Oh well, I guess we just agree to disagree.

The doctors are now growing up with VR - sm

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I do not so much see the technology getting perfect, but doctors in school now are used to VR and how to correct their own documents. As the ol'docs phase out, the new docs take over. JMO. Also today, I know such hospitals that do not even have any transcriptionist checking documents and what a nightmare these VR reports are, but they do not care --- only that the docs are up-to-date in their liability insurance is enough for these hospitals.

readers - MT

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They could hire us to read the reports.

And how much do you think that will pay? NM - Ostrich no more

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Sooner or later - jan2

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I know it's not proper of me to ask your age. I am 66 and would love to go to college but feel I am too old and where would the money come from? If you want to answer, any thoughts from you would be much welcome.

Not too old - Alias

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I don't mind you asking at all. I'm 50, and no, you are not too old. My daughter-in-law told me she had a 72-year-old lady in her graduate class. The school advisers I've talked to have told me there are more older people coming back to school right nown than ever before. As far as money, with the way MQ pays, there are Pell grants, and other money for people our age going back to school, especially women. Age and money, among other things, are just excuses, I believe, for people not to accomplish their dreams. Look, the way I see it, why not go for it? I'm just as scared as the next person my age, but I also know that if I just sit back on my laurels and talk about "I wish," nothing will ever get accomplished in my life. The only thing I have to lose by going back to school is regret, and I don't mind losing that at all. Good luck with your decision.

kudos to Alias... - Former Mt

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Amen to that Sister! I am 52, and consider myself far from washed up. Okay, I'm fortunate, my health is excellent, I am told I look much younger; however, all too often someone uses something for an excuse.... me, I take a negative and turn it into a positive.... at my age I have no "drama" in my life, I do not have kids of any age (by choice), my parents (unfortunately) are deceased, I have very little distraction to my career, and won't be out on maternity leave or with a family emergency when you need me! Young folks do have some advantages, and I don't mean to insult anyone who has has a family or whatever, I just believe in playing the cards I have to the best of my advantage. I offer stability and work ethic gained over time in competition with youth!

Agree and disagree - old and burned out

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Agree that MTs are disappearing but don't agree about ASR improving. Mine is worse than ever. After working on it for 6 or 7 years it still can't get the beginning of an operative report even close to being correct and doctors will always be telling us to go back and change this or take out that. Some reports do not have one correct sentence.

The VR I use - does fairly well, but still

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not well enough to just plop the reports in the charts unless they eventually just throw accuracy out the window (which they might do). I think what is left of MT will become just proofreading computer generated reports, another minimum wage hospital clerical job, and depending on the facility something they may not even need a full time dedicated staff to do, just medical records people to look them over before they go in the charts.

mine have gotten SO MUCH worse - chantal

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The accounts I do offshore, so I am wondering if that is why they are worse. I literally have to change something in every line. I get a doctor say the temperature is 98.9 and ASR will put in temperature 77.6. The dictator will clearly say the patient is on Synthroid 25 mcg and ASR puts the patient is on Lovenox 25 mcg. I have no clue how it gets this stuff SO WRONG, but it does.

I want to go to art school - wheres_my_job

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too many student loans already, and where is the money for it? It sucks. I haven't been able to figure this out yet, though I keep trying.

I should have gone to art school the first time around - I didn't even want to go to college - I was 17. Now my nieces and nephews do music and painting, studying it in college. And here I am, with my dumb-a** MT day job (sorry to all you who love it)

Go for it - Alias

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Normally, I wouldn't endorse debt of any kind. We have been fortunate in our life, but it's because we knew how to handle our money. That being said, my children and their wives all have student debt of some amount or other, but they also have careers they love. I don't know how old you are, and it really doesn't matter, but what I want to say to you is, don't let "I regret I didn't" or "I wish I had" become your mantra for life. If being an MT is not fulfilling to you, find something that is, whether it's going to school or not. Please just do not live your life with regrets.

I'm not regretting, exactly... - wheres_my_job

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It was just a completely different situation for me when I started college (neither of my parents graduated college), and for my nieces and nephews, with their super-educated parents. So I just look back - not regretfully - but wow! I coulda gone to art school! Not sure what I'm going to do now - don't WANT a BA in Art exactly. Just classes, lots and lots of classes...???? time to shovel the snow...thanks for responding...

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