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I worked for Medquist in 2006. I didn't stay long, but those 5 months seemed like a year. There were some of the very worst dictating clinicians that I've ever heard and I always ended my shift with a severe headache. Communication was practically nonexistent except for when QA wanted to complain. I remember receiving an email once where the QA woman was responding to a report that I had worked on for more than an hour. It was barely decipherable. Her response was not one of "how can I help" or "oh my, I see that you tried", but she stated, "We can't have this many blanks in a report." I don't know why, but that statement struck me as so hilarious that I simply couldn't stop laughing. It was the wee hours of the morning and the other members of the household awoke, wondering if they needed to take me to the ER. I couldn't take it anymore and submitted my resignation that same day. I don't know how some MTs have been able to work there for years and years.
When I resigned, it took quite a while to get anyone at Medquist to respond to my request to arrange pickup of their equipment, but it finally did happen. Several weeks or months later, I received a certified letter from them, threatening legal action if I did not return that same equipment immediately. Thank goodness I still had the UPS ticket that proved their equipment had already been picked up!!!
Well, here it is 6 years later. I posted my resume, specifically stating that I'm looking for additional work with the EditScript or Emdat platform ONLY. An M*Modal recruiter contacted me and requested that I retest and reapply to work there again.
First of all, when did M*Modal start using the EditScript or Emdat platform?
Secondly, from what I read here, working at M*Modal/Medquist is much worse than it was 6 years ago, and it was incredibly awful then. I cannot think of a good reason why I'd go through that again. IMHO, a fast food job would be a better choice.
Also, don't recruiters reject applications when the applicant does not have a 100% grammatically perfect resume? Apparently, they don't expect this same level of perfection, i.e., 100% perfect reading comprehension, from themselves? I'm not really surprised.
Just thought I'd share.