Dear MModal and Fellow Transcriptionists - Happy

I have been off your payroll for one week and three days.  This has been the happiest days of my life.  I do not miss you at all.  What you have done is take medical transcriptionists and make them into editors.  If we wanted to check what some computer or some foreigner had typed, we would have taken that course in college.  We transcribe.  It is what we do.  It is what we do best.  When you expect us to edit, you take away our ability to create, which is what beats in the heart of a transcriptionist.  We create documents that benefit our clients (which are the patients) and aid in their medical care.  We type what the doctor says because we believe (sometimes mistakenly) that they know what they are talking about.  Some of us take pride in the fact that we can transcribe what the most of difficult dictators can produce.  We set our minds to do a perfect job transcribing.  When you took away our ability to do what we do best, we could only offer what is second best.  I know some have had no trouble jumping right in, and that is okay.  Some of us, me included, lost our identity when we started editing.  Our creativity became stagnate and we grew to hate our jobs.  This is the reason I left without a job in the wings.  I saved some money to give me a little cushion and now I am trying to get my creativity back so I can do what I love, create.  You may be successful as long as those who are dead to their creativity put up with it and stay, but what if they all wake up and say screw you?  Who will you wrangle then? 

I am really not sure what is next, but for the first time in years, I feel creative again.  I am living again.  I am breathing again.  I am on the quest to find my sweet spot and it is not working for a company like MModal. 

I wish all those who choose to stay good luck.  I know many have said they will not leave until they have another job waiting.  Really?  I thought that way until I found myself drug so far down that I did not believe I could get a job elsewhere.  Now I know I can.  I am looking for a position of influence now, a position for my creativity, not a job I despise. 

Anyone considering working for this company, reconsider.  The quality requirements are rediculous.  No one is that perfect all the time.  The requirements adding PODs is rediculous.  No one can produce under that kind of stress.  You will grow to hate what you should love with increasing strength.

Well, I am off to create and find that job I will love.  At 53, I deserve to end strong with a great job I look forward to.

Best wishes to all my fellow transcriptionists.  Don't lose yourselves.  If you have already, do what it takes to find yourself again.  The clients (Patients) deserve your very best.