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Just received email from MQ about lobbying our future jobs as MT's. - Honestly do not know what to think.

Posted: Nov 11, 2009

I do not know if we are seriously going to have jobs as MT's in a few years.

No, it means what I've been saying all along - Viking Fan

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If this health care bill passes, there's a good chance we will have to train for another career. I'm sure MTs will still be needed but not nearly as many. I've been harping on this for months now.

Why? - Scooby-Doo

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How will the healthcare bill take away our jobs? If the government takes them away, wouldn't they be responsible for training us for new careers? Isn't that what the Trade Act was already established? Sorry, I just don't understand it all.

Point and Click template is now the standard - for all Kaiser Hospitals in Calif

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and as I understand it, Kaiser does not utilize transcription at all. All Kaiser docs are forced to sit at stations and fill in templates. If a huge hospital system is adopting this..it will be no time before others fall in line. The lure of saving millions on pesky typists (MTs) will be too lucractive to avoid.

The last inhouse job I had - they would have only saved

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23,000.00 per year; so that's chump change.

There are still job ads requiring C-phones. What am I missing here?

So, Kaiser Admin thinks Kaiser docs are worth - L&L

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minimum wage?

Seriously, from all you who say this is what you make, and those of you who make 50K a year, we should be extremely flattered to be replaced by individuals who spent 10+ yrs in higher education and $100,000+ learning the trade.

Real savings, no doubt.

Point and Click - stumped

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My doctor's office uses this program plus the doctor's themselves have to type in any other information they want included. They actually sit there with a laptop while talking to/examining you and plug away. When I told him what I do for a living he put his hand over the screen and asked me not to look at how he spelled things . . . nice. Hope I'm never unconscious and they need to look at my records.

When he was looking up the CPT code for my diagnosis he had to ask me the correct spelling because he couldn't find it. Makes you wonder what he does for non-MT patients. Geez!!!!

Providence Hospitals in the Northwest areas too! - Mrs. Sticky

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Lost an account in Alaska that went to the T-system. Most of my Providence doctors here in the Northwest do not use MT's.

No offshoring of US medical records - maybe

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Maybe they are worried if healthcare passes they will use US based MT to convert all medical records to electronic and no Indians will be required. What a bust to their boom!

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