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Master Medical Editor - typer

Posted: May 07, 2010

Is it a good move to go into QA or should I stay where I am MT3?

not a good move - fyi

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Honestly if I could I would go back to being an MT/ME as being an MME sucks more and more money out of my pocket every blessid second that I work. I refuse to lose my benefits so I stay, but I look for new job every single day!!!!

MME - anon

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Personally, I love being MME. I am definitely making more money than before and I don't get as bored either. The research you do to fill in some of the blanks makes the time fly by quicker. PLUS I never get NJA anymore.

MMEs should not need to be doing research. - They should know. NM

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NM

MME - Research

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Oh, please. Nobody knows EVERYTHING! I have been in this business for 26 years, and I am still learning new things.

What? - MT

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That's very interesting. Obviously, you have never been an MT, or you wouldn't have come out with that statement. What, there are no new drugs coming out, no new surgical equipment, no obscure diseases that one might run into once in a lifetime?

MME - anon

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That is exactly the problem. MTs out there thinking they shouldn't have to do research. Depending on QA to do it for them. In my opinion, all these changes we are seeing is the MTSOs way of getting rid of those that think that think like that. Yes, we work on production and get paid by the line. However, we are still paid for a finished product. If we have to research sometimes to finish that product correctly, then that is part of the job, QA and MT alike.

And no my brain is not an encyclopedia. It cannot possibly hold all medications with correct dosages, all surgical equipment, all new diseases and which medications are used to treat those diseases. I am an MME because I can find those things quickly and easily and get the finished product to the client in perfect condition.

Please take note new MTs. If you want to stay in this business and be one of the ones who are paid well, DO NOT depend on QA to do your work for you. Learn how to RESEARCH efficiently and YOU will be in demand.

You're exactly right!!! I look forward to learning something new every day - ***

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I think that quality is the first and utmost important one for an MT.

Don't be a Debbie downer, no one knows all. - BUNION

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How arrogant! Amen

OMG! I cannot believe I just read this right. - anon

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No research? Really? In the medical field? I'm sorry, but when I read your message I nearly fell out of my chair in hysterics. Can you really be an MT? Whether you're MT or QA, if you're not doing some research every now and then, you are NOT doing your job.

Maybe in a bakery or a convenience store, but here in the medical field I work in things are ALWAYS changing, daily even. MMEs and QAs are what they are because they are very good at finding things and hearing things others don't. It has absolutely nothing to do with KNOWING everything already. Although they probably do know more than most MTs.

MMEing cut my pay nearly in half, and I had to quit. - Another view

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How did this happen? - mqmme

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Not that I don't believe you, but I'm just sitting here confused. Didn't you get the 0.05 cpl increase for becoming MME? And now with FTR we are not getting as much QA to do, so we are basically back to trascribing/editing. Shouldn't you be making more than before, or at least the same?

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