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Medquist people - if you're leaving, drop the docs you type for sm - Just J

Posted: Mar 02, 2010

an email, a letter, anything, let them know what MQ is doing with THEIR patient's reports. I guarantee you, they will be furious that they are now basically forcing you to guess what you don't know...I think they'll take it up with their administration and MQ will lose a lot of customers. But if you don't do it, they'll never know. Do you really think MQ would tell them that's what they're doing?

Medquist trying to cut QA costs? (sm) - Long time MT

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Is MQ trying to free up funds, by cutting back on costs, so they can buy Spheris?

Guessing! Yeah, there's a lawsuit in the wings there.

Uhh, I think not. MQ could slam you hard on a lawsuit and - probably would. Leave their clients alone. nm

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Then we could "slam" them with a nice little expose on - national television. I know I"d watch!

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But my husband, kids, parents, neighbors, friends - sure as heck can say something!

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No problem there!

medquist people.... - catherine

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gee...how could your children, husband, neighbors say anything about MQ unless YOU broke confidentiality and told them things you should not? When I worked for MQ there was a contract about confidentiality and that included practically everything...the department of justice could not bring MQ down...do you really think you can? No offense and I agree with you...but I don't know the answer for transcriptionists these days...we are most definitely screwed. I am pretty sure that organized crime is not this nefarious...I could be wrong...but I think MQ is worse....and they are not the only company either.

Easy! My husband pays the bills. - Wants to know my paycheck is way down.

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I am not saying ANYTHING ABOUT PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY. Has nothing to do with HIPAA. Has not nothing to do about patient information. Has nothing to do about clients.

Has to do with what MQ is doing to me, my health, my paycheck, my stress. ALL TRUE FACTS.

After all, the reason I go into the doctor is because of stress from my job and what they are doing.

MedQuist Slap ME WITH A LAWSUIT??? - SecondWind

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After they bankrupt you, their lawsuits don't mean much. After their 'generous employee compensation package' bankrupts you, what would they have to gain from suing you and what would you have to lose? NOTHING. They ruin any financial stability you may have looked foward to during the course of your employment with them. So now they're firing everbody. I guess they have finally gotten to a point where they can comfortably take all transcription out of the US and safely ship it to distant places.

I recall that sham of a class action allegedly filed by and for MedQuist's severely underpaid and purposely wrongly paid MTs by means of line count manipulation. The MTs were awarded something like a million dollars, not one dollar of which was actually awared to MTs. (Whats a million dollars to MedQuist anyway? What a victory for MQ.) They will not be so lucky the next time they set foot in a courtroom. They are too slick and cunning to initiate a lawsuit against an MT, and if they did, it's time to start screaming like the stuck pigs they treat us like. It will not behoove them to do so.

I actually would be more fearful of them employing a professional hit man to get back at you.

Well, that "hit man" thing can go both ways, ya know. - Stranger things have happened.

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I would not go there, either. Too risky. - Way too risky.

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MQ actually got the employees between a rock and a hard spot. You can't say anything about anything without getting yourself in big trouble.

Too Risky??? - SecondWind

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I too felt like MQ had me between a rock and a hard place or as I like to jokingly say 'Iraq and Iran.' I liken MQ to Al Capone and/or Bugsy Moran, ruthless and no one to take lightly. However, enough is enough. After one has been quashed and squashed to the point of desperation, bravery sets in. I'm ready for a fight, because I'm right, I am not trying to hurt anyone, and I am going to win.

Absolutely. What is there left to lose, except the chains - that shackle us to our desks? nm

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