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So underpaid for expectations! - Adios
Posted: Oct 11, 2011
Need to vent. Cannot stand to hear any more sad attempts by docs to murder the English language, to expect us miracle workers to turn garbage into important medical records, to expect us to read their minds, to throw out a bunch of words and expect us to give it some structure while staying within about 10 different guidelines, mostly set up by old ladies trying to stay relevent, yes I said it, and all this plus more for about $10/hr on a good pay period. I could deal with the stress and anger when the pay was closer to twice what I make now, but just feel every day I am going to go sailing over the edge. All this stress 8 hours a day and I can't pay my bills, have to work another few hours a day elsewhere.
Don't tell me to make a change. I am trying. Just not happening fast enough.
Thank you. Done venting.
Underpaid - frustratedMT
[ In Reply To ..]If it makes you feel better, I can soooo relate! Except my dr. can speak english very well. He chooses to not dictate for three weeks and when he does I have a bunch of work all at once (like one time I had 98 files from him) then he does not dictate his visits so I am endlessly searching for these patient's and their date of visit. I work 12-14 hours and make less than $100 a day before I give up and go to bed. So not worth it!!!! Especially when my company does not back me up :(
Dear Adio... - Former MT
[ In Reply To ..]I so hear you. I was at least getting by before the Q bought out Spheris, and I had an account I had been on since I began my career as an MT, so I could do okay because I knew the account/dictators backward and forward, I even had the same secondary for 3 years. I know how you feel about things not happening fast enough... when the Q cut my pay the first time I went to PT with Q and took on more hours at another very PT time....I made myself familiar with everything I could, volunteered to help out (heck, I needed the $$$$ anyway) when extra hands were needed, and this fall the Q cut my pay AGAIN, and my account disappeared overnight.... thankfully it coincided with the day I had to give an answer to my now full-time employer on whether I was accepting the position offered. I did...this month my bills are paid and there's some left over for ME. I work hard, but I get paid for it!!! So hang in there, get good at that 2nd job, you never know where it will take you, or who you might encounter who can help you leave this awful, horrible, now low-paying job! Best of luck to you. I know it seems to take forever, and was super stressed during that transition, but it's worth it!
I'm working 12-14 hrs. a day for about $6/hour. - I really dont know what they expect
[ In Reply To ..]us to do if they drop our pay another .05 per line.
And I dread what's going to happen to us when and if the economy ever picks up. Then the price of everything from gas to groceries will go sky-high, and our pay will just continue to go lower.
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