A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry
You know who you are, and I know who you are. I have been watching you do this for months now. Whether you realize it or not, while you are playing this game, switching back and forth from VR and typing, logging off and logging on depending on the dictators, you are causing a decrease in my production. You have been around long enough to know if there are numerous reports in typing from yesterday, you should not be on VR doing the easy reports dictated just an hour ago today. Do you think I like doing these lousy dictators, with the extreme research that is necessary from previous reports, etc.? Don't you think I would like to breezing through the easy reports, padding my line count on VR? There is a thing called TAT!!!
Yes, there are 2-3 doctors on VR who do not belong on there. It is a wreck! But when you come to those, you switch back over to typing and leave those for me. I have noticed you don't log back on until I have done them. When they come up again, you log off. My line count would be pretty good with the mix of reports of dictators until you get on there and do this, leaving all the difficult dictators for me. I do not need that kind of help. You are cheating - me - and the company. You are the reason the company will probably switch us to a POD.
Like I said, I have been watching you for months. I know you are a backup. I know your ID, and the production records will not lie. Stop this now, or I am going to bring this up with management and point out my line count when you are on there and when you are not. This is not a coincidence at all, and the records will prove it.
I've worked in this industry for over 20 years. I know it is not fair, but we enabled this environment by helping to train the very software that destroyed our jobs. It's done. It's over. I left the industry because I chose not to be part of this system anymore. Don't blame the person for cherry picking; it's time for us to move on. We are only helping these companies by staying.
I am actually considering purchasing this software that destroyed my job. It will help me move on to a new field that I've chosen. I know, I'm a traitor; however, the world has changed. I learned medical transcription on a manual typewriter, and two years ago I found myself learning computer forensics. Times have indeed changed. I don't like how the world has changed, but I am willing to adapt to survive. Staying and fighting amongst yourselves in medical transcription--or whatever they want to call it now to make us feel good ("healthcare documentation specialist")--is not adapting to change. Think about it.
I know many of you have few other choices for many different reasons. However, instead of fighting, use the energy and time to think about how you can change things, because it won't be too long before your job is gone; technology changes too fast.