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This board is dead - Starvin Marvin

Posted: Mar 06, 2010

And one can only hope that VR will suffer a similar fate very, very soon! And in a not so nice way. Along with the MTSOs that have tried to foist this CRAP on us.

JMHO, of course!

Sure, if the MTs go under, the MTSOs go down with them...sm - future

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It is paradox if MTSOs say, it was posted on this forum, "without us the MTs would not have a job."

It is the other way around: Without MTs MTSOs could not exist. We can get, like in the old times, our jobs directly from the employers, cut out the costs for the middleman, and split them with the employers.

The schools are turning out new MTs rapidly. - sm

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Anyone who is coming into this field will no nothing different other than VR. The low pay means nothing to them because the school say you are safer in the job market when you do VR.

It is the well seasoned MTs that are seeing the pay decrease. VR helps the new MT in that it's all right there. If it sounds good, send it through. Why not? Who is doing to question it? These physicians do not desire to look at reports from yesterday they dictated through VR; they are moving onto the next patient today and are not worried about yesterday. There is no time for that. They are not reimbursed by insurance companies like they used to be, so they are forced to see more and more patients and get into other lines of work like workers' comp cases by the gazillion. This is a booming business. So far, I have not seen it go VR yet. LOL

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