A friend of mine is a male and owns a transcription company. sm

• When I went to school for this MT career - I was told I'd make $60,000 to $70,000 (SM)
  • You must have seen the ad that has the woman with the child on her lap - sm - no joke
  • Doing this for 20 years - me
  • all the more reason to go to an accredited college or university - if you want to further your education
    • Even then you don't make squat - Former MT
  • A special place in hell - Former MT
  • The school is a BUSINESS and the bogus pay scale is ADVERTISING - so people spend money to go there
  • They told me the same thing - when I went to transcription school - sm
    • LOL, sick! - nm
    • too funny - LOL
  • The person that told you that LIED like a rug. - find a better career field
  • I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm) - quietmoods
    • live s/b life (nm) - quietmoods
  • Call or go back to the school - sm
  • I have to chuckle, you sound just sm - mlstoo
  • If you never take a break, work 24 hours with no sleep and .... - Yes..it can be done..
  • They should not have told you that. sm - Lori
  • $60,000.00/Y for medical transcription?! - MTness
    • Hotel Spiels - Older than Dirt MT
    • I agree 100% because I did all that for 5 years myself - - typingal
    • You are less apt to do it with a national! - Icee MT
      • It's harder to get your own accounts - when you're a male
        • male - oldermt
        • A friend of mine is a male and owns a transcription company. sm - Beg to differ.
    • If you have your own accounts and clients you can make that much $$$$. nm - ICMT

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the pay rate sounded a little on the low side to me (I'm thinking around 7 cents, 65 cpl), but she really didn't have a whole lot of experience when she started, either.  (We had worked together for about a year and I trained her as a new graduate before we both quit the company we were with.)  She really likes working for them; it seems like their trainers/QA people are really decent folks who give pretty good and fair feedback, which is something she really likes.

I do know they have benefits for both FT and PT people, which is pretty rare these days.

One of the accounts they have came from a hospital I worked for here in Ohio.  A good friend of mine went to work there when they outsourced the radiology side.  She got an e-mail out of blue with them stating they no longer needed her services. They did this to ALL of the 2nd and 3rd shift MTs.  The reason she wants YOUR line rates is so she can the very least she has to pay.  If she has this information up front, then she will not contact the MTs with higher line rates.  They used to only pay 9 cents per line radiology and 8 cents per line acute care.  They have also changed the way they post jobs as they used to post the amount of line rates for each specialty.  Horrible Company!!

with her current job, doing radiology transcription at a local hospital.  I was going to suggest she send her resumes to some of the national companies, but did not know which companies out there had radiology accounts.  If Keystrokes is the best, then I'll suggest that to her.  Thanks for the tip.  :-)

As for me, I've been doing acute care since Moses was a baby, but doubt I could pass any kind of radiology test. 

Her big complaint was that there were so many ESLs that it was hard to make any money.  Another friend signed on with them  as well part-time and he had no complaints.  There is plenty of work.  They are very flexible.  I think they use a Dictaphone platform.  I did talk to the owner a couple of years ago and they offered me 8 cpl with a bonus weekend every month where I make 10 cpl, more depending on how much I produce.  Again, this was 2 years ago. 

Verbal tests are to give the recruiter a feel of what that MT knows off the top of their head.  Not all people get nervous at verbal tests but a good recruiter has the insight to know if a wrong answer or lack of an answer is from not knowing or is from just being nervous.  A verbal test is done just to get a feel for the the off the top knowledge of an MT plus you know that MT is taking it.  This recruiter is also an MT and having gone through so many tests the long hard way decided this was the lesser of the evils.  She did tell me though if she felt that MT knew their stuff and just could not respond because of nervousness that she noted that and just by a general conversation based on experience would not flunk someone like that.  Lenghty tests prove very little except that an MT has been working for companies that all have different ways of style and that she felt that was not right to an MT; as well having to take tests that are hours long after an MT has been working long hours is also not fair to the MT.  And my friend told me that in many cases there are MTs that literally have other MTs take their testing for them and you would not know it until that person starts the job.  It depends on the recruiter and their knowledge of the industry.  Each recruiter or company has their own way and usually they find the way that works best for them.  I personally find that many recruiters just have no knowledge of the industry (inside knowledge) and it annoys me that someone like that is allowed to even have the opportunity to interview and test me.  I can remember one with a company up north and their idea of punctuation was way too much.  It should not have been an issue unless it changed the meaning of the report but had they gone by the Book of Style they would not have added those 20 or so commas throughout the 4 reports that they had me transcribe.  I passed but when you have been in this industry for over 15 years and are being judged by someone that has not and who has not been in your MT dancing shoes then something about that just does not seem right.  Anyway I doubt there really is a best way to do anything, but if I had my choice, I would prefer the way that is the shortest. Time is precious and for the rates they pay nowadays those tests are just too lengthy to go through that for a whopping 7 cents a line.  No thank you.  I'll chance my nerves over all that. 

I think it may be Southscribe.  Does anyone know?  I cannot recall the name of the other transcription company they own, but it is definitely in Georgia.

recruiting for both sides of the company and placing people on whatever side needed the positions filled at the time.

that in India women are generally second class citizens.   I'm sure they are becoming westernized, but when people marry in India the wife becomes a possession.

I wondered if the office staff were male and the reason for their lack of social graces is more because of culture than anything.  Regardless not pleasant and doesn't matter why.