BEWARE OF TRANS AM ASSOCIATES/MT PROFESSIONALS
Posted By: mt from SD on 2008-08-12
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Ok everyone if you ever get any emails or communication from a company that is same as the car trans am and associates also their software works with MT Professionals DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT EVEN BOTHER!!!!! They are the biggest fraud and rip off company on the internet. They are based in Valrico, Florida.
They will say you can learn free etc etc and they claim to be Christian based etc. They are so rip off. You have to buy the software first which is over $500. total. You do practice files they say everyone has to whether your an entry level or a pro at transcription. Then you finish and if you finish before their two week minimum requirement you have to wait to download the next group sometimes a week or more. Then after you do 4 groups you test and you may pass the test but they will say you have errors whether they are formatting, spacing, spelling, punctuation, etc. It is a gip cause you actually probably don't have those errors. Plus, they are not consistent at all regarding punctuation.
So PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT HAVE CONTACT IF YOU GET COMMUNICATION DELETE IT OR REPORT THEM!! THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN.
It is a situation where most of us are trusting enough to think it is an innocent ploy that they will help us learn if we are not as experienced. They never have you practice on any other specialty except for rheumatology and your practice files are only clinic notes and when you test it is a consultation.
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We are no longer professionals. How you can even imply we have to act like professionals.
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Quality - HA! It is a tool used to keep MTs down mostly, even when it starts out as a tool to help MTs. You are not fooling anybody. This is about money, it is about QA making more money than the MT who is doing all the actual work...
Without us, you would be nothing, you would have no jobs for YOU to complain about US.
No one would have jobs without reports being transcribed, the way the system is now, anyway.
I hear one of our 'sister' MTs is hard at work developing a type of template to be used in the future, where MTs will not even be needed...reports will be be verbatim but the doctor will follow a template.
Companies should be helping MTs become editors and we should all be trained in QA. Pay us what we are worth before you demand we act as professionals. We have been reduced to factory worker mentality and our fighting to make our lines/hours every day, sitting there slugging it out trying to piece together reports that can at least make sense, then to have someone go through our reports and pick apart grammar or style, QA fighting with each other many times over who is right...
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TO BEWARE - WHERE THE H*** DO YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION -
Their biggest accounts are not done overseas. I am on one OF THEIR BIGGEST ACCOUNTS. My work is not rerecorded (however, yes, yours might have been). Maybe you were not a good Transcriptionist and they needed to keep you on a small account!!!
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