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Posted By: radtrans on 2006-02-18
In Reply to: Quality not QUANTITY is...... - MT gone MT Instructor
MT instructor, very interesting title. Talk about bashing, people like me bring the industry down. You don't know the first thing about me or my experience/background. I'm from the old school, self-taught. I have been very successful in this business, from Corporate Manager for a Level I Trauma Hospital System to my own hospital contracts. I don't call it company bashing. I call it being honest. Many of the old-time transcriptionists were never taught definitions, but they make excellent transcriptionists. On the other hand, some of the new graduates that I have tested couldn't cut it when they had to sit down and actually do the job, definitions and all. So who gives who a bad name, MT gone MT instructor? The field is becoming more and more saturated with people that go to school and have no idea what they are getting themselves into, thinking when they graduate, they are going to work from home and make the big bucks. From what I have seen, most of the transcription companies that advertise are not interested in hiring new graduates. What's wrong with that picture?
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Yes, but you can use a dictionary to look up spellings and definitions. I think it's more important to have speed and to know how to type and take accurate notes.
New definitions
I'm also sorry that this happened to you. Unfortunately, it seems that there is a new definition here. When they said that your quality IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, that may be interpreted as WE DISCOVERED THAT WE CANNOT CONTROL YOU WELL ENOUGH!! You can do better than them. After all, it seems that they were not able to comprehend simple communication.
I already know the definitions
I was wondering how the 300+ unionizers would define it.
Curious to know if someone who types clinic notes is an MT, or just rad, or only ops. Is that person as qualified as someone who can type any type of report any time of the day or not?
Or if you can charge your doc 5 cpl and have everything he says normaled so you're making big bucks doing him, are you hurting the person who is charging the neighboring docs 10 cpl and having to type every word?
It seems like such a simple solution to get the masses all riled up with talk of unionizing. But a union isn't the answer. In the 30+ years I've done this, there has never been any REAL standardization. The former AAMT is useless IMO. They've done more harm to this profession than anything else.
So a basic question for anyone forming a union is: What is an MT?
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