PS Leadfeather: MQ and Philips are together working hard on the VR technology...

• VR, Transcend, MT profession, etc. Long msg - Leadfeather
  • PS Leadfeather: MQ and Philips are together working hard on the VR technology... - MTMT
    • I was with MedQuist at one time. SM - Leadfeather
      • Leadfeather, you are right on the money SM - Dano
  • one question... - MTMT
    • Fighting back. SM - Leadfeather
      • ...but I did "bail" and now work for a company who does not ... - MTMT
      • Mass exit sm - Dano
      • Maybe it would help if we knew exactly - Looking for another job
        • Do it because it's the best thing for you both now and in the long term. SM - Leadfeather
          • To Leadfeather sm - Dano
            • The answer is, at least from my perspective,...SM - Leadfeather
              • I AGREE 100% - why can't we ask our employees to us it, personally. Maybe I should ask my employ - MTMT
                • to USE it, sorry, I am excited now...nm - MTMT
              • Well, I applaud you for - Dano
              • Yes, exactly!!! The entire profession will wind up being "dumbed-down" - RME
  • Me, too! - Just got a new job!
  • I did just that! sm - Exiter
    • VR - anon
      • Two of us out the door ! .... sm - Ditto x 2

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I could have written your post myself, especially about standing alone.  I worked for Medifax when they started cutting pay.  Being the outspoken person I am, everyone wanted me to stand up and speak for all of us.  Wanta know what happened?  Yep, you guessed it.  The powers that be weren't stupid, they gave token raises to the lower producers and there went the ballgame.  Those MTs suddenly were "happy" THEY got a raise.  I told Medifax to shove their job and moved on to MRC.  Wanta know what happened?  A few months later these "happy" MTs were calling me asking, "what are we going to DO?"  (Medifux had taken back their raises and some more to go along with it.) My answer, "Beats me."  Most of them ended up at MRC.

I was with MQ when they joined Philips too (bought out along with ddi), and I sure saw the handwriting on the wall.  Some MTs think they are so good they can never be replaced.  Wrong.  I'd wager that in a few years MT, by whatever name it's called, will go back where it came from...to minimum wage jobs.  I know of one very excellent MT who was trained by doing editing.  I didn't train her but I know who did.  She simply listened to the reports that had already been transcribed and looked up the terminology.  They'll simply have maybe 1 lead person to oversee the work of 40?  200? "medical language specialists."  MTs.....gone.

They (management of companies who ask us to do this) know that most people who do MT are not wealthy people, or even average income-wise and are desperate for any work/income they can get.  They use this information to their advantage and always will. You said it when you said "a few measly hundred dollars".  To many MT's that's a lot of money.

Unfortunate but true.

Email me if you wish. 

I tried to email you through your post above; but got a message that email address was incorrect.  Need to ask a question about your post.  Thanks.

Does anyone have any information/experience with this company? 

Does anyone know about this company?  They claim to be flexible and pay for spaces on 65-character line.  Sounds pretty good so far.  Any employees of TTS out there.  Thanks for any information. 

Suzy Q

Can anyone give me info regarding this company that is based in the southeast?  Possibly your experience with them if you have one? 

Thank you very much!

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Proof positive that the evolution of technology
Manual Typewriters: At least they work during a power outage. And having to leave the keyboard to return the carriage by hand can help prevent some computer injuries. Downside - you had to hit the keys really hard, and they were slow.

Electric Typewriter: You could actually do things like make the document LOOK GOOD, and easy-to-read, not like the wrap-around cr@p our final product turns into at the receiving end. Downside - Power failures, and the memory writers never had enough memory for me.

Mag Cards: (You forgot these!) Even though they were older than the IBM memory typewriters, I really love my Mag-Card, because you could just keep feeding cards into it, so the memory was limitless. Easy to do normals on them, too. Downside - they were HUGE!

Straight Transcription: Produces a better, more-accurate record. I've done enough 'normals' and templates in my day to see some truly incredible mistakes because the doc didn't bother to pull the right template, or even read what it said. Straight transcription is also a lot more interesting to do. Downside - docs get tired of talking, and tend to go a mile-a-minute through the physical exams.

VR: It has its limited uses, but having seen the trash it produces, I think it has no place in medical or legal documentation. Upside - it makes for a lot of uproarious laughter when you're watching the Evening News with VR-produced, closed-captioning.

EMR: Again, it has its uses, for example, making it possible to immediately look up, or send, a patient's entire medical record, or to use the computer to find a specific part of a long, complicated record. But point-and-click yes-and-no sounds tedious to ME, and I work with words and tedium for a living. Imagine a busy, impatient doctor trying to do it. I think it would drive most of them nuts, and probably leaves them wide-open for major mistakes that could impact patient safety.

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You said it. Technology is taking over, and we are going down the memory lane...nm
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Does anyone have experience with Advanced Transcription Technology?
I'd like to hear about other's experience there before applying.

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Medical Voice Technology Services, Inc.- MVTS

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Transcription, Technology, and Support, out of New Hampshire. Very low starting pay. nm
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