Sheeple!!! LOL - I agree. I wonder if Germany outsources it citizens work out of the country.

• To the MTSO who posted - C-msg
  • I edit Indian work and it's pretty bad - no way could you send it in to a hospital
  • Offshore solution sm - Hmmmmm.
    • I am not the MT police, but sometimes I wish - the client would give me a "chose" too!
    • Sorry, C-smg, I didn't see your post. GMTA. nm - Hmmmmm.
  • There are clients out there who do not agree with "offshoring" and want only USA and will pay - Smaller MTSO
  • Unrealistic view that a lot of MTs do not understand. The offshore companies sm - MTSO2
    • I do understand your position. We live in a Wal-Mart world. Some days I wonder why I bother - C-msg
    • My personal opinion is MEDICAL RECORDS as we know them will not be around in 3 years. - The electronic chart is what coders will use.
      • Totally disagree with your statement - Milton's Red Stapler
      • In a litigious society such as ours, medical sm - ICme
      • are you nuts? Documentation is not going to - amazed
  • Fine, You try telling your clients that and let us - .
    • So you believe offering 2 options to clients is impossible? It's pretty cut and - C-msg
      • Make everyone admit offshore is a fact. sm - Get that elephant.
    • Sad but true ... - CMT-me
      • Right on! - MTness
        • our kids will have to learns skills such as - mechanic or hairdresser
        • Excellent post MTness - She's a Dandy
          • would you be... - MTness
            • Tell me more. - She's a Dandy
              • to - She's a Dandy - MTness
                • Science...MTness - She's a Dandy
      • I wish the majority of sheeple in this country would wake up and - C-msg
        • Sheeple is good. I usually refer to them as lemmings. - nm
        • Sheeple!!! LOL - I agree. I wonder if Germany outsources it citizens work out of the country. - NM
        • Sheeple - MoodyJen

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What a horrible American attitude to have. Perfect sample of why we are all going downhill in a handbasket.

Which nationals do not send work out of the country? I need to find another job.

TIA.

Just wondering how many MTs are out there who are past 60 years of age and still working full-time and transcribing more than minimum weekly lines.   I am hitting 60 soon and am noticeably starting to slow down.   Used to be able to meet minimum lines in an 8 hour day, now it is taking almost 9 hours.  Need to work full-time for the insurance, so part-time is not an option.  Don't want to go to editing or voice recognition because the problem isn't so much the typing as it is the sitting.  Tried lots of different chairs and back supports, but still get back, neck, and shoulder pain by the end of the day, which causes me to lose concentration and hence takes me longer to transcribe reports.  Getting up to move around just makes the day longer and when there is not much work, I can only work a straight 8 hours (no 12 hour window) with my current company.   I don't think I am in jeopardy of losing my job because of not meeting minimum in the near future, but wonder if it is even worth it to continue to try, or is it time to get out of medical transcription entirely and go work at WalMart. 

So, any MTs in their golden years been hired lately and with what company?  Any MTs still working at 65 years of age?   Thanks. 

nm

I'm an MT x10 years, great for growing family.  Now that kids are in school going back for BSN (R.N. plus bachelors combined).  Husband thinks I'm crazy.  I make $55,000+ as an MT because of production + incentive.  I transcribe 300+ lph and have an excellent line rate with a national.

I'm in the midwest, so as a BSN who does not get paid more than RNs here, I will take a huge pay cut, to the order of about $15,000 a year less.  Why am I doing it, because I want to be a nurse practitioner or a P.A. eventually and want to love what I do - that will be more money in the long run too with the higher degree.  I like being an MT, but working from home has turned me into a fat, lazy person who does nothing but type because it's easy money for me since I know the lingo and am well educated, plus I can type fast.

If you want to be a nurse, as another poster said - don't do it for the money, do it because you feel in your heart it is what you are meant to do because it is a very, very demanding job that requires a great deal of knowledge and skill.

It stands to reason if they built their own hospitals, which they could easily staff with all the Indian ESL dictators we currently struggle with (while we hand them the moneymaking easy ones on a silver platter), they then could do their own transcription for their own healthcare providers.  Why the heck won't big business invest in building them some of their own hospitals?  Because this is about profit, NOT altrusim for our fellow man!

Maybe you're going to retire in a couple of years, so you don't really care about the future of this industry.  But if not, when you lose your current job to outsourcing, will you still deny there's a problem?  Or will you take another job for less pay, again and again, until the industry completely leaves this country - then will you realize there's a problem?  When you are forced out of this industry, and find the competition for other types of work is harder than it used to be, will you see a problem then?

Its not just this industry being outsourced.  I grew up in Michigan!  Its turning into a ghost state due to loss of jobs to outsourcing.  That's an example of an entire state being affected, and its only one of many in the rust belt.  But I guess you don't know anybody there, so you'd rather sympathize with someone halfway across the world.  It is not ok to undevelop our country in order to develop others.  Maybe when our homeless shelters overflow and our streets are full of beggars, and every undeveloped company has cable TV and McDonalds on every corner, we'll quit being in denial at what we are allowing to happen under our very noses.  But by then it'll be too late for us to reverse this trend of trying to raise the rest of the world's standards at the expense of our own.