The problem is...SM
Posted By: Leadfeather on 2005-08-19
In Reply to: VR Doomsday predictions - E.L.
that someday VR will be developed to the point where editors are no longer needed. So, we must look ahead instead of concentrating on just the present. How long will it be before the technology reaches that level? Who knows. Maybe a year or 2 or 5 or 10 or more. But, it will eventually get there unless we stop letting ourselves be used as the backstop while the technology is perfected to the point where we will no longer be needed. I keep hearing it said that there will "always" be a need for good MTs, which this poster also implies in this message here. However, our usefulness will eventually come to an end given time unless we do something now to ensure our place on the health care team.
As for the overseas threat, we also hold the key to that, that is, as long as there is a need for editing. All we have to do is refuse to edit the work that comes back from those sources. If we do that, then it won't matter if those overseas sources are willing to do it for free, the finished product will not be marketable. As has always been the case, we don't have to wait on anybody else or rely on anybody else to preserve our jobs and our industry. It is and always has been within our power to control our own destiny if you would, but only if we stand together and refuse to cooperate in activities that could potentially someday lead to our own demise.
Forget what everybody else says or does. It starts with each one of us individually. There are a lot within our ranks out there who genuinely do not see the dangers involved with editing VR-generated reports. Just read the plethora of posts that convey that very sentiment on these boards. They only see how editing VR-generated reports benefits them now and don't have even the slightest desire to contemplate what they are really helping the developers of this technology accomplish, which is the eventual elimination of the middle man (the transcriptionist). Those individuals among us who see me and others who think like me as the "chicken littlers" will not be swayed in their thinking, so all any of us who do "see the hand writting on the wall" can do is make the resolve individually to not take part in our own destruction. I personally will never edit any VR-generated reports, I don't care how much more money I could make doing so. I would be happy to use the technology to generate those reports myself, but I will not fix it for someone else who is haphazardously doing what I have spent a lot of time and hard work learning to accurately do myself. I will also never edit any reports generated by other would-be transcriptionsts overseas. The only reason they are in business is because the companies that outsource to them are still able to find plenty of stoops over here to polish up the product before it goes on to the client. It just amazes me how cheaply we, as an industry, have been willing to sell ourselves out for, in most cases, a measley couple hundred bucks a month.
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