professionals?
Posted By: MTbucket on 2006-12-10
In Reply to: here's my thoughts - (sm)
This is the issue I have...
We are no longer professionals. How you can even imply we have to act like professionals.
We have benefits dangled in our faces that can be taken away at any time, are told to work harder and longer hours to make even less than we used to, we are constantly expected to just magically adapt to any and all changes made by the industry or employer, whether they have our best interest at heart or not, which is usually lets see, NEVER in our favor. Then we are told we are not to be 'catty' about it or complain, but are supposed to just sit quietly like little children and be dictated to...
Meanwhile, our bills are not getting paid, we are forced to work like factory workers, with quotas and time constraints, all while maintaining perfect quality and never complaining or thinking ever or ourselves.
Get real. We are people, just like you. In my opinion, the only reason QA has gotten so out of hand is to justify jobs. If hospitals really cared about quality, or patients, for that matter, they would pay appropriately. Bottom line, as you said, it is just a business. That is what is so sickening. When I started over a a decade ago, it was NOT, it was in the business of humanity. Forgive us old-timers who still think that is how it should be.
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...
WE are the blood, sweat, and tears...
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