Minnesota tragedy.....
Posted By: AnotherOldTimerMT on 2007-08-02
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Perhaps this doesn't belong on any board here, but I felt I just needed to say something about the very tragic state of medical transcription. I have been an MT for over 40 years, most of which occurred in the clinical setting, but I also worked for 4 years at a very large MTSO.
No one in our wonderful profession is going to get anything changed until en masse. If we don't stick up for ourselves and that means going to governmental officials (those people get sick too and do have medical records!), the media and other well-known sources where the message could potentially be heard world-wide, then we have only ourselves to blame. I know this is a huge undertaking but if we don't like it (and I hear that many don't) then we have to impact it. I would, for one, feel so much better telling my children and grandchildren that I had taken part in a grassroots movement to try and change/impact the manner in which a patient's medical visits were documented rather than leaving millions (ha, ha!) for them to use on fancy cars, trips, etc.
We only have today---some people who died on the bridge or drowned here in Minneapolis last evening will never again get a chance to make any impact ever again!
Have a great day....... 
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