Not me - I'm as happy as I've ever been. Plenty of work, more than I can do - I am so lucky. n
Posted By: Blu on 2006-02-05
In Reply to: anyone feel a sense of urgency in regards - to leaving the MT field? sm
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I've had plenty of work, though the numbers on my
account are way down, some accounts not affected at all. Easter was early this year and coincided with spring break in some areas. You'd think that there would be MTs taking days off too and that would balance things out.
You're lucky they work for you. I've never gotten a refill to work right, ever.
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Well then yer LUCKY. And hopefully they've all been
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Plenty of work there.....
There is PLENTY of work at Amphion. I'm not sure who has been saying that they overstaff, but there is more than enough work to go around. In fact, right now there is overtime available, and they are in need of many more transcriptionists for new accounts. 
At least you have plenty of work!
There are some MTs who are begging for work. Or what about all the people in the U.S. who are being laid off and are unemployed. I would be happy that I am employed and they are asking you to work extra.
There are ESL specialists in all fields & all over the country. You've just been extremely lucky
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When I worked for them, there was plenty of work.
They are very disorganized, though, and I spent most of my day doing unpaid clerical work. They would make lots of promises to get me to stay and then not follow through with them.
There may be plenty of work, but that's not the issue. -sm
The issue is having to compete with low foreign wages & standards of living. In order to continue to afford to live in this country, especially some of the more expensive states. Granted, I have no problem with seeing people in other countries get ahead, but not at the expense of those of us in THIS country.
And PS: There's plenty of temp. work out there!
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Yes, work for MTSO and plenty of work
Hi. I did work for local docs and got ditched by every last one of them for various reasons.....going to voice recognition, going to hospital MT service, etc. Now I work for a MTSO and absolutely love it. The work is there 90% of the time. The holidays are SLOW, but I am learning to try to prepare for that (savings). I don't know if mine needs more ICs (doubt it at the moment), but it is StatIQ Solutions in Albuquerque. They are wonderful to work with. Good luck.
Good accounts and plenty of work. sm
PT line count is 6000 per pay period; FT is 12000.
They give me plenty of work everyday, so I sent a
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plenty of coders work from home....nm
Plenty of rad work out there - try the companies that specialize in it. sm
I have been with Keystrokes for 4 years and love it. I have radiology-only accounts, plenty of work and get paid well. The hospital I worked for outsourced to them and they hired me right away. Best move I ever made.
My sister is also an MT and works for another company doing rad but runs out, so be careful that the company you go with has a lot of rad-only accounts.
My work space is in the MBR- it is plenty large -sm
but the room is a bit cluttered. It is a large room though, 12' x 27', 1 corner is a small walk-in closet though (5 x 9), I am against that 5' wall of the closet for my "space". If I could lose the radio (old 1940s) and the corner shelf unit it would look a lot nicer even with my desk and TV cart I use for my printer and misc. papers. The one "spare" room we have is the dining room which is the kids play room but I am getting rid of that this Fall, however it will basically turn into storage on one side for my DHs antique TVs and the other I might make a reading nook, for the rare spare time I get to have a haven to go to outside of the bedroom. I have the recliner, just need a place to put it!
And if you want to give your labor away for free, you will always have plenty of work. nm
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MDI Maryland has plenty of work, you are talking about the wrong one - Florida maybe?. nm
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You are definitely lucky as you actually have some work to do at MDI-MD!!! nm
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An excellent platform and a good line rate with plenty of work -
Then leave me alone and let me do my thing! :-)
I've been there nearly 2 years and still happy. sm
What did you want to know? Pay is okay, accounts are good, people are good.
Actually more than being lucky, your hard work
paid off. This was what I posted about. You, like me, had on the job training for about a year and it was hard and I really worked hard to get the transcription part right while striving to make production. I worked some on Selectric, even though clanked did not mind at all. This was not a job I took in order just to work from home. It was done because I loved the medical field and never had a clue some day I would be working at home but that was yearsssss down the road. We were a training hospital and some nights I would go home almost in tears, really hard but I really did not think all the others in the room smarter than me and that was my incentive. It paid off big time. My speed has always been about 140 while helps and even now after all these years look forward to each day. I do not work full time any more but hey, I deserve some extra time to myself now. I have earned it!
Yes, I am lucky. I happen to work for a
MTSO that has a major account in the midwest that has no plans on sending work overseas because they realize the quality of the work they receive from the MTs here in the states. No, they are not hiring and I don't know how they would feel having their name on the board, so I will not name them. I worked at MQ for 12 years and 1-1/2 years ago left them and found this company. And, I stand corrected, I will make over 50K with them this year after only being there a little over a year. There are jobs out there, you just have to be persistent in looking for them.
Yes, I am lucky. I happen to work for a
MTSO that has a major account in the midwest that has no plans on sending work overseas because they realize the quality of the work they receive from the MTs here in the states. No, they are not hiring and I don't know how they would feel having their name on the board, so I will not name them. I worked at MQ for 12 years and 1-1/2 years ago left them and found this company. And, I stand corrected, I will make over 50K with them this year after only being there a little over a year. There are jobs out there, you just have to be persistent in looking for them.
I've been to Disney World and not everyone is happy.
minimum wage without benefits. They have layoffs all the time. It's not a happy place to work.
You're lucky. I get lots of work but have
I'm not happy with my current position, but I've interviewed
tested and me offered positions with at least 12 other companies and none of them have anything better to offer, all less money, all set schedules, etc. Read the job boards and see what is out there and if you want to test the waters take on a PT IC position - of you can test and interview with multiple companies without making a committment.
It's great you've got a good system; I'm happy for you! nm
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You are lucky because Amherst is always out of work and I know they hired a lot of new people ?? so
just curious about this.
My response to people who tell me that I'm lucky to work at home.
"Yes, I work at home but I never go home from work." They usually stop and think and realize that there's nothing lucky about that!
Well, you know, we should be happy just to work at home in our PJs
and pay all their overhead costs for them. That's what we should be thankful for, or so they say.
I work for Spheris, and I'm very happy there. sm
Good accounts, steady work (not counting the holiday slow-downs that all companies go thru), good support, and great people. I'm very happy there and would recommend them to anyone.
I work for them. I am happy. I know that they have a lot of radiology but I
do clinic work. I have plenty of work and get paid well. I do not need benefits as my DH is military, but I have heard that they are average.
Why I'm happy to work at home
Gas just hit $4.03 a gallon where I live, gads. This is reason #342 why I'm so dang happy to work at home. 
Nope, happy to be paid 30,000 a yr to work less than 8 hrs a day, in the comfort of my bedroom,
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I've seen their work
and it would appear they have transcriptionists, or at least different "editors." There are multiple initials listed, varying from day to day. After viewing the web site, I would definitely balk at the 99% accuracy rate from what I've seen of it in the offices around here.
If it's work that you've done
not big volume. The nationals will laugh at tapes and "set hours". Nationals promise the stars and never follow through.
My advice to you would be to just say "I'll do my best". "I do have other clients" that I need to service (she doesn't need to know your business/you're an IC), and then let it go at that. Let her think she's being boss (easy work) when she's really not. Sometimes, we have to give a little, but the days you are not logged on, if she questions, it just say "oh something came up for another client". I "do have a business to run here". "Oh my the trials and tribulations of having my own clients"! Ya' know, little indicators like "sure glad I'm not an employee" kind of thing; as I have too much going on with "other clients".
I had to do what you're doing. I also had to tell the secretary (not doctor paying my billing statement) that they could look elsewhere (she wanted faxed reports by a certain time each day) or I would have to charge a lot more, or they could make me an employee who telecommutes. It was their choice. Needless to say, I'm not faxing reports; and she has backed off, way off!
Don't cap happy holiday season. Cap the others and Happy Holidays alone. nm
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I've never been without work at Amphion
3 months though, so that makes me a newbie but they send out a report every morning of how many jobs are on the system and on my account alone there's always plenty of work so I'm not worried about it.
No, I've never gotten an email about no work.
However, you could call or email the account supervisor and ask to train on another account. I find that with the smaller MTSOs, their accounts usually aren't even dictating on major holidays. It's nice to have the time off without having to beg for it like with the nationals.
I should add, I don't know how they are to work for as I've never worked for them, just saw th
post.
We've all been there; if your work is generally
You want to hear something REALLY stoopid? When I first started working in a children's hospital as a newbie MT, for about six months I transcribed the abbreviation VSD as venereal sexual disease (not ventricular septal defect). When I discovered my error, I went to my boss and confessed, fully expecting to be fired. She was freaked but forgiving, and had a memo issued to the medical director so he could inform the doctors to look out for the error in all the charts they read; it turned out they had already done handwritten correction of most of the errors. That was over 20 years ago but I still wince at how many babies have records of venereal disease because of that error.
I believe they work totally independently, I've
never had anything go from one computer to the other, including Spyware or even a virus.
I just work for mine. MT is the closest I've come to SM
good return on my time, and I know that's not true for everybody.
Don't want to insult you, but -- why not just work for your money?
I've tried comcast as well...doesn't work!
I've been wearing them for a year while I work with no....sm
problem. They aren't that strong.
Cripes - not even Thanksgiving yet, and I've run out of work.
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I've worked with MTs who work diligently
...to find a way to cherry pick.
The system that you and the poster above you are describing sounds like the one used where I used to work.
One MT fiddled around and wasted who knows how much company time until she figured out how to manipulate the filters component of the system, and set the filters to only route to her jobs from her 3 preferred dictators.
If only these MTs put as much time into actually transcribing as they put into getting around the system they could probably make even more money than they do with the cherry picking.
I've found you have to work more than 8 hours a day to
If I had to stick to an 8-hour time period, I couldn't afford to continue.
I've done all work types also and always find myself making more
doing radiology than any other work type.
I think it's mainly because it's more repetitive than the other work types.
With your three years experience, you should do fine jumping back into it.
Good luck.
Ahhh, so you've chosen to work for a service
There are others who are still gaining their own accounts. Sometimes, you have to seek and you shall find. The larger companies and even smaller for that matter are gaining accounts to prove that voice recognition is not the majority. Just because you chose to take less does not mean that everyone in this profession has. So, your opinions are fine for your situation, but to state that everyone's salary and this profession has gone downhill is simply not true. I, for one, have a lot more now than I have ever had in my lifetime, and I have a lot of experience. The in-house position was holding me back. When you get paid per hour instead of production, it seems you get jipped. If you work production and are good at what you do, it is not too bad of a salary. Everyone has a different situation. MTblab is getting out, which is great for her since she is moving into another phase of her life. Of course, she is going to post that it is a horrible profession because she is not happy with what she has been served. Misery LOVES company. You do have a choice in what type of work you take. If not happy, again, seek and you shall find. I am so happy to be , because I make the rules. Okay, I am off of my  now. Take care. 
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