i see you never worked as a union member before lol

• would you do it?--i need more convincing - aa
  • I'm confused - MTBlab
    • thanks, i will make it THE deciding factor also. - aa
      • Good... - MTBlab
  • I am not sure I understand - $20 per hour does not = 17 cpl. However, - MTE
    • i dont know if this makes sense,... - aa
      • Another thought! sm - MTE
        • yes, I would go IC with the hospital, thanks for your input - aa
  • If you are making $20/hr and that comes to .17/line, you are only producing 117 lph. sm - At-HomeMT
    • and i get 10/cpl for my second job - aa
    • i think you misread - aa
      • What union? lol Please tell. - We would like to know.
        • i see you never worked as a union member before lol - aa
          • See, you're just a fraud. Otherwise, you'd answer. - I suspect a troll! lol
            • lol thats it? lol moving on.... - aa
      • dream on if you think you are going to get 17 cpl with or without union - sm
        • ooh, i catch jealosy vibes lol - aa
          • I think it's maybe more reality than jealousy - sm
            • like i said in prior post the big "J" - aa
              • LOL...whatever. - sm
                • YOU reveal yourself TOO much - aa

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Things in this field have changed for the worse over the past years.  Salaries have decreased, yet expectations have risen.  Benefits are contingent upon production, yet a good share of the time production can't be met due to complications outside of the MT's control.  When it comes to taking the losses due to changes in the field such as offshore outsourcing and technologic advancements, it isn't the clients or the service owners taking the major hit.  It's the transcriptionists.  Yet AAMT has done NOTHING to help the transcriptionists in general.  In fact, it has gone out of its way to PROMOTE offshore outsourcing and even to change some of the guidelines in the newly published, amended BOS to accommodate voice recognition and other technology geared to replace the MT or relegate transcription to other forms labeled "editors", which in reality involve retyping whole reports or major portions of reports at a cut in pay, of course. 

All anyone, newbies included, needs to do is to look at the history of the medical transcription field, see the changes, and then see how much AAMT did to promote the worth of the Transcriptionist in this country.  The depressing message isn't coming from those speaking against AAMT, it is coming from the consequences resulting from the actions of the AAMT.  One fact alone can depress a newbie, and that is to look at the average line rate in 1995 compared to the average line rate now in 2005.   Thank you, AAMT, for promoting that.

to start holding hands with India. They are not out to help AMERICAN MTs. They don't care one way or another about American MTs anymore.

Their latest pitch is to the  MTs STOP transcribing verbatim. So not only will we have to be language specialists, we'll have to put a doctor's words in "proper English."

It doesn't matter what the docs want. It's what they want. Baloney. They are not our boss. Our docs are our bosses. If the docs want verbatim, that's what they'll get...at least from me (except for the JAHCO list of unacceptable terminology).

I'm so glad there are hospitals and doctors out there that don't give a hoot about AAMT. I sure don't. Oh, and if anyone noticed, usually buying products through AAMT doesn't save a dang nickel. In fact, you pay just as much, if not more, for the same products you can get by dealing directly with the company that makes them till all is said and done.

I'll save my money and spend it on more important things.

I went to visit my aunt last night.  Last week she fell and broke all the bones in her ankle.  She has plates and screws.  This is her fourth fall this year, but that is another story.  I looked at her cast and placed my hand on her leg just above the cast and it was warm.  I felt her other leg and it was cool.  The more I went up on the broken leg the less warm it got, but all the way up it was definitely significantly warmer than her "good" leg. 

My mother is a nurse practitioner and she showed up while I was there.  I explained my concern to her (my aunt is also a diabetic) about a possible infection.  She wouldn't acknowledge my concern.  I repeated myself and still nothing.  Lately my mother and I have had a couple issues regarding family members and their heath.  I am not a nurse nor do I claim to be, but being in this profession you do learn about the medical field and somtimes I feel I see a different side of things than my mom.  I can't figure out why, but she just doesn't see any value in my thoughts regarding medicine, ideas, thoughts, alternatives, etc.  In every other way she is the best mom in the world and I love her so much, but I feel she is disrespecting me by not taking my opinions/thoughts into account regarding the field of medicine and our family.

Another example is she has trouble with the pronunciation of medications.  I'm not claiming to be a pro, but I hear doctors and nurses says these meds over and over and over and I feel the majority rules in this regard.  Again, she thinks I'm wrong and doesn't really listen to what I'm saying.  The only reason I correct her is because I think it would be embarrasing to speak with a doctor and not say a med correctly.  I think it is a reflection on her.  It also helps with dictation too (as we all know).

Any ideas.  I don't know what to do.  I tried talking to her about this a couple weeks regarding my dad's health and she really didn't listen to what I had to say.  With certain things you can just blow it off, but this is the health of my aunt and father and I just couldn't live with myself if something happened to them.

Thanks for listening and for any ideas. 

I have been at this for about 15 years and have thought off and on about becoming an AAMT member and about getting my CMT, but always stop short because of the cost and basically the inconvenience of having to find the testing center that seems to be located in some obscure office building I've never even heard of.

However, I have recently started working for a facility that actually encourage their MTs to further their education, to network with one another and share information, and offer pay raises for the CMT credentials.  So, once again I am considering the pros and cons of membership and taking the CMT exam.

Has anyone ever had a family member who they believed is a hypochondriac?  We have an individual who seems like he always has something wrong.  It is to the point now if he really does get sick I can't believe him anymore.  I can't even bring myself to calling him to see how he is feeling when he says he is sick b/c I think he is just making a mountain out of a molehill.  Am I being insensitive?  I am just so tired of hearing it. 

I am sure someone is going to recommend counseling but he already does that.  Anyone have any other advice how to handle him?

TIA

I am wondering what the proper protocol would be if I ever came across a report that was dictated on one of my family members. 

I just started doing transcription for a hospital in a really small town--the ONLY hospital in that town--and it just happens to be the same town were most of my family lives.  I know myself well enough to know that I won't break any rules of confidentiality.  However, is there anything in the *laws of transcription* that say I legally am not allowed to transcribe reports dictated on relatives??

I am afraid to ask my supervisor this question, as I really like this account and don't want her taking me off of it.  It's chopped full of *standards* and the line count/pay just doesn't get any better than this.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.

What do we do then?  I'm not an acute care transcriptionist.  I have 20 years in this business.  I work my own accounts and make decent money.  I could do acute care no problem, but I don't want to.  That's my choice.

My Dad was part of a Union and guess what?  The steel mill sold to China anyway.  So what did the Union really do for my Dad?  Not a thing...  Then my Mom had to go to work because my Dad was older by then and found it hard to find a job at his age (late 50s).  I'm talking back in the 80s.

All of these companies have taken on the AAMT or whoever they are (I really don't care) as "word" and that's how they want things transcribed.

When you've been transcribing as long as some of us have, you tend to give up on a Union and what that takes to stay organized and also requirements and money it takes to keep a Union organized (dues). 

I will never become certified because I won't make any more money than what I'm already making.

I transcribe for an online company that pays MTs that just graduated the same as I make.  So, why bother? 

Many years of experience is what makes you the money, not any school, or for that matter a Union.

I hate to be a downer, but really at this point, if there are MTs out there transcribing for 6 cpl, then we're done for.  ASR is only as good as the Editor behind it and it is pricey as well.