Maybe yes, maybe no

Posted By: Glory1863 on 2007-09-02
In Reply to: Totally agree! there are plenty of us MTs here..sm - Kathy Stryk

Better pay and more respect might induce some people not to retire, might induce some people not to leave transcription for other opportunities and might induce some who have left to return. The problem is that transcription as a career has been going downhill for some time. I suspect the field hasn't been attracting enough high-quality recruits or providing enough high-quality training for them for years. We all know that becoming a highly skilled Transcriptionist takes time. I'm not sure that the field has that time. Too many of the highly skilled transcriptionists are aging. They are part of the generation that will cause the need for accurately documented medical care to skyrocket. I'm all for supply and demand causing wages to go up (not that it has ever worked that way in transcription or will now with the global economy), but even if it did, would it result in enough quality transcriptionists in time?

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RE: Not enough US MTs. There would be enough - MTs is pay decent. No US MTs just excuse. nm
- MTs use to make a bundle until sm - Terri
  - I make very good money at home with a small MTSO - don't have to go in-house. nm
    - me too - Keeley
      - forgot to say - Keeley
    - There are pros and cons to everything - sm
  - Hospitals do not care about quality, just productivity, and oust their old MTs for others to pay the - Catsnooz
- Dangers of outsourcing.... - Unhappy Camper
  - I don't know, recently was editing and the reports from India - sm
  - Some doctors simply do not care.....sm - MsMt
    - How is this different from the rest of us? - Glory1863
      - I cared......sm - MsMT
      - BINGO. It's all interrelated, all of it. - tnmt
  - Ooops. - Unhappy Camper
- No decent MTs just excuse to keep pay low. Pay - decent and will have great US MTs out wazoo.
  - Totally agree! there are plenty of us MTs here..sm - Kathy Stryk
    - Maybe yes, maybe no - Glory1863
      - Yes, it would. - nm
      - You eloquently make excellent points. - tnmt
      - Gap in spelling skills, too. - Unhappy Camper
        Good pay will = great MTs and plenty - of them. nm

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