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New Owner Please Come Forward And Show Yourself

Posted By: anonamuse on 2008-03-09
In Reply to: See inside... - Me

Have you heard the rumor the Writer's Union is the new owner of this board and they will be promoting a Transcription Union? With Google's new Medical Record Depository, the public actually viewing their own records, our skills will be in demand and we can set our own standards of reimbursement. Supply and demand.


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    I am only posting this because I have a voice, too. I am looking forward to working from home, having people ask me how to do "do what you do at home", making some extra money (though I DO know that I won't be getting rich in this field), and learning all there is to learn about our language and the language of medical professionals.

    Every job, every career, every field has its share things to hate. I'm sure MT won't be any different. But please, remember when you post that there are some of us who really want to enjoy and succeed in MT. Advising us to turn the other way and run just doesn't seem a fair thing to do.

    I'm just sayin...
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    Definitely looking forward to seeing it. sm
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    flash forward
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    Spring Forward,

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    I had some pretty serious medical problems a year ago and was completely out of it from the middle of March to the middle of April so I have no recollection of time during that period.  Does anyone recall the exact date that we "sprang" forward last year?


     


    Never liked Gayle, not looking forward to her nm
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    The one I looked forward to...

    He did his dictation at home I suppose and every night..."Daddy, stop talking, look at me".....for what seemed like hours on end.  Never took the child out, just let her screeeeeaaaam into the mic the entire time, while the wife talked in the background, oblivious to the child...I suppose she was glad someone was taking it off her hands. 


    Thank you!! I look forward to recieving it!
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    Mine was quite a bit more. Hmmm looking forward to that
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    Was this about the shorthand tips? Looking forward to that.
    nm
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    Isn't THAT pretty straight forward!?
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    fast forward audio?...
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    the owner screens the MTs and knows what she is doing.
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    as a former MTSO owner

    Personally, I would not hire anyone unless they could transcribe the hardest dictator I had. And that is at LEAST two years of acute care experience.

    I think the expression is, "burned once, twice shy." 


    FROM THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY
    This came from an email from Andy, the owner, last December to the employees:

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    He is talking about Ochsner, and I was told that they STILL offshore to them and also to Sarasota and Mayo.

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    Be careful. If you are not in THE circle and kiss a$$, you are so dispensable that it is not even funny.

    Any company that repeatedly lies about offshoring, promotes incapacitated people on power trips, and sends the work offshore in the first place, is ruthless and cannot be trusted.

    Look elsewhere. It will only get worse!



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    okay.  I worked for a company out of Florida called Mediscript Inc a year or so ago and she was real nice.  Email me if you like.
    Sante Fe owner
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    Nobody is satisfied with 8.5 if owner is getting 19. (nt)

    Not an owner and I do not farm out

    I agree that no one should work for $10.00 an hour in this profession.  Funny how I've gone from someone new in this thread to someone who owns an MTSO in this thread.  Wrong and wrong. 


    I have my own accounts and do my own work. 


    I just feel that if you form a group of burnouts, then you continue to be a burnout forever.  My initial thought was that only burnouts are invited to form a group by the OP?  What about new grads that have a lot to offer in this field that would love to be sitting in some of these burned out seats making some money. 


    If someone has been burned out time and time again, it is time to look inward at one's self and their choices in their career. 


    I think it would take one burn out session for me to know this is not my gig.  I'm not so sure I'd look for other burn outs to join me in my misery.   


    You are the owner of this business, are you not?
    If you want to make it 20 minutes, that's your perogative. You don't need to ask permission to do what you need to do.