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Same in my city -- nothing in-house

Posted By: sm on 2006-04-23
In Reply to: No In-House Jobs In My Area - re

The Squid has taken over all the big facilities in my area. I never see ads for hospital MTs either in the paper or on their web sites.

I did go on an interview last year for an in-house MT in a GI practice. While they had upgraded their dictation system, they had no medical spell checker and their sole reference consisted of an old Stedman's GI word book, and this was a dept. of 6 transcriptionists. I didn't get hired. I think I just got called because the lead wanted to ask me questions on the DL about working from home for the Squid.

At any rate, I am leery of small practices as I used to be a legal secretary and had the most horrible experiences in the small legal practices, so I can only assume the doctors aren't much better.


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