tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594738438963956009.post6405767960637330788..comments2023-07-28T02:37:38.171-07:00Comments on Dictation Therapy For Doctors: Money Makes The World Go RoundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594738438963956009.post-69719396168120314572008-04-01T09:35:00.000-07:002008-04-01T09:35:00.000-07:00I love the way you write and think! It clearly mak...I love the way you write and think! It clearly makes economic sense for transcription services to charge at least twice the amount they currently charge and to pay their transcriptionists much more than 6 or 7 cents per line. <BR/><BR/>I refuse to transcribe for those rates. I respect my physical body too much and want it to last me more than five to ten years. In order for me to make a decent wage transcribing at those low rates, my upper extremities start to develop overuse syndrome (even with appropriate breaks), and it is just not worth it (and people wonder why there are so few transcriptionists out there--we've been burned and are too smart to come near the stove again). <BR/><BR/>It seems the very gifted, "speed demon" typists or those with "good accounts" (aka authors who care about their patients and actually speak clearly) are the only ones able to make a professional-level wage, making it more profitable for the average transcriptionist to work for Wal-Mart than to stay in the business.<BR/><BR/>I truly hope things change not only for the sake of the transcriptionists but for the sake of the entire healthcare industry.<BR/><BR/>Maybe medical transcriptionists should take a look at the history of the nursing field and then seriously consider unionization. Attitudes towards nurses only started to change when they united, stood up, and declared they and their services were worth much more than doctors were giving them credit for. If transcriptionists don't stand up and declare themselves and their professional services worthy of appropriate respect and compensation, who will? Definitely not the postee over on the JAAMTonline.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12193329286295663194noreply@blogger.com