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Someone sent me a link to the United States Medical Language Specialists Union Initiative. You can go to the site to see it, but their mission statement is as follows: Organized to emphasize the necessary return of United States citizens’ patient information to United States-based Medical Information Specialists, Medical Transcriptionists and Medical Language Specialists, furthering the [...]

A couple of MTs have shared this with me. The class action suit brought by a group of medical transcriptionists against MedQuist. …lawsuit that was brought as a class action on behalf of current and former medical transcriptionist employees of MedQuist Inc. and MedQuist Transcription Ltd. (“MedQuist”). The suite alleges that MedQuist manipulated its company [...]

At the top of my list of things to blog about and share is the Advance Salary Survey. Unfortunately, civic duty in the form of jury service calls and I find myself pressed for time to accomplish everything. Follow me on Twitter, as I’m trying to keep up with everyone there (since I can post/read [...]

I see this all the time on the transcription forums. “I’m tired of being jerked around by the company/MTSO I work for and I’m going to go get my own accounts.” This is usually followed by a solicitation for “how-to” advice. I’ve been pretty retrospective lately about my career in transcription and these posts take [...]

OK I realize this is a very old issue of Advance but you have to understand that these are delivered to my mail box looking like a porn magazine left on an open rack, if they’re delivered at all. Just a few days before Christmas, I picked up the November 17, 2008 issue and I’m [...]