Are You Indispensable?
I have four different websites I manage, and I generally don’t cross post to them, however, this one is very worth referring you to. This morning I did a post on the Nicholls Leadership Institute about Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Our industry is full of commoditization. We hear it all the time. “Medical transcription has become a commodity.” This book speaks to how it’s not just the work, but the people, who get commoditized. It also addresses what you can do to become a linchpin and do something awesome. I would love it if you would all go read the post above, make comments, and let’s have some discussion!
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I read the post entitled “Are you indispensable?” I thought it was great. I appreciate your commitment to this website. I appreciate your willingness to share the story you are writing for your life in 2010. I have been doing medical transcription specializing in Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary for 12 years. I actually was a legal transcpiptionist for 17 years working full-time in a law office. I switched to medical transcription after I gave birth to my second son, Chad, who was born with Down Syndrome and numerous medical anomolies requiring numerous surgeries. Through all of this, I became very interested in medical transcription and applied for a job at our local hospital just on weekends doing medical transcription in the cardiopulmonary department. I had done an at home study for beginning medical transcriptionists only, but applied for the job because of many years experience as a transcriptionist in the legal profession. They were desperata as they had been without any help on the weekends for 2 months. They hired me right away and said “If you can do legal transcription, you can do medical.” And with a great CMT who trained me on the job in-house, I quickly began full-time work and worked 10 years in-house learning so much; working morning, noon, night and all night if the need arose. I genuinely wanted to make a difference and was willing to meet the demands of an in-house MT in a 24/7 hospital. I decided to work as MT from home because of Chad graduating from high school and his desire to take some day classes at a Christian College which is 45 minutes away. I knew if I could provide transportation for him, he could have this desire of his heart. I could do this working as MT from home with my own hours.
The concern I have is that I am not a CMT and I am questioning at 59 years of age and loving my specialty of Cardiovascular/Cardipulmonary if I really should now become certified. I can work pretty much 24/7 with the company I work for. I have since working from home done a course online in medical terminology which was very helpful.
Becky, thanks so much for the kind comments. What a wonderful story you share. Each of us has a story about how and why we got into medical transcription and I love hearing those. You pose a good question. I think you might start by making a pro and con list and see what you come up with. For me, I did the CMT for ME; at the time, the real value for me was knowing I did it and being able to put those letters on my business cards. I do think it’s a very individual decision and each of us has to make.