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24 Jan 2004
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An MT's Voice!

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Dear Friends,

We quote from a letter:

"It is nice being joined to a group who are serious about what they
are doing. I am very happy to have become a member of such a group.

I am an MT with about a year-and-a-half experience. I have worked
in two different companies and am quite happy about my performance.

What actually bothers me is the way the company management is
taking the MTs for granted. In fact, they consider us MTs like
some common laborer, and the way I was treated in my first company
confirms that.

I will like to impress on all MT companies and their managements to
bring a new trend, where every individual is treated first as a
human being and then as an employee. Let the companies use the MTs
and their potential. Similarly, let them also treat them with
respect for the job which they do.

Most of those in management whom I came accross were not aware of
the pressure and problems an MT has to go through. Such an
ignorance spoils their approach towards their employees and surely
reduces their productivity and puts them to lot of mental pressure.

My request to all MT companies and their managers is this: Each MT
is very vital for that particular company's growth. Treat them for
what they deserve.

Also one common question I come accross from my colleagues is:
"How long will this industry last?"

All the best...

JP

We invite our members to discuss these issues further at the forum
http://www.mtindia.org/Forum/default.cfm

Ciao!

Maj (Dr.) Amit Chatterjee, SM
Strategist / Founder ~ mailto:amit@...
MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
"The Community of MT Professionals"

"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality!"

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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Is the `feel-good' factor for real?

Is the Indian economy really as strong as Finance Minister Jaswant
Singh seems to believe? It seems so. The first factor is that of
agricultural production. Good monsoons have led to demand form the
rural areas. Farmers are buying TVs, motorcycles and gold.

The second fact is that of outsourcing. Companies in rich countries
are being forced to transfer as many operations as possible to
India. Previously, American companies established their research
facilities only in America because competent scientists were
available only in that country. Now equally competent scientists
are available in India at a fraction of the price. It is cheaper to
establish call centres, undertake medical transcription and
translation and other operations in India.

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13366525

2) Corporate America's Youngest CEO

Shubhayan Udayan Mukherjee - young, brilliant and very very
successful. A quick snapshot of his life proves my point. Mukherjee
started his own company at 18; graduated from Bachelors of Science
in International Business Administration with a GPA of 3.96 at 19,
and became CEO and Chairman of a multinational company with
branches in 10 countries and investments in almost every sector of
the industry before he was even allowed to drink legally in the
United States.

A man of contradictions and impossibly high energy, Mukherjee has
enchanted society like a enigmatic Pied Piper, by growing his
corporate empire so rapidly and opening fully functional offices in
10 different countries by 21. People in the corporate world either
love him or hate him. Few remain neutral. Mukherjee defies
convention and makes himself impossible to ignore.

Born in Kolkata (then Calcutta), West Bengal in 1981, Mukherjee
moved to Nairobi, Kenya when his father got transferred there.
Since then, Mukherjee has lived in Cambridge, London, New York and
San Diego. Not content with running two companies, Mukherjee also
has a growing medical transcription company ...

http://lifestyle.press-world.com/v/59423.html

3) Making a Case Against HIPAA

Under the Clinton administration, HIPAA required patients' written
permission for personal health information disclosures to
physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and insurance plans. This changed
in August 2002.

"We took great care to make sure we weren't creating greater
hardships or more health care bureaucracy for patients as they seek
to get prompt and effective care," Secretary Tommy Thompson of the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in the August
2002 press release, clarifying the Bush administration's final
modifications to HIPAA. "The prior regulation, while
well-intentioned, would have forced sick or injured patients to run
all around town getting signatures before they could get care or
medicine. This regulation gives patients the power to protect their
privacy and still get efficient health care."

But Janlori Goldman, director of the Health Privacy Project at
Georgetown University, had another bend on the modifications,
namely that they ease marketing safeguards. The marketing exemption
"now includes any paid communication from a provider recommending a
health-related product or service, and no longer requires the two
consumer safeguards of notice and opt-out," she wrote in an Aug.
23, 2002 summary of the modification. "HHS is now legalizing and
legitimizing a controversial practice that has been widely decried
by consumers and health care providers as reprehensible."

http://www.advanceforhim.com/common/Editorial/Editorial.aspx?CC=281

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