Re: IC v. Employee question

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:47:51 -0500

I agree that requiring comprehensive testing for someone who does not do
comprehensive work in the course of their employment is stupid. If it comes
to it, I would suggest that the paralegals in Washington lobby for an
equivalent of the radiology restricted license available in NYS, which
allows someone to get a license to work in a specific limited setting
without having to pass the comprehensive RT exam. In my opinion, the same
option should be available in MT if a license is ever required--one does not
need the ability to do acute care transcription in order to competently
transcribe work in one specialty for a doctor in clinical practice. One
should be able to take a separate exam to demonstrate your competence to
transcribe only clinical orthopedics, podiatry, psychiatry, or whatever, and
then be issued a license for that specialty for clinical transcription only. 

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Sheila
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"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "CLJ1219" <clj1219@aol.com78946321> wrote in message
> news:20041119130634.06685.00000384@mb-m24.aol.com...
> | >Wouldn't that be exhibiting control over them, though, requiring
> that they
> | >handle "their business" in the way you prefer?
> |
> | Would you want to hire someone who was unprofessional?  Would you
> want to hire
> | a unlicensed electrician to wire your million dollar house?  Would
> you want to
> | have your heart bypass surgery done by an unlicensed doctor?
> |
> Licenses are no guarantee of quality or ability.  Considering that
> tens of thousands of people die annually as the result of doctor's
> errors and omissions, I'd say that licensure isn't doing a very good
> job of protecting us.   What does concern me is the current trend to
> set govt standards and require licenses for more and more fields of
> work.  Do we really need to have the govt deciding who can or can't
> mow your lawn, bag your groceries, fix your car, cook your lunch at
> McD's, sell you a pair of shoes, or dry clean your dress?  Do you
> want the govt to require that you pass their test before being an
> MT?  I'm seeing the same thing in my own field of work as a
> paralegal.  States are beginning to set state standards and require
> comprehensive exams, as if an attorney isn't capable of deciding for
> himself whether a paralegal or legal secretary can do the job
> correctly.  If it were to be required here in WA, I'd have to either
> find different work or go back to school, as the testing would
> encompass areas in which we don't practice and will never practice,
> e.g., probate law, Indian tribal law (that's just been added to the
> State Bar exam this year), environmental law, IP law, business and
> real estate law, etc..  The same thing would apply in MT if
> licensure were mandatory and the applicant had spent years in a
> specialty area such as orthopedics, podiatry or psychiatry, and knew
> very little of the vocabulary, meds and techniques in other fields.
>
> Eliyahu
>
>

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