Pros
Learning directly from Doctors, familiarization with differential diagnoses and medical terminology, oberserving patient care
Cons
Overnight work hours with poor compensation, moving from clinic to clinic at various locations, no real advancement in opportunities. Incompetent Chief Scribes who think they know everything and try to shoehorn you into their way of scribing even though they barely are following what the Corporate Office does in training. We get it, you have spent considerable time as a Scribe but probably only because you have not made it into medical school after several tries. You dont have to take out your uneven measuring stick to put down new Scribes especially in front of doctors because you want to make yourself look good. Some of scribes that I worked with were very unprofessional but took their cues from the Chief Scribe like being perpetually late for shift which means longer shifts for you. I saw a Chief Scribe do a variety of unethical things that would have got the company sued like changing medical charts but Management decided to sweep it under the rug. Then I heard the Chief Scribe complain about how bad the previous Chief Scribe and how much better they were compared to the previous one.
