Pros
The experience you get working one on one with doctors gives you a great immersion in the medical field.
Cons
The regional management is absolutely terrible. They have no consideration for their employees and are combative in the way they address you. In my region, you are paid $0.10 above minimum wage, despite the large quantities of money that the hospitals pay for their service. When you talk to HR about this, they read you a pre-scripted message that doesn't address your concerns. They do not schedule you more than a week in advance, and then blame the doctors (and when you talk to the doctors about their scheduling, you find out that it is scheduled months in advanced.) The real reason is that they hire inexperienced people to schedule employees that do not know how to effectively do their jobs. They do not take appropriate measures (if any measures) to create a friendly work environment (a former employer was accused of sexually harassing an employee, so they took away his position and just made him a scribe... that works in the same department as the person he was harassing). It was also inferred to me that I should endanger myself to drive in large quantities of snow because "there is too much snow on the road for me to safely get to work" is not an acceptable answer to miss a shift, even if I were to wreck my car on the way there. During training, half of our training was teaching us how to make every patient chart a level 5 patient chart (5 is the highest, and the levels correspond to how much you can bill). This is the problem with large corporations that basically have a monopoly on a job that is now almost a requirement to be a competitive applicant for medical school.
