Pros
Fills the void of "on the way to somewhere else." State of the art technology. Excellent mentoring program. Telecommuting makes "have life/can travel" possible. One still must work, but one is not tied to a single physical location to perform it so long as a secured/trusted Internet is available.
Cons
Professionally in 35+ years with some world-class medical centers I had never encountered such absentee/unavailable management. I would like to believe my experience was a fluke. The pay is very low for the fund of knowledge and skill sets required as an MT/MLS/HDS. While not "hands-on" providers, what is in the record paints the picture for the provider to render the best healthcare possible to the patient. Every MT/MLS/HDS needs to take ownership of their knowledge and skill sets and then settle for no less than fair compensation on that part of the healthcare provision. Most MT/MLS/HDS positions industry-wide have dropped to very low compensation from solid earnings and rightful respect of knowledge with piecemeal/sweatshop wages of pennies per line payment since the advent of speech recognition technology. That technology still needs the human editor with broad and high fund of knowledge to correct the words, spelling, sentence structure, and grammar because state of the art is still only artificially intelligent and human lives depend upon what is in the record. On the fringes perhaps but nonetheless MT/MLS/HDS are a VITAL part of the healthcare provision team and need to be respected as such.