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Complaint about doctors and accuracy - anonie


Posted: Jan 19, 2015

One of the biggest complaints I have is when the doctor doesn't spell the patient's name. I mean I cannot know how to spell all foreign names nor can I tell if it is a male or female. Another one is when doctors do not spell carbon copy doctors' names nor sometimes even say where they are from. If they want those things to be accurate, then dictate it that way PLEASE.

Yep... - JOttS

[ In Reply To ..]
This is and always will be an ongoing problem because most dicators can't "be bothered" with the small details like correct spelling of names. They think the MT should stop what he/she is doing and make a call to someone who knows. This happens even with my one and only doctor I have left and have been doing his transcription for many years. He finally told me recently to call his nurse for a list of names, after I'd been transcribing and spelling the names a certain way for years. He only dictates once a month on the same patients... unless he gets a new patient; and do you think he can get the DOBs consistent every time? HA! That'll be the day. Good thing I have the DOBs on a list too with the patient names... unless sometime down the road he decides that the DOB has been wrong all along. Can't win... JOS


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