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Don't you just love soft-spoken dictators who - incognito

Posted: Jan 14, 2012

speak very softy whilst dictating but then, without warning.......

will cough very loudly and quite capably into the mike, rattling your inner core.

Thanks, Bub. I didn't need my tympanic membranes anymore since I am already headed into Oldladyville, and I have my eye on a fashionable rhinestone-studded ear horn.

Ouch. Yep. Been there. - Happy MT Robin

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I had an almost undecipherable ESL doc who would do that very thing. I didn't cry when he went to another hospital.

Oh,Yes - JR

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Oh, yes. Funny you should mention it. I was talking about this the other day with a friend. It's like your ears get used to him/her speaking softly then, BOOM, loud, then WAY SOFT. Okay, fine, but then it's hard to adjust the ears to his/her soft. It's like pick one!

One doc puts the receiver under his chin, sm - Sometimes happy MT

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very muffled, lots of blanks. Has been told and shown how to do correctly. So puts the receiver under his chin and SPELLS the "hard" words so fast you still can't understand him. Just before he hangs up, the background noise is clear as a bell. Gotta laugh, otherwise I'd be bald!

I HATE that! - cr

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It drives me crazy to hear a low, muffled voice, thinking there's something wrong with the volume, earphones or speakers, then BAM! - he puts the phone up to his mouth, blasting my eardrums. And of course, the rapid spelling! Especially when they "help" by giving a word with the letter rapid-fire - "S as in Sam, M as in Mary," etc., except it's all bunched together in one long, muffled sound.

Soft spoken - M

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Yes! I love that, especially when you're straining to hear as best you can and then have to rip off the head-phone. Makes my entire week to get one of those!

I hear ya ladies. - IAMT

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Have a couple dictators who continually must be reaching for something and keep dictating with their microphone or whatever in the same place while doing so, fade out a bit each inch their head moves, and then slowly get volume back to normal when they return to the correct positioning. I think a class in how to dictate and use the equipment correctly along with the log process including selecting the correct patient and visit during med school would be a great idea;-)

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