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Lousy dictating doctor - Frustrated transcriber

Posted: Sep 01, 2012

Why do we get berated when the doctor is known to be a mumbler and you know he knows what he is doing? This guy CONSTANTLY has blanks in his reports, no accent, no excuse. He's just lazy and doesn't care. I wish there was a way of issuing fines for these doctors when they get these many blanks in their reports. You'd think it would be some sort of legal issue since the reports are basically incomplete. Just a thought.

Scribble - Elssa

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I remember years ago hearing that a local hospital required their doctors who scribbled (prescriptions, etc) to take handwriting classes. They recognized that patients can die if the pharmacist misreads the doctor's illegible scribble and gives the patient the wrong medication or the wrong dose.

Seems like there should also be mandatory dictation classes for the mumblers. Maybe having to spend their "precious time" in a class would get them to talk normally. :p

These doctors are acting like irresponsible children, and they should be forced back to school. Hah!

Doctors forced to take classes... - Elssa

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Just found this article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2472&dat=20001008&id=MzUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kggGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6262,2255249

Interesting article - Leaving MT

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The hardest thing for me sometimes is insulin. Our audio quality is somewhat degraded, and 50 sounds like 60 and 20 sounds like 30, etc. With insulin, it is really hard. I have one doc who always dictates "mirtazapine 15 mg, that's one-five mg..." but he never, ever does that for insulin. I figure someone sometime transcribed the mirtazapine as 50 mg instead of 15 in one of his reports, but to me that's an easy one to verify and a good MT should know mirtazapine is 15 not 50. The insulin on the other hand, well let's just say he gets a lot of blanks on those difficult-to-discern dosages, yet he never bothers to be more clear and just slurs right on through the insulin dosages. I doubt this will ever be a reality, but when residents are learning how to dictate, they all should transcribe some reports to get a feel for how things come across.

one doctor's view - also leaving

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A friend of mine worked as a registered nurse. She was sitting beside a doc at the front desk while he was dictating, at the dreaded "auctioneer speed." She jokingly asked him if he realized someone had to listen to his dictation and understand it. He replied, "They like it when we talk fast." Uh, okay.

Classes for Docs - Gerri

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If they took classes for dictating reports, this would probably do away with transcriptionists' jobs. Everybody would be an editor because the VR reports would improve. A no-win situation, or so it appears.

Sociopaths - Elssa

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Well, I don't think these doctors have any interest in improving, so it's never going to happen IMO. I think they enjoy giving us and everyone they can a hard time. Makes them feel important in a sick, twisted way I guess. Real sociopaths.. They only care about themselves. :p

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