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Okay, I have a new resident dictating a - S


Posted: Jul 02, 2010

3-day hopsital stay discharge summary.  It is 30 minutes long.  This going to be fun. 

we love(d) residents - way back when

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When I worked at a residency clinic that paid by the dictation minute, we used to LOOOOVE it when the new residents arrived every year! 10-minute BP checkups, 15-minute otitis media, 30-minute H&Ps! And when they spent 60 seconds shuffling through papers trying to find something, and didn't know how to use the pause button, we would have such a feeling of pleasant satisfaction as the long seconds rolled by! ...just like a taxi driver watching the meter tick off the minutes. Then I started doing hospital transcription... uh... now it's hard to remember all those pleasant feelings about residents. Sorry about your 30-minute DS!

Some residents burn me up. - sm

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They'll dictate sentences or whole paragraphs, then change it. I had a resident once dictate a 17 minute note and change almost every sentence. Then at the end of the note, he said, "Oh wait. I already did this. Disregard this report." Of course I didn't, but he made me want to pull my hair out.


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