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To the nurse practitioner... - ineedwater

Posted: Feb 21, 2013

Just wanted to dedicate this post to the nurse practitioner who coughed very LOUDLY throughout two 10-minute reports I just did. Just to let you know, there is such a thing called the MUTE BUTTON. Thank you so much for just about blowing my ear drums out. I literally had to pull my ear plugs out so you wouldn't render me deaf. I feel sorry for whoever uses that dirty, germ-filled phone after you hacked a lung into it.

Oh, and BTW, the phrase "carotid bruits" is not pronounced carotid brew-its.

Re: The nurse practitioner - Me, too

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I think I have the same account. This babe HUFFs and coughs all through every report. Kind of makes you wonder if they realize there is another human on the end of their phone?

they have no idea... - OHMT

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I'm sure they've totally forgotten that an actual human is listening to them. I used to transcribe a doctor who sniffled, coughed, and snorted loogies all the time. Disgusting! This was a woman! I bet she didn't make those gross noises when she was talking face to face with someone. Makes me shudder just thinking about it. Glad I'm not typing her reports anymore! ugh!

Manners - MT Pockets

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I know she couldn't help coughing and even if she didn't know where the mute button was, she could have covered her mouth and turned away! When a dictator coughs into the mic, especially when you have it turned up loud enough to hear them clearly and tune everything else out, it is horrible and so loud and jarring! To the poster regarding the woman doctor who sniffed, coughed, and everything else, I used to transcribe for a woman doc in the recent past who did the exact same thing. I was like -- get some Zyrtec already.

I used to prescribe for another lady doc who would literally eat a meal or snack during dictation; and I mean smacking right into your ear, chewing, chomping, and stopping every couple of minutes to take a bite and chew it up in your ear for a good while before continuing to dictate. Often, though, she would take a bite and dictate with her mouth full while chewing. Ugh! Almost like she was doing it on purpose! It was awful. Plus she was an ESL doc, and her accent wasn't bad once used to it, but . . . I can't imagine ANYONE doing that without realizing how rude and disgusting it is. I understand eating a chip or taking a bite of something once in a while, but this was ridiculous.

Your female eating doc could have been my male doc - you just described my guy to a T

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eating his lunch while doing his dictating. He's an ESL as well and once you get used to him, he's great, but he'd eat carrots or something while he was dictating. He was busting our lead's chop's one day about some mistakes that had been made and she very kindly told him that it might help if he refrained from eating his lunch while he did his reports. He did get better after that.

Manners - cr

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I honestly think some of the foreigners don't even realize it's rude to eat while dictating or eat with their mouth open. It seems their culture has a different set of rules on manners. Either that, or they just see us as so unimportant, it doesn't matter what we have to put up with.

I know just as many Americans/fluent, English-speaking people who have no couth.. - getoffurpedestal

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foreigners is not a culture - wow

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You need to remember that there are lots of bona fide Americans with accents. There is not one culture that I know of on the planet that does not value manners. I can't believe you think that.

Foreigners? I have three female - alice

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all-American physicians, Ivy league-educated, who all eat while dictating and when they're done eating, they belch while dictating.

What an idiot - MT hater

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I wish some of these ignorant dictators could sit and listen to themselves. She could have at least took the phone away from her dirty mouth or cover her mouth with her hand. They do crap like this, then bit$% about the report being incorrect. Most of the mistakes that are made by MTs are not the MTs fault at all...it is the poor quality, crappy dictation these ignorant people send us.

You should have wrote down her name...looked her name and number up on the internet and called her anonymously and let her have it. The MT company you work for isnt going to say anything to these dictators, so we have to do it on our own. Call her up and scream in her ear. (After all...eye for an eye...tooth for a tooth).

I have one who drops the F bomb all the time. nm - MT56

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nnnxxx

While it may be ignorant, disrespectful, etc... - whiteiris1231

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I am saddened to see the disrespect being thrown right back at them, especially the blatant racial disrespect against ESL doctors. Unfortunately, we must always remember that he who has the gold makes the rules!

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