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not to count my loss - when will I learn

Posted: Nov 05, 2009

why at the end of every shift do I still bother to calculate my line totals - transcription & VR - when 9 out of 10 times I am only discouraged??? Its not my lack of skill, knowledge , speed or anything I have done that determines this loss. Why, oh why, do I hang in there. Maybe for the occasional good day? The high I get when I can fly through a report of an ESL doctor, because I know better what he is trying to say? Or maybe its the constant editing within the middle of paragraph after paragraph that I am able to interpret just right each time. Oh, but the constant (mostly 100% American) monotones that go on and on and on and on and on - blah... blah... blah...blahs is what I HATE THE MOST ABOUT MY JOB!

Oh! and then I have to go back and proof read! nm - blah blah blah

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Round peg in a square hole - Alice

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I have come to believe that many of our gripes with this industry come from the fact that none of these dictating clinicians was ever meant to be a writer or a public speaker. Many of them are struggling like fish out of water.

Everywhere around us, the industry is trying to cope with these kinds of issues through indirect means, like making speech-recognition software, etc., etc.

These problems have existed for years. I keep hearing that "this is the way it is...the way it will be...it will never change." Of course, that is because no one tried to change it EVER when it first started.

IMHO, if we had had professional well-trained dictating clinicians from the beginning, we would have professional dictations. Otherwise, we are required to produce an almost perfect document that is dictated by amateurs.

Again, doctors and other clinicians are doctors and other clinicians. They are not writers or public speakers, and they apparently have no interest in pursuing these categories as a second area of expertise..

MOTTO: Never waste time trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.

By the same policy, I am not a perfect humanitarian/volunteer, who does this work as a hobby. I have no interest in stressing out in order to make someone else rich. I can only do the best that I can with the mess that I am given.

This message has been posted by at least one MT for the equitable reinvention of the QA process to include all who are responsible for the dictated medical record, including the one who dictates it.

May we all have a good day and remember that we are making history, but it will likely not be too important in 100 years.

very well said, right to the point..sm - vw

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We have also to consider that no physician likes to do the dictations and if one does not like to do something, although one has to do it, one does not do a good job (like me with the editing keys!).
Especially if they are not good at speeches, grammar and spelling.

For the doctors dictating the reports, I bet, is a pain in the neck they want to get over with as fast as possible!
Many will think, oh well, they are the MT experts, they know probably better than I, let's them fix it.

And so we have to pick up the pieces....

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