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please somebody tell this dictator - veryoldMT

Posted: Apr 04, 2012

that he does NOT have to say "next sentence" before every sentence. I'm looking at 16+ minutes of this.....I'm just sayin!

I had a 22 minute one like that this morning, - plus spelled every drug

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including ASPIRIN!

What is more aggravating is the MT who spells - sm - XXX

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the drug the way the doctor spelled it even though they know it is wrong, and then notes that this the way the doctor spelled it and they could not verify it. Umm, take a little initiative and just spell it correctly, especially on accounts which are not verbatim (and these accounts are not verbatim). I can understand when it is a tricky drug name, but in most of these cases we are talking about a drug being off by one letter, such as no e at the end. Super aggravating, and they have been told not to do this but keep doing it. I guess eventually they will learn the hard way not to do this but that is not up to me.

If you are misplacing the blame on - the MT...

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who is often given confusing and frequently contradictory instructions on how to handle dictator error, then thank goodness ''it is NOT up to you'' (and probably not much else IS up to you either). Put your aggravation where it belongs---on the sloppy, careless dictator and those with access to him but too cowardly to speak up---not on the worker whose hands are often tied by ridiculous, contrary-to-common-sense instructions from a myriad of people---some as clueless and judgmental as you seem to be.

In this case there is not a myriad of people - sm - XXX

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just 1 when in training, other than that nada except when you have a question. Maybe 14 different QA telling you how it should be is how it is where you work, not where I work though. So this particular person does not have that "excuse". All I ask is for some common sense, and unfortunately there are many, many MTs who lack this. Part of this job is taking initiative and making the doctor look and sound good. Not correcting a very obvious misspelling is just passive/aggressive and spiteful to boot.

Why does everyone have to be so nasty on here????? I vented my frustration on the subject from a different perspective and point of view and now get attacked saying I am an idiot basically if you read between the not so subtle lines. We are not talking bad dictators in this case either so in this case it is not the doctor but the quality of the MT.

You are the one being judgmental here. You do not know the facts yet you are passing judgment on me and this particular situation. You need to think first obviously before hacking away at your poison keyboard.

I had one last night, too - Auntie Anxiety

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If I had a nickel for every time the dictator said "ummm" during her 49-minute (!!!) dictation, I could have financed myself a nice 2-week vacation.

And, after all 49 minutes of dictation, it yielded about 247 lines because of very long pauses of nothing but breathing on her end. I was practically comatose after that one.

They are SO afraid to say anything to the dictators - Old and Tired MT

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Yet they bitch and moan at every little mistake the MTs make. They need to train these people how to properly dictate a decent report. They demand perfection from us, yet look at the crap WE are given to try to make sense of this mess! It gets REALLY old!

Bad dictators - MT

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Oh how I long for the good old days when I worked in a teaching hospital academic office and did transcription. When a doc walked by, we simply stopped him/her and asked what the heck they were trying to say. They weren't offended in the least but suggest trying to talk to a difficult dictator now, and management faints.

No problem. I'll always do my best and never guess, and the dictator is ultimately responsible for what's in that report when they sign it.

Dictators - 1mt

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I also love the crunching of potato chips, gum cracking, hard candy sucking...it's all so wonderful

Bad dictators - Girl4givn

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I had one 15 years ago in a large clinic - he was a nightmare. One of those neurosurgeons who not only thought his poop didn't stink, but thought it didn't sound either. He would take his handheld into the bathroom while having a bowel movement...complete with the grunts, plops in the bowl, and flushing. It was ridiculous. But he was so high up there, no one wanted to say anything to him. Gimme a break....

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