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Biggest pet peeve -- let's hear it! - anonymous
Posted: Oct 12, 2010
Mine is chewing of any sort -- food, gum, etc. They can't be so busy that they have to dictate while smacking.
Female dictators who talk in teeny, tiny, little - girl voices!
[ In Reply To ..]They lack so much authority not to mention they are so breathy and hard to hear! How annoying!
I second that!!! - breathe helium, then dictate
[ In Reply To ..]I absolutely cannot stand those high-pitched, whining female dictators.
I would rather listen to a dictator burping, chewing in my ear, carrying on a conversation, driving in his car, or making love to the microphone!
It is like nails on a chalkboard!!!!
Can't believe you said that! - FormerMT
[ In Reply To ..]I just posted and then went back to the board and saw your post where you also mentioned HELIUM. Now that's funny! I used to tell my friends about the helium voices!!
great minds think alike - breathe helium, then dictate
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I answered you out loud! - FormerMT
[ In Reply To ..]I read your reply and was laughing and said out loud in a high-pitched helium voice "You got that right!"
YES! - FormerMT
[ In Reply To ..]That brings back memories of those little alien/helium filled voices that used to drive me wild. They literally sounded like they were about 6 years old!
Flirting while dictating -- so unprofessional - sick and tired
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Yes all the laughing... drives me crazy. - ang
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Super Spelling - N as in Nancy, T as in Tom . . . - dumbdumb
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Hard to believe, but true - FormerMT
[ In Reply To ..]Some years back I had to call my manager and she had to call the hospital about a resident in Podiatry, who literally (THIS IS TRUE) was spelling every single word ... foot, general anesthesia (each letter), patient, etc. We all know how long podiatric dictation can be, especially when they do the same procedure on several toes and then redictate the entire procedure from the beginning for each. I literally was ready to pull my hair out. Finally it stopped. Obviously, she did it with her name, and the name of the patient and her attending as well.
S as in school . . . did they go? - mt
[ In Reply To ..]Dr. Speller is the only type I want to crawl through the line to strangle. I can put up with everything else, but this makes me want to SCREAM! Bigger than this by a tiny bit is Dr. Misspeller - if you are going to insult me by spelling t-h-e, then have the courtesy to actually know how to spell the drugs and instruments you insist on spelling at me. Grrrrr....
Syllable clippers. - Drive me nuts.
[ In Reply To ..]They either cut off half the word or hit the pause button every 2 seconds and cut themselves off and you can't hear the entire word!
pet peeve - nan
[ In Reply To ..]Sucking snot! YUK!
Also, dictating, talking to someone else, then starting the dictation over again. Drives me nuts!
BIGEST PET PEEVE - Nature
[ In Reply To ..]Dictator that says "I mean" after a very long sentence. I had a 17 minute report yesterday. There was not 1 sentence that did not need fixing, and she must have said "I mean" 100 times during the report. Should have been a fabulous line count, but was only half of what it should have been. She about drove me nuts (which is not hard to do at this point in my life).
slurping, slobbering - Ang
[ In Reply To ..]Ditto on the chewing, smacking. If I were talking to a person face to face and they were slurping in a disgusting way, I would tell them I had to leave. Beyond belief that they do this with the microphone up to their faces. I sometimes feel nauseated if I have to hear this. Is unacceptable.
sniffing, snorting, blowing nose - NJA Queen
[ In Reply To ..]I remember one dictator that had a bad cold or allergies and every other word would sniff. I kept thinking to myself, in this huge hospital do they not have any Kleenex? By the end of the huge report I was sick and wanted to reach through the phone line and yell at them to blow their freaking nose!
I know they can't help it, but -- the sttttuuuutteerrrs - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Just finished one. I feel like I was typing with a strobe like flashing.
mine is loud noise, sm - flcmt
[ In Reply To ..]I've had MDs dictating from what sounds like the MRI suite...and I don't do radiology. Nothing like loud noise and a whispering dictator to make your night. NOT
yep the ones oblivious to noises around them - NJA Queen
[ In Reply To ..]The ones dictating while the cleaning lady is vacuuming their office or the IV bag needs changing- beep, beep, beep-hey can someone change this IV bag, beep, beep, beep.
Quiet, whispering dictators - BH
[ In Reply To ..]In addition to these ladies who whisper while the beep is going in the hospital emergency room, I had one lady tonight who says "the labs are...um..., and the assessment is ...um.... This is one female dictator who is going to give me a big headache. Hers are straight transcription because the SR engine can't understand her. Every 2 words, it's ...um...um
Quiet, whispering, mumbling dictators - BH
[ In Reply To ..]I just posted that I could not hear the quiet dictators. Well, I just went out and bought some noise canceling headphones, and they really make a difference. It changed a mumbly person to somebody who talked clear, like she was sitting at a table with me. I listened to the same report I just handed in with 6 blanks, and I could hear and understand everything she said except 2 words. Also, the headphones envelope my ears, not like the wishbone type that Spheris provided me. They do blot out noises like other people talking on the phone in my house.
Unintelligible doctor name, then unintelligible - spelling of same
[ In Reply To ..]Sometimes all I can hear is "z" or one sound. Believe it or not, I usually find them, but it takes a while and is time wasted that could be prevented if they could either slow down and speak it clearly or SPELL it clearly - one or the other.
The ones that make up words. - I begin to wonder if
[ In Reply To ..]they actually went to school at all or if they think they sound BRILLIANT when they say words that don't actually exist.
Sometimes it's obvious what they are trying to say, but sometimes, I have to really try to figure out what the heck they are trying to convey with their verbal vomit.
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