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Hint to the doctors out there - sm


Posted: Oct 07, 2014

If you think an American sounds funny, chances are YOU have an accent. Slow down and stop rattling along, especially labs and lab values, very hard to understand when you get on a roll.

I especially love when they whisper while the nurses - sm

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scream and cackle beside them. Love to crank up the volume to try to hear them whisper with sudden screaming and banging in the background. It's a wonder we aren't all deaf!

going deaf - noise

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My hearing has suffered. I'm so sensitive to sounds it's crazy. At the same time, people often have to repeat themselves to make sure I understand them correctly. I've had some reports so bad with sudden loud noises (along with quiet dictation) that I've sent complaints & had to take something for headaches.

My ears ring ridiculously now - sm

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Took them awhile to stop the hang up deafening dial tones,,but the beepers going off, dropping things, people screaching in the background, etc. Now I know why I am going deaf. And I am not kidding, in "real life" when I don't have an expectation of what is being said like here at work, I can't understand half of what is said especially on the phone..


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