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I DESPISE the new physician lookup feature. - exasperated

Posted: Sep 05, 2010

So let me get this straight:

I want to put a physician's name in the report. I hit CTRL + N and start typing the last name.

Before, it was nice. The search would happen automatically.

NOW I have to tell it to search (even for mandatory ADT names when you hit enter to get to the physician lookup)? Why? That is another keystroke that is wasted, and add to that, it was nice before that if you hit the letter 's' it would scroll to all the docs with last names beginning with 's'. That way, if you couldn't fully understand the name, you could kinda scroll through and figure it out.

This company is brain dead.

I'll bet they were thinking - pushindapedal

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that it would be one way to stop MT's from continually putting in the wrong doctor by forcing them to pay attention to what they are doing.

There is never a week that goes by without an email from our CCM or QTL reminding the team to pay attention to this.

Every.single.week.for.two.years on the same account. Obviously something had to be done.

This company is brain dead - dovestar

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One wonders if the suits who came up with this nonsense consulted the troops who do the work to ascertain what the problems are. A wise philosopher once said, "Once you are up to your keester in alligators, you remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp."

Brin dead? How can they be dead from something they don't have??

don't you remember, they did a survey? - NJA Queen

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I know many people including myself were vocal on this board to leave the survey alone and not answer. Every time MQ does a survey they twist the results to justify a pay cut or a change that only benefits the suits and hurts the MT. People are complaining about running out of work- lets have the cesspool! People are complaining about ASR- lets make it worse! They did consult the troops- unfortunately they didn't like the answers that were given.

It's not only bad, it's getting verse! - dovestar

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I got my brand new softwear
It's DQS Six One
And every time I use it
I think I'll get the runs
This thing is so confusing
It slows me down much more
If I go any slower
I'll be typing on the floor!
Now in the line above I said
Six One; that's no mistake
For every time I use it
It's more than hard to take
In figuring all this nonsense out
My brains move out of joint
It's caused me so much trouble
Because THEY don't get the point!

AMAZING! - why are you transcribing 4 a living?

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You are very talented! Thanks for the laugh!

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