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Mistake I came across - ef

Posted: Dec 29, 2012

It continues to amaze me some of the mistakes I come across. Fosamax is not prescribed for a 6-year-old child with kidney disease/kidney transplant, Phos-Nak is.

I know - mistakes

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I saw a cath report where it said they entered through the renal artery; should have been radial. Then I saw pericardial fluid where it should have been peritoneal. It's really a good thing no one but us ever reads these reports.

so it comes full circle... pay beginner wages, - get beginner quality

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Its just like buying cheap items, you get what you pay for. Hospitals want cheap, they get cheap.

Looking up old reports - old and burned out - NM

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Incomprehensible dictator but of course the hospital wants the blanks filled in so instead of "no ear pain" it just said "no ear." Poor patient!

patient admitted with seizure - only problem is

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it was supposed to be fever.

Some - of

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the problem is VR. I have been doing this a long time and find myself missing more stuff than I ever did typing reports. It's very easy, especially since we are flying through these reports trying to earn a paycheck, to miss things we would have never missed typing. Call it carelessness, not doing our job, whatever, but the fact is I am in this to make a living and do miss stuff with VR that I never would have typed wrong. My opinion, they get what they pay for.

Proofread - ef

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Even with VR, if in doubt, blank it and sent to QA. In the case of Fosamax, PhosNak, you should know it could not be Fosamax for a 6-year-old child, even if VR put Fosamax in. I know we are just getting paid for pounding the keys, but transcription is much more that what we are getting paid for, like it or not. We must have knowledge of medications, diseases, symptoms, language nuiances, etc. These are legal documents that sometimes end up as evidence in court in malpractice cases. Also, I do not want to lose my hospital account.

I know - fully

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well what transcription is and it is not VR. Since they want to pay me peanuts for VR, they will get what they pay for. I don't have time to be nearly as careful as I did in transcription when I have to change every other word and don't catch every stupid thing it puts in. If they are such important documents, they would not rely on a stupid computer to type them and expect me to work for nothing to fix them. As I said, they get what they pay for. You can work for nothing if you want, but I'm not

I totally and completely agree with you - anon

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There is no way I can afford to be super vigilant when I get paid the equivalent of $8 an hour. Besides the final shoulders of responsibility of any report is on the person who signs it, not the MT.

I do my best to check and research questionable dictation but the reality of VR is that even the best MT is going to miss things. Our minds are just not set up for this rapid fire editing they expect from us. Speed reading is all about filling in holes of what you expect to be there, not what is really there.

VR is dangerous to patient care, not the MTs who are making peanuts.

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