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Nearly 21 minute report of another doctor's dictation - crazy

Posted: Jan 01, 2014

I had a long, long report that was filled up mostly with another doctor's dictation, who was sitting nearby going a mile a minute dictating on his patient while my dictating doctor sat quietly thinking. At least, I guess that's what he was doing, hard to tell, he was so quiet while page after page filled up with the report from another patient. When my doctor resumed speaking, it was hard to find where his dictation began again. The actual report turned out to be about a third of the length of the total dictation and took forever to complete. Happy New Year!

Uck - poorhouse

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Here's what freaks me out...all these doctors who I have no idea if they're male or female, ESL or not, and they start their dictation going too fast for anything to pick them up, as in who they are, what kind of job they're dictating. They /usually/ slow down when it comes to patient info but not always. The only way I can figure out if it's the right doc or not is to see if what I'm /correcting/ matches up with other reports under their name in the repository. Again...uck.

I notice ASR is picking up and making up - sm

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a lot of background noise..Remember before the updates, that it kind of (I say kind of) blocked that out..Now a doctor dictates a word and hesitates and the ASR finishes off the sentence with something that could actually be right but was never dictated. Its crazy, how do we let the doctors know the crap that is going on..MM should be kissing our tails for fixing this mess instead of paying us less.

ASR blunders - NY MT

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Totally agree - so frustrating when it is a clear dictator and ASR is missing words and adding words that are not spoken by the dictator. It is now expanding out the abbreviations (such as GERD and COPD) in the HPI and not doing it in the impression or diagnosis sections. It was working much better than this about 2 upgrades ago. Such a shame that we are wasting so much time correcting the ridiculous ASR mistakes!

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