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Wouldn't it be more efficient - GimmeABreak

Posted: Jul 31, 2013

To have the doctor, RN, resident, or whomever is doing the dicatation to do the demos rather than the MLS slaves? I mean, since they are getting paid a living wage (unlike the MLS slaves) and they already have all the pertinent info, like business entity, location, signing, etc, why aren't THEY selecting the copy requests, etc. from their own little drop-down lists, instead of having the hapless MLS slaves searching all over creation for a doctor they misspelled or mispronounced.

It's killin' me to look up all this stuff, trying to keep within the tiny parameters of LPH, line count, etc. I don't mind the work. I just want to be paid for it.

Coulda, shouda, woulda - Nan

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They COULD spell it, they have the chart right there in front of them. They should spell it as a courtesy, but then that's why they have MTs to come along and sweep and mop.

These companies could charge more for ESL dictators whom they know are not English savy, but they don't. Again, because they have the mop up crew.

They could also teach them the proper way to dictate into a VR system and have them view the results to correct what they are doing wrong too, but they won't, again because they have MTs and QA to do that.

But then again, they COULD pay us a fair and decent wage for having the knowledge of every medical science, pharmacology, and deductive reasoning too, but . . . They won't. The only answer is for all of us to get out of the industry and let them mop their own floors.

Another potential ineffiency/disaster they've never - even considered, when they - SM

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alienate, frustrate, and enrage all their MTs, who type/edit such valuable medical documentation, is just how easy it is for even ONE little ol' MT to sabotage a whole lotta records. All one MT would have to do is just blast through an entire day's worth of VR dictations by not proofing, just letting them blow through unread, and letting the original enterer of the demographic data worry about whether it's right or not, and then let the chips fall where they may.

Imagine if an entire company's MTs all did that on the same day. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the board room the next morning!

And so what if we got fired? It's going to happen to us all anyway - likely within the next year. Might as well go out with a bang!

Often thought of that myself. Would serve them right. - nm

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Inefficiency - another anon

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Are you willing to endanger someone's life with that?

Are you willing to endanger someone's life with that? "NO" - Unfortunately, Nuance does it every day

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and then blames the MLS'.

You're right...it's killing you to look up all that stuff. - It is also killing your paycheck

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Stop doing it.

Hmmm college 4 ys, med school 4 ys, int/residency 3-8 ys, - fellowship 1 yr =MD. Probably not.

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