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It's not what WE think it should be...sm - Anon

Posted: Apr 14th, 2018 - 6:15 am In Reply to: Is is just me...or am I - really old fashioned to

We older MTs sometimes have the tendency to want to clean up dictation; but when it comes to changing words because we think it sounds better our way, that's crossing the line. When we were medical secretaries, a lot of times our employers wanted us to clean it up. Now working for MTSOs, if a dictator phrases something that we think could be stated in a better way, we are not supposed to change what was said. It is the dictator's "voice." If the meaning is clear, we should leave it alone. I'm old, and I don't think there is anything wrong with 'the patient was brought to the recovery room' if that's what was dictated. You are just causing yourself fits by trying to figure out a better way the dictator could have expressed their thoughts. That's not our job anymore.

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Is is just me...or am I - really old fashioned to (Views: 681, 2018-04-14, 4:25 am)
- It's not what WE think it should be...sm - Anon
  - Excuse me...sounds better...there are such things as - RULES OF GRAMMAR nm (Views: 390, 2018-04-14, 8:49 pm)
    - Yes, there are grammar rules but...SM - Old Anon (Views: 400, 2018-04-15, 8:29 am)
  - That's right! We don't know if the person who took the patient to sm - Another oldie (Views: 454, 2018-04-14, 8:55 pm)
    - brought does not apply to another person but to the - speaker, so brought would mean (Views: 352, 2018-04-14, 9:48 pm)
- Me generation - Living in glass houses (Views: 432, 2018-04-14, 8:46 am)
  - Huh? Not really sure what...sm - Anon (Views: 278, 2018-04-14, 1:23 pm)
    - It is in the original post - Living in glass houses (Views: 299, 2018-04-14, 2:49 pm)
      - I have been banned from MTstars on more than 1 - occasion for using bad language (Views: 423, 2018-04-14, 8:54 pm)
  - and MT stars is nothing but a blog post I do not giveacrap about, not an official - medical record. nm (Views: 381, 2018-04-14, 8:57 pm)