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Anybody else ever listened to the same lousy dictator - wannie

Posted: Jul 12, 2010

until they were to the point of tears or even in tears. I have had the same dictator over and over for the last 1/1-2 hours who sounds like she has the microphone in her mouth. I don't know how much more I can take of this. Unfortunately, the next account I know I have to go into is back-to-back of the same ESL who hasn't mastered the English language and dictates at the speed of light. Sorry, just had to vent. I'm just about ready to pull my hair out.

Outrageous! - MT

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Actually, with HIPAA and requirements for near-perfection, QA and all that, I think such dictations should be outlawed. There has to be a better way. Not only is it ESLs, but English-speaking ones who do not try too hard to do a good job. Does anyone at these facilities every inform the dictators on better dictation techniques? I really doubt it, because MTs think it is part of their job to just deal with it.

CORRECTION - MT

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Actually, a better way to describe it is that MTs have been brainwashed or "trained" to think that it is part of their job to put up with lousy dictations. I say that we are entitled to clear dictations by someone who can speak English and in a clear, distinct manner. If necessary, the facilities should have to hire someone to do the dictations for those who cannot speak well. Maybe they think that VR and/or the "point and click" system is going to fix this??

For the grammar conscious, it should have been "ever", not "every."

These are jokes, right? - sm

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So you think some of us have been brainwashed into accepting lousy dictators? I've read about entitlement thinking in employees, but to see it so blatantly expressed is amazing. You feel the hospital should spend money to pay somebody to make the job easier for you, a 'mere' MT. It really won't take that hospital long to figure out the better way is to just not hire MTs who cannot do the job (and I'm not including the OP in that group).

You keep telling employers that you deserve English as a first language, clear, articulate dictators (you know, the ones that go to VR now) and let us know how that goes for you. In the meantime, the rest of us will accept the fact that it's the things that you think are beneath you that keep us employed.

Good for you - MT

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I am glad that you are comfortable with being treated with disrespect. You will remain happy in this profession for as long as you want. It seems that the brainwashing has been effective in your case.

However, I expect better.

Nope, no joke.

no jokes - mmt

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It has nothing to do with disrespect, but in this line of work the MT has ALWAYS been expected to make heads and tails of the jibberish the "doctor gods" spew out. Growh thicker skin and defend yourself!

If a job was really that bad, why in the world would you spend your precious time trying to decipher it? Report the dictator, call your CCM and if you don't get results, do what I did, REFUSE TO DO THAT DICTATOR! It took me a couple of calls and then I had to insist that they listen to mine, but I didn't cry about it, I was proactive.

I've got no problems sending a report through full of blanks! I place the blame square on the dictator and defend my work.

I think a lot more MTs need to get proactive and take steps to make our workplace better, for our sanity sake, and also to show our employer that we're not going to tolerate being blamed for the quality of the reports when we have to deal with horrible dictators.

mmt - see message

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If I were to "refuse to do that dictator" on my job... I would have just been released for failure to perform job description.

Not everyone can be proactive and get away with it, and those of us who cannot, prefer to cry about it.

No "entitlement" here, we just want half a chance at - being able to actually do our jobs. nm

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Do you think you're the only one getting ESLs, chewers, and - mumblers?

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If so, here's a newsflash. You're not. I get about 50/50 split of ESL/EFL. Of my EFL, about 50% of them are fast-talking sons-of-gun. Of the other 50%, on any given day some of them are going to be in a hurry to get done, driving on the cell, eating lunch, or trying not to wake the baby.

I don't think the quality of the work has gotten any harder in the last 20 or so years. Harder to make a buck with different ways of counting lines, paying less, etc., but the work is the same.

If somebody really believes that every dictator they transcribe should be a perfectly cadenced, almost pathologically focused, orator, then that is indeed a feeling of entitlement, because despite what your schooling may have led you to believe, ESL, mumblers, yawners, and munchers are a fact in this industry. So you either learn to get it or get out. The choice is really that simple.

I think you hit it right on the head. - See message

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Some of the schools must be using very easy reports. It looks like some are getting out of school with no skills in ESL at all, a little like some of the practice reports I heard once that were read by announcers instead of doctors. No wonder they get out of school and are perpetually in 'deer-in-headlights' mode.

To hit-on-head: When I graduated from MT school, - you were likely still in diapers.

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Not unless you're over 60, but I don't know what you are implying - Schools back then? I doubt it

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I'm not sure what that means exactly and not wanting to fight with you. I don't think there were any schools way back then, were there?

I am, and there were. We also werent lied-to - about our career-choice. - sm

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Our instructor was Transcription Mgr. at a very prestigious university medical school. She not only taught newbies how to transcribe, she also taught newbie docs how to dictate. If any of them dictated garbage like we routinely get today, they were reprimanded and told to redictate. Yes, we learned how to do ESLs. They were almost as bad back then, but again, they were under pressure to speak clearly, more so than now. And they were far less plentiful.

I'm not saying I don't want to ESLs, some of my favorite dictators are ESLs, one of them is someone hardly anyone else can understand. But the difference is, he TRIES. And his employer tries to make sure he doesn't have a tired old 1980s dictating system to work with. Some of the wheezy old systems my employer expects us to work with should be shot, and put out of their misery.

PS: Also been back to school several times since - the original. Each one was a little worse.

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Each time, they taught less, cared less. By then it wasn't about continuing to bring quality MTs into the workforce, it was all about the money.

Re: Your rude reply: I didnt say "I", I said "we". All - of us are putting up with this.

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Get over the martyr complex.

You're the one with the Erin Brockovich complex. Most of us just - think we are doing our jobs. nm

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Yeah, and I guess the docs who complain about blanks - must think theyre doing theirs, too. NOT.

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No need to be so snippy - You lose any credibility at all

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Just lighten up. No need to be so rude. WOW!

dictation is not about the MTs, it's about the patient - sm

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If a doctor can't be understood by experienced MTs who do this for a living, then clearly the doctor is at fault and the patient pays for it. We've all had doctors who make up words, use incorrect pronunciation, are unable to finish a sentence properly. Expecting them to speak clearly enough that the record can be transcribed accurately is not entitlement.

Hello..... - Aspiring coder

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We need to remember who is paying our salary, either directly or through a service. We work for them, not the other way around. Physicians have more important things to do than worrying about whether their MT likes their dictation.

It's not a matter of just not liking their dictation. - wannie

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There's also this thing called common courtesy. Most doctors demand respect but don't want to give respect back. I transcribe one physician that if I were his nurse I probably would have already whacked him up side the head or time or two for the way he talks to them. While he's dictating, he's usually yelling at the nurses about one thing or another (sometimes justified, sometimes not). I have a feeling that if I went into one these physician's offices and mumbled, ate, coughed right in their ear, kept my hand over my mouth to talk so that everything came out muffled, they would call my hand on it and ask me to speak more clearly so that I could be understood. The physician needs to remember that they are dictating what becomes a legal medical record.

Yes, they are occasionally thoughtless. - sm

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So is my husband. But the one poster wanted to do away with ESL dictators and English speakers who didn't speak clearly enough (truly a subjective call). How they treat the nurses is between the nurse, the doc, and the hospital.

This is the nature of transcription. They don't all dictate like James Earl Jones. If they did, they wouldn't even need MTs to edit since VR would produce a perfect report every time.

Okay, I give up. All doctors are wonderful and should be - wannie

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to dictate any way they want to and treat people any way they want to just because they MD behind their name. After all, I only do this job for fun. I don't really need any money. I don't like to eat. I don't like to be able to pay my bills (yeah, right). I'm here just so the doctor can spit out dictations any way they want to knowing that somebody will clean it up for them.

Well, yeah. That's our job. - nm

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well yeah.... - magsnfla

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No, that's not our job. We are not supposed to supply sentence structure and undangle their misplaced modifiers. They make a lot of money to do their job, whether they do it well or not, and dictation is part of that job. It's only purpose is CYA for them, so they should take it seriously. We are not supposed to guess at what they mean to say and they should speak in whole words not just syllables. Our job is to block out the noise that is not the dictator's fault, like the background, etc., and correct human errors, i.e., left and right, etc., that happen to all of us. The quality of the dictation in American medicine is appalling - it has gone downhill just as has every other aspect of our society. People do not take pride in what they do - everyone whines and complains because they don't make as much money as they think they should. If you take a job, you do it as excellently as you possibly can - period.

Who told you that? They were mistaken - See comment

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The job of the medical transcriptionist is to take all of the sounds and noises and turn them into a medical report. Not everyone can do that. Not everyone even wants to do that. For those who want to accept that job, that's the way it is. You can pretend that it's something else, but it never has been and never will be. It is what it is. Learn to do it graciously or find something else that you enjoy. It's really that simple.

she's right, you're NOT supposed to guess - sm

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The big MT schools teach you unequivocally that you are NOT supposed to guess at meaning if it's unclear. If the doctor says "1000 mg Voltaren" you can't correct it -- did the doctor screw up the dosage or the medication? Or both? You CAN'T guess at these things.

You're late to the dance, but you seem to be seeing - words that are not there.

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Where did the above poster say to guess? Or is that in the post with the bashing of new MTs? As someone on this board has gotten fond of saying, you don't know what it is you don't know. And using your own example, how many would just let a wrong med go by because they don't know any better? A good MT is going to know to flag a report if they place a McIvor gag to do a pilonidal cystectomy; an unqualified one will let it fly through because the words are spelled right and that's what the doctor said. So unpuff; no guessing required or suggested.

Who told you... - magsnfla

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I've been doing for 30 years. I know my job and I take pride in it. However, I do not consider myself a doctor like some MTs do. This is a job, not a profession and it requires skill and concentration. It is not our job to make the medical report - our job is to transcribe the medical report of the particular dictator we are dealing with. Unless it's hospital dictation and they have specific guidelines about what to correct on the dictation, it's up to the individual. Of course I'll flag discrepancies and I have done that 10 times more in the past 10 years that I did in the prior 20.
With the culture of litigiousness in this country, esp. regarding health care providers, dictators need to be extremely careful about what they dictate. If I'm reading your post correctly, you seem to say it's the MT's responsibility to conjure up a medical report - no, it is not. It's the doctor's report, not ours.

I don't disagree with you. We're saying the same thing. - Who told you ...

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My point is that the whole mess MTs deal with is part of the job. It's the doctor's report and the medical transcriptionist has to work with what we are given to work with. We have to be skilled enough to know what we don't know and not mess with the medical content. It's never going to be easy and never was.

Agree. And, MTSOs/clients who want those blank-free - reports should invest all the money theyre - sm

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not paying us well in some decent, up-to-date dictation equipment. Far too many of our sound files sound like they were dictated with two tin cans and a string.

To Wannie - Aspiring coder

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If this is a big issue for you at your job, is there a manager that you could speak to or could you get assigned to some different accounts so that maybe you could at least get a temporarty break from the ones that drive you nuts? We all have them, I guess I've learned to take the good with the bad. I thought cleaning up dictation was what we were hired to do.

Apparently you, and most of us, read the wrong matchbook cover. - the world owes us easy money. nm

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Cleaning up dictation that is halfway audible and - intelligible? Yes. Magically knowing - sm

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exactly what is being said on a scratchy, skipping recording? NO.

Magically being able to understand every nuance of the English languge, when it is spoken too fast to be understood, or butchered by some foreign tongue mixed in? NO.

Guess that's the difference between an MT and a wannabe - nm

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Umm, I think its the difference between and MT - and MANAGEMENT.

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It's just too darned easy to tell the difference. You haven't fooled anyone. Isn't it time for a meeting somewhere? Or locking your office door and taking a nap?

LOL The equivalent of politic's Hitler. When unable to make your point, - cry management. Nice try, though. nm

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Your snotty, condescending attitude about a legitimate - MT complaint speaks VOLUMES.

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And the need to hire someone to speak non-accented English - says a lot about skill levels. nm

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I never said that; that was OP, and I think she was - just emphasizing her point.

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Then someone who fancies themselves the Queen of All Transcription somehow took offense at that remark, and went ballistic.

No, I wasn't the one who said that. It was someone else. nm - wannie

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see, Wannie; posters do not know Who Said What; posts are flying .... - Out Of Control. n/m

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Its Monday. Were cranky. We hate our jobs. - Venting keeps us sane (sort of). nm

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From a QA standpoint if she tries to clean it up as you say - and does it wrong....

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It is HER butt on the line - not the dictator. put the blame where it really belongs - on lazy dictators who can not or will not take the time to dictate clearly. It is not up to a mere MT (with any level of education al all) to interpret what a highly educated person MEANS to say - if the MT makes a mistake in guessing the doctor's intent, it could mean her job, not just a slap on the wrist.

It has nothing to do with work ethic and everything to do with crap rolling downhill....

Don't blame the MT for protecting her hide.

it's a specialized skill - re: okay...

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I understand you're frustrated, but I have to agree with the poster above.

Verbal skills may or may not accompany medical expertise. Not everyone speaks clearly or skillfully.

I don't believe you should expect a dictator to adhere to your specifications.

A good ear is only one of the talents that MTs possess, and cannot be underrated.

Docs are no longer paying our wages. Thats a big - part of the problem. Theyre clueless.

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Thank you, middlemen. Once again, you've screwed up a lot of careers.

But starting to separate the wheat from the chaff. - nm

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sometimes tears, sometimes yelling swear words at computer .... - n/m

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The whole transcription industry just sucks, period. - Livewire

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Perspectives differ - MT

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Well, of course, we all are not the same. Some have different degrees of what they can accept as far as abuse from a dictating clinician. We certainly all have the choice of whether to tolerate it or not. However, I say that the industry has been around long enough that it has learned how to treat the MT. I truly believe, and I do not expect every other MT to agree with me, that it has always been the MTs as a group who have determined how they can be treated by facilities, MTSOs, physicians, or other dictating clinicians.

As for me, there is a limit to how much abuse I will tolerate. I am saddened that any MT would tolerate any of it, as it does impact the industry for all of us when MTs allow themselves to be abused. And, if MTs were never to have tolerated it, changes would have been made long before now.

Why is it that some MTs expect and accept (some more willingly) such treatment? Again, we have been trained and/or brainwashed to do so, and controlled by fear.

How is it abuse to have an ESL dictating? - sm

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Is abuse defined by someone being unable to do the job? So the NBA is abusing me because they won't let me out there on the hardwood with Lebron? I don't know if you've been in a hospital recently, but some of the best surgeons we have in the cardiology and neurosurgery specialties right now come from other lands. Perhaps if someone feel abused by typing ESLs, which seem to be a fact of life in the MT industry, they would be best served by finding a different career where everyone speaks with an Omaha non-accent.

ESL or non-ESL, when they dictate at the speed of light, - wannie

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don't enunciate well enough to be understand, whisper to dictate, eat, chew gum, yawn and never stop talking, to the point that they cannot be understand doesn't mean that I am unable to do the job. If a basketball player is given a flat basketball and can't dribble it, does that mean he is unable to do his "job." No, it means he wasn't given the proper tools with which to do his "job." It's the same principle, sometimes the ability to do the job well depends on what you have to work with.

And I guess some people just have more natural - skill than others.

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Yes, a rapid-talker is never a treat, although I personally prefer them to someone who speaks so slowly that a half page of transcription is in a 10 minute report.

I don't feel the flat basketball is the best of analogies, as in this case I would think of that as more the computer and transcription server. In addition, the dictators are not "broken" just because some cannot decipher them.

The easiest of the dictators have gone to voice recognition. And this is what is left. And if someone is unable to transcribe them, then they really should find other work because the pickings will get progressively worse as the technology gets more and more sophisticated, and the same people who are unable to hear it to transcribe it will be unable to hear it to edit it.

I notice you didn't address any of the other things mentioned - wannie

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saving that of a rapid talker. Yep, I too would rather have a fast talker than one who takes 45 minutes to dictate 12 lines. Get real, though, being able to hear something whisper, understand what they say in the middle of yawn or while they crunch away on potato chips has absolutely NOTHING to do with skill. The point is, only so much can be done with those particular types of dictators.

And I still say that's where skill is involved. - sm

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First, if you've got eight hours of a dictator eating the same bag of potato chips, then you've got a right to complain. However, if Dr. X, who usually is a great guy to type, happened to called in at 3:00 in the morning to do attend a trauma and he has the gall to yawn after performing a two hour operation, I say you deal with it. We all get crappy dictators and in between we get good dictators (at least those of us that are not ESL-averse). And today's good dictator has an occasional bad day. So what? That's why the hospitals and MTSOs have a system in place for blanks if it truly is inaudible. But if all the reports getting sent in look like swiss cheese, I suspect the problem lays more in the MT than the dictator(s).

Skill can't make words appear that can't be heard; - wannie

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however,delusion can.

And that's where I mentioned a procedure for blanks. - sm

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But if a bunch of blanks are being sent in yet somehow QA is able to fill them in, then a career reassessment may be in order.

Contrary to the back of the matchbook and the TV commercials on in the wee hours of the morning, not everyone can be an MT.

You are still missing the whole point. I didn't say - wannie

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anything about leaving a bunch of blanks that QA can fill in. I'm simply try to stress the point that repeat offenders need to be trained and they need to be held accountable just like the MT is held accountable.

And you apparently missed the flow of the conversation - in its entirety

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Someone else used the phrasing "brainwashed to accept" earlier up (don't know whether it was you or whether two people used the same phraseology). But in the previous example, it used typing ESLs to be an example of the brainwashing, and felt it should be required that the hospitals hire someone just to make that particular MTs life easy.

Well I hate to burst that little (brainwashed into a sense of entitlement maybe?) bubble, but if you get hospitals to do that, there goes that job because it's now in VR.

And I repeat, we all get dictators that ain't great, but we balance it with the ones that are okay. If unable to do that, perhaps a change of scenery is in order.

I wasn't the one who used that terminology, but I - wannie

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do know what the conversation is about, I started it. Somewhere along the way the conversation has changed a couple of times.

The skill is in knowing what to do when you encounter difficult dictation - That is where skills come in

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We all know there will be difficult dictation. Well, that's not true. Evidently it comes as a surprise to some. The key is knowing how to handle it. That's a skill.

I'm getting hungry after reading about these potato chips - Need a break obviously

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I see it as a matter of doing the work or go do something else - It is that simple

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We all have choices. Nobody ever promised us that we would have an easy job. We choice our jobs with all that comes with it, good and bad. If we have more bad than good in our particular job, we need to be thinking about doing something else, or we could just stay here and gripe instead. That's our choice too I guess. Not a good one, but it's a choice.

Wow you must be Super-MT. - LOL

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ESL or not, there is a huge difference between just - "difficult", and totally UNINTELLIGIBLE.

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The latter is what I have a beef with. Difficult dictation? Bring it on. But why waste our time (and ultimately theirs) with something NO ONE can transcribe? You know exactly what I'm talking about. We've all had them. Reports that NO HUMAN BEING, and certinly NO ASR, could ever begin to decipher.

There is a big difference - sm - Aspiring coder

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Between working on site and working at home, in my opinion. On site, if we had doctors who were really horrible, i.e., using profanity, dictating at home with too much background noise, whatever, we could tell our manager about it and he would address it. However, things like accents, providers using poor grammar, etc., just go with the job and we learn how to deal with it. I'm not sure what constitutes abuse. Working for a big company as many of you do, I would guess that much of those things are beyond your control. I know it is frustrating but the "perfect dictators" are few and far between regardless of where we work. We all have to put up with it to some degree if we want to do this job.

Medical transcription has become the armpit of the - business world. And yes, it sux.

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LOL! Just dont do what I did - I took my frustration - out on my computer, and killed it.

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Hehe! Baseball bat + PC = really BIG BILL for a new one.

But man oh man -- killing it felt SO good! - PC-Murderer

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IF I EVER COME ON THIS BOARD AND DARE TO - wannie

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VENT OUT OF FRUSTRATION, SOMEBODY PLEASE CUT MY FINGERS OFF. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THOSE WHO ARE SO SKILLED AND HAVE MASTERED THIS "JOB" NEVER HAVE A BAD DAY AND JUST NEED TO GET IT OFF THEIR CHEST. AND YES, I'M SHOUTING.

It wasn't your vent that set things off wannie. - sm

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I think every MT will stand behind a vent. It went downhill when the implication was that hospitals should hire someone to dictate for the ESLs and that they shouldn't be expected to type the tough dictators.

We've all been there with the crappola and done a little venting ourselves. However, to think doing it is somehow beneath you (and I'm using you in the general sense) is where this thread deteriorated.

It doesn't matter where it deteriorated. While I don't - wannie

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find it realistic to think that any hospital would hire someone to dictate (although a nice thought), everybody is entitled to their opinion and the insinuation should never be there that someone is not skilled simply because they voice how they WISH things could be.

The first post called those willing to do ESLs and the job at hand - brainwashed. Then it went on from there. n/m

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That person is still entitled to their opinion whether any of - wannie

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us agree with him/her or not. It doesn't make him/her unskilled, just maybe unreaslistic in expectations of what this job is all about.

Proved a point - MT

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The argument here has proven that MTs have designed the industry to be what it is today.

What's so difficult to understand about training "bad" dictators to be better, and requiring it of them. If never told that eating while dictating causes difficulty for the MT, then they will remain clueless and not apt to change. From what I've observed most HIM directors would rather have the MTs deal with it than confront the almighty dictators.

Being humans, the dictating clinicians could use some extra training.

But, again, the arguments presented here, have proven to me why those dictating the reports are still continuing with the same bad habits and getting away with it. Because they can!! And, they may be unaware that any improvement is needed because no one is communicating with them regarding their poor techniques.

Yes, you proved a point, but I don't think it was the one - that you intended. nm

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I agree that training dictators shouldn't be difficult - wannie

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to understand and is not an unrealistic expectation. After all, most people do have to be trained for major aspects of their chosen profession. The only part of it that would be unrealistic would be believing that any MTSO is actually going to take a stand for their MTs and actually suggest this idea to the hospitals.

ESL Dictators and MT - earlymusicus

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I've just graduate from my one-year MT program and we received almost NO experience in dictating reports by ESL dictators. As I read these postings, I am gettin really worried about my ability to do MT. I'm seriously thinking of going back to school (if I can find the funds) and go through the medical coding program instead. MT is beginning to worry me.

ESL dictators and MT - Viva

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Every tape we have had at my program has featured ESL dictators with heavy accents, though there were some clear native speakers as well. The Indian accent is hardest for me.

ESL Dictators and MT - earlymusicus

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And boy! did I make some mistakes in that posting. I need to preview my postings better before hitting the "post" button!

Just what do you bring to the table then that VR doesn't - probably do better? nm

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The correct terminology without somebody having to - oh me

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go behind me and redo it.

Not if it's done by "trained" dictators and non-ESL speakers. VR will be perfect - and you will be obsolete. nm

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Absolutely not true. I've done VR in the past and - oh me

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had wonderful articulate dictators that VR butchered.

Honestly - fixing all those freaking demographic issues that the hospitals - ndmt

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won't address the doctors about, either. I would be thrilled if VR would deal with those. I am sure if a physician has 8 or more years of schooling, you can teach him how to enter 4 for consultation or the difference between a MRN and a visit ID.

Just my vent for the day...

Or to key in the correct numbers for a change! How in - the #*!@ do they ever balance a checkbook?

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another clarification - MT

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I am the one that made the brainwash comment, and it was totally misunderstood. I still don't think that we should be trained to think that we should always accept every awful dictation as "that's just the way it is." Dictators, as well as facilities and clients/MTSOs should be held responsible for the poor quality of dictation that we get. Period. Why is that concept so difficult to comprehend and why did it cause such a big debate? Do we strive for a peinful work experience?

BTW, I am not against ESLs. But, as an example, I do have a problem with a few ESLs who also speed talk and suck on hard candy, slur and eat while speaking. No one who works directly with them will confront them on this issue, or even inform them that their dictation habits are creating transcription difficulties!!

That's painful, not peinful - MT

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Also, it is incorrect to assume that I am unable to do the job, just because I think dictators should be trained and held accountable. Back in the days when we deciphered doctors' handwriting, they were quite approachable and we were not afraid to speak with them directly. Many of them were unaware that we were having difficulty reading their writing. I suspect that the same scenario would be repeated today.

When I worked at a hospital in the HIM department, the manager, by the way, would not speak directly with doctors. As a matter of fact, she did not like speaking directly with anyone. If we were five feet away from her, she would still communicate via email. So, the bad dictations continued. It didn't help that that job was AT the facility.

I guess my main "complaint" is that communication between managers and dictating clinicians is just not happening. If clinicians were required to re-dictate, or charged an extra fee for bad dictation, I think they would be motivated to change. Otherwise, what motivation do they have?

Earlier today, I experienced an episode of severe dizziness as a result of a nurse practitioner coughing very loudly into the microphone. Should I just accept this as part of the job, too?

There are ways to vent appropriately. People do it all the time. - nm

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nm

I honestly thought I was venting appropriately when I - wannie

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started this whole thread. If you will go back and read my original post, I think you will see that I know how to vent appropriately, too.

sounds like most of these posters think Wannie and MT are the same person. - n/m

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nm

We're not. What I say I gladly take the credit for it. nm - wannie

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and, I think most of the posts are bashing the Brainwash, et cetera, comments - by MT. n/m

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nm

Still, it has gotten way out of hand and from now I'll - wannie

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just keep my vents to myself. I just think it's sad when you can't actually show your human side and come here (after all, as work-at-home MTs we really are rather isolated) without starting a huge argument because somebody doesn't like another's opinion.

NO WAY...you come here and vent all you want. - ndmt

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The only reason people jump on this board and attack your MT skills when you vent about something is to further isolate us and shut us up. Their reasons for doing that are there own, but I suspect they somehow benefit from us being isolated and ignorant of how other MTs really feel and what they really experience.

There are also those cannot follow a thread to save their life and get their panties in a bunch over something that you didn't even say. I think most people who stopped to apply their interpretation skills know that your vent was over a simple frustrating day, so don't let the other people chase you off.

It reminds me a little of grade school when the teacher says "now go back and READ THE STORY IN ORDER."

Or you get those yokels who hijack her thread - for their own goofy ideas. nm

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We are two people - MT

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Hello,
Wannie and me are two different people.

Wannie, I am sorry that people think that we are the same person, but PLEASE don't ever hesitate to post/vent here on my account.

I will continue to do the same.

AND, I still think that MTs have been brainwashed or "trained" to believe that it is "part of the job" to put up with rude dictating practices by SOME dictating clinicians, which could be ESL or not ESL. ESL has really very little to do with, IMHO. I just think that not enough MTs are standing up for their rights, which affects all of us in the long run.

After much afterthought, I really do believe that "brainwashed" is the proper term to use in this instance.

I think you were venting just fine - why are everyones panties in a bunch

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too much to read through, but I really don't get what the problem was...

I will tell you for one thing this is like my 12th ESL doctor in a row, and his dictations are 10 to 15 minutes each. people keep sending them back, and I end up doing them. yes it's frustrating...

It's not limited to ESL for me... I had one doctor that had the worst mush mouth ever. I did his work for 3 years, and still left blanks up til the day I quit... he never learned or just didn't care?

Back to why everyone is so upset, I totally missed that...? not to bring it up again, but dont worry about it girl!! been doin this almost 11 year anniversary now... we all have our days!!

Monotony - Tink

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I feel for ya, Wannie!! You get that "crud!" moment when the next job downloads and it's the same old dictator you were hoping to get rid of. Hang in there....hopefully tomorrow will be better!! =)

Thank you. I'm glad somebody took my post for what - wannie

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it is, simply a frustrated vent. Yes, hopefully tomorrow will be better.

I am listening to the most beautiful Spanish accent - Slow and Sultry

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He speaks slowly and clearly, using perfect English grammar, but with a very heavy Spanish accent. It is mesmerizing.

Never has 'regular rate and rhythm' sounded so romantic.

I love seeing this gentleman in my que.

I can completely sympathize - Crabby

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I have had some that I have cried over many times. I hope, if it is a regular dictator, that you get used to him/her.

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