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Dear Dr. Clueless - Questions

Posted: Nov 16, 2010

Why do you not want the medical transcriptionist to hear you? Why are you whispering? We have sent numerous reports to you with blanks on them with explanations.

Why do you insist that your office staff fill in these blanks? You need to find a private place to dictate so you can speak up. Is saying the medication dosage really that painful to you?

For every 20 minute report you dictate, there is only about 3-4 minutes of dictation there. I do not get paid to listen to you read or chart or take phone calls. Do you not understand what PAUSE means? Do you realize you are wasting my time and my company's time, not to mention an enormous amount of money on these reports that can not be completed anyway? Surely your staff has given you messages. Then you have to pay her to complete them. Your reports are very expensive and are still trash.

Since you are so clueless as to why you can not get a completed report, let me clue you. LEARN HOW TO DICTATE!!!!!!

I have always thought medical schools should have - sk

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some sort of little seminar or something on dictating--like maybe have a MT talk to them--if not the school, then include in their inservice with the hospital when they being rotations as resident/interns.

Three people getting paid for an incomplete report, MT, QA, and staff. - Wow. No message

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