Dictators and 'PAUSE' button.

Dictator states to another in the room - What's the button for pause on this thing? Other person in room - Don't worry about it, just let it run...the secretary doesn't care. What!? Thank you for encouraging dead spaces in the dictation, I enjoy sitting here not getting paid, listening to papers shuffling and chattering in the background. Oh, and I'm a Medical Transciptionist/Medical Language Specialist, not the secretary. ...

Last night I was stuck editing an ESL doctor who pauses so long between words my hourly rate dropped down to less than $2. an hour! I filed & painted all my nails between words, cleaned and organized my desk and sat for an agonizing minutes with nothing to do but wait. The neighbors could probably hear my yelling "COME ON!!!!! SAY SOMETHING YOU ____ _____ _____ _____" Why do these ... people not even think to use the pause command? The clients and MTSOs can bitch about TAT ...

Today I will make less than half of what I normally get because all I've gotten today are crappy, hard to understand dictators, both ESL and English-speaking. Seems like all I get lately are the hard to understand, mush-mouth dictators. Guess Nuance doesn't want their MTs making quota. Sorry. I just had to vent. ...

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This is odd. I have a stat dictation as my next one but my suspend button is not up there. Anyone else have this happen? ...

I am usure as to where one thought ends and the next begins as in the part of plantar flexion in the toe at teh extremes....something just does not seem like I have the sentences correct. Any idea what I am doing wrong? tia. Evaluation of the foot does show dorsomedial bony prominence that is tender to palpation. There is also pain with passive dorsiflexion and plantar flexion in the toe at the extremes. She is stiff as compared to the contralateral side. ...

CT scan of the lumbar spine shows pause attentuation ...

Started a new job this week and I can't see how I can make minimum production due to the long pauses in every report I have done so far. They must not even have a Pause command in the software, as why would 100% of the dictators suddenly stop using it? I'm sure others know the stress of the threat of termination with each long pause dimishing their counts. ...

How would the doctors like it if every patient they saw paused for over a minute between words? Then they complain when we are out of TAT. Can they comprehend that for all the hours MTs are left sitting at their desks not producing because they are waiting and waiting for the next word to finally ooze from the dictator's mouths, they are delaying TAT for that report? I wonder if they are aware how much time we spend working while producing nothing. ...

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Help, new MT, using DocQScribe and foot pedal won't work. Trying to use hot keys for play and pause, but can't seem to make anything work. Help! ...

What happened?? With my own accounts I've worked for 100 different doctors and every single one used the pause as a standard courtesy. Today - not ONE single dictator uses it, yet some still keep saying "sorry" when they have more than 10 seconds of dead air time. Do the dictators now consist of a new generation of rudeness or did they "forget" to include a "PAUSE" command in the programs??? ...

She was advised to increase her afternoon "pause" volume to 2 liters. s/l pause volume, but there is no document of that- Could it be something else..? ...

A new ESL dictating a DS. Can't speed him up because he's too "new" (to this country?). He is spelling every other word!!!!!! AND then spells it again - extubated, e-x-t-u-b-a-t-e-d, extubated e for elephant, x for crosses, t for tom, u for umbrella, b for .......... get the picture (sigh)? On top of that, the report is 28 minutes long!!! Should never have gotten out of bed this morning. LOL I do feel bad for him that he doesn't realize he doesn't have to spell every other ...

Hey folks, I recently got put on an ESL, primarily Spanish, account at KeyStrokes. I'm having a very hard time with these dictations. Can anybody give me some tips for better skills understanding this accent? I've been doing ESL dictators of Indian and Asian accents without really any problems at all. However, these Hispanic ones are really giving me problems. Thanks. ...

just with the sound of their voice, can turn your day to yuck? There are 2 docs on one of my accounts who literally make me cringe when I hear their voices. Like nails on a chalkboard or something. I cannot stand listening to them! Unfortunately, they always have very looooong reports. I keep expecting my ears to start bleeding one of these days! ...

Can you imagine getting an ASR report where the dictator says "please put number one please please please put number one, please put number five, please please please put number five.." all the while I am having to edit out all these infernal "pleases" and wonder just what kind of idiot this is. Sheesh! ...

Anyone ever suspect that accounts we do have in-house transcriptionists and they outsource their worst dictators to services? ...

I have a female resident dictating radiology who tries to break the speed barrier, she sniffs before every sentence, and constantly makes these noises in her throat. She DRIVES ME CRAZY. My rant for the day. ...

I truly, truly wish these idiots who call themselves physicians had to listen to and transcribe their own dictations. I am so frustrated right now I could just about pull my hair out. Being a greeter at Wal-Mart is looking very enticing right now. ...

About 1/3 of those 100% QA reports were done by ILPs. Total average earnings per hour: a little over 4 $, but I will be paid at my state's minimum wage. Before my in-house hospital job was outsourced to an MTSO that kept the work in the country for 2 years and then sent it to India, I was being paid 19 $ an hour and also had great benefits and PTO. When did this "profession" turn into a minimum wage job ? (actually, half of minimum wage if ...

I have been an MT for over 20 years and have worked at a few different companies. I am currently with DSG, and I just have to say, DSG seems to have the WORST dictators of any company that I have worked for. I work on 5 different accounts for them and it is all the same. Any other DSG'ers out there that are experiencing the same thing? I don't recall being told when I was hired that I would be typing 98% ESL. Beware if you are thinking of working here! ...

I have 6 years of experience and just started a new job doing straight transcription. I'm convinced that I'm getting all of dictators that they can't run through their VR because they are so bad. I'm lucky to make $5.00/hr. Very frustrating. Need to give my notice. Anybody else have this experience? Sorry, I just needed to vent. ...

Wish there was a board doctors could read for complaints. How I hate when they chew in my ear! The absolute worst is this one now who is clearing his throat like a HORSE after every sentence and snuffling all his "thick yellow-to-green secretions" while he dictates! Rude or what? He should have specialized in pathology! ...

One of these days where I'm working but don't really feel much like it. Restless, surfing the net, laughing at the dictators. Had one who rattled off bizarre medical terms while eating, so I had to leave numerous blanks, and then the next one spent a good deal of time trying to explain to the dumb MT how to type "b.i.d." (that's BEE, EYE, DEE - oh, all in little letters - I mean, a little BEE, then a period, a little EYE, then a period, a little DEE, then a perio ...

Would someone from Keystrokes email me as to how bad the ESL docs are? I have been offered a job but told it is mostly ESLs and I don't mind them but if they are really bad dictators, I think I will pass. Thanks! ...

t a l k. it would make my life much easier if you would talk normally and not like you are either a racehorserunninginthekentuckyderby or the tortoise racing the hare and that we d o n o t ...

It really annoys me when some providers wait weeks, or months, to do their dictation, and then all of a sudden they're stats, even though the patient won't be back for weeks or months, or prn. Or the ones who make every progress note a stat, and bump the really important jobs down the line. It just grinds my gears. ...

Dictators and 'PAUSE' button. - Angie

The MTSOs themselves - should be advised

I don't know what's worse - Frustrated

I don't know what is worse - ep

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