Direct Action Letter Writing Campaign - Another Short-N-Sweet Letter

It looks like I will be the 1st to post a letter to the editor that is going out. I will be hitting everywhere from the East Coast to the West coast and everywhere in between! Read on and feel free to edit for your own letters.

Medical Transcriptionist Week (MT Week) began this past Sunday, May 20, 2012. The idea is to recognize and reward MTs over the course of a single week. The theme this year is Patient Safety. MTs all across the country, and in fact, around the world are transcribing your medical records and are dedicated to being a 1st-line defense against errors that can negatively and sometimes fatally affect you as a patient. Physicians do make mistakes in documenting your medical record and MTs are dedicated to ensuring those errors do not make it into your Electronic Medical Record (EMR.)
 
Many physicians at our hospitals in _____ deserve recognition. We will refrain from providing names since we do not know if they would appreciate public thanks. Yet at the same time we would like to provide enough information that they themselves will know who they are and why they deserve thanks. Here we go:
 
A physician, who is 1 of the docs with a hyphenated name, deserves thanks for facilitating patient safety by enunciating clearly, dictating concisely and keeping her speech at moderate speed. We think you rock! Not only do you collaborate in ensuring patient safety you are also 1 of the few docs who make it possible for MTs to earn a living wage. Your dictations are long, comprehensive and done very professionally. We thank you!
 
Another physician deserves a thank you, as well as a "please refrain from." We do appreciate your consistently thanking us at the end of your dictations. However, we would appreciate if you would refrain from dictating in a made-up accent and also if you would kindly slow down the speed at which you dictate. We realize the accent is entertaining for you while doing an otherwise mundane task. That being said, it works against patient safety. The fast speed at which you dictate combined with the made-up accent fail to contribute to patient safety and also work against MTs earning a living wage. We do thank you for your consistent "thanks" to us and request that you slow down and refrain from made-up accents.

We thank all of our docs for working with us to ensure patient safety during MT Week and well beyond!