Doctors/dictators who use cell phones - Do they know that half their words are cut off?

Don't they realize that cell phones and similar devices make their dictation a mangled mess with words being cut off? Or do they just blame us? ...

I have left notes about bad audio and hard to understand dictation and these doctors still persist in dictating on trains, cars, etc. What do you do. ...

I swear she is on a cell phone in a low service area on speaker mode. Aren't they supposed to dial in on a hospital phone? At one time a few years back, I thought it was against HIPAA to use cell phones for dictation. Drives a person nutty. ...

This dictator sounds about 70+ and is still using a device that keeps fading out, some kind of cell phone. Don't they know how bad that is? Don't they see how many words are missing in their returned reports? I really think a lot of doctors are ignorant about technology, especially the older ones. ...

It takes just as long to listen to the file (most of which is unintelligible) and leave huge areas of blanks, so we make next to nothing for the report. Garbage!!!! I know...nothing will ever be done about this. ...

Just wondering why there are so many doctors/dictators with foreign accents here? Most of mine seem to be from India. My BIL is a doctor and told me years ago that "smart students" aren't going into medicine now because the average salary is "only" about $100,000.00 a year. He said the top students are going into business (MBA degree, etc) in order to make more money. Aren't doctors supposed to go into medicine mainly because they want to help people? Can' ...

it is sickening to have an RN who dictates for MULTIPLE doctors and she has no idea how to pronounce many of the words, cuts her sentences off, flies through the dictation and has no idea how to pronounce medications. She pronounces tachypnea (eash enough word, right?) as tacky P nea, no joke. I am frustrated, angry, fed up and ready to throw my computer out in the yard. This is just sickening!! Just needed to vent and wished I felt better but sadly I do not because I still have MANY more jo ...

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. ...

I work for a hospital in California on my C-phone. Over the last week, ever since Comcast demanded that I add a second line because I was using over 5000 minutes of long distance, I have not been able to dial into the hospital. I can call the hospital number (long distance) but when I get the prompts asking for my ID and password, the system will not take my information from the C-phone. Yet, when I call the 800 number (for emergencies only), my C-phone worked ...

What is the best head phones. I have tried so many, but I know there has to be a better set. I currently use Logitech. ...

Are Dvi boxes interchangeable with C phones and vice versa? Thanks. ...

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me how a C-phone works? Does it take a designated phone line or will it stop working if I get a phone call? I've never used one. Any info on how it works would be greatly appreciated. ...

Can you share what kind of headphones you use that are the best for medical transcription. One of the Nuance people suggested ECS Wordsmith at www.tvps.com. I got them, but I don't find much improvement. I have heard about the booster. Any good suggestions. ...

How do you keep your cord from twisting? Mine coils up like an old telephone cord. ...

Do anyone know of a company that repairs C-phones, besides Dictaphone? ...

I think migrating from C-phones to Internet platforms was a mistake. Over the years I have worked on both Lanier and Dictaphone C-phone accounts as well as about eight different Internet platforms. I'll take a C-phone account any day. C-phone accounts normally involve using a professional grade word processor like Word or Wordperfect rather than an amateurish proprietary thing that resembles a word processor but often lacks the features of a professional word processor.Addition ...

I am looking to purchase new head phones. The cheap ones I note break so easily and I cannot hear very well. I like the head phones that go over the whole ear. Can someone tell me what they find is the best head set to use? If you could give me the name of them and even where you got them and some information about them, I would appreciate it!! Thanks for your time. Liz ...

What type of ear phones are MTs using nowadays? I keep breaking my head set (the wires break inside and I have to hold them just right to use them). It never occurred to me that the 15,000 (slight exag) ear buds I have in the house (young kids from every electonic ever known to man) has a set. They seem to work fine. Is there any reason not to use ear buds versus my old style stethoscope ear phones? EBAY actually had an ad for Apple ear buds for $2.99 including free shipping! I cou ...

When you use a cphone, can the hospital or anyone hear you talking while you are dialed into the hospital? On two occasions, I said something out loud, like what should have been a silent question (working at home too long, I now talk to myself, ha ha) but on BOTH occasions, my job emailed me the answer to my question within like five minutes of me saying it and I was just wondering. Thanks. ...

So I just got a temp job in a fancy upscale surgical hospital. First in-house job in 8 years, and I really need to convert this job into a permanent deal, but my first attempts on the phone last week I sort of bombed. Is anybody able to offer some pointers on phone tact? I know I will make mistakes, it would be great if I could recover from them gracefully. >_<* If someone was willing to mentor me and get me through this next week I would send you a box of cookies or brownies or wha ...

Is that correct? I'm trying to find "C-cell" definition relating to the colon. ...

Thanks for any help! ...

Patient has sickle cell disease with frequent vaso-occlusive pain crises... s/l "impressive aloe (spelled by dictator) immunization" in patient with moderate immune hemolytic anemia. I cannot find a reference for this aloe immunization. Does anybody have a clue if this is correct? ...

From the KevinPho MD site: There was a time when doctors were doctors. There was a time when young men and women sacrificed the best years of their youth, learning to treat patients and conquer diseases, not to become typists, paper pushers, data-entry clerks, or to have hospitals, insurance companies, and the federal government dictate to us how to practice medicine. There was a time when doctors were trusted. There was a time when we were not guilty until proven ot ...

Happy new year all! With or w/o hyphen? Sickle cell thalassemia or sickle-cell thalassemia or sickle cell-thalassemia. Thank You! ...

Dr. states "super cell hemangioma resection". Is there such a thing?? He then talks about eyes. Thanks! ...

Colorectal surgeon, and I might actually be hearing him correctly, but it sounds like he's saying "He does not have J-eye-uh-fell's' adenoma of the rectum".... ...

Doctors/dictators who use cell phones - Do they know that half their words are cut off?

I hate speakerphones too, give me a headache to listen to. - fatigued (nm)

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