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Get it right, lady! (G-R-R-R) - Overly-defensive me

Posted: Nov 10, 2013

One of the attendings just said, "Operator, please go back to the beginning of the dictation and...(etc.)." Jeez-louise!--is she using a rotary phone and party line? Although the woman in this photo http://blog.jimstroud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/switchboard-operator.jpg DOES kind of look like us...sitting at her work station, thinking about how she just doesn't earn enough despite being a vital cog in a very large corporate wheel...

Sigh...

I think they are so confused with EMR... - Alexis

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That they don't know what we are, if we are human or machine, or what we "operate" to do whatever it is we do. They know they dictated, it comes back, but the rest is a blur.

You're so right! - me again

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I hadn't thought about it that way. Yesterday I was doing a progress note on patient and I suddenly realized that the dictator was reading verbatim from a report I had done on the very same patient the day before. It was interesting to think that she was sitting there several states away, reading my finished product. I guess our reports really do just 'magically appear' and like you said, there's not much thought given by those who read them to what goes into it all. I bet they would think about it if suddenly us transcriptionists disappeared for a day or so, though! No documentation would lead to no DOCumentation and the medical facilities ability to operate would implode! (forgive my bad play on words!)

Oops--that's "a" patient (nm) - me again, again

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and "facilities" needs an apostrophe!-TIRED (nm) - me again, and again

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just a heads up: If you create a password when you post (under the captcha letters)... - queen of the edits

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then you can go back and edit your typos (or other) anytime you want. I just use the same one everytime, so not hard to remember.

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