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I am so SICK of doctor's who cannot say a medication so instead (sm) - anonMT

Posted: May 05, 2010

they decide to do the "nice" thing and spell it out ONLY to SLUR ALL THE WAY through the medication so that you have absolutely NO idea what medication they are trying to say. And then it really ticks me off when the MTSO tells me that we "need to do our absolute best on spelling these medications because the doctor is complaining." OMGGGGGGGGGG shouldn't this be HIS/HER responsibility??!!!??? This is a pretty dang important part of a patient's medical record! How is it that WE are supposed to get this right, are we supposed to pull what he is thinking out of his butt?????

I am so SICK of doctor's who cannot say a medication so instead - Livewire

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Doctors are the most inconsiderate *^&*^)(&. They make 100x more than we do so you'd think they would be a little bit more considerate and try their best to slow down and be more clear but noooooo we are just peeons and don't matter. What would they do without us? They'd be up ****creek w/o us, that's what!

Give him a blank! - LK

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THEY are responsible for identifying the meds, not us. My feeling is if they are not 100% clear, they get a blank. No second guessing on meds from my end. The effort they put into being clear equals what comes back to them on the report, which may very well be a big fat blank.

Yeah that drives me nuts too. - Feel your pain.

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Right now I am on my 3rd discharge summary being dictated by the same PA.

I'm not sure what her problem is, but I think she either needs a nap or needs to sober up.

She is dragging on........with........huge.......pauses.......................betweeen....each.....word.

A discharge summary that should only take a minute to dictate is taking her 8 minutes to dictate and she is slurring her words, so if I speed her up I can't understand her.

I'm ready to scream!!!!!

I completely agree - sssdt

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All my doctors pronounce medications wrong constantly, sometimes while chewing and yawning. They just read off what patients write down, and patients often are wrong. Once a medication that the doc spelled out for me ended up being a FAKE medication that was used on the TV show "Star Trek"! Many times they use names of medications which aren't manufactured in the U.S.

The chewing-yawning doctor also complains to the office manager when there are mistakes, but considering he can't pronounce meds, he will dictate half a report and then forget to finish it, or say things like "patient is status post vaginal delivery and prostate removal", I hardly think the MTs are the problems here.

One of my docs - - sm

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was always calling a drug "tricillate." I finally found out he was saying trilisate!!!! LOL

I would tell her that it IS your absolute best with the - dictation you are given.

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With that type of dictation, what does she expect? It's like trying to paint a Monet on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Had a resident yesterday (sm) - Long time MT

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I had a report yesterday where the resident dictator repeatedly pronounced "nosocomial" as nocosomial! He pretty well butchered all the meds too. I told a friend it was like I was playing a game of "guess what the *#$& I'm saying."

This drives me nuts!!! - qCMT

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I also hate it when they don't know how to pronounce the medication, stumble over it, make lengthy pauses in between syllables, and then just keep dictating the strength, dosage, etc. This seems to happen most often with residents, NPs, and PAs. I wish I could say, spelling the names out cleary does not make you seem less knowledgeable, but mispronouncing them and having a bunch of blanks in your report does!!! It's like they think spelling it makes it seem like they don't know what they are talking about, but even the most experienced clinicians have to spell out some of those tricky names sometimes. This drives me crazy!!!

It is nice to get these complaints out to all of you who understand so well :) I feel much better, lol.

For sure - momof377

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I worked for a family practice doc in house who was very understanding - he told me "garbage in, garbage out" about dictation. Isn't that the truth!!

Once again - Alice

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Once again, I will reiterate here that it is the dictating clinician's responsibility to dictate a clear reports. With that being said, the next one in line for responsibility is that one who has face-to-face contact with the dictators. If a person in a management position is too chicken to stand up to these so-called professionals, then he/she should not have the job.

IMHO, it is not the MT's responsibility to decipher total cr!!!ap, and how dare they complain when we cannot make sense out of their garbage. The responsibility should go with those who create the dictation!!

After all these years, I'm still trying to figure out when it was that the dictators assumed the position of deity in the transcription industry, and why it is continuously tolerated!!

horrible dictation - Livewire

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Amen Alice!

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