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I would so love to start a bad dictator list - where we could criticize as much as we wanted. SM

Posted: Feb 22, 2015

Criticize who we want, details about their speech habits, whatever we think about them without being banned, deleted, and other such restrictions.

Maybe a completely separate website...

Before anyone jumps on me about HIPAA, the only restriction would be no patient names or account information. Simply a short bite about Dr. Whatever Her Name Is who slurs, mumbles, and sounds like a performing porn star, making her lab values nearly incomprehensible.

Yes, I'm currently frustrated and very cranky with a PA who sounds exactly like that and simply venting my frustration.

It is still a breach of PROVIDER confidentiality and - unprofessional behavior.

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You know, a lot of MTs on this site bemoan the fact that they can't get jobs at hospitals.

The first thing I would think of on seeing an application from an MT for anything is this kind of unprofessionalism. Bad enough to vent about it in private, but how awful to smear the reputation of everyone else by doing it in public.

Fooey. Any MT with a brain would never put her - name on a post, thats the point of it. sm

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Go shove off with your precious "professionalism." You've never vented, never wanted to call someone out on their poor dictating habits I suppose?

I figured someone would eventually play holier than thou and ride that high horse.

Don't forget the docs who graduated in the bottom - 5% of their classes. LOL

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It is also unprofessional to eat while you're "talking" - justpassingthrough

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to someone, to yawn and continue talking all the way through the yawn, to smack your gum in someone's ear, to giggle through an entire dictation, to carry on a conversation with somebody else while dictating, to sit where it is bound to be the noisiest possible place to dictate... the list could go on and on.

It's also unprofessional to fall asleep while your dictating... - Fed Up!

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lose your train of thought, mix up patients and dictate lab values on the wrong patient, use obcene language when dictating, burp, fart, and discipline your children while dictating. It's unprofessional for a doctor to move to America and have absolutely no grasp on the English language, then try to treat patient's and dictate coherent reports. It's unprofessional for healthcare facilities to hire, codone or coddle such physicians.

So take your professionalism speech and cram it up your high horse's hindquarter!

You have a quality day.

Thank you, Fed Up!!!!! Wish I could like this many - more times!!! nm

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fed up - closetbird

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YOU GO GIRL! I LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE!

What I want to know is, where did all the foreign doctors - come from. I would not let one touch me.

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These people came over here and were supposed to RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES, but we keep them here, and meanwhile WE TURN DOWN WELL-QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL BECAUSE WE "LACK THE ROOM", instead of building more medical schools.

I'm sick of them, and I also do NOT think that America should be the brain-drain of the world, where people in foreign countries can't get care because their doctors are all over here chasing the dollar. SEND THEM HOME!!

Preferential treatment in school admissions and student aid/VISAs etc - Reverse discrimination that is what

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That is incorrect. - sm

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American medical schools do not accept foreign students. The seats are reserved for American students.

Foreign physicians have attended medical college in foreign countries. They can train in residency programs in the US, but they do not attend college or medical school here. Hence, there is no preferential financial aid going on.

If you are seeing "foreign looking" medical students, they are actually Americans.

Bigotry will always be with us, I suppose.

If they are going to stay (and I don't agree they should) - Couldnt they at least

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learn how to speak proper and clear English? I had a perfectly nice foreign doctor as my PCP for a short while but I had to find another one because I just got tired of trying to understand what she was trying to say.

I refuse a doctor if I cant understand them - right away and state that reason to their face SM

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or to any administrator who wants to know why I'm leaving the facility or refusing care, etc.

Because this moron can't speak English properly and I'm sick and feeling miserable enough without trying to fight to understand someone trying to care for me.

gotta little list - isee

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I got 2, in excel, one for the good, and one for the bad, (none for the ugly) works well, gets me out of a lot of trouble with dictators I hate.

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