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Just had a doctor spell - sm

Posted: Feb 18, 2012

"void" - its gonna be a long night...

void - fedup

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He probably thought he was dictation offshore, as I had a doctor that kept spelling words and then apologized, stating he thought he was dictating from the OTHER hospital that offshores their work!! Can you believe that? Yet, they don't have the courtesy to spell meds and doctor names that THEY can't even pronounce for us!

I QA offshore work - Just supposed to fill in blanks but...

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I randomly pick some out to do a full 100% review. What I see is appalling. Always between 10 to 30 errors, 50% to 75% of them critical. I'm seriously not exaggerating either. Unfortunately, I can't do 100% on all of them as my company specifically said not to...why? I also heard that if the offshore people don't make over 85% accuracy, they don't get paid (not sure if this is true or not). Is this a way of ensuring more profit?

I've heard some say on this board that the US MTs are just as bad...I QA them too...and no, they are not. True, there are a few bad ones, 5 errors maybe at worst, but usually there are just 1 or 2, many with no errors on their reports.

Whoever states that offshore MTs are just as good as US MTs is an offshore MT and has no idea what they are talking about.

Deductive reasoning. - MT

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Another possibility is that they are an MTSO cheapskate who employs or endorses employing offshore MTs.

void - cringe worthy

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I always cringe when doctors do that, because most times it means they are getting errors back and want to ensure they don't continue. So I'm thinking there's an MT somewhere that you need to thank or not.

spell - kt16

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void is not bad. We have one who spells mri.. over and over.. and CT scan and his favorite is cell c-e-l-l his VR documents are a joke.

Great! - Thanks for the smile. :)

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You others, we make more than enough stupid mistakes here all by ourselves. There's an offshore board for those who just can't control the urge to trash.

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