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Lazy doctors - DogTired

Posted: Oct 05, 2013

I have a new hospital account where the doctors are supposed to dictate the addresses of recipient doctors for the letters, but most don't, so then I have to either search for the address (if they didn't garble the name too much for a search) or pend the dictation to the hospital, which takes time. :p Is this typical? I haven't done letters in many years, mostly just ops and some discharges. It's very aggravating. I don't like doing letters. :(

Absolutely typical... - Alice

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I'm not even certain that these docs know what they're supposed to do...

I once had a doc call me "madam secretary" - MT

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And say when I type the envelope to make sure that it says attention so and so, etc. I guess while I'm at it I can get his coffee...milk and sugar?

Thanks for the chuckle. :) I really like being called a "dictationist." - nm

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nm

Some doctors have said to me after dictation - "Thank you for your dictation"

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lol :)

...and I bet madam secretary makes more money than we do! nm - Momof2

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I used to get called a "stenographer" - Mom22dogs

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..... by a dictator I used to type, and this was a job I worked at from 1992 to 2011, and he called me that up until I left!

"Medical Stenographer" used to be the job title - Still is in govt classifications

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That is actually what the job is.

"Medical Stenographer" - ThePhoenix

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I'm dating myself here, but when I took the medical transcription course many moons ago, we had to learn it in Gregg shorthand. The course was offered at the county hospital where we go exposure to many out of the ordinary cases, and had to take medical dictation in shorthand. Back then it paid well to do it that way as a personal medical secretary for doctors. Oh those were the days!

just tell him "madam secretary" is the MTSO who, after all, pimps - us out for a percentage. NM

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'nuff said.

Had one cardiologist dictator who said every time - "Please dictate this letter to.."

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Huh?

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