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Mini rant - Just irritated

Posted: Feb 28, 2013

It so bugs me when people who should know better mispronounce words in dictation! This NP who is dictating says "ejection fracture" instead of ejection fraction consistently, doesn't even seem to stop and wonder what it might mean or if it makes any sense! She seems to basically understand what she is dictating, so how can she not know there is no such thing as an ejection fracture?

When I'm typing I need to understand what I'm typing to make sure that what I'm typing makes sense. As an educated RN, would you not think that she would wonder just what that means and WANT to find out if it's wrong and what the correct term is? It's mind-boggling to me!

another one is - smoking "sensation"

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Instead of cessation. Drives me bonkers.

that one slays me!! - nm

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lazy lips - buns

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Detention instead of dentition â�� ugh. Let us not forget the unbelievable garbage that comes out when they obviously cannot pronounce a drug and then blurt out something at lightning speed or scream it in your ear hoping you will not notice they are either lazy, ignorant, or both. Do you wonder what kind of â��medical careâ�� they are providing when they cannot be bothered to use correct medical terminology?

Lazy Lips - Carol

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They don't care!! I have one ER doc that runs through the vitals with slurring of a drunk homeless man! He just does not care what is in the report.

it's no different from "couldn't care less" vs "could care less" - Des

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or "nuclEar" vs "nucUler"

Some people are just used to saying some things a certain way, and likely no one has ever corrected them.

Lazy lips - DiggerMT

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It also annoys me to no end when they say "medical regiment" or "oropharnix." I have one who says "predrome" instead of "prodrome." Just drives me bonkers!

In my earliest days of transcribing - - much older now

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I was typing a mental health report The doc had dictated "insightful" and in the context of the report I interpreted it as "inciteful." Incite, insight? Having that pointed out to me started 30 years of passion about words and context and meaning!

As another old MT, . . (sm) - Angie

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Does it seem that a huge percentage of the new breed of doctors just don't get it or just don't care? I mean we are looking at about 95% not even KNOWING what a pause button is, or being so rude as to expect us to sit there for free listening to them review an entire chart, place a lunch order with a colleague or formulate a lab trend table. Are they dumb or just just selfish?

more lazy lips - MTMT

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I have one who always says "From a cardiac standpoint of view..." I always type "From a cardiac standpoint..." and you'd think after all these years he would figure it out... oh wait, I forgot... they don't actually READ the reports we type!

This particular doctor is also guilty of saying "smoking sensation."

This same doctor is very hard to understand. I really don't know if it's a speech impediment or just laziness, but he basically leaves out many letters in each word... you have to put together what you can hear & try to fill in the rest... like an ongoing game of Wheel of Fortune. When he says "acor-e-e" that means accordingly. I think it took me five years before I ever sent one of his reports with no blanks.

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