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I'm just venting..I don't care whose fault this is. Not asking questions or looking for solutions, just feel like venting, so here goes.
Dear makers of VR - It is so screwed up I'm changing every sentence and having to retype what is said for half of what it should be. Why even have doctors if you are just going to input whatever you want. Why not have a patient go up to a VR machine and tell them what's wrong and let you print out a report because you are not following any of what the doctors say. In fact, why not no longer use MTs to do VR, since the system is supposed to be so accurate (which yes, some reports are accurate, but more are not). Lets have the people who are responsible for inventing VR be the ones to blame when a report is wrong.
This is not one or two reports, its almost every report. VR is putting in whatever it wants and it is nothing remotely close to what the doctors say. The doctors say 80, VR puts 45 - What the heck is that? Do these places not read about people dying because of wrong medication doses. The doctors say even though she sleeps well and VR puts in the morning she gets herself dressed. No where in the report is the doctors saying what VR puts. Additionally, if VR knows when a doctor says "I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that" and VR actually takes it out, then why is VR not putting in words and sentences that are very clearly spoken. What kind of system is this, but they love to pay us 4 cents. It takes longer to do VR reports than to do regular typing.
Some people claim they are typing 2000 and even 4000 lines a day, but you know what...you are not. I'm a very fast typist. What you have is templates and shortcuts, so while you may put blood pressure in the report you type bp, so you don't actually type those 14 characters, you only type 2, and if you have a template you insert that is 20 or 30 or even more characters you are not actually typine 20 or 30 or even more characters, you are typing 0 (Z-E-R-O), so to come on here and claim you type 2000 or 4000 lines a day, that is incorrect. Most of it is shortcuts and templates and most likely you are typing less than 1/2 of what you claim to be. It is literally impossible to actually type 4000 lines a day, even with just reading. And if you are averaging that many I don't want you doing my reports because guaranteed there are mistakes going that fast.
Okay, that's my vent. Don't care if anyone does not like it, I'm sick of having to retype everything for half of what I get paid to normally type. Not asking for solutions, and you can write any rude response you want. I don't care. I still say get rid of VR, let it vomit out anything it wants and let the creators of VR be responsible.