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OMG! This may just be the most annoying thing - (sm)

Posted: Oct 20, 2010

that I have had in a dictation, and I am sure that the dictator (PA-C) is annoyed as well. It's always annoying when she chitty-chats with the "girls in the office" while dictating, but in this dictation, one of the girls is mocking back everything the dictator says and continues to do so, after a little chuckle from dictator each time, to the point where the dictator finally has to tell her that this is important, it is for an attorney and she cannot mess it up. Once before telling her this she had to cut the recorder, and I had to blank where she cut herself off when turning it back on. ARGGGGGHHH!!!

Vent over. Thank you!

My chatter is also PA-C. Starts with, hi, this is nancy. Like she - is the ONLY Nancy in the world. Uggh nm

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Is is just me, or do way too many PACs seem like - total DINGBATS to you? nm

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Not just you, about 50% of the PAs on my accounts are total bimbos - SM

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Smacking their gum while they dictate or munching loudly on chips, giggling and chatting with anyone who walks into the area with a little girl sing-song voice, "umm, ummm, ummmmmm, *giggle*, where was I?" The list goes on and on. Oh, and let's not forget how they pronounce things wrong (lar-nix for larynx, phar-nix for pharynx, etc.) and stammer around over the names of drugs as if it's some foreign language they're just learning. Who would trust them to PRESCRIBE something when they cannot even PRONOUNCE it? Crazy.

It's definitely not just you that experiences this PA phenomenon, LOL!

How funny. Mine are mostly pros, just very verbal and determined to - Fellow Traveller

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get it all in. I can't flaw that for the most part and imagine clinicians looking for info open their reports first.

Now, nurses dictating come in a much wider range, from real pros to...people who, to put it nicely, have trouble organizing their thoughts and/or who never read enough to learn patterns of written English. But how many docs can you also say that of? :)

PA - nan

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Guess I am lucky, most of the PA's I have are better at dictating than the doctors.

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