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Patient's report moved me to tears - emotional

Posted: Apr 14, 2015

Have you ever had a patient's report bring you to absolute tears? I've been doing this for nearly 9 years and this if the first time this has happended...wondering if this job is really starting to get the best of me?

twice in 21 years and I still think about those reports. - nana7

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Two babies. They haunt me to this day. I can still see the reports in my head and still hear the doctors dictating them. Both babies (2 different cases) were murdered 10 and 11 years ago.

Never put faces with the reports except these two and that made it harder. Because they were murder cases pictures of the babies were on the news and when I saw those pictures it was like I was hit with a baseball bat. It was hard enough typing those reports but when the face was put together with those reports I was ever able to forget them.

many, many times - we are only human

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Has happened to me many times over my career. These are real people with real lives. I also pray for them.

Yes, I'm like you... many times, many prayers lifted - nm

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Yes ... and many, many prayers - ME

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The one that got me was the doctor dictating - in tears--oncology

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Yes, especially if it's someone you knew and were - a little bit close to. SM

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Unfortunately, it was someone I used to work for years ago and loved dearly, he passed on, his wife in hospital from nursing home. No one else on 11-7 shift to type but me at that time, I had no choice. As soon as patient name dictated, my heart sank, then the report started, so did the tears as the details came out. All night long cried off and on.

I could still cry to this day if I think of it. Cant remember details, but the names bring it back.

Absolutely which is why I hate to transcribe - childrens hospitals

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Me too - me

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Years ago, there was a patient... I'd done several reports on her, so I kinda "knew" her or at least was familiar with how she had been doing. One day, I had the discharge summary & it was a death report. I was heartbroken. I sat there & bawled through the typing. My husband asked what was wrong, had I gotten a bad phone call or something. I told him a patient had died & it was a sad case. I've had a couple others make me cry. There was another report where a doctor was dictating a bad prognosis. In the background I heard somebody call him urgently. He got this horribly sad voice & stopped the report, said he'd do the rest later. I got the addendum & the patient had died.

Infant autopsies - bettymcbricker

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Totally. I work from home and one of my main accounts is a children's hospital and I am often crying or shaking as I type, especially if I can hear babies crying during the dictation. I have a toddler and I am overcome with fear/sadness sometimes when I type about little kids with leukemia, etc.

I used to work in a big hospital in Pathology and I typed autopsies, including a lot of infant autopsies. What killed me was that the specimen bags sometimes had a little tiny outfit that the parents had chosen for their baby and the little outfit had to stay with the correct autopsy/specimen bag we were typing. That was rough.

Here's my story - sniff

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Okay, this was many, many years ago, pre-internet. I was working for perhaps one of the few start-up MTSOs at the time -- and, boy, we were treated SO well.

So I was working in the office, the only MT there late at night (we weren't allowed to work at home then, although it was feasible using telephone lines). I was transcribing one of my favorite docs, who said, "Okay! Finished with my dictation for tonight! Have a great evening."

Less than 1/2 hour later, he was admitted to his own hospital's ER, having been involved in a head-on car accident. The damage was described in meticulous and painful detail, and they ended up air lifting him to a larger, better equipped, facility. I wept throughout the dictation.

Two years later, I heard his voice again, dictating very slowly and deliberately. Yes, he had finally returned.

The reports that get to me are the older people's with - dementia or Alzheimer disease.

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Which seems to be in the diagnosis list of a very high percentage of older people admitted btw. It's just so sad. Yes, the children with cancer get to me too, but for some reason, the seniors with dementia just do me in the most. I do acute care/rehab reports often, so it's all day....sigh....... : (

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