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Pet dictation peeve - NYMT

Posted: May 25, 2010

Ooooh! This gets me. This is an NP who is dictating acute care - "The patient comes in with a diagnosis of non-insulin dependent diabetes 'myelitis'." Puhleeze! The same dictator pronounces "organomegaly" as "organomeglea." It's like hearing someone scratching their fingernails down a blackboard. Shouldn't these people have had enough schooling to be able to sound out words?!

How about an educated cardiologist who prounounces Vicodin - Vikodyne

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Or enalapril as enileprile. This guy drives me nuts. What part of phonics did he not get in grade school. These are just a few of his that drive me nuts. Half of the time he totally slaughters the medication to where I have NO idea what he is referring to.

It does make you wonder how they got through school! - - NYMT

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How about the patient who has both stomach problems and anxiety and is taking "zantex"? I feel a blank coming on!

Mine is happening right now. - Tired

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A cataract surgery that is taking the doctor 447 seconds to dictate.

A CATARACT surgery for crying out loud!!

I can't stand doctors who drone on and on FOREVER when they could say it in 30 seconds and I could move on!

mine pet peeve... - cj

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I have one who always says "on palpitation of the area." Come on, doesn't she know the difference between palpation and palpitation? Makes me crazy. Also pronounces osseous as "oshous." The other one that makes me nuts is when they says larNIX or pharNIX instead of larynx and pharynx.

I have one that stacks every chart - and mispronounces many things nm

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Used to transcribe for physical therapists - sm

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and they were terrible at pronouncing drug names. It would be really common drugs pronounced in really funny ways, so it was hard to figure out. Sometimes they would spell them, but they must have been reading off a written list because they would get one letter wrong, like gabapentin spelled gabapertin.

I have an old doc who forgets what he is saying - ors

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I can't believe this guy is still practicing medicine. Almost every report he either forgets what he is saying mid sentence and starts dictating another sentence, can't figure out what he wants to say and will end up with a sentence that does not make sense, or he gets to a certain part of the dictation, like the assessment, forgets where he is at and ends up redictating the report. Most of the time it isn't always the same as he dictated it the first time.

Old doc who forgets - ColtsFan

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Many years ago, I had a doc who would get lost in his dictation, repeat things, just sit in silence for long periods of time. It wasn't long before he was undergoing testing and diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I would get SOOOOO frustrated with him, but then felt pretty sorry for him, and his patient's he was treating.

I do wonder if - ors

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how he gets along with his patients. I do feel bad for him because it seems to frustrate him sometimes when he can't get out what he is wanting to say.

Doc yesterday said the patient had confusion, and lists two other things, and then said confusion ag - I think the doc had confusion!

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I have a couple that just get under my skin. - SleepyDwarf

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When they dictate a list but do not say #1. WHY can't you say #1 first so I don't have to go back and fix it and change diagnosis to diagnoses, etc.???

And when they say "period" and then keep dictating along in the same sentence.

"The patient had mild pulmonary edema "period" and was started on ...."

Drives me nuts!!

I hate those, too! - nm

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In lieu of instead of in view of - she says it wrong every time - Olive

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Today I had one. No birth date was given and doc - shortcake

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said patient age 3 times within the report and used 3 different ages. Nothing worse than having to leave a blank because of doc error and that will impact our QA submission. I guess this would be 2 pet peeves.

I have one who - grrrrrr

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coughs....but only when he can't pronounce something!

I also have one that chews gum throughout the entire dictation.

I have a doc who cannot resist commenting on every... - ndmt

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conversation going on around her. Dictate a few words, laugh, talk to someone else, re-dictate those few words because you forgot where you were, start another discussion, dictate a few more words, cut off half your sentence trying to use the pause button, dictate a few more words, tell me you lost your place (DUH...) and re-dictate the one coherent sentence you managed to get out.

Pet dictation peeve - Allison45

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ndmt - sounds EXACTLY like an ER doc in San Diego - apologizes profusely for always having to start over but simply cannot resist the urge to get involved in every single conversation around her. If only there was a way to reach through the computer and smack her!

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