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Save me from myself! (Rant ahead) - Polly

Posted: Feb 24, 2011

This particular doc is super-annoying. He word salads/mumbles/sputters/, says things he thinks are funny and then laughs at his own "joke" (as in "I told the patient not to set himself on fire again while smoking crack heh-heh-heh"), and tonight he clearly and deliberately enunciated a phrase and then said, "I thought you people would have gotten this by now." WTF??? Among other things, this guy could not key in the correct number of a report if there were only 1 button on his dictating machine, not to mention his spectacularly bad dictation. I suppose it would be a HIPAA violation to type "F---you, Dr. X" after his snide comment. How do other MTs cope with irritation/anger at jerk doctors?

I give 'em H-E- - Double-Hockeysticks

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I tell them exactly what I think of them, their jokes, their attitudes, their whole species sometimes ... right out loud, using any language that trips off my tongue, getting as dramatic and nasty or sarcastic or condescending as the mood strikes.

My dog, a very expressive and engaging Border Collie, will perk up and listen because I must be talking to her as there is only us two in the house, and sometimes I end my rant with - and Liberty thinks so too! (that's the dog) - which she translates into - let's go for a walk !! - and gets all doggie-jiggity.

This last part is pretty funny, makes me laugh (at both of us), and breaks the tension and frustration at the idiot doc-in-the-box. Then we go for a walk because I can't say no to her reaction and it does us both good.

That's what I do.

Same here, except I have a cat. - Zville MT

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It's just me and the cat at home when I work, so I go off on a tirade, using words I don't use in polite conversation, and when Daphne (the cat) looks at me, I say "and Daphne agrees!"

I have a doc that has a terrible accent, cannot use proper tenses, and constantly switches between "he" and "she" throughout his dictation - it's like he forgets if the patient is a male or female! Then he complains that I don't type his work verbatum. So I started typing his work verbatum and in one report, he make a joke about the patient's life sounding like a country song - so I typed it. I get the report back a day later with a note that the doctor had a tizzy because I typed in his little joke! Make up your freaking mind! My rants were in rare form that day ;)

This poster is right, though - just let it all out. It makes you feel better because then you can laugh and that always eases the tension and makes things more bearable.

Be professional - mztexteditor

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Be professional. Bring it to the attention of your supervisor. Certainly this physician is being quiet unprofessional and his superiors should be notified. They will handle it with him.

Maybe - MT

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Maybe they will handle it. We can certainly hope. But, where I have worked, there is no confronting the speakers. They continue on in their obvious oblivion to continue the same behavior. No one, it seems, even asks them to stop doing such things as talking while yawning or eating, or coughing and sneezing right into the microphone as loudly as possible, so as to break my eardrums and put me out of business!!

It would probably be a violation to say "[bleep] you", - but not to type everything he says verbatim!

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Been there.
Did that.

It felt GOOOOOOOD!

You live with it and go on. There is always - sm

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someone who irritates you.

Polly - Old Pro

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I would just be having mental images of a 165 pound Rottweiler I know going for his jugular. (Actually, the Rottie is a really nice dog who has never bitten anybody ever and would probably just lick him to death.) But I can relate to how you feel. I have a foreign doc who cannot speak English, in addition to which he has a severe stuttering problem, and is just generally obnoxious and full of attitude. I know he cannot help the stuttering, but he can help the other antics. Too bad I am on the West Coast and he is on the East Coast, or I could arrange to have Matilda the Rottie pay him a visit!

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