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Thanks for the spelling lesson, Doc - Apparently I am an idiot

Posted: Nov 28, 2013

I'm not sure what got into Dr. Knucklehead's brain tonight, but he's spelling words like pannus, Trileptal, anasarca (which he spelled wrong). It's bad enough he's doing it as often as he is because he's completely messing up the voice recognition for his drafts, but he has spelled pannus every freaking time he has said it. The patient has cellulitis below her pannus, so the word is coming up a lot in this report.

I have one more hour to go and then a 3 day weekend, thanks to my Sun thru Thurs schedule. I may be drinking at the end of my day at 6:30 this morning.

Loved your I might be drinking at the end - of my day

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That was cute.

I am not surprised - tm

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He may have been seeing "penis" transcribed on reports he's gotten previously when he meant "pannus." I've seen that error being made and so he's probably just trying to ensure it is transcribed correctly. That explains the "pannus" at least being spelled :)

Okay, I can see your point - But man that would be a bad MT

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I can totally see your point free from the haze over my eyes from wanting to beat him with his own arm. That would make me nuts if I saw an MT transcribe penis instead of pannus on this female patient. That just makes us all look bad.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

True story here - MTmtMT

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When I was in-house doing radiology, we had a VERY seasoned MT who transcribed a report and typed "anal" instead of "renal" throughout (it was a CT of the abdomen and pelvis).

The radiologist raised all sorts of noise over those errors (there were multiple instances of "anal" throughout the entire thing, not just one but every single time he said renal), and after that I swear the man thought all of us in the department had the IQ of a doorknob after that incident. Luckily, he was very conscientious and read all of his reports before electronically signing off on them and caught it before it went anywhere.

Although I laughed to myself at the ridiculous nature of her mistake, I really did feel bad for the doctor. He was ESL but an excellent dictator. I guess her mind just wasn't on her work that day to make such a silly error, especially with years of experience.

Now I can't imagine how that radiologist must react when he sees what VR generates for his dictation, lol!

Baloney amputation - sm

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That was the norm for a transcription service my facility used to use. I actually called them once to complain and their idiot manager told me that he didn't think anyone could know what words the doctor meant. He insisted that I was being unreasonable and that I was lying about being an MT. If I were an MT, he said, I would know you couldn't tell what the words were -- nobody can. Turned out he had some kind of job rehab program going, where he trained women off the street or just out of jail to do MT.

The last company we had was better, but not much. I see MTs here saying they work or worked for them and my blood pressure rises. I wonder if they think that we just didn't deserve better -- the work was awful. About half the reports had something wrong with them.

I am not kidding ... I have seen baloney amputation so often I think that is how it is written. I see the same word misuse errors I see here, like advise for advice, there for their. I see resperatory, respatory, renul, and despirate, disperate, and rehabitation, rehabilatation.

My favorite are the phonetically spelled instruments. Grrr. You would think they'd look them up.

Um.... What? - nomessage

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Everybody sing: "You say "baloney," and I say, "below-knee..." - with apologies to George Gershwin (nm)

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When that happens - SM

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I have a few really decent dictators who will randomly start spelling the most basic of words, and I've started assuming that somebody must have really blundered on a previous report so they assume NO ONE working on the account can spell.

It's really annoying and just prevents me from getting a rhythm going as I sit there while they spell out mundane words.

I interviewed with a department head once - IAMT

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and one of the doctors/dictators sat in on the interview. At one point in the interview he turned to me and asked me to spell a couple words. He then said nearly EVERY MT was transcribing fecal when he said thecal, etc., and he was now spelling a lot of words because of that and wished he could stop spending the time doing that.

From that day forward, I kinda understood why some of the dictators spelled out fairly simple medical terms and didn't take it personally. Slows ya down some, but having the experience (which we are no longer paid for) to put a term in the context of the report and provide a quality report seems to have gone to the wayside.

When doctors start spelling ... - sm

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Especially if they start doing it suddenly, it is usually because they are getting garbage from some MT. It might not be from your company, but another, or even from some reviewer at a facility who is changing things, or from another hospital where the doctor also practices.

I have known some who spell because they have an incompetent office MT and think all MTs are like that.

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