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gum chewing, sandwich eating, potato chip eating doctors make me want to puke - how rude

Posted: Apr 03, 2011

How about those refusing to use a kleenex, not exactly sniffling but something much worse - And belching and no excuse me.

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And all those who work while sick, hungry, tired, miserable. - They should stop abusing us! NM

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Are you for real? - Anonymous

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Those physicians have probably already worked a 12 or 14-hour day, maybe more, which means on their feet, seeing patients, performing surgery, saving lives. The time they spend doing dictation (and yes, unfortunately, grabbing a bite to eat) may be the only free time they have all day. You poor abused babies. Just remember who pays your salary.

Are YOU for real? - complainer

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oh yeah, poor, poor, doctors, making a gazillion dollars a year, having to work 12 to 14 hour days...GIVE ME A BREAK...and that is suppose to excuse their obnoxious behaviors? I don't think so...sucking up snot, belching, chewing, etc etc in someone's ear and no "excuse me"??? You obviously are the one with a bug up your butt...

Wow, you are all jealous of anyone who makes money! - nm

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has nothing to do with money...not a thing. - hoi

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chewing doctors - cr

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That infuriates me! What makes me want to puke is when they sniff up a bit wad of snot and you know what..

chewing doctors - Karen

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Most obnoxious doctor was the one driving with the windows down in downtown Indianapolis, radio on, chewing gum and dictating from his car phone - nearly 20 years ago when the reception was spotty at best. But who else feels like they have been slimed and need to take a shower when someone sneezes in your ears while dictating?

LOL - OMG too funny.

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I couldn't stop laughing. But I have gagged when they sucked up snot. I would send a box of kleenex, but they make more money than me.

I never could figure out how a coughing doctor in the middle of a hospital... - ndmt

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couldn't get a cough drop. He cannot really see patient that way, can he? Or why the one gal with laryngitis was dictating 8 and 10-minute reports. Do they really expect them to waste their time dictating a document full of blanks?

I have had that happen - I sit here and say

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WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!

This whole thread is hilarious! - I keep coming back...

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... to see the next indignant, defensive, cluckity-cluck over such a trivial matter. And you all are not disappointing!

hahahahahahahahahahaaahahahhah wOOt :D

Doctors are people too! - CuriousMT

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While many doctors are being rude while releasing many suspicious noises during their dictations, I always think about the doctors that I know personally. They are people too ... and just like us all -- they can some times be rude. Like it or not. This is reality.

Out of sight, out of mind - SassyMT

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I honestly believe that most doctors have become oblivious to the fact that there are actually people on the other end listening to what they are dictating since we have been removed from view and have been in most cases given an ID#. When I started transcribing years ago, this was never an issue because we were right there so I believe they were more aware of how the job was done, especially since they would often come to us and ask that a certain report be done first. Even a few years ago when I transcribed for a lab, the pathologists were only steps away from us and none of those things were an issue. It's just a sign of the times and probably not going to get any better.

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