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obstinate doctor refuses to clean up dictation - pighead alert

Posted: May 01, 2015

MTSO suit tries to go to bat for us and asks if he would slow down. He won't.

Makes you wonder who he is really battling here, as we are just trying to do a good job for him. I don't understand this mentality at all. We could save him a future lawsuit perhaps.

Anyone know why they won't change their style? Why they would dig in their heels in this way? I have a pat paragraph for his Physical Exam I was artful enough to glean through with a fine-toothed comb one day and get a standard paragraph out of it, which I now insert when he goes to town.

Sick of the riduculousness of this JOB. Hardly a career anymore.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

pighead alert - Gail

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When I worked in the hospital doing MT, we had a doc that was politely asked to slow down by the supervisors, but he never did. Can't figure out that mentality either, or why the lack of concern.

That's pretty awesome that your MTSO did that though! - Sleepy

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At least they tried...they actually tried! So many out there could give 2, well, you know whats. ;)

maybe he figures it's women's work to clean up after him - patriarchal pig

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otherwise the little women would have nothing to do!

Too many doctors see themselves as godlike....

Dumb doc - dumb&dumber

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Fine, the old garbage in, garbage out applies here ...

So tempted to.... - Linda

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make an audio copy, sent it to the patient, and let them deal with the creep. It would show the patient how little their physician really cares about them. I won't do this, but it sure would clean things up if we could!

Why he won't change - sm

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Going by my experience in similar situations, I would guess that he won't change because there are MTs who don't have a problem with his dictation.

I have never asked, or wanted to ask, anyone to slow down. I have had other MTs ask me to ask doctors to slow down, but the problem was with the MTs.

You aren't going to like this suggestion, but ... you will have better luck with him if you don't focus on wanting him to slow down. You need to train your ears to listen faster.

Bad dictators only change if they are hit in the wallet. - Sleepy

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NM

I remember a lickety-split doctor - bornfree

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when I worked at the hospital. I was told that someone asked him if he could please dictate more slowly -- so then he told them he was going to go even faster! Never found out if he was kidding or not! Have to hope so. But in any event, he did not change his ways.

lickety split - me too

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wow! This sounds exactly like a situation where I used to work in house -- doc was asked to slow down, he said he would just dictate faster --- which he did!!

His MD should be yanked to prevent harm to self and others - Val

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What a jerk. Give lots o'blanks. He don't care, why should you? As in the psych industry, you can't care more than the patient does.

What's really bad is the - foreigners who

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not only speed up doing parts of their dictation, but seem to revert to their native languages on top of it. I just smile now and leave as many blanks as necessary because I don't give a *expletive deleted* any more.

For one, they don't feel they should have to do it, but - echomt

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that's just the tip of the iceberg. They see dictation as redundant and a waste of their valuable time. They view it that way because they are flat out clueless as to the many reasons it is necessary, not the least of which being the fact that they are now the number one cause of death and injury in the U.S. and so everything they do and say needs to be documented in a typewritten format so that it can be scrutinized for accuracy and so that accountability can be assigned when they screw up. They resent that part, and I have come to believe many of them are deliberate in their irresponsible approach to dictation purely out of spite. I have also heard, as no doubt many of you have as well, people commenting in the background during or at the end of the dictation before the dictator hangs up the phone about how fast a dictator is rattling this stuff off only to have the dictator chuckle in a prideful manner as if to take the comment as a compliment of just how smart and adept they are at articulating their vast medical knowledge (barf). In other words, the faster they can rattle it off the smarter they imagine they sound to one another. It's pathetic! There's much more to it, but even just these couple of points are enough to make one sick to their stomach.

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