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so my doctor left his tape recorder running... - sssdt

Posted: May 05, 2010

and kept it in his pocket not only during the next patient's exam, but while he went to the bathroom! THAT wasn't a sound I expected to have to transcribe! LOL

At least you didn't hear anything illegal. - Varmint_hunting

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http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_13234411

This is about a doctor in our town who was actually very highly thought of until he was arrested for rape, and then all this other garbage came out.

Here's the money quote:

"... had learned of Bergstrom's substance abuse two years earlier when a medical transcriptionist turned over a recording that captured the doctor trading drugs for, and using, cocaine in his office.

Hospital officials said they reported the tape's existence to the Medical Board of California, which licenses and disciplines doctors, and were told it was the transcriptionist's responsibility to file a formal complaint and forward the recording...."

How would you like to have been the one caught up in THAT mess?? (No, it wasn't me, and I don't know who it was.)

I used to live in Monterey... - RubySoho

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I worked at CHOMP and had a lot of my own accounts, too.

My curiosity is really piqued on this one...I'm gonna Google around.

It was all over the local paper, Ruby. - Varmint_hunting

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And Google has a lot as well:

http://fugitive.com/archives/12421

http://abyss2hope.blogspot.com/2009/07/doctor-convicted-of-rape-of-woman.html

http://www.montereyherald.com/neilshapiro/ci_13892609?nclick_check=1

http://www.kionrightnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=10233061

http://bulletin.aarp.org/states/ca/2009/31/articles/accounts_differ_bergstrom_transcripts.html

And those are only from the first page of search results! :)

Oh, thank you! - RubySoho

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I had to leave there about 6 years ago and miss it immensely. CHOMP was a great place to work and there are so many opportunities for an MT with some initiative there. It was like my personal utopia, lol!

I'm off to read...thanks for the linkage!

here is another one - gin

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A few years ago I had one where the doctor forgot to hang the machine up and got 22 minutes of conversation between him and fellow doctors on how to make methamphetamines - I sent the voice file to my supervisor with an e-mail and in the subject line I put "have you ever wondered what doctors talk about when they think no one is listening?" I stayed well out of that mess - I have no idea whatever happened - did not ask and did not want to know.

Did you ever get more dictation from that doctor again? - nm

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funny you should ask - gin

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I still continued to receive dictation from that hospital but from a different group of doctors

ugh! so glad I didn't hear anything illegal - sm - sssdt

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I have heard a few of his examinations because he leaves the recorder running while in with a patient, but never anything illegal.

No wonder so many of them talk too fast! - Rocky R.

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nm

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