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From what I seen when looking up past docs in DQM - dnr

Posted: May 14, 2011

People are not doing a full listen/correction. There are some pretty blatant errors, and these errors are being repeated by subsequently dictating physicians who are obviously using other documents for information (as it should be). Blatant errors such as allergy to medications that don't even exit, blatant lab errors that are counter to some of the diagnoses. I shamefully admit to not doing a full listen when I first started voice recognition was back in the beginning, but quickly noted blatant errors that I wouldn't want to be responsible for harming the patient, plus I don't make anymore money by not doing a full listen, i.e. I made less than minimum wage before full listen (but did quite well with straight transcription) and still don't make minimum wage with voice recognition. At this rate, might as well have the Indians do it if we aren't going to maintain the quality. And, no I don't want the Indians doing the work, but I do want a living wage. Oh well, went to a convention this weekend and made a contact for a job that I probably will be hired for in my new field (finished school!) Yipee, but it's so sad to leave transcription.

To DNR - a1typist

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You should be jumping for joy to leave transcription! It is not really a profession any more. No one is willing to pay us for the knowledge we have in our heads. I would be thrilled to leave were I not too old and to ill. Good luck to you!

I just can't understand how some people are - supposedly making

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$50,000 a year and some are not making minimum wage. Can't wrap my head around it. I do full listen and am making about half what I used to straight typing.

money - Kimi

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When I type, I can fly. I listen and type what I hear. When I am doing ASR, if I try to speed up, I can miss the little words like no, yes and really think I have put them in but when I go back and look, sometimes I have left them out. It is mind-splitting work on some days. I do ASR like I'm driving, I speed up when I can and slow the speed way down whenever numbers are involved. I'm adapting, but at 50 change comes harder for me, LOL.

I just cannot fly through ASR. My ASR will just absolutely - put in words that are not

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(Lipitor for lisinopril or whatever), will just add the word no or not for no reason -- "the patient was not hypertensive" when it was clearly "the patient was hypertensive" and leave out the same vice versa. It is so tedious I feel like I have been in a blender by the end of the day. I have to listen very carefully. The errors are not just blatant to be seen by a cursory proofread. Also I hate the runons -- "No cyanosis, no edema." I try to fix sentences into something remotely grammatically correct. It is similar to herding kindergarteners all day.

I know - Kimi

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I know, crazy. I loved someone's post on here a while ago who said by the end of the day her eyes were bugging out from ASR. I totally get that.

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