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I'm beginning to hate holidays! - smmt

Posted: Jan 19, 2015

Dear Dictator: What makes you think I can understand what you are dictating when the baby is screaming it's head off, and the toddler is sitting on your lap having loads of fun banging something (the phone?), the dog starts barking, and you decide to yawn on top of all that?

and don't forget - inagreement

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and don't forget the TV playing in the background! and the pauses, while dictator stops to watch to keep up with the program.

I once had some imbecile dictate while he - was driving his kids in his dunebuggy.

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Up and down sand dunes, no less. So lots of squealing and shrieking in the background. I hope he rolls it someday.

It will probably be in the middle of a dictation - sm

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and you'll get gigged for not understanding what he says while he is rolling..Doctors, their arrogance is amazing

dictation foul - kcmt

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This is not necessarily related to the holiday, and I have shared this before. However, I just finished with an orthopedic surgeon who dictates WHILE he is either doing surgery or overseeing surgery. I get "abduct that a little more" sprinkled in with the dictation and the constant screeching of whatever drill or shaver they are using. My poor aching ears.

Dr. King, I too have a dream, but mine is very simple. It is just for the doctors to dictate slowly, coherently and without a ton of background noise.

HIPAA - Nana

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Aren't they all breaking regulations? Dictating about patients outside of work? I would think so and they need to be reported.

I used to be on an account where every Monday--sm - anon

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the physician would dictate their preop notes at home in the evening. Over the course of the year I got to hear their child practicing the piano and then the violin. Sometimes the child would talk to her mother and the mother would whisper quietly to her questions. It was definitely irritating.

Again - sm

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I honestly don't think that people realize just how much those pesky phone lines pick up. I used to work for a transcriptionist back when you dialed into phone lines to get the work..Well she would tape them and I would pick it up from here, transcribe, and return. I was new, now I know what she was doing was illegal..But anyway, I could hear her hubby in the background abusing her. Always suspected it, but never had proof..Nothing I could do, as she would never admit to anything. So as soon as I could I found a real job, and that is how I started my MT career.

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