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Not a good sign I fear. - no name


Posted: Jun 30, 2011

Today I have had a doctor tell me that CHF was all caps, spelled menisectomy, and now spelled sublingual.  They have never done this before.  Either there are newbies on my regular account or ILPs.  Either way, not good for me.  Figures.  I was actually kind of happy for the moment. 

Yeah, that gets annoying - and insulting, sometimes...

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I wonder those same things sometimes. Other times, it's an ESL doctor spelling words like "space" and "the." Seriously. He must just be trying to be "helpful." Sometimes it takes me a second to figure out when ESLs are spelling, though. I got the word, NOW what is he saying??? Oh... LOL

That is happening to me too. Doc kept spelling out - elle

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"there" and other obvious words if you know the English language and common grammar.

Dictators suddenly spelling - Old MT

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Teaching hospitals, etc., have brand new residents that start every year on July 1st, fresh out of med school. This may be why some of this pops up today. They will get used to it hopefully.

This wasn't a resident, it was a full physician spelling. - nm

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same here - (sm)

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spelling words I never had trouble with from several dictators, and one even adding DICTATED BUT NOT READ at the end of his dictations when never having used that phrase in the period of time of about a year of transcribing his dictations


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