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Poor audio - sick and tired

Posted: Mar 09, 2010

Doesn't it just seem wrong when you can hear the neighboring doctor's dictation better than you can YOUR dictator? Do they just hand the phone across the way and say "would you hold this for me?"

not a clue . . . - voice

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as to what we hear. In the golden days of tapes, once had a doc who supposedly had a "back spasm" Sure sounded like something else to me with all the heavy breathing and moaning. they do not have a clue and just plain do not care (most of them anyway).

I had to transcribe for SuperMom - mrs.krabs

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She was an OB/GYN in a university hospital dictating an op note while driving down the interstate (I knew exactly where she was because her GPS was telling me every few seconds). The radio was on, kid was in the back seat watching a movie and crying, and she was talking to the kid and passing food to him over the front seat. I was just waiting to hear a crash, but somehow she made it to wherever she was going in one piece. Now that is ridiculous and dangerous. Talk about multi-tasking.

I'm with you!! - So Tired

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I can't stand when people around them nurses etc. just hold conversations sounding as if they sre sitting in the dictator's lap. I had a dictation not too long ago where I got this person's entire sexual account of her weekend with some guy and of course, couldn't hear any of the dictation. Why doesn't the dictator tell them to shut up?

Oh my! You should have typed everything you heard for the doctor to see! - mrs.krabs

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That'll teach him to dictate in a private space. I'd send it through just for the he** of it.

Background noise - sick and tired

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Still just amazed at how many times the background noise is CLEARER than the dictator. Just where is the phone? Taped to the wall -- on the floor -- out in the hallway?

OMG!!! The stories . . . . - voice

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we could tell, couldn't we? If they ONLY KNEW what we hear. I am sure we all have a story or 2 to tell about someone eating, drinking, driving, (SuperMom listed earlier) going to the bathroom (nice, uh?), etc., etc. Just gotta shake your head times, dontcha?

What I shake my head at - CyberlandMT

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Or wonder about...is why they are allowed to dictate out in the open like that. And sometimes you definitely can hear more than one physician dictating at the same time. So what if they don't have anything to do with each other's patient (not consulting or whatever). Isn't that just as much of a HIPAA violation as it is for me to send a cc to the wrong doctor? This is so bass-ackwards!

A bad ESL was stumbling over his words. . . - CA-MT

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He just couldn't pronunciate any word correctly, you know the ones. He was dictating on a patient, was in the PLAN section when I heard an American doctor loud and clear in the background start to dictate on the same patient. This ESL stopped, listened to what she had to say and repeated it - in the PLAN - verbatim as she was saying it. I couldn't believe my ears. I could have just transcribed exactly what she was saying. At one point, the Asian doctor was distracted and started dictating in his own words, unfortunately. For a few minutes I could actually understand what he was about to say. He must have known how awful he sounded, but what put him into that copycat fugue state? Scary.

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