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Serioulsy a 5 minute phone conversation - thanks doc

Posted: Dec 15, 2013

I didn't get paid a dime for that crap

That is always when I take care of my online - The Typing Dead

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banking, check my email, and look for things on eBay so it's not a total waste.

I must be a weirdo because I love listening to those recordings. - They can be pretty funny.

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It has to be said though that I will take any opportunity to take a break from work.

Inactivity Chart and Phone Conversation - Sarah

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This may sound paranoid, but I found if you sit and listen and don't type it gets counted as inactivity time! So I sit there and "doodle" on the keyboard the entire time and then delete it when they start dictating again.

As long as audio - Just me

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It's my understanding that as long as audio is playing or there are keystrokes it is not considered inactive time. Based on that, if you quickly re-read the entire report at the end and you are not playing the audio or using the keyboard I think that would count as inactive. I personally wouldn't doodle on the keyboard as ASR does enough of that on its own unfortunately. Instead, maybe press the up and down arrow keys... just a thought.

Heard some great stuff - poorhouse

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Heard a pain doctor asking another doctor to write a script for his daughter's narcotics because she "left it in her car and it got stolen." The other doctor said sure. Also heard a doctor talking about buying the house next to him and converting it into a two-story garage for all his cars. Heard a lot about the newly implemented EMR and how crappy it is and how many tulip bulbs one doctor planted around his property, like 80,000 of the things!

I love the conversations too! - Trampled underfoot

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They can be very "revealing"; the doctors either don't care about us listening in or don't think about it. One doctor, after such a conversation, went on to intentionally dictate a recipe for me, the transcriptionist, for what he said was the "best spaghetti sauce"!

A drug rep once visited a doc and I got 30 minutes - L&L

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of dirty jokes on tape.

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