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So weary of having the worst dictators in my life! - sm
Posted: Nov 17, 2012These dictators should be fined for their horrible English language ability.
DICTATORS - Nature
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I want to know why all the new residents that do the "dictated for" reports are ESL. Don't we have any residents that speak English? It seems like there are new ones every day. If you can't pronounce the firt name of the dictator, you know you are in for a hard report. It makes me want to tear my hair out, especially when they dictate so fast that it sounds like a foreign language instead of English. I think that 90% of the dictators on my primary account can't speak proper English. Where are the good dictators? Are they in other countries?
I have always thought that... - anon
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anyone who dictates, should be required to actually listen to some dictation before they start, and then after they first dictate, they should be required to listen to their own dictation before they do any more. Of course, they could probably understand their own dictation better than we do, but maybe it would help them understand what we face when they mumble, chew, yawn, have their cell phone ringing, or talk like they are in a speech race contest.
laughing out loud - anon
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what kills me are when they say, "CC this to Dr. Panakalayalala" or something worse, and it takes 20 minutes of looking through the physician list to try to figure out who it is.
Why not just spell it phonetically and then - add a note in QA box that says...
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CC name spelled phonetically.
I know - anon
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I should do that. I try to use the Ctrl N feature as much as I can though. You are right though, not worth the aggravation or time. Not sure I could spell most of them phonetically. LOL
I thought that was what we were suppose to do. Spell phonetically - and let facility figure it out. nm
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