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Thanks for letting your kid scream in the phone - Ill peel myself off the ceiling now

Posted: Jul 15, 2012

try and stop the rining in my ears and get through your dictation as the kid continually talks in the background...common sense please...

Nice. On the wrong day, that would mean an instant migraine for me. - crank

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Sorry you had to deal with it. :/

Here is mine: Worst dictator in the world - Dictating in a tunnel

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while running a nailing gun.

It's not transcription, it's a hearing test - old and burned out

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About 95% of all the work on my accounts is dictated from the nurses' stations. I read an article recently that said monitors were being moved from nurses' stations to quieter locations because no one could hear the monitors beeping yet they expect us to hear the dictators who can't speak English to begin with and are doing all the other usual things - yawning, eating, etc. I guess among our other underpaid skills we are supposed to have superhuman hearing.

speaking of hearing how many have that constant - Ringing...drives me nuts

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combination of things through my life but this sure hasnt helped..

Constant ringing YES! sm - mb

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I have ringing, screeching, clicking, hissing in my head all the time!! I blame it on using those stethoscope-type headphones for many years and having the dictation piped directly onto my TMs. It is terrible and I wish it would go away but I'm also sure it's probably not going to. Anyone else here with this problem?

YES! Same problem and 85% hearing loss in left ear..sm - Fossil

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due to this work for over 40 years. I am in the process of getting hearing aids which should be in this week.

And me - soapie12

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Yep, had it for years now. Now that I think about it, started shortly after I got into MT work. I had a doc diagnose me with Meniere's disease. My doc described it as constriction of the blood vessels in my ears due to smoking and should clear up when I stop.......its been years and its still there. Anybody else with the ringing get dizzy or vertigo occasionally too? Yep, the ringing could be causing that too. Hey, hey, ladies, WORK COMP!! DISABILITY!! Hee, hee, not yet but definitely keep those in mind should I have to stop working because of it.

How about a crying baby on one shoulder and - L&L

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the phone on the other. Or swearing up a storm while dictating when driving home and having an MVA. Or 30 minutes of dirty jokes with a drug rep. Or background gossip about the people you work with. Or being so tired you leave a 4-hour dictation that consists of the same 2-line beginning over [snoring] and over [snoring] and over [snoring]and over (I put it on speaker and did other work to see if she'd ever finish it. She didn't).

LMAO guess I shouldnt complain - wonder how u transcribe snore

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But I think I would have tried...

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