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Dictations - IMHO

Posted: Mar 19, 2014

Why is it that not taken into the equation of our pay is the fact that most residents, PAs, CNP, CNM, etc., do not pronunciate, have correct grammar, or the fact that they just don't dictate adequately in general? I spend way too much time looking up, confirming, trying to figure out what they are saying as they laugh, slur, set the phone down under paperwork while flipping through charts and sign papers (can hear this often), or constantly move the phone around where all I hear is crackles, yawn, go the bathroom, chew and eat their way through dictations??? Nothing is ever done about this, and it is nearly every report, especially for the large teaching hospitals, which I might add is usually all accounts these days. BAH

Agreed - IMHO2

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Not only residents, PAs etc, but I find many of the long-established docs to be the same way. Don't seem to realize that someone is at the other end having to make sense of their mush and actually having their paycheck depend on it. Very very wrong in my book. I can't think of another occupation where this is the case, can you?

agree but there is no "equation" at all - when figuring our pay...

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We shouldnt be subject to a pay "equation." We deserve and are worth hourly pay! We have a valid profession so much so that "people's lives depend" on us to figure out the dictation gibberish, especially after it goes through voice wreck and comes out wrong. We are extremely important! MTSO corporations have figured out how to make $$ on us by selling their VR to the medical profession, scooping us up and promising to take us on as employees, then slash our pay so we can barely live while they can take home millions. We need to unite and walk off the job for a day. Think of the state America's medical records would be in if nothing got typed/edited for 24 hours!! Might get some recognition there if we made the news...

Dictators that take 30 mins to dictate a paragraph. nm - speakspotspeak

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