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Horrible dictators being added to SR. - CuriousMT


Posted: Jun 10, 2014

Let me preface this by saying that I know that ultimately this is what we're here for, to train the systems to understand every dictator.  With that being said, has anyone else noticed that some of the dictators who have been purely straight transcription for years (while all of their colleagues are on speech wreck) are now on speech as well?  

These are doctors that without several paragraphs stored in your expander program, there is no way you could understand what they are saying.  As in, they mumble their way through a ROS or a physical exam, virtually saying the exact same thing every time, but so incomprehensible that even knowing what they are saying, you still can't make out 99% of it.  

I've had at least 3 of these doctors get switched over the speech in the last 2 weeks.  I'm basically re-typing everything speech brings in (luckily with my stored text in my expander) because there is no way to edit the gibberish that speech thinks the dictator is saying.  

Again, I know this is what we are training the system for, but there are some dictators who will never be able to have their dictations figured out by a computer.  I hated typing them before because even with paragraph upon paragraph stored in my expander, I spent so much time deciphering the non-standardized stuff that I barely made any money.  Now with them being speech wreck files, I'm making half the amount and still doing the same amount of work.

Just needed to vent.  

This is exactly why the lie they sold us is so hurtful. - sm

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One of the excuses for cutting our pay was because the system was going to learn and we were going to become so proficient that it would not be cost effective to keep paying us what we were paid. Instead, we got a 40% pay cut and the system has NOT improved. If anything, it has gone backwards and we're screwed, forcing us onto foodstamps if we qualify, losing our homes, etc., everything that has been written on this board. It's just downright sickening.

I think the hospital should find out that the drivel is not intelligible at all - AND THEY HAVE A PATIENT SAFETY ISSUE ON THEIR HAND

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and we all know the dictators do not read their reports.

Doctors/hospitals pay us to do drivel and ESL - we are hired help, kind of like maids to clean up

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Not fair, not fun to do bad dictators but you can't get each and every doctor to speak clearly or without dialect.

The hospital does not care. They just want the work done cheap and quick.

Dictators not reading reports is their problem. They really should not be practicing medicine but that is a whole different subject. I listen to some doctors' dictation and I know he/she is probably incompetent in patient care. They seem preoccupied and cannot keep their thoughts straight or keep track of the patient and the reason they are seeing them.

speech garble - anon

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I have several doctors who blow right through their PE and there is no way I could type what they are mumbling. I rely on the SR. My issue is the doctors that accidentally go straight typing, or enter their IDs wrong and SR wont work for them. I lose a lot of money from that. SR is much easier for me.

You said SM - SM

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" Now with them being speech wreck files, I'm making half the amount and still doing the same amount of work." That is the answer to your question right there. Money. They don't care how much stress or financial ruin it causes you. They will add them and they will keep them on because they make more money that way and you work twice as hard.


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