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#84912 - 11/08/07 07:32 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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MicheleA
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Registered: 02/18/05
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takes the show on the road and goes jogging while dictating, with all the cars whizzing by and the wind blowing across the microphone!
I'd take the jogger over my doc who I can tell is driving while dictating. 
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#84917 - 11/08/07 09:02 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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mptang
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Registered: 10/24/99
Posts: 3137
Loc: Freedonia
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is it too much to ask to give the first and last name of the joker you're trying to cc?
and would spelling their last name really kill ya? had an ESL yokel today wanting a copy to go to Dr. Pee-a-knee. turns out, it was "Payne." 
tales from the other side.
tit for TAT,
Tang
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#84930 - 11/09/07 04:44 AM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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baldymom
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Registered: 02/26/04
Posts: 615
Loc: Hampton Roads - Va
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I have a doc who drives while dictating too. I love it though. I don't know if he just drives for fun (think west and mountians), but I can hear him shifting gears the whole time. He sails through those like it's the most relaxing part of his day.
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#84933 - 11/09/07 07:28 AM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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MicheleA
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Registered: 02/18/05
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Surely my doc can't remember details on each patient he saw that day, so he must have charts next to him on the seat and he must consult them while driving. That's what scares me. Holding the recorder, flipping through charts, and, oh yeah! driving!
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#84938 - 11/09/07 09:00 AM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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baldymom
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Registered: 02/26/04
Posts: 615
Loc: Hampton Roads - Va
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Great visual. Holding a chart, holding the recorder, shifting gears. 
I've never once hear a page flip. This guys so smooth, I figure he looks it over before he starts. Could have the recorder in his lap I guess. He's young too. Might be he does remember most of them, or just does the easy ones in the car.
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#84946 - 11/09/07 11:49 AM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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Asugar515
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Registered: 11/28/06
Posts: 168
Loc: NYC - where English is the for...
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I have so many new doctors to complain about now, it's hard to choose which one irks me the most, but I'll try. lol
I would say the current leader is the speed-talking ESL doctor who dictates in one huge sentence using "and so" "then so" "so then" and my all-time favorite, "and so then." To add further insult, her reports do not flow in a sequence of events, especially in HPI section.
If I didn't sit here and make sense of her, she'd end up with this:
"And so the patient was admitted and so when he had breakfast and then he went to bed and so then he watched TV so then he got up and so he came to the ER because he was not feeling well so then we checked his pressure and so he has a history of a syncope so then he had an echocardiogram and his blood sugar was high and so he is 83-years-old and so on his last admission he was improved so then he was admitted and then he was feeling better and so then he was discharged."
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#84948 - 11/09/07 11:57 AM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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UpstateNikki
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Registered: 10/22/05
Posts: 136
Loc: New York State
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Cough....cough....cough....cough..."sorry"....grumbles....cough..cough...drops microphone....flipping through chart....flickering scans in the air....cough....Mr. Jones is a "whatever his age is" year-old gentleman seen for....nurse walks in and interrupts. He loses his place and starts over. This is what every report has been like this morning. I'm ready to drive to his office and strangle him.
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#84949 - 11/09/07 12:22 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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shipaddict
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Registered: 10/15/07
Posts: 137
Loc: Katy TX
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OMG you should do this doc verbatim. I bet she would clean up her act quickly!!
I had a FNP today stop her dictation, get up and make a phone call to get vitals, and then sit back down to finish the report. took up 4 minutes of the report. I had another doc put me on hold for 5 minutes -- on-hold music and everything -- and never came back to finish. 
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#84967 - 11/09/07 05:15 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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truetran350
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Registered: 10/31/06
Posts: 258
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I had one today that took the first 2 minutes of the report trying to figure out the date and the year Arghh.
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#85018 - 11/10/07 08:33 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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Softail
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Registered: 08/30/06
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I have a doc who drives while dictating too. I love it though. I don't know if he just drives for fun (think west and mountians), but I can hear him shifting gears the whole time. He sails through those like it's the most relaxing part of his day.
That reminds of a doc I used to have that would dictate while commuting on the train. I kid you not when I say ALL you could hear was the train chugging along. To top that off, he was an ESL that was impossible to understand in the first place. Yup, used to just jump for joy doing his reports. 
Edited by Softail (11/10/07 09:02 PM)
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#85642 - 11/21/07 10:49 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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Softail
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Registered: 08/30/06
Posts: 328
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One doc I have really ticks me off with the overuse of the word period at the end of every sentence. After 25 reports like this in a row I just want to slap him!
Is he related to the doc I have that puts a comma every place EXCEPT where it belongs?
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#85684 - 11/23/07 12:39 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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missp
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Registered: 09/11/99
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That reminds of a doc I used to have that would dictate while commuting on the train
Can anyone say Privacy Act? Wonder how many people on that train overheard that.
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#85689 - 11/23/07 02:50 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
[Re: Softail]
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shipaddict
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Registered: 10/15/07
Posts: 137
Loc: Katy TX
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One doc I have really ticks me off with the overuse of the word period at the end of every sentence. After 25 reports like this in a row I just want to slap him! Is he related to the doc I have that puts a comma every place EXCEPT where it belongs?
they must both be related to the doc I often get that repeatedly says "period, period, paragraph, period, uuuhhhh, period, period, paragraph, period" during his report. Okay, dude, one "period, paragraph" is really all I need, as a matter of fact, I am probably capable of figuring out how to punctuate your dictation myself!!
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#85733 - 11/24/07 12:23 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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rurur
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Registered: 11/23/07
Posts: 5
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I had one that apparently fell asleep too. After a pause of about 5 minutes, he woke up and said "and a nine-piece band was up on stage". Wonder what he was dreaming about? I've heard everything, crying, coughing, spitting, passing gas, peeing, flushing, laughing, burping, yelling, screaming kids, dogs barking, kids yelling. But never, never did they repeat what they were dictating when all this was going on!:((
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#85736 - 11/24/07 12:46 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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kiwimom
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Registered: 09/05/06
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Loc: Medina, Ohio
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#86302 - 12/03/07 12:39 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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Star390
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Registered: 12/14/06
Posts: 173
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What I dislike most is when dictators are speaking with food and gum in their mouths and when they do not repeat what they say while speaking through a yawn.
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#87640 - 12/31/07 12:44 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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emcatsmom
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Registered: 11/22/07
Posts: 20
Loc: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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My fav is still my peds ophthalmologist who uses his own short forms for entire sentences, and expects you to know what he is talking about, eg. "eyefullpupnorm" (which I swear sounds like Eiffelpubenorm) is supposed to be "Eye movements are full, pupillary reaction is normal." The first time I got that correction, I almost fell off my chair!
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#87641 - 12/31/07 01:08 PM
Re: Things dictators do that make you want to
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Donna2
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Registered: 12/31/69
Posts: 6136
Loc: Sunny FL
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I don't like when they use a speaker phone, then bounce an x-ray right on the darn thing analysing it while dictating. NOISY.
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