Correcting Dictator's Grammar
Posted By: mjr on 2008-07-10
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I transcribe for one professional that says statements such as: "She DID SEEM in agreement". "She DID START to cry" and "The mother DID COME BACK to the office" My supervisor told me she doesn't care for how this sounds either and that we just need to go ahead and type it as is. Of course I am going to abide by what my supervisor says. Is it just "cut and dry" when transcribing to type EXACTLY what is being said? - - - I also type for another professional with a PhD who will dictate and use certain words out of context, but I know what he means to say. Do we just TACTFULLY address individual issues like this when they arise with those who are dictating?
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Stop correcting. You're not the grammar police. (NM)
Goldbird
Agree it's the dictator's report and the dictator's call. NM
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Testing - thanks for correcting me, yes. nm
good job
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Correcting commands in Dragon
Good Morning Ladies and Gents:
I am a reasonably expert user of Dragon, having used it for about four years. I recently bought a new computer, and put Dragon 7.30 on it. I got the new XP 64 bit. Wow, what a dream for the Dragon.
However, while I had no problem with this with my previous computer, with this one it will not follow the command "new line" when I want the cursur to drop down to the beginning of the next line.
It keeps typing the word "united." It will however follow the command "new paragraph." When I ask it to correct "united," it gives me options, none of which are the one I want.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
John
depends how often you're correcting
If it is only a word once in a while that your are back spacing and correcting, that's one thing, but if you are constantly going back and correcting as you go you are losing a lot of productivity. I try to put words I constantly misspell or mistype (like "adn" for and) in my Expander so there's not much correction.
As an IC MT, how much should I charge for correcting their mistakes?
This happens often lately, due to being new at dictation. I never charge when it is my mistake, but lately I am wasting an hour a day making corrections to their previous reports. Should I charge by the time it takes to make the corrections and also to reprint the report? What is the norm?
Thanks again!
doing VR you get paid for reading and correcting
the mistakes, line per line, line per line.....to the end of the document.
What is there not to understand or do you think that reading and correcting mistakes is not work?
They'll NEVER learn the stuff I'm correcting
I've had to do editing of offshored work at two different places now and you see the same mistakes over and over and over. I have started to think that (a) if companies ever get rid of their US QA people they will quickly lose accounts to the non-offshoring companies and/or (b) they will get sick of paying people to edit all the time and stop the offshoring.
One can always hope.
And no, I'm not quitting my job either. I agree with it in principle, and I feel bad sometimes for not doing it "on principle" but the reality of my getting a good paycheck prevails. Alas, my children must have their school supplies and shoes.
I wasn't correcting grammer - I never heard of this before. nm
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Who's laughing? I'm just shocked that you take offense to the person who is correcting
YOUR mistakes, rather than the morons who are making these ridiculous errors, making the MT profession look silly. These mistakes should not have been made. I'm embarrassed for you my dear, not laughing at you.
As long as you're correcting people, think about "English."
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if a high school graduate was correcting my transcibed
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Thank you - that is what I have, but wanted to make sure as the doctor is correcting a previous repo
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anyone altering/correcting a report is required to attach their initials after the original transcri
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I did bad, bad, bad!! Need a dictator! Lol nm
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I have one dictator who does that...sm
He's from either Britain or South Africa and he always clearly says *the patient is alert and orientated* and I give him *orientated*! It is a verbatim account! He speaks the true King's English, so if he says *orientated* (and he does ALL the time say that word) it's what I'm giving him. *lol*
And this is the dictator you get from the
that is MT friendly! Yeah right! I'll apply to the company that states "dictators are MT friendly! Been there done that, but I got a chuckle from your post!  Thanks for sharing! 
ESL dictator
LOL!, LOL!. LOL!!!!!!
Dictator......
Okay, I spoke with a girlfriend in south Texas who said they are seeing many ESL dictators refusing to speak English to dictate, demanding a bilingual Transcriptionist be found. There is a HUGE number of illegals in the areas and she says he gets their business and doesn't care...he is one that is outspoken out no border control and letting all illegals come and go as they please, so that speaks volumes there. Don't know about this guy though, but in a country where there is civility among its peoples, yes, you do need to speak one language to one another and in this country, that is English. If he wants to speak only Spanish, then let him go south of the border and he can dictate in Spanish all he wants.
Ask dictator
I ask the dictator and so far I have always been told they expect me to fix the report, that is not their specialty. It is harder to determine if you can't speak directly to the dictator though. I would never change it unless I had the dictators permission.
I have a new non-M.D. dictator, ESL who always
gives the diagnosis of high blood pressure as hypertensions, has to have that S on the end.
annoying dictator
Here's a good one; 7-1/2 minute dictation, first minute put on hold, then dictator dictates for two minutes, then says, Never Mind, Lets start this ALL OVER . And they wonder why we are tense 
Annoying dictator
If you are being paid by the line, I sure would dispute this! They have no idea, do they?
no you aren't...he's a bad dictator
nm
If your dictator says DCD for discontinued
i want to put discontinued what would you put
Yup - 3 to 4K, depending on the day and the dictator. NM.....
dictator type
This may be unusual, but I have more problems with southern accents than with Asians! African-American and New Orleans patois also confound me. I find British and Australian accents delightful.
I really appreciated my dictator just now.
At the end he said, "This is <his name> bumbling through this again. Thank you so very much."
Guess it makes me at least feel a little appreciated.
Dictator said DOB 1926, but then said...
59-year-old male - Should I correct this? TIA!
My present dictator
She underwent the above procedures without difficulty. period. ummm period. She ummm period. She ummm
 I think its time for a break already
Depends on the dictator....
Sometimes it is faster to type every word continuously, unless there's a difficult dictator, then you have no choice but to listen, stop, type, backup, listen again, backup, listen again....ya know?
Almost always the first except if a difficult dictator. (sm)
Then I am constantly listening again to make sure I have it correct.
Mean-spirited dictator... (sm)
This is probably something that shouldn't bug me, but for some reason, it really has for a few days now...
I work for one of the big nationals and had one of the dictators make a pretty nasty comment at the end of one of his notes. It was nothing profane or even specific--just a really sarcastic comment about what a "great" job we do. In fact, what made the comment bad was his tone, not even the words that were said.
I know that his comment wasn't directed personally at me, and that the anonymity that we feel working from home works the same way on their end, as well and makes it easy to be rude. However, this has really stuck with me and kind of depressed me for the last few days. Anyone else have something like this happen to them? I'm trying to just have a thick skin, but it's still bothering me.
Is a good dictator now? I bet he is. He knows what you go through. nm
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because when the dictator's provide the
proper demographics and enunciate clearly, I LOVE this work. I do not do it for the $ or for the bennies. I am 60 years old and don't need either. I just love transcription work. I doubt, though, that you can understand this.
H&Ps dictated by a very thorough dictator. nm
Man, doesn't a bad ESL dictator just...
suck the will to live right out of a person. I find it hard to believe that after looking up a particular ESL doctor and reading that he's been in practice here in the good 'ol US of A for well over 18 years now that he still hasn't learned to form a complete sentence! It's like listening to Yoda talk (example: "What your country can do for you ask not, but what, do for your country, you can!")
How does that happen? Don't their own collegues give them crap when they talk, or do they just smile and nod, not having a clue as to what the frick they are saying face to face....18 years and still without a grip. What other profession is this allowed to be the norm in...cause I wanna steer clear in my next life.
Sorry--it's late and I'm punchy...but seriously, this guy needs to be smacked with his own towel, if ya know what I mean. 
Chatty dictator.
I would have been upset, but this guy just made me laugh. During his 20 minute dictation he probably spent at least 5 minutes of it talking to me. He explained his vacation and why he was late doing the dictation. He explained he was still getting his stuff back in order and talked politely the whole time he shuffled papers, told me about a picture that was supposed to be in the chart but he just couldn't find it, talk, talk, talking away like I was his best friend.
At the end he had to apologize profusely. In any other case I would have been so disturbed by this but this poor man made me feel so bad for him. He couldn't have been more polite.
No, actually if you could hear the dictator
it was her own talk.
Transcribe what the dictator says...
You should have transcribed exactly what the dictator says, he may have had a reason for putting that in the report. Perhaps there is a problem with this patient that he wants documented. If the client has a problem with it, they will let the dictator know. YOUR job is to transcribe what is dictated. Even though it is offensive, generally there is a reason they want it in the report. My husband is an ER doc and that is what he says.
If dictator is ESL, it probably sounds like
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Funny dictator
We have an RN who not only is a fast talker, but mispronounces virtually every medical term she says. She must have gotten some feedback, because lately she is ver-y slow-ly and dis-tinc-ly mis-pro-nounc-ing ev-er-y-thing.
dictator funnies
That is hilarious!
Some MT should write a book with all these funnies.
How about the times they leave the dictation machine on and are not dictating, but doing or saying other things we should not hear? oops
I have a dictator and I know this feeling.
I had so much trouble today because things would be started and then stopped, started again with rambling and seems like taking something out, do they want that left in, taken out, and on and on and on. Talk about a confusing report.
Dictator question
I had a doctor tonight dictate a medication and he clearly spelled it out - I-s-r-o-l-o-l, Isrolol. Problem is, I type that in google, and not one match comes up. Istalol comes up (only when you search "isrolol eye drop", not just "isrolol"), which I believe would be the correct one, but he clearly (doesn't have an accent or mumble or anything) spelled out Isrolol.
Would you flag it? Just put Istalol and chalk it up to doctor's mistake? This is a verbatim account too.
Just wondering what ya'll think?
It all depends on the dictator
Just out of curiosity, why are you asking? Are you an MT, a student MT or management who is wondering how MTs work? 
Oriental dictator
The Chinese doctor I transcribe for always says Oriental male or female. I would not presume to change it to any other designation. Today he designated one male as a Mandarin-speaking Vietnamese. As long as the reference is not vulgar, use what the physician dictates, in my opinion.
Worst dictator on VR?
I love it when the worst of the worst is on VR on my platform because it makes my life so much easier. Escription works wonders in picking them up whereas I would have to put bamboo shoots under my fingernails, push hard and scream all day, they are just that bad.
Boy do I know what you mean about grammar.....sm
Some of the stuff I saw from subcontractors during testing made my jaw drop to the level of my fanny in utter disbelief! We are talking about the use of grammar equivalent to what a sixth grader knows. It is unbelievable - that and things they don't even take the time to research.
My personal favorites?
"skin graph"
"dorsalis peterson pulses"
To Grammar Cop - K-I-A
Be careful all you posters out there. The GrammarCop is on the bench and you will all perish if you do not use proper grammar on this board. She (he, it) expects perfection. I know there is a saying that fits her, but it escapes me right now but it only contains a few letters. Should be easy for her (him, it) to figure it out. Ta, ta
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