FUN THREAD......PET PEEVES....
Posted By: JJt on 2009-03-27
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So, I am sure we all have our pet peeves on things we WISH the doctors would not do while we are trying to type their dictation for them. I thought it would be funny if we pointed them out:) I personally can't stand when they continuously yawn while talking and just assume I was to understand what was said mid yawn, rather than repeating themselves after the yawning is complete. I have a lot more though, lol.
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MT pet peeves
I can't stand it any longer. I have to vent! I have two pet peeves that are driving me crazy.  Number 1 is music playing in the background during the dictation; not the overhead "elevator" music that's piped in....I'm talking a radio sitting right next to the dictator! Number 2 is the dictator carrying on a conversation with others in the room....laughing, telling jokes, discussing weekend plans, while the dictation system is running. I have to sit here and listen to the whole conversation because I don't know when he or she will decide to resume dictating. Ahhh....I feel so much better now. 
pet peeves
I know exactly what you mean!  Would they honestly yawn, burp, fall asleep (and who knows what else...ha!) if the patient were sitting there in front of them?!! Of course not. It's like they forget (or don't care) that there is a real live human being sitting on the other end of that dictation system. Well, at least we MTs have each other when we need to let out a little steam, eh?
Pet peeves
I feel your pain. I can't stand it when they yawn while talking, eat, and I had one yesterday that answered her walkie-talkie and had a 5 minute conversation without pausing the dictation system. It drives me nuts!!
My Pet Peeves
Spelling words the wrong way. What is the point? Better yet, spelling easy words and not the more difficult sounding, mumbled words. Talking at the speed of lightning, especially when it gets to the important part of the report. Moving around papers and radiology films...hello, I can not hear what you are saying while you are making so much noise!! Dictating while noises are in the background and not just your everyday office noise, vacuum cleaners running, etc. Doctor thought it was a good idea to talk a little louder rather than wait until someone finished vacuuming. Repeating the same phrases over and over again. Saying "uh", "ah" , etc throughout entire dictation. Constantly changing your mind about what you want to say, make up your mind already!
pet peeves
As I have stated before - the doctor who dictated to the tune of Mack the Knife - radiology - that was a killer.
I can top your pet peeves!
One of my doctors does all of the things you have all listed plus moves his bowels, grunts, groans, calls his office staff every name in the book, speaks with the phone in his lab coat pocket and with the TV in the background. When I have to leave blanks in his reports and ask him to speak louder, more clearly, in a quiet area he just says no!
pet peeves
end of shift priorities - you give your availability, work more than what you say and after 13 hours of working they ask for priorities. Then get a small (yet there) attitude when you sign off. I don't mind going the extra mile - money is good, but jeez, the priorities were dictated at 1 pm and it is 11 pm now. what was I doing all day?????
Pet Peeves
These are not very big pet peeves, but they drive me nuts.... a dictator who dictates about the patient's medical "regiment," states that the patient is "alert and orientated."  As I said, very minor but annoying to me!
RE: QA is one of my pet peeves
Sometimes you just get the feeling that QA is way too busy to provide feedback, and I think that's really unfortunate. There have been times that I've blanked the very same thing in multiple reports by the same doctor and never hear from QA so that blank could be avoided in the future. It's frustrating on the MT's end, and it's gotta be frustrating on QA's end as well.
QA is one my pet peeves
I have been in this industry for quite a number of years. I have been a QA person and I am currently doing the MT side. Because I have been in this so long finding a QA who really does know more than I do and can teach me a thing or two, has become difficult. It makes me uneasy when QA doesn't correct things like this because I feel that it shows they don't know what they are doing. By not providing you with feedback, they are promoting their own job security!
Verbatim is verbatim. If you come across something that doesn't fit, flag it. If QA wants to put the dictated word in there, right or wrong, that is their business. MTs are not paid to guess, nor are we to second guess doctors and change terms when it seems right to us. We are not the physician, we do not sign off on the report to reflect that we think it is accurate or not, the doctors do.
I am less concerned that the QA person filled in an incorrect word than I am concerned that you are not receiving feedback. I am of the belief that as an MT, if don't learn something every day, you are not working hard enough, and if QA is not helping you learn these things, QA is not doing their job either.
Dictation pet peeves!
Most days, I love my job. I always strive for the best work I can do, and I hope most of other MTs here do as well. I know you can empathize with me on the following.
Medical professionals - you don't sound professional at all when you do the following while dictating:
-Constantly sniff and/or swallow snot because of a bad cold or allergies. Doctors, nurse practitioners, whatever your title may be, your transcriptionists really do not need to hear that! PLEASE take some medicine and blow your nose before you pick up the dictation device.
-Eating, or chewing gum. For an MT, hearing dictation along with chomping, chewing, swallowing, smacking lips, gulping, belching, farting, etc., is just like listening to nails on a chalkboard! We understand your time is valuable, but so is ours. Please be more considerate of the person transcribing your dictation. Get your meal break in before or after you dictate, not during.
-Using the restroom. Enough said there.
Thanks for letting me vent!
One of my biggest pet peeves, since most of
Dictating on a speakerphone: One of my biggest pet peeves!!
It simply should not be allowed. It is hard enough to understand a lot of these people, and then they sound like they're speaking from the bottom of a pit with the annoying mechanical, buzzing sound quality as they "push to talk". Not to mention all the extraneous noises on top of that -- drives me nuts!!
Actually there is another thread that says
the same thing - "off subject" and I have seen that several times before, so that's why I asked. Wasn't faulting you or anyone else at all. Thank you for explaining that you mean it's not anything to do with transcription. Heck, we get tired of talking about transcription anyway! Nice to be "off topic"!
this should be a fun thread
What is the shortest time you have worked for an MT company and why did you leave? I have found that I can predict the first day if the company is going to work out for me. Other experiences?
I saw most of that thread was gone...
so how was the chocolate frosting or did you resist it? LOL! Been there done that!
see thread below
There is thread below about halfway down the page that started yesterday about this. I think the simple answer is we don't know yet what it means for our jobs. It's rather vague. Now, I would like to say that it is just about getting records digital and away from paper and that's it, but Obama is saying that it will save billions every year. The only way I can see that happening is by jobs being cut and I can't imagine all of them coming from record clerks who file the paper records. On the other hand he says it will create thousands of jobs, but it seems from what I have read that he is referring to computer people creating and managing the electronic records because it has been said that there aren't enough skilled people right now to handle it.
Probably goes with the thread below. nm
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yes, this thread has gotten way off track
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Now that certainly followed the thread! Bravo! Thanks for
that totally coherent thought. When there is a thread on make up or hair color, do you post on the the War in Iraq? Probably! Perhaps the OP (original poster) who asked about working at home with a newborn had something to do with the topic being babies and...working at home! Imagine that! Pardon us all for staying on topic.
since the thread is here.. grout? Have tried
iloveyouifyouknow
You obviously did not read the thread from below
I was not complaining about MQ. I was complaining about the person who says that anyone who posts anything about MQ is whining. All I said was that this is the forum for us to talk about any problems we may be encountering, or to share tips, or give news, etc. I just don't think it is fair that every time someone has something to say that isn't absolutely pro-MQ, they are accused of whining. I am tired of trying to defend MQ MTs who let these assinine people insult their intelligence and then attack the person who is trying to defend their right to say anything they want on this board. If you want to flame me, go ahead, I know that I had no malintent and I also know I have broad shoulders.
I posted this thread. (sm)
My thread isn't putting anyone down. I asked a question. If Dano or anyone else doesn't like it or doesn't want to answer, DON'T.
I have my reasons for asking the question. If others get their feelings hurt because someone has a degree or education, too bad for them. I'm not walking on eggshells because of their fractured inferiority complex. I'm not attacking them. I haven't belittled them over their lack of education; if they don't want an education that is their business.
I'm "superior feeling" because I want to know who has achieved higher levels of education.
Go away.
I think RadGuy DID see that thread.
He usually posts everyday but hasn't since before yesterday, so thanks for running off a good guy and one of the bright spots on an otherwise gloomy board of complainers. Do you feel better?
This is an EXCELLENT thread--thanks! nm
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you don't, but you can start a new thread and
for others to reference.
This thread does not include the other 90% of us
who struggle with bad dictators to make $300 a week.
Acne - I know this thread is old, but
I found article on a dermatology site I was looking at. It's on a product that I think has been around for several years, was it Differin? Something like that. This study finds that those who use it in combination with any other acne treatment get better results (don't have my drug book with me to check the spelling).
Shortcut to: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=38842
and really, if this thread continues....sm
We should be taking this to the Medquist board/forum here and not on the Main Board where we currently are.....
Sorry - should have been posted under thread below. nm
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You know this thread only perpetuates
the picture of southerns being backwards. I could not have come from any more southern roots; however I really wish others who have never visited do know we wear shoes, we can carry on a decent conversation, we have upscale neighborhoods (my hubby and I live where judges and physicians live along side among others) and never lived out of the south and never would want to. Believe it or not, the race relations here are very, very good and I would say probably better than other areas in the states. My home is in a community that has a mixture of blacks, whites, Asians, you name it we have it and such a quiet, peaceful place.
As a total aside to this thread here...
about dentists in Maine...I haven't been to a dentist since I was a kid, strictly out of fear factor. I tried to find one yesterday because I think it's time I see someone whether I like it or not. Of the 4 I could find, only 1 is accepting new patient's and where I don't have insurance and would be be a self-pay, they don't cut any breaks....just the initial visit and cleaning is going to run $310 buckaroos! I asked if that price included a happy ending and the voice on the other end just went dead. (No sense of humor apparently.)
No wonder why people are losing their teef up heyah!
See thread below...nobody has heard of them...
and nobody can find anything for them on the internet. Look down the page for more info.
This is a WONDERFUL thread, and everything you all are saying...
is right on point and reflective of what I've been saying for years. It seems that most of the top higher ups in this industry don't HAVE A CLUE about our work process and are only about how much they can use us to line their own pockets while taking as much out of ours as they can.
In a perfect world we could earmark three days where NOT AN MT IN THIS INDUSTRY would generate a single line. I'm sure THEN that those who think that they know would find out that they don't have a clue.
But then, too, it's not a perfect world ...  
Well, the whole thread disappeared...
Dontcha love it (not).
There is another thread on the board...
about this somewhere. The people discussing it there said that the boss was very full of herself. One of them even got hired, but she was just very difficult to work with--pushy and rude, etc. Maybe that is where the line in the ad "Someone who is easy to work with" comes from. That's a two way street. Anyway, I work ophthalmology, but not for three years. I would say those who have specialized in such a specialization would be few and far between and those who have would be making more than .07 cpl.
Well there is already a huge thread...
Why keep it going and going? If you all are just now realizing that AHDI is against the MT, then have you had your head in the sand the past few years or what? Get a grip! Life is what you make it! This OP obviously wants to keep bringing it up and bringing it up blocking the entire board with this crap.
Look at thread below. Many sites given.
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This thread is closed. (sm)
I do want to comment that it is not being closed due to comments by the original "Mary" poster. It is, however, being closed because of everyone else's responses.
If you don't like the direction a thread is moving or disagree so strongly that you cannot make good contributions to the subject matter at hand, simply refrain from posting. It will die down, take a different direction, etc.
A thicker skin needs to be grown here. Everyone has their own opinion. It doesn't mean everyone will always agree. Threads can even get intense but they don't have to dwindle to personal insults.
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Yep, just read this thread below. There are
a couple on here defending it while insulting MTs who don't think they pay is fair. Really makes me wonder if they aren't MTSOs.
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