I grew up in so cal, but the Spanish dictators are the sm
Posted By: I don't know why on 2006-11-02
In Reply to: Venting is allowed. :o} - Me
hardest for me. The Japanese and Korean ones are the best. Seems like the enunciate more clearly or something.
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Not always. Tongue stumblers. New dictators. Speedy and lazy dictators.
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I grew up in
Hey, neighbor...Wonder if we know each other? I'm in Douglasville now...whatta small world it is! 
No, I wish. I actually grew up in Noble. sm
but I worked at the hospital in Norman for years. I wish I was still in that area. I loved it.
Spanish b@tt doctor
Lovely job working for a Spanish gastroenterologist who's wife was the office manager and enjoyed called office help stupid in Spanish and I was responsible for making sure gloves and lube were stocked---no kidding, this was apparently in the fine print somewhere when I signed on (probably in Spanish).
Spanish accents. sm
I worked on an account out of San Diego once, heavily thick Spanish (Mexican), brilliant docs, but very difficult. I work on an account in FL now, still Spanish but Cuban and very, very different. Those of you who say you don't do accents, try another field. This job is all about dialects and learning and hanging in there. If you are pompous enough to say, "you don't do this or that", bet your pay reflects it.
Spanish accents. smC
Clarification: You probably still make good $$$$ if you are the perpetual cherry picker. I hate cherry pickers, that is cheating, lying and stealing. Most managers even those Rhit sort of people, do not realize how much cherry picking hits those of us in the pocket who do any job assigned. I hope all cherry pickers rot in hello.
One of the Spanish docs says
and "common" for comma.
RIP Lou! most of us grew up hearing/feeling him..nm
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Hi, I used to be so scared of Ops, grew to LOVE THEM.....SM
Have you gone to the MTDaily website? On the homepage, they have a link to loads and loads of samples of all kinds of operations and procedures, or you could go to MTDesk, samples there also that you can print out. I also think there may be samples at MTBot.com, but sure, though, many links there...hopes this helps, good luck, you'll learn fast!
Spanish - Mexican version
Cubans, no problem, Mexicans, no way. I love Indians and Asians.
Spanish, Slavic, and Greek.
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I think Spanish and French are the worst, (sm)
and I even took French. But they have an annoying way of dropping out all recordable sound and just doing something with their lips that a recorder can't pick up at the end of some words that is very annoying.
I have enjoyed British, but every newbie should be warned about their "stop" and "full stop" for punctuation, LOL.
I want to learn Spanish so when go to my fave
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?? Bad dictators are bad dictators regardless of their mother language.
wonder when people will just get over it and do what they can and move on.
I am 30, grew up watching Peter Jennings.
 This was really sad for ME because I have seen him on the TV since I can remember watching TV. The time I remember him the most of course is 9/11. He was there nonstop. I will never forget.
Um, what? I grew up very poor and made it through college and now
I am working FT and so is DH.
If I grew up into an adult blaming the govt for my poor mistakes and irresponsibility (bringing children into the world when you can't even take care of yourself) then that would not be a good thing.
It is NOT the govts fault that people are poor or that they can't feed their kids. Give me a break.
In fact, I am living proof, and so are millions of other people, that no matter where you grew up in life or where you've been, if you are determined to make it, then you will. Just ask Judge Mathis.
Quit blaming others for your life situation. Start taking control and action and responsibility!
yep, she grew up poor... born 1935, so I'm sure sm
the economy wasn't exactly booming then, and they were certainly poor. My dad born in 1923, and HE would wash old bread wrappers to use as lunch bags, and then wash em again and use them till they fell apart. Why buy plastic bags when they come free on the bread?
I grew up in FL, and my black teachers used a lot of these phrases...sm
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet because every northerner I know has asked me about this..."I'm fixin'to" as in, "Get your shoes on, we're fixin' to go to church." 2 of my 5 elementary teachers were black, and they both used this phrase all the time, so it was perfectly normal to us. Those teachers weren't any less educated, they were just native southerners raised in segregated communities. My hometown was still segregated well into the '80s.
It's funny, half the phrases people are naming on here I wouldn't have thought were southern-specific, they're that common to me.
distant trains for me, grew up with 'em. NM
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I wore a Spanish mantilla - it stayed out of the way and was still fun.
To me they are harder than Indians, Spanish or anything else. Strange.
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We are expected to learn spanish, make
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Spanish, French do celebrate Christmas in USA
Middle Eastern Arabic people do not celebrate Christmas nor the Jewish people (and Chanukah comes early 12/3 this year so they should be working. Russian Christmas is in January. The Hispanic community as well as the French communities here in the USA, as I know it, certainly do celebrate Christmas. Happy Holidays To All....
A lot of people who grew up without privilege ended up skanks too
Money or lack of money has nothing to do with it. It's whether the person has any value system, lines they will not cross, and standards set for themselves regardless of financial status.
My respect for Busy grew by leaps and bounds TY! nm
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Goes both ways. I have a hard time with tenses when speaking Spanish. :)
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Made in Japan is what we grew up seeing. Look where Japan is now
Car manufacturing and textiles are gone. Bush just signed another trade agreement with central america (CAFTA or maybe it is central america or LAFTA hahaha. More jobs out the window. You think these poverty stricken people are going to be buying cars from us? The only thing they will be doing is sending their kids here for their college education.
Cry patriotism. Rome fell when they ran out of raw materials (steel, timber) and their nation was filled with immigrants brought in for cheap labor who reproduced then at astounding rates, becoming the majority, only to be so unpatriotic they could not create an adequate army or an infrastructure as they were not deep patriots with a deep undying love for their land and constitution.
Rome stood for several thousand years and fell in less then 400 years.
In the end, corruption prevailed at the highest levels.
History will repeat itself. Not in our time but in your grandchildren's future, the situation will be irreversible. There simply has to be a middle class and the middle class need middle class jobs.
how are they going to get used to all the dictators
if your source says they cherry pick and only do American dictators? Sounds like never. But you knew that.
PS: Are you absolutely sure your source has your best interest in mind with this detailed ratting on another person regarding Indian cherry picking doing non-Indian work?
Dictators who keep....
  
I'm having a bad day with dictators and got this in my
email. It cracked me up. It's a typo in a medical brief that a lawyer filed for a continuance. The typo is on the 2nd page.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0916051disk1.html
I have had dictators like that!
when most dictators were from the USA. nm
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bad dictators sm
I can take an ESL more than I can take an American who speaks fast just to show off to his buddies or because he has a hot date and is dictating from his car or worse yet, if you can't understand him, he has an excuse why his report is incorrect, he can blame you for it. They do it, believe me, and they are the ones who should be shot down. Give me an ESL any day who says thank you very much and is trying hard to learn the language. Some of these fast-talking big shots could care less about us. I had one guy who could fit 15 discharge summaries on one side of a 15 minute tape and everyone would send him to me because I was the outside service. When he was spoken to, he just threw his head back and laughed. Ignorant!
dictators
don't you just love it when you have to turn up the volume to hear what the doctor is saying and then in the middle of the dictation he finally puts his mouth to the mic/phone, blasting your ears; so you turn it down then by the end of the report you have to turn it back up.......no wonder I have ringing in my ears sometime
Bad dictators
Chewing gum very loudly, blowing bubbles while dictating, drinking something and then chewing on the ice....all in the average day lately. Don't these people stop to think that someone has to listen to this? That they are chomping incessantly into someone's ears. No common sense. Maybe once, someone in authority should remind them that these are legal documents and need to be transcribed as accurately as possible, so no chewing, drinking, talking while yawning, etc.
Bad dictators
I have got to one-up y'all... there is a woman doctor in our group who actually takes her dictaphone INTO THE BATHROOM with her and, yes, that's right, uses the potty right while she's dictating...
ESL dictators
Maybe the ESL docs, knowing that the Transcriptionist must be having a difficult time with the language barrier, should hire an English speaking person to do their dictations. It would free up their time for being a doctor and seeing patient's, give a more accurate transcription, and a better quality report. Wha'cha think???
ESL dictators
Seems many MTs have this complaint. We should be told the correct percentage of ESL dictators BEFORE accepting a job. Imagine all the money a company would save by going over details with each new applicant honestly and thoroughly in the beginning instead of making the job sound good and then have a disappointed new employee, who will quit and the company will have to advertise and hire again. Advertising and training on a computer system is costly, including the time involved etc. The more a company can do to retain its employees, the more money it will save in the long run. Also, pay based on production, not quality of work, is counter productive. Imagine if each Transcriptionist was paid a salary and did quality work and no QA people were needed, except to pull random reports of new employees during the first 30-60 days or so. I feel there is too much QA and not enough emphasis put on quality reports from the beginning. Many transcriptionists feel, the QA people will fill in my blanks, yet they may be able to find the word/words themselves if production was not such a huge factor. But too many employees are trying to meet a line count. With a salary, you can establish a budget and know what to expect in your paycheck. I've transcribed for 25 years. I love my work. Since outsourcing and pay by production have been instituted, I feel pride in transcribing has suffered. Give an employee a job they can feel great about, benefits, and treat them with honesty, fairness, and respect and they will be glad to work for that kind of company. Hopefully, there are companies out there like this It's up to us to find the good companies.
Of note, 10 years ago transcriptionists were being paid around 10-11 cpl and $3.50-$4.00 a page. What happened, outsourcing!! We used to get a higher salary than coders, but not now. We need to keep our work in the USA.
Bad Dictators
I had my share of bad dictators this afternoon too! Is it full moon? I am sure I had your doctor's wife. LOL Can we band together and chart a bus to deliver them to the firing squad?? LOL At least maybe would could let the air out of the tires on their golf carts! Do these people listen to how bad they are???????
Dictators
OH PULEEEEZE spare me the whispering, breathy female docs who sound like they could talk all night on a phone sex line. I don't care what you sound like on the phone. Just TALK lady - spit it out. Am I mad or what? Gads I'm sick of these bimbos.
bad dictators
You ever wonder that when the powers that be become aware that you are making lines on low volume work days, they somehow sneak all the worse dictators your way? I have had bad dictators, none of them in sequential order, and am no where close to my lph this morning.
Dictators
 I could send you a lighter! Seriously, I have considered sending a voice copy to them to play after the fact, a day or two later, so they could see what they could understand of what they said!
BAD Dictators
Oh, you're not alone. They all must have spring fever or something. I have had more dead air than dictation on reports lately. If this keeps up the pay should not be by the line, but by the minutes listened to.
To all the dictators out there
SLOW DOWN! This is not a race. I cannot stand it when these dictators talk so fast that you cannot understand them. You know who you are, especially the cardiac dictators!!!!
Thanks for letting me vent. I get frustrated when my production goes in the toilet!
bad dictators
My huge pet peeve when it comes to dictators is them stopping to flip through the chart and not pushing the pause button. I mean I am just sitting there listening to dead air, wasting money while they find what they are looking for before they start talking again. How RUDE. I think all doctors should take Dictation 101 as part of their medical training before they get licensed. Speak clearly in complete sentences, speak at a fairly fast pace, and for heaven's sake.......hit the pause button if you have to stop dictating.
Bad dictators
IMHO, these are all due to the HIM department folks not training the docs properly. I worked at one hospital long enough to find out that the HIM department heads have total control over what type of dictation behavior is accepted, including the reports that are outsourced. It seems that, if the HIM departments for the various hospitals that outsource to us, or the office managers for the various doctors, would just care about what type of dictation we are getting, they would go out of their way to do something about it. I know they have plenty of time, cause these are the very ones who have no problem picking apart reports and complaining about missing commas!!
Bad dictators
Now my pet peeve.......dictators who say "go back and change" or "forget that last paragraph". You are essentially typing 2 reports and being compensated for only 1. Had 1 report today where CRNP did that 16 times.
Any suggestions welcome!
dictators
If MTs did the kind of job some dictators do they would be fired.
When dictators take a long time shuffling papers I just hold down my foot pedal down while awaiting the next words and check my email or read a paragraph in a book or do some upper body stretching exercises.
Recently I had a doc dictating over the barking of a dog. I wonder where he was? Or where the dog was? 
What is it with these dictators..sm
They'll ...um and ...uh and ...er all through the patient history..wasting more and more of the MT's time than necessary .. with the occasional 30-45 second pause between each item to paper-shuffle (on OUR time). But when it comes to the MEDS and LABS, which are the mainstay of an H&P or consult, as other doctors will base patient care on the meds the patient is already taking or present lab results, they'll race through them at 78 rpm so as not to be understood or able to be transcribed without rewinding 4 or 5 times. Just because they can race-read medications or labs doesn't mean we can type them just as fast... I guess accuracy in these areas takes back seat. (Who cares where the patient moved here from or went to school?)
bad dictators
I think the shoe should be on the other foot. The doctors have absolutely no respect for what we do - we should be the ones giving THEM feedback - They will be the first ones to speak up if there is an error on the report when in fact, it is entirely their fault. We are intelligent, professional MTs, not magicians !!!!
The dictators that....
Have a pager sitting right beside the microphone and it continuously goes off, a shrill BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP right in my ear and they don't bother silencing it, turning it off, merely MOVING it away from the mic so that my ears are still intact, they just let it beep and keep on talking away.
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