I took it more as a flag because it's uncommon in dictation..
Posted By: Just me on 2008-04-24
In Reply to: wrong! she views this as a "problem" - sm
not that there was a debate of whether to transcribe it or not. I personally haven't ever had a dictator mention praying with the patient, although, I have had one of my personal physicians mention that he hadnt seen me in church lately :D
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It is not uncommon (sm)
They are most likely not disabling it because of confidentiality. They just do not want the MTs surfing while they are supposed to be working. If it bothers you, you might want to find a different job. I doubt they will make any changes, but you could question it and see what happens.
actually not that uncommon any more
Not great but could be a lot worse too.
This is not at all uncommon sm
I know you don't want to hear this...but. Many hospitals seem to allow the ER doctors to read the x-ray initially, and then the films are turned over to an actual radiologist for the "final" reading. Often the radiologist who is trained to read an x-ray (well yeah duh) finds what was missed. This seems to be "standard of care" a lot of places and it should not be.
As you well know, a second fall/injury of any broken bone can further displace the fracture, comminute the fracture or lead to a second fracture, all of which make reduction of the fracture more difficult. In an elderly frail patient, worsening of a fracture as above can lead to more complications.
Hip fractures are something that scares me. A "simple" fracture can often be pinned with a TFN procedure, but the more complex ones need unipolar or bipolar hip replacements. What a shame to neglect someone who falls again and has to have a more complicated surgery to fix the problem! IT IS JUST WRONG.
Let us know how she is doing, please.
Potato? maybe not so uncommon . . .
I did a report about removing a potato, wasn't baked, wasn't wrapped in foil, wasn't removed from the rectum either, just raw, and they had to remove it from a lady, who evidently forgot about it, she went because it started smelling so bad, and it was sprouting.
Sorry, that is not uncommon at this time of year. Post SM
office employees get greedy.
That would have been the first red flag! LOL
Obviously, the MTSO has had problems in the past then.
flag it
One red flag...
...to me was the benefit package described in the ad. Despite saying that they are "the new kid on the block", the benefits are those seen with (or even better than those of) large, established companies. Most new small companies cannot float such benefit packages unless:
a. They are a unit of or affiliated with another larger company of some sort - which we would certainly want to know.
b. They are a company that has reorganized and managed to hang onto their benefit package - which we would again want to know.
One ad is titled "A New Beginning", suggesting possibility "b" above. If so, it is very important to know which "old" company is being reincarnated as "Jax".
And, I hate to say it as it seems somewhat superficial, but even the name of the company raised my eyebrows.
Even if Jax proves legit, though, it serves now as a perfect example of how easy it would be to harvest resumes from people.
Yep, I would flag it
without a couple of sources of confirmation. Docs cannot spell, though they think they can. Sometimes I will find several Google entries with the same spelling, but they still turn out to be the wrong spelling.
This is my favorite med site:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm?fuseaction=Search.Search_Drug_Name
If you can hear any 3 consecutive letters (like the LOL or the ROL) you can search and it will give you anything that contains this combination, generics on the right, brands on the left. If you click on the name it will take you to another screen for dosages (sometimes.)
That's a definite red flag...
By all means, if you can, find a vet that'll get you in as an emergency. If your regular vet doesn't see patients on an emergency basis, honestly, it's time to find another one. I have 3 cats & 2 birds, & if I had a vet who wouldn't take one of my "kids" STAT, I'd be going somewhere else.
In the meantime, please give her ((((BIG HUGS)))) & lots of kisses from me & my "kids". BTW, what's her name? I'll keep her in my prayers 
It is a red flag to me, seeing one co. over and over. Would not inquire..nm
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you cannot even erect a USA FLAG....sm
saw a story last year when a Boynton Beach homeowner with a condo association put up the American Flag.....and did battle with the association and HE lost the battle.....and either had to move or never put up an American flag....on his property in the ground with a pole.
I flag. I don't correct this because as the others said, you don't know. nm
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Always flag/blank something so odd it is likely
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I would still flag it - he said twice daily not
If AHDI had a CMT flag, I would definitely
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Flag it. Verbatim or not, you do not
knowingly put in wrong info.
That was her - raised a red flag for me too - I wish I had said something at the time nm
Probably is Gemzar, but I would flag rather than assume. NM
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I smell a rat. If it were me, I would consider this the first red flag and be on the lookout
I would definitely flag it and if you are able to put a note somewhere just ask the doctor to sm
review/revise the area in question.
location: worldwide (red flag!)
compensation: $50 (red flag!), is it per page, per hour, per day... as i understand it, craig's list is to sell items to local parties. It is not where i would look for, or respond to a job from.
if any doubt (at all!) leave it out (flag it).
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think it might be diltiazem. Gonna flag it to be safe. Tx. NM
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That only tells the grammar checker to flag spaces. Word does not auto space.
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Verbatim = verbatim......flag it...NM
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It's THEIR dictation. They want what THEY are
dictating. If they use poor grammar, etc., that's not the MT's fault!!
Many don't trust the MT to make appropriate corrections and I can certainly understand that.
dictation by doc's
you're absolute right about the hospitals doing something about how doctors dictate and it probably wouldn't take that much effort to do it, but they're not going to do it. If the dictation is wrong, the MT will get the blame regardless.
low dictation
This is several hours of time just disappearing.
? min. of dictation per day
What is considered the average amount of minutes for 7.5 hour day. I'm thinking 45 to 60 minutes???
PA dictation
You must be lucky! Our group had two PA's and they literally "outdid" each other to see who could dictate the fastest. I got used to them, of course, listening to them all the time but many times had to stop and look up a med to be sure of the dosage because I couldn't tell if they were dictating 5 mg. 50 mg. or whatever! They seem to have an "attitude" too; we had one female one who really thought she was hot stuff. If they were that good, why didn't they spend the extra time and $$ to go to med school???
RE; Dictation
Kept forever. Chart is microfilmed and kept. Regular transcription is kept for 10 years supposedly at hospital I worked for.
I just had a dictation where
he stopped dictating mid sentence in the chief complaint and I Iistened to silence for about seven minutes (maybe he fell asleep, I dunno) and then he says, "hello? hello?" and hangs up!  Gotta luv this job! 
60 min of dictation
How long should it take someone to do about 60 minutes of dictation on average.
Thanks you.
60 min of dictation?
My own personal average is about 1 hour for each 15 minutes of dictation.
Can't help with the dictation but...
 LOVE YA!
Hope that helped.
Dictation
The problem is that MTs are rarely in the workplace any longer. When I originally started in transcription years ago, we were in-house and accessible to the doctors. I would tell the the speeders to slow down. We had one ER doc who loved to look through reference books for words to use. I would tell him nicely, "If you have to look it up, spell it and save both of us the hassle." That usually worked. But now, most of the time, they have no idea who is transcribing their work and as long as it gets done, that's all they care about.
Ever think that maybe 15% is going to QA because of LOUSY DICTATION? nm
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You never listened to the dictation to know.
No, decent dictators can form complete sentences. They don't erase every single word interlaced with ah, um, er, then sit there so long that a 15 minute dictation only has 43 lines. If a person can't complain about having a bad day to her fellow MTs without getting jumped on, what does that say about your personality? The only B**** I see here is YOU.
Same here. Give me the dictation, I do it - sm
I return the reports, give me the money. End of story.
Worrying about a friendly supervisor is pointless. Just do the work and take the money.
80-100 minutes of dictation
Can anyone tell me approximately how long 80-100 minutes of dictation takes to do with variables I know of a good or bad dictator but on average. A 60 minute microcassette tape on both sides of 120 minutes, is that something to compare this to? Thank you.
235 seconds of dictation...sm
and less than 20 lines!!!!  And he ends the dictation at 200 seconds, then proceeds to shuffle papers and say "end dictation" 50 times...come on already, END THE DICTATION! No respect! 
re:243 seconds of dictation
I actually have a picture of my cat laying on my Dorland's sound asleep...he was looking for the definition of "uhmm"
Bad quality dictation
What in heavens name do you do after starting work with a company and the dictation is so lousy qualitywise with static and the voice fading in and out. Is this normal? Left lines in every report. ??? Help?
Dumb dictation
Review of systems was not obtainable from the baby, obviously, due to the baby's age of one month. Review was obtained from parents. DUH!!!!
dumb dictation
Don't you just love these..I had one with the 11 MO understanding the assessment and agrees with the treatment!
Specialty dictation
Just wondering how many lines within 8 hours do you "speciality" transcriptionists type? Not acute care, not SOAP notes, just the specialty accounts?
I type for 11 different specialities that just feed into my "pool" of dictation randomly and am lucky to accomplish 1000 to 1200 lines within 8 hours -- any suggestions on how I can increase this number of lines would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, it wasn't in his dictation, it was an aside to his PA sm
I think he just had never seen that size before, nothing indecent intended.
I don't think it's the dictation itself that's the problem, it's the SM
kissing of individual arses and making 300 MTs remember which cheek you're supposed to kiss on Doc A and which on Doc B. :(
dictation funny
Mitral valve with moderate anus calcification. What was calcified? LOL
Doc asking for instructions on dictation
A wounderful young man at my church is in his 2nd year of general surgery residency. When he found out what I did for a living, he asked me if I would please help him with his dictation and give him some pointers so that he could do better on his dictation. No one had critiqued him and he wanted to be sure it was o.k. Now THAT'S a good guy. He's a good Christian, he'll be a good doctor, and I know he won't ever change. You cynical so and so's just keep your opinion to yourselves. This was so refreshing to be asked for help like this. It made my day.
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