Missing dictations
Posted By: Diane on 2007-03-21
In Reply to: Question - Tam
I also get a patient list from the doctors office. I check off which ones I got voice files for, i.e. which ones I typed. I don't keep track of which names or not checked off. How do I know if that patient just didn't show up for the appointment, walked out without being seen, or if the doctor put off dictating. That's administrative work that the doctors' secretaries do at my client's office. If they can't find something they think he dictated and ask me to look for something or check on something I'll do it because it only takes a few minutes but I don't do all the stuff you're doing.
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I did miss some of it, but if the missing girl was the man's daughter, then she was alive. His daughter was the one at the beginning with the ring in her nose. Maybe someone else who saw the whole thing can fill in the details.
They are the same thing or else I am missing something.
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Missing the point.
If the IC accepts the work, then it is expected that the IC will do the work. Don't take on something that you can't do. Period.
If the IC takes the work, then later calls and says they can't do it, that puts the company in a bind. Sure, the company will solve their problem but don't blame the company for the IC's personal problems.
I'm not missing the point.
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I cannot believe the nerve of some people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is wrong, wrong, and wrong no matter how you slice it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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