Of Course Not, The MT Would Get Blamed...

Posted By: Amanda on 2006-12-02
In Reply to: ESL's a liability? - blahblahblahblahblah

I may be a new MT, but the Transcriptionist would be the one to get blamed, not the doctor. I don't see why English isn't a requirement in med school to the point that it's understandable. I won't even get started on the English-speaking doctors we have to decipher...

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Guess what this s/l turned out to be. - ESL fun
- ESL's a liability? - blahblahblahblahblah
  - If you can't get it, leave a blank. You always have that option. sm - It is up to us to understand it
    - I couldn't disagree more..sm - JLH
      - Amen to that! - clhmt
    - It is NOT Oriental, no such nationality. It is of Asian descent. - CatNap
      - May NOMB but, - l
        BTW, I was born in the USA..nm - l
      - From dictionary - sm
        From another dictionary - clhmt
        But of course, only in North America for the most part. - sm
        I wasn't aware Asian people were sensitive - I'm the OP, and
        PS: See article - AND the name of the guy who wrote it! - sm
      - No one mentioned either oriental or Asian. - ???
        Actually, OP did say probably oriental - (nm)
        oriental ESL said when I slowed him way down . . . " - Get Outside
        oops! Part of my subject line did not copy. Should read: - Get Outside
  - Of Course Not, The MT Would Get Blamed... - Amanda
    - Only if you guess at it, which is what too many MTs do. - nm
      - guessing - 12ste
    - The MT never gets blamed unless the MT is just makes something up sm - Utter nonsense
      - With our QA department, blanks count against us..sm - JLH
      - Our QA department is much too busy - Original Poster

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The MT never gets blamed unless the MT is just makes something up sm

just to put something on the page. If you cannot get what the doc is saying, send it for QA to get. Maybe they will have some good hints, and samples for you to review, so you can understand this dictator.

It's the nationalization to be blamed

I used to work for a local service in a major metropolitan area that paid more than the national average. I sat pretty comfy like. Once the industry went national, then ALL companies became national, even the little local joints, unless they refuse to use far away people for some reason. Anyway, she VERY relucantly had to reduce her pay offers in order to stay competitive with the rest of the nation. If she didn't, she'd lose all her accounts to the cheaper places. As it happened, she did lose her one huge account to a cheaper place, and things were never the same for her, OR for me. I believe that's why we're making the same or less than we made 15 years ago.

it a QA person missed it, that's who will be blamed
I know people get frustrated when QA editors point out mistakes, but we're the ones who get blamed when mistakes like this one get through - not the doctor, not the transcriptionist, and not the software if it was SR...the responsibility falls on the shoulders of those of us who are supposed to catch and correct every single mistake before it goes in the patient's records.

We may seem picky, but the reality is - we're just being careful and trying to do our jobs to the best of our abilities.