Pet peeves
Posted By: NCMT on 2006-06-16
In Reply to: MT pet peeves - peeved pet
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!!
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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?
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!
FUN THREAD......PET PEEVES....
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.
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!!
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