Supposedly these are sample dictations.
Posted By: Me on 2007-10-06
In Reply to: Any testing sites out there to access the files w/o logging in? Just - looking for practice for someone. Thx. NM
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Where to find some Sample Dictations?
Anyone know where I can find a few sample dictations, like WAV files, on the internet, along with the completed typed reports. Need to test job applicants. Happy Holidays!
Noone can send you sample dictations, definitely
a breach of confidentiality. You should have learned this in your course.
Supposedly in the US but
here lately they are so bad, just cannot figure out how they could get to this point unless upgrade. I wish someone in charge would edit just for a half day and they would see what I mean.
Supposedly,
we won't have to worry with the formatting according to client specifics for each account, as that is handled automatically after we edit the draft. We will still have to deal with demographics, though.
Because gas is going up like crazy, supposedly going up
30 cents/gallon tomorrow and will continue a steep climb. There are talks of rationing too as production has been severely cut due to Katrina.
Supposedly, her motive was that
Jon Benet had wet the bed. As Patsy said, why would she kill her daughter because she peed in the bed???
You supposedly work as an IC but
you will probably find that most places ask for a certain amount of hrs and/or times to be worked. I think 1 company got in trouble like this, it is supposed to be your hours but just think, what if everyone doing IC work did their own hours, would all the work get done? Probably the hospital did not allow you to set your own hours and I would probably bet you had some kind of schedule there. I do over 3000 lines per day so I do not know what a place asks for per day but 1500 for a week seems like a small amount for a week's worth.
Missing dictations
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.
Practice dictations
I am at a hiatus in my transcription career, but I do not want to lose what I know, or lose my speed. Is there somewhere you can purchase practice dictation tapes, or digital downloads? I would prefer digital downloads of voice files if there is such a thing. Just wondering.
missed dictations anyone?
Does anyone have any real experiences to share with the missed dictations? I would like to buy them but I don't want to if my accuracy might decrease with them due to missed dication. although, I think any of my background noise would be louder than any dictator. But I guess on the other end is where the problem lies.
STAT dictations
Re: Stat dictations. Does anyone out there charge extra for STAT dictations that come in during the day so that we have to put aside what we are working on and type a STAT letter/document and send in? This sort of thing can keep one behind in Turn Around Time if it happens on a regular basis. If anyone charges extra for STAT dictations coming in, what would be a good fee to charge for these besides the line count?
Ginny
Downloading dictations (sm)
If you key in alt-ctrl-Z while the first one is loading, it will prevent the other two from downloading from the queue. When you are ready to submit and do another file, you will need to key in that sequence again to allow the next one to come in.
Assigning the dictations............sm
SO RIGHT:
' The Leads (MTs who assign the work) have to get their lines in, too, and no doubt they're not keeping the ESLs for themselves......'
When I got a lot of crappy dictations in my queue, I complained about this and asked WHO assigns the work, who gets the crap and who gets the good ones.
I was told that it is NOT assigned at ALL, the oldest is picked first out of the pool and so on, and that it is all random and nobody is favored.
Now I read in this post that the Leads (team leads ?) distribute the reports. Who are they? The owners, the supervisors or the QAs?
I had once an argument with a QA about grammar and I was right and she was wrong, and from that moment on I got the crappiest crap of the crap into my queue.
but where do all the CRAPPY VR dictations
come from, then?
I guess, crappy dictators are EVERYWHERE !
Cannot believe that show is on A&E. Supposedly he is suppose to
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Supposedly, you can run it through the dishwasher. Haven't tried it, though.
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Thirty minute dictations -...
that are actually about 5 minutes, once you get past the ummms, and ahhhs, and talking to the nurse behind you, and listening to other people's conversation, and changing your mind 5 times before the completion of a sentence. Other then that, I can't think of a thing....ahhh, ummm, go back and change....no....under ROS put....
LOL If VR could transcribe his dictations it would be a miracle!
:-)
You left out blank dictations
The ones with no dictations - I have a feeling doctors probably pay the MTSO by dictated minutes - but how about MTSO paying the Transcriptionist who has to waste their time listening to them, signing them off and sending them to QA multiple times a day?
Right on, JMO. Also, when I have the ability to choose dictations SM
from a list (which I don't have at my current work, darn), I like to gather up all the dictations I can find for bad dictators and do them together to learn that dictator right up front, instead of struggling over months. I'll also use them to put together a template, which if dictation's really horrible will include a whole pack of phrases he/she has been known to use, a grab bag of possibilities to scan over. May sound like a bother to some, but it's a real serenity-saver.
Things that dry you looney during dictations, for example.
I thought after seeing on television so much could get away from this but just had a dictator say, "drowsy and unable to, you know, respond to questions appropriately."
I thought the you know, you know, you know would not come through on here.
they supposedly have open positions - and have them for quite a few years - sm
In fact, now they are offering relocation. However, as one who has 18 years experience, with an EXTENSIVE AND EXTREMELY impressive background, I was told that "I did not have enough experience." I was told that I live too far away and that unless I live there I could not be considered. So I happened to be in Arizona, about 4 miles from them, told them I was relocating, and they still told me I did not have enough experience.
By the way, my experience ranges from working for at least 4 of the top 10 hospitals in the US, all kinds of surgical procedures that one very rarely transcribes, transcribing of rare diseases, transcribing for physicians who do clinical trials for European drugs - so I do have quite an extensive background. Apparently just not enough for them.
Over the years, I have known quite a few people to apply for the positions, and all of them have received the same responses - "not enough experience."
If you microwave your sponge for 30 seconds, supposedly
it kills the germs and bacteria. Or use bleach water for cleaning. I don't know, I almost started a fire with my sponge putting it in the microwave for a minute. I only use washcloths and a fresh one every day or after cleaning up meat juice. Commercials like that are preying on the fears of consumers to reap profit.
It's Laetrile and it was supposedly used for cancer treatment
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Lots of people are. Supposedly there is a patch that will
fix issues. Got to MS website for info.
last time I used CS, supposedly you couldn't use expanders
in it but my ShortCut for Windows worked just fine. Also, supposedly there was a way to link InstanText to work in CS too but I don't know how since I didn't use that expander.
As far as the autotext files from Word...no, you can't import them into CS at all. You'll have to make an entirely new list within CS.
In dictations, I always hear "as well as" when "and" would do. sm
"At this point in time." What does that mean? One says "At this particular point in time." Raises the line count but it is annoying.
Saving dictations on flash drive??
Hi again, I figured out the settings, and how to recover the files marked done. Question though on saving the actual dictation. My files come through email, I was saving in My Wav files and an Archive File; however, the doc tends to send me a lot of duplicates which the Archive obviously does not like. But, also, since I have had a computer crash on me and lost some things, I am thinking of saving my actual dictations on a flash drive and eliminating the Archive file. How long would you suggest I keep them for? Once typed they go in the Recover folder, how long should I keep those? I found in the help information that we can order foot pedals through Express Scribe and they will be sure that they work with their program, so I ordered one today - figure can't work without a pedal so best have a spare on hand. Anything I might be missing? Tips or ideas in using the program.
hosp acute care dictations..please sm
Are hospital dictations difficult to type? I have always typed various specialities for clinics. The company I just started working for lost the account I was hired for. They did offer me a position to type for the hospital dictations. Do you think it will be a rough transition for me? Any advice please! Thanks. 
I had one who like to do his dictations with a Donald Duck voice. nm
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Why is it that when I work evening here/there, all reports are 15-min. ESL dictations that no one fe
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Legal dictations usually are multiple speakers
But, legal dictations usually have a longer TAT.
I think doctors in general just don't care about their dictations... sm
I know there are some who are really great and are careful or even just considerate. But I think for the most part they just think it's a pain to do and want to rush through it and get it done... let the lowly MT deal with whatever garbage comes out the other end. Maybe I'm a bit bitter, but at this point that's how it feels.
Disclaimer: No need to critique spelling, grammar, or punctuation within my posting... this isn't work, it's a message board.
And supposedly they are to be fired for that on DQS. I bet they are. They break the report and skip
to the next one on DQS. I get it all the time and I report it and guess what, nothing happens to them but I figure they will hang themselves eventually. They inevitably drop off the account because they really cant do it anyway.
We supposedly have Labor Day, but I've worked it for years.
I do respect those that have serious religious holidays though and only hope that the company that they work for understand.
At first I kicked myself for picking Mondays as one of my scheduled work days, as most of our holidays fall on a Monday. But the kids sleep in because they have no school, so it always works, as I only have a 3 hour shift and I'm done before they get up.
Supposedly more dfficult to find work as coder, than as MT.
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Yeah, powdered milk supposedly does the trick - nm
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It irritates me no end when a person who supposedly has good sense
to act like a horse's behind. I have tried explaining to an elderly relative I do not put a physician on a pedestel like they do because they are not almight and some downright ugly. The 1 you speak of has no "bedside" manners- the nerve of him! I had a physician tell me 1 time-after giving his word and then rescinding- only your word against mine - I then reminded him of my father's saying- a person is only as good as their word. Erks me big time.
Years ago weight issue supposedly for husband
I was trying to get some life insurance- told the man husband weighed 250 or 280, forget exactly what- was told he was overweight. The insurance man came to my house and then saw, my husband was into wrestling then and the guy said, you're not overweight, you're just big- hubby 6'4 and carried the weight extremely well (may not be the same with you and me though- I am NOT fat, just not tall enough!
Lots of OSI posts on Company board. Supposedly offer low pay. nm
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Gotta read the whole thing, says supposedly good sense...
…Did not say they did....supposedly and do 2 different things- right?
One of my accts is in Baton Rouge and just today getting a few dictations trickling in. nm
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Word supposedly counts 10% higher than most "regular" line counting
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Haven't heard in years. Supposedly making it harder to get money
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wanted to add it was nice of you to positively reinforce MT efforts on difficult dictations...(nm)
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I learned to put my phones in front of my ears inbetween dictations so I don't get blasted.
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I found more info. Supposedly he actually died in her hospital room of a heart attack....(sm)
How absolutely awful. It says he was visiting his mom and the new baby. Can you imagine going in the hospital to give birth only to leave with your new baby and your older son not make it out? I can't even comprehend it. I'm sorry for the people who can't see past her craziness but that has to be heartbreaking.
Does anyone have a sample
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Here's a sample
Here's what part of one of my Autotext entries looks like. It has fields in it that I can just jump to by pressing F11.
OBJECTIVE: Height: {x} feet {x} inches. Weight: {x}. Temperature: {x}. Blood pressure: {x}. Pulse: {x}.
On your menu bar in Word, just go to Insert-->Field-->then choose which you want. Personally, I just choose the one labeled Comments but then I change the "formula" part (will show up in gray, this particular one says "COMMENTS * MERGEFORMAT" in it) to just an X so that Word doesn't automatically insert something I don't need. It's like a placeholder for me.
I'm sure you can customize it even more but this is sufficient enough for me right now.
Sample reports............sm
YES.... www.mtbot.com
Just type surgical reports (or whatever you're looking for) in the search engine. There are tons of reports in there.
sample reports
THANKS SOOOOOOOOO MUCH! That's exactly what I needed!
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