This is so daggone irritating!! I have been
Posted By: sm on 2006-02-08
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receiving phone calls from unknown name and number for about two weeks now. They were calling three times a day (tid-lol). I finally answered hoping to let them know that it was NOT appreciated the amount of calls I was receiving. No one responded to my hello. I then told them not to call again. They did. Now the calls are up to 4-5 times a day. I have contacted my phone company about finding out who this moron is, but have not heard yet. Has anyone gone through this and, if so, what did you do that got results? TIA.
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Yes, been throught it several times. I just ignore them - they will stop calling you, but it takes awhile. Since you did answer them once, that just encourages them to call back.
They are probably trying to sell you something - the reaon no one answered when you picked up that time is because they have those calls on a delay - the computer dials it and will hang up if it gets voice mail or an answering machine, but if they get a human voice, the computer goes on hold and it can take a few seconds or longer for a human to get on.
I don't answer any calls that come from "private line." If they don't want to identify themselves, I don't need to talk to them.
Those are irritating and
how about when the poor doc is trying to dictate and there is loud noise in the background almost overriding his/her voice? Like laughing, chatting, etc. I go bonkers with that and don't know how the dictator can concentrate. Is there no other phone to use?? Or maybe...hello...a little common courtesy from bystanders?
I know what you mean, but it's now really irritating... SM
to have to type out a complete word or phrase. So, no, I have no classes of words found in a medical report that I don't make abbreviations for.
Instead, I long ago decided to develop more patterns and switch to using longer abbreviations so that literally millions of more abbreviations would be possible.
Like you, I've always varied from my abbreviation rules when it feels right, but I do it less now with over 50K abbreviations in storage. In fact, I've converted many of my old standards to longer rule-dictated forms as that's just started working better for me, i.e., engage finger memory, disengage thought.
Regarding groups of words, I use symbol keys before and after abbreviations to set up abbreviation "groups." Like a / indicates a capped form, including city and hospital names. Physician names are a / followed by a letter indicating the account (so I can delete them all if I don't work on it any more), followed by first four of surname, then only if needed first 1 of first name. Sounds long, but the right name and title pop up every time per rule.
For others trying to decide how to develop more expansions: for me umbilical hernia is a simple umbhe, umbilical herniation umbhj. Longer than my old umh, but still far shorter than typing dozens of them out, and I get to have every type of hernia there is abbreviated, plus all the other terms that would be vying for the same shorter forms.
As many as possible of the words between the medical terms are abbreviated, like she, could, not, remember, whether, she, took, her, medicine, as, scheduled, or, not: k cdn (or kcdn) reb whr k tok u mec as skd (or askd) o nt.
The patient continues to is tpcust and continued to is tpcudt, but the patient continued feeling is tpcdfg and the patient continued feeling short of breath is tpcdfsob. The patient continued short of breath is tpcdsob. She continued to be short of breath is kcdtbsob. And on and on and on.
The longer the phrase the fewer "extra" letters are usually needed--most complete sentences are their first letters only. It not only works, it works very well and takes a surprisingly short time to learn to knock the strings of letters out without thinking.
irritating
Fast talkers, low talkers - even worse when they do both. Docs who clear their nose or throat, mumblers, eating while recording, cell phone/pager right next to recorder that practically blows my ears out, and docs who jump all over the place and change their sentences around so I have to decide if it is a new sentence or if I need to delete what I already typed and end up typing twice as many words but only getting paid for half of them.
I recently had one doctor who was wonderful with her dictation and at the end she told me to have a great weekend! Too bad I've never had any reports from her again. Lately they just stick me with the kinds of docs in the first paragraph.
It's irritating, but the new thing seems to be . . . sm
that 3 missed appointments without 24 hour notice qualifies for termination of services. It's ridiculous, but it's the norm.
My daughter struggled to get twin babies to the pediatrician on time, was 10 minutes late twice, and called 3 hours before an appointment when they both woke up sick one time. She was "booted" from the practice for "failure to establish a doctor patient relationship."
Funny thing was, she never even met the doctor. The doctor was always either out on an emergency or running late. The babies were never seen by anyone besides the PA. My daughter was intimidated into basically, "They see the PA or they won't be seen type of deal."
My son was "booted" by his PCP because his account had an outstanding balance of $36.00. I explained to them that my husband had recently lost his job. They gave me 3 weeks and then booted him. (After insurance paid huge amounts of money for our son and the rest of us, who were not booted because we didn't have a balance).
It's all about money lately for the most part. I don't believe that the doctor feels he could make more money off a different patient, it's just that if there is not enough time to book another patient, the docs won't have enough to buy a new tire for their Mercedes.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Maybe I'm wrong but it is irritating.
I'm tired of suddenly getting email messages from people I email all the time announcing that they have a new process for ME to go through so that I can be "approved" to send email messages to them.
I got this notification after sending an email to a short list of friends and relatives. It wanted me to verify who I was and why I was sending mail to them and verify the numbers I was seeing on the screen and verify my name and my email address.
Maybe it seems trivial but I think it is ridiculous. What's next? Will we have to get "approval" to send something in the mail?
I understand blocking spam but really now, these people know who I am. I maintain MY list of people, why can't they?
Thx for listening!
most irritating word in the world-
bling-bling-- If I hear some young punk say the word bling again I am going to bling him right out of this world
It is really irritating to have the replies deleted
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I imagine it was equally irritating for the patient. nmx
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Also irritating illegal alien ESLs that steal US
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hey... irritating maybe, but this is the PRICE for keeping American jobs
why are we whining about this? We keep talking about our jobs being outsourced, well guess what... this is the same thing. We have to pay a higher price to speak to an American. That sucks and sounds ridiculous but the fact remains American workers demand more money, just as we as MT's do over people in India. I don't have a problem with it, maybe cause I see it from their side. I for one cant STAND talking to people from another country and honestly NEVER get the problem fixed with them. It sucks to pay more, but it is worth it, for them and for us.
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