venting re foreign patient names

• venting re foreign patient names - ugh
  • Misdirected crabbing. sm - Citizen of the World
  • Do you have the capability of going into - demographics to verify sex of patient?
  • Unusual names - Glory1863
    • strange baby names - Kristie
      • baby names - WYMTT
    • I've got a couple, too! :D - Flibertygibbit
    • How about this one - trose
  • Grrrrr. I hate that, too. - PAMT~MDM

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the My Documents program in Windows XP?  I would love to be able to print out the list to give to the doctors so that they have it to correlate with the reports I give them.  I have no idea how to do this, or even if it is possible.   

Thank you.

Oh, boo hoo!  Those foreigners learn our language so they can take our jobs and our money, you numbskull.  They aren't here to help us.  They take advantage of our laws which actually seem to favor foreigners over citizens, especially if the foreigners are "minorities."  (An interesting term since the only true minority in this world is white people.  About 85% of the world's population is non-white.)  

People like you who think you are so tolerant, are part of the problem.  In this country we would all be learning Chinese if the situations were reversed and China was the country with the open door policy and all the wealth. 

BTW, I lived and worked in Latin America and learned Spanish BEFORE I went there - I didn't expect the people of Colombia to pay to have everything I needed translated into my own language, which is precisely what these foreigners who come here to leech off us expect.

Yeah, we've all had our share of "those" guys.  I worked in Radiology for a Spanish guy for about two years.  He thought his English was perfect, so anytime there were blanks he went off of his latino-rocker.  So I finally get this guy "nailed" where I can transcribe his reports just as fast as the others, and then what happens..  ? I lose the stinkin' account to VR!  So he still sends me work on occasion and guess what .... he's crystal clear NOW, and why?  Voice Recognition doesn't DO gibberish ... it trained HIM!  HA!   (Course he has to speak slowly now, losing lots of "billable hours"  And of course, they had to hire an Editor to clean up the reports, punctuate, and correct his English.)     Go figure!  ');>

Seriously, though, if you can't stay with that ESL day-in and day-out for at least a month, you will never get him.  Why companies bombard MT's with different docs from day-to-day is just beyond me.  If QA were REALLY that important, they wouldn't do that.

From one blondie to another--I couldn't agree with you more!

Drives me crazy, not to mention my so-called "productivity!"

You are right in the way you feel.   It hurts.  I know, it happened with my mom.  There was no real money, but it was more in the way she treats me and my child versus my other sisters and their children.  I have to take care of her needs because they refuse, but she always seems to lean toward them when wanting to give them something or do something for someone.  I finally broke down and told her exactly how I felt and what I thought.  Although it didn't change anything, I have limited my contact with her.  It made me feel better to let her know how wrong she was.

Things like this happen because companies/people do not have to be accountable for their actions anymore.  I wonder how these big companies would feel if it were the employer who made decisions like that (put the shoe on the other foot, so to speak)? 

I am with you on this--those people who will be displaced (to include you and your family) are going to have a struggle when it comes to finding other employment.

Doesn't make much sense to me anymore...

I have had this same ESL female for the last 90 minutes.  She obviously doesn't want to disturb anyone because she is talking so quietly.  I have the ear pieces of my head set shoved so hard in my ears they almost meet in the middle, which also means I can hear her clicking her hard candy against her teeth really well.

Okay, venting over!  Have a good one! 

I need to vent !!!!!  I am currently a full time student, work a full time job, and I am pregnant.  Why do people say stuff behind your back and go to your manager!!! Why can't people in today's world just say things to your face !!!!  You see I work a customer service job at an airport and I wait on people all day and if someone does not like you than they try to get you fired or a customer does not like you then they try to get you fired.  I am ready to dig a hole and stay in it and stop working !!!! IF ONLY I COULD AFFORD IT !!!!

Does anyone ever wonder why we even get out of bed in the morning and why we even try to get along with all of the back stabbers in this world !!!!!!!!!

Hopefully my MT career will be a better experience !!!!

Why do doctors, NPs, PAs, etc. decide to dictate without being prepared? I did a 14 minute report with 7 minutes of dead space while the dictator looked through the records to decide what they wanted to say.

This isn't the first time it has happened. Last week, EVERY dictator did it. Of course, the reports weren't 14 minutes long, more like 5-7 minutes, but it gets frustrating.

Do they just pick up a report and sign on the line? Why can't they look at the reports FIRST, then sign on? 

I don't mind if they have a 30 second (yeah,right) pause to chose the right word, but holy bananas, sometimes it just drags on and on. Then there are the doctors that answer phone calls, doctors who talk to the nurses, PAs who can't find a report that they need for lab data or vital signs, and on and on and on.

I think part of their training should be a chapter on HOW TO DICTATE.

Thanks for letting me vent.

If these hospitals are so picky about turnaround time...These docs come in on Saturday night and dictate 50 charts from the last 6 months that they haven't done, every report is 15-20 minutes long, and by cracky, they had better be typed and on the chart within 48 hours, or the transcription company gets a fine.

OK.  I feel better now.

I learned OJT in a small hospital with a PDR, Dorlands and a boss with an attitude from &*^%&*^.  There were only about 7 doctors on staff, 4 of which were foreign.  I started off learning to cope with a Thai accent in a physician who had had a speech defect, a Nigerian, a Swede and a Czech.  It was a painstaking way to learn, but I am greatful every day that accents have become a way of life for me.  I almost prefer them to some of those mealy-mouthed speed demons. 

I can remember cursing when they would say "Go back up and change this".  Just rip that paper out of the typewriter and start again. 

My children can't imagine a time before computers.  Will have to take them to a museum someday and show them what life used to be like.

The fault lies with the big US corporations who are the greedy SOBs that have outsourced the jobs so they can save billions over what they would pay workers in the US. 

So, to be rude to and cuss out these working people is not going to get us anywhere.  What we should do is boycott the corporations who are sending the work overseas.  Maybe if they lose enough business they will get smart to themselves and bring the jobs back to the US workers. 

Focus is an Indian company, you know.  Most who have been there were not happy, and many MTs only go there because they are fresh out of school and find it hard to get the experience they need.  Just FYI.

This is NOT racisim.  This is plain common sense and courtesy. 

I'm so disgusted and discouraged.  I've had three interviews in the last week, about three more in the last month, and ALL of the recruiters I spoke with had absolutely NO clue.  After listening to their canned speech about their company, they invite my questions.  My main concerns are the platform, how a line is defined (with or without spaces), headers and footers included, progam compatible with Expander that I have (IT or Shorthand), do they take out MY state taxes, (some don't), how is PTO paid, and a few more, but for each interview, but the time I got to this point in my list of questions, I'm totally disgusted because the recruiters cannot or won't answer my questions.(They are good about skirting the major points of things).  They have to contact someone else, who is not available at this time, etc...and will get back to me - yea, right.  WHAT is wrong with these people?  Can't they answer simple questions?  I don't feel that my list of questions is that outrageous, do you?  Am I out of line for even asking these things?   I've been burned too many times to agree to a job without asking these, and quite a few more questions, but can't get past first base with these recruiters.  Are they so far removed from the actual transcription aspect of their companies that they can't find these things out beforehand and be ready for an appplicant's basic questions?  The recruiter makes the first impression for a company, and if they are so far out in left field, what is the rest of the company like?   ANYONE else have this experience?

This doctor is particularly annoying in that while she is looking for information, she repeats the last word she just said.  Add to that her nasally voice and I am ready to rip my hair out!

Lab reports revealed that...that...that...that...that...

The patient....patient.....patient.....patient.....patient also had....had....had...had

period....period....period.....period.

Stop the madness!!!    (Okay, I'm done. Back to work.)