Re: Verbatim transcription

From: Becky Young (blupencl_at_aol.combadstuff)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: 24 Nov 2004 21:45:05 GMT

>However, I still wish I knew what these services mean by "verbatim." Does
>that
>mean if the doctor says" "Mary ain't had no chest pain today" that is what
>they
>are to type? Even simple subject verb agreement is to be typed incorrectly?
>

EDiX said "This is a verbatim account" but if you were to have typed something
like that, QA would land right in the middle of you. If you said "That's what
he SAID" they'd say "You knew better."

Geez. My blood pressure goes up just remembering (but I will say I did have a
couple of really good editors).

I told my supervisors there that I wasn't going to do it, period. I had been
transcribing those doctors for 15 years and I knew what they wanted. I didn't
ever get in trouble, either.

Becky Young