Re: FRUSTRATED!!!

The internist I am doing dictates on planes.  He uses digital but it is
still difficult to hear due to background noise.  There was one time there
was a screaming, and I do mean screaming, baby in the background and the
roar of the engine.  I had a horrible cold and just put the job aside.  I
did not go back to it for several days just because I was so pissed.  It
went on for over 40 minutes of dictation!!!  He does this all the time (this
is the famous leave the tape on ALL the time guy).  I know he watches Law &
Order for instance as I've heard the music and the TV very loudly in the
background, etc.  He dictates when there are lots of people around (I think
in another room but you can hear them laughing real loud as he lowers his
voice -- how sweet of him).  I have just started living blanks and when I
fax report to him I say --Loud noise in background, baby crying or people
yelling or loud TV -- he's getting the hint!!

-- 
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"JCav" <JCav.22k6wh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> This is the dilemma I am dealing with.  Most docs are considerate and
> try to avoid ringing phones or other distractions, but there is the
> occasional doc whom I would not mind driving the 1000 miles to slap
> because they almost get a glee out of being this way.  I have one doc,
> in particular, who flies through ROS and PE at the speed of light and I
> have even heard him stop and laugh a little like he knows just what he
> is doing.  I would like to be an IC (just don't have the experience
> under my belt) just so I could fire a jerk like that.  It does not
> matter that one complains and even makes suggestions for standard ROS
> and PE for this doc (almost says the same thing every time but you
> can't tell by listening to it) and get nowhere.  I have no regret
> whatsoever leaving multiple blanks in his reports and the editors for
> the most part leave those blanks there as well.  Maybe the facility
> will eventually get fed up and put the brakes on his practice but I see
> no light at the end of the tunnel.
>
> I am only grateful that these type are few and far between and I have
> pleasure in doing the work of most docs.
>
> Gisele Wrote:
> > Well, if it's a doctor dictating to a hospital system, he or she does
> > not pay that MT and probably doesn't really care how long someone has
> > to spend trying to figure out what they're saying. I'm just pointing
> > out that doctors are only people, they are people who work very hard
> > and have a lot of responsibility, and they're not always thinking about
> > who is on the receiving end of this dictation. Keeping that in mind
> > helps me to be patient with some of this stuff. How you can call that a
> > defeatist attitude is beyond me.
> >
> > Gisele
>
>
> -- 
> JCav


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