Re: Does verbatim really mean that?

<handing Becky some Tums> LOL

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"Blupencl" <Blupencl.2b3txx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Margie Wrote:
I sure don't want to be the "decider" about what constitutes a
"mistake dictating." Ugh.

Margie

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:53:37 -0500, Blupencl
<Blupencl.2b3ls2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I worked for a verbatim company - and they really meant "verbatim
unless
they make a mistake dictating."

They would nail your hide to the wall for typing verbatim, or they'd
nail your hide to the wall for not changing the dictation. It was an
impossible situation that boiled down to the squeaky wheel getting the
grease. The doctor who said "But I didn't mean peritoneum, I meant
perineum, yeah, I know I said peritoneum" and hollered about it would
get you pinged by QA with "You should have known what he meant" (of
course I knew what he meant, but I'd had strict instructions to type
what he SAID). Then if you had a report QA'd and you'd fixed it to
keep
from transcribing something that made no sense at all and was
obviously
wrong, you'd get pinged for that.

Nobody at that company would ever answer my questions about that or
other policies. I bailed.
Oh, you know what I mean: "The perineum [dictated very clearly every
time, no matter where he was] was entered...." I think this is the one
"speller" I had who would spell the wrong word.

He was a prolific producer of cr*p dictation both before I worked for
the outside company and when I worked at the hospital before that. We
always "fixed him" because we had a brain in our heads. QA for the new
service would audit reports and ping you for putting "peritoneum" in
there, even when it was so obviously correct.

I get acid reflux just thinking about my time with that outfit!


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