Re: Does verbatim really mean that?

It's never crossed my mind not to. Some things are glaringly obvious to anyone, nevermind an experienced MT. If there is any question, I type and flag or change and flag. When the doctor dictates a patient with a finger injury, then says that the finger was buddy taped to the adjacent toe, I don't have any question it was an error. If a doctor is doing a pelvic exam, not surgery, it can't be peritoneum.


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.


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