Re: 9.5 minute dictation-half completely garbled

[Guest guest]

This has happened to all of us. As a matter of fact, we have one doctor here at

the hospital that I will not see for other reasons, but also he is famous for

doing dictations where he cuts off every other word. Bad dictations like this

can often be attributed to the doctor talking on a cell phone. The problem with

cell phones is that the person on the bad end doesn't even know there is a

problem and thinks everything went through just fine. Eventually your " ear "

will get better and you will start picking up some of the things that sound

garbled now, but you will still sometimes have to leave blanks. Hopefully who

ever is looking over your work will be able to fill them in for you. Margaret

>>> 10/29/02 04:53PM >>>

I'm a newbie...only 1 week into my first job...and have done really well in

handing in reports with no blanks in them...until now. I have a 9.5 minute

dictation, half completely garbled because of poor sound quality...has that

ever happened to anyone else? I'm talking about 20 blanks here. I can't pose

an s/l question because I can't even HEAR what it sounds like! Please tell

me I'm not alone in this! EEK!

[Guest guest]

Not even close to the worse I have seen. While doing QA I had one come in

with 38 blanks for about a 10 minute report. You are not alone. It takes

on the job experience to be able to do some doctors or to weed through poor

quality recordings. Eventually you get to the point that you know what it

is that should or could be being said and it becomes easier, and at the same

time your ear becomes trained to hear it. Stick in there.

Quixote

enigma3337@... wrote:

> I'm a newbie...only 1 week into my first job...and have done really

> well in handing in reports with no blanks in them...until now. I

> have a 9.5 minute dictation, half completely garbled because of poor

> sound quality...has that ever happened to anyone else? I'm talking

> about 20 blanks here. I can't pose an s/l question because I can't

> even HEAR what it sounds like! Please tell me I'm not alone in this!

> EEK!

>

[Guest guest]

Trust me...we all understand exactly what you mean. Most of us have been

there...so you're definitely not alone. LOL Starting out on 1 account

there was 2 or 3 docs who we would just have to send the tapes back or send

reports with tons of blanks. These docs were well known throughout the city

as being very hard to transcribe. But eventually it all fell into place and

they are no problem at all now.

t

~Trisha~

NMTC owner

MedTrans co-owner

sandlewood@...

-- 9.5 minute dictation-half completely garbled

I'm a newbie...only 1 week into my first job...and have done really well in

handing in reports with no blanks in them...until now. I have a 9.5 minute

dictation, half completely garbled because of poor sound quality...has that

ever happened to anyone else? I'm talking about 20 blanks here. I can't

pose

an s/l question because I can't even HEAR what it sounds like! Please tell

me I'm not alone in this! EEK!

[Guest guest]

Nope, you are definitely not alone! Try not to feel discouraged:)

I recently started with a new company, did a 17 minute dictation of

a foreign doctor and had 51 blanks! (The QA person was kind enough

to count them for me!) I felt horrible until I received a not from my

supervisor

telling me he is notoriously the worst dictator for this account and I did

an

excellent job for my first try.

I also have a doctor I do for a different company. Have done her for 3

years,

she's very repetitive and easy to do. However, of late we've been having

problems

with tape quality or her machine and I've had no choice but to leave blanks

in some

of her reports--something I've never had to do before.

Sometimes, once done with a difficult dictation, I will go back an listen to

it again and

see if I can fill in any of the blanks. I usually find that I am

understanding the accent better

and can usually eliminate some of them. If you have the capability, once

you have the feedback

from QA, go back and listen to the entire dictation again and see if you can

hear what they've heard.

It decreases your productivity but increases your ability to decipher when

the accent is on the wrong

syllable, they're talking to fast, etc.

Hang in there...the rewards come slowly sometimes but they do come. One of

my favorites is when

I leave a blank for QA and they can't get it either!

Best wishes,