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dixiegrrrrl

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7. Long before outsourcing was a known concept

Reply to Skittles (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:50 PM

Dec 2012

one clinic where I worked apparently settled for local but questionable transcibers.
The patient info. was dictated into a tape recorder, the tape was sent to a business offsite but in the city, and the transcribed pages arrived back at the clinic for the doc signature.
This being in the south, accents played a large part into any errors.

My favorite goof was when it was discovered, on a page neatly typed, and signed off on by the dr.
that a patient had developed "gang green" of a limb.

Sort of poetically correct, I thought.

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When your medical transcriptionist makes $350 a month in India [View all] jsr Dec 2012 OP

I'm a medical transcriptionist. no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #1

And I thought the docs were to sign off on the transcribed report, dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #2

Seems a nurse wrote it up to make it look like the doctor had issued it. fasttense Dec 2012 #4

Oh god....more than one problem exposed then. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #6

P.S. How stringent was the standard of typing anything medical? no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #5

the mistakes I see Indians making over and over and over Skittles Dec 2012 #3

Long before outsourcing was a known concept dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #7