The spammers have done it - they hit my domain mailbox full force. It was like an assault - she can't possibly delete this many!
Annoying though it is, you have to admire their creativity. The names they choose are amusing. For instance, Imperilling I. Rascal, Lifesavers S. Flycatcher - and my favorite - Relatively K. Wanton. The list goes on and on and...on. I suppose legitimate names weren't getting the attention they wanted. Well, they got mine - if it's an absurd name and has an attachment - *CLICK*
Work is certainly tame these days. That's fine with me. I'm usually at the transcription desk trying to decipher Drs. Lee, Khan, Elsaid and Cox. Was transcribing one of them recently and I kept hearing the phone in the outer office ring. I ripped off the earphones, answered, but dang. Was too late. No sooner than I had the earphones back on, it rang again. And again, I was too late. Went back to work...lo and behold, it rang again. By this time, I'm noticing a pattern. The phone does not ring until I'm wearing headgear...I'm almost embarrassed to type this, but...
the phone was in the background of the dictation. It never did ring in the office. It was a recording! What can you do but laugh?
I'm still getting used to the doctors' habits. I would prefer they not dictate immediately after lunch or breakfast, because you're plowing ahead and suddenly...BRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
Ms. Horton - he just BURPED at me! I think it was a burp...HOPE it was a burp..
One afternoon, I got stuck on one word. One word can tie you up for 20 minutes, and I was making no headway. I talked along in the physician's accent and all I could get was ADC. It isn't unusual to get abbreviations, but I couldn't find one to match in the drug reference book, nor in our approved abbreviation list. My last resort was Ms. Horton, who has been listening to these guys for years and so I broke down and bothered her.
She listened, then burst out laughing.
That's one of his words. He uses that for etcetera - get it? E T C.
Good heavens.
3 comments:
I can understand your pain. For years I took dictation, also did the recorder thing too...people are strange when they talk aren't they. I was laughing at ETC thing. I immediately got an impression of Yul Brenner in King & I doing the etc etc song. Hey you can laugh at yourself too sometimes its good for the soul...Sandi
LOL!! about the docs and especially the phone! Martha :-)
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That's the best laugh I've had in a long time!
Lori
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