Originally Posted by K9soul
Dear doctors I have to listen to for 12 hours a day,
Some of you make life as easy as you can and are kind and considerate, you turn your head from the mouthpiece and cover your mouth when you cough and you don't do your dictating in a small echoing place that sounds suspiciously like a restroom.
Others, I can't speak so well of. Please do not snorgle your boogers in my ear and gurgle phlegm in your throat while you dictate, it makes me ill. Please do not dictate while you are smacking and chewing your burger and potato chips while talking about a patient's colonoscopy, you make me want to fling my headset across the room. Please at least turn your head when you have to belch rather than doing it right in my ear, or at least say excuse me. Please do not be a swivelhead while you dictate, so that one moment I can barely hear your voice and the next you are blowing out my eardrums because I have turned the volume up to hear you. Please do not dictate important lab values like an auctioneer.
Please if English is your second language, speak as clearly as you can and not in a stuttering mumbled mess of incoherency. And please, if you haven't the foggiest idea how to spell a medication, don't pull a spelling out of the air, just leave it to me, it's my job.
Thanks,
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