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Hi all, has anyone else started a new thread yet?

• then the inaudible work will be removed and we can all get on with earning some meagre pennies?

If it is totally inaudible email dict8 (I know it is a faff) and they will listen and then ask you to send it back with a note of their describing. I have got rid of a few in the past this way. Not always though! Since then the really poor dictation, noise etc. bad equipment has been far less frequent. They do say they will contact the customer.

My latest is sending back generic drug names that the dictionary will not allow me to add with a small letter so they then have to update the dictionary.

@danblack87 Could not agree more - it is Dict8's responsibility to sort the rubbish, they are getting paid for it

I wish that these doctors would stop dictating like they are talking to you on a casual level - it's so hard to type letters "as dictated" like this. Do they not know how to write a formal letter 😡

@Meha5a I agree, some dictate like they have never received a formal letter themselves to know how to phrase it. Doing TPro has me tearing my hair out sometimes - there is obviously a crib sheet that gives instructions as some read it out every letter - "can you dictate a letter to..." and I am thinking - I am not dictating a letter, you are.

Then it is "letter to GP, copy to Dr Smith, Dear Dr Smith" so then I leave a note - "please verify if letter is to GP or Dr Smith" I despair that they do not have the intelligence to adapt the crib sheet to send a letter to someone who is not the GP!

And then there are those who write "To whom it may concern letters" with Dear Sir/Madam and sign off " With best wishes" when such sentiments should be reserved for people you know or at least a letter with a named recipient.

Such measley dictation today, very short letters, after 2 hours of constant typing only earned £13.00 less than minimum wage. It really is soul destroying.

@nomadchild Sorry you are having a bad day ... mine has been pretty fair today. Let's see what tomorrow brings

Finally got to £21.00 set myself a target of 28 today as lots to do today, so might actually achieve it.

Well over 600 tasks and having trouble getting past the first five, once again! The dictation is absolutely dire, sort your lives out Dict8, do you actually ever listen to the tasks or indeed what your transcribers are saying?!?!?

@Newinmarch22 : only 95 in my task list but having the same problem

Good day for me today but I have got a new keyboard and did not realise how much the old one was sticking. I'm flying away on this one. Some dire dictation earlier but I did do some to clear it up, one was dictating whilst medical instruments were being used in the background like a drill or suction tube, horrendous could not hear over the noise. I wonder about the common sense of some of these doctors.

Just wondering what everybody else does when a doctor says Thank You at the end of dictation. I always thought that this was to me for typing but I had feedback once from Dict8 to say I had missed to type it so now I always do, but I don't think it seems necessary a lot of the time. I suppose it's an extra few characters anyway!

Same here, like you I thought the doctor was saying thank you to the typist, but I was pulled up by Dict8 saying I missed it off the letter! I agree that a lot of the time it just doesn't look right but hey ho, they know best

I always type "thank you" if dictated as all adds to the count.

Me too always type thank you, when I started I did not as I thought it was "thank you" for typing but its all adds to the line count so I am happy with that. So I have just clicked into a file gives the patient name and number and then the dictator says "to be uploaded" that's it nothing else. How pointless is that !!

I add Thank You as i used to have a doctor who said "with kind regards" then the Your' sincerly. looks daft but its ker ching at the end of the day. :D

I just read above at the "600" task list and "95" If mine gets to 25 a day i'm looking at a busy day.

I've had a good one today with a good few "juicy" 5+ minute letters. even done a few extra to try and get this months allotted money totalled so i can enjoy the cold weather lol 😀

I add it with dict8 but don’t when at work

Also where’s the proof readers? Doing some letters at work that have come back from dict8, totally different to what the docs saying 😂

If 'Thank you' Dictated I always type /// for the reason that we have to type everything we hear !!! I agree it is rather ridiculous on some letters.

Had a reasonable morning until 11.15 then it's all gone 'pear-shaped'. Sitting here in the hope that something reasonable comes through. Everything has come to a standstill

@Frazzledbynature I have 4 specialties so that is probably why I see more on the task list ... not that they don't get stuck ... 'cos they do ... and probably cross-over into those that do only 2 or 3 of the specialties I do. Hence, I can see a list but others only see the specialties they are typing for which I cannot access when the list is blocked

Isn't it annoying when you get a task giving all the ID details and then 'No Letter required' requiring a note?

In my day back in the day eons ago the Dr would just use a sticker/mark it on the clinic sheet 'no letter' OR for DNA 'note on clinic sheet 'DNA' indicating standard DNA letter!

I think in my speciality, I have only one doctor who quotes "standard DNA letter" I know what you mean though, a lot of faff for a pitance of lines.

I try and grab the longests ones if they are people who sound clear enough. My tendancy is to go with a short one and then discover I've got to go searching for correct name spelling of consultants if I've the info or it takes just one fluff of dictation to take the time to try and decipher what is being said.

I only do one speciality but from what I've read on here, ones enough for me for the time being. Our mortgage has gone up another tenner today so I might have to rethink that and raise my work quota at this rate. 🙄😣

Oh my word!!! I am thinking about giving up today already. Perhaps early dinner, early bath and a bottle of Vino .. oh, it's that bad. 🙄