"I'm afraid you've got a cute vagina"

"You dirty beast!"

"This patient is a son of a biatch!"
"No, actually, SOB stands for shortness of breath."
"Then he's a wheezing son of a biatch!"

Obviously, the invisible hand of the free market will correct itself, after a bunch of patients die and the hospitals go out of business. But it's all good.

call center references in 3..2..1.

/Go India !

what is the likelihood that this will continue even if someone dies as a result of mis-interpreted/mis-typed medical records?

I guess the real issue isn't the fact that they are Indian secretaries, its that they are not medical secretaries familiar with the terminology.

Euston, we have a problem!

You should also take into consideration the hand-writing of doctors, I am assuming they write the prescriptions/symptoms first.

beautiful headline

I had to complain about my web hosting, and got to talk to people in India:

Mikollig Jusphartid and Levdarum Dibastid

I like the picture that goes along with it. They must be typing in scarlet letters

speaking of call centers, my cell phone provider apparently sends their 411 calls there. i'm always asked to "would you please spell that sir" when asking for a number in worcester, concord, secaucus, or skeneadles.

Hmmm. This article seems to imply that non-Indian medical transcriptionists never make errors -- hah.

Yeah, and then when the US company says they are changing vendors, the Indian company will say no you aren't, you are going to pay more otherwise we'll post all the info on all your customers on the internet.

And there ain't a damn thing we can do about it. US law need not apply.

Farking morans.

I find this hilarious -- as a doctor, let me assure you that the stupid Americans who type up our dictations make an equal number of hilarious mistakes. I'll dredge some up and post them here.

DOC: "Now Mrs. Jones, Your file says you had an add a dick to me?"
JONES: "No, I'm addicted to meat you farktard."
DOC: "So, then I'm correct?"

moops

speaking of call centers, my cell phone provider apparently sends their 411 calls there. i'm always asked to "would you please spell that sir" when asking for a number in worcester, concord, secaucus, or skeneadles.

Apparently, you also need help spelling Skaneateles.

Me: I cannot make any more jokes for awhile.
Friend: "Why not?"
Me: " My doctor said refrain from the cunning linquist for two weeks."

A baloney amputation?

/jibblies

Funny article

GOD DAMN IT

I'm in the middle of retraining to become a medical transcriptionist.

I can't afford med school or engineering, and I'll be damned if I become a lawyer, a prison guard or a cop.

farking outsourcing. Maybe I'll retrain to become a drug dealer.

The doctor in that pic is definitely copping a feel

Doc: Stop making jokes.
ankmcfly: Why? Insert clever pun here?
Doc: No, they suck.

Scrotar

Get your nursing degree. They are insourcing them and you can make $50k/year working 24hrs/week.

When I was at Euston Station earlier this year, there was no tube malfunction at the time. Other stations weren't functioning at the time because of construction.

Can we get an OBSCURE tag?

/good headline

Holy Diver:

1. Pick on sad attempts at humor?
2. ???????
3. Profit?

Crappy hating I write.

HarryCanyon

It makes you come like the falls.


Sorry

A couple of months back I had surgery on my hand. Later I recieved a bill from the hospital of $985 for "Vaginal Delivery." So I called the hospital and told them I wasn't paying for delivery of a vagina that I never received!

(I like vagina, dine-in, take-out or delivery!)

I see many lawsuits coming, unless you vote for Bush.

Seeing as Indians learn English at an early age, I would say this has more to do with what they're paying the transcriptionists and makes their location a bit irrelevant. Oh wait, outsourcing is the current big thing to whine about, go on about your business as usual, don't mind me...

a flea bite in his left leg

ha ha ha

Zippy_da_Midget - Yeah, that's what my brother and his fiance are doing. Some of the credits I've already earned count towards the nursing degree, so I just might take your advice.

Men in guy tits?

NedwinHLongfellow

I doubt Indians learn English medical terminology at an early age

Shenanigans.

I used to process health insurance claims and got tons of joke lists from other adjusters. Most of these examples were on one list or another as far back as the early 1990s.

This used to be the way we made fun of transcriptionists in general--not just the foreign ones.

Lassie rated kidney?

An old man and his old wife go to the doctor to get tested for HIV.
The doc asks "Why would you think that you need an HIV test?"
The old man replies "We heard on the news that you should get tested if you have annual sex..."

Holy Diver, you transcript says you need to see the rapist.

Scrotar

Yeah, that's what my brother and his fiance are doing. Some of the credits I've already earned count towards the nursing degree, so I just might take your advice.

Better sign up fast since all the nursing programs I know of are seriously impacted. Might I suggest being some kind of hospital tech to pay for school (~15-$20/hr)? Furthermore, the bennies of nursing, aside from seeing various bodily fluids and solids, are flexibile schedule, option of working in any hospital around the country, per diem shifts, any time of day shift (aka, night shift so you don't have to see the boss), on call (aka, sleeping and getting paid for it), and so many requests to work double shifts that you make double time out the wazoo. You might make six figures if you aren't careful, imagine if you are careful...

Screw med school, that's for idealistic dummies that don't like personal life.

Edsel is right - indian or not medical terminology leaves inexperienced secretaries stuck - although some common sense would have prevented some of those mistakes - as does knowing your secretary and being able to correct her
- lastly all letters should be checked before being sent out by the dictator

and all those talking about US this and US that - RTFA - this is a story from Britain

I hope the dumb fark who sent those secreterial jobs/work overseas becomes a victim of his actions thanks to a random typo.

Patient begins to wake up from anesthesia...
"A colon sore? No doctor I was here for treatment of a COLD sore. Hey wait a second, what is this surgical instrument doing crammed far up in my a$$! AHHH OH GOD NOOOOO!"

I think the patient in the picture probally does have a cute angina.


/i'd hit it.