why overseas-outsourced transcription requires close editing

[Mark Mandel]

>From my sister, who is a medical transcriptionist/editor:

> Subject: mirthful editing tidbits
>
> "The patient was prepped and draped in slanderous fashion for surgery".
> [in standard fashion]
>
> "nerves bearing" = "nerve-sparing".
>
> I was editing a double mastectomy. There was "birth tissue" removed, supraorbital tissue excised... Mindlessly (as usual), the OS [overseas=Indian] MTs stumble onward....[breast tissue]
>
> The *door* was then opened in a cruciate fashion and the surface of the brain was noted to be somewhat swollen....[dura]
>
> Of course there were a multitude of other messes to clean up, but this last one made me finally decide to write to you today. I love it:
>
> "The superior to be satisfactory....."Â  I looked at this with curiosity as I read along, editing....
>
>
>
> And suddenly the doctor dictated, "This appeared to be satisfactory".

Mark Mandel, groaning, and very glad his sister and others like her
are on the job!

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