Baloney Amputation

For all the arguable advantages with outsourcing, some tasks should probably remain in house.

Eight London hospitals are using or negotiating to use the services of Omnimedical which employs a pool of secretaries in India to transcribe letters from tapes dictated by consultants.

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Information about a patient's "phlebitis [vein inflammation] left leg" was typed out as "flea bite his left leg". A "below knee amputation" was transcribed as "baloney amputation" and "eustachian tube [in the ear] malfunction" was given as "Euston station tube malfunction".

Of corset maybe defaultive the dock tarsand righting.

Posted by Kate at August 18, 2004 11:03 PM