Go yell it on the roof tops!

Sung to whatever tune is in your head...

Go and tell it on the roof tops! Go and tell it to the world!


This anxious woman has GRADUATED with honors! Ok, so the term wasn't really graduated it was something like, "congratulations, you have rolled over to paid status starting 03/16/2008," but ya know I can pretend that this is grander than that can't I?

After 2 LONG agonizing months of many tears and torture from doing dictation after dictation and having them scrutinized to the very letter, I am done!

Here is my commencement speech:

I have learned so many things this last year including but not limited to the following:

I have learned to translate ESL doctors who try but just can't speak English very well (bless their little ole hearts). Some are soooo funny to listen to. I just had to learn to laugh at them and not cry at them. It finally dawned on me the other day that if they are called ESL doctors (English as a second language) then I could be called a MSL translator (Medical as a second language). I think they can learn to laugh at me too right? Or cry if they must but please don't fire me when I think they are saying things like "the patient has fellinfrumatry" instead of "the patient has fallen from a tree."

I have learned that my brain does not communicate with my eyes, ears and hands at the same time. Because of this I have had to learn to take criticism very well. Even after checking and rechecking and then doing it again, somehow I would always still miss something. The key to graduating I guess was that I learned how to stop missing the dangerous mistakes. Tough for sure and no fun to constantly have someone finding EVERY little mistake. That woman who supervised me should get a national award for her attention to detail. She was good. I had to tell her so once.

I have learned that I could probably be a doctor by now. I was able to diagnose many illness that the doctors seemed to miss. Many times I have wanted to interrupt the doctor and give him my thoughts. I just know he would have appreciated it. I could have saved him (and the patient) so much time and much unnecessary testing...

I have learned that because of HIPPA, you do NOT want to CC a report to a wrong doctor. I am anxious even writing anything medical in my post.

I have learned that when things seem so hopeless I just need to hang in there.

I have learned that my house does not magically clean itself while I am working and therefore must remain unkempt until the weekend.

Most of all I have learned that I have an amazing husband and amazing children who love me and are so patient with me. A great big thanks to them for helping me stick with this and helping me see that I can do something of this magnitude.

Anyone interested in pursing a career in this field?

Disclosure: I hope you all know I am mostly joking with all of this MT stuff right...Dr. D? I really love what I am doing and I am sooo excited to move on. I know and accept that I am still sooo amateur and have so much to learn.