{"id":254,"date":"2004-08-21T02:30:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=254"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"my_what_is_cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/21\/my_what_is_cute\/","title":{"rendered":"my WHAT is cute??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eight london hospitals are outsourcing transcription to india, with comical, yet potentially worrisome results:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>London, Aug. 19: Yet another fault has been found by British unions with the quality of outsourcing to India but this time perhaps with some justification.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Medical letters are being transcribed by secretaries in India but potentially life-threatening errors are creeping in because of insufficient knowledge of either the English language or of complicated terms, it was claimed yesterday.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>It is also possible that the use of computer spell checkers is leading to some words being replaced by unlikely ones. In one example, the drug \u00c2\u201cLansoprazole\u00c2\u201d, used to treat stomach ulcers, was transcribed as the popular holiday resort \u00c2\u201cLanzarote\u00c2\u201d.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>In another case, \u00c2\u201cphlebitis (vein inflammation) left leg\u00c2\u201d was changed to \u00c2\u201cflea bite his left leg\u00c2\u201d. And a \u00c2\u201cbelow knee amputation\u00c2\u201d was transcribed as \u00c2\u201cbaloney amputation\u00c2\u201d. One note referred to a patient\u00c2\u2019s \u00c2\u201ccute angina\u00c2\u201d instead of \u00c2\u201cacute angina\u00c2\u201d. \u00c2\u201cEuston station tube malfunction\u00c2\u201d should have read \u00c2\u201cEustachian tube malfunction\u00c2\u201d.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>personally?  i think most politicians <b>should<\/b> have their &#8220;baloney&#8221; amputated, but that&#8217;s just me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1040820\/asp\/nation\/story_3649486.asp\">The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eight london hospitals are outsourcing transcription to india, with comical, yet potentially worrisome results: London, Aug. 19: Yet another fault has been found by British unions with the quality of outsourcing to India but this time perhaps with some justification. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/21\/my_what_is_cute\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}