I'm sitting in the lounge listening to Mrs Mottie working from home at the dining table. She logs into her pc at the hospital and picks up recordings from the consultants and types them up. I can’t hear them as she has to wear earphones and uses some kind of foot pedal to control the dictation speed. I’m not even allowed to see the screen. She can type nearly as fast as you can speak and without even looking at the keyboard or screen so it’s weird watching her rattle away on the keyboard at a fair pace while looking at the birds on the bird feeder in the garden. I usually hear the odd "Ah, poor man" comment but just now she burst out laughing! I asked her what she was laughing at and apparently one of the consultants is a bit of a joker. He started off with "Mrs xxxxx presented herself with a knife sicking out of her abdomen. No, scratch that, I’m just being silly!" He went on to dictate that the patient had described 'stabbing pains' in her stomach.
