Your Next Telehealth Upgrade: Clinical-Grade Captions
A few minutes into a virtual cardiology follow-up, Mr. R leans forward and says, “Sorry, doctor—could you repeat that?” He’s 72, has mild hearing loss, and…
Articles on medical transcription, clinical documentation, captions and accessibility for healthcare.
A few minutes into a virtual cardiology follow-up, Mr. R leans forward and says, “Sorry, doctor—could you repeat that?” He’s 72, has mild hearing loss, and…
If you’ve ever scrubbed through a 60‑minute grand rounds video to find one 20‑second pearl, you know the pain.
f you’ve ever paused a surgical video to double‑check a dose or rewinded an online lecture to catch a lab value, you already know: captions in medicine can’t…
Ever paused a grand rounds video five times to catch a single drug dose? Or scrubbed through an hour of OR footage to find a 20‑second teaching pearl?
A cardiology fellow once told me about a near miss during night float. She was revisiting a cath conference video with captions and read, “Heparin fifteen…
Three minutes into a cardiology teaching video, a fellow pauses. Was that "mg" or "mcg"? The captions read 50 mg, but the speaker meant 50 micrograms.
If you’ve ever watched a surgical walkthrough on mute during rounds, tried to follow a webinar in a noisy residents’ lounge, or counseled a patient who reads…
During a pharmacology lecture, the presenter said “fifty micrograms.” The auto-captions read “0.5 mg.” The room didn’t notice—but a Deaf pharmacy student did.
If you’ve ever repeated “Can you hear me now?” during a virtual visit, you already know: audio isn’t always reliable.
On a Friday night before call, a neurology fellow searches for a clip she once heard on carbamazepine-refractory trigeminal neuralgia.