Mel,
I am on 6.5.5, and I find more of an issue is older medications; I can never find Flexeril, but it shows up OK as cyclobenzaprine. It is there ok, just requires I remember the generic and for some reason I find that one difficult to remember.
Chris,
Price aside, Dragon does a reasonable job. You actually have to speak at a normal speed to keep it from getting confused. It still makes mistakes, but is probably 99% accurate.
I have evolved the philosophy that it is good enough for my progress notes without much proofreading. I can figure out what I meant even with errors, and I'm not trying to impress anyone. Referral letters are a bit trickier since I don't want to look like a worse boob than I already am. I get annoyed by Dragon's inability to correctly recognize a few words the way I pronounce them, no matter how much I train it. "Period" is often replaced by things not even close.
I have copied a phrase used by one of the Anchorage nephrology groups to put at the bottom of my letters in 9 point type: "These documents were created using speech recognition software and may contain errors in content and syntax."
