You're welcome. :) - Varmint_hunting Posted: Oct 31st, 2009 - 12:36 am In Reply to: Thanks - newvhmt
Know what you mean about the snark around here... I've been subjected to it many times myself.
Here's another one of my tricks that I've invented fairly recently. (I use a slash mark in a lot of my keywords because I started out back in the dark ages with an expander that accepted that, and the person who taught me how to use it used that. Hopefully yours will accept that as a character, if you see something you like below. Or you may be able to use some other character for the purpose.)
cad = CAD
cad/ = coronary artery disease
cadx = coronary artery disease (CAD)
That last one is for the times when we're supposed to do it that way, such as in a list of diagnoses, if they dictate CAD, we're not supposed to use an abbreviation in a diagnosis list, and we're supposed to use it the way I show it above, with both the spelled-out version and the abbreviation in parentheses. (Good grief, that was an awkward sentence. I must be getting tired.)
I chose the x just arbitrarily because it is not a common letter. Of course I promptly got into trouble with MI because 'mix' is a real word, not used often, but a real word nonetheless. So that one is an exception; 'mii' is the keyword for the fully expanded version.
Other candidates for this system: CHF, ASCVD, CKD, CVA, CABG, GERD--the list goes on and on. For these, you just make your play on the standard acronym/abbreviation, so they'll be easy to remember.
I also started using the letter j in some of my keywords, just because it's close to home. For instance:
aj = afebrile
cj = complaints
ij = injection
tj = temperature
wj = who complains of
Don't ask me what my brain was doing when I came up with those--but you know what? They work. For me, anyway.
I actually keep very detailed statistics of my production. These were very helpful for me not to get discouraged by my abysmal slowness when I first started my current job. I keep track of my lines per hour every day, and it's very gratifying to see it creep up, little by little. (Another use for my detailed stats is for the extremely rare occasion when they screw up my paycheck. Fortunately, that has only happened maybe once.)
Again... best of luck, and if anybody gets snarky with you, refer them to me. I bite. Hard. But only when provoked. :)
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