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What do you do with this kind of sentence? Need answers soon please! - anon


Posted: Jan 18, 2011

When Dr. dictates a sentence in the middle of a paragraph that goes like this:

Eyes normal vision.

Cardiac no carotid bruits.

Cardiac regular rate and rhthym.

Ears normal hearing.

Do you just add a colon after the first word? Sometimes that looks odd, so I am not always sure what to do. Any ideas/help appreciated, tia.

I'm with you. Put colons. Yep, looks ugly. nm - Anon

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Sentence - Lee

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If the client wants to save money and make the doctors look stupid because everything is verbatim, leave it the way they say it. If you have the option, use a verb, like Eyes have normal vision, etc. If they want to save those fricking pennies you can use a colon. It is a clumsy sentence any way you look at it. Everybody is speaking in clipped sentences these days. Soon there will be no language left. Sorry, I am disgusted with the whole industry right now.


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