proper names

So since I started with this new company, they have implemented capitalizing things like "I am sending the patient to Neurology". The patient will follow up with Cardiology. Now, is it just me, or are these NOT proper names and therefore shouldn't be capitalized, or is this a new rule that I have missed somewhere? I thought if it is "UCSF Neurology" that would be capitalized.. am I crazy? This is driving me a little nutso. Thanks ...

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What is the prope way to type this out: five-tenths of a cc. I have been typing 0.5 cc, but I am thinking maybe it should be 0.05 cc. Please help set me straight! Thanks! ...

What is the current proper form for height when the doc says "height five-five?" I am so paranoid about everything now with MQ. ...

Is there a right or wrong way. I'm researching and all of those come up. Thanks, ...

I was wondering if I should correct this doctor. He said She is Hispanic speaking, but Hispanic isn't a language. Should I put Spanish? ...

Ok, is it proper to say "bottoms of both feet" or "bottom of both feet"?? My dictator and I have been going around and around on this...please help! ...

MD dictates C5-6... I usually change this to C5-C6, as it seems that is the more correct way. Should C5-6 be used? ...

Doc just says in Diagnosis "3 4 neuroma" Should that be 3/4, 3-4, 3,4 or other? ...

Can someone explain to me why, if I get paid by the line, I spend so much time looking up doctor names, facility names, the local burger joint, etc, but I don't get paid for that? ?? I am going to throw in the towel with transcription and look for a job that pays by the hour. This line stuff is a joke. Can't get up speed or stay with a rhythm for stopping to try to find names of people, places and things. ...

Anyone notice their W2 now actually says Nuance Transcription Services and no longer Transcend DBA Nuance... Last year there were lots of comments about our W2's (all of us, not just those who came in from Transcend) saying Transcend. I even wrote HR to see what was up with that. They never told us about the change to Transcend and certainly didn't mention the change back to Nuance. Oh well. Just an observation. ...

etc anymore. Ideas? ...

Just wondering...what is the proper way of typing CO2? ...

Doing a report and they begin the sentence with - 3 mL of anesthesia. Can't find this in the BOS or anywhere. Is it proper to type Three mL of anesthesia, or is this an exception to start a sentence with 3 mL. Thanks, mt ...

You can challenge them if you feel certain they are wrong, yes? Is it not koshur to question them too often? How about 2 challenges that you prevailed on, but by the third question are they sick of you anyway, never mind you were right the first 2 times. ...

As in epithelial cells, if dictated as "epis", what is the proper way to type that? I saw one place "epis", one "EPIs". Help appreciated, I am currently lacking the appropriate reference material for abbreviations and cannot find this info online. tia ...

subcu, sub-cu, sub-Q, etc..? TIA ...

Warfarin subQ b.i.d. TYIA. ...

ANYONE who uses Windows 7 and Enterprise Express Editor..help me! I need to know how to go backwards to put in the date that a doctor saw a patient. On my old program, EXText, I did CTRL J and it went back. Now, it says that macros are disabled. I don't know how to make this work. ANYONE out there able to help me? I just went from an XP to a Windows 7 and from ExText to Enterprise Express Editor. They are very similar programs but these little changes are ...

The doctor dictated: CRP stable at 15.4 high. How would this be formatted? Would it be correct as CRP, stable at 15.4; high. ?? ...

For those "low-talkers" who won't spell the PA/PACs name, combined with my endless list of names, does anyone know the easiest way to just do a generic search for all of them? It's exhausting! Thanks, y'all! ...

Does anyone else ever have a problem with a doctor/nurse, etc. who sends out letters or just on regular reports who gives no complete names or addresses? We have a place to go look them up but it does sometimes take a chunk out of my time doing it. One or two minutes means a lot sometimes. I have one doctor who dictates letters to "Dr. Smith, Dr. Jones," etc. and there are only about 10 of each of those listed and sometimes you cannot tell what the specialty is to look it up.&n ...

When typing a name like Topicort - if it is cream or ointment, are those capitalized? Also Selsun shampoo - is the word shampoo capitalized? Thanks ...

Only lists lupus as PMH, so nothing much to go by. TIA!!! ...

I just did a report that only had 14 lines and the pts name was used, Mr. XXXXX, a total of 16 times. The report ended up sounding so stupid. ...

Doctor dictates The patient is apprehensive about his upcoming assignment with the Army. Capitalize Army???? ...

So, this being the most friendly and up-to-date board around regarding MT practices, can I get some opinions about the HIPAA 'privacy rule' and your doctors using patient names in their notes, clinic or otherwise. I am not sure how an HIM department can say to a physician how using a patient name in a transcribed report is not going against the Privacy rule in HIPAA. This kind of stuff just irks me!!!Any comments?? Thanks in advance.... ...

99% of the wasted "down time" I have in my work day is trying to decipher doctor names, patient names, referral names, dictator names, resident/assistant names and I'm literally sick to death of it. From now on if I don't hear the name the VERY FIRST TIME it's said it's going to be LEFT BLANK. No more listening to it over and over and over and over trying to catch the first syllable or the last, or even a piece of the name - I sometimes spend 5 whole minutes PER R ...

I am pretty sure I read this in BOS but can't seem to find it now. Do you capitalize something like tetanus when it refers to the vaccine and not the actual condition? As in Tetanus Vaccine or Tetanus vaccine to prevent tetanus. ...

my mtso switched to a new system and all the doc names I had in my data base are gone. what a pain to start over. any simple way to do this. all the doc names come up as spelling errors and i am adding them slowly and painfully ty ...

proper names - Teri

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