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technical question about "allergies" - gjs

Posted: Feb 05, 2014

Is the word "allergic " capitalized in this sentence: He is allergic to penicillin or He has no allergies.

Depends on the MTSO/facility...SM - Old Anon

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One facility I do wants the whole sentence uppercase if it appears within the body of the report. If it comes after the heading ALLERGIES: It is upper case. BUT a negative finding stays sentence case, as in, He has no allergies. BOS II says it is not wrong to not capitalize allergies as there is nothing written in stone that says you must. It all depends on client wishes. You would need to ask the client how they would like this done. I hope this answers your question.

What do the account specs say? - xx

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It doesn't matter what anyone here thinks. All that matters is what the people signing the paychecks want.

School work? Test?

Ask the MTSO, client, school instructor - Whatever the case may be-nm

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Why would you? - anonymousie

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I have done different accounts, some where you don't do anything any different to the formatting for allergies, some where you bold the statement, some where you both bold AND make all caps WHAT THEY'RE ALLERGIC TO, and of course, headings are either initial caps or all caps. However, I've never ever seen where the word allergies or allergic would be capitalized in the middle of a sentence. That's just weird.

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