Question on style plz :) - Kitty

Posted: Jan 23rd, 2020 - 6:26 pm

I have been told that I should place a comma after a doc's name when using it in a sentence such as, "Steven Smith, M.D., saw the patient on Friday."

Is that correct? Does everyone do that? I cannot rememeber doing that in the past.

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Question on style plz :) - Kitty (Views: 540, 2020-01-23, 6:26 pm)
- you're worried about style using "plz"? - nm (Views: 361, 2020-01-23, 8:35 pm)
  - Personally, I think your remark is - out of line. (Views: 479, 2020-01-24, 5:43 am)
    - Thank you - Kitty (Views: 490, 2020-01-24, 6:50 am)
    - Impersonally, I don't - think it was. (Views: 430, 2020-01-24, 12:00 pm)
      - It's called short cutting, what's odd about it? That's how I transcribe - using short cuts all day long, nm (Views: 236, 2020-01-29, 9:07 am)
        I hope you don't mean you use shortcuts - in the actual report (Views: 282, 2020-01-30, 5:09 am)
        Don't be silly with all that. I'm a transcriptionist of 35 years - of course I know how to type, sm (Views: 292, 2020-01-30, 8:30 am)
  - Really? - Kitty (Views: 431, 2020-01-24, 6:47 am)
- There would be no comma after the name - Old Anon. SM (Views: 477, 2020-01-24, 5:51 am)
  - Thx - Kitty (Views: 525, 2020-01-24, 6:44 am)
    - We use commas to set off titles, i.e., MD, APRN, etc. - sm (Views: 408, 2020-01-24, 9:30 am)
      - Basic English rules, don't know what AAMT guidelines are - nm (Views: 485, 2020-01-24, 9:52 am)
      - Why would you people dislike basic English rules? - nm (Views: 279, 2020-01-29, 9:05 am)
        Because a majority of transcriptionists have no clue about English and grammar - nm, (Views: 261, 2020-01-29, 9:29 am)
        How did you come up with the majority of - MTs have no clue (Views: 356, 2020-01-29, 5:52 pm)
        If you did or do QA, then you would have that opinion. - nm (Views: 338, 2020-01-30, 8:34 am)
        I have done some QA but still don't see a - total lack of knowledge (Views: 373, 2020-01-30, 9:20 am)
        It has been both older and younger for me. - sm (Views: 344, 2020-01-30, 9:29 am)
        I work with some ladies who always type "The patient will follow up with myself on" blah, - no knowledge of me, myself, and I, nme (Views: 324, 2020-02-06, 7:48 am)
        Nobody here said they disliked basic - English rules (Views: 258, 2020-01-29, 5:44 pm)
        We used commas to set off titles. That one, basic English rules - and it was disliked, nm (Views: 263, 2020-01-30, 8:32 am)
        Oh, you mean they clicked the Dislike - button on a post (Views: 272, 2020-01-30, 9:13 am)
  - I never dropped periods. - nm (Views: 451, 2020-01-24, 10:17 am)
  - Checked the Blue Book of Grammar and - Old Anon. SM (Views: 432, 2020-01-24, 2:47 pm)
    - Wow - Kitty (Views: 341, 2020-01-26, 1:18 pm)
    - Just - cruising by (Views: 255, 2020-02-02, 9:53 pm)
      - Another great reference - Old Anon. SM (Views: 366, 2020-02-03, 5:37 am)