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casting a vote for carriage returns - ...

Posted: Jan 01, 2012

Long posts without paragraph breaks are difficult to read. I just want to cast a vote in favor of our friend, the carriage return.

I'll second that - enter, enter, enter

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My eyes are older than my body.

:) Enter-enter. Great! I'm with you--here's a vote also for - saving patient lives with accessible data. If

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we're wearied trying to read little posts for fun, how about harried clinicians trying to get what they need to know from those lethal (despicable) page-long history and assessment/recommendation paragraphs?

readable, accessible data? - very unhappy camper

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I was new to an account, on 100% QA, typing a "strictly verbatim" account. The doc went on and on and on, and I put in a paragraph break or 2 in the HPI section of the report, strictly to make it more readable. Got "dinged" by QA. Since the doc didn't say "paragraph" when I put in the paragraph break, I had broken the strictly verbatim rule.....

sorry this happened to you - ...

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I would attribute that to small-minded QA; it's hard for me to understand how exercising good format subverts the idea of verbatim transcription.

Anyway, the original post was directed to posters who write lengthy narratives without paragraph breaks.

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