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Have I been capitalizing things wrong all these years? - dinged dingy

Posted: Oct 17, 2013

I've always capitalized emergency room or clinic when it came after the proper noun, such as St. Mary's Emergency Room or St. Mary's Hospital, etc, since it is a specific name of a specific place. I have just been dinged by an MME that it should be St. Mary's emergency room and St. Mary's hospital. Have I been doing it wrong all these years? According to some grammar sites, I'm correct, but have they changed things?

You are the one who is correct. The QA who did that has rocks in their head or is from India. - nm

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nm

one is wrong, one is correct - Sm

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It would be St. Mary's Hospital if that was the name of the facility, but it would be St. Mary's emergency room because that is a generalization. If it's an "official" name, then it's capitalized, such as Department of Emergency Services, St. Mary's Hospital, as opposed to emergency room or emergency department.

No - that

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is wrong. It is St. Mary's Emergency Room and it is not a generalization.

BOS2 P44 - SM - ME

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Don't know about BOS3 but BOS2 says this:
1. Capitalize all elements of a building address, including the room name.
Sister Mary Helene
St. Agnes Hospital Emergency Room
Ourtown, USA
2. Do not capitalize common nouns designating rooms; these are generic terms
applied to all similar rooms.

This is correct - Romper Room Lady

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This is correct from BOS3.

You would capitalize St Agnes Hospital and St Mary's Emergency Department; however, you don't capital things such as....recovery, post partum, intensive care unit, radiology, cath lab etc.

While this is something that is - normal for most writing...

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I think with ASR a lot of "correct" just goes out the window. For example, my ASR capitalizes every specialty such as "the patient was seen by Cardiology." When I see this done over and over again, eventually I just start leaving it, because I figure someone has "trained" it to do this, so why bother changing it.

that was correct also - TP was seen by Cardiology.

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If you can replace the "cardiology" with a proper name, its capitalized. TP was seen by Joe.

If the sentence was TP went to the cardiology floor, it wouldn't be capped because if you replaced it with a proper name, it wouldn't make sense (TP went to the Joe floor).

Hope my backwards explanation helped instead of confused you.

I am an MME you are correct - hammaga

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As long as "emergency room" or "department" or "clinic" are part of an entity you do captitalize them.

You're right - AlsoMME

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You are absolutely right! The patient came to the emergency room. BUT, The patient came to St. Joseph's Emergency Room. Contact your quality coach with Job number and info. We make mistakes too!

I agree with the above. But I am never sure when there is a "the" - in front of the phrase (See msg.)

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Clearly, without a shadow of a doubt "The patient came to St. Joseph's Emergency Room." is correct.

But, what about the below? Which is correct?

The patient came to the St. Joseph's Emergency Room.

OR

The patient came to the St. Joseph's emergency room.

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