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I am just working on the account while the normal transcriptionist is recovering from surgery. I will double check with her before submitting. Thanks again!
Could also be SCDs, sequential compression devices. - Olive
Sounds like "ulna 3 joints of her hand" but ulnar makes more sense since that is talking about more than one bone and ulna is in reference to just 1 bone. Any ideas on where to look would be great. Thanks ...
Only mention in report = "Has s/l Den's peripheral neuropathy with diabetes. States his blood sugars have been running in the 120s."
I tried "dengue" but I don't think that's it. Help anyone? ...
Closure was carried out with 2-0 nylon horizontal mattress sutures. The patient tolerated the procedure well. There were no complications. A s/l "bulgie dealings" ulnar gutter splint was applied. ...
Patient presents today with ulceration secondary to Lisfranc amputation. He has tried bacitracin, Neosporin, and s/l: Asell and Asellous treatments. ...
What is the final say on how to use these words??
Is is tibia fracture or tibial fracture? fibula fracture or fibular fracture?
What if there is another word in front, does it become "proximal tibia fracture" or still 'proximal tibial fracture"?
I find some people do it one way, others the other way!!
Thanks in advance for any help/direction/link to help with this. ...
Ever since our FTR plan, I rarely send anything to QA. I usually only have 1 blank occasionally, and if I can't hear it, most of the time QA couldn't either, so I send the blank. Got new accounts. I was doing fair with that. I don't know what has happened, but I am getting the bottom of the barrel yesteray and today. I have had to send 3 or 4 reports to QA because of the more than 3-blank rule. That is depressing that I do the reports and get vi ...
I wish someone would ask the sisters or one of the A's what honestly is going on. All I get is "Work is just slow right now." RE: the post below about the docs saying something about Dragon, it really makes me wonder. I wish they'd communicate the truth. ...
Status post right pharyngeal nerve injury with C3 to C7 fusion requiring further surgery.
The surgery was reportedly complicated by a right recurrent pharyngeal nerve injury requiring subsequent surgery with improvement and complicated by left rotator cuff tear which has required two surgeries.
Am I correct here thinking this would be "pharyngeal nerve"?
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Would "crown nerve 5" be right in the following sentence?
She has sensory deficits in her right face particularly around the second component of crown nerve 5 but also some sensory deficit globally in a stocking glove distribution in the right upper and right lower extremity.
Thanks so much!
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shouldn't it be hallucal nerve?
The patient is having trouble with her feet and he states the diagnosis is...
neuralgia at the medial s/l halacele nerve (hallucal) tia. He does not pronounce it as hallucal, but I cannot find anything else. ...
Doc is saying that s/l "poutic's out was identified just distal to the fibular head."
Wha???? Found something calling the peroneal nerve the "pout" but am stuck. ...
Rountable re MUP minimum wage, conference calls re MUP? Seems to me that someone is squirming at Nuance about minimum wage and it makes me smile. :) Keep up the pressure fellow employees. Has the the Dept of Labor been in contact with them recently? :0 I realize Nuance thinks they are above the law but they do have another thing coming in their near future. Watch out TSMs. You will be held accountable also, for the higher ups will ensure they are not ...
Stumped here. :(
Surgeon says:
Two screws fractured at the level of the bone. They were ____________ and removed in the usual fashion.
The blank sounds like "truffened", "troughened", "truffined"? Some sort of removal. I have absolutely no idea.
Thanks in advance. :) ...
At the same time, he has weakness of abductor pollicis brevis (CA, median nerve) as well as numbness of first finger and thumb on the left (median nerve C6).
I am not sure what he is referring to when saying CA and wonder if this makes sense? ...