I'm looking for a general consensus regarding two spaces at the end of a paragraph. Everywhere I've worked, this is considered "padding your account" to create more characters. However, one place I've worked is doing this and it doesn't sit right with me. I'm wondering if this is common and maybe my experience with it is just limited?
I'm curious to hear the opinions of other MTs. ...
In an OP report, I have a dictator who says "prophylactic antibiotics were given and (Kendall and Max) pneumatic stockings were applied."
I have looked high and low for this. Kendall stockings I can find with no problem, but he's definitely saying what sounds like "Kendall and Max"
Anyone know what this might be? ...
I have started working on Cerner Classic and am -- after having worked for many years on other programs -- finding it both incredibly difficult and frustrating.
The most prevalent error message I am getting is "Editing not allowed," and I need to know how to cancel/get out of that without having to ditch the report and starting it all over again. Thanks. ...
Switching from Classic to Cornerstone is killing my income! My CCM tells me, like all bosses do when they switch to SR, that no one is going to lose their jobs, and it will be better. No. What happens is our pay drops drastically, and then the work doesn't take as long to do. Work that took 100 MTs to do can now be done by 50, and MTs lose out.
Good for MQ....bad for us.
When I started here in 2006 45K a year.
Now lucky if I make 25K.
Now at .04 a line, tha ...
The patient is being treated for a surgical wound dehiscence. It sounds like they applied a "mild dome space compression wrap." Any suggestions?
Thanks. ...
Though I am still looking, I can not seem to confirm this. The context is:
Abdomen was soft and nontender both during Grady compression and the FAST exam.
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I suffer from terribly cold fingers when I am typing. My mom suggested compression gloves. Has anyone ever tried them?Right now I am running a spaceheater pointed at my hands and I am still having to take breaks to warm them up. ...
I am newish to the site, but saw a comment referring to "padding" a line count. Fill me in and if you know why QA is so annoying changing perfectly correct terms and punctuation all the time, help me out. ...
An esophagram done revealed focal narrowing and corkscrew appearance of the new esophagus just distal to the anastomosis concerning for "exo genic" compression ...