new dictator for me, very rapid ESL. Dictates that patient will be premedicated with s/l "Loft C"
Thanks for any help. I will probably be asking for more help as I go through this very difficult assignment. ...
I can't quite understand this doctor...it sounds like she is describing this patient's colon cancer as "Y-type". I can't find anything like that anywhere...any help would be soooo appreciated! ...
patient with lumpectomy then double mastectomy. Medication s/l ven-mo-fax-ine or fem-mo-fax-ine HCL 25 mg q.i.d. times several months. She will be on this for 5 years total. Cannot find or figure. Googled "HCL 25 mg breast cancer" but didn't find anything too close. ...
It should have been a red flag when the S/O stated that this client could not find reliable help, that every kept quitting or just not signing on to work when they were supposed to. They use SR software which has been loaded bugs and developed without the input of MTs (big mistake). I had spent days on tech support lines (unpaid) for problems even the techs could not figure out. Their manuals for the software were for previous versions. They require hardware that cost me ...
The transcription service company that had this account was great, doctors great, but the client has two problem employees that run the show and can make life pretty miserable. They want you to go by the AAMT BOS, but have hundreds of exceptions, which they do not inform you about. Each time you go by the BOS but it doesn't make them happy, they rant in emails with exclamation marks about how you have been told hundreds of times before, when you never have be ...
This patient has prostate cancer, but somehow or other the paraaortic lymph nodes or periaortic lymph nodes are involved. I have googled and found both spellings, but for the life of me I can't figure out which is correct. "This showed a 1.6-cm retroperitoneal lymph node in the low pelvis anterior to the inferior vena cava suspicious for metastatic disease." There are so many lymph nodes in the body. Even looking at an anatomy diagram, I can't figure this out. Help!! ...
In a cancer report, the doctor gave a diagnosis of Stage IIIC T4aN2M0 cancer. Then she later said, He was staged as a pathological T4aN2a. She added the a and dropped the M0.
I listened very carefully for the diagnosis and later in the problem list. She does not add the a after the N2 in either place.
Does anyone know why it is N2a in one place but just N2 in the DX? ...
Gleason score 4 + 5 = 9 involving 35% of the specimen, 1 out of 1 cores contained cancer, linx of cancer was 0.35 cm.
She says the linked or linx twice in the document. ?? ...
Should this be a colon since it is giving a list?
She does not recall ever suffering from any developed mental disorders such as: Bed wetting, sleep walking, temper tantrums, or reading disabilities.
and does anyone know of a good way to understand if there should be colon use or not?
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Dictated: "... at which time I performed a colon resection for perforated rectum secondary to a s/l SIR-kir-uhl ulcer."
He says it very clearly - not circular, not sacral - but he might be mispronouncing it.
Any help appreciated, thanks!
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what the heck...and since when is "it" with no other identifier as to what "it" is, other then the preceding sentence, able to form a complete sentence? ...
a word expander like Speed Type would do that? And can you use Speed Type along with MS Word? And transfer over all your AutoCorrect entries easily? I emailed the company but haven't heard from them. : ( ...
I'm working on an audio from a bariatric surgeon. He's talking about a woman's abdominal CT and he says "...it looked normal. She did have some (s/l hostule) thickening of the distal colon..."
Any help is most certainly appreciated! ...
I cannot find this abbreviation on Google or in Stedman's. Full sentence:
"History of (s/l "ADM") in his proximal ascending colon with slowly spontaneous oozing."
Atypical diabetes mellitus doesn't seem right in this context. ...
Doing my first op report regarding a sigmoid colon resection. Does anyone know a site that would describe the anatomy in this area? I am hearing things that sound like "mobilizing white line of Toltol"and I am pretty sure it is only going to get more complicated. Help! Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give. ...
can someone tell me if I should capitalize a generic drug name following a colon?
CURRENT MEDICATIONS: lisinopril 40 mg 1 daily and thyroid supplement.
also, do sentence fragments and one word entries after colons get periods?
I have seen these done in multiple fashion. ...
full context: There was no evidence of intraabdominal contamination, although the sigmoid colon was socked to the left lateral abdominal wall. Is that right, socked? ...