Dr. Hunkyman placed the bronchoscope and noticed an endobronchial lesion which, on fresh frozen section, looked like small cell cancer.
Or should it be: which on fresh frozen section looked like.....
Thanks for any input. ...
Which is correct?
On 10/14/2013 the patient underwent blah, blah, blah.
OR
On 10/14/2013, the patient underwent blah, blah, blah.
I've been marked off both ways, darned if I do and darned if I don't. ...
I wasn't sure if I should be using commas here and make this one long sentence, or if it is correct as is...also, I wasn't sure if "forward flex" is correct.
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
Physical exam revealed that he can forward (flex) about 60 degrees. He can abduct to maybe 70 degrees. He has virtually no rotation.
"Physical exam revealed that he can forward flex about 60 degrees. He can abduct to maybe 70 degrees. He has virtually no rotation."
Then it goes onto the n ...
Ok, most of my feedback is fairly decent, even if it is coming from India or somewhere else overseas - EXCEPT for commas. I have had commas incorrectly changed or added where they don't belong over and over and over. What the... ...
Where do the commas go, if any, in the sentence below. Thank you.
Ms. Smith is an 80-year-old Farsi-speaking female with metastatic adenocarcinoma. ...
With the patient supine on the operating table and under general endotracheal anesthesia, the right groin and lower extremities as well as the left lower extremity, which included a previously performed BKA, were shaved, prepped with betadine, draped in the usual sterile manner, with a groin towel sewn in with 3-0 nylons. ...
Suddenly, I'm confused....is it displaced right proximal humerus fracture or undisplaced, right proixmal-humerus fracutre or something else? How about right distal radial buckle fracture ?correct or is it right, distal-radius-buckle fracture. Thanks ...
I have on dr that does his entire PE without any commas. Everything is run together and sounds beyond stuipd. Why?????? QA tells me to do it that way instead of correcting it. ...
Report reads as follows:
"IMPRESSION: Low back pain, probable disc disease; Diabetes mellitus, moderately controlled; Blood pressure; Hypertension, well controlled; GERD; and some neuropathy associated with the diabetes."
Wondering whether I should leave it as is, or use semi-colons to separate.............Thanks in advance ...
When writing a medication list do I put commas?
1. Xanax 1 mg dispensed #64 sig one tablet three times a day no refills.
2. Prozac 40 mg #30 sig one tablet daily no refills.
3. Stelazine 2 mg #60 sig one tablet twice a day with no refills. ...
For those who work with echo dictation - from what I understand, it's useful for straight transcribing, but does it work in VR? I'm thinking of investing in it, but can't understand how it would be useful in a VR program, which is where everything will be in just a few years. I would think it wouldn't work in a non-Word program since you can't cut and paste, and even if it did, you'd be editing twice. Thanks for any info! ...
"The patient was administered dobutamine per s/l heart station protocol. The patient received 10, 20 and 30 mcg/kg per minute." Any ideas? Thanks for any help. ...
Hi all,
Been doing echo reports for this doc for a while, and he's now added "ACS" to the list of measurements, e.g. "ACS is 1.8". Looked high and low...can't find this and was curious as to what it stands for. Any help? Thanks in advance. ...
He is giving the list of measurements on the echo and says what only s/l fraction 27%.
It is not ejection fraction because he lists that later as 40%. ...
T: Echo cardiogram preformed yesterday did reveal an ejection fracture of 29% it also showed a mildly dilated right ventricle and hypocontractile with a moderate sized paracardio effusion. ...
in giving a measurement for left atrial volume index, author says "50 cc per meter squared." How would that be correctly transcribed considering we are not to use cc, but rather mL, and we are not to use exponents? ...
Doc is doing an MRI of the foot and says the technique is: "Long axis inversion recovery, sagittal T1, inversion recovery, and short axis fat suppressed proton density. " I have added the commas but I'm not confident about it AT ALL. Any help, please? Does anyone know of a web site that explains all this terminology? Thanks! ...