Learning the book of style and trying to decide in this sentence whether or not to capitalize Neurology and pain medicine.
He was seen by Pain Medicine and Neurology.
thanks in advance ...
Trying to understand BOS when capitalizing departments. Doctor says to see cardiology tomorrow. So is cardiology capitalized? Anyone have an easy way of remembering the rule on this? Thx in advance ...
I have seen tons of different ways to write the following and am wondering what is the actual correct way? When using the words "type 2 diabetes mellitus" in a document, do you initial capitilize it or leave it all lowercase? ...
I need help with capitalization. I have myself confussed with some of the ruling for departments and services. With this sentence: The perineum and vagina were prepped and draped and the ureteral stent was placed by urology service. Do you capitalize urology? Thank you ...
For those of you who take the time to view this post - I'm banging my head in frustration here! NITINOL DOES NOT NEED A CAPITAL N! It is nitinol basket, nitinol wire, nitinol mesh stent...etc, etc. Pull out a ref. book, for Pete's sake!! There - now i've said my piece, I can go back to correcting the 900 instances of the capital N in the reports i'm auditing. Does anyone bother to review Feedback? If so, I wouldn't have to change Nitinol to ...
When typing scotty dog view, is this capitalized or not? And is it spelled scotty or scottie? Also, can you give me a reference of where you get your answer please? Thanks! ...
woman with a long history of chronic daily headaches, failure of multiple treatments with a visit to the headache clinic of Michigan.
I am thinking--if it were The Michigan Headache Clinic
then it would be capital?
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When do you capitalize departments? I have been in the biz for 10 years, and my current QA staff is giving me conflicting feedback on my capitalization. One QA manager is giving me errors for not capitalizing, the other is giving me errors when I do! I was always taught that you didn't capitalize the department unless it was preceded by the proper name of the hospital (XYZ Hospital Emergency Department, etc).
Also, as far as specialties, how do you handle those? For ...
How do you know when to capitalize departments. I've always typed emergency room, radiology, cardioliogy, dialysis. Now its Radiology, Cardiology, Dialysis, emergency room. Why isn't the ER capiltized if the others are? Also, if home health comes to a persons home to dress their wounds would home health be capitalized or if someone goes to urgent care is that capitalized? Can someone explain how I would know when to capitalize something. Otherwise I find myself losing time ...
Every once in a while my shift key doesn't take and I have a sentence started without a capital letter. Is there an way to create a macro that can go back and do that so that I don't have to either backspace out or stop and go back and correct and then carry on?
I'm thinking to do a find function to go find the last period and then tell it to skip to the next letter, but I'm not entirely sure how that would go.
If anyone's got any suggestions, I'd really app ...
Hi, I am doing an Emergency Room report and looked up several samples of ER Reports. Under PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, some of the sample on the Internet have (for instance) HEART and EXTREMITIES in all caps, but others transcribe it as "Heart" and "Extremities", not in all caps. Which is preferred? Thanks so much. ...
Do I capitalize Emergency Medical Technician or just Emergency medical technician. As is the patient works for ----- hospital as an emergency medical technician.
Also, do you capitalize a medical proffession name after the doctors name. Ex-Dr. Smith, Oncologist or oncologist. I have looked and looked, but I thought it should be and someone else thinks it shouldnt. Trying to get the correct format. I just cant remember and I cannot seem to find in my BOS. Thanks for the help. ...
I already have Capitalize the first sentence checked in Autocorrect. Has anyone created a macro to automatically captialize the first letter of each item in a numbered list? Would so appreciate it. ...
I have a client that is telling me that certain things should be capitalized in sentences that I have never capitilized before and I have been doing this for years. Now I am questioning everything that I do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks. ...
or do you leave them in lower case. I know you capitalized brand names and lower case on generics, but what about street drugs, always wondered that? TIA ...