how to word this sentence?

Abdominal CT showed atherosclerotic changes in the aorta, multilobulated mass in the iliopsoas muscle hematoma, and extensive sigmoid diverticulosis but no diverticulitis. TIA!!! ...

In the upper extremities she has decreased sensation in both hands consistent with median nerve entrapment at the carpal tunnel, is weak in the hand entriciks and particularly weak in the abductor pollicis brevis with atrophy of the same. ...

The patient still has the s/l wedin soft tissue mass in the subcutaneous tissue at the distal aspect of his left total hip incision. ...

I see so many requests for help with words without providing any info but what the word sounded like. For most of these it isn't possible to help without knowing the sentence used (changing/omitting anything that would be a HIPAA violation, of course). Other details that could help would be patient's diagnoses, type of specialty or what heading it is under (Past Medical History, Allergies, Medications, Social hx, etc). ...

Anyone else having this a lot lately? It just seems that this should be something very easy for the ISR and yet it is continually NOT capitalizing the first word in a sentence - makes editing slow and tedious because of this glitch at times, because you can never trust it. You would think that would be one of the easier things for the ISR to do, so why is this continuing to be a problem I wonder? Just when I think the ISR is starting to get better with certain dictators and almost back to wher ...

Hello there fellow MTs. I know that there is a short to delete a sentence to the next period in word, but I can't find it by googling it and I am wasting way too much time just pushing buttons. If anyone knows this short and would like to share I would really really appreciate it. Since I am asking for a short, I will share the one I use the most. Ctrl+bksp = Delete last word Ctrl+delete= Delete next word Thank you for any help! ...

This (cyst) appeared ganglionous in nature. Or should I use ganglionic, ganglial, or gangliar? ...

A few weeks ago, for no reason that I can find, I cannot get the first letter of a sentence to be in all caps automatically, (unless I do it manually.) The same for the letter " I " by itself when typed. It was always automatic and now all of a sudden it is doing this and I cannot figure out how to change it back. Has anybody else had this problem, if so, how did you fix it? Thanks, appreciate the help ...

He was placed on levodopa therapy. With this, both him and his wife noticed his gait improved as well as the tremor. He has actually run out of this over the last 4 or 5 days and it may be a little bit of worsening. That is typed as dictated, I am stumped as to cleaning it up. Also.. 'both him and his wife' does not sound right to me? or is it right. ...

There is no weakness, overt numbness, loss of balance, loss of bowel or bladder, speech difficulties, visual difficulties, or lateralizing weakness. ...

The next step is to obtain a CPK previous and then 1 after exercise. Would you change 'previous' to before? ...

Here's what I hear...Evaluation for elective thymectomy in displacement with myasthenia gravis. Not sure if it sounds like "in" or "and". Which is correct? Thanks for any help! ...

He had multiple facial fractures including bilateral number three fracture, ligament injury in C7-T1, left hand fracture, T9 compression fractures, multiple rib fractures, right clavicular fracture, and left second metacarpal fracture. Does this make any sense? I have no idea what a number three fracture is, but he says it pretty clearly. ...

I'm transcribing a dictation by an Asian doctor and I'm unsure what to do with this sentence. I'm pretty sure it is exactly what he is saying. "...drainage from her right ear 2-3 days ago. This happened after her swimming 2-3 days or had all this drainage." The part I'm unsure about is after the first period. Thanks in advance for any ideas!! ...

does this make sense: She is now really reliving true abuse, and we will work with her. ...

Heart rate PS1 S2, somewhat irregular. not sure if I am hearing Heart rate or something else... ...

ok, so I had a 20-minute dictation by a DOCTOR, albeit a resident, but still...he actually said "next sentence" at the end of EVERY SENTENCE. I just want to type verbatim for ONE DAY... ...

The infant has a history of Don A Barro syndrome. Sorry I did not put it in sentence form last time. Thank you. ...

Peripheral neuropathy. I am going to go ahead and obtain a glucose tolerance test. Ulnar neuropathy. He is tentatively scheduled, according to his report, to have decompression done by Dr. Labosky. I am going go ahead and obtain a glucose tolerance test. ...

Hello to all MT posters- - Am wondering about tips about sentence breaks and comma use. Any advice/guidelines when the doctor is running fast and sentence breaks and paragraphing don't seem obvious? -Thanks to the MT's that give advise in a professional manner. So many of the newbie posts hit right at home. -Still waiting for my AIM internship to start. Has anyone interned with AIM? Diane ...

HI, I need to know if there are supposed to be 2 spaces between sentences. I was always taught in word there was one. I need to know because I edit. ...

I am just wondering how would ASR interpret this sentence... "The patient was able to cite the exact site and moment when he lost his sight." ...

I hope I posted this in the right place. If not, my sincerest apologies. I'm curious - how many of you put a comma after the phrase "At this time", i.e. At this time, the patient was discharged to home, as opposed to At this time the patient was discharged to home. I used to know all of this stuff but it's been 34 years since I graduated high school. LOL. I had some great English teachers but the memory fades with age...... :-) Thanks in advance! Have a ...

Week #1 she had fatigue, muscle aches for which she used Advil, lightheadedness, and some depression. Specifically the part about "muscles aches for which she used Advil." I want to put another comma in there, but it doesn't look right to me. ...

unsure of punctuation and also the last sentence. I typed all as dictated, but think there should be a comma after femur, and no fractures noted as a separate sentence. Any ideas? tia. X-rays of the pelvis and hip show some degenerative changes in the right hip greater than the left with narrowing of the joint space and osteophyte formation around the head of the femur. The greater trochanter and intertrochanteric area no fractures are noted. ...

However, on bladder imaging, her postvoid residual pre- was 340, after urination it was 212. ...

There is some weakness and tenderness in the supraspinatus portion of the rotator cuff. She also has s/l with some___ inferior traction a catching sensation over the inferior aspect of her shoulder the glenohumeral joint. She also gets this too from a neutral to an abducted position of the shoulder. the s/l sounds like with some and the rest of the sentence doesn't seem to fit correctly. Something seems to be missing even though I typed exaclty what the doctor said. tia ...

Can someone please tell me how to correctly punctuate this sentence! Are the commas in the right spots or not? Thank you!!! There was a 2 cm, oozing, obviously infected crusty purulent lesion on the right forearm. ...

how to word this sentence? - dawn

Maybe - Horski

thank you - dawn

Hi Dawn, I think it may be "rightward gait"... nm - elaine

Help wiith word - radmt

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