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sentence help? this is typed as dictated - dawn

Posted: Feb 15, 2010

41-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches, long-term video EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic seizures, and a patient with a history of depression and suffered a poor history of childhood abuse.

this sentence seems all wrong, yet I try to break it up and to me what I type looks wrong as well.

Dawn, try this??.....see message - Cyndiee

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A 41-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches. Long-term EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic IN a patient with a history of depression and a past history of child abuse??? Hope I help!

sentence..sm - kip

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The way I see it: A 41-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches. Long-term video EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic seizures in a patient with a history of depression and suffered a poor history of child abuse.

Try this (creative punctuation) - TexMT

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Forty-one-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches (long-term video EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic seizures)in a patient with a history of depression who suffered a poor history of childhood abuse.

I changed and (after the parentheses) to in and the and (after depression) to who, if you are allowed that much editing. If you are not, then I would leave the words as they are.

I would recommend the review of the use of parentheses to all MTs. I use them extensively in situations like the one you just posted. They can make sense out of a lot of sentences so one does not have to extensively edit. Hope this helps.

thank you!!!! great suggestions!! - dawn

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take MY version...see inside.... - ♥

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A 41-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches.

Long-term video-EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic seizures, a patient with a history of depression who suffered (GAVE ?) a poor history of childhood abuse.

I hoope your account is not strictly verbatim, because the "suffered" does not fit in there.

Sentence help - Cheryl B.

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This is what I would do.

41-year-old woman with recurrent spells associated with headaches. Long-term video EEG monitoring suggests these are nonepileptic seizures. The patient has a history of depression and suffered a poor history of childhood abuse.

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