ESL sentence structure funny.
Posted By: Not high on 2007-01-03
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The patient's blood pressure felt she was high.
(But did her blood pressure tell on her? LOL).
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at your sentence structure
you're putting us on, right? "you must have look for cheaper transcritionist"????? Are you truly Indian or is someone pulling our legs?
Not so much fixing words but sentence structure
Sentence structure and syntax are what slows me down. How do you make restructuring sentences not slow you down?
I don't think that's " a big IF." That is an extremely sturdy structure. sm
It has a drainage system in the lower levels so it's not like it's going to fill up like an aquarium. It also has an extensive generator system, so it's not going to turn into a giant greenhouse effect. They did not direct people there "to contain the bodies."
Go to counseling and get guidance and structure.
It CAN work if he earns back your trust and is truly sorry. Counseling can help guide you through this process. It is truly worth a try. What have you got to lose? Good luck to you! :-)
Balanced Structure and Relaxation
I find the way that works best for me is to treat working at home just like working in an office. I get up in the morning, have my coffee and watch a little bit of news on the television, then I go in and get dressed just like I'm going into the "office," even if I am just in my home office and no one will see me. I've always tried to avoid working in my jammies because it seems to me I'd be too relaxed and not able to focus on the tasks at hand, if that makes sense. I think keeping as much structure as possible in the home office setting means greater productivity...at least for me it does.
I'm the sole source of income in my household. My boyfriend is the domestic engineer and handles all of those things usually associated with a housewife (cooking, cleaning, running errands, paying bills, and everything else required to run a household). I can earn as much doing 4 hours of transcription than he could earn in 8 hours, so this works out really well for us and he has no problem with being a "house-husband." He also knows how seriously I take my profession and, given the chance, I'll work 18-20 hours a day, so he also helps keep my workaholic tendencies in check. Being an IC, he doesn't feel too neglected in that we can still go out to lunch or go to a movie or watch a movie at home together, all quality activities that keep our relationship on track.
When my daughter, who is in college, comes home to visit, she normally sleeps late. I start to work on my lines earlier than usual so I can still make my commitment yet still have plenty of time left mid/late day to do things with her. If need be, I'll hop on again later in the evening while she and my boyfriend are watching TV or playing a video game, so I can get my lines in.
We're very progresive in my household, and while this is my ideal situation, I realize it's not something that would work for everyone; however, thanks to my supportive boyfriend and my wonderful daughter, I'm able to make a very decent living for us and we're all very content and no one feels neglected.
It's all pretty much about balance and structure, and making it a point, if at all possible, to set aside a couple of hours a day to devote to the other person and still get the job done. I honestly don't think it's QUANTITY of time but rather is QUALITY of time. A couple of hours a day to have lunch, go see a movie, or just lay about the house watching a DVD goes a long way toward ensuring no one feels neglected and that I have all the time I need to provide my little family with everything we need.
Good luck to you and keep us posted on how things are going. Living with the MIL can't be entirely pleasant, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!!!
Home is where the heart is....no matter what type of structure!
Some people are so judgemental and know no better!
Don't worry about it, everyone has their own opinions and you can't change that.
Home is where the heart is no matter what structure it is.
You're funny. Ignorant, but funny.
I don't live in NYC and I don't work out of NYC and I make wayyyyy more than $23 an hour, SandyGIRL.
I'm an employee at the largest national and I make anywhere from $58K to $64K a year.
You don't have to believe anyone but you show your ignorance by telling those of us who make that money that we're full of it.
Hahaha
Sorry, that was not an ASR funny, just a regular ole dictation funny. LOL! nm
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Bad sentence
But if could affect the hysterectomy as if she kept bleeding it could cause complications with the hysterectomy i.e. transfusions, longer time, etc. which also could be what he means -- who knows.
Please sentence. TIA!
Cardiac catheterization showed mild coronary artery disease, osteocircumflex in the late mid right coronary artery 20% disease, normal LV function. Does this sentence make sense?
And they can't say a sentence without
Just to be cool - or kewl - or cool beans - whatever!
Need whole sentence.
The phrase high-resolution images is very common. Need more info before I can guess what else you are hearing.
YOU SAID IT ALL IN YOUR LAST SENTENCE...SM
They have to show something to justify their paycheck. Remember, for lack of a better way to phrase it right now, they're actually paid to find fault. If every MT turned in 100% perfect work (and you know they're not going to let that happen)...well, they'd just be out of a job. So the nitpicking continues. Turn in exemplary work, and they will find something wrong with it....do it their way, and tomorrow they'll like it better the way you had it the first time. For that reason, I avoid them like the plague, since I'm off QA. But recently I had occasion to e-mail QA regarding a STAT report I had sent in (required on the account for all STATs), stating only that it was a STAT report and that I had completed it. I received a dolled-up e-mail correction of where she thought a hyphen should not have been placed (where it was specifically dictated, no less). I e-mailed her back that this was not the reason I had contacted her in the first place...just to nitpick my work.
When they first did this to me, I thought I was imaging things...but as other MTs came forward, I got even more angry. All the (unpaid and unjustified) time I wasted on the back-and-forth nonsense that they were getting paid for, and all just so they could have something to show..see Ma, I'm earning my oats!
Also in your other sentence
Commas are confusing. Plus, we are trying to get through each report as quickly as we can. Often people tend to go more by sound/pause than by rule.
I think if we really look at it, the comma in your own sentence is not proper either: "I have been literally removing 10 or more commas in front of "with" every report, but only some MTs." - - I believe no comma is needed before the word but in this case since the remainder is not a complete sentence.
It helps if we know the whole sentence
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Sentence -my 2 cents
She is a 66year-old white female who recently transferred to our practice with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, who I refer to you at this time for further evaluation of anemia
She is a 66-year-old female who has recently transferred to our practice with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and hyyperlipidemia and is being referred to you at this time for further evaluation of anemia.
depends upon the sentence
This is only what I would do -
1. use a semicolon to preceded "80%" ... or ...
2. write out 80%: Eighty percent
I think either one would be acceptable. But, again, a lot of it has to do with my own personal preference.
1 space after sentence
I made the switch to 1 space after a sentence more than 15 years ago when I got my first computer and everything was justified. If you can't remember to do, you can make an adjustment in Word to do it automatically for you or just make a macro to do it for you. I have one account who insists on 2 spaces and I cannot remember to do that so I just transcribe as I normally do and then run a macro to change it. You can also do a search and replace. Put in period space space and then replace with period space.
Barbara
1 space after sentence.
Yes I have to do that also. It took me a long time to get used to it, however, but after awhile, it felt very natural.
re-read the sentence
>>>He indicated that at the beginning of the year he complained of health problems recently but has gotten better." C'mon doc, which one is it?????
Type this: He indicated that at the beginning of the year he complained of health problems, BUT recently HE has gotten better.
What a difference two little words make.
Actually, when it starts a sentence
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p.r.n. at the beginning of a sentence
P.r.n. is incorrect. The correct way to type this would be:
1. Ibuprofen p.r.n.
not
1. P.r.n. ibuprofen
sorry for my sentence fragment....sm
Bad MT, bad MT....*slaps self*.......LOL
the remainder of the sentence, though
sounds like your version is correct...more aggressive treatment, as in the steroid injection or surgery, as opposed to him pursuing treatment more agressiveLY...IMO, you're right!
I agree w/you. BUT, in your 1st sentence...sm
You should have the period *inside* your ending quotation mark, not outside of it. (My personal pet peeve.) I'm just saying...
I think mine was 1 sentence...
...when I left MQ.
This is to let you know that ----- will be my last day of employment with MQ.
I know my PS also knew why I was leaving and there was no need to elaborate further, like I would have liked to, and possibly blown up a bridge or two. I got to tell everything to the person that conducted my exit interview, but what they did with that info, I have no idea.
Good luck!
Your last sentence is bizarre because
really I do not think has anything to do with anything. I fit the same profile, mother, gmother, the retirement bit but just don’t know where it plays into this picture? We were talking about a person wanting to do transcription and poster said not good speller.
Use perseverate in a sentence.
:)
I thought this was funny.
Doc dictates: "The patient perseverates. She was able to follow simple commands. She was able to name and repeat simple phrases and simple objects. The patient perseverates."
And then the doc adds: And if I said that before, I'm perseverating.
I have one who never ends his sentence
The whole body of the report is just one long run-on sentence, and I'm supposed to stop and start the sentences for him.
Your last sentence is correct. This is a JOB. - sm
I find it pretty hard to classify MT, in its current shabby state, as a 'career'.
If you look up the word 'career' in the dictionary, it usually describes some sort of FORWARD MOVEMENT within one's chosen path of employment - not the downwardly mobile wages and non-value as an employee that AHDI has so thoughtfully bestowed upon all of us. Somehow I don't see doggedly waiting at my computer for a tidbit-scrap of a job to be thrown at me, or trying to conduct a triage of my monthly living expenses, deciding which one I will skip this month in order to pay the others, as having a 'career'. This is just a 'job', and not a particularly lucrative one, at that.
That's how I understood the sentence...
Units being the subject. I was QA'd today. I was marked off for spelling out HCTZ which is on the dangerous abbreviation list. I pointed that one out to my supervisor.
Re-dictating a sentence in a different way, only - sm
not letting the MT know, and the sentence sounds like an extension of the first sentence. You don't figure it out til you get to the bottom of the report under Impressions, and then you have to go back and find that sentence and listen to it again. This always seems to happen in the middle of a 45 min. long mega-report, too.
Could someone tell me if I am punctuating this sentence correctly?
She had been complaining at that time of three weeks of diarrhea, which was watery – one episode per day.
Here is the sentence which makes no sense
turned the bed sideways and introduced laryngoscope varuge varuge (sounds like) scope
Boy I cannot complete a sentence my posts look like VR
Numbers at beginning of sentence
I know that if a number begins a sentence you spell it out, but I'm not sure about after a colon. We type:
BLOOD LOSS: 50 cc.
but what about
FLUIDS: 500 cc normal saline. (?)
Does the "500" need to be spelled out since there are words after the quantity, or is it considered part of a sentence beginning with "FLUIDS?"
It depends on the context of the sentence, really. SM
It depends on whether he's saying further bleeding will affect a hysterectomy, or whether Dr. _____ will effect a hysterectomy if there is further bleeding.
When I try to bring up a full sentence
in IT, it peters out after approximately four to five words, ending up with mumbo jumbo for the last few words.
What could I do to correct this? Any IT experts reading the board today?
Thank you!
what is the shortcut to take out an entire sentence? sm
I know ctrl backspace takes out one word at a time, what is the key to take out a sentene at a time? I have an MD is is just awful about changing his mind. Thanks in advance!!!!
The last sentence kind of amazed me ...
with the spelling of "to". QA?
Here's the missing S from that sentence
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It depends upon the context within the sentence. sm
A simple instance would be: The patient had clear-yellow urine. In another sentence: The patient's urine is clear yellow.
type as said, and use spellcheck (sentence)
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My calendar says it's repeat the same sentence over-n-over day
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I think it depends on the rest of the sentence..sm
You should already have your application filled out before the interview.
You should have already filled out your application before the interview.
This is sentence I responded to about googling
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Wow, I can't even type a sentence! TGIF! LOL!
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Sorry. The first part of the above sentence was supposed to be ...
Some people ... move their hands more freely ... (speaking of moving hands when typing). I changed my subject line at the last minute and forgot to correct the content to go with it.
this sentence by an ESL made me chuckle...
The patient is 69-years-old and has 6 children so far.
(so far!!)
"However" sometimes 3 to 4 times in the same sentence...nm
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bringin it up..you know you're an MT when...you finish your dr's sentence..
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